Q1. Pascaline is among which of the type of machine?
(a) Mechanical machine
(b) Arithmetic machine
(c) Division machine
(d) Difference machine
(e) None of the above
Q2. What do you mean by Jacquard loom?
(a) A bird found in Japan
(b) A weaving machine used punched cards
(c) The first computer controlled loom
(d) A machine for writing match tables
(e) None of the above
Q3. BIOS stands for
(a) Basic Input Output Service
(b) Basic Inner Output System
(c) Better Input Output Service
(d) Better Input Output System
(e) Basic Input Output System
Q4. Who is the inventor of Tabulating Machine?
(a) Charles Babbage
(b) Blaise Pascal
(c) Ada Byron
(d) Herman Hollerith
(e) None of these
Q5. _____ is a program which make easy to use a computer.
(a) Operating system
(b) Application
(c) Utility
(d) Network
(e) None of these
Q6. Which disk is used to cold boot a PC?
(a) Setup disk
(b) System disk
(c) Diagnostic Disk
(d) Program disk
(e) None of the above
Q7. Which of the following is the smallest computer?
(a) Notebook
(b) Laptop
(c) Desktop
(d) Workstation
(e) None of these
Q8. Cache memory acts between ___________ .
(a) CPU and RAM
(b) RAM and ROM
(c) CPU and hard disk
(d) All of these
(e) None of these
Q9. Which of the following describe router functions?
(a) Packet switching
(b) Packet filtering
(c) Internetwork communication
(d) Path selection
(e) All of the above
Q10. Write through technique is used in which memory for updating the data.
(a) Virtual memory
(b) Main memory
(c) Auxiliary memory
(d) Cache memory
(e) None of the above
Q11. Software that is actively utilised by end-users (like word or powerpoint) is called
(a) Actionware
(b) Operating system
(c) System software
(d) Driver
(e) Application software
Q12. Distributed processing involves
(a) Solving computer component problems from a different computer
(b) Solving computing problems by breaking them into smaller parts that are separately processed by different computers
(c) Allowing users to share files on a network
(d) Allowing users to access network resources away from the office
(e) None of the above
Q13. What is an intranet?
(a) A LAN of an organization
(b) A wide Area Network connecting all branches of an organization
(c) A corporate computer network
(d) A network connecting all computers of an organization and using the internet protocol
(e) None of these
Q14. Specialised program(s) designed to allow particular input or output device(s) to communication with the rest of the computer system is called _______.
(a) Computer
(b) Device drivers
(c) Interpreters
(d) Operating system
(e) None of these
Q.15 Which of the following scrambles a message by applying a secret code?
(a) Encryption
(b) Audits
(c) UPS
(d) Firewalls
(e) None of the above