Computer Fundamental Practice Set-2MCQ / By Computerkite 0% 20 Your time is up Please Try Again!!! Created on December 23, 2025 By Computerkite Computer Fundamental Set-2 Welcome to Computer Fundamental Practice Set-2 Please click 'Start' to begin the quiz, and Then Submit Your Answers after finishing. This quiz can be taken an unlimited number of times. ***Best of Luck*** 1 / 50 Which is the largest computer? Mainframe computer Mini Computer Micro Computer Super computer 2 / 50 Which of the following is machine independent program? High level language Low level language Assembly level language Machine language 3 / 50 The earliest calculating devices are.... Abacus Clock Different Engine None of these 4 / 50 Who suggested Stored Program Concept? John Mauchley J.P.Eckert John Neumann Joshep Jacquard 5 / 50 Which of the following is not input unit device? Scanner Camera Plotter Digitizer 6 / 50 Which programming languages are classified as low level languages? Basic, COBOL, FORTRAN Prolog 2, Expert Systems Knowledge based Systems Assembly Languages 7 / 50 Which one is the largest space? Kilobyte Petabyte Terabyte Gigabyte 8 / 50 An input device with a joystick is... Punched card Paddle Magnetic tape Magnetic disk 9 / 50 Who invented Integrated Circuits? Jack Kilby Robert Noyce Both of above None of above 10 / 50 Which unit converts computer data into human readable form? Input unit Output unit ALU Control Unit 11 / 50 Which of the following device was not invented by Babbage? Pascaline Different Engine Analytical Engine None of above 12 / 50 Which is a semi conductor memory? DRAM SRAM Bubble Both A & B 13 / 50 Which was the world’s first minicomputer and when was it introduced? PDP-I, 1958 IBM System/36, 1960 PDP-II, 1961 VAX11/780, 1958 14 / 50 Which printer is very commonly used for desktop publishing? Laser printer Inkjet printer Daisywheel printer Dot matrix printer 15 / 50 What is meant by a dedicated computer? Which is used by one person only Which is assigned one and only one task Which uses one kind of software Which is meant for application software 16 / 50 The output quality of a printer is measured by... Dot per inch Dot per Sq. inch Dots printed per unit All of the above 17 / 50 What produces useful information out of data? Computer Processing Programming None of above 18 / 50 RJ45 UTP cable has ________ cables. 2 pair 3 pair 4 pair 5 pair 19 / 50 A digital computer did not score over an analog computer in terms of.... Speed Accuracy Reliability Cost 20 / 50 Word length of a Personal Computer is... 4 bits 8 bits 16 bits 64 bits 21 / 50 The octal equivalent of 111010 is..... 81 65 71 72 22 / 50 Who invented vacuum tubes? John Bardeen William Shockley Lee de Forest All of the above 23 / 50 Which is not a computer of first generation? ENIAC UNIVAC IBM 650 IBM 1401 24 / 50 When was the first electro-mechanical computer developed? 1880 1990 1944 None of the above 25 / 50 An approach that permits the computer to work on several programs instead of one is.. On-line thesaurus Multiprogramming Overlapped processing Outline processor 26 / 50 An error in software or hardware is called a bug. What is the alternative computer jargon for it? Leech Squid Slug Glitch 27 / 50 The first machine to successfully perform a long series of arithmetic and logical operations was... ENIAC MARK-I Analytic Engine UNIVAC-1 28 / 50 FORTRAN is more suitable for... Business Applications Marketing Applications Scientific Applications None of the above 29 / 50 On a PC, how much memory is available to application software? 1024 KB 760 KB 640 KB 560 KB 30 / 50 In a computer _____ is capable to store single binary bit. Capacitor Flip Flop Register Inductor 31 / 50 Which of the following are the best units of data on an external storage device? Bits Bytes Hertz Clock Cycles 32 / 50 What was the main disadvantage of vacuum tubes? They were larger in size They consumes a lot of electricity They produced heat and often burned out The operation cost was high 33 / 50 A directly accessible appointment calendar is feature of a __ resident package. CPU Memory Buffer ALU 34 / 50 Floppy disks typically in diameter... 3.5 5.25 8 All of the above 35 / 50 What is the name of the display feature that highlights area of the screen which requires operator attention? Pixel Reverse Video Touch Screen Cursor 36 / 50 Registers which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional codes (bits set by the CPU hardware as the result of operations), are known as... PC Flags Memory Address Register General Purpose Register 37 / 50 The computer code for interchange of information between terminals is... ASCII BCD EBCDIC All of the above 38 / 50 Which of the following is handy to carry large amounts of data? Floppy disk Hard disk CDROM Zip Disk 39 / 50 Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a weaving machine? Pascal Hollerith Babbage Jacquard 40 / 50 Which was the most popular first generation computer? IBM 650 IBM 360 IBM 1130 IBM 2700 41 / 50 In which year was chips used inside the computer for the first time? 1964 1975 1990 1940 42 / 50 Which chips using specific external equipment can program? ROM PROM SAM RAM 43 / 50 Magnetic tape can serve as... Secondary Storage media Output media Input media All of the above 44 / 50 The storage capacity of a disk system depends on the bits per inch of track and the tracks per inch of a... Cylinder Hub Cluster Surface 45 / 50 Before a disk can be used to store data, it must be... Formatted Reformatted Addressed None of above 46 / 50 What is required when more than one person uses a central computer at the same time? Light pen Mouse Digitizer Terminal 47 / 50 Which of the following is not a primary storage device? Magnetic Tape Magnetic Disk Optical Disk All of the above 48 / 50 A name or number used to identify a storage location is called.... A byte A record An address All of the above 49 / 50 A floppy disk contains.... Circular tracks only Sector only Both Circular tracks & sectors None of the above 50 / 50 The digital computer was developed primarily in... USSR Japan USA UK Your score is The average score is 66% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter VKontakte 0% Restart quiz
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