1. The bare machine or electronic circuitary of a computer system is known as-
- (A) Software
- (B) Hardware
- (C) Firmware
- (D) None of these
2. Computer software consists of-
- (A) System program
- (B) Application program
- (C) operating system program
- (D) All of these
3 of a sorter in a computer system The function is to-
- (A) Read one column at a time
- (B) Compare data on different cards
- (C) Read one row at a time
- (D) All of these
4. A chain printer prints--
- (A) By chemical or photographic means
- (B) By impact of wheels of type against an inked ribbon and paper
- (C) By impact of a chain of type against an inked ribbon and paper
- (D) None of these
5. An impact printer is-
- (A) Faster than a non-impact printer
- (B) Slower than a non-impact printer
- (C) Capable of making carbon copies
- (D) Both (B) and (C) above
6. Most of the memory systems have-
- (A) Electro-pneumatic properties
- (B) Electrostatic properties
- (C) Magnetic properties
- (D) All of these
7. Auxiliary storage devices
- (A) Consist of additional core storage units
- (B) Are no longer commonly used because of wide spread availability of semiconductor core storage
- (C) Uses semiconductor storage units
- (D) Have capacities of one hundred to thousand times the capacities of internal storage techniques
8. Transfer of information from main storage is typically n times faster than the transfer from auxiliary storage, where n is about-
- (A) 5
- (B) 10
- (C) 100
- (D) 200
9. Commonly used auxiliary storage devices
- (A) Magnetic tape, magnetic drum and magnetic disk
- (B) Magnetic core magnetic tape and magnetic drum
- (C) Magnetic disk, semiconductor memory and magnetic drum
- (D) Magnetic tape, monolithic storage and magnetic disk
10. Major drawback of magnetic tape is-
- (A) That tape is very expensive
- (B) The data recorded on the tape can easily get erased
- (c) The purpose of data recording is very difficult
- (D) Records must be stored and processed sequentially
11. Magnetic tape-
- (A) is easier to handle than punched cards
- (B) Stores data in more compact form
- (c) Costs less than punched card for same amount of storage capacity
- (D) All of these
12. Compiler and interpreters are examples of-
- (A) system software
- (B) Application software
- (C) Both system and application software
- (D) None of these
13. A software program which translates and executes an instruction simultaneously is known as
- (A) A compiler
- (B) operating system
- (C) interpreter
- (D) Assembler
14. Which of the following word signifies using two or more CPU's?
- (A) Time sharing
- (B) Batch processing
- (C) Multiprogramming
- (D) Multiprocessing
15. Daisy wheel printer is type of
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- (A) Matrix printer
- (B) Impact printer
- (C) Laser printer
- (D) Manual printer
16. The operating sytem manages
- (A) Memory
- (B) Processor
- (c) Disk and vo devices
- (D) All of these
17. The process of transferring data intended for a peripheral device into a disk (or intermediate store) so that it can be transferred to peripheral at a more appropriate time or in bulk is known as-
- (A) Multiprogramming
- (B) Spooling
- (C) Caching
- (D) Virtual programming
18. Which of the following operating systems uses write through catches
- (A) DOS
- (B) UNDX
- (C) XENIX
- (D) ULTRIX
19. A system program which sets up an executable program in main memory ready for execution is
- (A) Assembler
- (B) Linker
- (D)Text editor
- (C) Loader
20. A compiler for a high level language that runs on one machine and produces code for a different machine is called
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- (A) optimizing compiler
- (B) One pass compiler
- (C) Cross compiler
- (D) Multipass compiler
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