Computer Exam Practice 04 (a)

Computer Exam Practice 04 (a)

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1. Data on a floppy disks is recorded in rings called

(1) Sectors

(2) Ringers

(3) Rounders

(4) Tracks

(5) Segments

2. Which type of memory holds only that programs and data that CPU is presently processing?

(1) CMOS

(2) ROM

(3) RAM

(4) ASCII

(5) CD

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3. Which of the following is not a binary code?

(1) EBCDIC

(2) ASCII

(3) CISC

(4) Unicode

(5) None of these

4. This coding system allows non-English characters and special characters to be represents

(1) ASCI

(2) Unicode

(3) EBCDIC

(4) ANSIC

(5) None of these

5. On the motherboard, the connection points for chips are referred to as

(1) Slots

(2) Sockets

(3) Ports

(4) Lines

(5) None of these

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6. The ability to find an individual item in file immediately, 1S used.

(1) File allocation table

(2) Directory

(3) Sequential access

(4) Direct access

(5) None of these

7. A collection of related files is called a

(1) Character

(2) Field

(3) Database

(4) Record

(5) None of these

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8. Amemory in which the information is stored last is on

top & is retrieved first is known as

(1) PROM

(2) Buffer

(3) Stack

(4) RAM

(5) None of these

9. Information retrieval is faster from

(1) Floppy disk

(2) Magnetic tape

(3) Hard disk

(4) All of these

(5) None of these

10. The... directory is mandatory for every disk.

(1) Root

(2) Base

(3) Sub

(4) Case

(5) None of these

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11. An area of a computer that temporarily holds data waiting to be processed as

(1) CPU

(2) Memory

(3) Storage

(4) File

(5) None of these

12. The storage that supplements the primary internal storage of a computer is known as

(1) Secondary storage

(2) Primary storage

(3) Back-end storage

(4) Background storage

(5) None of these

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13. The storage device used to compensate for the difference in rates of flow of data from one device to

another is termed as

(1) chip

(2) channel

(3) floppy

(4) call

(5) buffer

14. Which of the following statements is true?

(1) Virtual memory is the space on the hard drive where the operating system begins to store data

when it becomes memory-bound.

(2) Accessing data from RAM is a slower than accessing data from virtua memory.

(3) When it is using virtual memory, the operating system builds a file called the RAM file.

(4) If a computer is memory-bound, addirng more RAM will not solve the problem.

(5) None of the above

15. The term bit is short for

(1) megabyte

(2) binary language

(3) binary digit

(4) binary number

(5) None of the above

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16. Computers gather data, which means that they allow

users to data.

(1) present

(2) input

(3) output

(4) store

(5) None of these

17. . is a form of permanent memory that holds all the instructions the computer needs to start up and

does not get erased when the power is turned off.

(1) The Network Interface Card (NIC)

(2) The CPU

(3) RAM

(4) ROM

(5) None of the above

18. Frequently-accessed information is held in

(1) Hard drive

(2) Cache memory

(3) Flash memory

(4) Read only memory

(5) None of these

19. A compact disk (CD) is a data storage of the type

(1) Magnetic

(2) Optical

(3) Electrical

(4) Electro-machanical

(5) None of these

20. Which of the following is standard code used to exchange information among data processing and

communications system?

1) ANSI

(2) ACM

(3) ASCII

4) APL

(5) OSI

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21. The CD-ROM drive is used to

(1) Play compact disks

(2) Play music

3) Install software

4) Control digital information

(5) None of the above

22. Which of the following memories below is often used in a typical computer operation?

(1) RAM

(2) ROM

(3) FDD

(4) HDD

(5) None of these

23. The comprehensive software system that builds, maintains and provides access to a database is

(1) CPU

(2) DASD

(3) CAI

(4) DBMS

(5) None of these

24. Find the incorrect statement in the following

(1) Area above 1 MB is called extended memory

(2) All programmes can use the extended memory

(3) Operating system always loaded in high memory

(4) All of the above

(5) None of the above

25. The prefix that stands for a one billionth is

(1) giga

(2) tera

(3) nano

(4) peta

(5) None of these

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26. The four main functions of a computer are

(1) input, processing, output, and storage.

(2) learning, thinking, intelligence, and virtuosity.

(3) data, information, bits, and bytes.

(4) hardware, software, modeling, and operations.

(5) None of the above

27. The primary purpose of a computer is to process..

and convert it into information.

(1) electricity

(2) data

(3) raw material

(4) a bit

(5) None of these

28. Bit refers to a

(1) computer language.

(2) CPU instruction.

(3) 0 or 1 value.80

(4) digital representation of an alphabetic character.

(5) None of the above

29. In computer language, each letter, number, and anarray of special characters consist of

(1) 8 kilobytes

(2) 8 bytes

(3) a bit

(4) 8 bits

(5) None of these

30. Which of the following is the correct sequence of smallest to largest unit of storage size?

(1) megabyte > terabyte gigabyte > kilobyte petabyte

(2) kilobyte> megabyte >gigabyte >terabyte> petabyte

(3) kilobyte> megabyte> gigabyte >petabyte>terabyte

4) kilobyte> megabyte> petabyte> terabyte >gigabyte

(5) None of the above

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31. The prefix kilo refers to apprOximately

(1) one thousand

(2) one million

3) one hundred

(4) one billion

(5) None of these

32. The circuitry that includes the CPU and memory chips

is located on the

(1) system unit

(2) operating system

(3) motherboard

(4) computer platform

(5) None of these

33. All of the following are considered to be storage

devices EXCEPT

(1) Floppy disk

(2) CPU

(3) CD

(4) Hard disk driver

(5) None of these

34. What is the correct association between a hardware

component and a computer function?

(1) Monitor > input

(2) Mouse> input

(3) CPU> storagee

(4) Hard disk > processing

(5) None of the above

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35. Which of the following is an example of system

software?

(1) Word processor

(2) operating system

(3) Management information system

(4) Spreadsheet

(5) None of the above

36. A framework in which circuit boards can be encounted is

(1) Switch circuits

(2) Chip

(3) Card Cage

(4) Bar code

(5) None of these

37. A set of information that defines the status of

resources allocated to a process is

(1) Process control

(2) ALU

(3) Register Unit

(4) Process description

(5) None of these

38. CD-ROM can store upto MB of data.

(1) 600 MB

(2) 400 MB

(3) 320 MB

(4) Both (1) and (2)

(5) None of these

39. A set of instructions telling the computer what to do is called

(1) mentor

(2) instructo

(3) compiler

(4) program

(5) debugger

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40. Memory which forgets everything when you switch off the power is known as

1) Corrupted

(2) Volatile

(3) Non-Volatile

(4) Non-Corrupted

(5) None of these

41. Information on a computer is stored as

(1) Analog data

(2) Digital data

(3) Modem data

(4) Watts data

(5) None of these

42. One megabyte equals approximately

(1) 1,000 bits

(2) 1,000 bytes

(3) 1 million bytes

(4) 1 million bits

(5) 2,000 bytes

43. Which of the following refers to the memory in your computer?

(1) RAM

(2) DSL

(3) USB

(4) LAN

(5) CPU

44. When you are working on a document on PC, where is the document temporarily stored

(1) RAM

(2) ROM

(3) The CPU

(4) Flash memoryV

(5) The CD-Rom

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45. Information travels between components on the mother board through

(1) Flash memory

(2) CMOS

(3) Bays

(4) Buses

(5) Peripherals

46. Storage that retains its data after the power is turned off is referred to as

(1) volatile storage

(2) non-volatile storage

(3) sequential storage

(4) direct storage

(5) None of these

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48. Which of the following is the largest unit of storage?

(1) GB

(2) KB

(3) MB

(4) TB

(5) None of these

49. Computers process data into information by working exclusively with

(1) multimedia

(2) words

(3) characters

(4) numbers

(5) None of these

50. The most frequently used instructions of a computer program are likely to be fetched from

(1) hard disk

(2) cache memory
(3) RAM

(4) registers
(5) None of these

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