Computer interview questions – page 12

A trackball is manipulated by

1. Fingers
2. Foot
3. Sound
4. Palm

The software that performs the specific jobs to be done in a business is called

1. Application software
2. Application program
3. System software
4. Utilities

A device used to merge sets or decks of cards is

1. Collator
2. Touch tablet
3. Light pen
4. Punched paper tape

Hexadecimal numbers are a mixture of

1. Binary of octal numbers
2. Octal and decimal
3. Letters of decimal digits
4. Binary of decimal

The earliest medium for storing data was

1. Plotter
2. Punched card
3. Magnetic disk
4. Magnetic tape

A complete microcomputer system consists of

1. Peripheral equipment
2. Memory
3. Microprocessor
4. All of the above

Which of the following terminals output most closely resembles the output produced by a plotter?

1. Hardcopy terminal
2. POS terminal
3. Graphics terminal
4. All the above

Which of the following is used to hold ROM, RAM, CPU and expansion cards?

1. Cache memory
2. Computer bus
3. Motherboard
4. All of the above

A standalone system which produces one page of printed output at a time is

1. Laser printer
2. Dot matrix printer
3. Line printer
4. Page printer

What is the name given to the molecular scale computer?

1. Supercomputer
2. Microcomputer
3. Nanocomputer
4. Femtocomputer

First generation computers are characterised by

1. Magnetic tape and transistors
2. Minicomputers
3. Vaccum tubes and magnetic drums
4. All of the above

Communication ports are found on the back of microcomputers. They are used to connect the computer to

1. Modems
2. Other hardware
3. Printers
4. All of the above

The computer device primarily used to provide hard-copy is the

1. Card reader
2. Computer console
3. Line printer
4. CRT

Which one of the following words has both a common meaning and a computer meaning?

1. Plotter
2. Quick
3. Mode
4. Bus

Which is an another name for functional language.

1. Application language
2. Machine language
3. Low level language
4. High level language

What is the name of the screen symbol that shows the placement of the next character?

1. Graphic tablet
2. Track ball
3. Cursor
4. Mouse

Group of instructions that directs a computer is called

1. Program
2. Logic
3. Memory
4. Storage

A computer programmer

1. Can operate all types of computer equipment
2. Can draw only flowchart
3. Can enter input data quickly
4. Does all the thinking for a computer

When was the first solid state computer produced and by which country?

1. 1960, USA
2. 1960, Germany
3. 1964, Japan
4. 1965, UK

A computer program consists of

1. Algorithms written in computer’s language
2. Program flowchart
3. Discrete logical steps
4. System flowchart

When was the IBM XT microcomputer released in the market?

1. 1970
2. 1971
3. 1986
4. 1987

Which part interprets program instructions and initiate control operations.

1. Logic unit
2. Control unit
3. Storage unit
4. Input

A group of integrated parts is called

1. Circuits
2. System analysis
3. Swapping
4. System

Which type device is a piece of equipment that receives information from a CPU?

1. Memory
2. CPU
3. Input
4. Output

Which of the following holds data and processing instructions temporarily until the CPU needs it?

1. Coprocessor chips
2. Main memory
3. Control unit
4. ROM

The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from

1. Control section
2. Cache memory
3. External memory
4. Primary memory

Symbolic logic was discovered by

1. Basic Pascal
2. Van Neumann
3. Herman Hollerith
4. George Boole

Which of the following require large computer memory?

1. Graphics
2. Imaging
3. Voice
4. All of the above

A hybrid computer

1. Resembles analog computer
2. Resembles digital computer
3. Resembles both a digital and an analog computer
4. Resembles none

Which device of computer operation dispenses with the use of the keyboard.

1. Mouse
2. Light pen
3. Joystick
4. Touch