Ibps interview questions

Who proposed the stored program concept?

1. Bill Gates
2. John von Neumann
3. Charles Babbage
4. T.J. Watson, Sr.

In 1830, Charles Babbage designed a machine called the Analytical Engine which he showed at the paris Exhibitioin. In Which year was it exhibited?

1. 1820
2. 1855
3. 1860
4. 1870

The first large commercial magnetic disk storage was introduced in 1965 by

1. Hewlett Packard
2. Silicon Graphics Inc.
3. IBM
4. Digital Equipment corporation

Eniac, edvac, mark-I, univac-I, ibm-650, ibm-701, ibm-702, ibm-704 belong to the

1. First generation computers
2. Second generation computers
3. Third generation computers
4. Fourth generation computers

Fifth generation computers are likely to exhibit

1. Advanced parallel processing
2. Artificial intelligence
3. Heuristic behavior
4. All of these

Which of the following storage media provides Sequential access only?

1. Magnetic disk
2. Magnetic tape
3. Optical disk
4. Floppy disk

Bit in Short for

1. Binary unit
2. Binary digit
3. Digital byte
4. Binary system

Which one of the following is the small group of computers and peripherals linked together in a small geographical area?

1. WAN
2. LAN
3. MAN
4. PAN

Which one of the following is a family of frame based computer networking technologies for Local Area Networks (LANs)?

1. Web browsers
2. Internet
3. Ethernet
4. Extranet

A computer first sold in kit form was the

1. Apple II
2. Altair
3. TRS-80 Model I
4. All of these

Information on a computer is stored as _____

1. Analog data
2. Digital data
3. Modem data
4. Watts data

ROM is an example of which of the following?

1. Volatile memory
2. Non volatile memory
3. Cache memory
4. Virtual memory

All the logic and mathematical calculations done by the computer happen in/on the

1. Central Control Unit
2. Central Processing Unit
3. Mother board
4. System board

What is a file?

1. A file is a collection of information that has been given a name and is store in secondary memory.
2. A file is a part of a programme that is used to describe what the programme should do.
3. A file is a section of main storage used to store data.
4. None of the above

Which one of the following computer programs is use to create a copy of all downloaded pages and index the downloaded pages to provide fast

1. Trojan horse
2. Web crawlers
3. Spyware
4. None of these e

Which one of the following computers is the fastest, biggest and expensive computer?

1. Laptop
2. Personal computer
3. Super computer
4. Netbook

OCR stands for

1. Optical Character Rendering
2. Optical Character Restoration
3. Optical CPU Recognition
4. Optical Character Recognition

Which of the following groups have only output devices?

1. Mouse, Printer, Monitor
2. Keyboard, Monitor, Printer
3. Plotter, Printer, Monitor
4. Scanner, Keyboard, Printer

Which type of computer could be found in a digital watch?

1. Mainframe
2. Super computer
3. Notebook computer
4. Embedded computer

Screen that comes on when you turn on your computer that shows all the icons is known as

1. View Space
2. Viewer
3. Face to Face
4. Desktop

Microsoft office is an example of

1. Vertical market software
2. Horizontal market software
3. Open source software
4. Closed source software

MODULA is a

1. Assembly language
2. Machine language
3. Low-level language
4. Programming language

The smallest logical data entity is called a data item or data

1. Bank
2. Base
3. Collection
4. Field

The RAMAC had one access arm per

1. Track
2. Sector
3. Disk
4. Disk stack

Compression of digital data for efficient storage is

1. Packing
2. Field
3. CPU
4. Buffer

Which type of memory holds only the programme and data that CPU is presently processing?

1. ASCII
2. CMSO
3. RAM
4. ROM

In which year were chips used inside the computer for the first time?

1. 1964
2. 1972
3. 1975
4. 1977

On a PC, how much memory is available to application software?

1. 560 KB
2. 640 KB
3. 760 KB
4. 1024 KB

Most important advantage of an IC is its

1. Reduced cost
2. Extremely high reliability
3. Easy replacement in case of circuit failure
4. Low power consumption

What is the name of the logic circuit which can add two binary digits?

1. Register
2. Buffer
3. Half adder
4. Full adder