It interview questions – page 2

The main advantages of CMOS as compared to TTL are

1. Higher speed operation with low power consumption
2. Higher power consumption with high fan out
3. Lower power consumption with low fan out
4. Lower power consumption and better noise margins

Which of the following semiconductor memory, instead of using a flip-flop for the basic memory cell, work by deposition of a charge on a capacitor?

1. Dynamic MOS
2. Static MOS
3. CMOS
4. Bipolar

Emitter coupled logic (ECL) belonging to bipolar family is

1. The faster logic family and used in high speed application
2. Most popular family of SSI and MSI chips
3. Closet and obsolete
4. New obsolete

How is it possible that both programs and date can be stored in the same floppy disk?

1. Programs and data are both software and both can be stored in any memory device
2. Floppy disks can only store data, not programs
3. A floppy disk has to be formatted for one or for the other
4. A floppy disk has two sides, one for data and one for programs

A standard CD player accesses data/information using which method?

1. Multivariate access
2. Sequential access
3. Random access
4. All of these

Electronics Numerical Integrator and calculator (eniac machine) belongs to the

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

Which PDR is called the china Green Line?

1. 200
2. 250
3. 270
4. 550

When did IBM introduce the 801286 based PC/AT

1. 1983
2. 1984
3. 1985
4. 1987

What hardware was used by first generation computers?

1. Valves
2. SSI
3. ICS
4. Transistor

When did the EISA consortium “gang of nine” came into being?

1. 1974
2. 1988
3. 1989
4. 1992

Which company announced the first IBM PC clone called MPC?

1. Honey Well Bull Inc.
2. Columbia Data products
3. Carona systems
4. Compaef computer Inc.

The team at Intel that built the first microprocessor was headed by

1. Marcian E (Ted) Hoff
2. Stan mazor
3. Victor poor
4. Seymour cray

Who amongst the following is credited with the building of the operational stored program computer?

1. Maurice V. Wilkes
2. J.P. Eckert
3. Grace Murray Hoppy
4. Howard Aiken

Which of the following is associated with second generation computers?

1. Magnetic core memory
2. Operating core memory
3. Transistors
4. All of these

CP/M

1. Was initially designed to be used by non-programmers
2. Became the standard programming language for personal computers
3. Is used to control a keyboard, CRT screen, and disks
4. Both (a) and (b)

What was the name of the first personal computer electronic spreadsheet software package which becomes a smash hit as soon as it was introduced in 1978?

1. Word star
2. Lotus 1-2-3
3. VisiCalc
4. Excel

Punched-card equipment was first introduced in Britain in 1904 by a small company. What was the name of that company?

1. Accounting & Tabulating Corporation of Great Britain
2. International Business Machines (IBM)
3. Tabulator Machine company
4. The Tabulator Ltd.

Cray-11 is a

1. Super computer
2. Main frame computer
3. Mini computer
4. Micro computer

Which generation of computers is converted by the period 1964-77?

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

Cray-11 holds

1. 16 bits of information
2. 32 bits of information
3. 64 bits of information
4. 148 bits of information

Father of punched card processing was

1. Blasé pascal
2. Charles Babbage
3. Dr. Herman Hollerith
4. J. perspire Eckert

In which year was the first analog computer built by an American named vinegar Bush?

1. 1920
2. 1930
3. 1940
4. 1950

Memory, also called random access memory, or RAM,_____

1. Allots data, programs, commands, and user responses to be entered into a computer
2. Consists of electronic components that store data
3. Contains the electronic circuits that cause processing to Occur
4. Makes the information resulting from processing available for use

Tracing, of any input record or process, performed on a system, back to its original source, is a/an

1. Report generation
2. Conversion
3. Batch processing
4. Audit trial

An audit trial is

1. A data item that characterizes an object
2. A feature of data processing systems that allows for the study of data as processed from step to step, and auditor can then trace all transactions that affect an account
3. Two or more data items handled as a unit
4. All of these

Acceptance testing is

1. Testing changes made in an existing or a new program
2. Is checking the logic of one or more programs in the candidate systems
3. Making sure that the new programs do in fact process certain transactions according to specifications
4. Running the system with line data by the actual user

Problem analysis is done during

1. Before system test
2. System design phase
3. Systems analysis phase
4. All of these

Tool which is used in modeling of the new system is

1. Data-flow diagram
2. Data dictionary
3. Decision tables
4. All of these

During the system study, flow charts are drawn using

1. Abbreviated symbols
2. Specific symbols
3. General symbols
4. Non-standard symbols

The first step of the implementation phase is

1. Announce the implementation project
2. Implementation planning
3. Prepare physical facilities
4. Select the computer