Computer Hardware (Basic Computer Hardware Awareness /Govt Exams) MCQ's




Question 1 :
Which of the following is the largest unit of storage ?

  1. KB
  2. GB
  3. MB
  4. TB
  

Question 2 :
A single binary digit is known as

  1. MB
  2. byte
  3. KB
  4. bit
  

Question 3 :
What does a light pen contain?

  1. Refillableink
  2. Light sensitive elements
  3. Pencil lead
  4. Blue Ink
  

Question 4 :
Which does NOT belong to a Intel Pentium 4 Platform?

  1. DDRSDRAM
  2. EDO/Fast-Page Ram
  3. SDRAM
  4. Rambuss
  

Question 5 :
Actual execution of instructions in a computer takes place in ,

  1. Control Unit
  2. ALU
  3. Storage unit
  4. All of the above
  

Question 6 :
Information on a hard disk is usually backed-up using a..?

  1. CD-ROM
  2. Magnetic tape
  3. Floppy disk
  4. All of the above
  

Question 7 :
Vacuum tube based electronic computers are...?

  1. Second generation
  2. Hoover generation
  3. First generation
  4. All of the above
  

Question 8 :
Who is accredited with developing the architecture of the modern computer?

  1. Sir Clive Sinclair
  2. Bill Gates
  3. All of the above
  4. John Von Neumann
  

Question 9 :
The First Microprocessor was ______

  1. 8080
  2. Intel 4004
  3. 8085
  4. 4008
  

Question 10 :
Which of the following is a way to access secondary memory?

  1. Action method
  2. Transfer method
  3. Density method
  4. Random access memory .
  

Question 11 :
C is

  1. An assembly language
  2. A machine language
  3. A third generation high level language
  4. All of the above
  

Question 12 :
The term 'baud' is a measure of the:

  1. memory capacity
  2. speed at which data travels over the communication line
  3. instruction execution time
  4. all of the above
  

Question 13 :
The Octal Number system has base ______

  1. 2
  2. 10
  3. 10
  4. 8
  

Question 14 :
If an 8-bit integer has a maximum of 256 possible values, what is the highest possible value of a 16 bit integer?

  1. 512
  2. 257
  3. 65536
  4. 65535
  

Question 15 :
Information retrieval is faster from

  1. Floppy disk
  2. Hard disk
  3. Magnetic tape
  4. All of the above
  

Question 16 :
Example of non-numerical data is

  1. All of the above
  2. Examination score
  3. Bank balance
  4. Employee address
  

Question 17 :
What platform can the VIA/Cyri III Processor Be used in jut c the following?

  1. Slot 1
  2. Socket A
  3. Slot A
  4. Socket 7
  

Question 18 :
A file is corrected immediately after the input of a transaction.This is an example of

  1. on-line updating
  2. batching
  3. sorting
  4. off-line updating
  

Question 19 :
A logic gate is an electronic circuit which

  1. None of these
  2. allows electron flow only in one direction
  3. works on binary algebra
  4. makes logic decisions
  

Question 20 :
Operating system is

  1. A collection of software routines
  2. A collection of input-output devices
  3. A collection of hardware components
  4. All of the above
  

Question 21 :
Computer follows a simple principle called GIGO which means:

  1. garbage in garbage out
  2. garbage input good output
  3. great instructions great output
  4. good input good output.
  

Question 22 :
A file name extension for Word 2007 files is ___.

  1. .gif
  2. .txt
  3. .docx
  4. .exe
  

Question 23 :
A flip flop has ____ stable status

  1. Two
  2. five
  3. four
  4. Three
  

Question 24 :
A NOR gate is ON only when all it's inputs are

  1. OFF
  2. positive
  3. higb
  4. ON
  

Question 25 :
What would you NOT use with a flatbed plotter?

  1. A pen
  2. Eraser
  3. Paper
  4. All of the above
  

Question 26 :
Which of the following processors use RISC technology?

  1. 486dx
  2. 486SX
  3. PowerPC
  4. 6340
  

Question 27 :
How did the SHIFT key get it's name?

  1. From the Latin word for large, Shiftius, which v as the first language ever used on acomouter.
  2. Because it shifts the ASC11 table by a value of 32.
  3. It was a carry-over from typewriters which had both upper and lower case letters on each print head and used a mechanical shifting of the print head to differentiate.
  4. (Bad pun alert!) Because the Capitol is full of shifty characters.
  

Question 28 :
Where should floppy disks be stored?

  1. By a sunny window
  2. In a drawer
  3. All of the above
  4. By magnet objects
  

Question 29 :
A bootstrap is:

  1. a memory device
  2. a device to support the computer
  3. an error correction technique
  4. a small initialisation program to start up a computer
  

Question 30 :
Formatting a disk results in all the data being...?

  1. Saved to the disk
  2. Copied from the disk
  3. Deleted from the disk
  4. All of the above
  
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