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  1. Character readers are those devices which read the characters printed on the source documents and then convert them directly into computer-usable input. Which of the following is not a character reader?

  2. A.

     OCR

    B.

     MICR

    C.

     OMR

    D.

     LCD

    E.

     None of the above


  3. SPSS stands for

  4. A.

     Statistical Package for Systems Science

    B.

     Systems Package for Social Science

    C.

     Statistical Package for Sociai Science

    D.

     All of the above

    E.

     None of the above


  5. An Integrated Circuit (IC) is

  6. A.

     Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip

    B.

     A complicated circuit

    C.

     Much costlier than a single transistor

    D.

     An integrating device

    E.

     None of the above


  7. The 2's complement number of 110010 is

  8. A.

     1101

    B.

     110011

    C.

     10011

    D.

     All of the above

    E.

     None of the above


  9. The purpose of an application program is to

  10. A.

     Convert program written in high level language to machine language

    B.

     Meet specific user needs

    C.

     Allow the operating system to control resources better

    D.

     Make off-line equpment run better

    E.

     None of the above


  11. Which of the following translate back from machine code something resembling the source language

  12. A.

     Interpreter

    B.

     Compiler

    C.

     Assembler

    D.

     Decompiler

    E.

     None of the above


  13. Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add, subtract, multiply, divide and find square roots?

  14. A.

     Napier

    B.

     Babbage

    C.

     Pascal

    D.

     Leibnitz

    E.

     None of the above


  15. Serial access memories are useful in applications where

  16. A.

     data consists of numbers

    B.

     short access time is required

    C.

     each stored word is processed differently

    D.

     data naturally needs to flow in and out in serial form

    E.

     None of the above


  17. A six - digit card field used for postal ZIP codes is defined as

  18. A.

     A letter field

    B.

     An alphabetic field

    C.

     A numeric field

    D.

     An alphanumeric field

    E.

     None of the above


  19. The octal equivalent of the number 11010.1011 is

  20. A.

     32.54

    B.

     63.51

    C.

     32.27

    D.

     All of the above

    E.

     None of the above