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  1. Who is called the "grand father" of the computer?

  2. A.

     Blaise Pascal

    B.

     Charles Babbage

    C.

     Joseph Jacquard

    D.

     Dr. Herman Hollerith

    E.

     None of the above


  3. Which input device is able to scan & interpret an entire page that is typed in a special font

  4. A.

     Floppy disk

    B.

     Page reader

    C.

     Paper tape punch

    D.

     Optical card readers

    E.

     None of the above


  5. A half byte is know is

  6. A.

     Data

    B.

     Bit

    C.

     Half byte

    D.

     Nibble

    E.

     None of the above


  7. Which language is used in the areas of pattern recognition, artificial intelligence & for simulation of games.

  8. A.

     APL

    B.

     FORTH

    C.

     LISP

    D.

     CORAL

    E.

     None of the above


  9. Which company is the biggest player in the microprocessor industry?

  10. A.

     Motorola

    B.

     IBM

    C.

     Intel

    D.

     AMD

    E.

     Cyrix


  11. A medium for transferring data between two locations is called

  12. A.

     Network

    B.

     Communication channel

    C.

     Modem

    D.

     Bus

    E.

     None of the above


  13. An adder in which the bits of the operands are added one after another is

  14. A.

     Half-adder

    B.

     Full-adder

    C.

     Serial adder

    D.

     All of the above

    E.

     None of the above


  15. The OR, XOR & AND functions can be performed by _____ of the computer in a CPU.

  16. A.

     ALU

    B.

     CU

    C.

     Memory

    D.

     Register

    E.

     None of the above


  17. A prewritten program that's sold to perform a common task is called an application

  18. A.

     System software

    B.

     Package

    C.

     Utilities

    D.

     Program

    E.

     None of the above


  19. Locations in the main memory of a computer are called

  20. A.

     Alphabets

    B.

     Words

    C.

     Data

    D.

     Characters

    E.

     None of the above