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  1. General purpose computers are those that can be adopted to countless uses simply by changing its

  2. A.

     keyboard

    B.

     printer

    C.

     program

    D.

     display screen

    E.

     None of the above


  3. What is the name of the visible silver rectangle which separates the take-up portion of the magnetic tape from the data recording portion?

  4. A.

     Load maker

    B.

     Load marker

    C.

     Tape separator

    D.

     Tape marker

    E.

     None of the above


  5. A part located in the central processing unit that stores data & information is known as

  6. A.

     Core memory

    B.

     PROM

    C.

     EPROM

    D.

     ROM

    E.

     None of the above


  7. A software package to perform calculations on data arranged in an array is

  8. A.

     System software

    B.

     Utility programs

    C.

     Electronic spread sheet

    D.

     Application programs

    E.

     None of the above


  9. What was the name of the first stored program electronic computer which was built in 1949 at Cambridge University in England?

  10. A.

     EDVAC

    B.

     EDSAC

    C.

     UNIVAC

    D.

     MARK-I

    E.

     None of the above


  11. A computer with CPU speed around 100 million instructions per second & with the word length of around 64 bits is known as

  12. A.

     Super computer

    B.

     Mini computer

    C.

     Micro computer

    D.

     Micro computer

    E.

     None of the above


  13. A computer program consists of

  14. A.

     System flowchart

    B.

     Program flowchart

    C.

     Algorithms written in computer's language

    D.

     Discrete logical steps.

    E.

     None of the above


  15. An input device which can read characters directly from an ordinary piece of paper is

  16. A.

     OCR

    B.

     OMR

    C.

     MSI

    D.

     POS

    E.

     None of the above


  17. Which of the following is not a part of the CPU

  18. A.

     storage unit

    B.

     arithmetic and logic unit

    C.

     program unit

    D.

     control unit

    E.

     None of the above


  19. Which of the following chips can be reprogrammed with special electric pulses?

  20. A.

     EPROM

    B.

     PROM

    C.

     ROM

    D.

     EEPROM

    E.

     None of the above