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  1. Which of the following are likely to jam the read/write head of a disk pack?

  2. A.

     Dust

    B.

     Smoke particle

    C.

     Finger print smudge

    D.

     All of the above

    E.

     None of the above


  3. Impact printers

  4. A.

     strike a ribbon against the paper to produce character images

    B.

     include ink-jet and thermal devices

    C.

     are more expensive than Laser printers

    D.

     use optical technology

    E.

     None of the above


  5. Which of the following is not a practical data-processing approach?

  6. A.

     batch-sequential

    B.

     batch-direct

    C.

     immediate-sequential

    D.

     immediate-direct

    E.

     All of the above


  7. Bit map terminal

  8. A.

     support displays containing multiple windows

    B.

     requires considerable amount of video RAM

    C.

     requires tremendous amount of copying and hence low performance

    D.

     All of the above

    E.

     None of the above


  9. A 32 bit microprocessor has the word length equal to

  10. A.

     2 bytes

    B.

     32 bytes

    C.

     4 bytes

    D.

     8 bytes

    E.

     None of the above


  11. The register which holds the address of the location to or from which data are to be transferred is known as

  12. A.

     index register

    B.

     instruction register

    C.

     memory address register

    D.

     memory data register

    E.

     None of the above


  13. In simplex transmission

  14. A.

     Data format is simple

    B.

     Data transmission is one way

    C.

     Data can be transmitted to small distances only

    D.

     All of the above

    E.

     None of the above


  15. Each model of a computer has a unique

  16. A.

     Assembly language

    B.

     Machine language

    C.

     High level language

    D.

     All of the above

    E.

     None of the above


  17. Transistorized computer circuits were introduced in the

  18. A.

     first generation

    B.

     second generation

    C.

     thir4 generation

    D.

     fourth generation

    E.

     None of the above


  19. Those microcomputers which have the same operating characteristics as the IBM microcomputers are called IBM

  20. A.

     duplicates

    B.

     clones

    C.

     copies

    D.

     look alikes

    E.

     None of the above