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  1. Which of the following input/output devices is not associated with personal computers?

  2. A.
    mice
    B.
    color monitors
    C.
    punched cards
    D.
    dot-matrix printers
    E.
    optical scanners

  3. The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from

  4. A.
    primary memory
    B.
    control section
    C.
    external memory
    D.
    cache memory
    E.
    None of the above

  5. The heart of any computer is the

  6. A.
    CPU
    B.
    Memory
    C.
    I/O Unit
    D.
    Disks
    E.
    None of the above

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

  8. A.
    Dust
    B.
    Smoke particle
    C.
    Finger print smudge
    D.
    All of the above
    E.
    None of the above

  9. Impact printers

  10. 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

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

  12. A.
    batch-sequential
    B.
    batch-direct
    C.
    immediate-sequential
    D.
    immediate-direct
    E.
    All of the above

  13. Bit map terminal

  14. 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

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

  16. A.
    2 bytes
    B.
    32 bytes
    C.
    4 bytes
    D.
    8 bytes

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

  18. A.
    index register
    B.
    instruction register
    C.
    memory address register
    D.
    memory data register
    E.
    None of the above

  19. In simplex transmission

  20. 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