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  1. A hand-held device which reads marks or characters on paper by detecting photo-sensitivity is known as

  2. A.
    Light pen
    B.
    Optical-wand
    C.
    Plotter
    D.
    All of the above
    E.
    None of the above

  3. Tiny rings made of magnetic material that can be polarised to represent binary 1 or 0 is called

  4. A.
    Magnetic core
    B.
    Magnetic disk
    C.
    Card punch
    D.
    Floppy disk
    E.
    None of the above

  5. A computer program that instructs other programs to perform a particular type of operation is

  6. A.
    System software
    B.
    Application program
    C.
    Compiler
    D.
    Interpreter
    E.
    None of the above

  7. A hard copy would be prepared on a

  8. A.
    Line printer
    B.
    Dot matrix printer
    C.
    Type writer terminal
    D.
    Plotter
    E.
    All of the above

  9. Which was the world's first minicomputer and when was it introduced?

  10. A.
    PDP-1, 1958
    B.
    1MB System/36, 1960
    C.
    PDP-11 1961
    D.
    VAX 11/780, 1962
    E.
    None of the above

  11. What is the acronym for Single In-Line Memory Module?

  12. A.
    SIMM
    B.
    SILMM
    C.
    SM
    D.
    SMM
    E.
    None of the above

  13. A device used to measure the circuit density of a chip is

  14. A.
    Light pen
    B.
    Mouse
    C.
    LSI
    D.
    All of the above
    E.
    None of the above

  15. Which type of processing that produces output results immediately after input data are entered into a computer system

  16. A.
    Time-sharing
    B.
    Interactive
    C.
    Batch processing
    D.
    Real-time processing
    E.
    None of the above

  17. A printer in which the characters are embossed on a band is

  18. A.
    Dot-matrix
    B.
    Laser
    C.
    Golf-ball
    D.
    Chain
    E.
    None of the above