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GAT Subject Computer Science Online MCQs MCQs With Answers
Question # 1
Testing of each individual program or module is called.
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Program testing
Volume testing
System testing
Unit testing
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Question # 2
When a database stores procedures or instructions along with data, rather than in table sor hierarchies, it is called.
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Graphical user interface
User friendly
Object oriented
Query format
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Question # 3
In preparing a program, desk cheeking and translation are example of.
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Coding
Planning
Testing
Documenting
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Question # 4
CPU is divided into how many parts.
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2
3
5
6
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Question # 5
A set of software tools for automated design is called.
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Prototypes
Data flow diagrams
CASE
Ganit clrarts
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Question # 6
The programming language LOGO
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Tells a turtle to draw graphics on a screen
I sued to teach young children programming and problem solving skills
A and b
Neither a nor b and true
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Question # 7
An integrated circuit is.
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A complex circuit
An integrating device
Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip
Another name for chip
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Question # 8
Smallest unit of memory is
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Byte
Bits
Character
Word
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Question # 9
The binary information contained in a computer is referred to as.
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Hard ware
Memory
Program
Instruction
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Question # 10
GUI stand for.
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Graphical User Interface
Global User interface
Graphical usage interface
None of these
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Question # 11
To open a version of a document means to copy it back from.
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Printed copy
floppy disk into the computer's memory
Hard disk into the computer's memory
Either b or c
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Question # 12
The out put of a sequential circuit depends upon.
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Percent input
Past inputs
Botha a and b
None of a and b
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Question # 13
___________ is an external example of hardware.
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Monitor
Sound card
Modem
None of these
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Question # 14
What is the best definition of hypermedia?
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It is the processing of data at high speed
It is the use fo animation to illustrate a subject
It links huge amounts of data in virtually any pattern
It is the use of satellites to ransfer data
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Question # 15
Screen displays for video games and embellished photographic images involve the use of.
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Bitmapped image editing
Object oriented drawing
Illustration software
One of these
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Question # 16
MS-DOS is an example of _____________ interface.
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GUI
CLI
MAC
All of the above
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Question # 17
What are Numeric constants?
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A set of positive and negative numbers
A sets of characters enclosed in quotation marks.
both of these
None of these
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Question # 18
Instructional software is often referred to as
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Eduware
Courseware
Firmware
School ware
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Question # 19
Historically , the first computers were used for.
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Text processing
Data storage
Simulation and modelling
Arithmetic calculations
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Question # 20
Which of the following true of spreadsheets in general?
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They are used only in business applications
They can be used for simulations
Their formulas can only refer to cells that are in the same row or column as the formula
It is very difficult to generate deceptive results with a spreadsheet.
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Question # 21
Storing records one after another in a file in an ascending or descending order determined by the record keyis called.
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Sequential processing
Serial processing
Batch processing
All of the above
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Question # 22
___________ is are the most powerful computers.
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Super minis
Supere micros
Super mainframe
Super computers
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Question # 23
One particular use for the abacus is teaching children simple mathematics and especially.
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Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
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Question # 24
Computer prepared art.
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cell
clip art
analytical
range
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Question # 25
If a disk can hold 800 K bytes of information . It can store a text file of about.
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800,000 words
800 words
800 megabytes
800,000 characters.
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Question # 26
Which of these is a well known example of system software.
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Hyper card
Microsoft works
MS-DOS
All of these are system software.
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Question # 27
The world today is experiencing the _________ revolution
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Technology
Agricultural
Information
Industrial
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Question # 28
A disabled student uses a computer and modem to earn a college degree without leaving home. This is an example of.
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Visualization
Distance learning
CAD/CAM
Virtual reality
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Question # 29
Machine language is a ........... language,
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Low level
High level
Middle level
None of these
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Question # 30
In analog computers time scaling is done to make them operator .
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fast
Slowly
In time delay mode
Either fasts or slow
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Question # 31
A device that prevents electrical problems from affecting data files.
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site license
trojan horse
hot site
surge protector
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Question # 32
Computer supported cooperative work is possible if.
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Groupware and telecommunications are available
Workers have close proximity
Workers live in the same time zone for interactivity to take place
None of these CSCW is a futuristic ideal that, for the most part, hasn't been acknowledged
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Question # 33
While the details of the querying process vary, this is consistent from database program to database program.
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Software applications
Documentation
Underlying logic
User interface
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Question # 34
Binary systems use a base of.
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Eight
Two
Ten
zero
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Question # 35
A physical system can be modeled by a set of
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Boolean equations
Logic equations
Differential equations
Linear algebraic equations
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Question # 36
Pictures on a monitor are composed of tiny dots called.
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A pixels
CRTs
VDTs
Elements.
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Question # 37
A general purpose program or system of program that can manipulate data in a large collection of files is called.
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Data base management system
Data base security system
File manager
Data base multiple platform system
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Question # 38
Database software that utilizes desktop computers to work with files in central database is called.
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File manager
Decentralized
Personal
Client/server
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Question # 39
Scheduling deadlines and milestones can be shown on a
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System survey
Decision table
Prototype
Gantt chart
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Question # 40
Software to peruse the internet:
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gate way
EFT
Browser
Teleconferencing
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Question # 41
The Macintosh user interface can accurately be described with which of the following terms?
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GUI
Menu driven
Incon based
All of these terms describe the Mac user interface.
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Question # 42
The branch of computing that attempts to make the computer exhibit imagination and insight is called
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Artificial intelligence
Multimedia
Hypermedia
Computer graphics
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Question # 43
When all hardware, sofware, storage, and processing is housed in one location it is called.
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A time sharing system
Centralized processing
A DDP system
A host computer system.
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Question # 44
The software that allows the user to manipulate photographs and other higher resolution images is called.
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Analog camera
CAD
FAX
Digital image processing software
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Question # 45
The types of modulation that changes the height of the signal is called.
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frequency
phase
amplitude
Prophase
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Question # 46
The hardware on which the software runs is called the.
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DOS
Icon
Menu
Platform
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Question # 47
Pick out the wrong statement about computers.
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It is logical machine
It can access any piece of information that it hs in store.
It is devoid of emotion, has no feelings or instincts
It approaches its information is unrestricted manner.
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Question # 48
One problem with high-tech weapons is that.
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they have become too large to store securely
they reduce the amount of time people have to make life and death decisions.
When people try to control them manually, they are unpredictable
There is no problem with high tech weapons.
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Question # 49
The decimal numbering system uses___________ digits
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Two
Eight
Nine
Ten
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Question # 50
The length of IP address is.
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8 bits
16 bits
32 bits
64 bits
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Question # 51
In developing a program, documentation should be done.
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as the last step
Throughout the process
Only to explain errors
Only during the design phase
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Question # 52
Text information in a cell.
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Label
formula
value
cell address
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Question # 53
In BASIC,Which one of the following is something that does not change its values during execution of the program?
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Variable
Constant
Command
None of these
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Question # 54
A computer based system in which a telephone message is recorded in digital form and then forwarded to other is.
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A teleconferencing
Voice mail
A bulletin board
Telecommuting
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Question # 55
The closest thing the United States has to a national telecommunications network is.
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Minitel
E-mail
Internet
Arpanet
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Question # 56
_________ are used for translating assembly language code to machine code.
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Interpreters.
Assemblers
Compiler
None of these
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Question # 57
The language small talk is.
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Procedural oriented
Document oriented
Problem oriented
Object oriented
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Question # 58
Unicode can represent up to.
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60635 symbols
56532 symbols
64739 symbols
65536 symbols
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Question # 59
Why are computer crimes so hard to detect?
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Disk can easily be creased to get rid of the evidence.
Someone can steal information and leave the original behind.
Most computer crimes are committed by insiders.
All of these make computer crimes hard to detect
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Question # 60
Information travels between components of a computer through groups of wire called.
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Cards
Busses
Slots
Ports
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Question # 61
Popular application of flip-flop are.
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Counters
Shift registers
Transfer registers
All of above
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Question # 62
Computer follows a simple rule called GIGO,GIGO stand for
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Good input, good output
Great instructions, great output
Garbage in , garbage out
Gated input, gated output
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Question # 63
A computer programme is a list of __________ that tells the computer what to do and how to do.
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Documents
Information
Instructions
Alphabets
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Question # 64
Raw data is processed by the computer into
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Number sheets
Updates
Paragraph
Information
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Question # 65
Charles Babbage set out to create a device that could carry out any calculation to twenty digits of accuracy called a.
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Computer
Analytical engine
Calculator
Mainframe
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Question # 66
Implementation of a program involves.
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Compilation of the program
Debugging the program
Testing the program with data
All of the above
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Question # 67
126
8
+ 425
8
=
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253
8
353
8
453
8
553
8
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Question # 68
Historically, the first computer were use for.
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Text processing
Data storage
Simulation and modeling
Arithmetic calculations
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Question # 69
The number A9D in Hexadecimal system is equivalent to which number in octal system.
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5235
5335
5135
5233
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Question # 70
Take turn time- sharing.
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Spooling
Interfacing
Roun (d) robin scheduling
Prompting.
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