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Personal Computer use a number of chips mounted on a main circuit board What is the common name for such boards.

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Daughter board

Motherboard

Father board

Breadboard

Which of the following are considered to be video component.

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Resolution

Color depth

Refresh rate

All above

Which of the following is machine independence program.

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High level language

Low level language

Assembly language

Machine language

The time period during which a computer is main functioning or not operating correctly due to machine failures is referred as.

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Downtime

Up time

Run time

None

In a punched cant system, data is processed by a

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Keypunch machine sorter and posting machine

Accounting machine posting machine, and billing machine

Accounting machine keypunch machine and sorter

Sorter posting machine and billing machine

The processes of starting of restarting a computer system by loading instruction from a secondary storage device into the completer memory is called.

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Duping

Booting

Padding

All of above

ALU is

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Arithmetic Logic Unit

Array Logic Unit

Application Logic Unit

None of above

Which of the following is used for manufacturing chips.

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Control bus

Control unit

Parity unit

Semiconductor.

Before a disk drive can access any sector record a computer program has to provide the record's disk address What information does this address specify.

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Track number

Sector number

All of above

Which was the computer conceived by Babbage.

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Analytical engine

Arithmetic Machine

Donald Kunth

All of above

Which of the following items are examples of storage devices.

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Floppy disk

CD-ROMs

Tape devices

All of the above

An approach that permits the computer to work on several program instead of one is.

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On line thesaurus

Multiprogramming

Over lapped processing

Outline processor

In the third generation of computers.

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Distributed data processing first became popular

An operating system was first developed

High level prcedu 7 ral language were firs used.

On line real time system first became popular

The personal who deals with the computer and its management put together are called.

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Software

Human ware

Firmware

hardware

The first firm ot mass market a microcomputer as a personal computer was.

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IBM

Sperry Univac

Data general corporation

Radio shack

A dumb terminal has

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An embedded microprocessor

Extensive memory

Independent processing

A keyboard and screen

The act of retrieving existing data from memory is called.

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Read out

Read from

Read

All of above

Which statement is valid about computer program.

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it is understood by a computer

It is understood by programmer

It is understood user

Both of above

When did IBM introduced the 80286 based PC/AT

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1982

1984

1985

1989

Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine.

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Pascal

Jauard

Hollerith

Babbage

A compared to diskettes the hard disks are.

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More expensive

More portable

Less rigid

Slowly accessed

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