Computer Quiz – 124

Computer Quiz

1. Which of the following are the two main components of the CPU?
a) Control Unit and Registers
b) Registers and Main Memory
c) Control unit and ALU
d) ALU and bus

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Answer c) Control unit and ALU

2. Different components n the motherboard of a PC unit are linked together by sets of parallel electrical conducting lines. What are these lines called?
a) Conductors
b) Buses
c) Connectors
d) Consecutives

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Answer b) Buses

3. Which of the following memory medium is not used as main memory system?
a) Magnetic core
b) Semiconductor
c) Magnetic tape
d) Both a and b

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Answer c) Magnetic tape

4. Registers, which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional, are known as?
a) PC
b) Memory address registers
c) General purpose register
d) Flags

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Answer c) General purpose register

5. Serial access memories are useful in applications where?
a) Data consists of numbers
b) Short access time is required
c) Each stored word is processed differently
d) Data naturally needs to flow in and out in a serial form

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Answer d) Data naturally needs to flow in and out in a serial form

6. Which one of the following input device is user-programmable?
a) Dumb terminal
b) Smart terminal
c) VDT
d) Intelligent terminal

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Answer d) Intelligent terminal

7. Which computer memory is used for storing programs and data currently being processed by the CPU?
a) Mass memory
b) Internal memory
c) Non-volatile memory
d) PROM

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Answer b) Internal memory

8. CD-ROM?
a) Is a semiconductor memory
b) Memory register
c) Magnetic memory
d) None of the above

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Answer d) None of the above

9. The first electronic computer in the world was?
a) UNIVAC
b) EDVAC
c) ENIAC
d) All of above

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Answer c) ENIAC

10. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?
a) Analytical engine
b) Arithmetic machine
c) Donald Knuth
d) All of above

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Answer a) Analytical engine