1. Personal computers used a number of chips mounted on a main circuit board. What is the common name for such boards?
a) Daughterboard
b) Motherboard
c) Father board
d) Childboard
2. Which of the following is used as a primary storage device?
a) Magnetic drum
b) PROM
c) Floppy disk
d) All of these
3. The two basic types of record access methods are?
a) Sequential and random
b) Sequential and indexed
c) Direct and immediate
d) Online and real time
4. Which 8-bit chip was used in many of today’s TRS-80 computers?
a) Z-8000
b) Motorola 6809
c) Z-8808
d) Z-80
5. Which of the following devices can be used to directly input printed text?
a) OCR
b) OMR
c) MICR
d) All of above
6. A disadvantage of the laser printer is?
a) It is quieter than an impact printer
b) It is very slow
c) The output is of a lower quality
d) None of the above
7. Which of the following memories needs refresh?
a) SRAM
b) DRAM
c) ROM
d) All of above
8. The language that the computer can understand and execute is called?
a) Machine language
b) Application software
c) System program
d) All of the above
9. Modern computers are very reliable but they are not?
a) Fast
b) Powerful
c) Infallible
d) Cheap
10. A computer Program that translates one program inst5ruction at a time into machine language is called a/an?
a) Interpreter
b) CPU
c) Compiler
d) Simulator