Window Operating System

The difference between memory and storage is that memory is ________ and storage is ________.

• (A) Temporary, permanent
• (B) Permanent, temporary
• (C) Slow, fast
• (D) All of the above

A floppy disk contains:

• (A) Circular tracks only
• (B) Sectors only
• (C) Both circular tracks and sectors
• (D) All of the above

The octal equivalence of 111010 is:

• (A) 81
• (B) 72
• (C) 71
• (D) None

The first electronic computer in the world was:

• (A) UNIVAC
• (B) EDVAC
• (C) EN I AC
• (D) All of these

The most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called:

• (A) ASCII
• (B) EBCDIC
• (C) BCD
• (D) All of these

Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?

• (A) Analytical engine
• (B) Arithmetic machine
• (C) Donald Knuth
• (D) All of the above

Offline device is:

• (A) A device which is connected to CPU
• (B) A device which is not connected to CPU
• (C) A direct access storage device
• (D) An I/O device

Which of the following registers is loaded with the contents of the memory location pointed by the PC?

• (A) Memory address register
• (B) Memory data register
• (C) Instruction registers
• (D) Program counter

Which of the following registers is used to keep track of address of the memory location where the next instruction is located?

• (A) Memory address register
• (B) Memory data register
• (C) Instruction registers
• (D) Program counter

Microprocessors can be used to make:

• (A) Computer
• (B) Digital systems
• (C) Calculators
• (D) All of these