Basic Computer Fundamentals

Basic Computer Fundamentals
51. Which of the following is a secondary memory device?
  • Keyboard
  • Disk
  • ALU
  • All of the above
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52. The difference between memory and storage is that memory is
  • Temporary, permanent
  • Permanent, temporary
  • Slow, fast
  • All of above
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53. A floppy disk contains
  • Circular tracks only
  • Sectors only
  • Both circular tracks and sectors
  • All of the above
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54. The octal equivalence of 111010 is
  • 81
  • 72
  • 71
  • None of above
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55. The first electronic computer in the world was
  • UNIVAC
  • . EDVAC
  • ENIAC
  • All of above
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56. The most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called
  • ASCII
  • EBCDIC
  • BCD
  • All of above
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57. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?
  • Analytical engine
  • Arithmetic machine
  • Donald Knuth
  • All of above
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58. Offline device is
  • device which is not connected to CPU
  • A device which is connected to CPU
  • A direct access storage device
  • An I/O device
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59. Which of the following registers is loaded with the contents of the memory location pointed by the PC?
  • Memory address register
  • Memory data register
  • Instruction registers
  • Program counter
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60. Which of the following registers is used to keep track of address of the memory location where the next instruction is located?
  • Memory address register
  • Memory data register
  • Instruction register
  • Program counter
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