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Q51
Which of the following is a secondary memory device?
  • A Keyboard
  • B Disk
  • C ALU
  • D All of the above
Answer: Option B
Q52
The difference between memory and storage is that memory is
  • A Temporary, permanent
  • B Permanent, temporary
  • C Slow, fast
  • D All of above
Answer: Option A
Q53
A floppy disk contains
  • A Circular tracks only
  • B Sectors only
  • C Both circular tracks and sectors
  • D All of the above
Answer: Option C
Q54
The octal equivalence of 111010 is
  • A 81
  • B 72
  • C 71
  • D None of above
Answer: Option B
Q55
The first electronic computer in the world was
  • A UNIVAC
  • B . EDVAC
  • C ENIAC
  • D All of above
Answer: Option C
Q56
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 above
Answer: Option A
Q57
Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?
  • A Analytical engine
  • B Arithmetic machine
  • C Donald Knuth
  • D All of above
Answer: Option A
Q58
Offline device is
  • A device which is not connected to CPU
  • B A device which is connected to CPU
  • C A direct access storage device
  • D An I/O device
Answer: Option A
Q59
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
Answer: Option C
Q60
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 register
  • D Program counter
Answer: Option D
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