COMPUTER QUIZ

COMPUTER GENERAL QUIZ QUESTIONS

• COBOL is acronym for: Common Business Oriented Language

• BASIC is acronym for: Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

• KB, MB, GB, is respectively: Kilo Bites Mega Bites Giga Bites

• A set of 8 bits is called: Bite

• A set of 4 bit is called: Nibble

• HDD and FDD are respectively: Hard Disk Drive, Floppy Disk Drive

• Winchester drive is also called: Hard disk Drive

• The center processing unit of a computer consist 3 units namely: Arithmetic Logic Unit, Control Unit, Memory Unit

• A program written using binary codes is called: Machine language

• The computer which has incorporated the characters of analog and digital computers is:

Hybrid computers

• The medium is used by input dives light pen for graphical input is: CRT screen

• SMPS stands for: Switch Mode Power Supply

• UPS stands for: Uninterrupted Power Supply

• The translator program that translates each line of the source program is called: Interpreter

• The pictorial representation of the procedure proposed to solve a problem called: Flow chart

• ANSI stands for: American National Standard Institute

• EBCDIC is the acronym for: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

• ERP packages are: Enterprise Resource Planning Package

• Example for ERP packages: SAP, BAN etc..

• Write office automation package of Microsoft: Ms Office

• The time gap during the failure of a computer system is also called: Down Time

• Fetch means: To retrieve data or instructions from storage

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