Computer fundamental MCQ Questions and answers- Technical Aptitude

A factor which would strongly influence a businessperson to adopt a computer is its Accuracy, Reliability, Speed and all of the above.

Keyboard is the most common input device of a Computer System. The keyboard resembles a typewriter. Modern Keyboards have more than just the letter and numeric keys. They have multimedia keys for volume control, Play/Pause videos etc.

Buffer is used to compensate for difference in speed between two processes that exchange or use data. Cache is a smaller and fastest memory component in the computer.

Registers are the fastest means of access for CPU. Registers are the small memory locations which are present closest to the CPU.

In which year were chips used inside the computer for the first time 1975. Most have one chip, however one chip may have several cores which can run several concurrent processes or more in a hyperthreaded manner.

The Reverend William Oughtred and others developed the slide rule in the 17^th century based on the emerging work on logarithms by John Napier. Before the advent of the electronic calculator, it was the most commonly used calculation tool in science and engineering.

The control unit is a component of a computer's central processing unit (CPU) that directs operation of the processor. It tells the computer's memory, arithmetic/logic unit and input and output devices how to respond to a program's instructions.

A flat-bed plotter uses a pen which moves in two directions across a piece of paper fixed on a flat-bed. Can you tell who controls the movements of this pen in film card.

The desirable characteristic(s) of a memory system is (are) Speed and reliability, Low power consumption and Durability and compactness. Low power consumption means it will consume low power when operating, ie, it will draw low power to operate.

A computer chip needs to be built out of a semiconducting material, and most of these chips are indeed built with silicon even though there are other possible materials. The first silicon transistor was created in the 1950's. Transistors can also be made from many other materials.