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Learn and practice computer basics and computer fundamentals mcq questions for IBPS, SBI, Banking and other competitive exams. Page-7 section-6

Each section contains 100 MCQs on Computer Fundamental Miscellaneous .
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General purpose computers are those that can be adopted to countless uses simply by changing its
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option C
Solution:
General purpose computers are those that can be adopted to countless uses simply by changing its Program. A general purpose computer is a computer that is designed to be able to carry out many different tasks.
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What is the name of the visible silver rectangle which separates the take-up portion of the magnetic tape from the data recording portion?
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
The visible silver rectangle which separates the take-up portion of the magnetic tape from the data recording portion in Load marker.
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A part located in the central processing unit that stores data & information is known as
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
Magnetic-core memory was the predominant form of random-access computer memory for 20 years between about 1955 and 1975. Such memory is often just called core memory, or, informally, core. Core uses tiny magnetic toroids (rings), the cores, through which wires are threaded to write and read information.

Source : wikipedia.org

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A software package to perform calculations on data arranged in an array is
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
A electronic spreadsheet is an interactive computer application for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets are developed as computerized simulations of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in cells of a table.
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What was the name of the first stored program electronic computer which was built in 1949 at Cambridge University in England?
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
EDSAC : The Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. Inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, the machine was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England. EDSAC was the second electronic digital stored-program computer to go into regular service.

Source : wikipedia.org

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A computer with CPU speed around 100 million instructions per second & with the word length of around 64 bits is known as
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option A
Solution:
Super computer : A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer. Performance of a supercomputer is measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS).
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A computer program consists of
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
Computer program is nothing but an algorithm written in some specific computer's language. Computer doesn't understand English or human language, so computer need its own language that is nothing but programming language.
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An input device which can read characters directly from an ordinary piece of paper is
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
OCR : Optical character recognition (also optical character reader, OCR) is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene-photo or from subtitle text superimposed on an image.

Source : wikipedia.org

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Which of the following is not a part of the CPU
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
CPU contains Arithmetic and Logic Unit, Control Unit and Primary storage i.e. Storage Unit. Hence, Program Unit not a part of the CPU.
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Which of the following chips can be reprogrammed with special electric pulses?
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
EEPROM : EEPROM (also E2PROM) stands for Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory and is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers, integrated in microcontrollers for smart cards and remote keyless system, and other electronic devices to store relatively small amounts of data but allowing individual bytes to be erased and reprogrammed.