Computer General Knowledge Questions And Answers

1. Who is called as Father of Computers?
Ans: Charles Babbage

2. The first Digital Computer introduced was named as?
Ans: Mark-I

3. How many generations computer can be classified?
Ans: 5

4. First Generation Computers contain?
Ans: Vacuum Tubes

5. II Generation Computers are made of?
Ans: Transistors

6. IV Generation Computers contain?
Ans: LSI

7. Vth Generation Computers are based on?
Ans: Artificial Intelligence

8. Computers combine both measuring and counting, is called?
Ans: Hybrid

9. In word today most of the computers ate?
Ans: Digital

10. In any computer installation how many elements consist?
Ans: 3

11. Physical structure of computer is called?
Ans: Hardware

12. CPU stands for?
Ans: Central Processing Unit

13. In which type of computer data are represented as discrete signals?
Ans: Digital computer

14. Which of the following is available in the form a PC now?
Ans: Microcomputer

15. PARAM is an example of?
Ans: Super computer

16. Who developed the analytical engine?
Ans: Charles Babbage

17. GUI stands for?
Ans: Graphical User Interface

18. The time taken by CPU to retrieve and interpret the instruction to be executed is called as?
Ans: Instruction cycle

19. Which of the following is responsible for all types of calculations?
Ans: ALU

20. Which of the following is permanent memory?
Ans: ROM

21. The metal or plastic case that holds all the physical parts of the computer is the?
Ans: System Unit

22. CD-ROM stands for?
Ans: Compact Disk Read Only Memory

23. ALU Stand for?
Ans: Arithmetic Logic Unit

24. VGA Stand for?
Ans: Video Graphics Array

25. IBM 1401 is?
Ans: Second Generation Computer

26. MSI stands for?
Ans: Medium Scale Integrated Circuits

27. WAN stands?
Ans: Wide Area Network

28. MICR stands for?
Ans: Magnetic Ink Character Reader

29. One byte consists of?
Ans: eight bits

30. EEPROM stand for?
Ans: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

31. Which of the following is a way to access secondary memory?
Ans: Random access memory

32. UNIVAC Stand for?
Ans: Universal Automatic Computer

33. The brain of any computer system is?
Ans: CPU

34. To rage capacity of magnetic disk depends on?
Ans: disk pack in disk surface

35. The two kinds of main memory are?
Ans: ROM and RAM

36. A storage area used to store data to a Compensate for the difference in speed at which the different units can handle data is?
Ans: Buffer

37. Computer is free from tiresome and boardroom We call it?
Ans: Diligence

38. Which type of computers uses the 8-bit code called EBCDIC?
Ans: Mainframe computers

39. The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from?
Ans: Control section

40. Chief component of first generation computer was?
Ans: Vacuum Tubes and Valves”

41. To produce high quality graphics (hardcopy) in color you would want to use a/n?
Ans: Plotter

42. One millisecond is?
Ans: 1000th of a seconds

43. The output quality of a printer is measured by?
Ans: Dot per inch

44. Which of the following was a special purpose computer?
Ans: ABC

45. Which of the following storage devices can store maximum amount of data?
Ans: Hard Disk

46. Which computer was considered the first electronic computer until 1973 when court invalidated the patent?
Ans: ENIAC

47. physical connection between the microprocessor memory and other parts of the microcomputer is known as?
Ans: Address bus

48. High density double sided floppy disks could store pf data?
Ans: 44 MB

**49. A high quality CAD system uses the following for printing drawing and graphs?Ans: Digital plotter

50. The accuracy of the floating-point numbers representable in two 16-bit words of a computer is approximately?
Ans: 16 digits

51. In most of the IBM PCs, the CPU, the device drivers, memory, expansion slots and active components are mounted on a single board. What is the name of this board?
Ans: Motherboard

52. A technique used by codes to convert an analog signal into a digital bit stream is known as?
Ans: Pulse code modulation

53. Regarding a VDU, Which statement is more correct?
Ans: It is a peripheral device

54. A modern electronic computer is a machine that is meant for?
Ans: Input, storage, manipulation and outputting of data

55. When was vacuum tube invented?
Ans: 1906

56. Computer with 80286 Microprocessor is?
Ans: AT computers

57. The digital computer was developed primarily in?
Ans: USA

58. Software in computer?
Ans: Enhances the capabilities of the hardware machine

59. The arranging of data in a logical sequence is called?
Ans: Sorting

60. What is the responsibility of the logical unit in the CPU of a computer?
Ans: To compare numbers

61. Abacus was the first?
Ans: mechanical calculator

62. If in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify address in a RAM, the number of addresses will be?
Ans: 65,536

63. Instructions and memory address are represented by?
Ans: Binary codes

64. The terminal device that functions as a cash register, computer terminal, and OCR reader is the?
Ans: POS

65. A set of flip flops integrated together is called?
Ans: Register

66. Which is used for manufacturing chips?
Ans: Semiconductors

67. The first computer introduced in Nepal was?
Ans: IBM 1401

68. Mnemonic a memory trick is used in which of the following language?
Ans: Assembly language

69. Which was the most popular first generation computer?
Ans: IBM 650

**70. A set of information defines the status of resources allocated to a process is?Ans: Process description

71. Each set of Napier’s bones consisted of rods?
Ans: 11

72. BCD Stand for?
Ans: Binary Coded Decimal

**73. When was the world’s first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?Ans: Epson,1981.

74. From which generation operating systems were developed?
Ans: Third generation

75. The first firm to mass-market a microcomputer as a personal computer was?
Ans: Radio

76. How many address lines are needed to address each machine location in a 2048×4 memory chip?
Ans: 11

77. Properly arranged data is called?
Ans: Information

78. John Napier invented Logarithm in?
Ans: 1614

79. An integrated circuit is?
Ans: Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip

80. What type of control pins are needed in a microprocessor to regulate traffic on the bus, in order to prevent two devices from trying to use it at the same time?
Ans: Bus arbitration

**81. Whereas a computer mouse moves over the table surface, the trackball is?Ans: Stationary

82. Which of the following is used as a primary storage device?
Ans: Magnetic drum

83. Multi user system provided cost savings for small business because they use a single processing unit to link several?
Ans: Dumb terminals

**84. The word processing task associated with changing the appearance of a document is?Formatting

85. When was Pascal invented?
Ans: 1642

86. What is required when more than one person uses a central computer at the same time?
Ans: Terminal

87. The term gigabyte refers to?
Ans: 1024 megabytes

88. In which year was UK’s premier computing event started?
Ans: 1980

89. What is the date when Babbage conceived Analytical engine?
Ans: 1837

**90. What was the expected feature of fifth generation computers when Japan started FGCS?Parallel Processing

91. Which of the following memory medium is not used as main memory?
Ans: Magnetic tape

92. Computer operators?
Ans: operate the device which input and output data from the computer

93. Computers are also called personal computers?
Ans: Micro Computers

94. Which of the following is machine independence program?
Ans: geigh level language

95. When was the first electro-mechanical computer developed?
Ans: 1944

96. Analog computer works on the supply of?
Ans: Continuous electrical pulses

97. The BIOS is the abbreviation of?
Ans: Basic Input Output System

98. Most of the first generation computers were?
Ans: Special purpose computers

99. The output quality of a printer is measured by?
Ans: Dot per sq. inch

100. On a PC, how much memory is available to application software?
Ans: 640 KB

101. In a Computer is capable to store single binary bit?
Ans: Flip flop

102. What does DMA stand for?
Ans: Direct Memory Access

103. Operating system, editors, and debuggers comes under?
Ans: System Software

104. What is the name of the display feature that highlights are of the screen which requires operator attention?
Ans: Reverse video

105. Which is the largest computer?
Ans: Mainframe Computer

106. The personal computer industry was started by?
Ans: IBM

107. What is meant by a dedicated computer?
Ans: Which is assigned one and only one task

108. Registers, which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional, are known as?
Ans: General purpose register

109. Registers which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional codes (bits set by the CPU hardware as the result of operations), are known as?
Ans: Flags

110. An approach that permits the computer to work on several programs instead of one is?
Ans: Over lapped processing

111. Who suggested Stored Program Concept?
Ans: John Neumann

112. The central processing unit (CPU) consists of?
Ans: Control unit, arithmetic-logic unit and primary storage

113. The notable features like keyboards, monitors, GUI were developed in?
Ans: Third generation

114. Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine?
Ans: Jacquard

115. What is an interpreter?
Ans: An Interpreter is the representation of the system being designed

116. RJ45 UTP cable has Cables?
Ans: 4 pair

117. Which of the following is not a valid size of a Floppy Disk?
Ans: 5%

118. The earliest calculating devices are?
Ans: Abacus

119. Word length of a Personal Computer is?
Ans: 8 bits

120. A directly accessible appointment calendar is a feature of a resident package?
Ans: Memory

121. Which unit converts computer data into human readable form?
Ans: Output unit

122. What produces useful information out of data?
Ans: Processing

123. Which device is used to input data into a computer?
Ans: Keyboard

124. What is the primary function of an operating system?
Ans: Resource management

125. Which of the following is a volatile memory?
Ans: RAM

126. What does URL stand for?
Ans: Uniform Resource Locator

127. Which generation of computers introduced microprocessors?
Ans: Fourth generation

128. What is the smallest unit of data in a computer?
Ans: Bit

129. Which of the following is an example of an output device?
Ans: Monitor

130. What does HTTP stand for?
Ans: HyperText Transfer Protocol

131. Which component of a CPU performs arithmetic and logical operations?
Ans: ALU

132. What is the function of a motherboard?
Ans: Connects all computer components

133. Which of the following is a type of software?
Ans: Application software

134. What does LAN stand for?
Ans: Local Area Network

135. Which device is used to store data permanently?
Ans: Hard Disk

136. What is the purpose of a firewall?
Ans: Network security

137. Which of the following is a programming language?
Ans: Python

138. What does CPU clock speed measure?
Ans: Processing speed

139. Which memory is used to store the BIOS?
Ans: ROM

140. What is the main function of a router?
Ans: Direct data traffic

141. Which of the following is an example of a spreadsheet software?
Ans: Microsoft Excel

142. What does GPU stand for?
Ans: Graphics Processing Unit

143. Which technology is used in modern touchscreens?
Ans: Capacitive

144. What is the purpose of a UPS?
Ans: Power backup

145. Which of the following is a type of printer?
Ans: Inkjet

146. What does SSD stand for?
Ans: Solid State Drive

147. Which component is responsible for cooling a CPU?
Ans: Heat sink

148. What is the primary use of a barcode scanner?
Ans: Data input

149. What is the full form of ENIAC?
Ans: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

150. Which company developed the first commercially successful personal computer?
Ans: IBM

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