Computer Fundamental

What difference does the 5th generation computer have from other generation computers?

• Technological advancement

• Scientific code

• Object-Oriented Programming

• All of the above

A typical modern computer uses

• LSI chips

• Vacuum tubes

• Valves

• All the above

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) had a huge advantage over Mark I because it used electronic valves in place of the electromagnetic switches. ENIAC was used for calculating the path of artillery shells in the beginning. For which other was weapon design was it utilized?

• hydrogen bomb

• atom bomb

• Agni missile

• fighter aircraft

• None of the above

Who was the father of Punched Card Processing?

• J Presper Eckert

• Charles Babbage

• Dr. Herman Hollerith

• Blaise Pascal

• None of the above

A processing unit that coordinates networks and data communication is known as

• Control unit

• Communications processor

• Register unit

• CPU

• None of the above

Which memory system is not a mass memory medium?

• semiconductor memory

• magnetic tape

• magnetic disk

• magnetic drum

• None of the above

The least expensive OCR units can read

• hand printed numbers

• machine-printed numbers

• marks

• handwriting

• None of the above

The input unit of a computer

• feeds data to the CPU or memory

• retrieves data from CPU

• directs all other units

• All of the above

In the IBM PC-AT, what do the words AT stand for?

• Additional terminals

• Advance technology

• Applied technology

• Advanced terminology

Which was the first computer to use transistors instead of vacuum tubes?

• Intel-650

• Burroughs E-101

• Dramatic-1000

• IBM-1401