Bihar STET Computer Science: Fundamental Set-2

1. A kind of memory chip that stores data and instructions permanently is

A. ROM

B. SRAM

C. EEPROM

D. RAM

2. Which of the following ROM is most convenient to rewrite?

A. EPROM

B. EEPROM

C. EAPROM

D. DRAM

3. Which of the following port is used to connect DB-25 pin Modems or Scanners?

A. Serial Ports

B. Parallel Port

C. PS/2 Port

D. USB Port

4. A disk is divided into several concentric circles called

A. Track

B. Sector

C. Cylinder

D. Cluster

5. The time taken to move an access arm to a certain track on a disk is

A. Seek Time

B. Head Switching Time

C. Search Time

D. Data Transfer time

6. The rotational delay time or latency time is also known as
A. Seek Time

B. Head Switching Time

C. Search Time

D. Data Transfer time

7. Which of the following is not a magnetic storage medium?

A. Floppy Disk

B. Hard Disk

C. Digital Versatile Disks

D. Cassettes and Cartridges

8. Which of the following term do not refer to an expansion card?

A. Controller Cards

B. Adapters

C. Daughterboard

D. Motherboard

9. Which of the following port is better suitable to support high speed graphics and other video input?

A. VGA Port

B. SVGA Port

C. AGP Port

D. PS/2 Port

10. Which device in microprocessor stores the data to be processed?

A. ROM

B. RAM

C. Registers

D. ALU
11. Which of the following is not an optical storage medium?

A. CDs

B. DVDs

C. Blu Ray

D. Memory Sticks

12. A standard CD ROM can hold data up to

A. 1.44 MB

B. 650 MB

C. 2 GB

D. 1 TB

13. IBM introduced the first 8” floppy disk in 1971 which could store

A. 100 KB

B. 164 KB

C. 512 KB

D. 1.44 MB

14. The storage capacity of a floppy disk is measured in

A. KB

B. MB

C. GB

D. TB

15. The storage capacity of a hard disk is measured in

A. KB

B. MB

C. GB

D. TB

16. What is the suitable output device for CAE, CAD and CAM?

A. Dot Matrix Printers

B. Laser Printers

C. Plotters

D. Projectors

17. Which of the following printer produces most noise?

A. Dot Matrix Printer

B. Inkjet Printer

C. Laser Printer

D. None of above

18. To record and produce sound in a computer system you need

A. Microphone

B. Speakers

C. Sound card

D. All of above

19. A cluster of red, green and blue diodes is driven together to form a full-color pixel in a

A. LCD Monitor

B. LED Monitor

C. CRT Monitor

D. Monochrome Monitor

20. The temporary output of a computer system is called

A. Hardcopy output

B. Softcopy output

C. Computer Printout

D. None of above

21. Text and images are displayed on monitor by individual dots called

A. Cursor

B. Pixels

C. CRT

D. LED

22. Specialized vacuum tube in which images are produced when an electron beam strikes a phosphorescent surface is
A. CRT

B. LED

C. LCD

D. All of above

23. The full form of EGA is

A. Enhanced Graphics Adapter

B. Extended Graphics Adapter

C. Enhanced Graphics Array

D. Extended Graphics Array

24. Which of the following technology can’t be used to build flat panel display monitors?

A. LCDs

B. Gas Plasma Display

C. CRT

D. LED

25. Which of the following printer can print a single character at a time?

A. Serial printer

B. Line printer

C. Page printer

D. Impact printer

26. Which of the following printer is suitable to print multiple carbon copies at once?

A. Impact Printer

B. Laser Printer

C. Inkjet Printer

D. All of above

27. Identify the printer that uses a kind of hub having set of spokes at the margin of the hub. When the required character is aligned to the print hammer, the character is then struck into the ribbon to produce character on paper.
A. Inkjet printer

B. Dot matrix printer

C. Line printer

D. Daisy wheel printer

28. The printing technology in which one or more color of ink is sprayed at high speed onto the paper is
A. Laser Printer

B. Ink Jet Printer

C. Dot Matrix Printer

D. Chain Printer

29. Which company introduced the first desktop laser printer called LaserJet?

A. Compaq

B. Hewlett-Packard

C. Epson

D. Cannon
30. A special-purpose output device that draws images with ink pens is
A. Inkjet Printers

B. Laser Printers

C. Plotter

D. Light Pen

31. Which of the following is not a type of plotter

A. Drum plotter

B. Flatbed plotter

C. Hand-held plotter

D. None of above

32. What is there in system unit that holds a microprocessor chip, memory chips and expansion slots?

A. Slots

B. Ports

C. Mother Board

D. Daughter Board

33. Motherboard contains circuitry that connects microprocessor with memory and other parts. What’s the circuitry called?
A. Bus

B. Traffic

C. Data Path

D. None of above

34. Which of the following is not there in motherboard?

A. System Clock

B. Buses

C. Ports

D. VDT

35. The expansion slots or sockets accept additional expansion cards often known as

A. Motherboard

B. Daughterboard

C. Chips

D. None of above

36. Motorola and Intel are well-known companies to produce

A. Motherboards

B. Daughterborads

C. Microprocessors

D. None of above

37. Intel Pentium chip uses

A. CISC design

B. RISC design

C. Both of above

D. None of above

38. RAM & ROM are classified based on

A. Data storage is temporary or permanent

B. Data access is random or sequential

C. Data retrieval is quicker or slower

D. Data removal is automatic or manual

39. Which of the following memory is most volatile?

A. SRAM

B. DRAM

C. CMOS RAM

D. EEPROM

40. Memory chips are mounted on a circuit board usually known as

A. Memory Expansion Card

B. Memory Slot

C. Memory Bank

D. Memory Module

41. Cordless mouse or wireless mouse connects to the computer through

A. Infrared light

B. Radio wave

C. Both of above

D. None of above

42. What is the device that captures images from photographic prints for computer editing and display?
A. Scanner

B. Printer

C. Camera

D. All of above

43. Which of the following is not a type of scanner?

A. Hand held scanner

B. Feed-in scanner

C. Flatbed scanner

D. None of above

44. Which of the following is a scanning technology?

A. OCR

B. OMR

C. BCR

D. All of above

45. The scanning technology that allows to read the check boxes affixed in predefined space is
A. OCR

B. OMR

C. BCR

D. None of above

46. The scanning technology that makes it possible to recognize handwritten data when there is usually space among characters is
A. OMR

B. ICR

C. MICR

D. OCR

47. We use following scanner to recognize the printed and typed texts
A. OMR

B. OCR

C. MICR

D. None of above

48. The scanner used to verify the signatures written by magnetic ink in banks is
A. OMR

B. OCR

C. MICR

D. None of above

49. A unit that receives information from CPU and converts into suitable human readable form is
A. Input Unit

B. Output Unit

C. Processing Unit

D. Language Translator

50. A computer monitor is also called a

A. VDT

B. VDU

C. CRT

D. None of above