Hardware Test 01

Total Questions: 90

1 - Where would you find the letters QUERTY

A ) Mouse
B ) Screen
C ) Numeric keypad
D ) Keyboard ✅

2 - How did the computer mouse get its name

A ) It's cable looks like a tail ✅
B ) Because it squeaks when moved
C ) It has ears
D ) Teeth outside mouth

3 - What are you most likely to use when Playing

A ) Touch screen a computer game
B ) Light pen
C ) Notepad
D ) Joystick ✅

4 - A digitizing tablet can be used for

A ) Tracing diagrams ✅
B ) Printing letters
C ) Reading barcode
D ) Playing

5 - Which of the following is a pointing device

A ) Hard disk
B ) CD ROM device
C ) Touch screen used for computer input ✅
D ) RAM

6 - What dose a light pen contain

A ) Refillable ink
B ) Light sensitive element ✅
C ) Pencil lead
D ) Blue ink

7 - What would be the best way to move around a 3D environment

A ) Use a tracker ball
B ) Use a keyboard
C ) Use a space mouse ✅
D ) Use joystick

8 - What input device can be used for making

A ) Optical mark reader ✅
B ) Barcode reader
C ) Mouse a multiple choice test
D ) All of these

9 - What input device could tell you the price of

A ) Mouse a bar of chocolate
B ) Optical mark reader
C ) Bar code reader ✅
D ) None of these

10 - Where would you find a magnetic strip

A ) Speakers
B ) Credit card ✅
C ) Smart card
D ) All of these

11 - Hard copy is a term used to describe

A ) Printed output ✅
B ) Writing on a hard board
C ) Storing information on the hard disk
D ) None of these

12 - What do the abbreviation VAB stands for

A ) Voice activated broadcasting
B ) Visual audio board
C ) Voice answer back ✅
D ) All of these

13 - What are the individual dots which make up a picture on the monitor screen called

A ) Coloured spot
B ) Pixies
C ) Pixels ✅
D ) All of these

14 - A daisy wheel is a type of

A ) Storage device
B ) Printer ✅
C ) Pointing device
D ) All of these

15 - Factory production lines can be automated using

A ) Machine tools
B ) VDUs ✅
C ) Plotters
D ) None of

16 - An impact printer creates characters by using

A ) An inked ribbon and print head ✅
B ) Electrically charged ink
C ) An ink pen
D ) None of these

17 - What would you not use with a flatbed plotter

A ) A pen
B ) Eraser
C ) Paper ✅
D ) All of these

18 - What would be the best way to move arta 3D environment

A ) Electrostatic plotters
B ) Thermal printer
C ) Robots ✅
D ) All of these

19 - What do you need for an inkjet printers

A ) A drum
B ) A cartridge ✅
C ) A ribbon
D ) None of these

20 - A laser printer does not used

A ) A photo conductive Drum ✅
B ) A print head
C ) A laser beam
D ) All of these

21 - The amount of data that a disk may contains known as the disk's

A ) Volume
B ) Size
C ) Storage capacity ✅
D ) All of these

22 - You can protect a floppy disk

A ) Read
B ) Read and write
C ) Write ✅
D ) All of these

23 - Information on a hard disk is usually backed up using a

A ) CD ROM ✅
B ) Magnetic tape
C ) Floppy disk
D ) None of these

24 - Magnetic storage device can represent binary 0 by the absence of

A ) A magnetic y
B ) Magnetic tape ✅
C ) Static electricity
D ) All of these

25 - Magnetic tape is a

A ) Random Access medium
B ) A parallel access medium
C ) Serial access medium ✅
D ) None of these

26 - Hard disk can have a storage capacity in the region of

A ) 1GB ✅
B ) 1.44 Mb
C ) 720 k
D ) All of these

27 - Formatting a disk results in all the data being

A ) Saved to the disk
B ) Copied from the disk
C ) Deleted from the disk ✅
D ) All of these

28 - Which storage device has the largest capacity in MBs

A ) A floppy disk
B ) CD ROM ✅
C ) Magnetic tape storage
D ) All of these

29 - Which storage device cannot be erased

A ) CD ROM
B ) A floppy disk ✅
C ) Magnetic tape storage
D ) All of these

30 - Where should floppy disk be stored

A ) By a sunny window
B ) In a drawer ✅
C ) By magnet objects
D ) None of these

31 - Who is accredited with developing the architecture of the modern computer

A ) Sir Clive Sinclair
B ) Bill Gates
C ) John von Neumann ✅
D ) None of these

32 - Which bus carries information between processor and peripheral

A ) Autobus
B ) Data bus ✅
C ) Address bus
D ) None of these

33 - Which bus controla twh sequencing of read/write operations

A ) Control bus ✅
B ) Address bus
C ) Data bus
D ) All of these

34 - The contents of these chips are lost when the computer is switched off

A ) RAM chips ✅
B ) ROM chips
C ) DRAM chips
D ) All of these

35 - What are responsible for storing permanent data and instructions

A ) RAM chips
B ) DRAM chips
C ) ROM chips ✅
D ) All of these

36 - Which parts of the computer perform arithmetic calculation

A ) Register
B ) ALU ✅
C ) Logic bus
D ) All of these

37 - What are small high speed memory units used for storing temporary results

A ) Register
B ) CPUs ✅
C ) Control unit
D ) All of these

38 - What maintain the status of the last operation carried out the ALU

A ) Instructions pointer
B ) Status register
C ) Accumulators ✅
D ) None of these

40 - What type of computer chips are said to be volatile

A ) ROM chips
B ) RAM chips ✅
C ) DRAM chips
D ) All of these

41 - All examples of an embedded systems is

A ) CD ROM
B ) A machine tool
C ) A calculator ✅
D ) All of these

42 - Which computers used single chip processor

A ) Parallel computer
B ) Cray computer
C ) Personal computer ✅
D ) All of these

43 - Travel agents use this computer system when reserving flights

A ) Supercomputer
B ) Main frame computer
C ) Personal computer ✅
D ) All of these

44 - Which computers are used in the weather forecasting industry

A ) Supercomputer ✅
B ) Notebook computer
C ) Jon von Neumann computer
D ) All of these

45 - Which computers are connected to many terminal and can multitask

A ) Minicomputer
B ) Personal computer running MS DOS ✅
C ) LEO 1 computer
D ) All of these

46 - Vacuum tube based electronic computers are

A ) Second generation
B ) Hoover generation
C ) First generation ✅
D ) None of these

47 - Which generation of computer uses more than one microprocessor

A ) Second generation
B ) Third generation
C ) Fifth generation ✅
D ) All of these

48 - Which generation of computer was developed from microchip

A ) Third generation ✅
B ) Second generation
C ) Fourth generation
D ) All of these

49 - Which generation of computer developed using integrated circuits

A ) Second generation
B ) Fifth generation
C ) Third generation ✅
D ) All of these

50 - Which of these is actually a very basic computer

A ) A toaster
B ) A stove
C ) A light bulb
D ) A calculator ✅

53 - The brain of the computer is called the

A ) IBM
B ) ROM
C ) RAM
D ) CPU ✅

54 - The operating system is also called the.... between the user and the computer

A ) Interrelate
B ) Interface ✅
C ) Interference
D ) Intermediate

55 - When installing a peripheral you also usually need to install a

A ) Port
B ) Server
C ) Driver ✅
D ) Password

57 - A single binary digit is known as

A ) MB
B ) KB
C ) Bit ✅
D ) Byte

58 - Internet safety relates to

A ) Only those who buy products only
B ) Only those who sign up for chat rooms ✅
C ) Only those who do their banking online
D ) None of these

59 - A file name extension for word 2007 files is

A ) .gif
B ) .txt
C ) .docx ✅
D ) .exe

60 - A KB represent.....bytez

A ) 8
B ) 1,000,000,000
C ) 1,000,000
D ) 1,000 ✅

61 - How many bytes bin a MB

A ) 1,000,000
B ) 1,024,000 ✅
C ) 1,048,586
D ) None of these

62 - Which Q basic statement is W most evil

A ) PRINT
B ) LOCATE
C ) GOTO ✅
D ) None of these

63 - What does ALU stands for

A ) Arithmetic logic unit ✅
B ) Asymmetrical localizing unit
C ) Because his legs are in the way
D ) None of these

64 - How many pins on a standard DDR RAM Dimm

A ) 64
B ) 256
C ) 168
D ) 184 ✅

65 - Which platform can a pentium III processor based in

A ) Socket 370/socketmPG370/slot 1 ✅
B ) Socket 462/slot A/socket 8
C ) Socket 5/socket 7/socket 3
D ) None of these

66 - If a computer is constantly rebooting itself what is most commonly the problem

A ) Insufficient power supply unit ✅
B ) Bad sectors on hard drive
C ) Processor overheating
D ) None of these

67 - What does the company name AMD for

A ) Always making Dough
B ) Advanced Micro devices ✅
C ) A mad Device
D ) None of these

69 - What does SSE stands for in Intel's SSE technology

A ) Sophisticated software enhancer
B ) Streaming simmd extension ✅
C ) Some stupid enhancer
D ) None of these

70 - Which does not belong to a Intel pentium 4 platform

A ) DDRSRAM
B ) EDO/fast page RAM ✅
C ) SDRAM
D ) None of these

71 - What video card is best suited for 3D games

A ) ATI 3D charger
B ) ATI Radeon 9700 pro ✅
C ) 3DFX Voodoo 5
D ) None of these

72 - What platform does the AMD K6 3+ processor belong to

A ) Sockets
B ) Socket7 ✅
C ) Slot A
D ) None of these

75 - What is the best ram solution for the Intel pentium 4 processor

A ) SDRAM ✅
B ) DDR SDRAM
C ) Rambuss
D ) None of these

76 - How did the shift key get it's name

A ) From the Latin word for large,shiftius, which was the first language ever used on a computer
B ) Because it shifts the ASCII table by a value of 32
C ) It was a carry over from typewriters which had both upper and lower case letters on each print head and used a mechanical shifting of the print head to differentiate ✅
D ) Because the capital is full of shifty character

78 - What does BASiC stands for

A ) Basically it's just your basic computer language,so they named it BASiC
B ) Beginners all purpose symbolic instructions code ✅
C ) Binary analysis system interpretation commandset
D ) None of these

79 - What does ASCII stands for

A ) Array of simple character iteration indices
B ) Another stupid character identification idea
C ) American standard code for information interchange ✅
D ) None of these

80 - The access method used for magnetic tape is

A ) Direct
B ) Random
C ) Sequential ✅
D ) All of these

81 - By processing we understand

A ) String manipulation only
B ) Processing string of only words ✅
C ) Processing string of numbers and special symbols
D ) None of these

82 - The difference between memory and storage is that the memory is......and storage is.....

A ) Slow,fast
B ) Temporary, permanent ✅
C ) Permanent, temporary
D ) All of these

83 - Which of the following holds the ROM, CPU, RAM and expansion cards

A ) Hard disk
B ) Floppy disk
C ) Motherboard ✅
D ) All of these

84 - The language that the computer can understand and execute is called

A ) System program
B ) Application software
C ) Machine language ✅
D ) All of these

86 - A floppy disk contains

A ) Circular tracks only
B ) Both circular tracks and sectors ✅
C ) Sectors all
D ) Al of these

87 - CD ROM is a

A ) Semiconductor memory
B ) Memory register ✅
C ) Magnetic memory
D ) All of these

88 - Which of the following is used as a primary storage device

A ) Magnetic tape
B ) PROM
C ) Floppy disk
D ) None of these

89 - Information retrieval is faster from

A ) Floppy disk
B ) Hard disk ✅
C ) Magnetic tape
D ) All of these

90 - Operating system is

A ) A collection of software routines ✅
B ) A collection of input -output devices
C ) A collection of hardware components
D ) All of these