An integrated circuit is:
- (A) A complicated circuit
- (B) Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip
- (C) An integrating device
- (D) Much costlier than a single transistor
- (B) Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip
Most important advantage of an IC is its:
- (A) Easy replacement in case of circuit failure
- (B) Extremely high reliability
- (C) Reduced cost
- (D) Low powers consumption
- (B) Extremely high reliability
in the third Generation of computers:
- (A) Distributed data processing firs became popular:
- (B) An operating system was first developed
- (C) High level procedural language were first used
- (D) Online real time systems first become popular
- (D) Online real time systems first become popular
An IBM system/38 represents the computer class of:
- (A) Small scale computer
- (B) Medium scale computer
- (C) Large scale computer
- (D) Super computer
- (B) Medium scale computer
A digital computer did not score over an analog computer in terms of:
- (A) Speed
- (B) Accuracy
- (C) Reliability
- (D) Cost
- (D) Cost
In 1830, Charles Babbage designed a machine called the Analytic engine which he showed at the Paris Exhibition. In which year was it exhibited?
- (A) 1820
- (B) 1860
- (C) 1855
- (D) 1970
- (C) 1855
Which of the following are the two main components of the CPU?
- (A) Control Unit and Registers
- (B) Registers and Main Memory
- (C) Control unit and ALU
- (D) ALU and bus
- (C) Control unit and ALU
Different components the motherboard of a PC unit are linked together by sets of parallel electrical conducting lines What are these lines called?
- (A) Conductors
- (B) Buses
- (C) Connectors
- (D) Consecutive
- (B) Buses
The language that the computer can understand and execute is called:
- (A) Machine language
- (B) Application software
- (C) System program
- (D) All of the above
- (A) Machine language
The first generation computer were characterized by:
- (A) Micro processor chips
- (B) Transistors
- (C) Integrated circuits
- (D) Thermionic valves
- (D) Thermionic valves