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The greatest scientists of their era, Abu Jaffar Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khawarizmi (780-850), Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954), and John Von Neuman (1903-1957) took part in the invention of computers. A mathematician and a scientist (of France) Blaise Pascal developed the first mechanical computing machine called “Paccaline” in 1642. Leibnitz’s invented the machine and named it the “Multiplier Wheel” to perform basic arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The “MUltiplier Wheel” machine was further modified in 1971.

MCQs about Computer Basics covering the topics related to software, hardware, input devices, output devices, CPU, RAM, ROM, and secondary storage, etc.

1. Intel is the largest manufacturer of microprocessors. What does the name “Intel” stand for

 Integrated Electronics

 International Electricals

 Integrated Electricals

 International Electronic

2. Optical device was used in which of the following computers for the first time.

 2nd generation computers

 3rd generation computers

 Microcomputers generations

 No computer generation as yet

3. Which of the following term is not associated with computers?

 Window

 Frank land reaction

 Database

 Binary

4. Which was the first truly electronic computer?

 ENIAC

 IBM

 EDSAC

 UNIVAC

5. Bill Gates is more well-known as

 The CEO of IBM

 The inventor of the personal computer

 The Owner of Microsoft Corporation

 The CEO of Apple Macintosh

6. Which of the following is the unit to express the computer memory?

 Bus

 Byte

 Compiler

 Clone

7. Supercomputer was invented by

 J. C. Perier

 J. H. Van Tassel

 A. J. Garnerin

 W. L. Judson

8. PC was originally a trading name of

 IBM

 Apple computers

 Hewlett-Packard

 Remington Rand

9. Which one of the following characteristics is absent in a computer, however, sophisticated it may be?

 Perfect Memory

 High speed

 Accuracy

 Intelligence

10. Microprocessors were introduced first time in

 2nd generation computers

 3rd generation computers

 5th generation computers

 4th generation computers

11. Which of the following computers was the first to use the concept of stored programs?

 UNIVAC I

 Mark I

 EDSAC

 ENIAC

12. A bus with 32 data lines can transport how many bits at a time

 8

 16

 32

 1024

13. The special file of DOS are

 All of these

 EXE

 BATCH

 COM

14. “Binary Codes” as used in computer sciences are codes made up of which of the following two numbers?

 0 and 8

 1 and 3

 0 and 1

 0 and 9

15. Which was the first company in the world to manufacture computers for commercial use?

 Apple computers

 IBM

 Remington Rand

 Hewlett-Packard

16. The technical term is not related to computer systems.

 Winchester Disk

 Virus

 FIFO System

 Mouse

17. Hybrid computer is

 Pascal calculator

 A digital computer

 Combination of analog and digital computer

 An analog computer

18. Which is the name of the processer who coined the name virus for self-replicating programs?

 John von Neumann

 Ken Thompson

 John Mcafee

 Fred Cohen

19. Which company was first to distribute mouse as a standard component with personal computers?

 HP

 Compaq

 Apple computer

 IBM

20. Which Intel microprocessor started the PC revolution?

 4004

 8008

 8088

 8085

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The greatest scientists of their era, Abu Jaffar Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khawarizmi (780-850), Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954), and John Von Neuman (1903-1957) took part in the invention of computers. A mathematician and a scientist (of France) Blaise Pascal developed the first mechanical computing machine called “Paccaline” in 1642. Leibnitz’s invented the machine and named it the “Multiplier Wheel” to perform basic arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The “MUltiplier Wheel” machine was further modified in 1971.

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