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  1. Main storage is also called

  2. A.

     Accumulator

    B.

     Control unit

    C.

     Register unit

    D.

     memory

    E.

     None of the above

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  3. Which printer is very commonly used for desk-top publishing?

  4. A.

     Laser printer

    B.

     Ink-jet printer

    C.

     Daisy wheel printer

    D.

     Dot-matrix printer

    E.

     None of the above

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  5. Hard disks are formatted in the same manner as floppy disks. However, before a hard disk can be formatted, it must first be _____

  6. A.

     partitioned

    B.

     sectioned

    C.

     deleted

    D.

     inter-sectioned

    E.

     write protected

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  7. The no of logical records in a physical record is

  8. A.

     Group

    B.

     Blocking factor

    C.

     Sector

    D.

     Field

    E.

     None of the above

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  9. Personnel who design, program, operate and maintain computer equipment refers to

  10. A.

     Console-operator

    B.

     Programmer

    C.

     Peopleware

    D.

     System Analyst

    E.

     None of the above

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  11. The magnetic storage chips used to provide nonvolatile direct access storage of data and that have no moving parts are known as

  12. A.

     Magnetic core memory

    B.

     Magnetic tape memory

    C.

     Magnetic disk memory

    D.

     Magnetic bubble memory

    E.

     None of the above

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  13. In the third generation of computers:

  14. A.

     distributed data processing first became popular

    B.

     an operating system was first developed

    C.

     high-level procedural languages were first used

    D.

     on-line, realtime systems first became popular

    E.

     All of the above

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  15. A common example of a data storage medium is

  16. A.

     cartidge

    B.

     floppies

    C.

     cluge

    D.

     disk

    E.

     None of the above

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  17. IBM-PC is an example of

  18. A.

     A main frame

    B.

     Machine-in-built

    C.

     Micro computer

    D.

     Special purpose

    E.

     None of the above

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  19. Which of the following will happen when data is entered into a memory location?

  20. A.

     It will add to the content of the location

    B.

     It will change the address of the memory location

    C.

     It will erase the previous content

    D.

     It will not be fruitful if thjere is already some data at that location

    E.

     None of the above

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