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  1. The terminal device often used in checking charge cards that offers both a limited keyboard input and visual output is the:

  2. A.
    Intelligent terminal
    B.
    POS terminal
    C.
    Video display terminal
    D.
    Audio response unit
    E.
    None of the above

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  3. Who built the world's first electronic calculator using telephone relays, light bulbs and batteries?

  4. A.
    Claude Shannon
    B.
    Konard Zuse
    C.
    George Stibits
    D.
    Howard H. Aliken
    E.
    None of the above

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  5. Hard disks and diskettes are:

  6. A.
    Direct access storage devices
    B.
    Sequential access storage devices
    C.
    Rarely used with microcomputers
    D.
    Both (a) and (c)
    E.
    None of the above

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  7. In digital data transmission

  8. A.
    Baud rate in equal to bit rate
    B.
    Baud rate is always smaller than the bit rate
    C.
    Baud rate is always higher than the bit rate
    D.
    All of the above
    E.
    None of the above

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  9. Which of the following is not one of the three primary functions that on-line direct-access systems can serve?

  10. A.
    inquiry
    B.
    backup
    C.
    update
    D.
    programming
    E.
    None of the above

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  11. How many bits can be stored in the 8K RAM?

  12. A.
    8000
    B.
    8192
    C.
    4000
    D.
    4096
    E.
    None of the above

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  13. A code which uses more bits for each character then what is necessary is known as

  14. A.
    Hollerith code
    B.
    Gray code
    C.
    Redundant code
    D.
    Mnemonics
    E.
    None of the above

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  15. Point out the odd item amongst the following

  16. A.
    Computer mouse
    B.
    Touchpad
    C.
    Light pen
    D.
    Printer
    E.
    None of the above

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  17. Access time in a computer memory is the time required to

  18. A.
    Locate the stored data
    B.
    Retrieve the stored data
    C.
    Both locate and retrieve the data
    D.
    All of the above
    E.
    None of the above

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