Assignment:
1. Which is the highest form?
A) Data
B) Information
C) Knowledge
D) All of above
2. Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine?
A) Pascal
B) Hollerith
C) Babbage
D) Jacquard
3. What is an interpreter?
A) An interpreter does the conversion line by line as the program is run
B) An interpreter is the representation of the system being designed
C) An interpreter is a general purpose language providing very efficient execution
D) None of the above
4. Which of the following is not a valid size of a Floppy Disk?
A) 8?
B) 5 ¼?
C) 3 ½?
D) 5 ½?
5. The earliest calculating devices are
A) Abacus
B) Clock
C) Difference Engine
D) None of these
6. Word length of a Personal Computer is ___
A) 4 bits
B) 8 bits
C) 16 bits
D) 64 bits
7. What was the first computer to perform all calculation using electronics rather than wheels, ratchets, or mechanical switches?
A) Mark I
B) ABC
C) Z3
D) None of above
8. A directly accessible appointment calendar is feature of a __ resident package
A) CPU
B) Memory
C) Buffer
D) ALU
9. Which unit converts computer data into human readable form?
A) Input unit
B) Output unit
C) ALU
D) Control Unit
10. The full form of ALU is
A) Arithmetic Logic Unit
B) Array Logic Unit
C) Application Logic Unit
D) None of above
11. What produces useful information out of data?
A) Computer
B) Processing
C) Programming
D) none of above
12. Which of the following device was not invented by Babbage?
A) Pascaline
B) Difference Engine
C) Analytical Engine
D) None of above
13. A digital computer did not score over an analog computer in terms of
A) Speed
B) Accuracy
C) Reliability
D) Cost