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Personal computers used a number of chips mounted on a main circuit board. What is the common name for such boards?

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Which of the following is not an output device?

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Which of the following is required when more than one person uses a central computer at the same time?

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UNIVAC was a first generation computer. What is its full form?

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Which of the following magazines covers only the IBM PC and its compatibles?

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Most important advantage of an IC is its

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In the third Generation of computers

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When was the transistors invented?

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Which of the following code used in present day computing was developed by IBM Corporation?

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Which computer memory is used for storing programs and data currently being processed by the CPU?

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What do you call the programs that are used to find out possible faults and their causes?

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Who invented the high level language C?

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A set of rods where numbers were carved and used for multiplication and division aids is known as

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Which device is required for the Internet connection?

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In a punched card system, data is processed by a

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Each model of a computer has a unique

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Who invented punched cards?

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A factor which would strongly influence a business person to adopt a computer is its

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Which of the following is called low level languages?

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For which of the following computers can't be used?

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Which of the following devices can be sued to directly image printed text?

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In order to play and hear sound on a computer, one needs:

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When a key is pressed on the keyboard, which standard is used for converting the keystroke into the corresponding b...

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Which of the following is considered first computer in the world?

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Which of the following class of computers can not support multiple users simultaneously?

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What is a light pen?

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Most of the inexpensive personal computers do not have any disk or diskette drive. What is the name of such compute...

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While inserting a diskette into the diskette drive of a PC, the diskette's label side should face

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A term used to describe interconnected computer configuration is

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The Stepped Reckoner was invented by

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The latest PC keyboards use a circuit that senses the movement by the change in its capacitance,

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The least significant bit of the binary number, which is equivalent to any odd decimal number, is:

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Which statement is valid?

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Circular division of disks to store and retrieve data are known as

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CPU speed of a personal computer is

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Who invented Analytical engine?

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Which of the following is not a primary storage device?

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A small or intelligent device is so called because it contains within it a

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Which of the following memories has the shortest access times?

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CAD stands for

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Which of the following is not a feature of first generation computers

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How was the generation of computer classified?

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The language that the computer can understand and execute is called

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As compared to the secondary memory, the primary memory of a computer is

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In what respect human beings are superior to computers?

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Which converts the user data into machine readable form?

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Which of the following is a programming language?

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Which of the following is not electro-mechanical computer?

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Floppy disks are available in

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The actual execution of instructions happens in

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One of a class of storage device devices that can access storage locations in any order is

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Artificial Intelligence is associated with which generation?

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The two basic types of record access methods are:

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A number system that has eight different symbols to represent any quantity is known as

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Daisy wheel printer is a type of

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Which is an item of storage medium in the form of circular plate?

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Which of the following devices have a limitation that we can only store information to it but cannot erase or modif...

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What is System Analysis?

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Which of the following is a way to access secondary memory?

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Computers built before the First Generation of computers were:

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One computer that is not considered a portable computer is

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Napier's Bones were invented in

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One of the main feature that distinguish microprocessors from micro-computer is

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Which computers used operating systems by Microsoft?

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The silicon chips used for data processing are called

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When did IBM introduce the 20286 based PC/AT?

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How many types of storage loops exists in magnetic bubble memory

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Which of the following class of computers can process physical quantities such as speed?

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What was the name of the first commercially available microprocessor chip?

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The computer that process both analog and digital is called

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The first electronic general purpose digital computer built by Eckert and Mauchly called ENIAC did not work on the ...

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Which of the following have the fastest access time?

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A computer Program that translates one program instruction at a time into machine language is called a/an

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Basic is ________ language.

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The primary advantage of key-to-tape data entry system is

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What was the first computer brought in Nepal?

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Which of the following is used only for data entry and storage, and never for processing?

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Charles Babbage is considered the father of modern computers because

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Which of the following is true?

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The operating speed of third generation computer was

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Pick the one that is used for logical operations or comparisons such as less than equal to or greater than.

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Mini computers and micro computers are from which generation of computers?

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Which device is used as the standard pointing device in a Graphical User Environment?

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

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When we look at the cost, which of the following computer is most expensive?

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A computer which CPU speed around 100 million instruction per second and with the word length of around 64 bits is ...

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Charles Babbage was awarded by Royal Society for his

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Which of the following is a feature of fifth generation computers?

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Apple company used chips from ______ for its computers

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What is the number of read-write heads in the drive for a 9-trac magnetic tape?

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Size of the primary memory of a PC ranges between

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In the IBM PC-At, what do the words AT stand for

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A song being played on computer speaker is

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Which of the following is correct acronym of VGA?

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In which language is source program written?

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WAN is a most used abbreviation in Networking, what is its full form?

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

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Which of the following is true?

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Which of the following is input device?

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The personnel who deals with the computer and its management put together are called

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