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COMPUTER GENERAL
QUIZ QUESTIONS
• COBOL is acronym
for:
Common Business Oriented
Language
• BASIC is acronym
for:
Beginners All Purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code
• KB, MB, GB, is
respectively:
Kilo Bites Mega Bites
Giga Bites
• A set of 8 bits is
called:
Bite
• A set of 4 bit is
called:
Nibble
• HDD and FDD are
respectively:
Hard Disk Drive, Floppy
Disk Drive
• Winchester drive is
also called:
Hard disk Drive
• The center
processing unit of a computer consist 3 units namely:
Arithmetic Logic Unit,
Control Unit, Memory Unit
• A program written
using binary codes is called:
Machine language
• The computer which
has incorporated the characters of analog and digital computers is:
Hybrid computers
• The medium is used
by input dives light pen for graphical input is:
CRT screen
• SMPS stands for:
Switch Mode Power Supply
• UPS stands for:
Uninterrupted Power
Supply
• The translator
program that translates each line of the source program as it run is called:
Interpreter
• The pictorial representation of the procedure proposed to solve a problem by a program:
Flow chart
• The pictorial representation of the procedure proposed to solve a problem by a program:
Flow chart
• ANCII stands for:
American Standard Code
for Information Interchange
• ANSI stands for:
American National
Standard Institute
• EBCDIC is the
acronym for:
Extended Binary Coded
Decimal Interchange Code
• ERP packages are:
Enterprise Resource
Planning Package
• Example for ERP
packages:
SAP, BAN etc..
• Write office
automation package of Microsoft:
Ms Office
• The time gap during
the failure of a computer system is also called
Down Time
• What is meant by
‘system analyst’?
A person who examine and
defines actives, flow and problems to be solved and system and procedures to
determine hoe best the necessary operation can accomplished
• Fetch means:
To retrieve data or
instructions from storage
