COMPUTER GENERAL QUIZ QUESTIONS

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• 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

• 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