Q.1. Which of the following devices sends and receives data over telephone lines to and from computers?
(1) expansion slot
(2) speaker
(3) sound card
(4) modem
(5) printer
Q.2. Which of the following is not an output device?
(1) keyboard
(2) monitor
(3) printer
(4) speaker
(5) Plotter
Q.3. Which of the following represents one billion characters?
(1) 1 byte
(2) 1 gigabyte
(3) 1 kilobyte
(4) 1 megabyte
(5) 1 terabyte
Q.4. Which of the following is a storage device that stores data on floppy-disk cartridges with at least 70 times the capacity of the standard floppy?
(1) CD drive
(2) DVD drive
(3) hard-disk drive
(4) Zip-disk drive
(5) none of the above
Q.5. Which of the following is not an input device?
(1) digital camera
(2) microphone
(3) mouse
(4) scanner
(5) speaker
Q.6. Which of the following is not a version of operating system software for the PC?
(1) 95
(2) 98
(3) Macintosh
(4) 2000
(5) XP
Q.7. Which of the following is an input and output device used for communicating with a mainframe computer?
(1) monitor
(2) scanner
(3) screen
(4) terminal
(5) none of the above
Q.8. Which of the following kinds of computers can perform over 1 trillion calculations per second?
(1) mainframe
(2) microcomputer
(3) microcontroller
(4) supercomputer
(5) workstation
Q.9. What is the typical storage capacity of a floppy disk?
(1) 1.44 kilobytes
(2) 1.44 megabytes
(3) 144 bytes
(4) 144 gigabytes
(5) 144 terabytes
Q.10. What is the process of copying software programs from secondary storage media to the hard disk called?
(1) configuration
(2) download
(3) installation
(4) storage
(5) upload
Answers
Q.1. (4) Modem sends and receives data over telephone lines to and from computers.
Q.2. (1) Keyboard is an input device.
Q.3. (2) 1 gigabyte represents one billion characters.
Q.4. (4) Zip-disk drive
Q.5. (5) Speaker is an output device.
Q.6. (3) Macintosh is not a version of operating system software for the PC
Q.7. (4) Terminal is an input and output device used for communicating with a mainframe computer.
Q.8. (4) Supercomputer can perform over 1 trillion calculations per second.
Q.9. (2) 1.44 megabytes is the typical storage capacity of a floppy disk.
Q.10. (3) The process of copying software programs from secondary storage media to the hard disk is called installation.
