Sample Paper II

COMPUTER SAMPLE PAPER

1. A fault in a computer program which prevents it from

 working correctly is known as

a. Boot

b. Bug

c. Biff

d. Strap

e. None

2. A self replicating program, similar to a virus which was 

taken from a 1970s science fiction novel by John Bruner 

entitled the Shockwave Rider is _________


a. Bug

b. Vice

c. Lice

d. Worm

e. None

3. A _______ is a bi-stable electronic circuit that has two 

stable states.

a. Multivibrator

b. Flip-flop

c. Logic gates

d. laten

e. None

4. Unwanted repetitious messages, such as unsolicited bulk e-

mail is known as

a. Spam

b. Trash

c. Calibri

d. Courier

e. None

5. DOS stands for

a. Disk Operating System

b. Disk operating session

c. Digital Operating System

d. Digital Open system

e. None

6. Who is the chief of Miocrosoft

a. Babbage

b. Bill Gates

c. Bill Clinton

d. Bush

e. None

7. Which of the following are input devices.

a. Keyboard

b. Mouse

c. Card reader

d. Scanner

e. All of these

8. Examples of output devices are

a. Screen

b. Printer

c. Speaker

d. All of these

e. None

9. Which of the following is also known as brain of computer

a. Control unit

b. Central Processing unit

c. Arithmatic and language unit

d. Monitor

e. None

10. IBM stands for

a. Internal Business Management

b. International Business Management

c. International Business Machines

d. Internal Business Machines

e. None

11.___________ translates and executes program at run 

time line by line

a. Compiler

b. Interpreter

c. Linker

d. Loader

e. None

12. ___________ is an OOP principle

a. Structured programming

b. Procedural programming

c. Inheritance

d. Linking

e. None

13. COBOL is widely used in _________ applications

a. Commercial

b. Scientific

c. Space

d. Mathematical

e. None

14. RAM stands for

a. Random origin money

b. Random only memory

c. Read only memory

d. Random access memory

e. None

15. 1 Byte = ?

a. 8 bits

b. 4 bits

c. 2 bits

d. 9 bits

e. None

16. SMPS stands for

a. Switched mode power supply

b. Start mode power supply

c. Store mode power supply

d. Single mode power supply

e. None

17. The device used to carry digital data on analog lines is 

called as

a. Modem

b. Multiplexer

c. Modulator

d. Demodulator

e. None

18. VDU is also called

a. Screen

b. Monitor

c. Both 1 & 2

d. printer

e. None

19. BIOS stands for

a. Basic Input Output system

b. Binary Input output system

c. Basic Input Off system

d. all the above

e. None

20. Father of 'C' programming language

a. Dennis Ritchie

b. Prof Jhon Kemeny

c. Thomas Kurtz

d. Bill Gates

e. None

Answers:

1.(b)2.(d)3.(b)4.(a)5.(a)

6.(b)7.(e)8.(d)9.(b)10.(c)

11.(b)12.(c)13.(a)14.(d)15.(a)

16.(a)17.(a)18.(c)19.(a)20.(a)