Institute of Engineering and Science

Department of CST, CSIT, CES

Basic Computer Engineering Quiz Question (BT-205)

1. Which one of the following is not an input device?  

A. Keyboard   B. Joystick   C. Printer   D. Optical Character Reader

Answer: C. Printer

2. The input device that is most likely to be used to play computer game is the  
A. Joystick   B. Keyboard   C.  Touch Screen   D.  Mouse
Answer: Joystick  

3. The Input device that is closely related to a touch screen is the  

A.  Keyboard   B.  Light pen   C.  Scanned   D.  Joystick

Answer: B. Light pen

4. A bus is a / an  
A. electronic track system   B.  Part of register   C.  Special memory   D.  Part of a Cpu
Answer: A. electronic track system  

5. A byte represents a group of  

A. 10 bits   B.  40 bits   C.  8 bits   D.  22 bits
Answer: C. 8 bits

6. Which one of the following is a standard code used to exchange information among data
processing and communication system?  
A.  ANSI   B.  ASCII   C.  ACM   D.  APL
Answer:  ASCII

7. A mouse is connected to  
A.  LPT1 port   B.  LPT2 port   C.  The serial port   D.  None of these

Answer: C. the serial port

8. Windows is  
A. an operating system B.  An operating environment  
C. a character user interface D.  None of these

Answer: B. an operating environment  

 9. Where is the headquarters of Intel located?

  A.  Redmond, Washington   B.  Tucson, Arizona  

C.  Santa Clara, California   D.  Richmond, Virginia

Answer: C. Santa Clara, California

10. Another word for the CPU is  

A.  Microprocessor   B.  Execute   C.  Micro chip   D.  Decode
Answer: A. Microprocessor

11. The computer is a machine and all other equipments associated with it, are termed as   A.
Hardware   B.  Software   C.  Firmware   D.  Humanware
Answer: A. Hardware

12. The component of a computer system with the circuitry to control interpretation and execution of
an instruction is known as  
A.  ALU   B.  Memory   C.  Control   D.  CPU
Answer: B. Memory

13. Which of the following was the first Intel processor introduced?  
A. 3080   B.  4004   C.  8080   D.  8086
Answer: B. 4004

14. Servers are computers that provide resources to other computers connected to
A.  Client   B.  Network   C.  Super Computer   D.  Mainframe
Answer: B. Network

15. _________ generates characters from grid of pins?  

A.  Inkjet Printers   B.  Laser Printers   C.  Dot Matrix Printers   D.  Daily wheel Printers

Answer: C. Dot Matrix Printers

16. RAM stands for  

A.  Random Access Memory   B.  Really Annoying Machine  

C.  Read A Manual   D.  Real Absolute Memory

Answer: A. Random Access Memory

17. The results of arithmetical and logical operations are stored in

A. accumulator   B.  Instruction register   C.  Cache   D.  Rom
Answer: A. accumulator  

18. Who is considers as the father of computers?  

 A. Blase Pascal   B. Charles Babbage   C. William Napier   D. Blase Pascal

Answer: B. Charles Babbage

19. Which below file extension is not a type of compressed file?

A. .bin   B.  .rar   C.  .tar   D.  .z
Answer:  C. .tar

20. Which of the following provides hard (paper) copy from computer?  
A.  E–mail   B.  Fax   C.  Printer   D.  Software
Answer: C. Printer

21. Software is -------  

A.  Equipment   B.  Peripheral   C.  Computer program   D.  None of these
Answer: C. Computer program

22. An optical input device that is used to read documents printed in a special type font is known as  
A.  Documentation   B.  Printer   C.  Scanner   D.  Document reader
Answer: D. Document reader

23. The Vacuum Tube are related to ---------------  

A.  First generation computers   B.  Second generation computers  
C.  Third generation computers   D.  Fourth generation computers
Answer: A. First generation computers  

24. Following is not a non impact printer -------  

A.  Thermal printer   B.  Ink jet printer   C.  Dot matrix printer   D.  Laser printer
Answer: C. Dot matrix printer

25. CD–ROM is a kind of  

A.  Magnetic disk   B.  Optical disk   C.  Magneto–Optical disk   D.  None
Answer: A. Magnetic disk  

26. This type of memory is commonly called temporary or volatile storage

A.  ROM   B.  RAM   C.  Flash Memory   D.  Virtual Memory
Answer: B. RAM  

27. The smallest unit of any computer system is --------- which eight are combines to form a byte.   A.
Bit   B.  Binary   C.  Octal   D.  Gigabyte
Answer: A. Bit  

28. The Computer keyboard in English normally uses ---------

A.  Abcdef base   B.  Asdfg base   C.  Zxcvbv base   D.  QWERT base
Answer: D. QWERT base
29. The word length of a computer is measured in  
A.  Bits   B.  Bytes   C.  Millimetres   D.  Metres
Answer: B. Bytes  

30. One byte is equivalent to  

A. 4 bits   B.  8 bits   C.  16 bits   D.  32 bits
Answer: B. 8 bits