1. A digital communication system capable of interconnecting, a large number of computers, terminals and other peripheral devices within a limited geographical area is called– 1. LAN 2. WAN 3. Internet 4. All of the above 5. None of these 2. A secondary storage device that uses a long plastic strip coated with a magnetic material as a recording medium is– 1. Magnetic tape 2. Compact disk 3. Hard disk 4. All of the above 5. None of these 3. An E-mail protocol for storage, management and change, especially in corporate offices– 1. Message handling service 2. Postal service’s 3. Data storage 4. All of the above 5. None of these 4. Which of the following is an advantage of stored programs? 1. Reliability 2. Reduction in operation costs 3. The computers becoming general-purpose 4. All of the above 5. None of these 5. Which of the following is not true for primary storage? 1. It is a part of the CPU 2. It allows very fast access of data 3. It is relatively more expensive then other storage devices. 4. Can be removed and transported. 5. All of the above 6. Function of control unit in the CPU is– 1. To decode program instructions 2. To transfer data to primary storage 3. To perform logical operations 4. To store program instructions 5. All of the above 7. Electronic spreadsheets are useful in situation where relatively .......... data must be input 1. Small 2. Large 3. No 4. All of the above 5. None is true 8. A list of options from which a program user can select anyone in order to perform a desired action is referred as– 1. Menu 2. Index 3. Directory 4. All of the above 5. None of these 9. A method whereby messages to be transmitted between computers are all sent to a central computer, which gathers them and routes them to the appropriate destination(s) is known as– 1. Message switching 2. Message delete 3. Message accept 4. All of the above 5. None of these 10. Which of the following describe one or more characteristics of a modem computer? 1. An electronic device 2. A mechanical device 3. A electro-mechanical device 4. All of the above 5. None of these 11. Combining records from two or more ordered files into a single ordered file is called– 1. Menu 2. Merging 3. Taking 4. All of the above 5. None of these 12. The ascending order of a data hierarchy is 1. Bit-byte-record-field-file-database 2. Byte-bit-field-record-file-database 3. Byte-bit-record-file-field-database 4. Bit-byte-field-record-file-database 5. All of the above 13. A LSI chip contains the entire CPU of computer except main memory is called– 1. Microprocessor 2. Hard disk 3. Input device 4. Output device 5. All of the above
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