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This set of Informatics Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Informatics Set 9

Q1 | Which of the following is the first fully automated computing device?
  • Mark I
  • EDVAC
  • ENIAC
  • EDSAC
Q2 | Which one of these is the first fully electronic computer?
  • EDVAC
  • ENIAC
  • EDSAC
  • UNIVAC
Q3 | Store program concept was introduced by:
  • Blaise Pascal
  • Charles Babbage
  • Goltfried Leibniz
  • John Von Newman
Q4 | Which of the following is the first digital computer?
  • ENIAC
  • EDVAC
  • EDSAC
  • UNIVAC
Q5 | What was the basic computing component of the second generation computers?
  • Vacuum tubes
  • Transistors
  • ICs
  • VLSI
Q6 | The third generation computers began with the advent of -------------.
  • Vacuum tubes
  • Transistors
  • ICs
  • VSLI
Q7 | Which of the following is free software?
  • Intel
  • AMD
  • Microsoft
  • Linux
Q8 | The following is not a characteristic of first generation computer:
  • Transistors as basic components
  • Worked on stored program
  • Unreliable
  • Magnetic core memory is used as primary memory
Q9 | The following is not a characteristic of second generation computers:
  • Transistors as basic components
  • Manual assembly of individual components
  • Programming was done in machine language
  • Limited commercial use
Q10 | Following is not a characteristic of the third generation computer:
  • Integrated circuits were used
  • e-mail was introduced during the third generation
  • computational time was reduced from nanoseconds to microseconds
  • Totally general purpose
Q11 | Which of the following is not a personal computer?
  • Desk top
  • Notebook
  • Laptop
  • Mainframe
Q12 | Which of the following is not a computer?
  • ENIAC
  • FORTRAN
  • UNIVAL
  • ALGOL
Q13 | Pick the odd one out.
  • COBOL
  • FORTRAN
  • UNIVAC
  • ALGOL
Q14 | Which of the following is software?
  • Laptop
  • Netbook
  • Nettop
  • Linux
Q15 | Which of the following is not the name of Computer Company?
  • H P
  • Apple
  • Dell
  • Mac
Q16 | Which of the following is a social network?
  • Face book
  • Orkut
  • You tube
  • All of the above
Q17 | Which of these is a search engine?
  • Face book
  • Firefox
  • You tube
  • Orkut
Q18 | Which of these is a social network?
  • Chrome
  • twitter
  • Internet explorer
  • Firefox
Q19 | FORTRAN and COBOL are ----------------
  • Computer languages
  • Processor
  • Operating systems
  • Servers
Q20 | Manual integration of individual components into functioning units was required in ----
  • Fourth generation computers
  • Second generation computers
  • Third generation computers
  • Fifth generation computers
Q21 | S S I can hold ---------------- transistors per chip.
  • 10 – 100
  • 100 – 1000
  • 1 – 10
  • Infinite numbers
Q22 | The first video game, called Space war was written in ------------------- and run on PDP-1
  • 1972
  • 1962
  • 1982
  • 1992
Q23 | Computational time was reduced from micro to nano seconds in ----------------- generation computers.
  • First
  • Second
  • Third
  • None of these
Q24 | The first micro computer was ------------------ a) PDP-1 b) IBM-1401 c) CDC3600 d) Altair880031. Steve Vozniak and Steve Jobs began the computer company called ------------------
  • Dell
  • Intel
  • Apple
  • Sony
Q25 | Embedded computer system can be found in -------------
  • Cars
  • Thermostats
  • Microwave Ovens
  • All of the above