ICT MC Exercise

ICT MC Exercise – Unit B (Computer System Fundamentals) 10

Miscellaneous

1. Which of the following applications require(s) the 8. A word is

calculation power of a super computer?
A. a group of 8 bits.
(1) military defense B. a group of 4 bytes.
(2) weather forecasting C. a set of bits that can be manipulated by a particular
(3) database management computer in one operation.
D. a set of bits that retrieved or stored in one operation.
A. (1) only
B. (1) and (2) only 9. During an instruction fetch cycle,
C. (2) and (3) only
D. all of them A. the opcode of a machine instruction is transferred
from the main memory to the IR.
2. Which of the following are input devices? B. the contents of the memory location stored by PC is
loaded into the memory address register.
(1) graphics tablet C. the PC sends the instruction to be executed to the
(2) sound synthesizer memory address register.
(3) MICR D. the memory address register is loaded with the
(4) plotter address stored in PC.

A. (1) and (2) only 10. Which of the following tasks is/are done by a Operating
B. (1) and (3) only System ?
C. (1) and (4) only
D. (3) and (4) only (1) format a hard disk
(2) copy a file from floppy disk to hard disk
3. 1 Mbyte = (3) decrease the access time of accessing a floppy disk

A. 1,000,000 bytes A. (1) only

B. 2,000,000 bytes B. (3) only
C. 220 bits C. (1) and (2) only
D. 223 bits D. (2) and (3) only

4. Which of the following is magnetic strip card? 11. Which of the following devices can read hand-written
input?
A. Octopus card
B. credit card A. magnetic ink character reader
C. library card of public libraries B. mouse
D. student id card of our school C. bar code scanner
D. optical mark reader
5. Which of the following types of computers is mostly
likely to be used by a bank with hundreds of branches? 12. Which of the following is/are true?

A. supercomputer (1) User programs are usually stored in RAM.

B. mainframe computer (2) The storage capacity of ROM is usually larger than
C. minicomputer RAM.
D. microcomputer (3) Data stored in RAM is volatile while data stored in
ROM is non-volatile.
6. The magnetic card reader is commonly used as an input
device in A. (1) only
B. (2) only
(1) smart card ( e.g. Octopus ) C. (1) and (3) only
(2) Easy Pay System D. (2) and (3) only
(3) automatic teller machine
13. Which of the following is NOT hardware?
A. (1) only
B. (1) and (3) only A. Pascal compiler
C. (1) and (2) only B. ALU
D. (2) and (3) only C. program counter
D. processor status register
7. Which of the following is NOT peripheral device?
14. Which of the following is NOT peripheral device?
A. disk drive
B. modem A. accumulator
C. handwriting tablet B. disk drive
D. program counter C. modem
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D. handwriting tablet B. (1) and (2) only
C. (1) and (3) only
15. The CPU 'tells' the memory unit a reading of data is D. (2) and (3) only
required through
22. Which of the following characteristics of a scanner
A. accumulator affect the quality of a captured image?
B. control bus
C. instruction register (1) Resolution
D. status register (2) Colour depth
(3) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software
16. Multi-tasking means included
(4) USB 2.0 port enabled
A. two or more computers share the same resources.
B. a program is executed by two or more linked A. (1) and (2) only
CPUs. B. (1) and (3) only
C. two or more programs share the same set of data. C. (1), (2) and (4) only
D. two or more programs are executed by the CPU at D. (2), (3) and (4) only
the same time.
23. Which of the following is/are often needed for video
17. Which of the following is NOT example of interactive conferencing?
programs?
(1) Sound card
A. electric bill preparation system (2) Video display card
B. computer game (3) Video capture card
C. telephone number enquiry system
D. computer assisted learning system A. (1) and (2) only
B. (1) and (3) only
18. A real time system C. (2) and (3) only
D. (3) only
A. is generally cheaper than a batch processing
system. 24. Which of the following is not a common service
B. will update its data files at regular time intervals. available in the multimedia learning centre of a school?
C. requires direct access storage medium (DASD).
D. requires a specially designed computer. A. Laser printing
B. Video display sharing
19. Which of the following devices can be used to store C. Hard disk storage sharing
working data when executing database queries? D. USB sharing

(1) ROM 25. Which of the following I/O devices are commonly used
(2) RAM by a cashier in a restaurant?
(3) Hard disk
(1) Magnetic strip card reader
A. (1) only (2) Optical character reader
B. (2) only (3) Inkjet printer
C. (1) and (3) only (4) Thermal printer
D. (2) and (3) only
A. (1) and (3) only
20. Which of the following is/are the advantage(s) of direct B. (1) and (4) only
access over sequential access? C. (2) and (3) only
D. (2) and (4) only
(1) Data can be store in magnetic disks.
(2) A huge amount of backup can be created more 26. Which of the following are the advantages of using a
efficiently. bar code reader over a keyboard to input data?
(3) Data can be searched faster.
(1) It is more accurate.
A. (1) only (2) It is faster.
B. (3) only (3) It has better security.
C. (1) and (2) only (4) It has a lower hardware cost.
D. (2) and (3) only
A. (1) and (2) only
21. Data stored on a CD-ROM can be read by B. (1) and (4) only
C. (2) and (4) only
(1) a CDRW drive D. (1), (2) and (3) only
(2) a DVD drive
(3) a card reader 27. Under normal circumstances, when liquid crystal
display (LCD) monitors are compared with cathode ray
A. (1) only tube (CRT) monitors, which of the following statements
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are correct? B. can be distributed to different countries.
C. can be used under different operating systems.
(1) LCD monitors are cheaper. D. can be used in computers with different CPU
(2) LCD monitors weigh less. models.
(3) LCD monitors consume less electricity.
(4) LCD monitors display more colours. 34. A company allows users to download its four software
programs P, Q, R, and S for free. Users are allowed to
A. (1) and (2) only use P on a trial basis, Q with an expiring data, R with
B. (2) and (3) only limited program functions and S with source code
C. (2) and (4) only provided for modification. Which software program is
D. (3) and (4) only not a shareware program?

28. Which of the following I/O devices is not necessary for A. P

video conferencing? B. Q
C. R
A. Web camera D. S
B. Image scanner
C. Microphone 35. Which of the following is/are the reason(s) for using a
D. Speaker or headphone graphical user interface in an operating system?

29. Which of the following is not an appropriate description (1) The system is user-friendly.
of a colour laser printer? (2) It does not require users to memorize commands.
(3) The system responds faster.
A. 16 MB memory
B. 12 ms response time A. (1) only
C. 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution B. (3) only
D. 1 USB 2.0 port C. (1) and (2) only
D. (2) and (3) only
30. Which of the following statements about operating
systems is not correct? 36. Which of the following is not a function of a common
network operating system?
A. Operating systems act as an interface between
machines and humans. A. Monitoring and restricting access to network
B. Operating systems can be replaced by some resources
application software. B. Printing management
C. Operating systems can monitor the memory status C. Software development management
of computers. D. User account management
D. Operating systems in different types of computer
can communicate through a network. 37. Which of the following is an example of an embedded
system?
31. What is the difference between open source software
and freeware? A. a mobile phone
B. a graphics tablet
A. Open source software is not free. C. a dictionary in a compact disc with videos and
B. The source code of open source software is not sound recorded
free. D. a desktop computer
C. The source code of open source software can be
modified and redistributed. 38. A user uses a computer to edit a document file and
D. Open source software can only be used within a download a file from the Internet at the same time.
certain short period of time for trial. What is the operating mode of the computer?

32. The IT manager in a company requires technicians to A. multi-user

install the latest updates and patches of the operating B. batch processing
system in computers. The main purpose is to C. multitasking
D. interactive processing
A. maintain file integrity in the operating system.
B. compress and duplicate important data in the 39. Synchronize a mobile computer with a desktop
hard disk. computer means
C. encrypt sensitive data in the operating system.
D. correct weakness discovered in the operating A. to make data files in the two devices the same.
system. B. to upgrade the mobile computer by the desktop
computer.
33. A programming language is cross-platform, which C. to copy photo files from the mobile computer to the
means that programs written by this language desktop computer.
D. to use the desktop computer to execute programs
A. can handle and display different languages, for installed in the mobile computer.
example English and Chinese.
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40. Driver program is needed for

(1) a keyboard
(2) a mouse
(3) an image scanner

A. (1) only
B. (2) and (3) only
C. (1) and (3) only
D. all of them

Answers
1. BBDBB 6. DDCDC
11.DCADB 16.DACDB
21.BAADB 26.ABBBB
31.CDCDC 36.CACAD

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