COMPUTER HADRDWARE

COMPUTER
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AKHTAR HUSSAIN CHUGHTAI

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SAJJAD HUSSAIN CHUGHTAI
(SS Commerce)
(MS-Business Administration, M.Com, M.A Eco, M.Ed., LLB)
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MCQ Questions from Computer d. None of above
11. The process of capturing or collecting raw data,
Hardware Concept at the beginning of computer based information
system, in to a form that is usable by the computer
1. The stuff would likely break if you threw it out of a for processing.
fifth-story window is a. Input
a. Software b. Gather
b. Firmware c. Acquire
c. Hardware d. Process
d. All of above 12. In any information system if the data is processed
2. Which of the following is not a hardware? right away it is called
a. Network Switch a. Batch processing
b. Cisco Router b. Online processing
c. Firewall c. Offline processing
d. Virtual Router d. Automatic processing
3. A computer without software is 13. The two kinds of input devices – direct input and
a. like a book of blank pages indirect input devices are classified based on
b. most power to perform tasks quicker a. Whether the data conversion is involved or not
c. complete human being b. Whether the data is acquired from a device
d. all of above directly connected to CPU or through network
4. Which of the following hardware you usually can’t c. Whether the data is directly input or retrieved
find inside a CPU Casing? from disk
a. Power Supply box d. Whether the data is input with or without human
b. Video card intervention
c. Video display unit 14. In which input method the data is already in
d. Graphics processor machine readable form?
5. Which of the following is not a peripheral a. Direct input method
hardware device in a computer system? b. Indirect input method
a. Keyboard c. Stored input method
b. Optical Drive d. Network input method
c. HDD 15. In which input method the data should be
d. Printer converted into machine readable form so that a
6. Identify the network hardware of a home network computer can process it?
a. Access Point a. Direct input method
b. NIC Card b. Indirect input method
c. Analog Modem c. Network input method
d. FireWire d. Stored input method
7. Which of the following is not a network hardware? 16. A computer key board is a sophisticated
a. Network Switch electromechanical component designed to create
b. Bridge specialized electronic codes when a key is pressed.
c. Print Server What is that electronic codes called?
d. Network Interface Card a. Scan code
8. A unit of a computer system that brings data and b. Unicode
instructions into the computer c. ASCII
a. Input Devices d. EBCDIC
b. Encoders 17. Keyboard is an example of
c. Processing Unit Devices a. Direct input method
d. All of above b. Indirect input method
9. Identify the odd one c. Network input method
a. Tracker ball d. Stored input method
b. Microphone 18. In a keyboard, the arrow keys, Home, End,
c. Speaker PageUp, PageDown keys are known as
d. Sensors a. Standard keys
10. Graphic Tablet is an b. Function keys
a. Input Unit Device c. Navigation keys
b. Output Unit Device d. Special purpose keys
c. Video Processing Device
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19. In a computer keyboard the Alt, Ctrl, Shift, Del & 28. The most common input device to control the
Insert keys are known as movement of
a. Standard keys the cursor on the screen?
b. Function keys a. Arrow keys
c. Navigation keys b. Mouse
d. Special purpose keys c. Joysticks
20. Devorak, Colemark, JCUKEN are some keyboard d. Plotter
layouts for which scripts? 29. Which of the following type of mouse contain a
a. Latin Scripts ball on
b. English Scripts its underside and sensors to detect direction of ball
c. Complex Scripts movement?
d. None of above a. Mechanical mouse
Correct Answers b. Opto-mechanical mouse
1-c 2-d 3-a 4-c 5-c 6-a 7-d 8-a 9-c 10-a c. Optical mouse
d. None of above
11-a 12-b 13-a 14-a 15-b 16-a 17-b 18-c 19-d 20-a 30. What is the difference between mechanical
mouse and opto-mechanical
21. Which is the most common computer keyboard mouse?
layout? a. Mechanical mouse is connected with wire but
a. QWERTY opto-mechanical
b. JCUKEN mouse are wireless
c. Devorak b. Mechanical mouse has a ball on its underside but
d. Colemark opto-mechanical don’t have
22. QWERTY keyboard layout was originally designed c. Mechanical mouse has only 2 buttons while opto-
a. To improve the typing speed mechanical
b. To make typing more efficient mouse have 3 buttons.
c. To make typing harder and inefficient d. All of the above
d. To improve the typing accuracy 31. Cordless mouse or wireless mouse connects to
23. Which of the following describes the types of the computer
keyboards? through
a. QWERTY, Devorak, Colemark, JCUKEN a. Infrared light
b. XT, AT, Enhanced, Windows b. Radio wave
c. Both of above c. Both of above
d. None of above d. None of above
24. Which of the following keyboard have 83 keys? 32. What is the device that captures images from
a. XT keyboards photographic
b. AT keyboards prints for computer editing and display?
c. Enhanced keyboards a. Scanner
d. Windows keyboards b. Printer
25. Which of the following type of keyboard c. Camera
introduced the d. All of above
SysRq (System Request) key? 33. Which of the following is not a type of scanner?
a. XT keyboards a. Hand held scanner
b. AT keyboards b. Feed-in scanner
c. Enhanced keyboards c. Flatbed scanner
d. Windows keyboards d. None of above
26. Which type of computer keyboard contain 101 to 34. Which of the following is a scanning technology?
106 keys? a. OCR
a. XT keyboards b. OMR
b. AT keyboards c. BCR
c. Enhanced keyboards d. All of above
d. Windows keyboards 35. The scanning technology that allows to read the
27. Which key was added in Windows keyboard? check
a. SysRq boxes affixed in predefined space is
b. CapsLock a. OCR
c. Menu key b. OMR
d. None of above c. BCR

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d. None of above d. Extended Graphics Array

36. The scanning technology that makes it possible to 44. Which of the following technology can’t be used
recognize handwritten data when there is usually to build
space among characters is flat panel display monitors?
a. OMR a. LCDs
b. ICR b. Gas Plasma Display
c. MICR c. CRT
d. OCR d. LED
37. We use following scanner to recognize the 45. Which of the following printer can print a single
printed and character at a time?
typed texts a. Serial printer
a. OMR b. Line printer
b. OCR c. Page printer
c. MICR d. Impact printer
d. None of above 46. Which of the following printer is suitable to print
38. The scanner used to verify the signatures written multiple carbon copies at once?
by a. Impact Printer
magnetic ink in banks is b. Laser Printer
a. OMR c. Inkjet Printer
b. OCR d. All of above
c. MICR 47. Identify the printer that uses a kind of hub having
d. None of above set
39. A unit that receives information from CPU and of spokes at the margin of the hub. When the
converts required character is aligned to
into suitable human readable form is the print hammer, the character is then struck into
a. Input Unit the ribbon to produce
b. Output Unit character on paper.
c. Processing Unit a. Inkjet printer
d. Language Translator b. Dot matrix printer
40. A computer monitor is also called a c. Line printer
a. VDT d. Daisy wheel printer
b. VDU 48. The printing technology in which one or more
c. CRT color of ink
d. None of above is sprayed at high speed onto the paper is
Correct Answers a. Laser Printer
21-a 22-c 23-b 24-a 25-b 26-c 27-c 28-b 29-a 30-b b. Ink Jet Printer
c. Dot Matrix Printer
31-c 32-a 33-d 34-d 35-b 36-b 37-b 38-c 39-b 40-b d. Chain Printer
49. Which company introduced the first desktop
41. Text and images are displayed on monitor by laser printer
individual called LaserJet?
dots called a. Compaq
a. Cursor b. Hewlett-Packard
b. Pixels c. Epson
c. CRT d. Cannon
d. LED 50. A special-purpose output device that draws
42. Specialized vacuum tube in which images are images with
produced when ink pens is
an electron beam strikes a phosphorescent surface is a. Inkjet Printers
a. CRT b. Laser Printers
b. LED c. Plotter
c. LCD d. Light Pen
d. All of above 51. Which of the following is not a type of plotter
43. The full form of EGA is a. Drum plotter
a. Enhanced Graphics Adapter b. Flatbed plotter
b. Extended Graphics Adapter c. Hand-held plotter
c. Enhanced Graphics Array d. None of above

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52. What is there in system unit that holds a

microprocessor
chip, memory chips and expansion slots?
Correct Answers
a. Slots
b. Ports 41-b 42-a 43-a 44-c 45-a 46-a 47-d 48-b 49-b 50-c
c. Mother Board 51-c 52-c 53-a 54-d 55-b 56-c 57-a 58-a 59-b 60-d
d. Daughter Board
53. Motherboard contains circuitry that connects 61. A kind of memory chip that stores data and
microprocessor with memory and other parts. instructions
What’s the circuitry called? permanently is
a. Bus a. ROM
b. Traffic b. SRAM
c. Data Path c. EEPROM
d. None of above d. RAM
54. Which of the following is not there in 62. Which of the following ROM is most convenient
motherboard? to rewrite?
a. System Clock a. EPROM
b. Buses b. EEPROM
c. Ports c. EAPROM
d. VDT d. DRAM
55. The expansion slots or sockets accept additional 63. Which of the following port is used to connect
expansion cards often known as DB-25 pin
a. Motherboard Modems or Scanners?
b. Daughterboard a. Serial Ports
c. Chips b. Parallel Port
d. None of above c. PS/2 Port
56. Motorola and Intel are well-known companies to d. USB Port
produce 64. A disk is divided into several concentric circles
a. Motherboards called
b. Daughterborads a. Track
c. Microprocessors b. Sector
d. None of above c. Cylinder
57. Intel Pentium chip uses d. Cluster
a. CISC design 65. The time taken to move an access arm to a
b. RISC design certain track
c. Both of above on a disk is
d. None of above a. Seek Time
58. RAM & ROM are classified based on b. Head Switching Time
a. Data storage is temporary or permanent c. Search Time
b. Data access is random or sequential d. Data Transfer time
c. Data retrieval is quicker or slower 66. The rotational delay time or latency time is also
d. Data removal is automatic or manual known
59. Which of the following memory is most volatile? as
a. SRAM a. Seek Time
b. DRAM b. Head Switching Time
c. CMOS RAM c. Search Time
d. EEPROM d. Data Transfer time
60. Memory chips are mounted on a circuit board 67. Which of the following is not a magnetic storage
usually known medium?
as a. Floppy Disk
a. Memory Expansion Card b. Hard Disk
b. Memory Slot c. Digital Versatile Disks
c. Memory Bank d. Cassettes and Cartridges
d. Memory Module 68. Which of the following term do not refer to an
expansion
card?

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a. Controller Cards 75. The storage capacity of a hard disk is measured in

b. Adapters a. KB
c. Daughterboard b. MB
d. Motherboard c. GB
69. Which of the following port is better suitable to d. TB
support 76. What is the suitable output device for CAE, CAD
high speed graphics and other video input? and CAM?
a. VGA Port a. Dot Matrix Printers
b. SVGA Port b. Laser Printers
c. AGP Port c. Plotters
d. PS/2 Port d. Projectors
70. Which device in microprocessor stores the data 77. Which of the following printer produces most
to be noise?
processed? a. Dot Matrix Printer
a. ROM b. Inkjet Printer
b. RAM c. Laser Printer
c. Registers d. None of above
d. ALU 78. To record and produce sound in a computer
71. Which of the following is not an optical storage system you need
medium? a. Microphone
a. CDs b. Speakers
b. DVDs c. Sound card
c. Blu Ray d. All of above
d. Memory Sticks 79. A cluster of red, green and blue diodes is driven
72. A standard CD ROM can hold data up to together to form a full-color pixel in a
a. 1.44 MB a. LCD Monitor
b. 650 MB b. LED Monitor
c. 2 GB c. CRT Monitor
d. 1 TB d. Monochrome Monitor
73. IBM introduced the first 8” floppy disk in 1971 80. The temporary output of a computer system is
which called
could store a. Hardcopy output
a. 100 KB b. Softcopy output
b. 164 KB c. Computer Printout
c. 512 KB d. None of above
d. 1.44 MB
74. The storage capacity of a floppy disk is measured Correct Answers
in
a. KB
b. MB 61-a 62-c 63-a 64-a 65-a 66-c 67-c 68-c 69-c 70-c
c. GB 71-d 72-b 73-a 74-b 75-c 76-c 77-a 78-d 79-b 80-b
d. TB