Computer Mcqs

ASCII stands for__________?

A. American Stable Code for International Interchange
B. American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange
C. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
D. American Standard Code for Interchange Information

MIS is designed to provide information needed for effective decision making by?

A. Consumers
B. Workers
C. Foremen
D. Managers

When did John Napier develop logarithm?

A. 1416
B. 1614
C. 1641
D. 1804

Which of the following is a storage device?

A. Tape
B. Hard Disk
C. Floppy Disk
D. All of the above

What does DMA stand for?

A. Distinct Memory Access
B. Direct Memory Access
C. Direct Module Access
D. Direct Memory Allocation

Which of the following is not anti- viruses software?

A. Avira
B. Kaspersky
C. Oracle
D. McAfee

Which programming languages are classified as low level languages?

A. BASIC, COBOL, Fortran
B. Prolog
C. C, C++
D. Assembly languages

What do you call the programs that are used to find out possible faults and their causes?

A. operating system extensions
B. cookies
C. diagnostic software
D. boot diskettes

What characteristic of read-only memory (ROM) makes it useful?

A. ROM information can be easily updated.
B. Data in ROM is non-volatile, that is, it remains there even without electrical power.
C. ROM provides very large amounts of inexpensive data storage.
D. ROM chips are easily swapped between different brands of computers.

__________represents raw facts, where-as__________is data made meaningful?

A. Information, reporting
B. Data, information
C. Information, bits
D. Records, bytes