Practice Questions Set I

1. In what of the functions below is a computer better than the human being?

  • Performing repetitive task
  • showing intellience
  • caring for its uses
  • None of the above

2. Hard disk are storage devices which is able to read/write

  • Sequentially only
  • serially only
  • randomly only
  • randomly also

3. Which of the following statements is false for software?

  • Software resides in the main memory of a computer
  • Software resides in the storage device of a computer
  • Hardware is operated by the instructions coded in the software
  • Software which can be directly executed by computer system is in instructions which are written in English like language

4. Which of the following is not associated with modems?

  • Display connections
  • ADSL connections
  • Dialup connections
  • Synchronous communications through leased lines

5. Which one of the following is not True for a computer virus?

  • Computer virus can be contracted via internet
  • Computer virus is software
  • Another standalone computer in the vicinity of the virus affected computer may be contracted with virus
  • Pen drives can contract with virus

6. What is printed for the following C program?
Int main(){
char*s= “abcd”;
char p[] = “abcd”;
p[2]=s[2]=’e’;
printf(‘%s’,%s,p);
}

  • aecd, aecd
  • abed, abed
  • result is undefined for s and for p, it prints abed
  • result is undefined for p and for s, it prints abed

7. Which of the following is true about interrupts ?

  •  They are generated when memory cycles are stolen
  • They are used in place of data channels.
  • They can be generated by arithmetic operation.
  • They can indicate completion of an I/O operation

8. The object -oriented paradigm includes which of the following properties?
i) Encapsulation  ii) Inheritance  iii) Recursion

  •  i only
  • ii on ly
  • i and ii only
  • i, ii and iii

9. Which of the following circuits is not combinational?

  • Multiplexer
  • Decoder
  • Adder
  • Barrel Shifter

10. Which of the following pairs of two’s complement two-byte integers, written in hexadecimal, would result in overflow it added?

  •  4650,2340
  • FEED, FFFF
  • 787A, E3E0
  • 878A, E0E3

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