Hardware Test 06

Total Questions: 28

2 - A method of implementing a memory management system is

A ) Bridge ware
B ) Broadband coaxial system
C ) Buddy system ✅
D ) None of these

3 - A plastic card similar to a credit card but having some memory and a microprocessor embedded within it is

A ) Chip card
B ) Card punch
C ) Punched paper tape ✅
D ) Magnetic tape

7 - Which term is used to describe RAM

A ) DRAM
B ) SRAM
C ) VRAM
D ) All of these

8 - Which computer memory is used for storing programs and data currently being processed by the CPU

A ) Mass memory
B ) Internal memory ✅
C ) PROM
D ) Non volatile memory

9 - Which of the following is a secondary memory device

A ) Disk ✅
B ) Keyboard
C ) ALU
D ) All of these

10 - The difference between memory and storage is that memory is....and storage is

A ) Permanent, temporary
B ) Temporary, permanent ✅
C ) Slow, fast
D ) All of these

11 - Which of the following registers is used to keep track of address of the memory location where the next instructions located

A ) Memory address register
B ) Memory data register
C ) Instruction register
D ) Program counter ✅

14 - Registers which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional are known as

A ) PC
B ) General purpose register ✅
C ) Memory address register
D ) Flags

15 - The two basic types of record access methods are

A ) Online and real time
B ) Sequential and indexed
C ) Direct and immediate
D ) Sequential and random ✅

16 - Which of the following memories needs refresh

A ) DRAM ✅
B ) SRAM
C ) ROM
D ) All of these

17 - Access time is

A ) Seek time
B ) Seek time+latency ✅
C ) Seek time-latency time
D ) Latency time

18 - Seek time is

A ) Time to position the head over proper cylinder
B ) Time to the head over proper sector
C ) Time to position the head over proper track ✅
D ) None of these

19 - A name or number used to identify a storage location devices

A ) A byte
B ) A record
C ) An address ✅
D ) All of these

20 - Which of the following registers is loaded with the content of the memory location pointed by the PC

A ) Memory address register
B ) Instruction register ✅
C ) Memory data register
D ) Program counter

21 - Codes consisting of bars or lines of varying widths or lengths that computer readable are known as

A ) An ASCII code
B ) A bar code ✅
C ) A magnetic tape
D ) An OCR scanner

22 - A..... represents approximately one billion memory location

A ) Kilobyte
B ) Gigabyte ✅
C ) Megabyte
D ) Terabyte

23 - In a database.... fields store numbers used to perform calculation

A ) Next
B ) Key
C ) Alphanumeric
D ) Numeric ✅

24 - A....is a program that makes the computer easier to use

A ) Operating system
B ) Application
C ) Network
D ) Utility ✅

25 - Storage that retains it's data after the power is turned off is referred to as

A ) Non volatile storage ✅
B ) Volatile storage
C ) Direct storage
D ) Sequential storage

27 - The person contributing the idea of the stored program was.

A ) Daniel Thomas
B ) Charles Babbage
C ) John Neumann ✅
D ) Howard Aiken