A. Speed of the output device
B. Amount of main memory the CPU can use
C. Cost of the system
D. Capacity of the hard disk
✅ The correct answer is option E.
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552. What is the name of the chip which has more than once processor on it?
A. Parallel chip
B. Multi-processor chip
C. Transputer
D. Parallel processor
✅ The correct answer is option C.
553. When was punched-card equipment used for the first time to process the British census?
A. 1910
B. 1907
C. 1911
D. 1914
✅ The correct answer is option C.
554. Which of the following terms describe 1024 kilobytes?
A. Kilobyte
B. Megabyte
C. Gigabyte
D. Terabyte
✅ The correct answer is option B.
555. The bar code which is used on all types of items, is read by a scanning device directly into the computer. What is the name of this scanning device?
A. Laser scanner
B. Wand
C. OCR
D. MICR
✅ The correct answer is option A.
556. The vast network of computers that connects millions of people all over the world is called.
A. LAN
B. Web
C. Hypertext
D. Internet
✅ The correct answer is option D.
557. The analog computer measures dimensions and its circuits use the differential and integral equations of continuous variables. The digital computer counts units and its circuits use
A. Logic gates
B. Discrete switches
C. Boolean algebra
D. Bayes’ theorem
✅ The correct answer is option C.
558. Name the two persons who were the first to develop a model of the microprocessor chip.
A. Marcian Hoff and Stanley Mazor
B. Victor Poor and Marcian Hoff
C. Victor Poor and Masatoshi Shima
D. None of the above
✅ The correct answer is option A.
559. What is the byte capacity of a drum which is 5 inch high, 10 inch diameter, and which has 60 tracks per inch and bit density of 800 bits per inch?
A. 942000 bytes
B. 9712478 bytes
C. 192300 bytes
D. 14384 bytes
✅ The correct answer is option A.
560. A hard copy would be prepared on a
A. Line printer
B. Dot matrix printer
C. Type writer terminal
D. Plotter
✅ The correct answer is option E.