141. ROM stands for:
A. Royal Ontario Museum
B. Read Only Memory
C. Read on Monday
D. Real Obsolute Memory
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Technology MCQs
142. Larger buildings may be supplied with a medium voltage electricity supply, and will required a substation or mini-sub. What is the main item of equipment contained in these?
A. Transformer
B. Transponder
C. Transducer
D. Converter
✅ The correct answer is option A.
The transformer is used to transform a medium voltage supply to a low voltage supply, e.g. from 11 000 V to 400 V. A transformer is rated in KVA, kilo-Volt-Amps, which is a measurement of electrical power.
The transformer is used to transform a medium voltage supply to a low voltage supply, e.g. from 11 000 V to 400 V. A transformer is rated in KVA, kilo-Volt-Amps, which is a measurement of electrical power.
143. In which decade was the first solid state integrated circuit demonstrated?
A. 1950s
B. 1960s
C. 1970s
D. 1980s
✅ The correct answer is option C.
144. What is a MAC?
A. A Computer made by Apple
B. Memory Address Corruption
C. Mediocre Apple Computer
D. Media Access Control
✅ The correct answer is option D.
MAC is short for Media Access Control address, an address unique to every piece of network hardware.
MAC is short for Media Access Control address, an address unique to every piece of network hardware.
145. Who co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft?
A. Shawn Fanning
B. Ada Byron Lovelace
C. Sabeer Bhatia
D. Ray Tomlinson
✅ The correct answer is option C.
146. Which of the following is not a method of accessing the web?
A. ISDN
B. Modem
C. CPU
D. DSL
✅ The correct answer is option C.
147. What do you call a computer on a network that requests files from another computer?
A. A client
B. A host
C. A router
D. A web server
✅ The correct answer is option A.
148. Which of these is not a computer?
A. Aptiva
B. Macintosh
C. Acorn
D. Paseo
✅ The correct answer is option D.
149. The IBM PC-XT was the first to include a hard drive. What was the capacity of this disk?
A. 20 MB
B. 1.44 MB
C. 10 MB
D. 750 KB
✅ The correct answer is option C.
The original IBM PC used 5.25-inch floppy disks to store its operating system and programs. IBM referred to the new hard disk as a Fixed Disk. Today, even a the operating system wont fit on a 10 MB disk.
The original IBM PC used 5.25-inch floppy disks to store its operating system and programs. IBM referred to the new hard disk as a Fixed Disk. Today, even a the operating system wont fit on a 10 MB disk.
150. In which decade was the telephone invented?
A. 1850s
B. 1860s
C. 1870s
D. 1880s
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Alexander Graham Bell’s notebook entry of 10 March 1876 describes his successful experiment with the telephone. Speaking through the instrument to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, in the next room, Bell utters these famous first words, “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you”.
Alexander Graham Bell’s notebook entry of 10 March 1876 describes his successful experiment with the telephone. Speaking through the instrument to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, in the next room, Bell utters these famous first words, “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you”.