Multiple Choice Questions on Computer Science. Computer Science is an important subject and this post contains Solved Computer MCQs for NTS, PPSC and other Testing services. These Computer Science MCQs with Answers are for practice and preparation. MCQs are taken from Caravan General Knowledge Book.
1. A single worksheet contains ___________?
(a) 65536 columns
(b) 256 columns
(c) 2365 rows
(d) None
2. PC (personal computer) was originally a trade name of _________?
(a) IBM
(b) Apple Computers
(c) Hewlett-Packard
(d) Remington Rand
3. GW-BASIC is one of the earlier version of BASIC. What does GW stand for?
(a) Gates William
(b) Great Work
(c) Good Wordprocessor
(d) Gee Whiz
4. In 1971, he put together all the elements of a computer processor on a single chip slightly larger than one square inch. The result of his efforts was the Intel 4004. the world’s first commercially available microprocessor. Who was he?
(a) Steve Wozniak
(b) Steve Jobs
(c) Bob Metcalf
(d) Dr Ted Hoff
5. The power of a supercomputer is measured in terms of?
(a) MIPS (Million Instructions per Second)
(b) BIPS (Billion Instructions per Second)
(c) TIPS (Trillion Instructions per Second)
(d) FLOPS (Floating Point Operations per Second)
6. Which was the first truly electronic computer?
(a) ENIAC
(b) UNIVAC
(c) IBM
(d) EDSAC
7. In Internet etiquette. typing in all capital letters is considered rude. Why?
(a) It is stressful on the eyes
(b) It looks ugly
(c) it consumes more memory
(d) It is like shouting
8. A computer virus is actually?
(a) A small malicious program is written in machine language
(b) The microorganism which develops on a floppy diskette if left unused for a long time
(c) Microorganisms which develop on the hard disk
(d) A human virus which makes human beings computer addicts
9. Who created World Wide Web (WWW)?
(a) Ward Christensen
(b) Marcian Hoff
(c) Tim Berner
(d) Robert Noyce
10. The first sentence uttered by Neil Armstrong upon reaching the moon in 1969 was, “One small step for man, a giant step for the mankind.” These words came through on which make of transponder?
(a) Motorola
(b) Nokia
(c) General Dynamics
(d) NASA
11. What is the name of the computer virus which originated from Lahore, Pakistan in January 1986 and which can infect only 5.25-inch floppies?
(a) Den Zuk Virus
(b) Brain virus
(c) Zero bug virus
(d) Pielvirus
12. A hard disk becomes totally inaccessible when a computer virus corrupts its?
(a) Partition table
(b) File Allocation Table (FAT)
(c) Route directory
(d) Boot sector
13. What is the name of the professor who coined the name virus for self-replicating programs?
(a) John von Neumann
(b) Ken Thompson
(c) John Mcafee
(d) Fred Cohen
14. Microprocessors were introduced the first time in ______?
(a) 2nd generation computers
(b) 3rd generation computers
(c) 5th generation computers
(d) 4th generation computers
15. Our personal computer belongs to _______?
(a) 2nd generation computers
(b) 3rd generation computers
(c) 4th generation computers
(d) None of these
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