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Hexadecimal MCQ objective Type Questions Try the multiple choice questions below to test your knowledge of Computers Counters Digital Electronics Flip Flops Etc 1. In a computer an isolating circuit used to avoid any reaction of a driven cir cuit load on the corresponding driving circuit is known as (a) buffer (b) brand (c) bus (d) cell. 2. EPROM is erased by (a) red light (b) sodium light (c)ultra violet rays (d) infra-red rays. 3. The data transfer rate of a double density floppy disk system is about (a) 5K bits/sec (b)50Kbits/sec (c) 500K bits/sec (d) 500K bits/sec. 4. Semi conductor memories are preferred because they are (a) volatile and of small size (b) non-volatile and of large size (c) non-volatile and of small size (d) easily magnetisable. 5. Which af the following statement is NOT correct? (a) Daisy wheel printers print one character at a time (b) Line printers take the same time to print a line irrespective of the number of characters printed (c) A 420 cars/sec dot matrix printer is faster than a 300 lines/min printer in printing a page of 132 columns (d) Dot matrix printers can produce a variety of graphic effects. 6. A chain printer prints (a) By chemical or photographic means (b) By the impact of wheels of type against inked ribbon and paper (c) By the impact of a chain of type against inked ribbon and paper (d) Both (a) and (c). 7. Which of the following does not produce records with visually-readable charac ters (a) line printer (b) matrix printer (c) punched tape (d) visual display unit. 8. In time division multiplexing (a) Time is doubled between bits of a byte (b) Time slicing at CPU level takes place (c) Total time available in the channel is divided between several users and eac h user is allotted a time slice (d) None of the above.

9. Booting is a process in which (a) User programs are brought into memory (b)I/O files are collected and organized on disk (c)A portion of the operating system is loaded into memory (d) None of the above. 10. Which of the following is not a specification of converters? (a) resolution (b) accuracy (c) drift (d) gain. 11. (a) (b) (c) (d) 12. (a) (b) (c) (d) Parallel processing is normally under Batch processing mode On-line processing mode Batch and On-line mode None of the above. The term time slicing need not apply to On line transaction processing Batch processing Real time processing Note of the above. D/A and A/D Converters

13. The following acronym recognises the fact that computer errorrs can usually b e traced to incorrect input data or unreliable pro (a) GIGO (b) FIFO (c) LIFO (d) DASD. 14. (a) (b) (c) (d) 15. (a) (b) (c) (d) 16. (a) (b) (c) (d) 17. (a) (b) (c) (d) Re arranging data in a new sequence is. known as Updating Batching Sorting Summarising. Which of the following is not a type of D/A converter? weighted resistance type Ladder network type Successive approximation type current divider type. The purpose of an application program is to convert program written in high level language to machine level language meet specific user needs allow the operating system to control resources better make off-line equipment run better. Hollerith code is used for CPU magnetic drums papertape punched cards.

18. Subroutines are used in larger program (a) to increase the programming ease (b) to reduce storage equipment

(c) to reduce program extension time (d) for ease of program testing at the program development time . 19. (a) (b) (c) (d) World processing, electronic filing and .electronic mail are part of Office automation Electronic typewriter Electronic Industry none of the above

20. Which of the following does not represent an I/O device? (a) speaker which beeps (b) joy-stick (c) plotter (d)ALU. 21. (a) (b) (c) (d) 22. (a) (b) (c) (d) 23. (a) (b) (c) (d) 24. (a) (b) (c) (d) 25. (a) (b) (c) (d) 26. (a) (b) (c) (d) A parallel interface transmits one bit at a time transmits one or more bits at a time using a single wave transmits 8 or more bits at a time using as many wires cannot be used to connect a printer to a PC. A system in which activities are processed as and when they occur is called Transaction processing system Expert system Management information system Decision support system. Program counter in a digital computer counts the number of programs run in the machine counts the number of times a sub-routine is called counts the number of time the loops are executed points the memory address of the current or the next instruction. The circuit that is used for parallel to serial conversion is decoder encoder multiplexer demultiplexer. Micro-programming is a technique for programming the micro processors for writing small programs efficiently for programming the control steps of a computer for programming output/input A bootstrap is the flat cable that connects the CPU to the printer the flat cable from the disk controller card to the disk drive additional memory device a small initialization program to start up the computer

27. When a large number of analog signals is. to be converted to digital form, a n analog multiplexer is used. The A-to-D converter most suitable in this case wi ll be (a) forward counter type (b) up-down counter type (c) successive approximation type (d) dual slope type. 28. The process of executing several programs simultaneously by the use of more

than one processing unit is called (a) Multi programming (b) Time sharing (c) Multiprocessing (d) Batch process 29. (a) (b) (c) (d) The ring counter is analogous to toggle switch latch stepping switch S-R flip-flop.

30. If the quantization error is 0.1% which of the following AD converter it bel ongs to? (a) 10 bit A/D converter (b) 5 bit A/D converter (c) 1 bit A/D converter (d) 20 bit A/D converter. 31. (a) (b) (c) (d) 32. (a) (b) (c) (d) Which of the following is Universal flip-flop JK flip-flop RS flip-flop Master slave flip-flop D flip-flop. If one wants to design a binary counter, preferred type of flip-flop is D-type SR-type latch JK-type.

33. S-R type flip-flop can be converted into D type flip-flop if S is connected to R through (a) OR gate (c) inverters (b) AND gate (c) Full Adder 34. (a) (b) (c) (d) A D flip-flop can be made from a JK flip-flop and an inverter RS flip-flop RS flip-flop and an inverter both (a) and (b).

35. Which of the following is correct? (a) A D type flip-flop can be converted into a T-type flip-flop c(b) A T-type flip-flop can be converted into a D type flip-flop (c) A D or a T-type flip-flop can be converted into a JK flip-flip (d) A JK flip-flop can be converted into a D or T-type flip-flop. 36. (a) (b) (c) (d) How many flip-flop circuits are needed to divide by 16 Two Four Eight Sixteen.

37 . The sequential organisation is most suitable for (a) Master files on direct access devices (b) Master files in a batch processing environment

(c) Transaction files (d) None of the above. 38. (a) ler (b) (c) (d) The IIL Logic has higher density of integration than TTL because it does not require transistors with high current gain and hence they have smal geometry uses compact bipolar transistors does not require isolation diffusion uses dynamic logic instead of static logic.

39 Which of the following is associated with Optics (a) Winchester disk (b)RAM (c) CD-ROM (d)CPU 40 .2764 is 65536 bit EPROM organizer as 8192 bits of words of 8 bit each .It ha s (a) 10 address lines and 10 data lines (b) 12 address lines and 10 data lines (c) 13 address lines and 8 data lines (d) 15 address lines and 12 data lines. 41 The output of a sequential circuit depends on (a) present inputs (b) past inputs (c) both (a) and (b) (d) none of (a) and (b) 42 Which of the following flip-flops does not have race around difficulty? (a) JK flip-flops (I ) Master slave JK flip-flop (c) S-R flip-flop converted to J-K flip-flop (d) D flip-flops 43.. The time taken for information to be read from disk once the read-write hea d is positioned on the track is called (a) turn around time (b) data transfer time (c) seek time (d) latency time. 44. (a) (b) (c) (d) In a modern digital computers a subtractor is normally not used because subtractors are very expensive the design of a subtractor is very complex the adder is geared for doing subtraction also Most of the programs Do not need Subtraction

45 The correct order of data hierarchy is (a) bit-byte-record-field-file-data base (b) bit-byte-record-file-field-data base () bit-byte-file-record-field-data base (d) bit-byte-field-record-file-data base. 46. (a) (b) (c) (d) The hamming code is used in the digital computer to detect the error correct the error analyse the error either detect or correct the error.

47 Which of the following sorting algorithms has average case and worst case run ning times of 0 (n log n)? (a) Bubble sort (b) Insertion sort (c) Merge sort (d) Quick sort 48. The sum output in a half-adder can be realised by using a single two-input gat e. which should be a (a) exclusive -OR gate (b) NOR gate (c) AND gate (d) OR gate. 49. The binary representation of the decimal number 39 is (a)1000111 (b) 100111 (c)101011 (d) 100101. 50 . In a ripple counter using edge-triggered J-K flip-flops, the pulse input is applied to the (a) clock input of all flip-flops (b) clock input of one flip-flop (c) J and K inputs of one flip-flop (d) J and K inputs of all flip-flops. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 a c b a c c c c c d c c a c c b d d a d c a d c c d c c c

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