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1. Which of the following semiconductor memory, instead of using a flip-flop for the basic memory cell, work by deposition of a charge on a capacitor?

(a) Dynamic MOS
(b) Static MOS
(c) CMOS
(d) Bipolar

2. Punched-card equipment was first introduced in Britain in 1904 by a small company. What was the name of that company?

(a) Accounting & Tabulating Corporation of Great Britain
(b) International Business Machines (IBM)
(c) Tabulator Machine company
(d) The Tabulator Ltd.

3. A standard CD player accesses data/information using which method?

(a) Multivariate access
(b) Sequential access
(c) Random access
(d) All of these

4. Emitter coupled logic (ECL) belonging to bipolar family is

(a) The faster logic family and used in high speed application
(b) Most popular family of SSI and MSI chips
(c) Closet and obsolete
(d) New obsolete

5. What was the name of the first personal computer electronic spreadsheet software package which becomes a smash hit as soon as it was introduced in 1978?

(a) Word star
(b) Lotus 1-2-3
(c) VisiCalc
(d) Excel

6. CP/M

(a) Was initially designed to be used by non-programmers
(b) Became the standard programming language for personal computers
(c) Is used to control a keyboard, CRT screen, and disks
(d) Both (a) and (b)

7. The proper definition of a modern digital computer is

(a) A machine that works on binary code
(b) Any machine that can perform mathematical operations
(c) A more sophisticated and modified electronic packet calculator
(d) An electronic automated machine that can solve problems involving words and numbers

8. The main advantages of CMOS as compared to TTL are

(a) Higher speed operation with low power consumption
(b) Higher power consumption with high fan out
(c) Lower power consumption with low fan out
(d) Lower power consumption and better noise margins

9. Which was the world's first minicomputer and when it introduced?

(a) VAX 11/780, 1962
(b) PDP-II 1961
(c) IMB System/36, 1960
(d) PDP-1, 1958

10. How is it possible that both programs and date can be stored in the same floppy disk?

(a) Programs and data are both software and both can be stored in any memory device
(b) Floppy disks can only store data, not programs
(c) A floppy disk has to be formatted for one or for the other
(d) A floppy disk has two sides, one for data and one for programs

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