CARITOR Placement Paper - General Awareness Questions

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1. A type of semiconductor memory that usually has small capacity but very fast access is
   

   (A) PROM

   (B) RAM

   (C) Scratchpad

   (D) ROM

   (E) None of these (Ans: C)

2. ____ is the study of molecules and structures whose size ranges from 1 to 100 nanometers.
   

   (A) Nanoscience

   (B) Microelectrodes

   (C) Computer forensics

   (D) Artificial intelligence

   (E) None of these (Ans: A)

3. A single pole, single throw switch with one common line and one output line is
   

   (A) Switch circuit

   (B) SPDT switch

   (C) SPST switch

   (D) Star bit

   (E) None of these (Ans: C)

4. A one-bit signal that indicates the start of data transmission by an asynchronous device is
   

   (A) Parity bit

   (B) Status bit

   (C) Zero bit

   (D) Star bit

   (E) None of these (Ans: D)

5. __ is data that has been organized or presented in a meaningful fashion.
   

   (A) A process

   (B) Software

   (C) Storage

   (D) Information

   (E) None of these (Ans: D)

6. The name for the way that computers manipulate data into information is called
   

   (A) programming

   (B) processing

   (C) storing

   (D) organizing

   (E) None of these (Ans: B)

7. Computers gather data, which means that they allow users to _____ data.
   

   (A) present

   (B) input

   (C) output

   (D) store

   (E) None of these (Ans: B)

8. After a picture has been taken with a digital camera and processed appropriately, the actual print of the picture is considered
   

   (A) data

   (B) output

   (C) input

   (D) the process

   (E) None of these (Ans: B)

9. A circuit with about 100 transistors fabricated on a single chip is called
   

   (A) MCR

   (B) MSI

   (C) MIS

   (D) RJE

   (E) None of these (Ans: B)

10. BD in computer terminology stands for:
    

    (a) Bit Data

    (b) Binary Digit

    (c) Blue-ray

    (d) All of the above (Ans: C)

11. What is FTP?
    

    (a) File Transfer Protocol

    (b) File Transmission Protocol

    (c) File Truncating Protocol

    (d) Final Transmission Protocol (Ans: A)

12. The term ‘TUX’ is related to:
    

    (a) Google

    (b) Yahoo

    (c) Linux

    (d) Windows (Ans: C)

13. An error in a program code is called:
    

    (a) Bug

    (b) Syntax

    (c) Mistake

    (d) All of the above (Ans: A)

14. The heart of any computer system is:
    

    (a) I/O Unit

    (b) Hard disk

    (c) CPU

    (d) Memory (Ans: C)

15. Which of the following is the fastest memory?
    

    (a) Cache

    (b) RAM

    (c) ROM

    (d) Registers (Ans: A)

16. Laser jet is a/an ........ printer
    

    (a) Impact

    (b) Non-impact

    (c) Either a or b

    (d) DMP (Ans: B)