1. A self replicating program, similar to a virus which was taken from a 1970s science fiction novel by John Bruner entitled the Shockwave Rider is

(a) Bug 
(b) Vice 
(c) Lice 
(d) Worm



2. A state. is a bi-stable electronic circuit that has

(a) Multivibrator 
(b) Flip-flop 
(c) Logic gates 
(d) laten



3. Unwanted repetitious messages, such as unsolicited bulk e-mail is known as

(a) Spam 
(b) Trash 
(c) Calibri 
(d) Courier



4. DOS stands for

(a) Digital Operating System 
(b) Disk operating session
(c) Disk Operating System  
(d) Digital Open system



5. Who is the chief of Microsoft

(a) Babbage 
(b) Bill Gates 
(c) Bill Clinton 
(d) none of these



6. Which of the following are input devices?

(a) Keyboard 
(b) Mouse 
(c) Card reader 
(d) Any of these



7. Examples of output devices are

(a) Screen 
(b) Printer 
(c) Speaker 
(d) All of these



8. Which of the following is also known as brain of computer

(a) Control unit 
(b) Central Processing unit
(c) Arithmetic and language unit 
(d) Monitor



9. IBM stands for

(a) Internal Business Management 
(b) International Business Management
(c) International Business Machines 
(d) Internal Business Machines



10. ............ translates and executes program at run time line by line

(a) Compiler 
(b) Interpreter
(c) Linker 
(d) Loader




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