Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education 2009 Certification MS-CIT Bank Set 13 - Question Paper

1. "Plug and play" is now the standard for expansion cards in the industry
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

2. _____ ports send data 1 bit at a time and are very good for sending info over a long distance
1) Serial
2) Parallel
3) USB
4) Cable

3. ______ are credit card-sized expansion boards that are used by portable computers
1) Network
2) Cards Adapter
3) Cards PCMCIA
4) Cards SCSI Cards

4. _______ cards are about the size of a credit card and contain a tiny built-in microprocessor
1) Smart
2) Intelligent
3) PC
4) Dumb

5. _______ ports are used to connect external devices that need to receive a lot of data over a short distance. This port is mostly used to connect printers to the system unit
1) Parallel
2) serial
3) PCI
4) AGP

6. __________ is a new kind of RAM memory chip that can retain data even when it loses power
1) ROM
2) Cache RAM
3) Flash RAM
4) Zip RAM

7. __________ is the newest binary coding scheme, using 16 bits to represent every character
1) ASCII
2) Unicode
3) EBCDIC
4) Monolith

8. __________ memory is used to store the most frequently accessed info stored in RAM
1) Cache
2) Upper
3) Extended
4) Virtual

9. A "plug and play" card requires little or no configuration after installation
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

10. A __________,sometimes called a socket, connects the system unit to devices like keyboards that are outside the system case
1) Bus
2) Port
3) Peripheral
4) EISA standard

11. A billionth of a 2nd
1) Picosecond
2) Microsecond
3) Nanosecond
4) Miilisecond

12. A Cisc chip is faster than a Risc chip
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

13. A coding scheme like ASCII is necessary to
1) Provide a common set of bit trends for data.
2) insure that all computers use the identical coding scheme.
3) enable software to store info in memory.
4) divide the processing among various kinds of computers based on their bit counts.

14. A computer that is easy for the user to add devices to is stated to have a(n) __________ architecture
1) Open
2) Closed
3) User friendly
4) Proprietary

15. A computer with an open architecture makes it easy to add new functions by adding expansion cards
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

16. A computer word is the number of bits the CPU can access at 1 time
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

17. A computer word is the number of numbers the CPU can multiply at 1 Time
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

18. A gigabyte is approximately one billion bytes
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

19. A gigabyte is approximately one million bytes
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

20. A kilobyte is approximately 1,000 bytes
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

21. A megabyte is approximately 1,000 bytes
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

22. A megabyte is approximately 1million bytes
1) TRUE
2) FALSE


23. A parallel port is faster than a USB port
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

24. A Risc chip is faster than a Cisc chip
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

25. A SCSI card will allow the user to connect up to 7 devices to the system Unit
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

26. A single character can be represented by eight bits. a different name for eight bits is a
1) Meg.
2) String.
3) Binary digit.
4) Byte.

27. A smart card has a built-in computer processor and memory
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

28. A smart card has a built-in processor and monitor
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

29. A terabyte is approximately one trillion bytes
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

30. A USB port is faster than a serial port
1) TRUE
2) FALSE


31. A(n) _______ contains a TV tuner and a video converter that modifications the TV signal into 1 that displayed on your monitor
1) Television Board
2) Tv card
3) Video card
4) Scsci card

32. A(n) ________ consists of a tiny circuit board etched on a postage-stamp-size square of sand-like material called silicon
1) System Board
2) Chip
3) Hard Drive
4) Data Bus

33. A(n) __________ expansion card allows up to 7 various devices to be connected to it
1) Open
2) Closed
3) SCSI
4) Plug and play

34. All data, instructions, and info inside a computer are stored in binary option1
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

35. All the info used by the processor is loaded 1st into
1) REM
2) ROM
3) RAM
4) A Disk

36. Another name for the system board is the
1) Chipboard
2) Motherboard
3) Daughterboard
4) Integrated circuit

37. ASCII is most commonly used on mainframes and other large computers
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

38. ASCII is most commonly used on microcomputers
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

39. ASCII, EBCDIC, and Unicode are all examples of various ways to represent characters in binary
1) TRUE
2) FALSE


40. Bus size has little relationship to the speed with which data moves in the system unit
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

41. Cache memory is located within RAM
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

42. Chips that have built-in programs stored in them are called
1) RAM
2) ROM
3) extended memory
4) cache memory

43. Data and instructions are not stored in RAM before they are processed
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

44. Data that is stored in RAM
1) is non-volatile data.
2) is only there while the power is on.
3) remains only a few minutes after the power is turned off.
4) is permanent and only lost in a power failure.

45. Each character on this page could be represented by exactly 1 byte inside a Computer
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

46. Each character on this page is an example of a bit
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

47. Each digit in the binary numbering system is called a bit
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

48. EBCDIC is most commonly used on mainframes and other large computers
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

49. Eight bits make up a byte
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

50. Expansion cards allow the user to add new devices to a computer
1) TRUE
2) FALSE

Earning:   Approval pending.