Computer Fundamentals Questions and Answers

In today's era, The working knowledge of computers is a must. Almost every private or government institution prefers to hire a person that has basic knowledge of computers. We have compiled a list of 1000+ Computer Fundamentals questions with answers that help you to check your basic computer knowledge and prepare for competitive exams. These Computer Fundamentals MCQ are prepared by the subject experts from authentic resources of computer fundamental. These basic Computer practice tests help all the aspirants to prepare for competitive exams like SSC, Banks or State PSC etc.  Attempt all the questions and check your computer fundamental knowledge online. 

Topics covered in Computer Fundamentals MCQ Practice Test:

  • History of Computer
  • Computer Generation
  • Types of Computers
  • Input & Output Devices
  • Storage Devices
  • Computer System and its architecture
  • Software
  • Computer Viruses etc.

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    Computer Fundamentals MCQ Practice MCQ Question and Answer

    61
    Personal computers use a number of chips mounted on a main circuit board. What is the common name for such boards?


    62
    In most IBM PCs, the CPU, the device drives, memory expansion slots and active components are mounted on a single board. What is the name of this board?


    63
    What is meant by a dedicated computer?


    64
    The system unit of a personal computer typically contains all of the following except:


    65
    A computer program that converts an entire program into machine language is called a/an?


    66
    A computer program that translates one program instructions at a time into machine language is called a/an?


    67
    A small or intelligent device is so called because it contains within it a?


    68
    The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from


    69
    The act of retrieving existing data from memory is called?


    70
    All modern computer operate on


    71
    Instructions and memory address are represented by?


    72
    Which of the following code used in present day computing was developed by IBM Corporation?


    73
    What is the latest write-once optical storage media?


    74
    The most important advantage of a video disk is?


    75
    Before a disk drive can access any sector record, a computer program has to provide the recordâ€TMs disk address. What information does this address specify?


    76
    As compared to diskettes, the hard disks are?


    77
    Regarding a VDU, Which statement is more correct?


    78
    Dot-matrix is a type of?


    79
    The two kinds of main memory are:?


    80
    A kind of serial dot-matrix printer that forms characters with magnetically-charged ink sprayed dots is called?


    81
    Which printer is very commonly used for desktop publishing?


    82
    An output device that uses words or messages recorded on a magnetic medium to produce audio response is?


    83
    Which of the following will happen when data is entered into a memory location?


    84
    A storage area used to store data to a compensate for the difference in speed at which the different units can handle data is?


    85
    To locate a data item for storage is?


    86
    Programs designed to perform specific tasks is known as?


    87
    Perforated paper used as input of output media is known as?


    88
    Time during which a job is processed by the computer is?


    89
    A computer which CPU speed around 100 million instruction per second and with the word length of around 64 bits is known as?


    90
    An approach that permits the computer to work on several programs instead of one is?