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Answer: C

Assembly language is a low-level programming language.

Each statement corresponds to one machine instruction, but written as a mnemonic such as MOV or ADD rather than a binary code. An assembler translates it, and it is specific to one processor family.

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92.

What frequency range is the High Frequency band?

Answer: D

The High Frequency band runs from 3 to 30 MHz.

HF waves are reflected by the ionosphere, so they can travel thousands of kilometres by skywave, which is why short-wave broadcasting, amateur radio and long-range aviation use the band.

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93.

From which year 5th generation of computers is considered ?

Answer: B

The fifth generation of computers is reckoned from about 1980.

It is characterised by ULSI chips, parallel processing and work on artificial intelligence - the term came from Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Systems project announced in 1981.

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94.

Computers calculate numbers in what mode?

Answer: C

Computers calculate in binary.

A transistor is either conducting or not, so two states are natural and reliable; ten voltage levels would be far harder to distinguish. All arithmetic is done in base two and converted to decimal only for display.

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95.

What are the three main search expressions, or operators, recognized by Boolean logic?

Answer: B

The three Boolean operators are AND, OR and NOT.

AND narrows a search to results containing both terms, OR widens it to either, and NOT excludes. George Boole set out the algebra in 1854, and it underlies both search and digital logic.

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Answer: A

The two types of RAM are static and dynamic.

Static RAM holds each bit in a flip-flop and needs no refreshing, so it is fast but bulky and expensive; it is used for cache. Dynamic RAM stores each bit as charge on a capacitor and must be refreshed thousands of times a second, but is far denser and cheaper.

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Answer: B

A DV camcorder is used to create digital video.

DV records video digitally on tape at about 25 Mbps, and transfers it to a computer over FireWire without any loss of quality - which is what put video editing within reach of ordinary users in the late 1990s.

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100.

Charles Babbage designed the first mechanical computer named

Answer: D

Charles Babbage designed the Analytical Engine.

Conceived in 1837, it had a store for numbers, a mill to compute with them, punched-card input and conditional branching - the elements of a general-purpose computer. It was never built in his lifetime.

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