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Computer Fundamentals Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: American standard code for information interchange

ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a 7-bit code giving \( 2^7 = 128 \) values - the letters, digits, punctuation and control characters. Its universality is what allows text written on one machine to be read on another.

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42.

Which of following is not an application software ?

Answer: B

Correct answer: Winrar

Photoshop, SAGE and Dreamweaver are applications: they do work the user wants done - editing images, keeping accounts, building web pages. WinRAR compresses and extracts archives, which is housekeeping on the machine itself, so it is classed as a utility.

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43.

The term referring to evacuating the content of some part of the machine is known as

Answer: A

Correct answer: Dump

A dump writes out the contents of memory, or of some part of the machine, so that its state can be examined - usually after a failure, so the cause can be traced. The word describes emptying the contents out for inspection, not altering them.

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44.

Set of instructions which instructs computer to perform certain task is called ?

Answer: C

Correct answer: Program

A program is a set of instructions written to make the computer perform a particular task. An assembler and a debugger are themselves programs with special jobs, and a flowchart is a diagram of the logic rather than something the machine can execute.

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45.

A section of code to which control is transferred when a processor is interrupted is known as

Answer: A

Correct answer: SVC

An SVC - supervisor call - is the routine the processor transfers control to when an interrupt occurs: the current instruction stream is suspended, the machine switches to supervisor state and enters that handler, which services the condition and then returns. IP is the instruction pointer and MDR the memory data register - both registers, not sections of code.

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46.

Symbolic languages were developed in

Answer: B

Correct answer: 1950

Symbolic - assembly - languages appeared around 1950, when programmers began replacing raw binary operation codes with mnemonics and addresses with symbolic labels, and wrote assemblers to translate them. High-level languages such as FORTRAN followed later in the decade.

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47.

Which is the extension of a batch file ?

Answer: A

Correct answer: .bat

A batch file is a plain-text list of DOS or Windows commands executed in order, and it carries the extension .bat (or .cmd on later versions of Windows). The .exe extension belongs to compiled programs.

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Answer: B

Correct answer: A third generation high level language

C is a third-generation language: its statements are written in a human-readable notation and a compiler translates them into machine code, so a program can be moved to another processor by recompiling it. Machine language is the processor’s own binary, and assembly language is its mnemonic form - the first and second generations.

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50.

Which language was devised by Dr. Seymour Aubrey Papert?

Answer: C

Correct answer: LOGO

Seymour Papert, with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon, devised LOGO in 1967 to teach children programming. Its best-known feature is turtle graphics, where simple commands drive a pointer that draws as it moves, so geometry can be explored by writing procedures.

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