Important Computer Questions Part 8 | MCQs for Govt & Competitive Exams
Computer awareness is one of the most scoring sections in government exams, banking exams, SSC, railways, and other competitive exams. Below are important multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that will help you strengthen your preparation.
Question 211: Who is the father of Computer?
(a) Herman Hollerith
(b) Bill Gates
(c) Newton
(d) Charles Babbage
Answer: (d) Charles Babbage
Question 212: Which of the following machines was made by Charles Babbage?
(a) Analytic Engine
(b) Arithmetic Engine
(c) Tabulating Machine
(d) Punched Card
Answer: (a) Analytical Engine
Question 213: Who among the following was the inventor of the computer?
(a) Faraday
(b) Maxwell
(c) Babbage
(d) Bill Gate
Answer: (c) Babbage
Question 214: Who is known as the father of computing?
(a) Charles Faraday
(b) Michael Jonathan
(c) Charles Babbage
(d) Douglas Well
Answer: (c) Charles Babbage
Question 215: The world’s first electronic digital computer is:
(a) ENIAC
(b) Siddharth
(c) Param
(d) Medha
Answer: (a) ENIAC
Question 216: ENIAC was
(a) An electronic calculator
(b) An electronic computer
(c) A memory device
(d) An engine
Answer: (b) An electronic computer
Question 217: The first operational electronic digital computer is:
(a) ENIAC
(b) EDVAC
(c) EDSAC
(d) UNIVAC
Answer: (a) ENIAC
Question 218 : What was in the first electronic digital computer?
(a) Transistor
(b) Valve
(c) Code memory
(d) Semiconductor memory
Answer: (b) Valve
Question 219: Which of the following is associated with the invention of computer?
(a) Macmillan
(b) Ranga bhashyam
(c) Edition
(d) Babbage
Answer: (d) Babbage
Question 220: Herman Hollerith perfected his tabulating system and developed this machine
(a) Analytical Engine
(b) Census Tabulator
(c) Tabulation Engine
(d) None of the above
Answer: (b) Census Tabulator
Question 221: Arithmometer was invented by
(a) Evanglista Torricelli
(b) Charles Xavier Thomas
(c) Edward Teller
(d) Gustav Tauschek
Answer: (b) Charles Xavier Thomas
Question 222: Computer systems that store instructions and data in the same memory unit without any distinction is based on the structure of _______
(a) Harvard
(b) Babbage
(c) Knuth
(d) Von-Neumann
Answer: (d) Von-Neumann
Question 223: The first computer made available for commercial use was:
(a) MANIAC
(b) ENIAC
(c) UNIVAC
(d) EDVAC
Answer: (c) UNIVAC
Question 224: ______ gave stored program concept in which program and data to be processed are stored in the same memory.
(a) John Von Neumann
(b) Alan Turing
(c) Charles Babbage
(d) Bill Gates
Answer: (a) John Von Neumann
Question 225: Where was India’s first computer installed?
(a) IIT Delhi
(b) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
(c) Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd, Burnpur
(d) Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
Answer: (d) Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
Question 226: Where was the first computer in India installed?
(a) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
(b) Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
(c) Computational Research Laboratory (CRL), Pune
(d) Indian Railway, New Delhi
Answer: (b) Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Question 227: In which city in India’s first Post Office ATM opened?
(a) Chennai
(b) New Delhi
(c) Hyderabad
(d) Mumbai
Answer: (a) Chennai
Question 228: Which was the first Apple computer?
(a) Apple I
(b) Apple II
(c) Maschintosh
(d) Apple Lisa
Answer: (a) Apple I
Question 229: Which one of the following is not a early computer?
(a) Atlas
(b) LEO
(c) ENIAC
(d) LINC
Answer: (*) All are early computers
Question 230: The 1950s belonged to ________ generation of computer.
(a) First
(b) Second
(c) Fourth
(d) Third
Answer: (a) First
Question 231: Vacuum Tubes were used by _______ Generation of Computers.
(a) First
(b) Second
(c) Third
(d) Fourth
Answer: (a) First
Question 232: First generation computers are made of ________.
(a) Vacuum tubes
(b) Microprocessor
(c) Microcontrollers
(d) Integrated circuit
Answer: (a) Vacuum tubes
Question 233: Choose the correct sequence of computer generations from I to V:
(a) Vacuum tube, transistor, IC, VLSI Micro processor, ULSI micro processor
(b) Transistor, Vacuum tube, IC, VLSI micro processor, ULSI micro processor
(c) Transistor, Vacuum tube, ULSI micro processor, IC, VLSI micro processor
(d) Vacuum tubes, Transistors, IC, ULSI micro processor, VLSI micro processor
Answer: (a) Vacuum tube, transistor, IC, VLSI micro processor, ULSI micro processor
Question 234: The first generation of computer was based on:
(a) VLSI micro processor
(b) Integrated Circuit
(c) Vacuum tubes
(d) Transistor
Answer: (c) Vacuum tubes
Question 235: ENIAC, EDVAC are examples of _______ generation of computer.
(a) Second
(b) Third
(c) Fourth
(d) First
Answer: (d) First
Question 236: In which generation of computer Transistors are used?
(a) First
(b) Second
(c) Third
(d) Fourth
Answer: (b) Second
Question 237: Vacuum tubes were replaced by transistor in:
(a) fourth generation computers
(b) first generation computers
(c) second generation computers
(d) third generation computers
Answer: (c) second generation computers
Question 238: The era of second generation computer was:
(a) 1946-1958
(b) 1940-1960
(c) 1955-1964
(d) 1965-1975
Answer: (c) 1955-1964
Question 239: Integrated circuits were first used in ______
(a) Third Generation Computer
(b) Second Generation Computer
(c) Fourth Generation Computer
(d) Fifth Generation Computer
Answer: (a) Third Generation Computer
Question 240: Miniaturization of modern computers has been made possible by the use of:
(a) transistor
(b) IC chips
(c) Nano material
(d) Over conductors
Answer: (b) IC Chips
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