30 Basic Computer General Knowledge Quiz
1) What are the different types of Printers?
Answer: Daisy -wheel printer, dot-matrix printer, impact printer, ink jet printer, laser printer and line printer.
2) To move a program or operating system from one hardware plat form to another is:
Answer: PORT.
3) A computer which is smaller than a laptop and about the size of a text book is:
Answer: Note book computer.
4) Language processing means:
Answer: Analysis of source program + Synthesis of target program.
5) Language processor consists of two phases. What are they?
Answer: Analysis phase and Synthesis phase.
6) The process of recognizing the lexical components in a source string is called:
Answer: Scanning.
7) AST stands for:
Answer: Abstract Syntax Tree.
8) There are two fundamental approaches to parsing. What are they?
Answer: Top down parsing and bottom up parsing.
9) Many languages provide built in facilities for writing macros. Well known examples for these are high level languages:
Answer: PL/I, C, Ada, C++ etc.
10) A macro call leads to:
Answer: Macro expansion.
11) MDT stands for:
Answer: Macro Definition Table.
12) SST stands for:
Answer: Sequencing Symbol Table.
13) APT stands for:
Answer: Actual Parameter Table.
14) In compiler, which analyzer converts the source program into a sequence of atomic units called tokens?
Answer: Lexical Analyzer.
15) Identifiers, keywords, constants, operators and punctuation symbols such as commas and parentheses are typical:
Answer: Tokens.
Simple Computer General Knowledge Quiz
16) A secondary processor used to speed up operations by taking over a specific part of the main processor’s work is called:
Answer: Coprocessor.
17) The name of the device used for user to computer communications, usually the display and the keyboard is called:
Answer: Console.
18) What is CON?
Answer: It is abbreviation for console.
19) CAE stands for:
Answer: Computer Aided Engineering.
20) CADD stands for:
Answer: Computer Aided Drafting and Design.
21) A program that translates a high level programming language such as C or Pascal into a machine language program is called:
Answer: Compiler.
22) A processor that can recognize and execute well over 100 different assembly language instruction is:
Answer: CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing.
23) RISC processors are 70 percent faster than which processors?
Answer: CISC.
24) Novell Netware’s local area network protocol used to route messages from one network node to another is called:
Answer: IPX Internet Packet Exchange.
25) Examples for interpreted languages are:
Answer: LISP and APL BASIC was an interpreted language.
26) What are the popular programming languages for knowledge representation?
Answer: LISP Prolog and Small talk.
27) In expert system, where we stores information about the particular domain?
Answer: Knowledge base.
28) Name of a high level programming language which is used in artificial intelligence applications:
Answer: LISP.
29) A programmer’s term for one unit of mouse movement, typically 1/200th of an inch is called:
Answer: Mickey.
30) The leading personal computer software company, Microsoft Corporation is founded in which year? 1975 by:
Answer: Bill Gates & Paul Allen.