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1. Which of the following languages is more suited to a structured program?

PL/1
FORTRAN
BASIC
PASCAL
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2. A computer assisted method for the recording and analyzing of existing or hypothetical systems is

Data transmission
Data flow
Data capture
Data processing
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3. The brain of any computer system is

ALU
Memory
CPU
Control unit
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4. What difference does the 5th generation computer have from other generation computers?

Technological advancement
Scientific code
Object Oriented Programming
All of the above
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5. Which of the following computer language is used for artificial intelligence?

FORTRAN
PROLOG
C
COBOL
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6. From what location are the 1st computer instructions available on boot up?

ROM BIOS
CPU
boot.ini
CONFIG.SYS
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7. What could cause a fixed disk error.

No-CD installed
bad ram
slow processor
Incorrect CMOS settings
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8. Missing slot covers on a computer can cause?

over heat
power surges
EMI.
incomplete path for ESD
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9. When installing PCI NICS you can check the IRQ availability by looking at

dip switches
CONFIG.SYS
jumper settings
motherboard BIOS
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10. With respect to a network interface card, the term 10/100 refers to

protocol speed
a fiber speed
megabits per seconds
minimum and maximum server speed
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11. The part of machine level instruction, which tells the central processor what has to be done, is

Operation code
Address
Locator
Flip-Flop
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12. Which of the following refers to the associative memory?

the address of the data is generated by the CPU
the address of the data is supplied by the users
there is no need for an address i.e. the data is used as an address
the data are accessed sequentially
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13. To avoid the race condition, the number of processes that may be simultaneously inside their critical section is

8
1
16
0
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14. A system program that combines the separately compiled modules of a program into a form suitable for execution

assembler
linking loader
cross compiler
load and go
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15. Process is

program in High level language kept on disk
contents of main memory
a program in execution
a job in secondary memory
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16. Which command of MS-DOS is used to copy only files that have been modified on or after the date you specify?

XCOPY/D : date
COPY/D : date
COPY/M
XCOPY/V
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17. Which DOS command will format a floppy disk and transfer the system files

SYS C: A:
SYS A:
FORMAT A: /S
FORMAT A: /T
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18. Which symbol will be used with grep command to match the pattern pat at the beginning of a line?

^pat
$pat
pat$
None of the above
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19. Which command is used to sort the lines of data in a file in reverse order

sort
sh
st
sort-r
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20. What command is used to count the total number of lines, words, and characters contained in a file?

countw
wcount
wc
count p
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21. What command is used to remove files?

dm
rm
delete
erase
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22. How many digits of the DNIC (Data Network Identification Code) identify the country?

first three
first four
first five
first six
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23. A station in a network forwards incoming packets by placing them on its shortest output queue. What routing algorithm is being used?

hot potato routing
flooding
static routing
delta routing
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24. How do you configure a printing pool?

Associate one print device with multiple printers
Associate multiple print devices with one printer
Associate multiple print devices with multiple printers
Associate one physical print gear port with multiple print
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25. Controls of data communication deal with

the communication channel
the computer
terminals
All of the above
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