Computer Fundamental Miscellaneous - Study Mode

[#926] Which of the following printers, are you sure will not to use if your objective is to print on multicarbon forms?
Correct Answer

(C) laser

Explanation

Solution: A printer that prints a page at a time. Laser, LED and solid ink printers are examples. The first page printers were huge, floor-standing devices, and although such "digital printing presses" today print much faster and even in color, the ubiquitous page printer is the desktop laser printer.

[#927] The term MIPS refers to _____
Correct Answer

(A) millions of instructions per second

Explanation

Solution: Million instructions per second (MIPS) is an older, obsolete measure of a computer's speed and power, MIPS measures roughly the number of machine instructions that a computer can execute in one second.

[#928] The primary memory of a personal computer consists of:
Correct Answer

(C) Both ROM and RAM

Explanation

Solution: ROM (Read Only Memory) and RAM make up the primary memory. Although one is volatile and the other contains non volatile firmware, the similarity is in that they are both directly accessed by the CPU.

[#929] A software package to implement a data base is
Correct Answer

(B) DBMS

Explanation

Solution: The database management system (DBMS) is the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze data.

[#930] Methods used to organise and physically store disk data are cylinder and
Correct Answer

(A) Sector

Explanation

Solution: A disk is divided into tracks, cylinders, and sectors. A track is that portion of a disk which passes under a single stationary head during a disk rotation, a ring 1 bit wide. A cylinder is comprised of the set of tracks described by all the heads (on separate platters) at a single seek position.