Basic Computer Fundamentals Questions and Answers

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Understanding Basic Computer Fundamentals questions with answers is crucial for building a strong IT foundation. Whether preparing for SSC, TCS, Infosys, or campus placements, these programming questions and answers cover hardware, software, memory, operating systems, and networking basics. This topic enhances your technical literacy and prepares you for computer-awareness and IT aptitude sections in various exams. Each question comes with detailed explanations to strengthen conceptual understanding and practical application. Mastering these fundamentals ensures better performance in both academic and job-oriented assessments.

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51. Which of the following is a secondary memory device?

  • Keyboard
  • Disk
  • ALU
  • All of the above
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52. The difference between memory and storage is that memory is

  • Temporary, permanent
  • Permanent, temporary
  • Slow, fast
  • All of above
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53. A floppy disk contains

  • Circular tracks only
  • Sectors only
  • Both circular tracks and sectors
  • All of the above
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54. The octal equivalence of 111010 is

  • 81
  • 72
  • 71
  • None of above
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55. The first electronic computer in the world was

  • UNIVAC
  • . EDVAC
  • ENIAC
  • All of above
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56. The most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called

  • ASCII
  • EBCDIC
  • BCD
  • All of above
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57. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?

  • Analytical engine
  • Arithmetic machine
  • Donald Knuth
  • All of above
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58. Offline device is

  • device which is not connected to CPU
  • A device which is connected to CPU
  • A direct access storage device
  • An I/O device
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59. Which of the following registers is loaded with the contents of the memory location pointed by the PC?

  • Memory address register
  • Memory data register
  • Instruction registers
  • Program counter
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60. Which of the following registers is used to keep track of address of the memory location where the next instruction is located?

  • Memory address register
  • Memory data register
  • Instruction register
  • Program counter
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