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WorksheetsCOMPUTER SCIENCE
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which of the following languages is more suited to a structured program?
PL/1
FORTRAN
BASIC
PASCAL
Which of the following computer language is used for artificial intelligence?
FORTRAN
PROLOG
C
COBOL
Which of the following is the 1's complement of 10?
01
110
11
10
The section of the CPU that selects, interprets and sees to the execution of program instructions
Memory
Register unit
Control unit
ALU
The symbols used in an assembly language are
Codes
Mnemonics
Assembler
All of the above
Which is a non-standard version of a computing language?
PROLOG
APL
Army
PL/1
A datum that indicates some important state in the content of input or output is
Sequence
Sentinel
SIO
Sibling
The 2's complement of a binary no. is obtained by adding.....to its 1's complement.
0
1
10
12
The average time necessary for the correct sector of a disk to arrive at the read write head is _____
Down time
Seek time
Rotational delay
Access time
A number that is used to control the form of another number is known as
Map
Mask
Mamtossa
Marker
A general purpose single-user microcomputer designed to be operated by one person at a time is
Special-purpose computer
KIPS
M
PC
ASCII stands for
American standard code for information interchange
All purpose scientific code for information interchange
American security code for information interchange
American Scientific code for information interchange
Which device of computer operation dispenses with the use of the keyboard?
Joystick
Light pen
Mouse
Touch
The microcomputer, Intel MCS-80 is based on the widely used Intel
8080 microprocessor
8085 microprocessor
8086 microprocessor
8082 microprocessor
A program that is employed in the development, repair or enhancement of other programs is known as
System software
Software tool
Applications program
Utility program
Which is a machine-oriented high-level language for the GEC 4080 series machines
LOGO
SNOBOL
Babbage
ALGOL
Any storage device added to a computer beyond the immediately usable main storage is known as
Floppy disk
Hard disk
Backing store
Punched card
Which output device is used for translating information from a computer into pictorial form on paper
Mouse
Plotter
Touch panel
Card punch
The list of coded instructions is called
Computer program
Algorithm
Flowchart
Utility programs
The tracks on a disk which can be accessed without repositioning the R/W heads is
Surface
Cylinder
Cluster
All of the above
Frames from one LAN can be transmitted to another LAN via the device
Router
Bridge
Repeater
Modem
The probability that a single bit will be in error on a typical public telephone line using 4800
bps modem is 10 to the power -3. If no error detection mechanism is used, the residual error
rate for a communication line using 9-bit frames is approximately equal
0.003
0.009
0.991
0.999
The Internet Control Message Protocol
allows gateways to send error a control messages to other gateways or hosts
provides communication between the Internet Protocol Software on one machine and
the Internet Protocol Software on another
reports error conditions to the original source, the source must relate errors to
individual application programs and take action to correct the problem
All of the above
The term 'duplex' refers to the ability of the data receiving stations to echo back a confirming
message to the sender. In full duplex data transmission, both the sender and the receiver?
cannot talk at once
can receive and send data simultaneously
can send or receive data one at a time
can do one way data transmission only
Avalanche photodiode receivers can detect hits of transmitted data by receiving
100 photons
200 photons
300 photons
400 photons
The synchronous modems are more costly than the asynchronous modems because
they produce large volume of data
they contain clock recovery circuits
they transmit the data with stop and start bits.
they operate with a larger bandwidth
A remote batch-processing operation in which data is solely input to a central computer
would require a:
telegraph line
simplex lines
mixedband channel
All the above
If you get both local and remote echoes, every character you type will appear on the screen
Once
Twice
three times
never
What can greatly reduce TCP/IP configuration problems?
WINS Server
WINS Proxy
DHCP Server
PDC
With an IP address of 100, you currently have 80 subnets. What subnet mask should you use
to maximize the number of available hosts?
192
224
240
252
Which kind of planning consists of successive representations of different levels of a plan?
hierarchical planning
non-hierarchical planning
All of the above
project planning
DEC advertises that it helped to create "the world's first expert system routinely used in an industrial
environment," called XCON or:
PDP-11
Rl C. VAX
MAGNOM
None of the above
Weak AI is
the embodiment of human intellectual capabilities within a computer
a set of computer programs that produce output that would be considered to reflect
intelligence if it were generated by humans.
study of mental faculties through the use of mental models implemented on a computer.
All of the above
In LISP, the function assigns the symbol x to y is
(setq y x)
(set y = 'x')
(setq y = 'x')
(setq y 'x')
Nils Nilsson headed a team at SRI that created a mobile robot named:
Robitics
Dedalus
Shakey
Vax
What is the name of the computer program that contains the distilled knowledge of an expert?
Data base management system
Management information System
Expert system
Artificial intelligence
What of the following is considered to be a pivotal event in the history of AI.
1949, Donald O, The organization of Behaviour,
1950, Computing Machinery and Intelligence.
1956, Dartmouth University Conference Organized by John McCarthy
1961, Computer and Computer Sense.
Which type of actuator generates a good deal of power but tends to be messy?
Electric
Hydraulic
Pneumatic
(B) and (c) above
Visual clues that are helpful in computer vision include:
colour and motion
depth and texture
height and weight
a and b above
A network with named nodes and labeled arcs that can be used to represent certain natural
language grammars to facilitate parsing.
Tree Network
Star Network
Transition Network
Complete Network
