vlsi interview question-objective type-04
51. IBM used as the operating system for their original PC (a) MS-DOS (b)Windows 3.1 (c)PC-DOS (d) DOS
52. Windows (GUI) software originated on (a) IBM computers (b) Apple Macintoshcomputers (c) Rank Xerox computers (d) Digital (DEC) computers
53. A RAID system is useful because (a) it increases processor speed (b) increases diskstorage capacity (c) increases disk storage capacity and availability (d) increases OS efficiency
54. In processing cheques which of the following I/O techniques have banks traditionally used (a) OCR (b) MICR (c) barcode scanning (d) voice recognition
55 An RS-232 interface is (a) a parallel interface (b) a serial interface (c) printer interface(d) a modem interface
56. Which of the following is NOT a computer performance metric: (a) MIPS, (b) FLOPS,(c) SPECmark, (d) RISC4
57. For print quality you would expect best results from (a) line printer (b) dot matrixprinter (c) ink-jet printer (d) laser printer.
58. Handling dates in the next century is a serious problem for the computing industry.Which of the following does NOT refer to this problem: (a) Y2K problem (b) Year 2000problem (c) Millennium bug (d) Next century problem.
59. ROM (a) is faster to access than RAM (b) is non-volatile (c) stores more informationthan RAM (d) is used for cache memory
60. DRAM (a) is used for cache memory (b) is more expensive than SRAM (c) is cheaperthan SRAM (d) is only used at boot up time
61. SRAM (a) is cheaper than DRAM (b) is used at boot up time only (c) is used for cachememory (d) is slower to access than DRAM
62. 10-Base-T refers to (a) Ethernet using thin coaxial cable (b) Ethernet using thickcoaxial cable (c) Ethernet using unshielded twisted pair (utp) cabling (d) none of theprevious
63. 10-Base-2 refers to (a) Ethernet using thin coaxial cable (b) Ethernet using thickcoaxial cable (c) Ethernet using unshielded twisted pair (utp) cabling (d) none of theprevious
64. 10-Base-5 refers to (a) Ethernet using thin coaxial cable (b) Ethernet using thick
coaxial cable (c) Ethernet using unshielded twisted pair (utp) cabling (d) none of the
previous
65. The maximum recommended segment length for utp is (a) 200 metres (b) 100 metres
(c) 500 metres (d) 1000 metres
66. A UPS (a) increased the storage capacity of a computer system (b) increases the process
speed (c) provides backup power in the event of a power cut (d) none of the previous
67. An NOS is (a) a proprietary operating system (b) a network operating system (c)
Novell Operating System (d) Unix-like operating system
68. An NIC (a) a Novell Interface Controller (b) used to control a printer (c) interfaces a
modem to a computer (d) connects a computer to a network
69. The capacity of a 3.5” floppy is around (a) 100K (b) 1.4 Mb (c) 5 Mb (d) 1 Gb