Computer

Total Questions: 50

1. Who is known as the father of computing? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-1) 22.01.2017 (Shift-I)]

(a) Charles Faraday
(b) Michael Jonathan
(c) Charles Babbage
(d) Douglas Well

Correct Answer: (c) Charles Babbage

Solution:Charles Babbage was considered to be the father of computing after his invention and concept of the Analytical Engine in 1837. The Analytical Engine contained an Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), basic flow control, and integrated memory, hailed as the first general-purpose computer concept.

2. Who is called the 'Father of Modern Computer'? [S.S.C Online Graduation Level (T-1) 11.08.2017 (Shift-III)]

(a) Alexander Fleming
(b) Bill Gates
(c) Michael Faraday
(d) Charles Babbage

Correct Answer: (d) Charles Babbage

Solution:Alan Turing is considered by many to be the father of modern computer science as the world knows it. He formed the concept of the algorithms and computations with one of his inventions, the Turing machine. Some regard Charles Babbage, an English mathematician, as the father of modem computer for inventing
(i) Difference engine and
(ii) An alytical Engine.

3. Second generation computers (1955-1964) were made of: [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-1) 09.08.2021 (Shift-II)]

(a) large scale integrated circuit chips
(b) small scale integrated circuit chips
(c) transistors
(d) vacuum tubes

Correct Answer: (c) transistors

Solution:During the late 1950s and 1960s, the interest in computer technology got fast, and the next generation of computers, was introduced, replacing vacuum tubes and using transistors. However, the computers made in the second generation were completely based on transistors, not on vacuum tubes.

4. Who designed the first analog computer in India? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-1) 13.10.2020 (Shift-III)]

(a) Subodh Chandra Das Gupta
(b) Samarendra Kumar Mitra
(c) Bimal Kumar Bhattacharyya
(d) Deb Kumar Bose

Correct Answer: (b) Samarendra Kumar Mitra

Solution:In 1953, India's first indigenous electronic analog computer for solving linear equations with 10 variables and related problems was designed and developed by Samarendra Kumar Mitra.

5. Vacuum Tubes were used by__________Generation of Computers. [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-1) 8.02.2017 (Shift-III)]

(a) First
(b) Second
(c) Third
(d) Fourth

Correct Answer: (a) First

Solution:The period of first generation was from 1940-1956. The computers of first generation used vacuum tubes as the basic components for memory and circuitry for CPU (Central Processing Unit). These tubes, like electric bulbs, produced a lot of heat and the installations used to fuse frequently. Therefore, they were very expensive and only large organizations were able to afford it. In this generation, mainly batch processing operating system was used.

6. What is the other name for transistor computer? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-1) 11.08.2011 (Shift-III)]

(a) Fourth-Generation Computer
(b) First-Generation Computer
(c) Second-Generation Computer
(d) Third-Generation Computer

Correct Answer: (c) Second-Generation Computer

Solution:A transistor computer, now often called a second- generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. The first generation of electronic computers used vacuum tubes, which generated large amounts of heat, were bulky and unreliable.

A second-generation computer, through the late 1950s and 1960s featured circuit boards filled with individual transistors and magnetic core memory. These machines remained the mainstream design into the late 1960s, when integrated circuits started appearing and led to the third-generation computer.

7. What was the era from 1965 to 1975? [S.S.C. JE Mechanical Exam 27.10.2020 (Shift-I)]

(a) Fifth-generation computer
(b) Third-generation computer
(c) Fourth-generation computer
(d) Second-generation computer

Correct Answer: (b) Third-generation computer

Solution:Third generation of computers is covered by the period 1964-77 The period of third generation was from 1965-1971. The computers of third generation used Integrated Circuits (ICs) in place of transistors. A single IC has many transistors, resistors, and capacitors along with the associated circuitry. The IC was invented by Jack Kilby.

8. Third-generation computers used: [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-1) 16.10.2020 (Shift-III)]

(a) VLSI Technique
(b) Integrated circuits
(c) Vaccum tubes
(d) Transistors

Correct Answer: (b) Integrated circuits

Solution:The computers of third generation used Integrated Circuits (ICs) in place of transistors. A single IC has many transistors, resistors, and capacitors along with the associated circuitry. The IC was invented by Jack Kilby. This development made computers smaller in size, reliable, and efficient.

9. Which technology do third-generation computers use? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-1) 19.03.2020 (Shift-I)]

(a) Integrated circuits
(b) Vacuum tubes
(c) Microprocessors
(d) Transistors

Correct Answer: (a) Integrated circuits

10. CPU Scheduler is also known as_________. [S.S.C. Online Graduation Level (T-1) 9.09.2016 (Shift-II)]

(a) Job Scheduler
(b) Resource Scheduler
(c) Short term Scheduler
(d) Process Scheduler

Correct Answer: (c) Short term Scheduler

Solution:Short-term scheduler (also known as the CPU scheduler) decides which of the ready, in-memory processes is to be executed (allocated a CPU) after a clock interrupt, an I/O interrupt, an operating system call or another form of signal. Thus the short-term scheduler makes scheduling decisions much more frequently than the long-term or mid-term schedulers - a scheduling decision will at a minimum have to be made after every time slice, and these are very short.

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