COMPUTER GK

551) A collection of programs that controls how your computer system runs and processes information is called operating system

552) When we are working on a document on a PC the document is temporarily stored in RAM

553) Information travels between components on the motherboard through buses

554) Microsoft is a vertical market application

555) RAM refers to the memory in your computer

556) Computers connected to a LAN can share information and / or share equipment

557) Magnetic tape is not practical for applications where data must be quickly recalled because tape is a sequential access medium

558) In Late 1988 computer viruses land in India for the first time

559) ALU is a part of the CPU

560) In computer technology a compiler means a program, which translates source program into object program

561) American computer company IBM is called big blue

562) The first IBM PC did not have any ROM

563) The digital computer was developed primarily in UK

564) Programs which protect a disk from catching an infection are called antidotes

565) The first movie with terrific computer animation and graphics was released in 1982 is Tron

566) An integrated circuit is fabricated on a tiny silicon chip

567) The word size of a microprocessor refers to the amount of information that can be stored in the byte

568) Daisy-wheel printer cannot print graphics

569) In the IBM PC-AT, the word AT stands for advanced terminology

570) Dedicated computer means which is assigned one and only one task

571) Real time programming type of computers programming is used for aero plane ticket reservation system

572) RAM means memory which can be both read and written to

573) Laser printer uses light beam and electro statically sensitive black powder

574) The Santa Clara Valley, California is popularly known a Silicon Valley of America because many silicon chip manufacturing firms are located there

575) A program written in machine language is called assembler

576) International business machine was the first company in the world to build computer for sale

577) PARAM is a parallel computer

578) For communications, wide area networks use special purpose telephone wires and fiber optic cables and microwaves

579) Data transfer rate in modems is measured in bits per second

580) A compiler cannot detect logical errors in source programs

581) Throughput, turnaround time, response time are measures of system performance

582) OLTP architecture can handle a limited number of dimensions whereas OLAP architecture does not have any limit on the number of dimensions

583) The binary equivalent of (40.125) suffix 10 is 101000.001

584) Kernel is the only art of an operating system that a user cannot replace or modify

585)
Symbol signifies a magnetic disk

586) COBOL programming language was initially developed for consumer electronics goods

587) Running, blocked, ready, terminated are different states of a process

588) Rational rose is an example of a modeling language

589) A disk worm is an example of optical devices

590) A RAID is a disk array

591) The first private internet service provider in India was Satyam infoway

592) The maximum and minimum unsigned number which can be stored in a 8 bit word is 0 and 255

593) Stack is a part of memory

594) HIT RATIO is associated with cache performance

595) Laser printer is a page printer

596) Storage capacity of a disk system depends upon number of recording surfaces and number of sectors per track

597) Abstraction is associated with object oriented technology and database technology

598) The terms opcode and operand are associated with any high level language

599) Dynamic binding is associated with object oriented programming

600) The term CHIP, JEWELLARY means a processor with high capacity