ICT for NTA UGC NET JRF Paper 1

1. Which of the following lies within the CPU?

[A] Primary Memory
[B] Secondary Memory
[C] Mouse
[D] Keyboard

2. In a book of which author was the word computer first mentioned?

[A] Mark Twain
[B] Sherlock Holmes
[C] Richard Braithwait
[D] Enid Blyton

3. Which of the following devices incorporated a mechanical calendar computer?

[A] Astrolabe
[B] Gear-wheels
[C] Abacus
[D] Gear-train

4. Which of the following is the correct sequence of stages of data processing in a computer?

[A] Data Collection- Input Raw Data- Processing of Data-Information- Output
[B] Data Collection-Input Information-Processing of Data- Output
[C] Data Collection- Data Processing- Information-Data Output
[D] Data Input-Data Processing-Data Collection-Information-Output

5. Who was associated with the first large-scale digital computer known as the Harvard Mark I or the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator?

[A] Clifford Berry
[B] Howard Aiken
[C] Konrad Zuse
[D] John Atanasoff

6. How do the Analog computers perform arithmetic operations?

[A] With the help of Non-Measurable quantities
[B] With the help of Measurable quantities
[C] Both 1 and 2
[D] None of the above

7. Which of the following are the core mathematical operations which are used in an electric analog computer?

[A] Integration
[B] Exponentiation
[C] Inversion
[D] All of the above

8. In what form is the data expressed in a digital computer?

[A] Binary
[B] Tertiary
[C] Primary
[D] Secondary

9. Who had build the first electronic digital computer?

[A] George Boole
[B] Charles Babbage
[C] John Atanasoff
[D] Cliff Berry

10. What controlled the data-processing operations in the Harvard Mark I?

[A] Electric relays
[B] Memory
[C] Switching Devices
[D] Both 1 and 3