USMANU DANFODIYO UNIVERSITY, SOKOTO

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

CMP 101 EXAM PASS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. Central Processing Unit (CPU) consists of ____________

(a) control unit (b) arithmetic and logic unit (c) main store (d) all of

the above

2. If an instruction consists of an arithmetic operation, data is

transferred to ___________

(a) quantitative unit (b) qualitative unit (c) arithmetic and logical unit

(d) central processing unit

3. Large computers with wide range of peripheral devices are classified

as ___________

(a) mainframe computers (b) mini frame computers (c) mainframe

processors (d) peripheral interface

4. Line printer, a voice synthesizer and computer terminal screen are

classic examples of ______

(a) logic circuit devices (b) analogue circuit devices (c) AND gate

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 devices (d) output devices

5. Synonymous to rule in network is ___________

(a) Standard (b) Protocol (c) Forum (d) Agency

6. Star topology is used in ___________

(a) LAN (b) WAN (c) MAN (d) Internetwork

7. Ease of installation is main advantage of ________ topology.

(a) Star (c) Bus (c) Mesh (d) Ring

8. OSI stands for _______________

(a) Open Systems Interconnection (b) Online Systems

Interconnection (c) Open Systems Internet (d) Online Systems

Interconnection

9. The first generation of computers used vacuum tubes. Why were

they replaced by the transistor?

(a) Vacuum tubes consumed a lot of energy and generated

excessive heat

(b) Transistors made computers heavier and more substantial

(c) Vacuum tubes are too small to work with and were expensive

(d) Transistor technology was fully mature

10. A single set of related data values is referred to as ______________

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 (a) Data value (b) Record (c) Field (d) Table

11. What is used to uniquely identify each record in a table?

(a) Foreign key (b) Field (c) Datatype (d) Primary key

12. A relational database consists of a collection of _____________

(a) Tables (b) Fields (c) Records (d) Keys

13. A/an ________ in a table represents a relationship among a set of

values. (a) Column (b) Key (c) Row (d) Entry

14. The term _______ is used to refer to a row in a relational database.

(a) Attribute (b) Tuple (c) Field (d) Instance

15. The term attribute refers to a ___________ of a table.

(a) Record (b) Column (c) Tuple (d) Key

16. For each attribute of a relation, there is a set of permitted values,

called the ________ of that attribute. (a) Domain (b) Relation (c) Set

(d) Schema

17. Database __________ which is the logical design of the database, and

the database _______ which is a snapshot of the data in the database

at a given instant in time.

(a) Instance, Schema (b) Relation, Schema (c) Relation, Domain (d)

Schema, Instance

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18. Course(course_id,sec_id,semester). Here the course_id, sec_id and

semester are __________ and

Course is a _________

(a) Relations, Attribute (b) Attributes, Relation (c) Tuple, Relation (d)

Tuple, Attributes

19. Application program used with all documentation is considered

______________

(a) Application package (b) replicate programs (c) application

programs (d) systems programs

20. Amount of data a Floppy Disk can store is _____________

(a) 14 MB (b) 1.4 GB (c) 1.4 MB (d) 4.5 GB

21. Internal storage of a computer is _____________

(a) Hard Floppy (b) ROM (c) Hard Disk (d) CD-ROM

22. Basic unit of measurement of storage in computer is ____________

(a) Kilobyte (b) Bite (c) Byte (d) Micro bites

23. Secondary storage memory is basically ___________

(a) volatile memory (b) non-volatile memory (c) backup memory (d)

impact memory

24. When power is switched OFF, it will lose its data. Such type of

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 memory is classified as _______

(a) volatile storage (b) non-volatile storage (c) impact storage (d) non

-impact storage

25. What is the meaning of the acronym IBM?

(a) International Basic Machine (b) Interconnected Business Machine

(c) International Business Machine (d) International Business

Method

26. Which of the following is NOT an operation carried out by ALU?

(a) Arithmetic operation (b) Fetching operation (c) Comparison

operation (d) Logical operation

27. __________ is the smallest unit of data a computer can handle.

(a) Binary digit (b) Byte (c) Kilobyte (d) character

28. Which of the following improves processing time by storing

frequently used instructions and data?

(a) Memory cache (b) Cache store (c) RAM cache (d) All of them

29. Which of the following is not an operating system?

(a) Mac OS X (b) Linux (c) Microsoft Word (d) Microsoft Vista

30. Machines that were built up with transistors were found during

________________

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(a) Mechanical Era (b) First Generation (c) Second Generation (d) Third

Generation

31. ______________ is a box-like case housing the electronic components

of a computer that are used to process data.

(a) Motherboard (b) Transistor (c)

Processor (d) Chassis

32. Which of the following connects the CPU

to the main memory?

(a) Expansion slot (b) System bus (c) Control system (d) Memory

connector

33. A series of ON/OFF electrical states the computer can process is

known as ____________ (a) bit (b) byte (c) electric circuit (d) kilobyte

34. __________ connectors have one or more exposed pins, which are

used to join a cable to a device. (a) Child (b) Parent (c) Female (d)

Male

35. Which principle states that no part of a primary key can be null?

(a) Referential integrity (b) Entity integrity (c) Domain integrity (d)

Differential integrity

36. ___________ port is an interface that connects devices by transferring

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 more than one bit at a time.

(a) Serial (b) Sequential (c) Parallel (d) All of them

37. Keyboard, mouse or modem do not require fast data transmission

rates, as such, they require ____ ports.

(a) parallel (b) serial (c) All of them (d) None of them

38. Which one of these allows the CPU to communicate with peripheral

devices?

(a) System bus (b) Communication bus (c) Expansion bus (d) Control

bus

39. An enhanced computer keyboard has ________ function keys along

the top row. (a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 11 (d) 12

40. Cordless keyboards accomplish data transmission through

__________

(a) radio waves (b) infrared waves (c) ultraviolet waves (d) gamma

waves

41. ____________ is the technology and process of reading and converting

typed, printed or handwritten characters into machine-encoded text

format that the computer can understand and manipulate. (a) MCR

(b) MICR (c) OMR (d) OCR

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42. The following are examples of printers EXCEPT _____________

(a) plotters (b) photo printer (c) label printer (d) micro-printer

43. A __________ stores data on a thin microprocessor embedded in a

card similar in size to an ATM card.

(a) PC card (b) processing card (c) smart card (d) memory card

44. The following are system translator software EXCEPT

_______________

(a) Inverter (b) Interpreter (c) Assembler (d) Compiler

45. A _________ is a collection of data organized to allow access, retrieval

and use of that data. (a) data query (b) data analysis (c)

database (d) data gallery

46. ____________ is a type of output.

(a) Text (b) Graphics (c) Video (d) All of them

47. The description of image clarity by the number of pixels a monitor

can display is called ________

(a) Dot pitch (b) Refresh rate (c) Resolution (d) Contrast

48. The following are functions of an operating system EXCEPT

___________

(a) security administration (b) network control (c) accessing the web

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 (d) None of them

49. __________ involves communication of related processes cooperating

to get certain job done. (a) Intraprocess communication (b)

Interprocess communication (c) multiprocess (d) cooperation

50. Which of the following is not among the common file formats for

graphical images on the web? (a) GIF (b) MPEG (c) JPEG (d) None of

them

BY HASSAN BAGUDO

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

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