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(1)
____________ refer to renewing or changing components like increasing the main memory, or hard disk capacities, or adding speakers, or modems, etc.
[A]
Upgrades
[B]
Grades
[C]
Prosody
[D]
Synthesis
(2)
Which of the following is designed to control the operations of a computer?
[A]
System Software
[B]
Utility Software
[C]
Application Software
[D]
User
(3)
Which of the following is not an example of system software?
[A]
Word Processors
[B]
Language Translator
[C]
Utility Software
[D]
Communication Software
(4)
A person who designs the programs in a software package is called :
[A]
System Programmer
[B]
System Developer
[C]
User
[D]
Software Manager
Answer: System Programmer
(5)
___________________ is designed to solve a specific problem or to do a specific task.
[A]
System Software
[B]
Utility Software
[C]
User
[D]
Application Software
Answer: Application Software
(6)
___________________ is designed to solve a specific problem or to do a specific task.
[A]
System Software
[B]
Utility Software
[C]
User
[D]
Application Software
Answer: Application Software
(7)
Which of the following is not a process state?
[A]
Blocked
[B]
Terminated
[C]
Running
[D]
Execution
(8)
Which of the following is not a feature of compiler ?
[A]
Execution time is more
[B]
When all the syntax errors are removed execution takes place
[C]
Scans the entire program first and then translate it into machine code
[D]
slow for debugging
Answer: Execution time is more
(9)
Producer consumer problem can be solved using ?
[A]
monitors
[B]
semaphores
[C]
event counters
[D]
All of above
(10)
Which of the following system software resides in main memory always ?
[A]
Loader
[B]
Linker
[C]
Text editor
[D]
Assembler
(11)
An example of intermediate language is ?
[A]
UNCOL
[B]
SNOBOL
[C]
COBOL
[D]
PASCAL
(12)
The linker ?
[A]
is required to create a load module
[B]
is always used before programs are executed
[C]
is same as the loader
[D]
None of above
Answer: is required to create a load module
(13)
Parsing is also known as ?
[A]
Syntax analysis
[B]
Lexical analysis
[C]
Semantic analysis
[D]
None Of The Above
(14)
What do you call a program in execution?
[A]
Process
[B]
Task
[C]
Command
[D]
Instruction
(15)
The physical devices of a computer :
[A]
Hardware
[B]
Software
[C]
Package
[D]
System Software
(16)
Assembler is used as a translator for?
[A]
High Level Language
[B]
COBOL
[C]
C
[D]
Low level language
Answer: Low level language
(17)
Predictive parsers can be ?
[A]
Constructive
[B]
Recursive
[C]
Non recursive
[D]
Both A and B
(18)
Bottom up parsing involves ?
[A]
shift reduce
[B]
Handle pruning
[C]
Operator check
[D]
A & B
(19)
In a two pass assembler the object code generation is done during the ?
[A]
First pass
[B]
Zeroeth pass
[C]
Second pass
[D]
none of the above
(20)
A programming language is to be designed to run on a machine that does not have a big memory. The language should ?
[A]
prefer a 2 pass compiler to a 1 pass compiler
[B]
prefer an interpreter to a compiler
[C]
Not support recursion
[D]
All above
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