Basic MCQs of Computer Science (IT) for NTS and PPSC Test

PPSC Computer Science MCQs

1. Mostly which of the following device is used to carry user files?
A. Floppy Disk B. Hard Disk C. RAM D. CDROM

2. Which device is used to backup the data?
A. Floppy Disk B. Tape
C. Network Drive. D. All of the above

3. In order to play and hear sound on a computer, one needs:
A. a sound card and speakers B. a microphone
C. all of them required D. none of them required

4. Which of the following are the cheapest memory devices in terms of Cost/Bit?
A. Semiconductor memories B. Magnetic Disks
C. Compact Disks D. Magnetic Tapes

5. Which of the following are the best units of data on an external storage device?
A. Bits B. Bytes
C. Hertz D. Clock cycles

6. Which of the following have the fastest access time?
A. Semiconductor MemoriesB. Magnetic Disks
C. Magnetic Tapes D. Compact Disks

7. Which of the following is a read only memory storage device?
A. Floppy Disk B. CDROM
C. Hard Disk D. None of these

8. Which of the following is a programming language?
A. Lotus B. Pascal
C. MS-Excel D. Netscape

9. What is a compiler?
A. A compiler does a conversion line by line as the program is run
B. A compiler converts the whole of a higher level program code into machine code in one step
C. A compiler is a general purpose language providing very efficient execution
D. None of the above

10. What is an interpreter?
A. An interpreter does the conversion line by line as the program is run
B. An interpreter is the representation of the system being designed
C. An interpreter is a general purpose language providing very efficient execution
D. None of the above

11. When a key is pressed on the keyboard, which standard is used for converting the keystroke into the corresponding bits?
A. ANSI B. ASCII
C. EBCDIC D. ISO

13. A Pixel is ………
A. A computer program that draws picture
B. A picture stored in secondary memory
C. The smallest resolvable part of a picture
D. None of these

14. Which device is used as the standard pointing device in a Graphical User Environment?
A. Keyboard B. Mouse
C. Joystick D. Track ball

15. Which number system is usually followed in a typical 32-bit computer?
A. 2 B. 10
C. 16 D. 32

16. Which number system is usually followed in a typical 32-bit computer?
A. Binary B. Decimal
C. Hexadecimal D. Octal

17. Which of the following is not an output device?
A. Scanner B. Printer
C. Flat Screen D. Touch Screen

18. Which of the following devices have a limitation that we can only store information to it but cannot erase or modify it?
A. Floppy Disk B. Hard Disk
C. Tape Drive D. CDROM

19. Which technology is used in Compact disks?
A. Mechanical B. Electrical
C. Electro Magnetic D. Laser

20. Which of the following storage devices can store maximum amount of data?
A. Floppy Disk B. Hard Disk
C. Compact Disk D. Magneto Optic Disk

21. Which of the following is the largest manufacturer of Hard Disk Drives?
A. IBM B. Seagate
C. Microsoft D. 3M

22. The program which are as permanent as hardware and stored in ROM is known as
A. Hardware B. Software
C. Firmware D. ROM ware

23. Memory unit is one part of
A. Input device B. Control unit
C. Output device D. Central Processing Unit

24.Who built the first Mechanical Calculator
A. Joseph Marie Jacquard B. John Mauchly
C. Blaise Pascal D. Howard Aiken

25. The earliest calculating devices are
A. Abacus B. Clock
C. Difference Engine D. None of these

26. Punched cards were first introduced by
A. Powers B. Pascal
C. Jacquard D. Herman Hollerith

27. Word length of a Personal Computer is ___
A. 4 bits B. 8 bits
C. 16 bits D. 64 bits

28. Cursor is a ____
A. Pixel B. Thin blinking line
C. Pointing device D. None of these

29. Operating system, editors, and debuggers comes under?
A. System SoftwareB. Application Software
C. Utilities D. None of the above

30. Which device is required for the Internet connection?
A. Joystick B. Modem
C. CD Drive D. NIC Card

31. What does DMA stand for?
A. Distinct Memory Access B. Direct Memory Access
C. Direct Module Access D. Direct Memory Allocation

32. When did John Napier develop logarithm?
A. 1416 B. 1614
C. 1641 D. 1804

33. A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to __________data?
A. 680 KB B. 680 Bytes
C. 680 MB D. 680 GB

34. ATM stands for?
A. Automatic Talking Machine
B. Automatic Teller Machine
C. Analog Teller Machine
D. Automatic Ticketing Machine

35. The Second Generation Computer was based on ………….
A. Vacuum Tube B. Silicon Chips
C. Transistor D. Bio Chips

36. The Third Generation Computer was made with ………….
A. Vacuum Tube B. Discrete Components
C. IC D. Bio Chips

37. The BIOS is the abbreviation of ………….
A. Basic Input Output System B. Best Input Output System
C. Basic Input Output Symbol D. Base Input Output System

38. What do you call a single point on a computer screen
A. Cell B. Element
C. Pixel D. Bit

39. How was the generation of computer classified?
A. by the device used in memory & processor
B. by the speed of computer
C. by the model of the computer
D. by the accuracy of computer

40. Through which device the main components of the computer communicate with each other?
A. Keyboard B. System Bus
C. Monitor D. Memory

41. Which is a valid program to access the Internet?
A. Access B. Front Page
C. Windows Explorer D. Netscape

42. Which one is the Low Level Language?
A. Assembly B. Visual Basic
C. Java D. C++

43. Which is a volatile memory?
A. ROM B. BIOS
C. PROM D. RAM

44. The digital signals can be represented by
A. Binary Codes B. 0 and 1
C. High and Low D. all of the above

45. Which program can be used for email?
A. Internet Explorer B. Outlook Express
C. NetMeeting D. FrontPage

46. Modulator-demodulator is a device that converts:
A. Digital signal into analog signal
B. Analog signal into digital signal
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above

47. _______ is used for scanning the pictures and putting them in digitized form in the computer.
A. CD-ROM B. Plotter
C. Bar-coder D. Scanner

48. Animator, 3D Studio, Corel Draw and Flash are………….
A. Word processors B. Spreadsheet packages
C. Multimedia S/W D. None of the above

49. Which statement is valid?
A. 1 KB = 8 bytes B. 1 MB = 8 KB
C. 1 KB = 1024 bytesD. 1 MB = 1024 bytes

50. Which device is used to process data?
A. CPU B. RAM
C. DCU D. VDU

51. Who is known as the father of Computer Science?
A. Charles BabbageB. Howard Aiken
C. Dr. Herman Hollerith D. Blaise Pascal

52. What is the capacity of a 3.5” Floppy Disk?
A. 360KB B. 720KB
C. 1.2MB D. 1.44MB

53. A Personal Computer (PC) is a …………….. Computer.
A. Super B. Main Frame
C. Mini D. Micro

54. What type of printers are Dot Matrix Printers?
A. Laser B. Inkjet
C. Impact D. Drum

55. What is the full form of RAM?
A. Read Access Memory B. Random Access Memory
C. Rapid access Memory D. none

Writing Across Borders



Penn Students: I still have a few seats available in my Writing Across Borders class that meets on Wednesdays from 2 until 5 in Kelly Writers House (upstairs in room 203). Feel free to join the class.





Writing Across Borders, English 127.301




Butterflies and
hurricanes pay no heed to borders, but humans will risk their lives to cross
them, build walls to mark

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PPSC Labour Officer (BS-16) Test: 14 Jan 18

1. Khilafat Movement ended in: 1924 
2. Cave Squeaker found in: Zimbabwe 
3. Interpol HQ: Lyon, France 
4. Cheif Selector: Inzimamul Haq 
5. Eye donation part: Cornea
6. Nile runs through: Cairo
7. Olympics in Africa to date: Zero
8. Malala Yousufzai: UN Ambassador of Peace
9. Sharmeen's second Oscar on: A Girl in the River
10. Cricket bats made of: Willow
11. Badshahi Mosque built by: Aurangzeb
12. First census in Pak: 1951
13. PM elected by: National Assembly
14. Satpara Lake in: Skardu
15. Gestapo Secret Police: Germany
16. Blind WC win Pakistan: 2
17. Baseball ground called: Diamond
18. Watergate Scandal: Richard Nixon
19. First Satellite by USA: Discovery
20. Election under 1973 constitution: 1977
21. Bradlaugh Hall: Lahore
22. LINUX is: Operating System
23. Google founders: Larry & Sergey
24. Brojen Das: first Asian to swim across the English Channel
25. Modem: Digital signals
26. Closes to Sun: Mercury
27. PNG: Related to Image
28. Hyperlink: A link new/different document
29. Printer: Dots Per Inch (All of these)
30. State to join Pakistan first: Bahawalpur
31. Q.A Solar park: Bahawalpur
32. Largest district in Punjab by area: Bahawalpur
33. First Nuclear P-Plant: Karachi
34: Mouse: Input device
35. A friend in need is a friend: Indeed
35: Suffering: from
35: Happy: On their coming
36. Helsinki: Finland's capital 
37. Lord Mountbatten preceded by: Lord Wavel
38. Safa-Marwa rounds: 7 times 
39. Hazrat Amina (R.A) buried in: Al-Abwah
40. Battle of Bad'r fought in: Ramadan
41: Islamic Year: 1439 
42. 7th month of Islamic Calender: Rajab
43. 1st Chief Justice of Pakistan: Abdul Rashid
44. Iqbal's first poetic book: Bang-e-Dara
45. Hujjat-al-wida given in: 632 AD
46. Hayat-e-Javed: Sir Sayyad Ahmad Khan
47. Alally Ta'lally: Aish Karna
48. Antonym of 'Haq': Batil
49. Agar Tou Main Karachi Gya.... . 
50. Black & White meas: In written form
-Who was Viceroy of British India before Mountbatten? Lord Wavel
-How many Olympics have been held in Africa? Zero
-Old Name of Sukkur Barrage? Lloyd Barrage
-Satpara lake is located in? Gilgit
-Khilafat Movement was ended in? 1924
-I which month of 1974, Pakistan recognized Bangladesh?
-Who is the chief selector of Pak Cricket team? Inzamam-ul-Haq
-who is author of the book " jinnah of Pakistan"? Stanely Wolpert
-"hayat e Javaid" is about which personality? Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
-Comrade Newspaper founder? Moulan Muhammad Ali Johar
-Pakistan Oldest english daily newspaper? Dawn
-General Elections were held after 1973 Constitution? 1977
-Mouse is what kind of device? Input
-What is Linux? Operating System
-What is Hyperlink? A link to next document
-Iqbal First urdu poetry book? Arghmanay Hijaz
-"Teri surat se hai aalam main baharon ko sabaat" Poet? Faiz Ahmad Faiz
-First Woman PM is from which country? Srilanka
-7th month of Islamic Calendar? Rajab
-How many Times Mother of Prophet Ismaeel ran between saffa and Marwa? 7
-Mother of Prophet (PBUH) is buried in which city? Al-Abwa
-Badr was fought in month of ? Ramzan
-Base ball is played in? Diamond
-OF which wood Cricket Bat are made? Willow
-He is suffering ------- cancer? From
-Synonym of Vibrant??
-Synonym of Industrious? Hardworking
-Antonym of virtue? Vice
-SHO is abbreviation of? Station House Officer
"Tu-tee e hind" is ? Ameer Khosro
-"Madamme" museum is in? London
-Biggest source of oxygen? Trees
-Ornithology is study of? Birds
-Etymology is study of? Insects
-ChoreoGraphy is study of? Dancing Steps

PPSC Labour Inspector Paper 14-01-18

PPSC

1. Ran of kutch in south of Tharparkar
2. Don’t judge a book by its cover
3. There is no reason which anyone should behave cruely
4. His refusal is tantamount 
5. Deplete anotnym Replenish
6. Pakistan permananat enovy to UN was Patras Bukhari
7. First commander Gen. Tikka khan
8. Gover General after Khawaja Nizamudin Ghulam Muhammad
9. Sidhnai headworks on Chenab river
10. 14 points against Nehru report
11. Comrade M.M Ali Johar
12. Myth of independence by Z.A Bhutto
13. A tale of two cities by Charles dickens
14. Species theory by Darwin
15. ILO was before World War 2
16. Pakistan join ILO in 1947
17. One unit in 1955
18. WTO in Geneva
19. Kannup by the assistance of canda in Karachi
20. First IG Punjab Qurban Ali Khan
21. First radio after independence was setup in Karachi
22. Greenwhich is in England
23. Greenwich watch is in London
24. UK based on 2 party system
25. Indian wins freedom by Abul Kalam Azad
26. Zakat enforced by Hazrat AbuBakar
27. Battle of ohad by Abu Sufyan
28. Hajj obligatory 9 AH
29. Name Ahmad in Surah Al-saff
30. Word founding is used by Find/replace
31. Data transfer in computer by Bus
32. Windwos 2000 is operating system
33. Devices instruction by device driver
34. Internal strorage RAM
35. Ram stands for Random Access Memeory
36. Key depression by keyboard
37. Which flag half mast Saudia Arabia
38. Wall street famous for business and account 
39. 100 wickets taken by Sana Mir
40. Ricky pointing belong to Australian team
41. Home used for beginning of document
42. Turb mean Khushi
43. Do as roman do , Jaisa dais waisa bhais
44. Baghal main churi moun main ram ram
45. One question of math answer was 10 
46. One answer was 1
47. Series question 1 answer was 80
48. 1 math question that answer was 700
49. Indus originates from Tibet
50. Quite india movement by Gandhi
51. One math series question which answer was W
52. Largest bone femur
53. Goiter due to Iodine
54. Last caretake Mir hazar Khan Khoso
55. Blind man wifes need no Paint

PMS General Knowledge Paper 2018

PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

PMS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PAPER 2018

QUESTIONS: 100                             NEGATIVE MARKING: 0.5   TIME: 90 MINUTES

PPSC PMS 2018

1: International dateline passes through: Bering Strait 2. Berring strait between Russia and: USA 3. Communist Manifesto language: German 4. Personality died in St. Helena: Napoleon 5. Malabar is old name of:------------ 6. Rakhan Ghulaman: --------------- 7. Shortest day in Australia: June 21 8. Writer of wealth of nations: Adam Smith 9. Average Weight of heart: 300 grams 10. Vitamin in Guava: C 11. Ascorbic acid: Vitamin C 12. Patella is part of: ---------- 13. Oldest living city: Damascus 14. Ruins of Gandhara in: Pakistan 15. Wife of bill gates: Melinda 16. Statue of liberty gifted by: France 17. Among seven wonders of the world: Light Tower Alexandria 18. War and Peace author: Tolstoy 19. Opium war between Eng and: China 20. Boston tea party: 1773 21. Heredity disease:Haemophilia 22. Not a virus disease: Typhoid 23. Oliver laurance's field : Actor 24. x+y+(x-y)=: 56 25. A does work in 30 min, B in 20 min. Together they take: 12 min 26. Mount adam is in: Sri Lanka 27. Aab e hayat written by: M. Hussain Aazd 28. Kofi anan belong to: Ghana 29: Sharamul sheikh is in: Egypt 30: Koh toor location: Sinai 31: Location koh e judi: Turkey 32: Bonebreak fever: Dengue 33:Second largest oil producing country: KSA 34:Oldest monarchy: Japan 35Largest barrage in Pak: Sukkur 36:Neutron discovered by: Chadwick 37:Moderator in reactor is: Heavy water 38:National bird of Pak: Chakor 39:Name of bomb of hiroshima: Little boy 40:Silicon valley is in: California,USA 41:1 gram is= 1000 mg 42:Copper reservoir in balochistan dist : Chaghi 43:Normandy is in: France 44:Ram stands for: Random Access Memory 45:One yard equal to= 0.91 m 46:One inch = 2.54 cm 47:Plato is ______ of Aristotle: Teacher 48:1969 induction of which field in noble prize: Economics 49:Physics first noble prize: Roentegen 50:Length of Siachen glacier: 47 miles 51:K2 height: 8611 m 52:Accra is the capital city of: Ghana 53:Cylon changed name in: 1972 54:Lira is the currency of: Italy 55:Enzyme for starch: Ptyalin 56. Deepest lake: Baikal 57:Largest freshwater lake: Superior 58:Treaty of Severes signed in: 1920 59:Mustafa Pasha abolished Khilafat in: 1924 60:Hottest planet: Venus 61:Anemia is: Memory Loss 62:URL stands for: Universal Resource Locator 63:Jupiter's size as compared with Earth: 11 times 64:Hubsha is the old name of: Ethiopia 65:Quaid joined Muslim league in: 1913 66:Annulment of Partition of Bengal: 1911 67:Jilliaan Wala Bagh took place in: 1919 68:Jilliaan Bagh situated in: Amritsar 69:Printing machine invented by: Guttenburg 70:Ct scan stands for: Computed Tomography 71:Shape of milky way: Spiral 72:5x-15=50, x= 13 73:Mouse invented by: Douglas Englebert 74:Working boundary: between Pak and Indian Occupied Kashmir 75:'Caries' disease is about: ? 76:Hurricane in Septmeber: Irma 77:Rohingya muslims in which state: Rakhine 78:Old name of Congo: Zaire 79:Old name of Ghana: Gold Coast 80:Pride and Prejudice written by: Jane Austin 81:Blackpool is: ? 82: What starts with "We the people of United Nations": UN Charter 83: Cholera caused by: None of these (it is Spiral, not Cocci) 84: Father of Homeopathy: Hahnmann 85: Seats in first constituent assembly increased from 69 to: 79 86:Conversations with myself written by 87: Number of failed students: 54 88: Intelligence agency of Afghanistan: Khad 89: Katas Raj fort in: Chakwal 90: Kachura lake in: Gilgit 91: 1 btu= 1055 Joules 92: Mount Ural in: Russia 93: Number of states in Undivided India: 565 94: Disorder of extreme mood swings: Bipolar Disorder 95: Hujjat ullah Baligha written by: Shah Waliullah 96: Ahmad Khan Kharal town: ? 97: Liquifued natural Gas (LNG) 98: Anemia is lake of iron 99: Plants emit oxygen in the process of photosynthesis. 100: Nepal State Religion = Hinduism

What I'm Reading Now: Library of Small Happiness by Leslie Ullman

Upon Finding the Muse between 186 Pages of Essays and Exercises:

Striking the Flint with Leslie Ullman

  ISBN: 978-0997201123

https://3taospress.com/authors/leslie-ullman/

Nearly a decade ago, in the midst of my favorite pastime (lollygagging on the Internet exploring Deep Image poetry), I happened upon an article by the poet Leslie Ullman. Why, I wondered, had I not known about this poet before now?  A quick search led to my immediate purchase of her 1998 publication, Slow Work through Sand followed by her three other books of poetry Natural Histories, Dreams by No One�s Daughter, and Progress on the Subject of Immensity.

I began what would become a gapped but enriching e-mail correspondence with Ullman over the next nine years and when �Library of Small Happiness� was released in 2017, its wide, creative net led to pages of annotations and margin notes spurring me into a new journal of my own writing.

The book itself is divided into two parts. Part I consists of seven essays on poets, poetry, and craft, and Part II contains a series of poetry writing exercises (which I soon found could be applied to any genre), notes on revision, and a brief section of references. I wondered; however, why the Preface, titled, �The Essay that Failed,� had not been included in the table of contents because it was there that I had to start taking notes � had to pull books from my shelves and answer Ullman�s question, �What is happening to me through [the poem]?� The preface and this initial question set the tone for the reader�s shift in perspective: both the Library of Small Happiness and the poem are interactive entities. Ullman emphasizes this on page 13 when she writes, �This book� [is a] collaboration between imagination and the written word.�

Upon reading the first essay, �A �Dark Star� Passes Through It,� I noted that Ullman does not position herself as the authority on craft and writing but rather a journeywoman. Instead, she acknowledges the theories and strategies of her own teachers, favorite writers and artists, and mentors. This holds true for the entirety of the book. I was a bit dubious at first; Ullman, a prolific writer, served as Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Texas-El Paso, currently teaches at the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts, and is a manuscript consultant. Why not take a more commanding stance?

The answer revealed itself with almost every annotation � what she values most are relationships and shared insights with both poetry and people. The following journal entry from my own notes provides an early summary: �[Ullman] concedes she is not (does not claim) she is unearthing new discoveries in terms of critical theory regarding reader experience, but not since Oliver�s Rules for the Dance have I held a stack of poems to the light of a craft book, and not since swooning over Hugo�s The Triggering Town have I so eagerly carved out blocks of time to write�Her holistic rubric provides the how of explication. Energy explication.�

As one moves through the remaining essays, it is easy to settle into the author�s rhythm of theory and example. In fact, the abundance of craft-centered theories and explanations followed by examples from authors such as Kenyon, Gilbert, Stafford, and Levertov (among many others) is precisely what makes Library of Small Happiness a book which mentors as it educates.  In the essay, �The �Personal� Poem as Sacred Space,� the reader gets the sense that Ullman is on the poet�s side as a matter of principle. It is also here that she segues from the poem�s landscape (my margin note read ��the internal grip of awe�) to the poet�s internal landscape. On page 65 Ullman writes, �The work I�m about to discuss�renders intensely personal insights�by means of an unspoken, redeeming humility, a willingness simply to bear witness and settle into a certain degree of irresolution rather than a need to clarify for conclude.� The author understands the poet�s mantra � the world contains and evokes wonder, and Library of Small Happiness celebrates all who remain open.

As much as we sometimes wish it so, the poet does not exist in a vacuum. Ullman celebrates this, too, as she calls upon artists, psychologists, and mathematicians to assist in our journey throughout the creative process.  Each essay, for me, was an open but cupped palm where one could either burrow in the fleshy promises surrounding the heart and life lines and write about that experience or drop anchor and follow the author�s Venn Diagram of interconnected discourse between the disciplines. 

Library offers five sections of writing exercises that address (among other strategies) inversion, tension, persona, borrowing lines, juxtaposition, and reconciliation with the self. 

You�re going to want to grab a new journal. Another new journal. As I worked my way through the exercises, I encountered the sensation I can only describe as what one must feel when a ghost or energy from another dimension is occupying the exact same spot one is currently occupying. Except in this case, I was both the three dimensional writer and the other-worldly energy. Perhaps this is because Library of Small Happiness had me writing long before I reached Part II.

Yours with pen in hand,

JoAnn LoVerde-Dropp   

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