50 Computer Awareness MCQs - Quiz 8

 50 Computer Awareness MCQs - Quiz 8

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1) -----is a small portable flash memory card that plugs into acomputer usb port and function as a portable hard drive
A) DVD-ROM
B) Flash drive
C) CD-ROM
D) CD-RW
Answer: B) Flash drive

2) One Gigabyte = ? 
A) 1000 bytes
B) 10002 bytes
C) 10003 bytes
D) 10004 bytes
Answer: C) 10003 bytes

3) Which computer language is used for artificial intelligence?
A) Java
B) Dot Net
C) C#
D) Python
Answer: D) Python

4) A serial port can
A) only transfer information from a hard drive
B) only transfer information to a hard drive
C) transfer information both to and from a hard drive
D) neither transfer information from nor to a hard drive
Answer: C) transfer information both to and from a hard drive

5) What is the full form of JPEG?
A) Joint Photographic Experts Group
B) Joint Protocol Experts Graphics.
C) Joint Programming Experts Graphics
D) Joint Project Experts Group
Answer: A) Joint Photographic Experts Group

6) In Microsoft Word, under character formatting ___________ decides the appearance of our characters.
A) Size
B) Underline
C) Effects
D) Font
Answer: D) Font

7) Which of the following virus overtake computer system, when it boots and destroy information  ? 
A) System infectors
B) Trojan
C) Stealth virus
D) Boot infectors
Answer: C) Stealth virus

8) In HTML, ______________ attribute specifies a set of controls that are linked so that only one radio button among each set is selected at a time.
A) TYPE="TEXT"
B) TYPE="PASSWORD"
C) TYPE="RADIO"
D) TYPE="CHECKBOX"
Answer: C) TYPE="RADIO"

9) Which company developed 'Swift' Programming Language?
A) Google
B) Microsoft
C) Facebook
D) Apple
Answer: D) Apple

10) When was Safari first released by Apple?
A) 1998
B) 2003
C) 2002
D) 2001
Answer: B) 2003

11) First page of website is termed as
A) Index
B) Home page
C) JAVA Script
D) Bookmark page
Answer: B) Home page

12) The two  types of output devices are
A) Monitor and Printer
B) Floppy disc and CD
C) Keyboard and Mouse
D) None of these
Answer: A) Monitor and Printer

13) You can group noncontiguous worksheets with
A) The alt+enter key
B) The group button on the standard toolbar
C) The ctrl key and mouse
D) The shift key and the mouse
Answer: C) The ctrl key and mouse

14) The size of yes no field is always
A) 1 byte
B) 1 character
C) 1GB
D) 1 bit
Answer: D) 1 bit

15) A UPS connects your computer and a power source.
A) TRUE
B) FALSE
Answer: A) TRUE

16) Which of the following is a volatile memory of a computer?
A) Secondary Memory
B) Cache memory
C) RAM
D) ROM
Answer: C) RAM

17) Which of these is not a means of personal communication on the internet  ?
A) Instant messaging
B) Chat
C) Electronic mail
D) Instanotes
Answer: D) Instanotes

18) INI extension refers usually to what kind of file?
A) System file
B) Image Color Matching Profile file
C) Hypertext related file
D) Image file
Answer: A) System file

19) In computer short cut keys, F4 key is used to
A) To display the items in the active list
B) To display help
C) To display system properties dialog box
D) To display desktop
Answer: A) To display the items in the active list

20) A compact disc is a data storage of the type
A) Optical
B) Mechanical
C) Eclectric
D) Magnetic
Answer: A) Optical

21) In Microsoft Word, ____________ can be used to decide on the spacing between lines of a paragraph.
A) Alignment
B) Effects
C) Indentation
D) Line spacing
Answer: D) Line spacing

22) MS-EXCEL is based on
A) OS/2
B) UNIX
C) WINDOWS
D) DOS
Answer: C) WINDOWS

23) A computer program consists of
A) flowchart
B) algorithm
C) logical steps
D) All of the above
Answer: B) algorithm

24) Secondary storage ________
A) does not require constant power
B) does not use magnetic media
C) consists of four main types of devices
D) does not store information for later retrieval
Answer: A) does not require constant power

25) The popular Access Method for computer network is
A) Ethernet
B) Token Ring
C) Bus Token
D) None
Answer: B) Token Ring

26) Documentation of computer programs is impograms is important so that ________
A) users can learn how to use the program
B) other programmers can know how to maintain the program
C) the programer can see why the code is written that way while hunting for sources of error
D) all of above
Answer: D) all of above

27) Hardware devices that are not part of the main computer system and are often added later to the system are ________
A) clip art
B) highlight
C) execute
D) peripherals
Answer: D) peripherals

28) In computers, what does
A) Versions of Mac OS X
B) Types of Storage servers
C) Macintosh Clones
D) PowerBooks
Answer: A) Versions of Mac OS X

29) The F7 key is commonly used in Microsoft programs such as Microsoft Word, Outlook, etc. for
A) renaming files and folders
B) searching content in various apps
C) checking spellings and grammar
D) opening help
Answer: C) checking spellings and grammar

30) __________ involves traversing the entire file system, marking everything that can be accessed.
A) Index pointer
B) Garbage collection
C) File system
D) Stack pointer
Answer: B) Garbage collection

31) Software designed for a specific purpose is called as
A) System software
B) Application software
C) Specific software
D) None of the above
Answer: B) Application software

32) In IT networking, which of the following device is used in physical layer?
A) Repeater
B) Router
C) Transport Gateway
D) Bridge
Answer: A) Repeater

33) CPU speed is measured in

A. GigaBytes

B. gigahertz

C. Both A & B

D. None of these

Answer: B) gigahertz

34) A huge network of millions of computer networks constitutes the ___________
A) Internet
B) Satellites
C) Electronic device
D) e-mail
Answer: A) Internet

35) In order to e-mail a Word document from within Word _______ 
A) Go to file/Send To/Mail Recipient
B) Save the file as an e-mail attachment
C) Start outlook and attach the file while open in word
D) This is an impossible operation
Answer: A) Go to file/Send To/Mail Recipient

36) __________ is a type of computing that performs computation, storage and even applications as a service across a network.
A) Cloud Computing
B) Distributed Computing
C) Parallel Computing
D) Virtual Computing
Answer: A) Cloud Computing

37) Which generation of computer is still under development?
A) 5th
B) 4th
C) 3rd
D) 2nd
Answer: A) 5th

38) The primary tool used in structured design is a
A) module
B) structure chart
C) program flowchart
D) data-flow diagram
Answer: B) structure chart

39) MS-Excel is an integral component of ____________.
A) MS-Office
B) MS-Word
C) Gnome Office
D) Koffice
Answer: A) MS-Office

40) Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT are known as what?
A) Processor
B) domain names
C) modems
D) operating systems
Answer: D) operating systems

41) What is the name of the first Super Computer of the world?
A) CDC 6600
B) USENET
C) COMODOR VIC/20
D) PARAM-10000
Answer: A) CDC 6600

42) The speed of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) is measured in_________, which represents a CPU cycle.
A) Terabyte (TB)
B) Hertz (Hz)
C) Gigabyte (GB)
D) Kilobyte (KB)
Answer: B) Hertz (Hz)

43) What could cause a Fixed Disk Error?
A) Slow Processor Speed
B) RAM Space
C) Incorrect CMOS Settings
D) None
Answer: C) Incorrect CMOS Settings

44) A word processor would most likely be used to do
A) do a computer search in media center
B) type a biography
C) keep an account of money spent
D) maintain an inventory
Answer: B) type a biography

45) Symbolic logic was discovered by ___________
A) Herman Hollerith
B) Vonn Neumann
C) George Boole
D) Sun Microsystem
Answer: C) George Boole

46) Netscape Navigator is a _____.
A) graphical user interface
B) programming language
C) web browser
D) processor
Answer: C) web browser

47) Which of the following are advantage of CD-ROM as a storage media?
A) CD-ROM is an inexpensive way to store large amount of data and information
B) CD-ROM disks retrieve data and information more quickly than magnetic disks do
C) CD-ROMS make less errors than magnetic media
D) All of these
Answer: A) CD-ROM is an inexpensive way to store large amount of data and information

48) The process when the computer is switched on and the operating system gets loaded from hard disk to main memory is called
A) Booting
B) Fetching
C) Processing
D) Multi-Processing
Answer: A) Booting

49) Commonly used abbreviation
A) Operating System
B) Operating Search
C) Optimization System
D) Optimization Search
Answer: A) Operating System

50) A computer language that expresses the presentation of structured documents, such as CSS, is called _____.
A) Command Language
B) Machine Language
C) Markup Language
D) Style Sheet Language
Answer: D) Style Sheet Language

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