Computer Questions
1. In Excel, you can use a function to combine text from
two cells into one cell. But you can use an operator
to do the same thing. Which operator is that?
(a) & (ampersan
(b) = (equal sign)
(c) (space)
(d) All of the above
(e) All of the above
2. The screen that shows all the icons when you turn on
your computer th
(a) Desktop
(b) Face to face
(c) Viewer
(d) View space
(e) None of these
3. Retrieval of information from a computer is called:
(a) Output
(b) Input
(c) Data
(d) Information
(e) Processing
4. If in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify the address
in a RAM, the number of addresses will be
(a) 216
(b) 65,536
(c) 64K
(d) 128K
(e) 35K
5. A dot-matrix printer-
(a) is an input-output device
(b) is an output device only
(c) is an input device only
(d) only 2 & 3
(e) None of these
6. Excel is a collection of
(a) Workbook
(b) Worksheets
(c) Graphs
(d) Charts
(e) None of the above
7. A credit-card-sized expansion board that is inserted
into portable computers that connect the modem
to the telephone wall jack is:
(a) Internal Modem
(b) External modem
(c) PC Card Modem
(d) Wireless modem
(e) Wired modem
8. Which file format can be added to a PowerPoint
show?
(a) .jpg
(b) .giv
(c) .wav
(d) All of the above
(e) All of the above
9. Where is the disk put in a computer?
(a) in the modem
(b) in the hard drive
(c) into the CPU
(d) in the disk drive
(e) None of these
10. In the Windows operating system to minimize all of the
windows
(a) Windows Logo
(b) Windows Logo +BREAK
(c) WindowsLogo+D
(d) WindowsLogo+M
(e) All of the above
11. ASCII-8 is
(a) An extended version ofASCIl-7
(b) Is an 8-bit code
(c) Both A & Bare true
(d) Both A & Bare false
(e) All of the above
12. In Microsoft PowerPoint, the following will not
advance the slides in a slide show view
(a) Esc key
(b) The spacebar
(c) The Enter key
(d) The mouse button
(e) All of the above
13. InWindows operating system when you delete a file
or folder, it doesn’t actually get deleted right away,
it goes to them ————.
(a) Recycle Bin
(b) Dust Bin
(c) Cycle Bin
(d) None of these
(e) All of the above
14. Process of finding/ correcting program errors is
(a) Bugs
(b) Debugging
(c) Hacking
(d) Cracking
(e) All of the above
15. The first layer in the OSI reference model is
(a) Network
(b) Physical
(c) Application
(d) Data link
(e) None of these
16. Fax machines and imaging systems are examples of
(a) bar-code readers
(b) imaging systems
(c) scanning devices
(d) pen-based systems
(e) None of these
17. The smallest storage unit in a computer is...
(a) Nibble
(b) Byte
(c) Bit
(d) Word
(e) None of these
18. Excel uses the .... Function when creating a data
table
(a) Average
(b) Count
(c) Sum
(d) Table
(e) All of the above
19. To avoid the wastage of memory, the instruction
length should be
(a) Multiple of character size only
(b) Of word size only
(c) Of file size only
(d) Of word size which is multiple of character size
(e) None of these
20. In a slide presentation, a typical slide does not have
(a) Photo images, charts, graphs
(b) Clip arts
(c) Audio Clips
(d) Content
(e) Full motion video
21. Which process checks to ensure the components of the computer is operating and connected properly?
(a) Booting
(b) Processing
(c) Saving
(d) Editing
(e) None of these
22. In addition to keying data directly into a database,
data entry can be done from a(n)
(a) input form
(b) table
(c) field
(d) data dictionary
(e) None of these
23. Computer output which is displayed on the screen
of a terminal without a permanent copy is called
(a) Soft copy
(b) Hardcopy
(c) Hardware
(d) None of these
(e) All of the above
24. What term is used for the occurrence of values for
data elements more than once?
(a) Concurrency
(b) Redundancy
(c) Enumeration
(d) Iteration
(e) None of these
25. Which of the following is specially designed
computer chips that reside inside other devices,
such as your car or your electronic thermostat etc.?
(a) Robotic computers
(b) Mainframe computers
(c) Embedded computers
(d) Peripheral computers
(e) None of these
26. In, a file is transferred from another
computer to your computer.
(a) Copy
(b) Upload
(c) Download
(d) Upgrade
(e) RSS
27. You can protect a floppy disk.
(a) Read
(b) Read and Write
(c) Write
(d) All of the above
(e) None of these
28. is responsible for overall control and co-
ordination of instruction execution.
(a) CPU
(b) ALU
(c) RAM
(d) Control UNIT
(e) Noneofthese
29. Which of the following memory can be erased using
Ultra Violet Rays?
(a) RAM
(b) ROM
(c) PROM
(d) EPROM
(e) EEPROM
30. In Excel, this function converts miles to kilometres,
kilograms to pounds, and so on
(a) Convert
(b) Product
(c) Change
(d) All of the above
(e) All of the above
31. Which of the following terms is associated with the
computers processing speed?
(a) MIPS(Million Instruction PerSecond)
(b) FCFS
(c) MPEG
(d) TIFF
(e) None of these
32. Following is true bandwidth
(a) The wider the bandwidth of a communications system the more data it can transmit in a given period of time.
(b) The narrow the bandwidth of a communications system the more data it can transmit in a given period of time.
(c) The wider the bandwidth of a communications system the less data it can transmit in a given period of time.
(d) None is true
(e) All of the above
