PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-31

Direction (Qs.1-15): Study the following questions carefully and choose your answer from the given five options.

 

Question No : 1

The most common input devices include ________

(1) Monitor and keyboard

(2) Monitor and mouse

(3) Printer and mouse

(4) Mouse and keyboard

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

WWW means ______

(1) World Wide Wonder

(2) World Wide Wizard

(3) Wide World Web

(4) World Wide Web

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

The hardware device commonly referred to as the “brain” of the computer is the ______

(1) RAM chip

(2) data input

(3) CPU

(4) ROM chip

(5) secondary storage

Question No : 4

A desktop computer is also known as a ________

(1) Palm Pilot

(2) PC

(3) laptop

(4) mainframe

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

Which of the following terms is just the connection of networks that can be joined together?

(1) Virtual private network

(2) Internet

(3) Intranet

(4) Extranet

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

If you do not want to select any option after opening a menu then click menu title again or press key ___ to close the menu.

(1) Shift

(2) Tab

(3) Escape

(4) F1

(5) None of these

 

Question No : 7

The software tools that enable a user to interact with a computer for specific purpose are known as ______.

(1) Hardware

(2) Networked Software

(3) Shareware

(4) Applications

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

A ______ shares hardware, software, and data among authorized users.

(1) network

(2) protocol

(3) hyperlink

(4) transmitter

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

Computer programs are written in a high-level programming language; however, the human-readable; version of a program is called ______

(1) cache

(2) instruction set

(3) source code

(4) word size

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

In word processing, an efficient way to move the 3rd paragraph to place it after the 5th paragraph is _______

(1) copy and paste

(2) copy, cut and paste

(3) cut and paste

(4) cut, copy and paste

(5) None of these

Question No : 11

Which of the following is not a function of the control unit?

(1) Read instructions

(2) Execute instructions

(3) Direct operations

(4) Interpret instructions

(5) None of these

Question No : 12

Software for organizing storage and retrieval of information is a(n) _____

(1) operating system

(2) database program

(3) database

(4) data warehouse

(5) None of these

Question No : 13

A set of step-by-step procedures for accomplishing a task is known as a(n) ______

(1) algorithm

(2) hardware program

(3) software bug

(4) firmware program

(5) None of these

Question No : 14

______ modify the input of other keys.

(1) Alphanumeric keys

(2) Modifier keys

(3) Function keys

(4) Numeric keypad

(5) None of these

Question No : 15

The main directory of a disk is called the directory.

(1) root

(2) sub

(3) folder

(4) network

(5) None of these