PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-49

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

 

Question No : 1

A (n)_____ is a combination of hardware and software that facilitates the sharing of information between computing devices.

(1) Network

(2) Peripheral

(3) Expansion board

(4) Digital device

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

_____ are devices used to transmit data over telecommunications lines.

(1) Drives

(2) Drives bays

(3) Modems

(4) Platforms

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

All of the following terms are associated with spread sheet software except.

(1) Worksheet

(2) cell

(3) formula

(4) virus detection

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

_____ is a form of permanent memory that holds all the instructions the computer needs to start up does not get erased when the power is turned off.

(1) The CPU

(2) The network interface card (NIC)

(3) RAM

(4) ROM

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

To specify margins in Word, the user has to select Page Setup option from the ___ menu.

(1) Edit

(2) Table

(3) Autocorrect

(4) File

(5) Format

Question No : 6

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

(1) Virtual private network

(2) Internet

(3) Intranet

(4) Extranet

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

Servers are computers that provide resources to the other computers connected to a _____

(1) Network

(2) Mainframe

(3) Super computer

(4) Client

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

What does an electronic spreadsheet consist of? (Choose the best answer)

(1) Rows

(2) Columns

(3) Cells

(4) All of these

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

The name a user assigns to a document is called a(n) _______

(1) File name

(2) Program

(3) Record

(4) Data

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

The name a user assigns to a document is called a(n) _______

(1) File name

(2) Program

(3) Record

(4) Data

(5) None of these

Question No : 11

What are the two types of output devices?

(1) Monitor and printer

(2) Storage disk (floppy, CD)

(3) Keyboard and Mouse

(4) Windows 2000, Windows NT

(5) None of these

Question No : 12

To access properties of an object, the mouse technique to use is

(1) dragging

(2) dropping

(3) right–clicking

(4) shift–clicking

(5) None of these

Question No : 13

Connections to the Internet using a phone line and a modem are called ______ connections.

(1) Digital

(2) Dial -up

(3) Broadband

(4) Dish

(5) Both (2) and (3)

Question No : 14

To access a mainframe or super computer, users often use a _____

(1) Terminal

(2) Node

(3) Desktop

(4) Handheld

(5) None of these

Question No : 15

A flaw in a program that causes it to produce incorrect or in appropriate results is called a _____

(1) Bug

(2) Byte

(3) Attribute

(4) Unit problem

(5) None of these

Question No : 16

Which of the following Excel charts represents only one value for each variable?

(1) function

(2) line

(3) pie

(4) bar

(5) None of these