PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-15

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

 

Question No : 1

Small application programs that run on web pages and may ensure a form is completed properly or provide animation are known as _____.

(1) Flash

(2) Siders

(3) Cookies

(4) Applets

(5) Sparks

Question No : 2

A pixel is a _____.

(1) picture element of dot on a screen

(2) point of ink on a laser-printed page

(3) point of ink on a ink-jet printed page

(4) light beam used as an input device

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

A symbol or question on the screen that prompts you to take action and tells the computer what to do next________.

(1) scanner

(2) questionnaire

(3) prompt and dialog box

(4) information seeker

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

Oracle is an example of ______ application software.

(1) Database

(2) word processing

(3) project management

(4) presentation graphics

(5) Desktop

Question No : 5

Which of the following is a base of hexadecimal number?

(1) 8

(2) 2

(3) 10

(4) 16

(5) 24

Question No : 6

A scripting language similar to HTML and which runs only on a browser is _____.

(1) FORTRAN

(2) BASIC

(3) FOXPRO

(4) JavaScript

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

In a computer, how many bits does a nibble signify?

(1) 4

(2) 8

(3) 16

(4) 32  

(5) 64

Question No : 8

______acts as temporary high speed holding area between the memory and the CPU thereby improving processing capabilities.

(1) ROM

(2) RAM

(3) Temporary memory

(4) Cache memory

(5) Flash memory

Question No : 9

In half duplex mode _______.

(1) All stations can only transmit the data at a time.

(2) All the stations can only receive the data at a time

(3) All the stations in the network may transmit or receive but at different times

(4) All the stations in the network may transmit or receive at the same time

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

Which of the following refers to restarting the system when it is already powered on?

(1) A strong boot

(2) Hibernation

(3) A cold boot

(4) Standby mode

(5) A warm boot

Question No : 11

Which of the following is not a guided transmission line?

(1) Twisted pair

(2) Coaxial cable

(3) Optical fiber

(4) Laser beam

(5) None of these

Question No : 12

In Excel, a ______ is identified by the cell in the upper-left corner and the cell in the lower-right corner, separated by a colon.

(1) worksheet

(2) value

(3) cell reference

(4) range

(5) None of these

Question No : 13

Disk access times are measured in _____

(1) Minute

(2) Milliseconds

(3) Hours

(4) Seconds

(5) None of these

Question No : 14

Who among the following has invented Java?

(1) James Gosling

(2) Dannis Retchie

(3) Bill Gates

(4) Steve Jobs

(5) None of these

Question No : 15

Appear at the bottom of the Excel Window

(1) Sheet tabs

(2) Name Box

(3) Formula bar

(4) Title bar

(5) None of these