PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-76

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

 

Question No : 1

You can ______ a search by providing more information the search engine can use to select a smaller, more useful set of results.

(1) refine

(2) expand

(3) load

(4) query

(5) slowdown

Question No : 2

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

(1) 4

(2) 8

(3) 16

(4) 32

(5) 64

Question No : 3

Keyboards, scanners and microphones are examples of______

(1) software programs

(2) input devices

(3) output devices

(4) utilities

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

In Excel, the contents of the active cell are displayed in the_______

(1) footer bar 

(2) tool bar

(3) task bar

(4) menu bar  

(5) formula bar

Question No : 5

The basic unit of a worksheet into which you enter data in Excel is called a ______

(1) tab

(2) cell

(3) box

(4) range

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

When machine instructions are being executed by a computer, the instruction phase followed by the execution phase is referred to as________

(1) program cycle

(2) machine instruction

(3) execution cycle

(4) task cycle

(5) machine cycle

Question No : 7

In Windows ME, what does ME stand for?

(1) Millennium

(2) Micro-Expert

(3) Macro-Expert

(4) Multi-Expert

(5) My-Expert

Question No : 8

Which is not a basic function of a computer?

(1) Accept and process data 

(2) Accept input

(3) Scan text

(4) Process data

(5) Store data

Question No : 9

Which of the following is not a term pertaining to Email?

(1) power point

(2) inbox

(3) sender

(4) receiver

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

Which of the following is required to create an HTML document?

(1) browser

(2) internet 

(3) text editor

(4) search engine

(5) None of these

Question No : 11

Which of the following is contained on chips connected to the system board and is a holding area for data instructions and information? (processed data waiting to be output to secondary storage)

(1) program

(2) mouse

(3) internet

(4) memory

(5) modern

Question No : 12

Which language is directly under stood by the computer without translation program?

(1) BASIC language  

(2) Machine language

(3) C language

(4) High level language

(5) Assembly language 

Question No : 13

To insert a page break in a WORD document, the following options are used_________

(1) Insert and Copy

(2) Insert and Enter   

(3) Insert and Delete

(4) Insert and page Layout   

(5) Insert and Break

Question No : 14

Which of the following identifies a cell in Excel?

(1) formula

(2) name

(3) label

(4) address

(5) None of these

Question No : 15

The main circuit-board of the system unit is the ______

(1) computer program

(2) control unit 

(3) motherboard

(4) RAM

(5) None of these