PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-89

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

 

Question No : 1

What is the name given to those applications that combine text, sound, graphics, motion video, and/or animation?

(1) motionware

(2) anigraphics

(3) videocapes

(4) multimedia

(5) maxomedia

Question No : 2

A USB communication device that supports data encryption for secure wireless communication for notebook users is called a ____

(1) USB wireless network adapter

(2) wireless switch

(3) router

(4) wireless hub

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

A (n) ______ language reflects the way people think mathematically.

(1) cross-platform programming

(2) 3GL business programming

(3) functional

(4) event-driven programming

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

When entering text within a documents, the Enter key is normally pressed at the end of every __

(1) Line

(2) Sentence

(3) Paragraph

(4) Word

(5) File

Question No : 5

When a real-time telephone call between people is made over the Internet using computers, it is called ____

(1)  a chat session

(2) an instant message

(3) an e-mail

(4) Internet telephony

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

Which of the following software could assist someone who cannot use their hands for computer input?

(1) Video conferencing

(2) Speech recognition

(3) Audio digitizer

(4) Synthesizer

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

____ a document means the file is transferred from another computer to your computer.

(1) Uploading

(2) Downloading

(3) Upgrading

(4) Accessing 

(5) Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

Question No : 8

Computers that control processes accept data in continuous ____

(1) data traffic pattern

(2) data highway

(3) infinite loop

(4) feedback loop

(5) slot

Question No : 9

What refers to a set of characters of a particular design?

(1) keyface

(2) formation 

(3) calligraphy

(4) stencil

(5) typeface

Question No : 10

The ______ is the box that houses the most important parts of a computer system.

(1) software

(2) hardware 

(3) input device

(4) system unit

(5) None of these

Question No : 11

Which Excel feature enables pre-defined layouts to selected tables in the worksheet?

(1) Autoformat

(2) Header and Footers

(3) Undo and Redo

(4) Spelling and Grammar

(5) Autograph

Question No : 12

Computers process data into information by working exclusively with ____

(1) multimedia

(2) words

(3) characters

(4) numbers

(5) None of these

Question No : 13

Which of the following refers to too much electricity and may cause a voltage surge?

(1) Anomaly

(2) Shock

(3) Spike

(4) Virus

(5) Splash

Question No : 14

Computer language used on the Internet is __________

(1) BASIC

(2) COBOL

(3) Java

(4) Pascal

(5) None of these

Question No : 15

Which is not a basic function of a computer?

(1) Copy text

(2) Accept input

(3) Process data

(4) Store data 

(5) None of these