PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-92

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

 

Question No : 1

The other name of motherboard is

(1) Mouse

(2) Computer Board  

(3) System Device

(4) Central Board

(5) System Board

Question No : 2

Free hard-disk space used to extend the capacity of RAM is termed _____

(1) Cache

(2) Flash memory

(3) ROM

(4) Volatile

(5) Virtual memory

Question No : 3

Making illegal copies of copy-righted software is called _____

(1) collaboration

(2) software piracy

(3) browsing

(4) electronic distribution

(5) software legacy

Question No : 4

‘C’ in CPU denotes _____

(1) Central

(2) Common  

(3) Convenient

(4) Computer 

(5) Circuitry

Question No : 5

Which is not a storage device?

(1) A CD

(2) A DVD

(3) A floppy disk

(4) A printer

(5) A Hard disk

Question No : 6

A computer program is ____

(1) A set of instructions that enable the computer to solve a problem or perform a task

(2) Main memory

(3) Pseudocode

(4) A flow chart

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

Which of the following is not an example of application software?

(1) Database software

(2) Word processing software

(3) Graphics software

(4) Operating system software

(5) Spreadsheet software

Question No : 8

Pie charts are typically created by using which of the following?

(1) browser software 

(2) spreadsheet software

(3) database software

(4) desk-top publishing software

(5) word-processing software

Question No : 9

WAN stands for _____

(1) Wired Area Network

(2) Wide Area Network

(3) Wide Array Net

(4) Wireless Area Network

(5) Wanted Area Network

Question No : 10

What are lists of programs waiting to be run called?

(1) Shells

(2) The background

(3) Queues

(4) Page frames

(5) Lists

Question No : 11

MS Excel is used for

(1) Letter writing

(2) Spread Sheet Calculation

(3) Presentation

(4) Painting

(5) None of these

Question No : 12

Computer users who are not computer professionals are sometimes called _____

(1) peripheral users

(2) programmers

(3) librarians

(4) information officers

(5) end-users

Question No : 13

Desktop and personal computers are also known as _____

(1) supercomputers   

(2) servers

(3) mainframes

(4) peripheral equipment

(5) microcomputers

Question No : 14

The computer to which a user’s computer connects in order to access the Internet is called

(1) notebook

(2) PDA

(3) server

(4) laptop

(5) supercomputer

Question No : 15

Which of the following domains is used by for-profit businesses?

(1) .com

(2) .edu

(3) .mil

(4) .net

(5) .org