PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-99

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

 

Question No : 1

What is the base of hexadecimal number system?

(1) 2

(2) 8

(3) 16

(4) 10

(5) None of these   

Question No : 2

Pressing CTRL + 9 in Excel _____.

(1) Prints 9

(2) Prints

(3) Prints 9 followed by spaces

(4) Inserts 9 cells at the current location

(5) Hides the current row

Question No : 3

______ is a power saving state designed primarily for laptops. It saves your open documents and programs to your hard disk and turns off our computer.

(1) Sleep

(2) Hibernate

(3) Suitcase

(4) Snooze

(5) None of these   

Question No : 4

The altering of data so that it is not usable unless the changes are undone is _____

(1) Ergonomics

(2) Biometrics 

(3) Compression

(4) Encryption

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

Which type of software is used it the design of products, structures, civil engineering drawings and maps?

(1) CAD Programs

(2) desktop programs 

(3) drawing programs

(4) painting programs 

(5) video/audio programs

Question No : 6

Softcopy is the intangible output, so then what is hard copy?

(1) The physical parts of the computer

(2) The printed parts of the computer

(3) The printed output

(4) The physical output devices

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

One nibble is equal to _____ bits.

(1) 4

(2) 8

(3) 12

(4) 16

(5) None of these   

Question No : 8

_____ are specially designed computer chips that reside inside other devices, such as your car or your electronic thermostat.

(1) Servers

(2) Embedded computers

(3) Robotic computers

(4) Mainframes

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

Which type of memory holds only that program and data that CPU is presently processing?

(1) CMOS

(2) ROM

(3) RAM

(4) ASCII

(5) CD

Question No : 10

Which of the following are types of sound files?

(1) LOG files

(2) DAT files

(3) WAV files

(4) DRV files

(5) None of these

Question No : 11

World Computer Literacy Day is observed on ______.

(1) December 2

(2) November 4

(3) September 2

(4) November 2

(5) None of these   

Question No : 12

What kind of Protocol is used to provide Internet access from mobile?

(1) TCP/IP

(2) ISD

(3) WAP

(4) HTTP

(5) None of these   

Question No : 13

Which of the following is not a method of accessing the web?

(1) modem

(2) ISDN

(3) DSL

(4) CPU

(5) None of these   

Question No : 14

The database administrator’s function in an organization is _____.

(1) to be responsible for the more technical aspects of managing the information contained in organizational databases

(2) to be responsible for the executive level aspect of decisions regarding the information management

(3) to show the relationship among entity classes in a data warehouse

(4) to define which data mining tools must be used to extract data

(5) None of these   

Question No : 15

The amount of time required by a storage device to retrieve data and programs is its _____

(1) retrieval speed

(2) capacity

(3) memory

(4) storage

(5) access speed