PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-102

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

 

Question No : 1

A proxy server is used for which of the following?

(1) To provide security against unauthorized users

(2) To process client requests for Web pages

(3) To process client requests for database access

(4) To provide TCP/IP

(5) None of these   

Question No : 2

A device that copies or reproduces text and images is also called a(n) _____.

(1) optical scanner

(2) bar code reader

(3) character device

(4) digital camera

(5) Printer

Question No : 3

In Microsoft Word shortcut key CTRL + P is used to

(1) Open the Print Dialog box

(2) Update the current web page

(3) Close the current window

(4) Open the new window

(5) None of these   

Question No : 4

An optical input device that interprets pencil marks on paper media is _____.

(1) OMR

(2) Punch card reader 

(3) Optical scanner

(4) magnetic tape

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

Switch is a network device whose responsibility is to _____.

(1) Protect from virus attack

(2) turn on the power to network

(3) Connect Network devices

(4) Boot the network

(5) None of these   

Question No : 6

A collection of interrelated records is called a _____.

(1) utility file

(2) management information system

(3) Database

(4) Spreadsheet

(5) None of these   

Question No : 7

What is the correct association between a hardware component and a computer function?

(1) Monitor > input

(2) Mouse > pointing device

(3) CPU > storage

(4) Hard disk > processing

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

In peer-to-peer networking _____.

(1) there is only one server and many clients

(2) there is only one client and many servers

(3) every computer is capable of playing the role of server

(4) every computer is capable of playing the role of client, server or both at the same time

(5) None of these   

Question No : 9

What does happen in RAM when a computer is turned off?

(1) Operating System

(2) BIOS

(3) Software Application

(4) Data loss in RAM

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

_____ Processing is used when a large mail-order company accumulates orders and processes them together in one large set.

(1) Batch

(2) Online

(3) Real-Time

(4) Group

(5) None of these

Question No : 11

Excel is designed to provide visual cues to the relationship between the cells that provide values to the formulas or the cells that depend on the formulas by _____.

(1) Bolding the cell references to match the color coding of the borders around the referenced worksheet cells

(2) Highlighting the cell references

(3) Color coding cell references in the formula to match the border around the referenced worksheet cells

(4) Bold cell reference

(5) None of these

Question No : 12

ERP is an acronym for _____.

(1) Enterprise Retirement Planning

(2) Enterprise Relationship Planning

(3) Enterprise Resource Planning

(4) Enterprise Reorder Planning

(5) Enterprise Retention Planning

Question No : 13

Most digital cameras save photos in what image format?

(1) PNG

(2) BMP

(3) GIF

(4) JPEG

(5) All of the above

Question No : 14

When the word automatically goes onto the next line that is called _____.

(1) Text wrap

(2) Page warp 

(3) Word wrap

(4) Wrap word

(5) None of these

Question No : 15

Which part of the computer is directly invoked in executing the instructions of the computer program?

(1) The scanner

(2) The main storage

(3) The secondary storage

(4) The printer

(5) The processor