PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-104

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

 

Question No : 1

What is the process of copying software programs from secondary storage media to the hard disk called?

(1) configuration

(2) download 

(3) storage

(4) upload

(5) installation

Question No : 2

Which process checks to ensure the components of the computer are operating and connected properly?

(1) Booting

(2) Processing

(3) Saving

(4) Editing

(5) Starting

Question No : 3

Magnetic tape is not practical for applications where data must be quickly recalled because tape is

(1) A random–access medium

(2) A read–only medium

(3) Expensive

(4) Fragile and easily damaged

(5) A sequential–access medium

Question No : 4

The patterns of printed lines on most products are called _____

(1) prices

(2) striping

(3) scanners

(4) OCR

(5) barcodes

Question No : 5

This component is required to process data into information and consists of integrated circuits.   

(1) Hard disk 

(2) RAM

(3) CPU

(4) ROM

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

_______ is collection of web-pages and ______ is the very first page that we see on opening of a web-site.

(1) Home-page, Web-page

(2) Web-site, Home-page

(3) Web-page, Home-page

(4) Web-page, Web-site

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

When we run a program in HTML coding, ____ is used as backend and ____ works as front end.

(1) Notepad-Internet-Explorer

(2) Notepad-Msn-messenger

(3) MS-Word-Internet Explorer

(4) Both (1) and (2)

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

In Dos, the “Label” command is used to

(1) display the label of disk

(2) change the label of disk

(3) remove the label of disk

(4) Both (1) and (2)

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

Which of the following is billionth of a second?

(1) Gigabyte

(2) Terabyte

(3) Nanosecond

(4) Microsecond

(5) Terasecond

Question No : 10

A device operating at the physical layer is called a

(1) Bridge

(2) Router

(3) Repeater

(4) All of the above

(5) None of these

Question No : 11

Small application programs that run on a web page and may ensure a form is completed properly or provide animation are known as___

(1) flash

(2) spiders

(3) cookies

(4) applets

(5) sparks

Question No : 12

Dos and windows 3.x support file names upto _________ characters in length.

(1) Two

(2) Four

(3) Six 

(4) Eight

(5) None of these

Question No : 13

In a relational database, this is a data structure that organizes the information about a single topic into rows and columns.

(1) block

(2) record

(3) tuple

(4) table

(5) Command line interface

Question No : 14

When the pointer is positioned on a ____, it is shaped like a hand.

(1) grammar error

(2) hyperlink

(3) screen tip

(4) spelling error

(5) formatting error

Question No : 15

Data going into the computer is called

(1) output

(2) algorithm 

(3) input

(4) calculations

(5) flowchart