PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-106

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

 

Question No : 1

“Buy Now – Pay Now” is commonly used for _______

(1) Visa Cards

(2) Vault Cards

(3) Credit Cards

(4) E-purse

(5) Debit Cards

Question No : 2

Peripheral devices such as printers and plotters are considered to be:

(1) hardware

(2) software

(3) data

(4) information

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

The ability to find an individual item in a file immediately _________ is used

(1) file allocation table

(2) direct access

(3) directory

(4) sequential access

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

A collection of related files is called a

(1) character

(2) field

(3) database

(4) record

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

In a database _____ fields store numbers used to perform calculation.

(1) Next

(2) Key

(3) Alphanumeric

(4) Numeric

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

To save an existing file with a new name or to a new location, you should use the ____ command.

(1) Save

(2) Save and replace 

(3) Save as

(4) New file

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

Something which has easily understood instruction is said to be_____

(1) User friendly

(2) information

(3) word processing

(4) icon

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

Which type of software manages the computers processes, functioning as an interface, connecting the user, the application software and the hardware?

(1) System software  

(2) Operating system

(3) Utility program

(4) Translator program

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

The portion of the CPU that coordinates the activities of all the other computer components is the

(1) Motherboard

(2) Coordination board

(3) Control unit

(4) Arithmetic logic unit

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

A computer system that is old and perhaps not satisfactory is referred to as a(n)

(1) Ancient system

(2) Historical system 

(3) Legal System

(4) Age-old system

(5) Legacy system

Question No : 11

When the computer is switched on, the booting process performs the

(1) Integrity Test

(2) Power-On Self-Test

(3) Shut-down

(4) Correct Functioning Test

(5) Reliability Test

Question No : 12

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

(1) The scanner

(2) The main storage 

(3) The printer

(4) The secondary storage

(5) The Processor

Question No : 13

Input, output, and processing devices grouped together represent a(n) ______

(1) mobile device

(2) information processing cycle

(3) circuit board

(4) computer system

(5) None of these

Question No : 14

When creating a word-processed document, this step involves the user changing how words on the page appear, both on the screen and in printed form.

(1) Editing text

(2) Inserting tables and indexes

(3) Print Preview

(4) Formatting text

(5) Proofing documents

Question No : 15

You can use the tab key to

(1) move a cursor across the screen

(2) move the cursor down the screen

(3) indent a paragraph

(4) Only (1) and (2) 

(5) None these