PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-121

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

 

Question No : 1

Which of the following is the another name for a pre-programmed formula in Excel?

(1) Range

(2) Graph

(3) Function

(4) Cell

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

Accumulator is a _____.

(1) hardwired unit

(2) sequential circuit

(3) finite state machine

(4) register

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

Microprocessors as switching devices are for which generation computers?

(1) First Generation

(2) Second Generation

(3) Third Generation

(4) Fourth Generation

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

Repeater operates in which layer of the OSI Model?

(1) Physical Layer

(2) Data Link Layer

(3) Network Layer

(4) Session Layer

(5) Presentation Layer

Question No : 5

OSPF means _____.

(1) Open Shortest Path First protocol

(2) Open Shortest Path Finite protocol

(3) Open Slotted Path Finite protocol

(4) Open Slotted Path First protocol

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

Which of the following are components of Central Procesing Unit (CPU)?

(1) Arithmetic Logic Unit, Mouse

(2) Arithmetic Logic Unit, Control Unit

(3) Arithmetic Logic Unit, Integrated Circuits

(4) Control Unit, Monitor

(5) All of the above

Question No : 7

Storage that retains its data after the power is turned off is referred to as _____.

(1) Volatile storage

(2) Sequential storage

(3) Direct storage

(4) Non-volatile storage

(5) Mobile storage

Question No : 8

Firewall in parlance to computers is a method of _____.

(1) Stopping unauthorized access

(2) Making network more secure against hacking

(3) Filtering the data that is going out of network and combing in network

(4) All of the above

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

A compiler translates a program written in a high-level language into_____.

(1) Machine language

(2) An algorithm

(3) A debugged program

(4) Java

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

A fixed number of adjacent bits that represent a particular character or symbol are referred as______.

(1) Byte

(2) Octal

(3) Bubble

(4) All of the above

(5) None of these

Question No : 11

Which of the following is a popular programming language for developing multimedia web pages, websites and web based applications?

(1) COBOL

(2) JAVA

(3) BASIC

(4) Assembler 

(5) None of these

Question No : 12

Which of the following is a disadvantage of machine language?

(1) Machine Dependent

(2) Slower Execution

(3) Machine Independent

(4) It requires Translation

(5) None of these

Question No : 13

If you selected text and click at I on the toolbar of MS Word, it makes the text ______.

(1) Italics

(2) Underlined

(3) Italics and under lined

(4) Bold

(5) None of these

Question No : 14

Inventor of C++ is _____.

(1) Martin Cooper

(2) Vint Cerf   

(3) Charles Babbage

(4) Bjarne Stroustrup

(5) None of these

Question No : 15

A collection of conceptual tools for describing data, relationship, semantics and constraints is referred to as _____.

(1) ER model  

(2) Data base  

(3) Data Model

(4) DBMS

(5) None of these