Practice Paper - 03

1. Which is the part of the computer system that one can physically touch?

(a) data

(b) operating system

(c) hardware

(d) software

2. Which of the following is a programming language for creating special programs like applets?

(a) Java

(b) cable

(c) domain name

(d) Net

3. What is the term to denote the smallest unit of information a computer can understand and process?

(a) digit

(b) byte

(c) megabyte

(d) bit

4. Which among the following is not an operation of an operating system?

(a) Communication manager

(b) Processor manager

(c) Device manager

(d) Memory manager

5. Which among the following term is used for: Unauthorized copying of software to be used for
personal gain instead of personal backups?

(a) program thievery

(b) data snatching

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(c) software piracy

(d) program looting

6. In first generation of computers, they used ______.

(a) batch processing

(b) multithreading

(c) multiprogramming

(d) networking

7. Term referring to a person who uses his or her expertise to gain access to other people’s computers to
get information illegally or do damage?

(a) hacker

(b) analyst

(c) instant messenger

(d) programmer

8. To allow someone else schedule your meetings and appointments, ______ feature of Outlook is used

(a) Monthly calendar

(b) Event manager

(c) Appointments

(d) Delegate Access

9. Which of the following device used ‘set of beads’ to represent the unit of data?

(a) ENIAC

(b) EDVAC

(c) Abacus

(d) MARK-I

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10. Antikythera mechanism was mainly used to perform which computation?

(a) Astronomical calculation

(b) Logarithm

(c) Trigonometry

(d) Time calculation

11. The first electro-mechanical computer MARK-1 invented was by ______.

(a) Charles Pascal

(b) John W Mauchly

(c) Howard Aiken

(d) Clifford Berry

12. What does P2P stands for?

(a) Peer To Peer

(b) Peek to peek

(c) Past to past

(d) Pair to pair

13. By an intranet we mean:

(a) a LAN of an organization

(b) a Wide Area Network connecting all branches of an organization

(c) a corporate computer network

(d) a network connecting all computers of an organization and using the internet protocol

14. Which of the following is an example of application software?

(a) Microsoft Windows

(b) Linux

(c) Mac OSX

(d) MS Word 2007

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15. Mozilla Firefox is a _____.

(a) Spreadsheet

(b) Word processing software

(c) Web browser

(d) Programming software

16. Which of the following devices can be used to directly input printed text?

(a) DPI

(b) OCR

(c) OMR

(d) MICR

17. Which of the following groups consist of only input devices?

(a) Mouse, Keyboard, Monitor

(b) Mouse, Keyboard, Scanner

(c) Mouse, Keyboard, Printer

(d) Mouse, Keyboard, Loudspeaker

18. These are the specially designed computer chips reside inside other drives, such as your car or your
electronic thermostat.

(a) Server

(b) Workstation computer

(c) Embedded computer

(d) Mainframe computer

19. Today’s RAM’s common form is built with

(a) Transistors

(b) Vacuum tubes

(c) Semiconductor’s ICs

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(d) Superconductor’s ICs

20. What is a named area on a disk that is used to store related subfolders and files called?

(a) desktop

(b) folder

(c) menu

(d) Safari

21. The two ways to arrange multiple windows on the desktop are:

(a) cascade and tile

(b) drag and drop

(c) point and click

(d) minimize and maximize

22. When a command is not available for selection until certain other conditions are met, it is called a(n):

(a) Dimmed command

(b) Unavailable command

(c) Dialog box

(d) all of these

23. What is an Offline device?

(a) A device which is not connected to CPU

(b) A device which is connected to CPU

(c) A direct access storage device

(d) A system software

24. Which of the following is correct acronym of VGA?

(a) Video Graphics Adapter

(b) Visual Graphics Array

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(c) Volatile Graphics Array

(d) Video Graphics Array

25. What is Visual FOXPRO?

(a) RDMBS

(b) DBMS

(c) Programming Language

(d) All of the above

26. To ‘maximize’ a window means to

(a) Fill it to capacity

(b) Expand it to fit the desktop

(c) Put only like files inside

(d) Drag it to the Recycle Bin

27. Which of the following types of menu shows the further sub-choices?

(a) Reverse

(b) Template

(c) Scrolled

(d) Pull down

28. Which physical layer devices can be used to enlarge the area covered by a single LAN segment?

1. Switch 2. NIC 3. Hub 4. Repeater

(a) 1 only

(b) 1 and 3

(c) 3 and 4

(d) None of these

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29. Which of the following describe router functions?

(a) Packet switching

(b) Packet filtering

(c) Internet work communication

(d) All of the above

30. A __________ is a computer network that usually spans a city or a large campus.

(a) LAN

(b) DAN

(c) MAN

(d) WAN

31. Windows operating system was developed by:

(a) Apple Inc.

(b) Microsoft

(c) Wipro

(d) IBM

32. Windows 98 (codenamed: Memphis) was developed in-

(a) 1989

(b) 1998

(c) 2005

(d) 2006

33. __________ is when the more power-hungry components, such as the monitor and hard drive, are
put in idle.

(a) Hibernation

(b) Powerdown

(c) Standby mode

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(d) The shutdown procedure

34. Various applications and documents are represented on the Windows desktop by __________.

(a) symbols

(b) labels

(c) graphs

(d) icons

35. Which was the computer designed by Babbage?

(a) Analytical engine

(b) Arithmetic machine

(c) Donald knuth

(d) All of the above

36. Computer’s basic architecture was developed by____

(a) Charles Babbage

(b) Blaise Pascal

(c) Steve Newton

(d) John Von Neumann

37. __________ is the father of punched card.

(a) Herman Hollerith

(b) Joanthan lva

(c) Charles Babbage

(d) Blaise Pascal

38. The person contributing the idea of stored program was____

(a) John Neumann

(b) Howard Aiken

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(c) Dennis Ritchie

(d) Charles Babbage

39. EPROM is generally erased by using ________.

(a) ultraviolet rays

(b) infrared rays

(c) 12V electrical pulse

(d) 24V electrical pulse

40. Which of the following extension refers to System files?

(a) .COM

(b) .EXE

(c) .SYS

(d). PRG

41. The term ‘time sharing’ has been replaced by:

(a) multi-tasking system

(b) multi-programming system

(c) multi-processing system

(d) multi-execution system

42. Press __________ to open ‘Find’ dialog box.

(a) Ctrl + F

(b) Alt + F

(c) Tab + F

(d) Ctrl + Alt + F

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43. __________ are used to quickly accept, store and transfer data and instructions that are being used
immediately by the CPU.

(a) Registers

(b) Caches

(c) RAMs

(d) Graphics

44. The microprocessor is the brain of the computer and is also called a______.

(a) microchip

(b) macrochip

(c) macroprocessor

(d) calculator

45. FORTRAN is useful in __________ sector.

(a) Business purpose

(b) Earthquake Analysis

(c) Scientific purpose

(d) Office management

46. Which of the following must be contained in a URL?

(a) A protocol identifier

(b) The letters, www

(c) The unique registered domain name

(d) A protocol identifier, www and the unique registered domain name

47. The process of a computer receiving information from a server on the internet is known as _______.

(a) Browsing

(b) Download

(c) Upload

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(d) All of these

48. A/(n) ___________ is an object embedded in a web page or email, which unobtrusively (usually
invisibly) allows checking that a user has accessed the content.

(a) email

(b) virus

(c) web beacon

(d) spam

49. Non-physical components of the computer are referred to as _______.

(a) CPU

(b) Software

(c) Hardware

(d) Program

50. How many rows are there in latest version of MS Excel?

(a) 65536

(b) 16,384

(c) 1,048,576

(d) 1,050,000

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 - ANSWER -

1. Ans. (c) hardware is tangible component in a computer system.

2. Ans. (a) Java can be used to create applets. Applet is a very small application, especially a utility
program performing one or a few simple functions.

3. Ans.(d) A bit is the smallest unit of information a computer can understand and process.

4. Ans.(a) OS is not a Communication manager.

5. Ans.(c) Software piracy is the illegal copying, distribution, or use of software.

6. Ans.(a) In First Generation mainly batch processing operating system were used.

7. Ans.(a) Hacker is someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system.

8. Ans.(d) Delegate Access is a more advanced feature than just sharing your Outlook folders. If you
want to grant additional permissions, such as allowing a delegate the ability to create e-mail
messages or respond to meeting requests on your behalf, you must use Delegate Access.

9. Ans. (c) The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool with
a set of beads for counting.

10. Ans. (a) The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient analogue computer and orrery used to predict
astronomical positions and eclipses for calendrical and astrological purposes, as well as the
Olympiads, the cycles of the ancient Olympic Games.

11. Ans. (c) MARK-1 invented was by Howard Aiken.

12. Ans. (a) P2P stands for Peer To Peer.

13. Ans. (d)An intranet is a private network accessible only to an organization's staff.

14. Ans. (d)Microsoft office is an application software

15. Ans. (c) Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation
and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation

16. Ans. (b) Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a technology that enables you to convert
different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or images
captured by a digital camera into editable and searchable data.

17. Ans. (b) Mouse, Keyboard, Scanner all are Input Devices.

18. Ans. (c) An embedded system is a computer system with a dedicated function within a larger
mechanical or electrical system, often with real-time computing constraints. It is
embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts.
Embedded systems control many devices in common use today.

19. Ans. (c) Most modern semiconductor memory devices are implemented allowing random access

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20. Ans.(b) A folder is a virtual location where programs, files, and other folders can be located.

21. Ans. (a) cascade and tile are two ways to arrange multiple windows on the desktop.

22. Ans. (a)Dimmed command is a command is not available for selection until certain other conditions
are met.

23. Ans. (a) The terms "online" and "offline" have specific meanings in regard to computer technology
in which "online" indicates a state of connectivity, while "offline" indicates a disconnected
state.

24. Ans. (d) Video Graphics Array (VGA) refers specifically to the display hardware first introduced with
the IBM PS/2 line of computers, but through its widespread adoption has also come to
mean either an analog computer display standard, the 15-pin D-sub miniature VGA
connector or the 640x480 resolution itself.

25. Ans. (c) Visual FoxPro is a data-centric, object-oriented, procedural, programming language
produced by Microsoft. It is derived from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was
developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984.

26. Ans.(b) ‘maximize’ a window means expanding it to fit the desktop.

27. Ans.(d) Pull down menu shows further sub-choices.

28. Ans.(c) A repeater operates at the physical layer. Its job is to regenerate the signal over the same
network before the signal becomes too weak or corrupted so as to extend the length to
which the signal can be transmitted over the same network. A hub is basically a multiport
repeater. A hub connects multiple wires coming from different branches, for example, the
connector in star topology which connects different stations.

29. Ans.(d) All of the given options are router functions.

30. Ans.(c) MAN is abbreviation for Metropolitan Area Network and is a computer network that usually
spans a city or a large campus.

31. Ans.(b) Microsoft Windows (or simply Windows) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems
developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. It consists of several families of operating
systems

32. Ans.(b) Windows 98 (June 1998) offers support for a number of new technologies, including FAT32,
AGP, MMX, USB, DVD, and ACPI. Its most visible feature, though, is the Active Desktop,
which integrates the Web browser (Internet Explorer) with the operating system

33. Ans.(c) Stand By. Alternatively referred to as sleep mode, Standby or Stand by is a mode the
computer monitor, or other device, enters when idle for too long.

34. Ans.(d) An icon is a small graphical representation of a program or file that, when clicked on, will be
run or opened. Icons are used with Graphical User Interface (GUI) operating systems, such
as Microsoft Windows and the Apple Mac OS, to help quickly identify a type of file or
program associated with the icon.

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35. Ans.(a) The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by
English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage

36. Ans.(d) John Von Neumann wrote an incomplete set of notes, titled the First Draft of a Report on
the EDVAC. This widely distributed paper laid foundations of a computer architecture in
which the data and the program are both stored in the computer's memory.

37. Ans.(a) Herman Hollerith was an American inventor who developed an electromechanical punched
card

38. Ans.(a) John Von Neumann wrote an incomplete set of notes, titled the First Draft of a Report on
the EDVAC. This widely distributed paper laid foundations of a computer architecture in
which the data and the program are both stored in the computer's memory.

39. Ans. (a) EPROM is generally erased by using ultraviolet rays.

40. Ans. (c) ‘.SYS’ extension refers to System files

41. Ans. (a) In computing, multitasking is a concept of performing multiple tasks (also known as
processes) over a certain period of time by executing them concurrently. They’ve replaced
time sharing terminology.

42. Ans. (a) Ctrl + F is the short cut key combination to open find dialogue box.

43. Ans.(a) A register may hold an instruction, a storage address, or any kind of data (such as a bit
sequence or individual characters)

44. Ans.(a) Microprocessor is also called as the Microchip.

45. Ans.(c) Fortran is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to
numeric computation and scientific computing

46. Ans. (d) A protocol identifier, www and the unique registered domain name are requisite for a URL

47. Ans. (b) Downloading is the process of a computer receiving information from a server.

48. Ans.(c) Common uses of web beacon are email tracking and page tagging for web analytics. Its
alternative names are web bug, tracking bug, tag, or page tag.

49. Ans. (b) Software components are not physical or tangible components.

50. Ans.(c) In latest version there are 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns.

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