Computer Awareness Q&A for Competitive Examination - Part 3

Computer Awareness Q&A for Competitive Examination – Part 3

February 28, 2014 Computer Awareness

51. Computers built before the first generation of computers were?
1) Mechanical
2) Electro-mechanical (3) Electrical
4) All of these
5) None of these

52. IBM stands for
1)       Indian Business Machines
2)       International Business Machines
3)       International Banking Machines
4)       International Business Model
5)       None of the above

53. Which of the following options correctly expresses the meaning of the term PCs?
1)       Independent computers for all the working staff
2)       Personal computers widely available to individual workers with which they can access information from layer systems and increase their personal productivity
3)       Packed computer system formed by joining together of various computer terminals
4)       Computer manufactured by the Pentium Company
5)       None of the above

54. Which of the following are the functions of DOS?
A.    Controlling the input and output operations.
B.     Controlling the interaction between the user and the computer.
C.    Controlling the process of stoning and   Organizing different files.

1) Only A (2) Only A and B
3) Only B and C (4) All A, B and C
5) None of these

55. Which of the following companies developed MS Office 2007?
1) Novel (2) Corel
3) Lotus (4) Microsoft
5) None of these

56. An Excel workbook is a collection of
1) Charts (2) work books
3) Worksheets (4) worksheets & charts
5) None of these

57. The maximum zoom percentage in MS Power point   Is
(1)100%     (2)200%
(3)400%     (4) 500%    (5) None of these

58. Which report will show the financial position of the company?
1) Ledger accounts (2) Balance sheet
3) Sales accounts (4) Bank statements
5) None of these

59. An inter-company network which used to distribute information, documents, files and databases,is called as
1) LAN (2) Extranet
3) WAN (4) MAN
5) None of these

60. Which of the following is the fastest communication channel?
1)       Radio wave
2)       Microwave
3)       Optical fiber
4)       All are operating in the same propagation speed
5)       None of the above

61. A cursor is
1)       to make a selection from the document and duplicate     on the clipboard
2)       a symbol that designates the position on the screen” where text or codes will be inserted or deleted
3)       pressing and holding the main mouse button
4)       a button in a dialog box
5)       None of the above

62. The meaning of cut is to
1)       take a section from the document and move it to the clipboard
2)       cut a document in two unequal parts
3)       cut a document in two equal parts
4)       Only (2) and (3)
5)       None of the above

63. ………means to enlarge a window to its maximum  area so that it will full entire desktop.
1) Maximize                (2) Zoom
3) Enlarge                    (4) Extend              5) None of these

64. What is HTML?
1)       It is developed for World Wide Web (WWW)
2)       Used for all formatted documents
3)       To make formatted web documents with links, those can be viewed in web browser
4)       All of the above
5)       None of the above

65. What is an icon?
1)       It is some action performed when something like menu or button is clicked
2)       It is small graphical image which is used to represent an application, command or a tool
3)       Both (1) and (2)
4)       A folder
5)       None of the above

66 ……is an area of memory assigned to store any e- mail message for the user.
1) Outlook Express (2) Yahoo.com
3) Postbox (4) Mailbox
5) None of these

67. A software convert a complete HLL Program to machine languages in one go
1) Compiler (2) Assembler
3) Loader (4) Interpreter
5) None of these

68. Gopher displays a set of resources on the Internet in the form of
1) Lists and menus (2) Options
3) Icons (4) Both (2) and (3)
5) None of these

69. When a language has the capability to produce new data types, it is said to be
1) Reprehensible (2) encapsulated
3) Overloaded (4) extensible
5) None of these

70. A computer that combines the characteristic of   analog and digital computer
1)       hybrid computer
2)       digital computer
3)       analog computer
4)       super computer
5)       None of these

71. Windows 95 is a
1)       operating system
2)       window environment
3)       integration of OS and windows
4)       software
5)       None of these

72. A computer that deals with physical quantities
1) Analog computer (2) Hybrid computer
3) Digital computer (4) Mainframe computer
5) None of these

73. The vast network of computers that connects millions of people all over the world is called
1) LAN (2) Web
3) Hypertext (4) Internet
5) None of these

74. The file responsible for starting MS Excel is
1) MS.EXCE (2) MS.EXE
3) EXCEL.EXE (4) EXCEL.COM
5) None of these

75. Which area in an Excel window allows entering values and formulae?
1) Standard Tool Bar (2) Menu Bar
3) Tide Bar (4) Formula Bar
5) None of these

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