Computer Knowledge #3 MCQ

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE #3 MCQcomputer knowledge

1. The binary system is a number system to the base of which of the following?

(a) 2

(b) 4

(c) 8

(d) 10

Answer: (a)

2. Which of the following is not an example of hardware?

(a) Scanner

(b) Mouse

(c) Printer

(d) Monitor

Answer: (a)

3. To be able to ‘boot’, the computer must have which of the following?

(a) Loader

(b) Assembler

(c) Operating System

(d) Compiler

Answer: (c)

4. A numeric value can be treated as a label value if it proceeds with which of the following?

(a) Apostrophe (‘)

(b) Ampersand (&)

(c) Exclamation (!)

(d) Hash (#)

Answer: (a)

5. Which of the following is not an input device?

(a) Keyboard

(b) Light pen

(c) Mouse

(d) VDU

Answer: (d)

6. What is the full form of MICR?

(a) Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

(b) Microphone Recording

(c) Magnetic Ink Computer Record

(d) Magnetic Industries Corporation Region

Answer: (a)

7. What do you understand by the term ‘booting’?

(a) The process of starting the computer from the power-off position?

(b) Connecting the computer to the electric switch

(c) The process of shut down the computer

(d) Increasing the memory of the computer

Answer: (a)

8. Computers built before the first generation of computers were which of the following?

(a) Electrical

(b) Electro-mechanical

(c) Mechanical

(d) All of the above

Answer: (b)

9. What is the full form of IBM?

(a) International Banking Machines

(b) International Business Machines

(c) International Business Model

(d) Indian Business Machines

Answer: (b)

10. What is a cursor?

(a) A button in a dialog box

(b) A symbol that designates the position on the screen where text or codes will be inserted or deleted

(c) To make a selection from the document and duplicate it on the clipboard

(d) Pressing and holding the main mouse button

Answer: (b)

11. An Excel workbook is a collection of which of the following?

(a) Work books

(b) Worksheets

(c) Charts

(d) Worksheets and charts

Answer: (d)

12. What is the maximum zoom percentage in MS Powerpoint?

(a) 100%

(b) 200%

(c) 300%

(d) 400%

Answer: (d)

13. Which of the following companies developed MS Office 2007?

(a) Lotus

(b) Corel

(c) Microsoft

(d) Novel

Answer: (c)

14. Which of the following options correctly expresses the meaning of PCs?

(a) Computers manufactured by the Pentium Company

(b) Personal computers widely available to individual workers with which they can access information from layer systems and increase their personal productivity

(c) Independent computers for all the working staff

(d) Packed computer system formed by joining together of various computer terminals

Answer: (b)

15. Which of the following is the fastest communication channel?

(a) Optical fibre

(b) Radiowave

(c) Microwave

(d) All are operating in the same propagation speed

Answer: (d)

16. What do you mean by HTML?

(a) It is developed for World Wide Web (www)

(b) To make formatted web documents with links, those can be viewed in web browser

(c) Used for all formatted documents

(d) All of the above

Answer: (a)

17. Which of the following shortcut can be used to select the entire document?

(a) CTRL + A

(b) CTRL + K

(c) ALT + F5

(d) SHIFT + A

Answer: (a)

18. What is called the software that converts a complete HLL Program to machine language in one go?

(a) Compiler

(b) Loader

(c) Interpreter

(d) Assembler

Answer: (a)

19. What is an icon?

(a) It is small graphical image which is used to represent an application, command or a tool

(b) It is some action performed when something like menu or button is clicked

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of the above

Answer: (c)

20. What is called the area of memory assigned to store any e-mail message for the user?

(a) Yahoo.com

(b) Gmail.com

(c) Postbox

(d) Mailbox

Answer: (d)


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