Computer Knowledge #19 Multiple Choice Questions

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE #19

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. Which of the following is a set of rules that computers use to communicate with each other across a network?

(a) Extranet

(b) Packet

(c) Protocol

(d) Internet

Answer: (c)

2. Computers are fast, accurate, reliable and provide huge capacity of storing data only. The statement is ……………

(a) True

(b) False

(c) Information is incomplete

(d) Cannot be said

Answer: (a)

3. What is the full form of ASCII?

(a) American Standard Code for Information Interchange

(b) American Standard Computing and Information Institute

(c) American Scientists Convention for Information Interchange

(d) Association of Software Coding and Information Institute

Answer: (a)

4. What is called the series of codes, represented by numbers (ones and zeros) used for communicating directly with the internal instructions of the PC’s microprocessor?

(a) Machine language

(b) Assembly language

(c) Programming language

(d) High level language

Answer: (a)

5. If electrical power supply to a computer system is suddenly disrupted, serious damage would occur to which of the following?

(a) Central Processing Unit

(b) CRT

(c) Printer

(d) Disk

Answer: (a)

6. Which of the following is a picture that is saved on a diskette and can be pasted into a document?

(a) Clip Art

(b) Annotation

(c) Subscript

(d) Clipboard

Answer: (a)

7. Which of the following terms is used to represent an error in a computer program?

(a) Error

(b) Fault

(c) Bugs

(d) Mistake

Answer: (c)

8. Which generation computers were developed using microprocessor technology?

(a) First generation

(b) Second generation

(c) Third generation

(d) Fourth generation

Answer: (d)

9. Which of the following is an analog computer?

(a) Micro computer

(b) Speedometer

(c) ANURAG

(d) Super computer

Answer: (b)

10. What type of computers is used by doctors in an operation theatre?

(a) Digital computer

(b) Discrete computer

(c) Analog computer

(d) Hybrid computer

Answer: (d)

11. What type of device is a camera?

(a) Input device

(b) Output device

(c) Memory device

(d) None of the above

Answer: (a)

12. Which of the following is a package software?

(a) MS Dos

(b) MS Paint

(c) MS Office

(d) McAfee

Answer: (c)

13. Which utility in Microsoft windows is designed to increase the access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk?

(a) Disk defragmenter

(b) Data processors

(c) Antivirus software

(d) Backup software

Answer: (a)

14. Which of the following is an example for a flat-file database?

(a) Star Office

(b) Starbase

(c) Spreadsheet

(d) FoxPro

Answer: (c)

15. What is called the process of joining data from two or more tables of the same or different databases?

(a) Searching

(b) Sorting

(c) Merging

(d) Filtering

Answer: (c)

16. A column in a Star Office base table represents which of the following?

(a) Field

(b) Structure

(c) File

(d) Record

Answer: (b)

17. What is called the process of limiting the information that appears on the screen?

(a) Filtering

(b) Searching

(c) Merging

(d) Sorting

Answer: (a)

18. A form contains which of the following?

(a) Single table and multiple tables

(b) Table

(c) Field

(d) Single table

Answer: (a)

19. The entire collection of related data in a place is referred to as which of the following?

(a) Cell

(b) Row

(c) Column

(d) Table

Answer: (d)

20. What is called the method of processing or handling that can be associated to an object?

(a) Procedure

(b) Project

(c) Process

(d) Program

Answer: (a)