PRACTICE SET- 1

FOR COMPUTER AWARENESS

Q.1 Which of the following is an (A) Copy

example of non-volatile memory? (B) Disk copy
(A) ROM (C) Type
(B) RAM (D) All of the above
(C) LSI Ans.(A)
(D) VLSI Q.4 What will you insert, when you
Ans.(A) need to see all the information from
Q.2 Which of the following is a unit of two tables on one form?
measurement used with computer (A) A page break
system? (B) A subform
(A) Byte (C) A linked command button
(B) Megabyte (D) All of the above
(C) Gigabyte (E) None of the above
(D) All of these Ans.(B)
Ans.(D) Q.5 Which is not an advantage of using
Q.3 Which command is used to copy computerized spreadsheets?
files? (A) Flexibility moving entries
(B) Speed of calculation Q.7 Which of the following is select in
(C) Ability of generate tables Power Point to play a PowerPoint
slide show for previewing?
(D) Cost of initial setup
(A) View, Slide Sorter
(E) None of the above
(B) View, Slide
Ans.(D)
(C) View, Slide Show
Q.6 To select several cells or ranges that
are not touching each other, what (D) View, Outline
would you do while selecting? (E) None of these
(A) Hold down the Ctrl key Ans.(C)
(B) Hold down the Shift key Q.8 Which of the following is used in
(C) Hold down the Alt key MS-PowerPoint, in order to see all
the slides on one screen?
(D) Hold down Ctrl + Shift key
(A) View, Slide Sorter
(E) None of the above
(B) View, Slide
Ans.(A)
(C) View, Master
 (D) View, Slide Show Ans.(A)
Ans.(A) Q.13 ………….. is a software that is
Q.9 Which of the following is not a designed to prevent, detect and
property of fibre optic cabling? remove viruses.

(A) Transmits at faster speeds than (A) Firewall

copper cabling (B) Digital certificate
(B) Easier to capture a signal from (C) Antivirus software
than copper cabling (D) Password
(C) Very resistant to interference (E) None of these
(D) Carries signals as light waves Ans.(C)
(E) None of the above Q.14 The secondary storage devices can
Ans.(B) only store data, but they cannot
Q.10 What does fibre use to transmit perform
data? (A) arithmetic operations
(A) Vibrations (B) fetch operations
(B) Sound (C) logic operations
(C) Electrical current (D) All of the above
(D) Light Ans.(D)
Ans.(D) Q.15 Which of the following statements
Q.11 To cut the selected text, these keys is false?
should be pressed. (A) Secondary storage is a non-
(A) Ctrl + C volatile

(B) Ctrl + D (B) Primary storage is volatile

(C) Ctrl + V (C) When the computer is turned

off, data and instructions stored in
(D) Ctrl + X primary storage are erased
(E) None of the above (D) All of the above
Ans.(D) (E) None of the above
Q.12 It is the abuse of messaging systems Ans.(E)
to send unsolicited bulk messages in
the form of e-mails. Q.16 In computer science, by information
we mean
(A) Spam
(A) any output coming out from
(B) Adware computer
(C) Hacking (B) processed data put in an
(D) Cracking intelligent form
(E) Phishing
 (C) a report printed by the Q.21 You can use ……… alignment to
computer centralise your text.
(D) plural of data (A) right
Ans.(B) (B) centre
Q.17 DEL command is used to (C) left
(A) delete files (D) All of these
(B) delete directory (E) None of these
(C) delete labels Ans.(B)
(D) delete contents of file Q.22 In MS-word, Spell check is under
(E) None of these which menu?

Ans.(A) (A) Edit

Q.18 C++ language developed by (B) Review

(A) Dennis Ritchie (C) Tool

(B) Charles Babbage (D) Format

(C) Niklaus Wirth Ans.(B)

(D) Bjarne Stroustroup Q.23 Grammatical errors are shown in

which colour?
(E) John Mccharthy
(A) Red
Ans.(D)
(B) Green
Q.19 The bar which shows your current
status in the document is called (C) Blue

(A) status (D) Black

(B) standard (E) None of these

(C) format Ans.(B)

(D) title Q.24 This part of operating system

manages the essential peripherals,
(E) None of these such as the keyboard, screen, disk
Ans.(A) drives and parallel and serial ports.
Q.20 You can delete one character to the (A) Basic input/output system
left of cursor using …… key. (B) Secondary input/output system
(A) backspace (C) Peripheral input/output system
(B) delete (D) Marginal input/output system
(C) edit (E) None of the above
(D) format Ans.(A)
Ans.(A) Q.25 The following are all computing
devices, except
 (A) notebook computers uncontrolled access to a
(B) cellular telephones database

(C) digital scanners (D) software system used to create,

maintain and provide
(D) personal digital assistants controlled access to a database
Ans.(B) (E) None of the above
Q.26 It performs basic tasks such as Ans.(D)
controlling input and output
devides, processing of instructions, Q.29 When data changes in multiple lists
controlling and allocating memory, and all lists are not updated, this
managing files. causes

(A) The platform (A) data redundancy

(B) Application software (B) information overload

(C) Operating system (C) duplicate data

(D) The motherboard (D) data inconsistency

(E) None of the above (E) None of these

Ans.(C) Ans.(D)

Q.27 Servers are computers that provide Q.30 Words that a programming
resources to other computers language has set aside for its own
connected to a use

(A) mainframe (A) control words

(B) network (B) reserved words

(C) supercomputer (C) control structures

(D) client (D) reserved keys

(E) None of these (E) None of these

Ans.(B) Ans.(B)

Q.28 A Database Management System Q.31 A ……… is a software program

(DBMS) is a used to view web pages.

(A) hardware system used to (A) site

create, maintain and provide (B) host
controlled access to a database (C) link
(B) hardware system used to (D) browser
create, maintain and provide
uncontrolled access to a Ans.(D)
database Q.32 You must install …… on a network
(C) software system used to create, if you want to share a broadband
maintain and provide Internet connection.
(A) router
 (B) modem (D) EB
(C) node (E) None of these
(D) cable Ans.(B)
Ans.(A) Q.37 HTTP stands for
Q.33 Which term identifies a specific (A) Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
computer on the Web and the main (B) High Text Transfer Protocol
page of the entire site?
(C) Hyper Technical Transfer
(A) URL Protocol
(B) Website address (D) Hyper Text Test Protocol
(C) Hyperlink (E) Hyper Text Transfer Program
(D) Domain name Ans.(A)
(E) None of these Q.38 23 will be written in binary as
Ans.(A) (A) 10111
Q.34 Which one of the following is a (B) 11111
valid binary number?
(C) 10011
(A) 120
(D) 11011
(B) 459
(E) 10001
(C) 10101
Ans.(A)
(D) 10108
Q.39 Which one of the following is a
(E) None of these good password?
Ans.(C) (A) My date of birth
Q.35 Process to verify the username and (B) My school name
password is known as
(C) My name
(A) logic
(D) Timepass_09
(B) checkin
Ans.(D)
(C) authentication
Q.40 Memory is also known as temporary
(D) authorisation memory.
(E) None of these (A) ROM
Ans.(C) (B) RAM
Q.36 The unit of speed used for super (C) DVD
computer is
(D) CD
(A) KB
(E) Hard Disk
(B) FLOPS
Ans.(B)
(C) GB
Q.41 Which of the following is correct Q.45 What is E-commerce?
syntax of a URL? (A) Buying and selling takes place
(A) udinra.com over Internet
(B) udinra.com (B) Buying and selling takes place
(C) udinra.html.com over phone call

(D) @udinra. (C) Buying and selling takes place

over both Internet and phone call
(E) None of these
(D) Buying and selling takes place
Ans.(A) over either Internet or phone call
Q.42 Which of the following is the (E) None of the above
communication protocol that sets
the standard used by every Ans.(A)
computer that accesses Web based Q.46 The default extensions of Microsoft
information? Word 2007 and Microsoft Excel
(A) XML 2007 files are

(B) DML (A) .doc,.xsl

(C) HTTP (B) .doc,.xml

(D) HTML (C) .docx,. xlsx

(E) CSS (D) .docx,.xml

Ans.(C) Ans.(C)

Q.43 Which program will you use to Q.47 30,000 bytes is nearly equal to
write a business letter? (A) 30 KB
(A) MS-Word (B) 3MB
(B) MS-Excel (C) 3GB
(C) MS-PowerPoint (D) 3TB
(D) MS-Access (E) None of these
Ans.(A) Ans.(A)
Q.44 An operating system is said to be Q.48 EDI stands for
multitasking if (A) Electronic Data Internet
(A) more than one programs can run (B) Electronic Data Interchange
simultaneously
(C) Electric Device Internet
(B) more than one users can work
simultaneously (D) Electric Data Interchange

(C) Either ‘1’ or ‘2’ Ans.(B)

(D) All of the above Q.49 Which command is used to

permanently delete files or folders?
Ans.(A)
(A) Shift + Delete
 (B) Ctrl + Delete (A) Copy
(C) Alt + Delete (B) Diskcopy
(D) Delete (C) Time
(E) Shift +All + Delete (D) Rename
Ans.(A) (E) Date
Q.50 While working with MS-DOS, Ans.( A)
which command transfers a specific
file from one disk to another?

PRACTICE SET - 2
FOR COMPUTER AWARENESS
Q.1 First supercomputer developed in Ans. (A)
India is Q.4 Which of the following displays the
(A) PARAM contents of the active cell?
(B) Aryabhatta (A) Active cell
(C) Buddha (B) Formula bar
(D) CRAY-1 (C) Menu bar
(E) None of these (D) Name box
Ans. (A) (E) None of these
Q.2 Which of the following is an Ans. (B)
example of computer software? Q.5 A software used to convert source
(A) Impact printer program instructions to object
(B) Console instruction is known as

(C) Device driver (A) compiler

(D) OCR (B) assembler

(E) None of these (C) interpreter

Ans. (C) (D) language processor

Q.3 Programmers use a variety of (E) None of these

............. to communicate instructions to the Ans. (D)
computer. Q.6 In computers, IC chip is used which
(A) programming languages is made of
(B) system languages (A) chromium
(C) high level languages (B) iron oxide
(D) low level languages (C) silica
 (D) silicon Ans. (D)
(E) None of these Q.11 The term ‘operating system’ means
Ans. (D) (A) a set of programs which
Q.7 Example of mainframe computer is controls computer working

(A) IBM–370 (B) the way a user operates the

computer system
(B) UNIVAC–1110
(C) conversion of high level
(C) IBM–S/390 language to machine language
(D) All of these (D) the way computer operator
Ans. (D) works
Q.8 Which of the following is a part of (E) None of the above
central processing unit? Ans. (A)
(A) Printer Q.12 The physical arrangement of
(B) Keyboard elements on a page is referred to as
(C) Mouse a document’s

(D) ALU (A) features

Ans. (D) (B) format

Q.9 Which of the following statements (C) pagination

is wrong? (D) grid
(A) Windows XP is an operating Ans. (B)
system Q.13 Most Websites have a main page,
(B) Linux is owned and sold by the……which acts as a doorway to
Microsoft the rest of the Website pages.
(C) Photoshop is a graphical design (A) search engine
tool by adobe (B) home page
(D) Linux is free and open source (C) browser
software
(D) URL
(E) None of the above
(E) None of these
Ans. (B)
Ans. (B)
Q.10 Pointing device includes the
following except Q.14 Input, output and processing
devices grouped together represent
(A) maouse a(n)
(B) light pen (A) mobile device
(C) trackball (B) information processing cycle
(D) keyboard (C) circuit boards
(E) joystick (D) computer system
 Ans. (D) (E) All of these
Q.15 What type of computer could be Ans. (C)
found in a digital watch? Q.19 Main memory is
(A) Mainframe computer (A) Random Access Memory
(B) Supercomputer (B) Random Only Memory
(C) Embedded computer (C) Serial Access Memory
(D) Notebook computer (D) Storage Memory
(E) Microcomputer Ans. (A)
Ans. (C) Q.20 The smallest and fastest computer
Q.16 Which of the following is not true imitating brain working is
about computer files? (A) Supercomputer
(A) They are collections of data (B) Quantum computer
saved to a storage medium
(C) Param-1000
(B) Every file has a file name
(D) IBM chips
(C) A file extension is established
by the user to indicate the file’s (E) None of these
contents Ans. (A)
(D) Files usually contain data Q.21 A Compact Disc (CD) is which type
(E) None of the above of data storage?

Ans. (C) (A) Magnetic

Q.17 All of the following are examples of (B) Optical

real security and privacy risks (C) Electrical
except (D) Electromechanical
(A) hackers (E) None of these
(B) spam Ans. (B)
(C) viruses Q.22 Which of the following is not a
(D) identity theft language for computer
Ans. (B) programming?

Q.18 What type of technology allows you (A) Windows

to use your finger, eye or voice print (B) Pascal
to secure your information (C) Basic
resources?
(D) Cobol
(A) Haptics
(E) All of these
(B) Caves
Ans. (A)
(C) Biometrics
Q.23 First computer mouse was built by
(D) RFID
 (A) Douglas Engelbart Q.27 A collection of related files is called
(B) William English a

(C) Oaniel Coogher (A) character

(D) Robert Zawacki (B) field

Ans. (A) (C) database

Q.24 C Language was developed by (D) record

(A) Ada Byron (E) None of these

(B) Bill Gates Ans. (D)

(C) Blaise Pascal

(D) Dennis Ritchie Q.28 Hard disk drives and CD drives are
examples of
(E) None of these
(A) backup
Ans. (D)
(B) storing
Q.25 Which of the following is not one of
the four major data processing (C) storage
functions of a computer? (D) All of these
(A) Gathering data Ans. (D)
(B) Processing data into Q.29 You would use KK software to
information create spreadsheets, type documents
(C) Analysing the data or and edit photos. (A) application
information (B) utility
(D) Storing the data or information (C) system
(E) None of the above (D) operating
Ans. (C) (E) None of these
Q.26 When you connect to this service Ans. (A)
your computer is communicating Q.30 Which of the following are
with a server at your Internet computers that support hundreds or
Service Provider (ISP). What does thousands of users simultaneously?
refer this?
(A) Super
(A) Modem
(B) Macro
(B) Internet
(C) Mini
(C) Intranet
(D) Mainframes
(D) Server
(E) Digital
(E) Computer
Ans. (D)
Ans. (B)
Q.31 Which device is a microprocessor-
based computing device?
 (A) Personal computing (A) converter
(B) Mainframe (B) compiler
(C) Workstation (C) interpreter
(D) Server (D) instruction
(E) None of these (E) None of these
Ans. (A) Ans. (B)
Q.32 An E-mail account includes a Q.36 One thousand bytes is a
storage area, often called a(n) (A) kilobyte
(A) attachment (B) megabyte
(B) hyperlink (C) gigabyte
(C) mailbox (D) terabyte
(D) IP address (E) None of these
(E) None of these Ans. (A)
Ans. (C) Q.37 Which one of the following is not a
Q.33 Data becomes……when it is broadband communication
presented in a format that people medium?
can understand and use it. (A) Microwave
(A) processed (B) Fibre optic cable
(B) graphs (C) Twisted pair
(C) information (D) Co-axial cable
(D) presentation (E) None of these
(E) None of these Ans. (A)
Ans. (C) Q.38 Which of the following performs
Q.34 A set of computer programs that modulation and demodulation?
helps a computer monitor itself and (A) Co-axial cable
function more efficiently is a/an
(B) Satellite
(A) Windows
(C) Modem
(B) system software
(D) Optical fibre
(C) DBMS
(E) None of these
(D) application software
Ans. (C)
Ans. (B)
Q.39 The earliest calculating device is
Q.35 A ...... converts all the statements in
a program in a single batch and the (A) Abacus
resulting collection of instructions (B) Difference engine
is placed in a new file. (C) Clock
 (D) Pascaline (E) None of these
(E) None of these Ans. (C)
Ans. (A) Q.44 Each model of a computer has a
Q.40 The function of Esc key is unique

(A) to end the action (A) assembly language

(B) go to last action (B) machine language

(C) to repeat the last action (C) high level language

(D) to begin the action (D) All of these

Ans. (A) Ans. (B)

Q.41 Which of the following is not an Q.45 A website is a collection of

advatnage of magnetic disk storage? (A) graphics
(A) The access time of magnetic (B) programs
disk is much less than that of (C) algorithms
magnetic tape
(D) web pages
(B) Disk storage is longer lasting
than magnetic tape (E) charts

(C) Disk storage is less expensive Ans. (D)

than tape storage Q.46 To move the cursor to the end of the
(D) All of the above document, press

Ans. (D) (A) Ctrl + Esc

Q.42 The memory sizes in mainframe (B) Ctrl + End

computers and advanced (C) Ctrl + B
technology micro computers are (D) Ctrl + C
expressed as
(E) None of these
(A) bytes
Ans. (B)
(B) kilobytes
Q.47 The shortcut key to print documents
(C) bits is
(D) megabytes (A) Ctrl + A
(E) None of these (B) Ctrl + B
Ans. (D) (C) Ctrl + P
Q.43 Computer virus is (D) Ctrl + C
(A) hardware Ans. (C)
(B) Windows tool Q.48 Viruses, Trojan horses and worms
(C) a computer program are
(D) a system software (A) able to harm computer system
 (B) unable to detect if affected on (D) Firefox
computer (E) Yahoo
(C) user-friendly applications Ans. (D)
(D) harmless applications resident Q.50 Internet banking is done over
on computer
(A) Internet
Ans. (A)
(B) mobile
Q.49 Which of the following is used to
browse Internet? (C) laptop

(A) Skype (D) computer

(B) Facebook (E) tab

(C) Google Ans. (A)

PRACTICE SET - 3
FOR COMPUTER AWARENESS

Q.1 The piece of hardware that converts Q.3 Press ......... to move the insertion
your computer’s digital signal to an point to the address box or to
analog signal that can travel over highlight the URL in the address.
telephone lines is called a (A) Alt + D
(A) red wire (B) Alt + A
(B) blue cord (C) Shift + Tab
(C) tower (D) Tab + Ctrl
(D) modem (E) Ctrl + S
(E) None of these Ans. (A)
Ans. (D) Q.4 Assembly language is a
Q.2 Which of the following is not an (A) machine language
example of hardware?
(B) high level programming
(A) Scanner language
(B) Printer (C) low level programming
(C) Monitor language
(D) Mouse (D) language for assembling
(E) Interpreter computers

Ans. (E) Ans. (C)

Q.5 What happens when we try to delete
the files on the floppy?
 (A) The files get moved to the Ans. (D)
recycle bin Q. 9 In analog computer,
(B) Files on a floppy cannot be (A) input is first converted to digital
deleted form
(C) The files get deleted and can be (B) input is never converted to
restored again from Recycle Bin digital form
(D) The files get deleted and cannot (C) output is displayed in digital
be restored again form
(E) The files get copied on the hard (D) All of the above
disk
Ans. (B)
Ans. (D)
Q.10 VGA stands for
Q.6 Video processor consists of ...... and
......, which store and process (A) Video Graphics Array
images. (B) Visual Graphics Adapter
(A) CPU and VGA (C) Virtual Graphics Access
(B) CPU and memory (D) Volatile Graphics Adapter
(C) VGA and memory (E) None of the above
(D) VGI and DVI Ans. (A)
Ans. (B) Q.11 Which of the following memory
Q.7 Which PowerPoint view displays chips is faster?
each slide of the presentation as a (A) There is no certainty
thumbnail and is useful for (B) DRAM
rearranging slides?
(C) SRAM
(A) Slide Sorter
(D) DRAM is faster for larger chips
(B) Slide Show
Ans. (C)
(C) Slide Master
Q.12 An improvement on the ENIAC was
(D) Notes Page made possible with the help of the
(E) Slide Design mathematician (A) John Von
Ans. (A) Neumann

Q.8 What are the contents that are lost (B) Albert Federer
on turning OFF the computer? (C) Lord Smith
(A) Storage (D) Tim Shown
(B) Input Ans. (A)
(C) Output Q.13 A person who used his or her
(D) Memory expertise to gain access to other
people’s computers to get
(E) None of these
 information illegally or do damage Q.17 ....... are specially designed
is a computers that perform complex
(A) spammer calculations extremely rapidly.

(B) hacker (A) Servers

(C) instant messanger (B) Supercomputers

(D) programmer (C) Laptops

(E) analyst (D) Mainframes

Ans. (B) Ans. (B)

Q.14 Which of the following is an Q.18 Which of the following domains is

example of storage devices? used by profit business?

(A) Magnetic disks (A) .com

(B) Tapes (B) .edu

(C) DVDs (C) .mil

(D) All of these (D) .net

Ans. (D) (E) .org

Q.15 The basic computer processing Ans. (A)

cycle consists of Q.19 To reload a Web page, press the
(A) input, processing and output …… button.

(B) systems and application (A) redo

(C) data, information and (B) reload

applications (C) restore
(D) hardware, software and storage (D) ctrl
(E) None of the above (E) refresh
Ans. (A) Ans. (E)
Q.16 In a sequence of events that takes Q.20 Which of the following is a graphic
place in an instruction cycle, the package?
first cycle is (A) CorelDraw
(A) store cycle (B) MS-Word
(B) execute cycle (C) MS-Excel
(C) fetch cycle (D) All of these
(D) decode cycle (E) None of these
(E) code cycle Ans. (A)
Ans. (C) Q.21 A popular way to learn about
computers without ever, going to a
classroom is called (A) I-learning
 (B) isolated learning (C) backbone
(C) E-learning (D) hyperlink
(D) E-commerce (E) protocol
(E) None of these Ans. (B)
Ans. (C) Q.26 Which of the following is a storage
Q.22 The binary system is a number device that uses rigid, permanently
system to the base installed magnetic disks to store
data/information?
(A) 2
(A) Floppy disk
(B) 4
(B) Hard disk
(C) 8
(C) Permanent disk
(D) 10
(D) Optical disc
(E) 16
(E) None of these
Ans. (A)
Ans. (B)
Q.23 Reusable optical storage will
typically have an acronym Q.27 Which of the following is contained
on chips connected to the system
(A) CD board and is a holding area for data
(B) DVD instructions and information?
(C) ROM (A) Program
(D) RW (B) Mouse
(E) ROS (C) Internet
Ans. (C) (D) Memory
Q.24 Which shortcut key is used to search (E) Modem
for a file or a folder? Ans. (D)
(A) F1 Q.28 Computer systems are comprised of
(B) F2 (A) hardware, programs,
(C) F3 information, people and network
(D) F5 (B) hardware, software, procedures,
(E) None of these networks and people

Ans. (C) (C) hardware, programs,

information, people and procedures
Q.25 A(n) .......... is composed of several
computers connected together to (D) hardware, programs,
share resources and data. processors, procedures, networks
and people
(A) Internet
(E) hardware, programs, processors,
(B) network
procedures and people
 Ans. (C) (C) My files
Q.29 A(n) .......... is a special visual and (D) My text
audio effect applied in PowerPoint (E) None of these
to text or content. (A) animation
Ans. (B)
(B) flash
Q.34. Which of the following is a
(C) wipe programming language for creating
(D) dissolve special programs like Applets?
Ans. (A) (A) Java
Q.30 It ensures that data is not accessed (B) Cable
by any unauthorised person. (C) Domain name
(A) Integrity (D) Net
(B) Authentication (E) COBOL
(C) Confidentiality Ans. (A)
(D) Access control Q.35 Default paper size of Word
(C) Steganography documents is
Ans. (C) (A) letter
Q.31 Where are you likely to find an (B) A4
embedded operating system? (C) A3
(A) On a desktop operating system (D) Both ‘1’ and ‘3’
(B) On a networked PC (E) None of these
(C) On a network server Ans. (B)
(D) On a PDA Q.36 The smallest unit of information
(E) On a mainframe about a record in a database is called
Ans. (D) a

Q.32 Personal computers can be (A) cell

connected together to form a (B) field
(A) server (C) record
(B) supercomputer (D) query
(C) network (E) None of these
(D) enterprise Ans. (B)
Ans. (C) Q.37 Example of impact printer is
Q.33 You can keep your personal (A) jet printer
files/folders in (B) thermal printer
(A) My folder (C) laser printer
(B) My doucments
 (D) daisy wheel printer Ans. (D)
Ans. (D) Q.42 Which number system is used by
Q.38 Notification area is found on which computers to store data and perfom
side of the desktop? calculations?

(A) Left (A) binary

(B) Right (B) octal

(C) Centre (C) decimal

(D) Both ‘1’ and ‘2’ (D) hexadecimal

(E) None of these (E) None of these

Ans. (B) Ans. (A)

Q.39 Mobile commerce is best described Q.43 Motherboard is also known as

as (A) electronic board
(A) the use of kiosks in marketing (B) Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
(B) transporting products (C) combined device board
(C) buying and selling (D) Both ‘1’ and ‘3’
goods/services through wireless Ans. (B)
handheld devices
Q.44 Who invented Linux?
(D) using notebook PC’s in
marketing (A) J Presper Eckert and John W
Mauchly
Ans. (C)
(B) Dennis M Ritchie
Q.40 Which of the following is not a layer
of OSI model? (C) Seymour Papert

(A) Host to network (D) Linus Torvalds

(B) Application Ans. (D)

(C) Network Q.45. Every computer has a(n) ....... many

......... .
(D) Transport
(A) operating system, a client
(E) Data link system
Ans. (A) (B) operating system, instruction
Q.41 The collection of links throughout sets
the Internet creates an (C) application programs, an
interconnected/network called the operating system
(A) WWW (D) application programs, a client
(B) Web system
(C) World Wide Web (E) operating system, application
(D) All of these programs
 Ans. (E) (B) temporary memory
Q.46 ……… are basically questions (C) storage device
based on the data available in a (D) Both ‘2’ and ‘3’
database.
(E) None of these
(A) Forms
Ans. (B)
(B) Queries
Q.49 In which year, IBM made the first
(C) Tables electronic computer?
(D) Reports (A) 1950
Ans. (B) (B) 1951
Q.47 Which command is used to search (C) 1952
all the text files in any drive?
(D) 1953
(A) File1.txt
Ans. (D)
(B) _*.txt
Q.50 What is ‘Quick Heal’?
(C) _*.txt
(A) Antivirus
(D) File2.txt
(B) Vaccine
(E) None of these
(C) Program
Ans. (B)
(D) Software
Q.48 Cache is a
Ans. (A)
(A) permanent memory
PRACTICE SET 4
FOR COMPUTER AWARENESS

Q.1 Devices that enter information and (C) Rich format

let you communicate with the (D) Both ‘2’ and ‘3’
computer are called (A) software
(E) Plain text
(B) output devices
Ans. (D)
(C) hardware
Q.3 The free available known repair of
(D) input devices software bug on Internet is called
(E) input /output devices (A) version
Ans. (D) (B) add on
Q.2 Which of the following will be used (C) tutorial
if a sender of E-mail wants to bold,
italics etc the text message? (D) FAQ

(A) Rich signature (E) patch

(B) Rich text Ans. (E)

Q.4 What utility do you use to transfer data, produce output and store the
files and exchange messages? results for future use, is called
(A) Web browsers (A) input
(B) WWW (B) computer
(C) E-mail (C) software
(D) Hypertext (D) hardware
(E) Search engines (E) None of these
Ans. (C) Ans. (B)
Q.5 What is the function of the central Q.9 When a real-time telephone call
processing unit of a computer? between people is made over the
(A) Creates invoices Internet using computers, it is called

(B) Performs calculations and (A) a chat session

processing (B) an E-mail
(C) Deletes data (C) an instant message
(D) Corrupts the data (D) Internet telephony
(E) None of the above Ans. (D)
Ans. (B) Q.10 Which among the following was the
Q.6 The feature that keeps track of the first graphical Web browser?
right margin is (A) Mosaic
(A) find and replace (B) WAIS
(B) wordwrap (C) CERN
(C) right justified (D) Gopher
(D) left justified (E) None of these
(E) ragged right Ans. (A)
Ans. (C) Q.11 It is a set of one or more attributes
Q.7 The first computer virus is that can uniquely identify tuples
within the relation (A) Primary key
(A) creeper
(B) candidate key
(B) PARAM
(C) Foreign key
(C) the famous
(D) Alternate key
(D) HARLIE
(E) Super key
Ans. (A)
Ans. (A)
Q.8 An electronic device, operating
under the control of information, Q.12 In ER diagram, relationship type is
that can accept data, process the represented by
(A) ellipse
 (B) dashed ellipse Q.17 Computers use the …… number
(C) rectangle system to store data and perform
calculations.
(D) diamond
(A) binary
Ans. (D)
(B) octal
Q.13 The operating system called UNIX
is typically used for (C) decimal

(A) desktop computers (D) hexadecimal

(B) laptop computers Ans. (A)

(C) supercomputers Q.18 …… are attempts by individuals to

obtain confidential information
(D) Web servers from you by falsifying their
Ans. (D) identity.
Q.14 The …… file format is a method of (A) Phishing trips
encoding pictures on a computer. (B) Computer viruses
(A) HTML (C) Spyware scams
(B) JPEG (D) Viruses
(C) FTP (E) Phishing scams
(D) URL Ans. (A)
(E) DOC Q.19 The processor is a …… chip
Ans. (B) plugged onto the motherboard in a
Q.15 All of the logic and mathematical computer system.
calculations done by the computer (A) LSI
happen in/on the (A) system board (B) VLSI
(B) central control unit (C) ULSI
(C) motherboard (D) XLSI
(D) central processing unit (E) WLSI
(E) memory Ans. (C)
Ans. (D) Q.20 A computer tower is not
Q.16 To access properties of an object, (A) a CPU
the mouse technique to use is
(B) hardware
(A) dragging
(C) the heart of the computer
(B) dropping
(D) a peripheral
(C) right-clicking
Ans. (C)
(D) shift-clicking
Q.21 Which of the following is a program
Ans. (C) that uses a variety of different
 approaches to identify and eliminate Ans. (D)
spam? Q.25 Another name for a pre-
(A) Directory search programmed formula in Excel is
(B) Anti-spam program (A) range
(C) Web server (B) graph
(D) Web storefront creation (C) function
package (D) cell
(E) Virus Ans. (C)
Ans. (B) Q.26 Why is it unethical to share
Q.22 To change selected text to all capital copyrighted files with your friends?
letters, click the Change Case (A) It is not unethical, because it is
button, then click (A) Sentence legal
Case
(B) It is unethical because the files
(B) Lowercase are being given for free
(C) UPPERCASE (C) Sharing copyrighted files
(D) Capitalize Each Word without permission breaks
(E) toGGLE cASE copyright laws

Ans. (C) (D) It is not unethical because the

files are being given for free
Q.23 An online discussion group that
allows direct ‘live’ communication (E) It is not unethical-anyone can
is known as access a computer

(A) WebCrawler Ans. (C)

(B) chat group Q.27 A program for viewing Web pages

is called
(C) regional service provider
(A) Word processor
(D) hyperlink
(B) spreadsheet
(E) E-mail
(C) protocol
Ans. (B)
(D) a browser
Q.24 Codes consisting of lines of varying
widths or lengths that are computer- (E) database
readable are known as Ans. (D)
(A) an ASCII code Q.28 The term used to describe the
(B) a magnetic tape instructions that tell the computer
what to do is ……… . (A) hardware
(C) an OCR scanner
(B) software
(D) a bar code
(C) storage
(E) None of these
(D) input/output
 Ans. (B) Q.33 The speed of clock frequency or
Q.29 If your computer keeps rebooting microprocessor is measured in
itself, then it is likely that (A) hertz
(A) it has a virus (B) baud rate
(B) it does not have enough memory (C) cps
(C) there is no printer (D) bits
(D) there has been a power surge (E) bytes
(E) it needs a CD-ROM Ans. (A)
Ans. (A) Q.34 In Word, you can change page
Q.30 What type of keys are ‘Ctrl’ and margins by
‘Shift’? (A) dragging the scroll box on the
(A) Adjustment scroll bars

(B) Function (B) deleting the margin boundaries

on the ruler
(C) Modifier
(C) dragging the margin boundaries
(D) Alphanumeric on the ruler
Ans. (C) (D) clicking the right mouse button
Q.31 The cost of a given amount of on the ruler
computing power (E) None of the above
has……dramatically with the
progress of computer technology. Ans. (C)

(A) stayed the same Q.35 What type of device is a 3 1 2 inch

floppy drive?
(B) changed proportionally with the
economy (A) Input

(C) increased (B) Output

(D) fluctuated (C) Software

(E) decreased (D) Storage

Ans. (E) (E) None of these

Q.32 Assembly instructions are in the form Ans. (D)

of Q.36 Which unit controls the movement
(A) binary digits of signals between CPU and I/O?

(B) mnemonics (A) ALU

(C) general english (B) Control unit

(D) All of these (C) Memory unit

Ans. (B) (D) Secondary storage

Ans. (B)
Q.37 In Word, Replace option is (A) are smaller in size and
available on processing capability than
(A) File menu mainframe computers

(B) View menu (B) are common in majority of

households
(C) Edit menu
(C) contain thousands of
(D) Format menu microprocessors
Ans. (C) (D) are rarely used by researchers
Q.38 What are different views to display due to their lack of computing
a table in MS-Access? capacity
(A) Pivot table (E) are of the same size as laptops
(B) Design view Ans. (C)
(C) Datasheet view Q.42 ……… is a technique that is used to
(D) All of these send more than one calls over a
single line.
Ans. (D)
(A) Digital transmission
Q.39 The three main parts of the
processor are (B) Infrared transmission

(A) ALU, Control Unit and (C) Digitising

Registers (D) Streaming
(B) ALU, Control Unit and RAM (E) Multiplexing
(C) Cache, Control Unit and Ans. (E)
Registers Q.43 Which of the following is the
(D) Control Unit, Registers and second largest measurement of
RAM RAM?
(E) RAM, ROM and CD-ROM (A) Terabyte
Ans. (A) (B) Megabyte
Q.40 All the characters, that a device can (C) Byte
use are called its (D) Gigabyte
(A) skill set (E) Megahertz
(B) character alphabet Ans. (D)
(C) characters codes Q.44 Portable computer, also known as
(D) keyboard characters laptop computer, weighing between
(E) character set 4 and 10 pounds is called

Ans. (E) (A) PDA

Q.41 Supercomputers (B) Supercomputer

(C) Mainframe computer
 (D) Minicomputer Q.48 Speakers or headphones are
(E) notebook computer devices.

Ans. (E) (A) Input

Q.45 The system BIOS and ROM chips (B) Input/Output

are called (C) Software
(A) software (D) Storage
(B) firmware (E) Output
(C) hardware Ans. (E)
(D) bootware Q.49 Which type of memory holds the
Ans. (B) program to start up the computer?

Q.46 Today, the common form of RAM (A) ROM

is built with (B) RAM
(A) transistors (C) Cache
(B) vacuum tubes (D) Static
(C) semi conductors ICs (E) None of these
(D) super conductors ICs Ans. (A)
(E) None of the above Q.50 A modern electronic computer is a
Ans. (C) machine that is meant for

Q.47 The PC (Personal Computer) and (1) doing quick mathematical

the Apple Macintosh are examples calculations
of two different (2) input, storage, manipulation and
(A) platforms outputing of data 170 Learn, Revise
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(B) applications
(C) electronic data processing
(C) programs
(D) performing repetitive tasks
(D) storage devices accurately
Ans. (A) Ans. (B)