Computer Awareness Questions Answers Govt Competitive Exams MCQ's




Question 1291 :
The method of accessing the I/O devices by repeatedly checking the status flags is_________

  1. Memory-mapped I/O
  2. Program-controlled I/O
  3. I/O mapped
  4. None of the Above
  

Question 1292 :
Technique to implement virtual memory where memory is divided into units of fixed size memory is _________

  1. Paging
  2. De-fragments
  3. Segmentation
  4. None of the above
  

Question 1293 :
The ______ may also be called the screen or monitor

  1. Scanner
  2. Display
  3. Hard Disk
  4. None of the Above
  

Question 1294 :
Information travels between components on the mother board through

  1. Flash memory
  2. CMOS
  3. Bays
  4. Buses
  

Question 1295 :
The ability to find an individual item in a file immediately _______ is used?

  1. file allocation table
  2. directory
  3. sequential access
  4. direct access
  

Question 1296 :
A Proxy server is used for which of the following?

  1. To provide security against unauthorized users
  2. To process client requests for web pages
  3. To provide TCP/IP
  4. To process client requests for database access
  

Question 1297 :
A world processor would most likely be used to do which of the following?

  1. keep an account of money spent
  2. maintain an inventory
  3. type a biography
  4. do a computer search in the media centre
  

Question 1298 :
To access the properties of an object, the mouse technique to use is

  1. dragging
  2. dropping
  3. right?clicking
  4. shift?clicking
  

Question 1299 :
Direct Thermal printer does not use _________

  1. heat
  2. coated paper
  3. ribbon
  4. None of the Above
  

Question 1300 :
What kind of scheme is the HTTP protocol?

  1. get/put
  2. store/forward
  3. queuing
  4. request/response
  

Question 1301 :
Linux is a(n) ........ operating system

  1. open-source
  2. Microsoft
  3. Windows
  4. Mac
  

Question 1302 :
Which of the following is NOT a logic gate?

  1. AND
  2. OR
  3. NAND
  4. None of these
  

Question 1303 :
A paint program keeps track of every _________ placed on the screen.

  1. Image
  2. object
  3. pixel
  4. color
  

Question 1304 :
A character of information is represented by a(n)

  1. byte
  2. bit
  3. field
  4. attribute
  

Question 1305 :
Who coined the term ?Artificial Intelligence??

  1. Charles Babbage
  2. Alan Tuning
  3. Von Neumann
  4. John McCarthy
  

Question 1306 :
The process where in the processor constantly checks the status flags is called as _________

  1. Polling
  2. Inspection
  3. Reviewing
  4. None of the Above
  

Question 1307 :
To ________a document menas to make changes to its existing content.

  1. format
  2. save
  3. edit
  4. print
  

Question 1308 :
If a user needs information instantly available to the CPU, it should be stored

  1. on a CD
  2. in secondary storage
  3. in the CPU
  4. in BIOS
  

Question 1309 :
What is backup?

  1. Adding more components to your network
  2. Protecting data by copying it from the original source to a different destination
  3. Filtering old data from the new data
  4. Accessing data on tape
  

Question 1310 :
_________ is the process of carrying out commands.

  1. Fetching
  2. Storing
  3. Executing
  4. Decoding
  

Question 1311 :
A step?by?step procedure for accomplishing a task is known as a(n)

  1. algorithm
  2. hardware program
  3. software bug
  4. firmware program
  

Question 1312 :
Which grouping do you work with when formatting text in word?

  1. Tables, paragraphs and indexes
  2. Paragraphs, indexes and sections
  3. Characters, sections and paragraphs
  4. Indexes, characters and tables
  

Question 1313 :
Which register keeps tracks of the instructions in the programstored in memory?

  1. Address Register
  2. Index Register
  3. Program Counter
  4. None of the Above
  

Question 1314 :
This part of operating system manages the essential peripherals, such as the keyboard, screen, disk drives and parallel and serial ports ______

  1. basic input/output
  2. secondary system
  3. peripheral system
  4. marginal system
  

Question 1315 :
A _____ terminal does not process or store data

  1. dumb
  2. intelligent
  3. Both(A) - (B)
  4. None of the Above
  

Question 1316 :
Airlines resevation system is a typical example of

  1. Batch processing
  2. On?line processing
  3. Real time processing
  4. Both 2) and 3)
  

Question 1317 :
_______ is a method of storing data bits using magnetic charges instead of the electrical charges used by DRAM

  1. VRAM
  2. WRAM
  3. MRAM
  4. None of the above
  

Question 1318 :
Reference to each file on a disk are stored in a

  1. file allocation table
  2. root allocation table
  3. linking directory
  4. root directory
  

Question 1319 :
The ability to find an individual item in a file immediately _____ is used.

  1. File allocation table
  2. Directory
  3. Sequential access
  4. Direct access
  

Question 1320 :
Viruses are called that because

  1. They are viruses
  2. They can copy themselves and spread
  3. Both (a) and (b)
  4. None of the above