Computer Awareness Questions Answers Govt Competitive Exams MCQ's




Question 151 :
Which hole is used to mark the location of the first sector in a soft?sectored disk?

  1. Address
  2. Location
  3. Label
  4. Index
  

Question 152 :
An example of a processings device would be

  1. a magnetic ink reader
  2. a tablet PC
  3. Special function cards
  4. scanners
  

Question 153 :
Process is

  1. a program in high?level language kep on hard disk
  2. contents of main memory
  3. a program in execution
  4. a job in secondary memory
  

Question 154 :
The ______ tells the computer how to use its components?

  1. utility
  2. network
  3. operating system
  4. application program
  

Question 155 :
Linux is a type of ___________

  1. Freeware
  2. Shareware
  3. Open Source Software
  4. Public Domain Software
  

Question 156 :
An interrupt can be temporarily ignored by the counter is called _______

  1. Maskable Interrupt
  2. Non-maskable Interrupt
  3. vectored Interrupt
  4. None of the Above
  

Question 157 :
What is the minimum and maximum zoom sizes in MS Office?

  1. 10, 100
  2. 20, 250
  3. 10, 500
  4. 10, 1000
  

Question 158 :
The term ............. designates equipment that might beadded to a computer system to enhance, its functionality

  1. digitial device
  2. system add-on
  3. disk pack
  4. peripheral device
  

Question 159 :
Which of the following is NOT a Microsoft Internet tool technology?

  1. Dream Weaver
  2. Internet Explorer
  3. Outlook Express
  4. Silverlight
  

Question 160 :
Microsoft is an example of

  1. an operating system
  2. a processing device
  3. application software
  4. an input device
  

Question 161 :
Which input device is usually a standard feature of laptops?

  1. Graphic Tablet
  2. Numeric Keyboard
  3. touch pad
  4. Magnetic Stripe reader
  

Question 162 :
_______ is an input device that converts analog information into digital form

  1. Plotter
  2. Track Ball
  3. Light Pen
  4. Digitizer
  

Question 163 :
ALU and Control Unit have special purpose locations called _______

  1. Registers
  2. Mother Board
  3. Sockets
  4. None of the Above
  

Question 164 :
CPU capacity can be measured in

  1. BPS
  2. MIPS
  3. MHz
  4. MPI
  

Question 165 :
Computers manipulate data in many ways, and this manipulation is called ________.

  1. utilizing
  2. batching
  3. upgrading
  4. processing
  

Question 166 :
Which of the following is/are example(s) of an Operating System?

  1. UNIX
  2. Linux
  3. Windows XP
  4. All of the above
  

Question 167 :
Press __________ to move the insertion point to the address box, or to highlight the URL in the address box.

  1. Alt+D
  2. Alt+A
  3. Shift+Tab
  4. Tab+Ctrl
  

Question 168 :
______ is the first layer of software loaded into computer memory when it starts up

  1. Device Drivers
  2. Language translators
  3. System Utilities
  4. Operating system
  

Question 169 :
_____ are words that a programming language has set aside for its own use?

  1. Control words
  2. Reserved words
  3. Control structures
  4. Reserved keys
  

Question 170 :
________ is the process of carrying out commands.

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

Question 171 :
Which of the following is the largest unit of storage?

  1. GB
  2. KB
  3. MB
  4. TB
  

Question 172 :
DNS is extremely important for the correct functioning of the Internet as it

  1. encrypts data
  2. maps symbolic names for machines onto their IP address
  3. translates message into machine language
  4. All the above
  

Question 173 :
CPU can directly understand this language

  1. C
  2. C++
  3. Assembly
  4. Java
  

Question 174 :
Which process checks to ensure the components of the computer and operating are connected properly?

  1. Booting
  2. Processing
  3. Saving
  4. Editing
  

Question 175 :
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 176 :
________ fields store the numbers used for calculation in database.

  1. Next
  2. Key
  3. Numeric
  4. Alphanumeric
  

Question 177 :
Which involves photo scanning of the text character by character, analysis of the scanned in image , and then translation of the character image into character code?

  1. OCR
  2. OMR
  3. Bar code Reader
  4. None of the Above
  

Question 178 :
Which of the following views is present in Power Point?

  1. Document view
  2. Slide sorter view
  3. Slide changer view
  4. Play slide view
  

Question 179 :
C++ is

  1. a procedure?oriented language
  2. a problem?oriented language
  3. an object?oriented language
  4. a program?oriented language
  

Question 180 :
Which bus connects all the internal components of a computer such as CPU and memory to the main board(motherboard)?

  1. Expansion Bus
  2. External Bus
  3. Internal Bus
  4. None of the Above