COMPUTER MCQs 1.

The basic operations performed by a computer are 1)Arthmetic operation 2)Logical and relative 3)Storage and relative 4)All of the above 5)None of these 2. -----is an area of a computer that temporarily holds data that is waiting to be processed, stored, or output. 1)Memory 2)Storage 3)Input 4)Output 5)None of these 3. ---is tool to browse all disks connected to the computer? 4. Deleted files can be recalled from recycle bin in windows by? 1)Copy 2)Restore 3)Paste 4)Open 5) None of these 5. Central processing unit consists of 3 main components? 1)Control Unit, Arthmetic Logic Unit, Memory Unit 2)input Unit, Memory Unit, Output Unit 3)control Unit, Input Unit, Memory Unit 4)Control Unit, Disk Drive, Memory Unit 5) None of these 6. In the URL www.abc.com, .com signifies that it is a commercial site. Which of the following extension specifies that the site is an educational site? 1).org 2).edu 3).com 4).net 5) None of these 7. When sending an e-mail, the --- line describes the contents of the message? 1)Subject 2)cc 3)to 4)address 4)None of these 8. The third generation computer was made with----? 1)vacuum tube 2)Discrete Components 3)IC 4)Bio Chips 5) None of these 9. The resolution of the screen is indicated by? 1)Pixel 2)dots 3)lines 4)colors 5)None of the above 10. Which of the following valleys of America, is popularly known as Silicon Valley of America? 1)Imperial Valley 2)Santa Clara Valley 3)Beaver Creek Valley 4)Champlain Valley 5) None of these 11. Which of the following is not computer language? 1)High level language 2)Medium Level Language 3)Low level language 4)all of the above 5) None of these 12. Which of the following is best suited for preparing Presentation? 1)Excel 2)Unix 3)Windows 4)Powerpoint 5) None of these 13. URL, is address of the file accessible on the Internet, stands for? 1)Uniform Reply Locator 2)Uniform Resource Locator 3)Uniform Route Locator 4)Uniform Region Locator 5) None of these

14. What is system analysis? 1)The design of the screen the user will see and use to enter or display data 2)System analysis defines the format and type of data the program will use 3)System Analysis involving creating formal model of the problem to be solved 4)All of the above 5) None of these 15. When a network is confined to a single location, it is called? 1)LAN 2)WAN 3)Internet 4)Intranet 5) None of these 16. Programs are used to create numeric-based documents such as budgets or balance sheets? 1)Word Processing 3)presentation 3)spread sheet 4)power point 5) None of these 17. The short cut command for selecting the complete document is? 1)Ctrl+Z 2)Ctrl+f 3)Ctrl+s 4)Ctrl+A 5) None of these 18. These chips are specifically designed to handle the processing requirements related to displaying and manipulating 3-D images? 1)Graphics coprocessors 2)arithmetic-logic unit processors 3)control unit processors 4)CISC chips 5) None of these 19. ---is a process of creating a duplicate set of programs or date files for safekeeping? 1)Booting 2)Initializing 3)Backing up 4)Restoring 5) None of these 20. For web navigation following software is/are used? 1)Google Chrome 2)Mozilla Firefox 3)Internet Explorer 4)All of the above 5) None of these 21. Which operating system doesnt support networking between computers? 1)windows 3.1 2)Windows 95 3)Windows 4)Windows NT 5) None of these 22. Which of the following types of printers can be classified as a non-impact printer? 1) Dot Matrix Printers 2) Daisy Wheel Printers 3) Drum Printers 4) Ink jet Printers 5)None of the above 23. The devices are connected in mother board via? 1)ports 2)hubs 3)Switches 4)Bus 5) None of these 24. Which of these is not a Microsoft operating system? 1)Windows XP 2)Windows NT 3)Windows 97 4)Windows ME 5) None of these 25. Loading operating system onto RAM is called? 1)Printing 2)Saving 3)Booting 4)Starting 5) None of these

26. A file name has two parts ie, Primary name and Extension name, which are separated by a? 1)Space 2)comma 3)dot 4)colon 5)None of these 27. Basic purpose of the testing of the program is? 1)To detect software failures so that defects may be discovered and corrected 2)To remove the bugs and also to reduce the labour cost 3)to ensure that programme is meeting the specified requirement 4)all of the above 5) None of these 28. The hierarchy of data, arranged in ascending order is? 1)Database-Bit-Byte-Record-file 2)Bit-Byte-Field-Record-File-Database 3)Bit-Byte-Record-File 4)Byte-Record-File 5) None of these 29. A single click on a program icon on desktop will? 1)Select the programme 2)copy the programme 3)open the programme 4)Close the programme 5) None of these 30. Which feature moves the text automatically to the next line while typing in notepad? 1)Word Wrap 2)Justify 3)Compress 4)Alignment 5) None of these 31. Which of the following terms is associated with high-speed connection? 1)TCP/IP 2)Dial-up access 3)Ethernet 4)Broadband 5)None of these 32. ISDN which is a set of standard for digital transmission over ordinary telephone, stands for? 1)International Standard Digital Network 2)Integrated Standard Data Network 3)Integrated Services Digital Network 4)International Service Data network 5)None of these 33. Linux is an example of ? 1)Operating system 2)Input Device 3)Output Device 4)Terminal 5) None of these 34. The short cut key to switch between different applications is? 1)Alt+F1 2)Alt+Tab 3)Shift+Tab 4)Ctrl+Tab 5) None of these

35. Through which device the main components of the computer communicate with each other? 1)Keyboard 2)System Bus 3)Monitor 4)Memory 5) None of these 36. Memory unit is one part of? 1)Input device 2)control Unit 3)Output device 4)Central Processing Unit 5) None of these 37. The menu option to delete all the files present in the Recycle Bin is? 1)Fll recycle Bin 2)Restore 3)Empty Recycle Bin 4)Full Delete 5) None of these 38. Group of computers connected to share resources within Local Area Network environment constitute a ? 1)Workstation 2)Workgroup 3)Network 4)Server 5) None of these 39. Which of the following e-mail address is incorrect? 1)abcd_123@xyz.com 2)abc((4))123#xyz.com 3)123abc@xyz.com 4)1@xyz.com 5) None of these 40. We can save our favourite websites in a browser as? 1)favourites 2)save 3)bookmark 4)Both 1 and 2 5) None of these 41. The purpose of using computers in an organization is? 1)To be able to get on the internet 2)To process data into information 3)To produce reports, text, images etc 4)all of the above 5) None of these 42. Documentation while developing a software for a bank is required for? 1)Editing 2)Auditing 3)Correction 4)All of the above 5)None of these 43. A computer checks the ---of user names and passwords for a match before granting access? 1)Website 2)database 3)backup file 4)network 5)None of these 44. What is E-mail attachment? 1)A receipt sent by the recipient 2)A malicious parasite that feeds off of your messages and destroys the contents 3)A computer file sent along with an email message 4)Confirmation of received E-mail 5)None of these 45. Which of the following phases are present in a software development life cycle? 1)Coding 2)Analysis 3)design 4)all of the above 5) None of these

46. Which of the following is not a correct match? 1)Oracle-Larry Ellison 2)Microsoft-Bill Gates 3)wipro-Azim Premji 4)Infosys-Nandan Nilekani 5)HCL-shiv Nadar 47. Which of the following is to be done by the auditor while internet banking services audit? 1)Tour the server room 2)The user is not allowed to log-in after defined repeated failed attempts 3)Contract clearly states the services that will be provided byt eh vendor 4)All of the above 5) None of these 48. Which of the following softwares is not a(n) internet browser? Netscape 2)00google 3)Internet Explorer 4)Mozilla Firefox 5) None of these 49. Which of the following is not an search engine? 1)Bing 2)Google 3)Orkut 4)Duck Duck Go 5) None of these 50. The facility to reduce taskbar to thin line when the taskbar or start button is not in use is called as? 1)Hide 2)Disable 3)Auto Hide 4)Disappear 5) None of these 51. What is the full form of a computer language Basic? 1)Beginners all purpose symbolic information code 2)Beginners all purpose symbolic instruction code 3)Beginners all purpose symbolic interchange code 4)Beginners all purpose symbolic IT code 5) None of these 52. The kind of the memory that comes from the CPU that is erased when you shut the computer off or exit the program that you were in? 1)ROM 2)RAM 3)CACHE 4)Flash Drive 5)Hard Drive 53. Electronic telecommunications system joining many thousands of computers together? 1)e-mail 2)chatting 3)internet 4)WAN 5) None of these 54. A computeris a set of program instructions that can attach itself to a file, reproduce itself, and spread the other files? 1)worm 2)virus 3)Trojan horse 4)phishing scam 5)None of these 55. An---camera is peripheral device used to capture transferred into a computer and manipulated using graphics software? 1)digital 2)analog 3)classic 4)film 5) None of these 56. A telephone number, a birth date, and a customer name are all examples of? 1)a record 2)data 3)a file 4)a database 5)None of these

57. In MICR, C stands for? 1)Code 2)Colour 3)Computer 4)Character 5) None of these 58. Which of the following would cause quickest access? 1)Direct access from a magnetic tape 2)Direct access from a hard disk 3)direct access from a floppy disk 4)direct access from a cassette tape 5)None of these 59. The second Generation of computers used? 1)IC-Chip 2)Transistors 3)Vacuum tubes 4)Microprocessor chip 5) None of these 60. Laptop PCs are also known as computers? 1)Mainframe 2)Super 3)Notebook 4)Personal 5) None of these 61. A---is a special device that is installed in your computer that allows it to communicate with other devices on a network? 1)Web browser 2)network adapter 3)Bluetooth 4)LAN 5)WiFi 62. Machine Language is? 1)Machine dependent 2)Difficult to program 3)Error prone 4)All of the above 5) None of these 63. The programs which are as permanent as hardware and stored in ROM is known as? 1)Hardware 2)Software 3)Firmware 4)ROM ware 5) None of these 64. Which one of the following is unlikely to be the number of keys in the standard keyboard? 1)101 2)104 3)107 4)109 5) None of these 65. Which one indicates the data transfer rate of modem? 1)100 kvos 2)2.6 GHz 3)129mb 4)18watts 5)None of these 66. A file with extension jpeg stores which type of files? 1)Data document 2)Pictures 3)Movies 4)Music 5)None of these 67. A real time communication session involving video and audio data for the participants over a network spanning long distance? 1)Broadcasting 2)Routing 3)Video conferencing 4)Chatting 5)None of these 68. Cursor is a---? 1)Pixel 2)Thin blinking line 3)Pointing device 4)Mouse 5)None of these 69. Which of the following utilities used to monitor and restrict all the file transfer between two networks? 1)Web server 2)Firewall 3)Internet Explorer 4)Lan 5)None of these

70. Name the branch of science which tries to make computer work like human beings? 1)Forensic Science 2)Encryptlogy 3)Virtual reality 4)Artificial Intelligence 5)Biometrics 71. The bar at the top of a window that bears the name of the window is known as? 1)Control Panel 2)Taskbar 3)menu bar 4)Status bar 5)Title bar 72. Use of recycle bin in computer? 1)It contains deleted files and folders 2)It contains the files used for backup 3)It contains the file information on the disk 4)it contains system files 5)None of these 73. We can get ---menu by pressing Alt+F in mostly softwares? 1)File 2)Format 3)Find 4)Edit 5)None of these 74. Which device is used as the standard pointing device in a Graphical User Environment? 1)Keyboard 2)Mouse 3)Joystick 4)Track ball 5)None of these 75. ----devices store instructions or data that the CPU processes? 1)Out put 2)Memory 3)Input 4)Storage 5)None of these 76. Which of the following storage devices can store maximum amount of data? 1)Floppy Disk 2)Hard Disk 3)Compact Disk 4)Magneto Optic Disk 5) None of these 77. What is the first stage in software development? 1)System analysis 2)Specification and design 3)Testing 4)Maintenance 5) None of these 78. Which is not the function of the Operating system? 1)Memory management 2)Disk Management 3)Application management 4)Virus Protection 5) None of these 79. To close a program, you would? 1)shut down the computer 2)click the in the top right hand corner 3)click the middle box in the top right hand corner 4)click the X in the top right hand corner 5) None of these 80. A device that operates under the control of another device is called? 1)Stem 2)Slave 3)Simulator 4)Emulator 5) None of these 81. To publish a magazine a--- application would be best? 1)word processing 2)desktop publishing 3)spreadsheet 4)presentation graphics 5) None of these 82. A computer falls into the ---category if it is, at the time of construction, one of the fastest computers in the world? 1)minicomputer 2)supercomputer 3)microcomputer 4)mainframe 5)none of these

83. The speed of super computers is measured in? 1)kilo bytes 2)instructions per second 3)floating point operations per second 4)dots per inch 5) None of these 84. Which company revolutionized the micro-computer industry by marketing personal computers in 1980? 1)Apple 2)IBM 3)DELL 4)Microsoft 5) None of these 85. Which element is used for making the connecting leads in an IC chip? 1)silicon 2)germanium 3)lead 4)aluminum 5) None of these 86. How was the generation of computer classified? 1)by the device used in memory & processor 2)by the speed of computer 3)by the model of the computer 4)by the accuracy of computer 5) None of these 87. Operating system, editors, and debuggers comes under? 1)System software 2)Application software 3)Utilities 4)Administrator 5) None of these 88. Which of the following is the earliest calculating device? 1)abacus 2)Clock 3)Difference Engine 4)Calculator 5) None of these 89. Which file keeps commands to execute automatically when OS is started? 1)command.com 2)any batch file 3)autoexec.bat 4)config.sys 5) None of these 90. What is the shortcut key to Undo the last action in a document? 1)Ctrl+X 2)Ctrl+Y 3)Ctrl+Z 4)Ctrl+U 5) None of these 91. What is meaning of the term DEBUG? 1)to remove virus 2)to remove errors from program 3)to improve the system performance 4)to improve the language 5) None of these 92. Which device cannot be used for authentication? 1)Flatbed scanner 2)Fingerprint sensor 3)Voice recognition system 4)Retina scanner 5) None of these 93. IP stands for? 1)International Protocal 2)Internet Protocol 3)Indian protocol 4)Internet Programme 5) None of these 94. Which device is used by Banks in Order to minimize conversion process? 1)Scanner 2)MICR 3)OCR 4) ATM 5)None of these

95. This device allows you to transfer pictures form the paper onto the computer? 1)Printer 2)Mouse 3)Keyboard 4)Scanner 5)None of these 96. When a computer is first turned on or restarted, a special type of absolute loader called--is executed? 1)Compile and Go loader 2)Boot Loader 3)Boost strap Loader 4)Relating Loader 5)None of these 97. Algorithm and flow chart helps us? 1)Know the memory capacity 2)Identify the base of a number system 3)Direct the output to a printer 4)Specify the problem completely and clearly 5) None of these 98. Which of the following devices have a limitation that we can only store information to it but cannot erase or modify it? 1)floppy Disk 2)hard Disk 3)Tape Drive 4)CDROM 4)Pen Drive 99. The most common type of memory that the computer uses to process data is---? 1)ROM 2)RAM 3)Cache 4)Permanent 5) None of these 100. A computer cannot boot if it does not have the? 1)Complier 2)Loader 3)Operating system 4)Assembler 5) None of these 101. What the mean of ASCII? 1)American Standard Code of Information IT 2)American Standard Code of Information interpreter 3)American standard code of information Interchange 4)American standard code of information interface 5) None of these 102. A chip on the mother board that searches for the CPU, MEMORY, and HARD DRIVE when the computer is tuned on initially? 1)RAM 2)ROM 3)CACHE 4)processor 5) BIOS 103. Comes from the two words, picture element thousands of small dots arranged in parallel rows to form an image on the screen? 1)pielem 2)pixels 3)picment 4)pint 5)dot 104. To find a saved document in the computers memory and bring it up on the screen to view? 1)reverse 2)return 3)retrieve 4)restore 5) None of these 105. Refers to a combination of text, graphics, sound, animation and video? 1)multiplication 2)multimedia 3)software 4)designing 5) None of these

106. Provides a fast, economical and convenient way to send messages to another computer using a modem? 1)e-mail 2)sms 3)chatting 4)internet 5) None of these 107. Use the mouse, put the printer on an object, hold down the button, move the mouse, and release moves an object to a new location? 1)copy 2)cut 3)drag 4)drop 5) hold 108. An input device used to read text and bar codes or a device to input pictures into a computer? 1)printer 2)scanner 3)reader 4)hardware 5) None of these 109. The bar, that is usually located immediately below the menu bar in a window is called a? 1)toor bar 2)task bar 3)catalog bar 4)Window bar 5) None of these 110. The word, modem stands for? 1)Modern equipment 2)Modulate-demodulate 3)Medium emphasis 4)Modular emphasis 5) None of these 111. To put information in a file on a magnetic disk, or in a computer a memory, so it can be used later? 1)share 2)store 3)centre 4)shift 5) None of these 112. Sets indention, columns and spaces or margins temporarily? 1)space bar 2)enter 3)tab keys 4)arrows 5) None of these 113. Program designed to destroy data on your computer which can travel to Infect other computers? Disease 2)threat 3)torpedo 4)virus 5) None of these 114. Any letter, number, or symbol found on the keyboard that you can type into the computer? 1)Character 2)input 3)type 4)print 5) None of these 115. An e-mail address typically consists of a user ID followed by the sign and the name of the email server that manages the users electronic post office box? 1)@ 2)# 3)& 4)* 5) None of these 116. A file extension is separated from the main file name with an ---but no spaces? 1)Question mark 2)exclamantion mark 3)underscore 4)period 5) None of these 117. Bug means ? 1)A logical error in a programme 2)Documenting programme using an efficient documentation too 3)A difficult syntax error in a programme 4)A virus 5) None of these

118. C, BASIC, COBAL, and Java are examples of ---languages? 1)Low-level 2)computer 3)system programming 4)high-level 5)None of these 119. Networks are monitored by security personnel and supervised by---who sets up accounts and passwords for authorized network users? 1)IT managers 2)the government 3)network administrators 4)password administrators 5) None of these 120. Application software is designed to accomplish? 1)real world tasks 2)computer-centric tasks 3)gaming tasks 4)operating system tasks 5) None of these 121. A large number of computers in a wide geographical area can be efficiently connected by? 1)Twisted pair lines 2)coaxial cables 3)communications satellites 4)Wide area network 5) None of these 122. Each model of a computer has a unique? 1)Assembly of a computer 2)machine language 3)High level language 4)all of the above 5) None of these 123. Computer follows a simple principle called GIGO which means? 1)Garbage input good output 2)garbage in garbage out 3)great instructions great output 4)good input and good output 5) None of these 124. What is usually used for displaying information at public places? 1)Monitors 2)Overhead projections 3)Monitors and overhead projection 4)Touch Sceen Kiosks 5) None of these 125. A directory within a directory is called? 1)Mini Directory 2)Junior Directory 3)Part Directory 4)Sub Directory 5)None of these 126. Multiple choice examination answer sheets can be evaluated automatically by? 1)Optical Mark Reader 2)Optical Character Reader 3)Magnetic tape reader 4)Magnetic ink character reader 5)None of these

127. Magnetic tapes are good storage media for? 1)Backup and low volume data 2)backup and high volume data 3)storing original but low volume data 4)storing original but high volume data 5) None of these 128. ---is a signaling method that handles a relatively wide range of frequencies? 1)Broad Band 2)DSL 3)Dial-up 4)Both I and III 5)None of these 129. The-also called the brain of the computer is responsible for processing data? 1)mother board 2)memory 3)RAM 4)CPU 5) None of these 130. When you connect to the ---your computer is communicating with a server at your internet service provider(ISP)? 1)Modem 2)Internet 3)Phone line 4)Mobile 5) None of these 131. The components that process data are located in the? 1)input devices 2)output devices 3)system unit 4)storage component 5) None of these 132. The term designates equipment that might be added to a computer system to enhance? 1)digital device 2)system add-on 3)disk pack 4)peripheral device 5) None of these 133. A disks content that is recorded at the time of manufacture and that cannot be changed or erased by the user is? 1)read-only 2)memory only 3)run-only 4)write-only 5) None of these 134. The term baud is a measure of the? 1)Speed at which data travels over the communication line 2)Memory capacity 3)Instruction execution time 4)all of the above 5) None of these 135. When you save to your data will remain intact even when the computer is turned off? 1)RAM 2)Motherboard 3)Secondary storage device 44)Primary Storage device 5) None of these 136. The errors that can be pointed out by the complier are? 1)syntax errors 2)semantic errors 3)logical errors 4)system errors 5) None of these 137. The mother board is the? 1)circuit board that houses peripheral devices 2)same as the CPU chip 3)the first dup that is accessed when the computer is turned on

4)circuit board that contains a CPU and other chips 5)None of these 138. Which of the following commands is use for deleting a file permanently from our computer? 1)Shift + del 2)Ctrl+del 3)Clear4)Alt+del 5) None of these 139. Terminal is a? 1)device to give power supply to computer 2)point at which data centers or leaves the computer is turned on 4)circuit board that contains a CPU and other chips 5)None of these 140. are lists of commands that appear on the screen? 1)GUIs 2)Icons 3)Menus 4)Windows 5) None of these 141. You would use---software to create spreadsheets, type documents, and edit photos? 1)application 2)system 3)windows 4)designing 5) None of these 142. Which of the following terms not correctly matched with their means? 1)Bit-short for binary digit 2)Binary language-consists of 0s and 1s 3)instructions-data or information that can be accessed again 4)system unit-the case that contains the system components 5)nanotechonology-the science revolving around the use of nanostructure to build devices on an extremely small scale. 143. Most computer systems rely solely on---for authentication? 1)logins 2)passwords 3)encryption 4)lock and key 5) None of these 144. The basic memory in which random access is not possible is called? 1)ROM 2)RAM 3)Cache 4)Flash 5) None of these 145. What type of virus uses computer hosts to reproduce itself? 1)Time bomb 2)Worm 3)Melissa virus 4)Macro virus 5) None of these 146. Macintosh computers use the macintosh operating system (Mac Os), where as PCs generally run---as an operating system? 1)MS Office 2)Microsoft windows 3)Software 4)Cobal 5) None of these 147. The button on the quick access toolbar allows you to cancel your recent commands or actions? 1)Search 2)Cut 3)Document 4)Undo 5) None of these 148. Which of the following hold the ROM, CPU, RAM and expansion cards? 1)Hard disk 2)Cache memory 3)Motherboard 4)CPU 4)None of these 149. The communication line between the CPU, memory and peripherals is called a? 1)Bus 2)line 3)media 4)cable 5) None of these

150. Programs such as Internet Explorer that serve as navigable windows into the web are called? 1)Hypertext 2)Networks 3)Internet 4)Web browsers 5) None of these

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