Computer Awareness Test - ONLINE

* Each question carry equal marks.

Total marke 10.        No minus marking.

1. A ____________ is approximately one billion bytes.
A. kilobyte
B. bit
C. gigabyte
D. megabyte
2. The ____________, also called the “brains” of the computer, is responsible for processing data.
A. motherboard
B. memory
C. RAM
D. central processing unit (CPU)
3. The PC (personal computer) and the Apple Macintosh are examples of two different:
A. platforms
B. applications
C. programs
D. storage devices
4. Servers are computers that provide resources to other computers connected to a:
A. network
B. mainframe
C. supercomputer
D. client
5. Computers use the ____________ language to process data.
A. processing
B. kilobyte
C. binary
D. representational
6. ____________ is the science that attempts to produce machines that display the same type of intelligence that humans do.
A. Nanoscience
B. Nanotechnology
C. Simulation
D. Artificial intelligence
7. ____________ controls the way in which the computer system functions and provides a means by which users can interact with the computer.
A. The platform
B. The operating system
C. Application software
D. The motherboard
8. The two broad categories of software are:
A. word processing and spreadsheet.
B. transaction and application
C. Windows and Mac OS.
D. system and application.
9. ____________terminals (formerly known as cash registers) are often connected to complex inventory and sales computer systems.
A. Data
B. Point-of-sale (POS)
C. Sales
D. Query
10. Which of the following is NOT one of the four major data processing functions of a computer?
A. gathering data
B. processing data into information
C. analyzing the data or information
D. storing the data or information
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