Computer Awareness - Questions and Answers ( Part- 1 )

COMPUTER AWARENESS

SET OF 50 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS 

(Important for LIC AAO Exam)

1- [   ] is a graphical package?

Answer- CorelDraw

2- A mouse, trackball, and joystick are examples of which type of devices?

Answer-  pointing devices

3-The Internet uses [   ] switching?

Answer-  Packet switching

4- What would you use for immediate, real-time communication with a friend?

Answer-  Instant Messaging

5-  [    ] is used to create newspaper style columns?

Answer- Format Columns

6- How much space in minimum must be provided between columns?

Answer -  0

7- Which operation you will perform if you need to move a block of text?

Answer - Cut and Paste

 8- The electronic switches in the ENIAC were  [   ] tubes.

 Answer - Vacuum tubes

 9- Help Menu is available at which button?

Answer – Start

 10- A [    ]is the term used when a search engine returns a Web page that matches the search criteria.

Answer – Success

 11- In Excel [     ] allows users to bring together copies of work-books that other user have worked on independently.

Answer –Merging

12- what are Compilers and interpreters?

Answer-  Programs

 13- What kind of memory is static and non - volatile?

Answer – ROM

 14- [    ] Is the Virus that overwrites the files or a few parts being replaced?

Answer-  File infectors

15- [     ] is an advantage of stored programs?

Answer - Reliability

16 – [    ]  is an Object Oriented Programming Language?

Answer - Both 2 and

 17- MICR is exclusively used in [   ].

Answer - Banking Industry

18- [   ]  is an audio input device?

Answer -Mice

19- Digital Camera is an[   ]?

Answer - Input Device

20 - The internet service that provides a multimedia interface to available resources is called [   ].

Answer - World Wide Web

21- What is the short-cut key to display save as dialog box in MS-Word?

Answer - F12

 22- MS Excel is a? 

Answer – Window based spreadsheet package

 23- The backspace key is most often used to?

Answer - Delete a character to the left of the cursor

 24- [   ] keyboard shortcuts is used to view the properties of a selected object?

Answer - Alt + Enter

25- What is the function of a Drop Cap in MS - Word?

Answer - It lets you begin a paragraph with a large dropped Initial capital letter

26- [    ] To move down a page in a document.

Answer - Scroll

27- CD-ROM stands for [    ].

Answer -  CD-read only memory

28- Use this when you want to make all letters capital without having to use the shift key for each character.

Answer- Caps lock key

 29-[    ]is a program that has been physically etched onto a chip.

Answer - Firmware

 30- The type of memory that must have a constant power supply is

Answer - SDRAM

31- What type of e-commerce is being used when a student buys a computer from Dell.com? 

Answer - B2C

 32- [   ] is the basic language of web page writing.

Answer- Hypertext mark-up language

33- The topology where all the nodes are attached in a circular wiring arrangement is called a

Answer - Ring topology

 34- Hard disk performance can be improved by using a(n)

Answer - Disk cache

35- Which is the fastest memory?

Answer - Cache Memory

 36- Which is NOT a characteristic of a system unit?

Answer - Represents data as binary numbers

37- Where are the Editing group and the Replace command found?

Answer - On the Home tab

38- What function displays row data in a column or column data in a row?

Answer - Transpose

39-  This type of software contains rows and columns.

Answer - Spreadsheet

40- Software for organizing storage and retrieval of information is a(n).

Answer - Database program

 41- To insert a word into the middle of a sentence.

Answer - Move the cursor to the desired location in the sentence and type the new word

42- A high-speed transmission line that carries WAN traffic is called a.

Answer - Backbone

43- A DVD is an example of a(n).

Answer - Optical disc

44- Grouping and processing all of a firm's transactions at one time is called.

Answer – Batch processing

 45- Semi Conductor Memory is known as?

Answer - RAM

46- Every computer on the Internet is known as?

Answer - Host

47- A spiral shape track formatting is present in.

Answer - Optical Disk

48- [   ] Types of virus that stays permanently in the RAM memory .

Answer - Resident

 49- [   ] groups contains graphical file extensions?

Answer - JPG, GIF, BMP

50- A number system with a base of two is referred as.

Answer – Binary number system