1.

A word in a web page that, when (c) It does all process management tasks
clicked, opens another document. (d) All of the above
(a) anchor (b) URL Ans. All of the above
(c) hyperlink (d) reference 7. Which process check to ensure the
Ans. Hyperlink components of the computer are
operating and connected properly?
2. Which key will launch the Start button. (a) Booting (b) Processing
(a) esc (b) Shift (c) Saving (d) Editing
(c) Windows (d) Shortcut Ans. Booting
Ans. Shortcut
8. The ability of an operating system to run
3. Computers use the __________ number more than one application at a time is
system to store data and perform called _________.
calculations. (a) Multi-tasking
(a) decimal (b) hexadecimal (b) Object-oriented programming
(c) binary (d) octal (c) Multi-user computing
Ans. Binary (d) Real-Time
Ans. Multi-tasking
4. Floppy drives, hard drives and tape
drives all use a __________ to read data. 9. Which of the following is used to switch
(a) laser (b) sensor between open programs?
(c) magnet (d) pen (a) Alt+tab (b) Ctrl+tab
Ans. Magnet (c) Shift+tab (d) Ctrl+Alt
Ans.Alt+tab
5. The number of pixels displayed on a
screen is known as the screen ………… . 10.Which among the following is a
(a) resolution (b) colour depth language used in a computer that is very
(c) refresh rate (d) viewing size similar to, the language of humans and is
Ans. Resolution easy to understand?
(a) Source Code
6. What is an Operating system? (b) Machine Language
(a) It is an interface between User (c) High Level Language
and the Computer (d) Object Code
(b) It manages all resources Ans. High Level Language
11.The first electronic digital computer 16. A____________ is an electronic device
contained _________? that process data, converting it into
(a) Electronic valves information.
(b) Neural Networks (a) processor (b) computer
(c) Fuzzy Logic (c) case (d) stylus
(d) Semiconductor memory Ans. Computer
Ans. Electronic Valves
17. __________ computers represent data as
12. What is the sequence of events that variable points along a continuous
occurs in the computer when it is spectrum of values.
interpreting and executing an instruction (a) Analog (b) Digital
known as? (c) Precise (d) Mainframe
(a) Execution cycle Ans. Analog
(b) Instruction cycle
(c) Working cycle 18. What happens when you boot up a PC?
(d) Machine cycle (a) Portions of the operating system are
Ans. Instruction cycle copied from disk into memory
(b) Portions of the operating system are
13. is a Windows utility program that copied from memory onto disk
located and eliminates unnecessary (c) Portions of the Operating system are
fragments and rearranges filed and complied
unused to disk space to optimise (d) Portions of the operating system are
operations. ____ emulated
(a) Backup Ans. Portions of the operating system are
(b) Disk cleanup copied from disk into memory
(c) Disk defragmenter
(d) Restore 19. Which of the following is not a computer
Ans. Disk defragmenter language?
(a) High-level language
14. A __________ is an electronic device (b) Machine language
that process data, converting it into (c) Low-level language
information. (d) Medium-level language
(a) processor (b) computer Ans. Medium-level language
(c) case (d) stylus
Ans. Computer 20. The ______________ folder retains copies
of messages that you have started but are
15. Which command is used to set a name not yet ready to send.
to a disk in DOS? (a) Drafts (b) Outbox
(a) VOLUME (b) VOL (c) Address Book (d) Sent Items
(c) LABEL (d) DISKLABEL Ans. Draft
Ans. DISKLABLE
21. Linux is an OS based on_____ Linux 27. Which of the following is/are file
(a) DBMS (b) UNIX extension(s) in DOS?
(c) Network node (d) J2EEE (a) EXE (b) BAT
Ans. UNIX (c) COM (d) All of these
Ans. All the these
22. Which of the following is used to close a
tab on a browser? 28. Multi-user systems provide cost savings
(a) Ctrl + T (b) Ctrl + W for small businesses as they use a single
(c) Ctrl + A (d) Ctrl + Y processing unit to link several ______.
Ans. Ctrl+W (a) Personal computers
(b) Workstations
23. Before use of DBMS information was (c) Dumb terminals
stored using: (d) Mainframe
(a) Cloud Storage Ans. Dumb terminals
(b) Data System
(c) File Management System 29. Which among the following options is
(d) Cloud Computing the application that combines text, sound,
Ans. File Management System graphics, motion video, and/ or
animation?
24. Which one of the following is a set of (a) Multimedia (b) Minimedias
one or more attributes taken collectively to (c) Video scopes (d) Motionware
uniquely identify a record? Ans. Multimedia
(a) Candidate key (b) Sub key
(c) Super key (d) Foreign key 30. Which among the following is the
Ans. Super Key reboot where the power to the system is
physically turned off and back on again,
25. Which of the following device enabling causing an initial boot of the machine?
data transfer between two different (a) Toggle (b) Cold booting
networks? (c) Warm booting (d) Logging off
(a) Plotter (b) Joystick Ans. Cold booting
(c) Gateway (d) Path
Ans. Gateway 31. The feature in database language that
allows us to access certain records in
26. Which type of system has its own database is called __________.
programming and does not receive input? (a) Query (b) Forms
(a)Embedded computer (c) Reports (d) Tables
(b)Supercomputer Ans. Query
(c)Microcomputer
(d)Both (b) and (c) 32. In the ER diagram, what does an ellipse
Ans. Embedded computer represent?
(a) Entity sets
(b) Relation between the entity set (b) Warm Booting
(c) Attributes (c) Cold Booting
(d) Link between the attributes and entity (d) Power on Self-Test
set Ans. Power on Self-Test
Ans. Attributes
38. Which among the following is the first
33. The process of checking all the general-purpose electronic computer?
peripheral units by the OS during the time (a) EDVAC (b) ADVAC
of booting is known as_____ (c) Mac (d) UNIVAC
(a) BIOS (b) POST Ans. UNIVAC
(c) BUS (d) Chkdsk
Ans. POST 39. A device that not only provides surge
protection but also furnishes the computer
34. A handheld device that allows you to with battery backup power during a power
control your computer without typing outage is ______
instructions from a keyboard is known (a) Battery strip (b) UPS
as_______. (c) Surge strip (d) USB
(a) Tablet (b) PDA Ans. UPS
(c) Mouse (d) Mike
Ans. Mouse 40. What is a bootstrap?
(a) A memory device
35. Which of the following file system used (b) A device to support the computer
by the operating system to identify the (c) An error correction technique
physical locations of a file on the hard (d) A small initialization program to start up
drive? a computer
(a)RTOS (b)GIF Ans. A small initialization program to start
(c)FAT (d)FTP up a computer
Ans. FAT
41. Which part of the CPU coordinates all
36. What is SMPS? the activities of a computer system?
(a) Settled Mode Power Supply (a) Motherboard
(b) Switch Mode Power Supply (b) Coordination board
(c) Switch Mode Packet Switch (c) Control unit
(d) Supply Mode Packet Switch (d) Arithmetic and logic unit
Ans. Switch Mode Power Supply Ans. Motherboard

37. When a computer is turned on, which of 42. What is periodically adding, changing
the following is run by BIOS in order to and deleting file records called?
check whether all the hardware (a) renewing (b) upgrading
components are working properly? (c) restructuring (d) updating
(a) Booting Ans. Updating
43. What is the overall term for creating, (c) Operating system (d) Assembler
editing, formatting, storing, retrieving and Ans. Operating system
printing a text document?
(a) Word processing 49. Which of the following does not exist in
(b) Spreadsheet design taskbar?
(c) Web design (a) Quick Launch (b) Start Menu
(d) Database management (c) My Documents (d) Address bar
Ans. Word processing Ans. My Documents

44. Which among the following carries 50. What is the term used for measurement
signals that control the actions of the of how fast data moves from one place to
computer? another?
(a) Control Bus (b) Data Bus (a) data per unit (b) bits per second
(c) Memory Unit (d) NIC (c) bits per hour (d) ratio per bit
Ans. Control Bus Ans. Bits per second

45. Which among the following is an 51. Which of the following memory chip is
important circuitry in a computer system faster?
that does the arithmetic and logical (a) There is no certainty
processing? (b) DRAM
(a) Memory (b) ALU (c) SRAM
(c) Flag Register (d) CU (d) DRA faster for larger chips
Ans. ALU Ans. SRAM

46. The two ways to arrange multiple 52. What does the computer Motherboard
windows on the desktop are: contains that houses setting configurations
(a) cascade and tile and is powered by the onboard battery?
(b) drag and drop (a) CMOS (b) RAM
(c) point and click (c) DRAM (d) CPU
(d) minimize and maximize Ans. CMOS
Ans. Cascade and like
53. Which of the following is a Web
47. To delete the selected item browser?
permanently, press __________. (a) Paint (b) PowerPoint
(a) Alt + Delete (b) Shift + D (c) Edge (d) Word
(c) Shift + Delete (d) Alt + D Ans. Edge
Ans. Shift + Delete 54. A __________ represents approximately
one billion memory location.
48. Which of the following is a requisite to (a) Kilobyte (b) Megabyte
‘boot’, the system? (c) Gigabyte (d) Terabyte
(a) Complier (b) Mouse Ans. Gigabyte
55. The address of a memory location is (a) Ctrl+F (b) Ctrl+S
identified by which among the following? (c) Ctrl+G (d) Alt+S
(a) Address Bus (b) Location Bus Ans. Ctrl+F
(c) Identity Bus (d) Attrition Bus
Ans. Address Bus 61. What is the sequence of events that
occurs in the computer when it is
56. Which memory appears to exist as main interpreting and executing an instruction?
storage although most of it is supported by (a) Execution cycle (b) Instruction cycle
data held in secondary storage? (c) Working cycle (d) Machine cycle
(a) Core memory (b) Virtual memory Ans. Instruction Cycle
(c) RAM (d) Dynamic memory
Ans. Virtual Memory 62. What is the technology used to read
pencil or pen marks on a multiple-choice
57. Which among the following term is used answer sheet called?
for: Unauthorized copying of software to be (a) OMR (b) MICR
used for personal gain instead of personal (c) OCR (d) CPU
backups? Ans. OMR
(a) program thievery (b) data snatching
(c) software piracy (d) program looting 63. Which of the following storage devices
Ans. Software piracy is used to compensate for difference in
rates of flow of data from one device to
58. Different components on the another?
motherboard of a PC unit are linked (a) Floppy (b) Call
together by sets of parallel electrical (c) Channel (d) Buffer
conducting lines. What are these lines Ans. Buffer
called?
(a) Conductors (b) Buses 64. In which process, each program is split
(c) Connectors (d) Consecutives into fixed-size program components called
Ans. Buses pages?
(a) Multitasking (b) Logging on
59. Which software is used to make an (c) Paging (d) Scheduling
exact copy of data to protect it and Ans. Paging
facilitate recovery if data is lost, corrupted
or infected? 65. Different icons of application software
(a) Operating system (b) Word processor can be found in which bar in the latest
(c) Device driver (d) Backup software version of Microsoft Windows?
Ans. Backup software (a) Start Menu (b) Browser
(c) Status (d) Control Panel
60. Which among the following key Ans. Start Menu
combination can be used to search in
Windows Explorer?
66. A type of instruction that can produce (c) Octal number system
several lines of machine language code is (d) Hexadecimal number system
called a ______. Ans. Decimal number system
(a) Mnemonic (b) Address
(c) Macro (d) Assemble 72. EDBIC code can support how many
Ans. Macro different representation of characters?
(a) 256 (b) 149 (c) 1024 (d) 64
67. Word processing, spreadsheet, and Ans. 256
photo-editing are examples of which type
of software? 73. The main webpage of a website is also
(a) Application software known as
(b) System software (a) Contents Page (b) Home Page
(c) Operating system software (c) Introduction Page (d) First Page
(d) Platform software Ans. Home Page
Ans. Application software
74. What is a hyperlink?
68. The difference between people with (a) It is a text or image that you can click
access to computers and the Internet and on to jump to a new document/page.
those without this access is known as the: (b) It is an input type for multimedia files.
(a) digital divide (b) Internet divide (c) It is a collection or directory of web
(c) Web divide (d)broadband divide pages.
Ans. Digital divide (d) It is the home page of a site.
Ans. It is a text or image that you can click
69. Which of the following kind of devices on to jump to a new document/page.
allows the user to add components and
capabilities to a computer system? 75. Which of the following elements are
(a) System boards (b) Storage devices used in an e-mail to express emotions of
(c) Expansion slots (d) Output devices feelings clearly?
Ans. Expansion slots (a) Acronyms
(b) Abbreviations
70. Which of the following groups contains (c) Rich text
graphical file extensions? (d) Emotions or smileys
(a) JPG, GIF, BMP (b) GIF, TCF, WMF Ans. Emotions or smileys
(c) TCP, JPG, BMP (d) ADP, GIF, PPT
Ans. JPG, GIF, BMP 76. Which of the following places the
common data elements in order from
71. Which of the following number systems smallest to largest?
is considered as a base-10 number (a) Character, File, Record, Field,
system? Database, File
(a) Decimal number system (b) Character, Record, Field, Database, File
(b) Binary number system (c) Character, Field, Record, File, Database
(d) Bit, Byte, Character, Record, Field, File, 82. Which one of the following(s) is/are/
Database real time operating system?
Ans. Character, Field, Record, File, (a) VxWorks (b) Windows CE
Database (c) RTLinux (d) All of these
Ans. All of these
77. What does DRAM stands for?
(a) Digital Random Access Memory 83. Which of the following is a correct set of
(b) Dynamic Random Access Memory hexadecimal digits?
(c) Dividing Random Access Memory (a) 102n (b) a19fk
(d) Dynamic Recording Access Memory (c) ZOLO12 (d) FACE
Ans. Dynamic Random Access Memory Ans. FACE

78. __________ has the shortest access time. 84. Which among the following is software
(a) Cache Memory technology that separates the desktop
(b) Virtual Memory environment and associated application
(c) Secondary Memory software from the physical client device
(d) All of the above that is used to access it?
Ans. Cache Memory (a) Desktop Virtualization
(b) Augmented Reality
79. Which of the following units is used to (c) Social Networking
measure the speed of the processor? (d) Real-Time OS
(a) Kilobytes (KB) (b) Gigabytes (GB) Ans. Desktop Virtualization
(c) Gigahertz (GHz) (d) Kilobits (Kb)
Ans. Gigahertz (GHz) 85. Which among the following is a
technology commonly used in mobile
80. Operating system is a(n): devices to recreate the sense of touch by
(a) Application software applying forces, vibrations, or motions to
(b) System software the user?
(c) Programmable software (a) Tactile Haptics
(d) All of these (b) Biometrics
Ans. System software (c) Virtualization
(d) Data Mining
81. _____ is the set of programs that enables Ans. Tactile Haptics
your computer’s hardware devices and
application software to work together. 86. _______ is the process of allowing users
(a) Word processing software of smartphones, tablets and other devices
(b) Utility software running the Android mobile operating
(c) Memory system to attain privileged control to
(d) Programming software modify the software code on the device or
Ans. Uility software install other software that the manufacturer
wouldn’t normally allow you to:
(a) Slash (b) Hacking 92. Which among the following is
(c) Jailbreaking (d) Rooting Microsoft’s core set of application
Ans. Rooting programming interfaces (APIs) available in
the Microsoft Windows operating systems?
87. ODBC stands for _____________. (a) Kernel (b) WinAPI
(a) Object Database Connectivity (c) Windows ME (d) DOS
(b) Oral Database Connectivity Ans. WinAPI
(c) Oracle Database Connectivity
(d) Open Database Connectivity 93. The __________ operation performs a set
Ans. Open Database Connectivity union of two ‘similarly structured’ tables.
(a) Union (b) Join
88. Who invented the machine to add (c) Product (d) Intersect
numbers quickly and accurately? Ans. Union
(a) Joseph Marie Jacquard
(b) Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz 94. EPROM is generally erased by using
(c) Blaise Pascal ______.
(d) Herman Hollerith (a) ultraviolet rays
Ans. Blaise Pascal (b) infrared rays
(c) 12V electrical pulse
89. Which output device transfers (d) 24V electrical pulse
processed information into a printed page? Ans. Ultraviolet rays
(a) Scanner (b) Printer
(c) Monitor (d) CD-ROM 95. In a Windows-based application, when
Ans. Printer you click the Maximize button, it changes
to the
90. Which of the following units performs the (a) Minimize button
arithmetic tasks (such as addition, (b) Close button
subtraction, multiplication and division) (c) Open button
and logical operations? (d) Restore Down button
(a) Input unit Ans. Restore Down button
(b) Control unit
(c) Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) 96. The __________ shows a brief description
(d) Storage unit and, optionally, keyboard shortcuts of
Ans. Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) commands of dialog box launchers.
(a) Context menu (b) KeyTip
91. If you change Windows 98 to Windows (c) Screen Tip (d) Live Preview
XP, which action will you be performing? Ans. Screen Tip
(a) Revise (b) Upgrade
(c) Update (d) Patch 97. What does MAN stands for?
Ans. Upgrade (a) Micro area network
(b) Metropolitan area network
(c) Macro area network
(d) Mix area network
Ans. Metropolitan area network

98. Which of the following gate is a

complement of the X-OR gate?
(a) NOT gate (b) NOR gate
(c) AND gate (d) X-NOR gate
Ans. X-NOR gate

99. What is an E-mail?

(a) An Internet standard, which allow users
to upload and download files
(b) An online area on which a user can
converse in written form about any special
subject
(c) Transmission of files and messages
through computer network
(d) A real time typed conversion
Ans. Transmission of files and messages
through computer network

100. A program embedded in a

semiconductor chip during manufacture is
called ____________ .
(a) Humanware (b) Firmware
(c) Liveware (d) Hardware
Ans. Firmware