Basic MCQs of Computer

1. Mostly which of the following device is used to carry user files?

A. Floppy Disk B. Hard Disk

C. RAM D. CDROM

2. Which device is used to backup the data?

A. Floppy Disk B. Tape

C. Network Drive. D. All of the above

3. In order to play and hear sound on a computer, one needs:

A. a sound card and speakers B. a microphone

C. all of them required D. none of them required

4. Which of the following are the cheapest memory devices in terms of Cost/Bit?
A. Semiconductor memories B. Magnetic Disks

C. Compact Disks D. Magnetic Tapes

5. Which of the following are the best units of data on an external storage device?
A. Bits B. Bytes

C. Hertz D. Clock cycles

6. Which of the following have the fastest access time?

A. Semiconductor Memories B. Magnetic Disks

C. Magnetic Tapes D. Compact Disks

7. Which of the following is a read only memory storage device?
A. Floppy Disk B. CDROM

C. Hard Disk D. None of these

8. Which of the following is a programming language?

A. Lotus B. Pascal

C. MS-Excel D. Netscape

9. What is a compiler?
A. A compiler does a conversion line by line as the program is run

B. A compiler converts the whole of a higher level program code into machine code in one step

C. A compiler is a general purpose language providing very efficient execution

D. None of the above

10. What is an interpreter?

A. An interpreter does the conversion line by line as the program is run

B. An interpreter is the representation of the system being designed

C. An interpreter is a general purpose language providing very efficient execution

D. None of the above

11. When a key is pressed on the keyboard, which standard is used for converting the
keystroke into the corresponding bits?
A. ANSI B. ASCII C. EBCDIC D. ISO

13. A Pixel is
A. A computer program that draws picture

B. A picture stored in secondary memory

C. The smallest resolvable part of a picture

D. None of these
14. Which device is used as the standard pointing device in a Graphical User Environment?
A. Keyboard B. Mouse

C. Joystick D. Track ball

15. Which number system is usually followed in a typical 32-bit computer?

A. 2 B. 10 C. 16 D. 32

16. Which number system is usually followed in a typical 32-bit computer?

A. Binary B. Decimal C. Hexadecimal D. Octal

17. Which of the following is not an output device?

A. Scanner B. Printer C. Flat Screen D. Touch Screen

18. Which of the following devices have a limitation that we can only store information to it
but cannot erase or modify it?
A. Floppy Disk B. Hard Disk C. Tape Drive D. CDROM

19. Which technology is used in Compact disks?

A. Mechanical B. Electrical C. Electro Magnetic D. Laser

20. Which of the following storage devices can store maximum amount of data?
A. Floppy Disk B. Hard Disk C. Compact Disk D. Magneto Optic Disk

21. Which of the following is the largest manufacturer of Hard Disk Drives?
A. IBM B. Seagate C. Microsoft D. 3M

22. The programs which are as permanent as hardware and stored in ROM is known as
A. Hardware B. Software C. Firmware D. ROM ware
23. Memory unit is one part of
A. Input device B. Control unit C. Output device D. Central Processing Unit

24. Who built the first Mechanical Calculator?

A. Joseph Marie Jacquard B. John Mauchly C. Blaise Pascal D. Howard Aiken

25. The earliest calculating devices are

A. Abacus B. Clock C. Difference Engine D. None of these

26. Punched cards were first introduced by

A. Powers B. Pascal C. Jacquard D. Herman Hollerith

27. Word length of a Personal Computer is ___

A. 4 bits B. 8 bits C. 16 bits D. 64 bits

28. Cursor is a ____

A. Pixel B. Thin blinking line C. Pointing device D. None of these

29. Operating system, editors, and debuggers comes under?

A. System Software B. Application Software C. Utilities D. None of the above

30. Which device is required for the Internet connection?

A. Joystick B. Modem C. CD Drive D. NIC Card

31. What does DMA stand for?

A. Distinct Memory Access B. Direct Memory Access

C. Direct Module Access D. Direct Memory Allocation

32. When did John Napier develop logarithm?
A. 1416 B. 1614 C. 1641 D. 1804

33. A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to __________data?

A. 680 KB B. 680 Bytes C. 680 MB D. 680 GB

34. ATM stands for?

A. Automatic Talking Machine B. Automatic Teller Machine

C. Analog Teller Machine D. Automatic Ticketing Machine

35. The Second Generation Computer was based on .

A. Vacuum Tube B. Silicon Chips C. Transistor D. Bio Chips

36. The Third Generation Computer was made with .

A. Vacuum Tube B. Discrete Components C. IC D. Bio Chips

37. The BIOS is the abbreviation of .

A. Basic Input Output System B. Best Input Output System

C. Basic Input Output Symbol D. Base Input Output System

38. What do you call a single point on a computer screen?

A. Cell B. Element C. Pixel D. Bit

39. How was the generation of computer classified?

A. by the device used in memory & processor B. by the speed of computer

C. by the model of the computer D. by the accuracy of computer

40. Through which device the main components of the computer communicate with each
other?
A. Keyboard B. System Bus C. Monitor D. Memory

41. Which is a valid program to access the Internet?

A. Access B. Front Page C. Windows Explorer D. Netscape

42. Which one is the Low Level Language?

A. Assembly B. Visual Basic C. Java D. C++

43. Which is a volatile memory?

A. ROM B. BIOS C. PROM D. RAM

44. The digital signals can be represented by

A. Binary Codes B. 0 and 1 C. High and Low D. all of the above

45. Which program can be used for email?

A. Internet Explorer B. Outlook Express C. NetMeeting D. FrontPage

46. Modulator-demodulator is a device that converts:

A. Digital signal into analog signal B. Analog signal into digital signal

C. Both A and B D. None of the above

47. _______ is used for scanning the pictures and putting them in digitized form in the
computer.
A. CD-ROM B. Plotter C. Bar-coder D. Scanner
48. Animator, 3D Studio, Corel Draw and Flash are.
A. Word processors B. Spreadsheet packages

C. Multimedia S/W D. None of the above

49. Which statement is valid?

A. 1 KB = 8 bytes B. 1 MB = 8 KB

C. 1 KB = 1024 bytes D. 1 MB = 1024 bytes

50. Which device is used to process data?

A. CPU B. RAM C. DCU D. VDU

51. Who is known as the father of Computer Science?

A. Charles Babbage B. Howard Aiken

C. Dr. Herman Hollerith D. Blaise Pascal

52. What is the capacity of a 3.5 Floppy Disk?

A. 360KB B. 720KB C. 1.2MB D. 1.44MB

53. A Personal Computer (PC) is a .. Computer.

A. Super B. Main Frame C. Mini D. Micro

54. What type of printers are Dot Matrix Printers?

A. Laser B. Inkjet C. Impact D. Drum

55. What is the full form of RAM?

A. Read Access Memory B. Random Access Memory

C. Rapid access Memory D. none

1) What is the shortcut key to insert current date and time in Microsoft Word ?

Shift + Alt + D Insert the current date.

Shift + Alt + T Insert the current time.

3) What is the shortcut key spelling and grammar check in Microsoft Word?

If you want to spell-check the word, just use the keyboard to select it and press F7.

If you want to display the thesaurus, then make sure the insertion point is within the
word and press Shift+F7.

5) What is Macro in Microsoft Office?

A macro is a series of commands and instructions that you group together as a single
command to accomplish a task automatically.
Typical uses for macros are:

To speed up routine editing and formatting

To combine multiple commands for example, to insert a table with a specific size and
borders, and with a specific number of rows and columns

To make an option in a dialog box more accessible

To automate a complex series of tasks
You can record a sequence of actions, or you can write a macro from scratch by entering
Visual Basic for Applications code in the Visual Basic Editor.
Show the Developer tab

Click the Microsoft Office Button Office button image, and then click Word Options.
Click Popular.
Under Top options for working with Word, select the Show Developer tab in the Ribbon
check box.

5) What is the maximum number of pages can create in Microsoft Word 2007
and 2013?

Answer: 32,768

6) What are the minimum and maximum zoom size in Microsoft Document?

Minimum 10
Maximum 500

7) What are the Minimum and Maximum font size of MS Word?

Minimum 1
Maximum 1638
Question: Which one is the computers own language?
Answer: Low level language which is written in binary

Question: What is the meaning of URL?

Answer: Uniform resource locator.

Question: When Microprocessor was invented?

Answer: In 1971

Question: What is UNIX?

Answer: Operating System

Question: What is the meaning of Fat?

Answer: File allocation table

Question: What is Adobe Photoshop?

Answer : Photo Editing Software.

Question: What is Windows?

Answer : Operating System by Microsoft

Question: What is Laptop?

Answer : Small portable computer

Question:Who invented punch card?

Answer: Joseph Marie Jacquard originally invented by Herman Hollerith,
Question: What is SIMM?
Answer: Single Inline Memory Module

Question: What is the short name of binary math?

Answer: bit

Question: What is ROM?

Answer: Read Only Memory.

Question: What is RAM?

Answer: RAM= Random Access Memory

Question: Where the computer museum is situated?

Answer: in USA

Question: What does BIOS means?

Answer: Basic Input Output System

Question: Which one is the brain of computer?

Answer: Micro Processor

Question: Who is the father of modern computer?

Answer: Charles Babbage in 1822,

Question: What is the name of first personal computer?

Answer: Sphere 1 (according to WikiPedia) or introduced in 1975, came as kits: The MITS
Altair 8800,
Question: What is the elaboration of VOIP?
Answer: Voice Over Internet Protocol.

Question: E-mail stands for?

Answer: Electronic mail

Question: Write some common output devices of computer.

Answer: Monitor, Printer and Speaker.

Question: Give some Example of programming language.

Answer: The term programming language usually refers to high-level languages, such as BASIC,
C, C++, COBOL, Java, FORTRAN, Ada, and Pascal.

Question: What is YouTube?

Answer: YouTube is a famous video sharing site.

Question: What is WiMax?

Answer: WiMax is Wireless Internet Technology.

Question: What is Cyber Super Weapon?

Answer: Cyber Super Weapon is a computer virus.
Question: What is Palmtop?
Answer: Palmtop is a kind of small computer.

Question: What is XO?

Answer: Tablet Pc
TERMS
CRT = Cathode Ray Tube

LCD= Liquid Crystal Diode

HTML= Hyper Text Markup Language

DOS stands for Disc Operating System

Oracle is a Data Base Program

Microsoft Excel is a database program

Scanner is an Input Device

Processing speed of computer is measured in Nano Second

The computer uses in operations of mathematics- Binary

The latest version of MS Windows Windows-10

Computer memory which never erased- ROM

The most distinctive difference between a LAN and WAN is- Distance Covered.

Writing, editing, storing and printing a document using computer software, are known
as- Word Processing Software.

The other name of a chip IC.

In general My Document is located at -C Drive.

Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla, are Internet Browsing Software

The Application that allows millions of people to access the worldwide web daily is
called a web browser
 World famous Tablet computers are- blackpad, apple IPad, Strick, samsung galaxy,Epad,
lePad,sias

Octoberr 17, 2010 Google introduce online television

Computer Hardware consists of CPU, monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, cable and
their internal devices.

Computer Hardware is divided into 3 parts Input devices, Processor Unit, Output
Devices.

The name of different computer storage device are Hard Disk, Floppy Disk, Compact
Disk.

Submarine Cable is the term used in Information Technology

Goojje is a Chinese Search Engine

Function of Modem is to convert digital signal to analog signal and also analog signal to
digital signal

First computer programmer = lady Adda augusta

OLPC = One Laptop Per Child

List of basic Input Devices, Output devices and Both inputoutput
devices related to computer.

Input Devices:
1. Graphics Tablets
2. Cameras
3. Video Capture Hardware
4. Trackballs
5. Barcode reader
6. Digital camera
7. Gamepad
8. Joystick
9. Keyboard
10. Microphone
11. MIDI keyboard
12. Mouse (pointing device)
13. Scanner
14. Webcam
15. Touchpads
16. Pen Input
17. Microphone
18. Electronic Whiteboard
19. OMR
20. OCR
21. Punch card reader
22. MICR (Magnetic Ink character reader)
23. Magnetic Tape Drive
OUTPUT DEVICES:
1. Monitor (LED, LCD, CRT etc)
2. Printers (all types)
3. Plotters
4. Projector
5. LCD Projection Panels
6. Computer Output Microfilm (COM)
7. Speaker(s)
8. Head Phone
9. Visual Display Unit
10. Film Recorder

11. Microfiche

Both InputOutput Devices:

1. Modems

2. Network cards

3. Touch Screen

4. Headsets (Headset consists of Speakers and Microphone. Speaker act Output Device
and Microphone act as Input device)

5. Facsimile (FAX) (It has scanner to scan the document and also have printer to Print
the document)

6. Audio Cards / Sound Card