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1. If there are multiple recycle bin for a hard disk
A. you can setdifferent size for each recycle bin
B. you can choose which recycle bin to use to store your deleted files
C. you can make any one of them default recycle bin
D. none of above
Answer» A. you can setdifferent size for each recycle bin
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2. Identify false statement
A. you can find deleted files in recycle bin
B. you can restore any files in recycle bin if you ever need
Answer» C. you can increase free spaceof disk by sending files in recycle bin
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2. Identify false statement
C. you can increase free spaceof disk by sending files in recycle bin
D. you can right click and choose empty recycle bin to clean it at once
Answer» C. you can increase free spaceof disk by sending files in recycle bin
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3. If the displayed system time and dateis wrong, you can reset it using
A. write
B. calendar
C. write file
D. control panel
Answer» D. control panel
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4. You should save your computer from?
A. viruses
B. time bombs
C. worms
D. all of the above
Answer» D. all of the above
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5. World Wide Web is being standard by
A. worldwide corporation
B. w3c
C. world wide consortium
D. world wide web standard
Answer» B. w3c
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6. A co-processor
A. is relatively easy to support in software
Answer» A. is relatively easy to support in software
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6. A co-processor
B. causes all processor to function equally
C. works with any application
D. is quite common in modern computer
Answer» A. is relatively easy to support in software
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7. A Microsoft Windows is .....a(n)
A. operating system
B. graphic program
C. word processing
D. database program
Answer» A. operating system
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8. Which of the following is program group?
A. accessories
B. paint
C. word
D. all of above
Answer» A. accessories
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9. Which is not application software?
A. windows nt
B. page maker
C. winword xp
D. photoshop
Answer» A. windows nt
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10. Which of the following is an example of a real time operating system?
A. lynx
B. ms dos
C. windows xp
D. process control
Answer» D. process control
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11. Which of the following operating system does not implement the multitasking truly?
A. windows 98
B. windows nt
C. windows xp
D. ms dos
Answer» D. ms dos
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12. Which of the following windows versionsupport64 bit processor?
A. windows 98
B. windows 2000
C. windows xp
D. windows 95
Answer» C. windows xp
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13. Which of the following Operating System does not implement multitasking truly?
A. windows 98
B. windows nt
C. windows xp
D. ms dos
Answer» D. ms dos
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14. What program runs first aftercomputer is booted and loading GUI?
A. desktop manager
B. file manager
C. windows explorer
D. authentication
Answer» D. authentication
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15. Which of the following operating system do you choose to implement a client server network?
A. ms dos
B. windows
C. windows 98
D. windows 2000
Answer» D. windows 2000
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16. Which of the following Operating systems is better for implementing a Client-Server network
A. ms dos
B. windows 95
C. windows 98
D. windows 2000
Answer» D. windows 2000
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17. My Computer was introduced from
A. windows 3.1
B. windows 3.11
C. windows 95
D. windows 98
Answer» C. windows 95
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18. Which of the following Windows do not have Start button
A. windows vista
B. windows 7
C. windows 8
D. none of above
Answer» C. windows 8
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19. Which is the latest version of MS Windows?
A. windows 2007
B. windows 8.1
C. windows 2008
D. windows 7
Answer» B. windows 8.1
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20. Which operating system doesn't support networking between computers?
A. windows 3.1
B. windows 95
C. windows 2000
D. windows nt
Answer» A. windows 3.1
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21. Which of the following does not support more than one program at a time?
A. dos
B. linux
C. windows
D. unix
Answer» A. dos
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22. Which of the following is not an operating system?
A. dos
B. linux
C. windows
D. oracle
Answer» D. oracle
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23. Linux isa(n) ... operating system
A. open source
B. microsoft
C. windows
D. mac
Answer» A. open source
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24. Which operating system can you give smallest file name?
A. ps/2
B. dos
C. windows
D. windows nt
Answer» B. dos
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25. Which one is notoperating system?
A. p11
B. os/2
C. windows
D. unix
Answer» A. p11
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26. Which of the following is not a multitasking operating system?
A. windows
B. linux
C. win nt
D. dos
Answer» D. dos
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27. You should choose Sleep option when
A. the computer is tired after working for the whole day
B. you are leaving for a very short time and want to resume you work shortly
C. whencomputer gets hanged frequently. let it sleep for some time
D. you finish working and going to bed
Answer» B. you are leaving for a very short time and want to resume you work shortly
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28. The .... displays the name of every computer user on the computer
A. wish list screen
B. command screen
C. welcome screen
D. none of the above
Answer» C. welcome screen
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29. The category of software most appropriate for controlling the design and layout of complex
document like newsletters and brochure is:
A. word processing
B. computer aided design
C. web page authoring
D. desktop publishing
Answer» D. desktop publishing
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30. Which one is not a system tool?
A. backup
B. disk defragment
C. virus scanning
D. all of the above
Answer» C. virus scanning
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31. The memory which allocates space for DOS and application is called
A. expanded memory
B. cache memory
C. virtual memory
D. conventional memory
Answer» D. conventional memory
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32. The operating system creates ... from the physical computer
A. virtual space
B. virtual computer
C. virtual device
D. none
Answer» B. virtual computer
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33. The operating system creates _____ from the physical computer
A. virtual space
B. virtual computers
C. virtual device
D. none
Answer» B. virtual computers
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34. Which menu bar selection would you access to openfile?
A. option
B. help
C. view
D. none of above
Answer» D. none of above
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35. Which mode loadsminimal set of drivers when starting Windows?
A. safe mode
B. normal mode
C. vga mode
D. network support mode
Answer» A. safe mode
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36. Which of the following are loaded in safe mode?
A. keyboard driver
B. mouse driver
C. vga drive
D. all of above
Answer» D. all of above
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37. A .... is a named location on a disk where files are stored
A. folder
B. pod
C. version
D. none of the above
Answer» A. folder
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38. Which command is used to see the version of operating system?
A. vol
B. version
C. ver
D. none of the above
Answer» C. ver
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39. Which type of command requires additional files to perform specific operations?
A. internal commands
B. external commands
C. valuable commands
D. primary commands
Answer» B. external commands
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40. Which of the following is system software?
A. operating system
B. compiler
C. utilities
D. all of the above
Answer» D. all of the above
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41. A user-interface that is easy to use is considered to be
A. user-happy
B. user-simple
C. user-friendly
D. none of the above
Answer» C. user-friendly
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42. A ....is a flash memory storage device that plugins into a USB port
A. usb snapdrive
B. usb flashdrive
C. usb memory makerdrive
D. none of above
Answer» B. usb flashdrive
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43. The ....is the drive containing the files to be copied
A. source drive
B. destination drive
C. usb drive
D. none of the above
Answer» A. source drive
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44. The number of character contained in primary name (DOS)?
A. up to 8 characters
B. 3 characters
C. up to 10 characters
D. none of the above
Answer» A. up to 8 characters
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45. Which one of the following is not a multitasking operating system?
A. dos
B. windows
C. unix
D. linux
Answer» A. dos
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46. The most recent version of MAC OS is based on the ... operating system
A. windows
B. linux
C. unix
D. cmos
Answer» C. unix
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47. The ...operating system was initially created in the early 1970s at AT and T's Bell Labs
A. linux
B. dos
C. unix
D. gnu
Answer» C. unix
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48. Which command is used to undelete a bunch of files withextension .doc that you have just
deleted?
A. undelete
B. undelete/all
C. undelete *.doc
D. all of above
Answer» C. undelete *.doc
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49. Which command is used to display the contents of the text file of DOS?
A. copy con
B. copy
C. type
D. dir
Answer» C. type
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50. In Windows,start button is used to
A. run applications
B. device setting
C. turn off the system
D. all of above
Answer» D. all of above
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