Basic Computer MCQs-5
1. Technology no longer protected by copyright, available to everyone, is considered to be
- (A) Proprietary.
- (B) Open
- (C) Experimental
- (D) In the public domain
- (E) None of the above
ANSWER: (A)
2. Input, output and processing devices grouped together represent a/an……
- (A) Mobile device
- (B) Information processing cycle
- (C) Circuit boards
- (D) Computer system
- (E) None of the above
ANSWER: (D)
3. The term gigabyte refers to
- (A) 1024 bytes
- (B) 1024 kilobytes
- (C) 1024 megabytes
- (D) 1024 gigabytes
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (C)
4. Off-line operation is the operation of devices without the control of
- (A) Memory
- (B) CPU
- (C) ALU
- (D) Control unit
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (B)
5. Name the first general purpose electronic computer
- (A) ADVAC
- (B) ADSAC
- (C) UNIVAC
- (D) EDVAC
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (C)
6. Which of the following statement is wrong?
- (A) Windows XP is an operating system
- (B) Linux is owned and sold by Microsoft
- (C) Photoshop is a graphical design tool by Adobe
- (D) Linux is free and open source software
- (E) None of the above
ANSWER: (B)
7. A software used to convert source program instructions to object instruction is known as
- (A) Compiler
- (B) Assembler
- (C) Interpreter
- (D) Language processor
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (D)
8. The term ‘Operating System’ means
- (A) A set of programs which control computer working
- (B) The way a user operates the computer system
- (C) Conversion of high level language to machine language
- (D) The way computer operator works
- (E) None of the above
ANSWER: (A)
9. What digits are representative of all binary Numbers?
- (A) 0
- (B) 1
- (C) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
- (D) 3
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (C)
10. The …… is the box that houses the most Important parts of a computer system.
- (A) Software
- (B) Hardware
- (C) Input device
- (D) System unit
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (D)
11. The physical arrangement of elements on a page is referred to as a document’s ……
- (A) Features
- (B) Format
- (C) Pagination
- (D) Grid
- (D) None of these
ANSWER: (B)
12. All of the following are examples of real security and privacy risks EXCEPT
- (A) Hackers
- (B) Spam
- (C) Viruses
- (D) Identity theft
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (B)
13. The ability to recover and read deleted or damaged files from a Criminals computer is an example of a law enforcement specialty called
- (A) Robotics
- (B) Simulation
- (C) Computer forensics
- (D) Animation
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (C)
14. This tags, when placed on an animal, can be used to record and track in a database all of the
Animal’s movements
- (A) POS C
- (B) RFID
- (C) PPS
- (D) GPS
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (B)
15. Which of the following is not as language for computer programming?
- (A) WINDOWS
- (B) PASCAL
- (C) BASIC
- (D) COBOL
- (E) All of these
ANSWER: (A)
16. Computers use which language to process data?
- (A) Processing
- (B) Kilobyte
- (C) Binary
- (D) Representational
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (C)
17. It is the science that attempts to produce machines that display the same type of Intelligence that humans do
- (A) Nano science
- (B) Nanotechnology
- (C) Simulation
- (D) Artificial intelligence (AI)
- (E) None of the above
ANSWER: (D)
18. The name for the way that computers manipulate data into information is Called
- (A) Programming
- (B) Processing
- (C) Storing
- (D) Organizing
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (B)
19.Computers gather data, which means that they allow users to
- (A) Present data
- (B) input data
- (C) Output data
- (D) Store data
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (B)
20. Which type of data has been organized or presented in a meaningful fashion?
- (A) A process
- (B) Software
- (C) Storage
- (D) Information
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (D)
21. After a picture has been taken with a digital camera and processed appropriately, the actual print of the picture is considered –
- (A) Data
- (B) Output
- (C) Input
- (D) The process
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (B)
22. Computers process data into information by working exclusively with
- (A) Multimedia
- (B) Words
- (C) Characters
- (D) Numbers
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (D)
23. The term bit is short for
- (A) Megabyte
- (B) Binary language
- (C) Binary digit
- (D) Binary number
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (C)
24. In the binary language each letter of the alphabet, each number and each special character is made up of a unique combination of
- (A) eight bytes
- (B) eight kilobytes
- (C) Eight characters
- (D) eight bits
- (E) None of these
ANSWER: (D)
25. These 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
- (E) None of the above
ANSWER: (B)