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1) Which layer of the OSI Model is responsible for d) ROM

the transmission and reception of unstructured raw
data between a device and a physical transmission 4) Which of the following program helps to create
medium? written document and lets you go back and make
corrections as necessary?
a) Transport layer
a) Toolbar
b) Data-Link layer
b) Word Processor
c) Network layer
c) Spreadsheet
d) Physical layer
d) Text Editor
2) Which of the following operation is performed
automatically when we turn on the computer? 5) Which of the following is a component of the
Central Processing Unit that directs the operation
a) Processing of the processor?

b) Saving a) Memory management unit

c) Booting b) Arithmetic logic unit

d) Editing c) Address Generation unit

3) Which of the following type of memory can be d) Control unit

erased with the help of the ultraviolet rays?
6) Which of the following is a smaller and faster
a) PROM memory which stores copies of the data from
frequently used main memory locations?
b) EPROM
a) Random Access Memory
c) RAM
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b) Read Only Memory 2) Magnetic Drums were used for memory

c) Erasable Programmable Read only memory 3) First Generation computers relied on high-level
programming languages to perform operations
d) Cache Memory
Which of the above statements is not correct?
7) Who among the following was the inventor of
ENIAC which is the first electronic general-purpose a) Both 1 and 2
computer?
b) Both 1 and 3
a) Herman Hollerith
c) Only 3
b) John Mauchley
d) Only 2
c) J. Presper Eckert
10) Which among the following computer is capable
d) Both b and c of manipulating bits of information under the
control of sequenced instructions stored within their
8) Which among the following was the first memory?
commercial electronic computer developed specially
for scientific and military purposes? a) Analog computer

a) UNIVAC I b) Digital computer

b) ENIAC c) Hybrid computer

c) EDSAC d) Both a and b

d) MARK I 11) Which of the following computer performs

intense numerical calculations such as weather
9) Consider the following statements regarding the forecasting and complex scientific computations?
First Generation Computers-
a) Mainframe computer
1) They used vacuum tubes for storing instructions
b) Mini computer
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b) Caps Lock key
c) Micro computer
c) Spacebar key
d) Supercomputer
d) Escape key
12) Which of the following types of computers are
capable of handling and processing very large 15) Which key is the most powerful key placed on a
amounts of data quickly? keyboard that allows the user to cancel or abort
operations?
a) Mainframe computer
a) Shift key
b) Mini computer
b) Escape key
c) Supercomputer
c) Control key
d) Micro computer
d) Pause key
13) Which of the following computer is intended for
individual use and is faster and more capable than 16) Who among the following has been credited
personal computer? with the invention of the Computer mouse?

a) Embedded computers a) Ralph Benjamin

b) Workstations b) Herman Hollerith

c) Virtual computers c) Kenyon Taylor

d) Servers d) Douglas Engelbart

14) Which key is referred to as a toggle key because 17) Which of the following mouse action is used to
its function goes back and forth every time it is access the properties of any object?
pressed?
a) Click
a) Shift key
b) Double Click
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c) Right Click b) Inkjet printer

d) Drag and Drop c) Daisy Wheel printer

18) Which of the following is used to convert paper d) Dot-matrix printer

record into electric filling and scanned chalan into a
spreadsheet? 21) Which of the following memory stores crucial
information essential to operate the system, like the
a) Optical character Recognition program essential to boot the computer?

b) Magnetic Ink Character Reader a) RAM

c) Barcode Reader b) ROM

d) Optical Mark Reader c) DRAM

d) SRAM
19) Which of the following peripheral device makes
a persistent representation of graphics or text on 22) Which of the following storage device stores and
paper? provides relatively quick access to large amount of
data?
a) Monitor
a) Floppy disk
b) Plotter
b) Digital Versatile disk
c) Screen Image Projector
c) Hard disk
d) Printer
d) Compact disk
20) Which of the following types of printer print
only characters and symbols and cannot print 23) Which of the following storage devices have a
graphics? limitation that we can only read it and cannot erase
or modify it?
a) Laser printer
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a) CD-ROM 26) Which of the following computer network
extends over a large geographical area, although
b) Hard disk confined within the bounds of a state or country?

c) Floppy disk a) LAN

d) Both a and c b) WAN

24) ………… is the process of finding and resolving c) MAN

defects or problems within a computer program
that prevent correct operation of computer d) Both a and c
software?
27) Which among the following technologies is used
a) Authenticating to transmit digital data over telephone lines?

b) Bugging a) Cable modem

c) Debugging b) Microwave

d) Hacking c) Integrated Services Digital Network

25) In Excel to protect a worksheet, you can choose d) Digital Subscriber line
Protection and the Protect Sheet from which of the
following menu? 28) Who among the following is known for
developing the concept of E-mail?
a) Data
a) Michael Derstuses
b) Tools
b) Arthur C. Clark
c) Edit
c) Ray Tomlinson
d) Format
d) Bob Cohen

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29) What is the term used for the introductory page
of a website, typically serving as a table of contents 32) Which among the following feature displays
for the site? each slide of the PPT as a thumbnail and is used to
rearrange them?
a) Web page
a) Slide layout
b) Home page
b) Slide view
c) Portal
c) Slide sorter
d) Website
d) Slide show
30) Who among the following English scientist is
credited for the invention of the World Wide Web 33) _______ refers to the use of electronic messaging
in the year 1989? systems to send out unrequested or unwanted
messages in bulk?
a) Bruce Arden
a) Spam
b) Herman Hollerith
b) Hypertext
c) Charles Bachman
c) Junk
d) Tim Berners-Lee
d) Hoaxes
31) What is the term used for the system that
delivers content or services to end users over the 34) _______ is the on-demand delivery of compute
internet? power, database, storage, applications, and other IT
resources through internet?
a) Website
a) Parallel computing
b) Web Server
b) Distributed computing
c) Home Page
c) Cloud computing
d) Web page
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d) Virtual computing 38) Which among the following code is used and is
accepted worldwide in the present day computing?
35) Which device is used in the data-link layer of
the OSI model among the following list of devices? a) EBCDIC

a) Router b) ASCII

b) Repeater c) ISCII

c) Bridges d) Both a and b

d) Gateway 39) Which among the following is not an extension

of a picture file on a computer?
36) Which device is used in the Network layer of the
OSI Model among the following list of devices? a) .jpg

a) Application gateway b) .gif

b) Router c) .png

c) Repeater d) .tpg

d) Bridges 40) Which computer program interprets software

programs written in assembly language into
37) Which among the following computer memory machine language?
is non-volatile in nature?
a) Compiler
a) RAM
b) Interpreter
b) ROM
c) Assembler
c) DRAM
d) Both a and c
d) SRAM

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41) Which among the following is the most widely 44) Which among the following is an application-
used language on Web to develop web pages? layer protocol used primarily on the World Wide
Web?
a) ASP
a) FTP
b) DHTML
b) TCP
c) HTML
c) SMTP
d) XML
d) HTTP
42) Which among the following is a computer
program which converts each high-level program
statement into the machine code? 45) _______ is a tool used to convert hand-drawn
images into a format suitable for computer
a) Simulator processing?

b) Compiler a) OMR

c) Decoder b) MICR

d) Interpreter c) Digitizer

43) Which among the following printer cannot print d) OCR

more than one character at a time?
46) Which among the following device enables a
a) Daisy-wheel printer computer to transmit data over telephone or cable
lines?
b) Line printer
a) I/O Port
c) Dot-matrix printer
b) Modem
d) Laser printer
c) Interpreter

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d) Compiler
d) Kilobyte
47) Which among the following is the commonly
used unit for measuring the speed of the data
transmission? 50) Which among the following system is housed on
a single microprocessor board with the programs
a) Bits per second stored in ROM?

b) Megahertz a) Mini computer

c) Nano seconds b) Mainframe computer

d) Characters per second c) Embedded computer

48) Which of the following shortcut key is used to d) Supercomputer

minimize all the windows in the Windows
Operating system? 51) _______ is a kind of programs that enable a user
to perform some specific task or used to operate a
a) Windows Logo + D computer?

b) Windows Logo + M a) System Software

c) Windows Logo + L b) Freeware

d) Windows Logo + X c) Spreadsheet

d) Application Software
49) Which among the following is the smallest unit
of data in a computer system? 52) Which of the following disks are used to store
more than 25 GB of data with a very high speed in
a) Nibble less amount of time?

b) Byte a) Compact disk

c) Bit b) Blue-ray disk

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c) Hard disk c) Cyber Bullying

d) Floppy disk d) Cyber stalking

53) Which of the following is a cabling technology 56) What is the term used for the program or
for transferring data to and from digital devices at hardware device that filters the information coming
high speed? through an internet connection to a network or
computer system?
a) Ethernet port
a) Anti virus
b) Fire wire port
b) Freeware
c) USB port
c) Firewall
d) PS/2 port
d) Cookies
54) What is the term used for the software that is
intentionally designed to cause damage to a 57) Which of the following term is used for the
computer, server, client, or computer network? collection of one or more spreadsheets in a single
file in Microsoft Excel?
a) Viruses
a) Template
b) Malware
b) Document
c) Adware
c) Workbook
d) Spyware
d) Both a and c
55) _______ is a method of trying to gather personal
information using deceptive e-mails and websites? 58) Which of the following data transmission
medium made of tiny threads of glass or plastic can
a) Phishing transmit huge amount of information at the speed
of light?
b) Hacking
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a) Copper cable
b) Gallium
b) Twisted wire cable
c) Lead
c) Fiber optic cable
d) Silicon
d) All of the above
59) Which among the following connects all the 62) Which among the following provides a common
internal components of the computer such as CPU address space and routes the packets of data across
and memory to the motherboard? the entire internet?

a) Bus a) TCP

b) Connector b) IP

c) Gateway c) URL

d) Router d) UDP

60) Which among the following is not the language 63) ________ is a device that selects between several
of the Database Management system? analog or digital input signals and forwards it to a
single output line at higher capacity?
a) DML
a) Hub
b) DDL
b) Bridge
c) Pascal
c) Router
d) DQL
d) Multiplexer
61) IC Chip which integrates all the electronic
components on a single chip is made up of which of 64) Which is the oldest and most influential merger
the following semiconductor? of computer networks which contributed to the
birth of the Internet?
a) Germanium
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a) DBMS a) Bus topology

b) ARPANET b) Ring topology

c) USENET c) Mesh topology

d) TELNET d) Star topology

65) Which term refers to the ability of an operating 68) _____________ is an electrical apparatus that
system to perform more than one computer task provides emergency power to a load when the input
over a certain period of time? power source or mains power fails?

a) Streamlining a) UPS

b) Multiuser b) Generator

c) Multitasking c) Electric circuit

d) Simulation d) Surge Suppressor

66) Which among the following is a communication 69) Which of the following feature enables you to
protocol for electronic-mail transmission? simultaneously keep multiple web pages open in one
browser window?
a) SMTP
a) Tab row
b) FTP
b) Tab bar
c) TCP
c) Address bar
d) IP
d) None of these
67) Which among the following is a network type in
which every computer and network device is 70) Which of the following two keys can be used in
connected to a single cable? combination with other keys to perform shortcuts
and special tasks?
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73) In which of the following topology, all the
a) Delete, Insert devices are connected to a single hub through a
cable?
b) Insert, Capslock
a) Star topology
c) Control, Alt
b) Bus topology
d) Capslock, Numlock
c) Ring topology
71) Which of the following system provides
communication in both directions, but only one d) Mesh topology
direction at a time?
74) __________ is an indicator used to show the
a) Simplex current position for user interaction on a computer
monitor or other display device?
b) Duplex
a) Blinker
c) Full Duplex
b) Pointer
d) Half Duplex
c) Cursor
72) Which of the following is the process of
transferring software programme from a secondary d) Both a and c
storage media into the hard disc?
75) _______ is a system of computers that makes it
a) Download possible for particular organizations to
communicate with each other and share
b) Upload information?

c) Installation a) Internet

d) Upgrade b) Intranet

c) Extranet

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d) Telnet
79) Which among the following is a general-purpose
76) Which of the following shortcut key can be used programming language that is especially suited to
to add a hyperlink to your worksheet in Excel? numeric computation and scientific computing?

a) Ctrl + K a) JAVA

b) Ctrl + Shift + K b) BASIC

c) Ctrl + H c) COBOL

d) Ctrl + C d) FORTRAN

77) Which of the following is the default page setup 80) What is the term used for the device that
orientation for slides in Microsoft PowerPoint? connects to the network without the use of cables?

a) Landscape a) Open source

b) Portrait b) Distributed

c) Vertical c) Centralized

d) Horizontal d) Wireless

78) Which among the following is a high-level 81) Which among the following is a hardware
programming language specifically designed for component without which a computer cannot be
business use? connected over a network?

a) FORTRAN a) Network Interface card

b) COBOL b) Router

c) BASIC c) Repeater

d) JAVA d) Gateway
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82) SMTP, FTP and DNS are the protocols of which 85) Which of the following term is used for the
of the following layer of the OSI Model? unauthorized copying of the software to be used for
personal gain instead of personal backups?
a) Network layer
a) Data piracy
b) Transport layer
b) Software piracy
c) Application layer
c) Data Snatching
d) Data Link layer
d) Phishing
83) Which among the following organisation
developed SAGA-220 supercomputer in the year 86) Which of the following is the default extension
2011? of the files in Microsoft word 2013?

a) NASA a) .docx

b) C-DAC b) .doc

c) BARC c) .ppt

d) ISRO d) .xls

84) Which among the following storage device uses 87) Which among the following software is designed
rigid and permanently installed magnetic disks to to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a
store data? computer?

a) Optical disk a) Specialized software

b) Floppy diskette b) System software

c) Permanent disk c) Application software

d) Hard disk d) Utility software

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91) Which among the following is the fundamental

88) Which among the following is the largest unit of building block of CPU used to perform arithmetic
storage in a computer system? and logic operations?

a) Kilobyte a) Calculator

b) Nibble b) Registers

c) Terabyte c) ALU

d) Petabyte d) CU
92) Which among the following is the shortcut key
89) Which of the following feature should be used if for slideshow in Microsoft PowerPoint?
a company wants to include its name and logo at the
bottom of every page of a brochure? a) F5

a) Macro b) F7

b) Header c) F12

c) Footer d) F4
d) Footnote
93) Which is the type of ROM in which the chip can
90) BASIC, which is a high-level programming be erased & reprogrammed on the board easily byte
language stands for………………..? by byte?

a) Beginners All-purpose symbolic instruction code a) EEPROM

b) Basic All-purpose symbolic instruction code b) EPROM

c) Basic All-purpose simple instruction code c) PROM

d) Beginners All-purpose symbolic implementation d) Both b and c

code
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94) What is the term used for the image that is 97) Which of the following feature in Microsoft
displayed on the monitor and includes thousands of Word allows us to change the color of the selected
small coloured dots? text?

a) Nibble a) Change color

b) Bits b) Text color

c) Pixels c) Font color

d) Bytes
d) Background color
95) Which utility helps the user to arrange used and
free space on the hard disk which in turn increases 98) The web uses which of the following language to
the processing speed of the disk? request and serve the web pages and programs?

a) Encryption a) Hypertext Makeup Language

b) Scan disk b) Hypertext Markup Language

c) Disk Defragmenter c) Hypertext Machine Language

d) Compression utilities d) Hypertext Marketing Language

96) Which among the following is an expansion 99) What is the term used for a prescribed set of
card which generates a feed of output images to a well-defined instructions for solving the
display device? mathematical problems?

a) Motherboard a) A code

b) Network interface card b) An Algorithm

c) Bus c) A syntax

d) Video card d) A compiler

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100) _______ is the process of starting a computer b) Warm booting
from shutdown or a powerless state and setting it to
normal working condition? c) Shut Down

a) Cold booting d) Hibernate

ANSWERS

1) Answer: d) EPROM (erasable programmable read-only memory)

is programmable read-only memory (programmable
The physical layer is responsible for the transmission ROM) that can be erased and reused. Erasure is caused
and reception of unstructured raw data between a by shining an intense ultraviolet light through a
device and a physical transmission medium. It converts window that is designed into the memory chip.
the digital bits into electrical, radio, or optical signals. 4) Answer: b)
Bluetooth, Ethernet, and USB all have specifications
for a physical layer. A word processor is a computer program or device that
provides for input, editing, formatting and output of
2) Answer: c) text, often with additional features. Word processors
have a variety of uses and applications within the
In computing, booting is starting up a computer or business environment, at home and in educational
computer appliance until it can be used. It can be contexts.
initiated by hardware such as a button press or by a
software command. When we start our Computer then
there is an operation which is performed automatically 5) Answer: d)
by the Computer which is called as Booting.
The control unit (CU) is a component of the CPU that
3) Answer: b) directs the operation of the processor. It tells the
computer's memory, arithmetic and logic unit and input
and output devices how to respond to the instructions
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that have been sent to the processor. It directs the most basic programming language that can be
operation of the other units by providing timing and understood by computers. These computers were
control signals. limited to solving one problem at a time. Input was
based on punched cards and paper tape.
6) Answer: d)
10) Answer: b)
A CPU cache is a hardware cache used by the central
processing unit (CPU) of a computer to reduce the Digital computers are electronic devices capable of
average cost to access data from the main memory. A manipulating bits of information under the control of
cache is a smaller and faster memory, closer to a sequenced instructions stored within their memory.
processor core, which stores copies of the data from The first electronic digital computer was developed in
frequently used main memory locations. the late 1940s and was used primarily for numerical
7) Answer: d) computations.

John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert are the 11) Answer: d)
scientists credited with the invention of the Electronic
Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the first A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of
general-purpose electronic digital computer, which was performance compared to a general-purpose computer.
completed in 1946. A Supercomputer is focused on performing tasks
involving intense numerical calculations such as
8) Answer: a) weather forecasting, fluid dynamics, nuclear
simulations, theoretical astrophysics, and complex
The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) was scientific computations.
the first commercial computer produced in the United
States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert 12) Answer: a)
and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC. It was
specially designed for scientific and military purposes. Mainframe computers or mainframes are computers
used primarily by large organizations for critical
applications. These computers are capable of handling
9) Answer: c) and processing very large amounts of data quickly.

First-Generation computers used vacuum tubes as 13) Answer: b)

circuitry and magnetic drums for memory. Magnetic
drums were used for memory. These first generation Workstation is a high-performance computer system
computers relied on machine language which is the that is basically designed for a single user and has
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advanced graphics capabilities, large storage capacity, functionality to a computer's mouse, usually in the
and a powerful microprocessor. It is a computer form of a drop-down menu containing additional
intended for individual use that is faster and more options. Right click is used to access the properties of
capable than a personal computer. any object.

14) Answer: b) 18) Answer: a)

A toggle key toggles the input from a group of keys on Optical character recognition (OCR) refers to both the
a keyboard between two different input modes. The technology and process of reading and converting
most common toggle key is Caps Lock, which typed, printed or handwritten characters into machine-
toggles the letter keys between lowercase and encoded text or something that the computer can
uppercase mode. Some keyboards also have other manipulate. It is used to convert paper record into
toggle keys, such as Num Lock, Scroll Lock, and electric filling and scanned chalan into a spreadsheet.
Insert.
19) Answer: d)
15) Answer: b)
A printer is an external hardware output device that
Escape key is a key on computer keyboards, usually takes the electronic data stored on a computer or other
labeled Esc. Pressing the Escape key usually cancels device and generates a hard copy of it. For example, if
the current operation or exits current window. This key you created a report on your computer, you could print
allows the user to cancel or abort operations. several copies to hand out at a staff meeting.

16) Answer: d) 20) Answer: c)

The first computer mouse was publicly unveiled in Daisy wheel printers print only characters and symbols
1968 by its inventor, Douglas C. Engelbart. He and cannot print graphics. They are generally slow
invented the computer mouse in 1964-two decades with a printing speed of about 10 to 75 characters per
before it would ship with the first Apple Macintosh. second. Working of daisy wheel printers is very similar
Thus, Douglas Engelbart is widely credited as the to typewriters.
inventor of the computer mouse.
21) Answer: b)
17) Answer: c)
ROM stands for Read Only Memory. The memory
The right-click is the action of pressing down on the which we can only read but we cannot write on it. This
right mouse button. The right-click provides additional type of memory is non-volatile. It stores crucial
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information essential to operate the system like the Protection and the Protect Sheet from Tools menu.
program essential to boot the computer. Click General options and read-only recommended
checkbox and save the document.
22) Answer: c)
26) Answer: b)
Hard Disk is the main storage device of the computer
which is fixed inside the CPU box. Its storage capacity WAN or Wide Area Network is a computer network
is very high that varies from 200 GB to 3 TB. A hard that extends over a large geographical area, although it
disc contains a number of metallic discs which are might be confined within the bounds of a state or
called platters. Information is recorded on the surface country. A WAN could be a connection of LAN
of the platters in a series of concentric circles. These connecting to other LAN’s via telephone lines and
circles are called Tracks. radio waves and may be limited to an enterprise or
accessible to the public. The technology is high speed
23) Answer: a) and relatively expensive.

CD-ROM refers to Compact Disc-Read Only Memory. 27) Answer: d)

Data or information is recorded at the time of
manufacturing and it can only be read. A CD-ROM Digital subscriber line is a family of technologies that
cannot be used to record fresh data by the computer. are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines.
DSL is widely understood to mean asymmetric digital
24) Answer: c) subscriber line, the most commonly installed DSL
technology, for Internet access.
Debugging is the process of finding and resolving
defects or problems within a computer program that 28) Answer: c)
prevent correct operation of computer software or a
system. Debugging checks, detects and corrects errors Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was a pioneering
or bugs to allow proper program operation according to American computer programmer who implemented the
set specifications. first email program on the ARPANET system; the
precursor to the Internet, in 1971. He is internationally
known and credited as the inventor of email.
25) Answer: b)
29) Answer: b)
When it comes time to send your Excel spreadsheet,
it's important to protect the data that you're sharing. In The homepage or home page is the name of the main
Excel to protect a worksheet; you can choose page of a website where visitors can find hyperlinks to
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other pages on the site. It is the introductory page of a
website, typically serving as a table of contents for the Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems to
site. send unsolicited bulk messages, especially advertising,
indiscriminately. The most widely recognized form of
30) Answer: d) spam is email spam.

English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World 34) Answer: c)

Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in
1990 while employed at CERN near Geneva, Cloud computing is the delivery of computing
Switzerland. The World Wide Web has been central to services-including servers, storage, databases,
the development of the Information Age and is the networking, software, analytics, and intelligence over
primary tool billions of people use to interact on the the Internet to offer faster innovation, flexible
Internet. resources, and economies of scale.

31) Answer: b) 35) Answer: c)

Web server is a computer where the web content is The Data layer is the second layer of the seven-layer
stored. Basically web server is used to host the web OSI model of computer networking. This layer is the
sites but there exists other web servers also such as protocol layer that transfers data between adjacent
gaming, storage, FTP, email etc. Website is a network nodes in a wide area network (WAN) or
collection of web pages while web server is software between nodes on the same local area network (LAN)
that responds to the request for web resources. segment. Two types of Data Link layer devices are
commonly used on networks: bridges and switches.
32) Answer: c)
36) Answer: b)
Slide sorter view is one of the important features
included in the Microsoft PowerPoint. Slide sorter In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking,
view allows the use of a computer to see all the the network layer is layer 3. The network layer is
presentations in Power Point at the same time. You can responsible for packet forwarding including routing
get to Slide Sorter view from the task bar at the bottom through intermediate routers. The network layer
of the slide window, or from the View tab on the provides the means of transferring variable-length
ribbon. Slide Sorter view displays all the slides in your network packets from a source to a destination host via
presentation in horizontally sequenced, thumbnails. one or more networks.

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interprets software programs written in assembly
Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile language into machine language.
memory used in computers and other electronic
devices. It contains the programming needed to start a
PC, which is essential for boot-up. It performs major 41) Answer: c)
input and output tasks and holds programs or software
instructions. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the most
38) Answer: b) basic building block of the Web. It defines the meaning
and structure of web content. HTML was created by
ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Berners-Lee in late 1991 but "HTML 2.0" was the first
Information Interchange. ASCII is the most common standard HTML specification which was published in
format for text files in computers and on the Internet. 1995.
In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special
character is represented with a 7-bit binary number (a 42) Answer: d)
string of seven 0s or 1s).
An interpreter is a computer program that is used to
39) Answer: d) directly execute program instructions written using one
of the many high-level programming languages. It is a
There are 5 main formats in which to store images. computer program, which converts each high-level
JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. program statement into the machine code.
JPEG files are images that have been compressed to
store a lot of information in a small-size file. GIF 43) Answer: a)
stands for Graphic Interchange Format. This format
compresses images but, as different from JPEG, the Daisy-wheel printers cannot print graphics, and in
compression is lossless.PNG stands for Portable general they are noisy and slow, printing from 10 to
Network Graphics. It is used almost exclusively for about 75 characters per second. They do not have the
web images but not for print images. capability to print more than one character at a time.

40) Answer: c) 44) Answer: d)

An assembler is a program that takes basic computer Hypertext Transfer Protocol is the set of rules for
instructions and converts them into a pattern of bits transferring files such as text, graphic images, sound,
that the computer's processor can use to perform its video, and other multimedia files on the World Wide
basic operations. It is a type of computer program that Web. It was designed for communication between web

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other purposes. A bit short for binary digit is the smallest unit of data
in a computer. A bit has a single binary value, either 0
45) Answer: c) or 1.The bit is a basic unit of information in
information theory, computing, and digital
A digitizer is a device which receives analog communications.
information such as sound or light and creates a digital
representation of it such as a file on a computer. This 50) Answer: c)
process is called digitization. For example, a digital
camera is a digitizer. Embedded computer is a specialized computer system
that is part of a larger system or machine. Typically, an
46) Answer: b) embedded system is housed on a single microprocessor
board with the programs stored in ROM. Virtually all
Modem stands for Modulator Demodulator. A appliances that have a digital interface such as watches,
modem is a very important piece of network hardware microwaves, cars utilize embedded systems.
that allows a computer to send and receive data
through a telephone line or cable connection. A modem 51) Answer: d)
modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode
digital information for transmission and demodulates Application software is software designed to perform a
signals to decode the transmitted information. group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for
the benefit of the user. It is generally a program or
47) Answer: a) collection of programs used by end users. It can be
called an application or simply an app.
A bit per second (bps) is a measure used to show the
average rate at which data is transferred between a 52) Answer: b)
computer and a data transmission system. As the term
implies, the speed in bps is equal to the number of bits A Blue-ray disk (BD) is a high-capacity optical disk
transmitted or received each second. medium developed for recording, rewriting and playing
back high definition video. It can store large amounts
48) Answer: b) of data and was designed to supersede the DVD.

Windows Logo + M is the shortcut key which is used 53) Answer: b)

to minimize all the windows in the Windows Operating Fire wire also called IEEE 1394 is another popular
system. connector for adding peripherals to your computer. Fire
49) Answer: c) wire is most often used to connect digital camcorders,
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external hard drives, and other devices that can benefit worksheets to help you organize data. You can create a
from the high transfer rates (up to 480 Mbps) new workbook from a blank workbook or a template.
supported by the Fire wire connection.
58) Answer: d)
54) Answer: b)
A fiber optic cable consists of a bundle of glass
Malware is short for “malicious software”. These are threads, each of which is capable of transmitting
computer programs designed to infiltrate and damage messages modulated onto light waves. Fiber optics is a
computers without the users consent. “Malware” is the particularly popular technology for local-area
general term covering all the different types of threats networks.
to your computer safety such as viruses, spyware,
worms, trojans, rootkits and so on. 59) Answer: a)

55) Answer: a) The Internal bus, also known as internal data bus
connects all the internal components of a computer,
Phishing is a cybercrime in which a target or targets are such as CPU and memory, to the motherboard. Internal
contacted by email, telephone or text message by data buses are also referred to as a local bus, because
someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure they are intended to connect to local devices. It is a
individuals into providing sensitive data such as communication system that transfers data between
personally identifiable information, banking and credit components inside a computer, or between computers.
card details, and passwords. The information is then
used to access important accounts and can result in 60) Answer: c)
identity theft and financial loss.
56) Answer: c) DML, DDL and DQL are the languages of Database
management system. Database languages are special-
A firewall is a network security device that monitors purpose languages, which allow one or more of the
traffic to or from your network. It allows or blocks following tasks, sometimes distinguished as
traffic based on a defined set of security rules. It is a sublanguages:
system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or
from a private network. Data control language (DCL) – To control access to
57) Answer: c) data;
Data definition language (DDL) – To define data types
In Microsoft Excel workbook is a collection of one or such as creating, altering, or dropping and the
more spreadsheets, also called worksheets, in a single relationships among them;
file. A workbook is a file that contains one or more
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Data manipulation language (DML) – To perform tasks 64) Answer: b)
such as inserting, updating, or deleting data
occurrences; ARPANET is the oldest and most influential merger of
Data query language (DQL) – To allow searching for computer networks which contributed to the birth of
information and computing derived information. the Internet. The precursor to the Internet, ARPANET
was a large wide-area network created by the United
61) Answer: d) States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
(ARPA).
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit 65) Answer: c)
also referred to as an IC chip is a set of electronic
circuits on one small flat piece of semiconductor Multitasking refers to the simultaneous performance of
material that is normally silicon. The integration of multiple tasks and processes by hardware, software or
large numbers of tiny transistors into a small chip any computing appliance. It enables the performance of
results in circuits that are orders of magnitude smaller, more than one computer process at the same time with
faster, and less expensive than those constructed of minimal lag in overall performance and without
discrete electronic components. ICs are now used in affecting the operations of each task.
virtually all electronic equipment and have
revolutionized the world of electronics. 66) Answer: a)

62) Answer: b) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the standard

protocol for email services on a TCP/IP network.
An IP address is a unique, identifying number for a SMTP provides the ability to send and receive email
piece of hardware within a network. IP address stands messages. SMTP is created and maintained by the
for Internet Protocol address. It is an identifier for Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
devices on a TCP/IP network.
67) Answer: a)
63) Answer: d)
In local area networks where bus topology is used,
A multiplexer is a device that selects between several each node is connected to a single cable, with the help
analog or digital input signals and forwards it to a of interface connectors. This central cable is the
single output line. Multiplexers are mainly used to backbone of the network and is known as the bus. It
increase the amount of data that can be sent over the transmits the data from one end to another in a single
network within a certain amount of time and direction. No bi-directional feature is there in bus
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68) Answer: a) another previously designated keyword to indicate the
end of transmission, and ensure that only one party
An uninterruptible power supply or uninterruptible transmits at a time, because both parties transmit and
power source (UPS) is an electrical apparatus that receive on the same frequency.
provides emergency power to a load when the input
power source or mains power fails. A UPS is typically 72) Answer: c)
used to protect hardware such as computers, data
centers, telecommunication equipment or other Installation or setup of a computer program is the act of
electrical equipment where an unexpected power making the program ready for execution. In other
disruption could cause injuries, fatalities, serious words, it is the process of transferring software
business disruption or data loss. programme from a secondary storage media into the
hard disc.
69) Answer: a)
73) Answer: a)
Tab row feature enables you to simultaneously keep
multiple web pages open in one browser window. It In star topology network, all the devices are connected
allows a user to browse multiple web pages in a single to a single hub through a cable. This hub is the central
window. These additional pages are denoted by tabs at node and all others nodes are connected to the central
the top of the browser window. node. The star topology is considered the easiest
topology to design and implement. An advantage of the
70) Answer: c) star topology is the simplicity of adding additional
nodes.
Control key is a modifier key which, when pressed in
conjunction with another key, performs a special 74) Answer: c)
operation. The Alt key on a computer keyboard is used
to change the function of other pressed keys. Thus, the Cursor may refer to an indicator used to show the
Alt key is a modifier key, used in a similar fashion to current position for user interaction on a computer
the Shift key and the Ctrl key. monitor or other display device. It is a special symbol,
usually a solid rectangle or a blinking underline
71) Answer: d) character, that signifies where the next character will
be displayed on the screen.
A half-duplex (HDX) system provides communication
in both directions, but only one direction at a time. An 75) Answer: c)
example of a half-duplex system is a two-party system
such as a walkie-talkie, wherein one must use over or
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Extranet is a system of computer that makes it possible 79) Answer: d)
for a company and people outside the company to
communicate and share information over the internet. FORTRAN derived from Formula Translation is a
Extranet also allow employees who work away from general-purpose, compiled imperative programming
the office to connect to the office computers. language that is especially suited to numeric
computation and scientific computing. It was created in
76) Answer: a) 1957 by John Backus.
80) Answer: d)
In an Excel worksheet, select the cell where you want
to insert the hyperlink to make it the active cell. Type a A device that allows wireless devices to connect to a
word to act as anchor text and press Enter. Select the wired network using Wi-Fi or related standards is
cell again make it the active cell. Press the Ctrl and K called wireless device. Examples of wireless devices
keys on the keyboard to open the Insert Hyperlink include cell phones, PDAs, wireless mice, wireless
dialog box. Thus, Ctrl + K can be used to insert keyboards, wireless routers, wireless network cards etc.
hyperlink in your worksheet.
81) Answer: a)
77) Answer: a)
A network interface controller is a computer hardware
PowerPoint lays out the slides in a landscape component that connects a computer to a computer
orientation by default, meaning the slides are wider network. It is a circuit board installed in a computer
than they are tall. However, there are times when you that provides a dedicated network connection to the
may prefer your slides to show in a portrait orientation computer. It is also called network interface controller,
with the slides taller than they are wide. This is a network adapter or LAN adapter.
relatively easy change to make, and there are several
ways to do this, depending on which version of 82) Answer: c)
PowerPoint you use.
The application layer is present at the top of the OSI
78) Answer: b) model. It is the layer through which users interact.
SMTP ( Simple mail transfer protocol) FTP( File
COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented transfer protocol) and DNS(Domain name service) are
Language. COBOL is a compiled English-like the protocols of application layer of the OSI Model.
computer programming language designed for business
use. It is primarily used in business, finance, and 83) Answer: d)
administrative systems for companies and
governments.
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SAGA-220 (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU is used to support the computer infrastructure -in
Architecture-220 teraflops) is a supercomputer built by contrast to application software, which is aimed at
the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was directly performing tasks that benefit ordinary users.
unveiled on 2 May 2011 by Dr K Radhakrishnan,
Chairman, ISRO. 88) Answer: d)

84) Answer: d) A petabyte is a measure of memory or data storage

capacity that is equal to 2 to the 50th power of bytes.
A hard disk is an electro-mechanical data storage Thus, petabyte is the largest unit of storage among all
device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve of the above units.
digital information using one or more rigid rapidly
rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. 89) Answer: c)
The platters are paired with magnetic heads, usually
arranged on a moving actuator arm, which read and Footer is an area at the bottom of a document page that
write data to the platter surface. contains data common to other pages. The information
in footers, which includes things like such as page
85) Answer: b) numbers, creation dates, copyrights, or references, can
be changed all of the pages in a document at the same
Software piracy is used for the unauthorized copying of time.
the software to be used for personal gain instead of
personal backups. It may include use of software 90) Answer: a)
unauthorized without obtaining a proper licence from
the Software Company or simultaneous use of single BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction
user licence or loading software on more machines, Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level
than authorized under the licence terms. programming languages the original BASIC was first
developed at Dartmouth College by John Kemeny,
86) Answer: a) Mary Keller, and Thomas Kurtz and introduced on
May 1, 1964.
Microsoft word 2013 by default saves the documents
or files in .docx format. 91) Answer: c)

87) Answer: d) An arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a digital circuit used

to perform arithmetic and logic operations. It
Utility software is system software designed to help represents the fundamental building block of the
analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer. It central processing unit (CPU) of a computer. It is a
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major component of the central processing unit of a A video card also called a display card, graphics card,
computer system. display adapter, or graphics adapter is an expansion
card which generates a feed of output images to a
92) Answer: a) display device such as a computer monitor.

A slide show is a presentation of a series of still images 97) Answer: c)

on a projection screen or electronic display device,
typically in a prearranged sequence. F5 key is the Font color in Microsoft Word is the color of the text
shortcut key for slideshow in Microsoft PowerPoint. (letters of the text) that you type. This feature allows us
to change the color of the selected text. For applying
93) Answer: a) font color, first open Microsoft word then you will see
a capital A with a red line under it. Click on the arrow
EEPROM stands for Electrically Erasable beside it and it will show all the colors available.
Programmable Read-Only Memory and is a type of
non-volatile memory used in computers. It is a type of 98) Answer: b)
ROM in which the chip can be erased & reprogrammed
on the board easily byte by byte. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard
markup language for creating web pages and web
94) Answer: c) applications. It is a text-based approach to describe
how content contained within an HTML file is
A pixel or picture element is a physical point in a raster structured.
image, or the smallest addressable element in an all 99) Answer: b)
points addressable display device. It is the smallest
controllable element of a picture represented on the An algorithm is a well-defined procedure that allows a
screen. computer to solve a problem.A programming algorithm
is a computer procedure that is a lot like a recipe called
95) Answer: c) a procedure and tells your computer precisely what
steps to take to solve a problem or reach a goal.
Disk defragmenter is a utility in Microsoft windows
designed to increase access speed by rearranging files 100) Answer: a)
stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage
locations, a technique called as defragmentation. Cold boot is the process of starting a computer from
shutdown or a powerless state and setting it to normal
96) Answer: d) working condition. A cold boot is typically performed
by pressing the power button on the computer.
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