Hello Readers, Today we are sharing Computer Awareness Set
1 completely based on SBI/IBPS Exam pattern. These Computer
Awareness questions are very important for SBI PO exam and IBPS PO &
other upcoming bank exam.
1. Where would
you find the letters QUERTY?
(1)
Mouse
(2) Screen
(3) Numeric
Keypad
(4) Keyboard
(5) None of
these
2. How did the
computer mouse get its name?
(1) It's cable
looks like a tail
(2) Because it
squeaks when moved
(3) It has
ears
(4) Teeth
outside mouth
(5) None of
these
3. What are
you most likely to use when playing
(1) Touch
screen a computer game?
(2) Light
pen
(3) notepad
(4)
Joystick
(5) None of
these
4. A
digitising tablet can be used for?
(1) Tracing
diagrams
(2) Printing
letters
(3) Reading
barcodes
(4) Playing
(5) None of
these
5. Which of
the following is a pointing device
(1) Hard disk
.
(2) CD-ROM
drive
(3) Touch
screen used for computer input.
(4) RAM
(5) None of
these
6. What does a
light pen contain?
(1) Refillable
ink
(2) Light
sensitive elements
(3) Pencil
lead
(4) Blue Ink
(5) None of
these
7. What would
be the best way to move around a 3D environment?
(1) Use a
tracker ball
(2) Use a
keyboard.
(3) Use a
space mouse
(4) Use
Joystick
(5) None of
these
8. What input
device can be used for marking
(1) Optical
mark reader
(2) Bar code
reader
(3) Mouse a
multiple choice test?
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
9. What input
device could tell you the price of
(1) Mouse a
bar of chocolate?
(2) All of the
above
(3) Optical
mark reader
(4) Bar code
reader
(5) None of
these
10. Where
would you find a magnetic strip?
(1)
Speakers
(2) Credit
card
(3) Smart
card
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
11. Hard copy
is a term used to describe...?
(1) Printed
output
(2) Writing on
a hard board
(3) Storing
information on the hard disk
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
12. What do
the abbreviations VAB stand for?
(1) Voice
activated broadcasting
(2) Visual
audio board
(3) Voice
answer back
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
13. What are
the individual dots which make up a picture on the monitor screen called?
(1) Coloured
spots
(2) All of the
above
(3) Pixies
(4) Pixels
(5) None of
these
14. A daisy
wheel is a type of...?
(1) None of
these
(2) Storage
device
(3) Pointing
device
(4) All of the
above
(5) Printer
15. Factory
production lines can be automated using...?
(1) Machine
tools
(2)
(3) Plotters
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
16. An impact
printer creates characters by using...?
(1) An inked
ribbon and print head
(2)
Electrically charged ink
(3) An ink pen
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
17. What would
you NOT use with a flatbed plotter?
(1) A
pen
(2) Eraser
(3) Paper
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
18. What would
be the best way to move around a 3D environment?
(1)
Electrostatic plotters
(2) None of
these
(3) Thermal
printers
(4) All of the
above
(5)
19. What do
you need for an ink jet printer?
(1) A
drum
(2) A
cartridge
(3) A ribbon
(4) All of the above
(5) None of
these
(1) A
photoconductive drum
(2) A print
head
(3) A laser
beam
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
21. The amount
of data that a disk may contains known as the disk's...?
(1)
Volume
(2) Size
(3) All of the
above
(4) Storage
capacity
(5) None of
these
(1) Read
(2) Read and
Write
(3) Write
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
23.
Information on a hard disk is usually backed-up using a..?
(1)
CD-ROM
(2) Magnetic
tape
(3) Floppy
disk
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
24. Magnetic
storage devices can represent binary 0 by the absence of...?
(1) A magnetic
field
(2) Magnetic
tape
(3) Static
electricity
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
(1) Random
access medium
(2) A parallel
access medium
(3) Serial
access medium
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
26. Which
of the following registers is loaded with the contents of the memory
location pointed by the PC?
(1) Memory
address registers
(2) Instruction register
(3) Memory
data registers
(4) Program
counter
(5) None of
these
27. Formatting
a disk results in all the data being...?
(1) Saved to
the disk
(2) Copied
from the disk
(3) Deleted
from the disk
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
(1) A floppy
disk
(2) A CD-ROM
(3) Magnetic
tape storage
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
29. Which
storage device cannot be erased?
(1) A CD-ROM
(2) None of
these
(3) Magnetic
tape storage
(4) All of the
above-
(5) A floppy
disk
30. Where
should floppy disks be stored?
(1) By a sunny
window
(2) In a
drawer
(3) All of the
above
(4) By magnet
objects
(5) None of
these
31. Who is
accredited with developing the architecture of the modern computer?
(1) Sir Clive
Sinclair
(2) Bill Gates
(3) All of the
above
(4) None of
these
(5) John Von
Neumann
(1)
Autobus
(2) Data bus
(3) Address
bus
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
33. Which bus
controls the sequencing of read/write operations?
(1) Control
bus
(2) Address
bus
(3) Data
bus
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
34. The
contents of these chips are lost when the computer is switched off?
(1) RAM chips
(2) ROM chips
(3) DRAM chips
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
35. What are
responsible for storing permanent data and instructions?
(1) RAM chips
(2) All of the
above
(3) DRAM chips
(4) ROM chips
(5) None of
these
(1)
Registers
(2) ALU
(3) Logic bus
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
37. What are
small high speed memory units used for storing
temporary results?
(1) All of the
above
(2) Registers
(3) Control
unit
(4) CPUs
(5) None of
these
38. What
maintains the status of the last operation carried out by the ALU?
(1)
Instruction pointer .
(2) Status
register
(3)
Accumulator
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
39. How many
bits of information can each memory cell in a computer chip hold?
(1) 8
bits
(2) 1 bit
(3)
Obits
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
40. What type
of computer chips are said to be volatile?
(1) ROM
chips
(2) RAM chips
(3) DRAM
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
41. An example
of an embedded system is ...?
(1) A
CD-ROM
(2) A machine
tool
(3) A
calculator
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
42. Which
computers use single chip processors?
(1) All of the
above
(2) Parallel
computers
(3) Cray
computers
(4) Personal
computers
(5) /tone of
these
43. Travel
agents use this computer system when reserving flights.
(1)
Supercomputer
(2) Mainframe
computer
(3) Personal
computer
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
(1) Super
computers
(2) Notebook
computers
(3) Jon Von
Neumann computers
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
45. Which
computers are connected to many terminals and can multitask?
(1)
Minicomputers
(2) LEO 1
computers
(3) All of the
above
(4) None of
these
(5) Personal
computers running MS-DOS
46. Vacuum
tube based electronic computers are...?
(1) Second
generation
(2) Hoover
generation
(3) First
generation
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
47. Which
generation of computer was developed from microchips?
(1) Third
generation
(2) Second
generation
(3) Fourth
generation
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
48. Which
generation of computer uses more than one microprocessor?
(1) Second
generation
(2) Third
generation
(3) None of
these
(4) All of the
above
(5) Fifth
generation
49. Which
generation of computer developed using integrated
circuits?
(1) Second
generation
(2) Fifth
generation
(3) Third
generation
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
50. Which of
these is actually a very basic computer?
(1) a toaster
(2) a stove
(3) a light
bulb
(4) a
calculator
(5) None of
these
51. Imagine
that a user has a WORD document open at a workstation
and that workstation is unexpectedly disconnected from the school
network and from the Internet. Where should the user BEST save her work?
(1) USB
key
(2) P drive
(3) None of
these
(4) S
drive
(5) H drive
52. Computer
memory that temporarily stores information is called the
____.
(1) RAM
(2) CPU
(3) ROM
(4) IBM
(5) None of
these
53. The brain
of the computer is called the _____.
(1) IBM
(2) ROM
(3) RAM
(4) CPU
(5) None of
these
54. The
operating system is also called the ______ between the user and
the computer.
(1)
interrelate
(2) interface
(3)
interference
(4)
intermediate
(5) None of
these
55. When
installing a peripheral you also usually need to install a
_____ .
(1) port
(2) server
(3)
driver
(4) password
(5) None of
these
56. Computers
use which of the following number systems to store
information?
(1) base
4
(2) base 2
(3)
base8
(4) base 10
(5) None of
these
57. A single
binary digit is known as
(1) MB
(2) byte
(3) KB
(4) bit
(5) None of
these
58. Internet
Safety relates to__________.
(1) only those
who buy products online
(2) only those
who sign up for chat rooms
(3) only those
who do their banking online
(4) everyone
who uses a computer that can conned to the Internet
(5) None of
these
(1) .gif
(2) .txt
(3)
.docx
(4) .exe
(5) None of
these
60. A KB
represents____bytes
(1) 8
(2)
1,000,000,000
(3) 1,000,000
(4) 1,000
(Actually it is 1024)
(5) None of
these
61. How many
Bytes in a Megabyte (MB)?
(1) 1,000,000
(2) 1,024,000
(3) 1,048,576
(4)
1,000,024
(5) None of
these
62. Which
QBasic statement is W'-'rnost evil?
(1) PRINT
(2) LOCATE
(3) GOTO
(4) RANDOMIZE
(5) None of
these
63. What does
ALU stand for?
(1) Arithmetic
Logic Unit
(2)
Asymmetrical Localizing Unit
(3) Because
his legs are in the way
(4) Awfully
Long-winded Unionist
(5) None of
these
64. How many
pins on a standard DDR RAM Dimm?
(1) 64
(2) 256
(3) 168
(4) 184
(5) None of
these
65. A
name or number used to identify a storage location devices?
(1) A
byte
(2) A record
(3) All of
above
(4) An address
(5) None of
these
(1) USB
(2) DSL
(3) RAM
(4) LAN
(5) CPU
67. If a
computer is constantly rebooting itself, what is most commonly the
problem?
(1)
Insufficient Power-Supply Unit
(2) Bad Sectors
on Hard Drive
(3) Processor
Overheating
(4)
Defective/Bad Memory
(5) None of
these
68. What does
the company name 'AMD' stand for?
(1) Always
Making Dough
(2) Advanced
Micro Devices
(3)
Alternating Micron Deficiencies
(4) A Mad
Device
(5) None of
these
69. How many
pins does Ethernet use in the RJ-45 Connection?
(1) 3
(2) 2
(3) 6
(4) 4
(5) None of
these
70. What does
SSE stand for in Intel's SSE Technology?
(1)
Sophisticated Software Enhancer
(2) Streaming
Simd Extensions
(3) Some
Stupid Enhancer
(4) Simplistic
Software Extensions
(5) None of
these
71. Storage
that retains its data after the power is turned off is referred to
as
(1)
non-volatile storage
(2) volatile
storage
(3) sequential
storage
(4) direct
storage
(5) None of
these
72. Which of
the following is the largest unit of storage ?
(1) KB
(2) GB
(3) MB
(4) TB
(5) None of
these 286.
73. Which does
NOT belong to a Intel Pentium 4 Platform?
(1) DDRSDRAM
(2)
EDO/Fast-Page Ram
(3) SDRAM
(4) Rambuss
(5) None of
these
75. The person
contributing the idea of the stored program was
(1) Daniel
Thomas
(2) Charles
Babbage
(3) Howard
Aiken
(4) John
Neumann
(5) Dennis
Ritenie.
76. A
(n)_ is a program that makes the computer easier to use.
(1) Operating
system
(2)
Application
(3) Network
(4) Utility
(5) None of
these
77. In a
database ___ fields store numbers used to perform
calculation.
(1) Next
(2) Key
(3)
Alphanumeric
(4) None of
these
(5) Numeric
78. A __
represents approximately one billion memory location.
(1)
kilobyte
(2) gigabyte
(3) megabyte
(4) terabyte
(5) None of
these
79. What is
the BEST ram solution for the Intel Pentium 4 Processor?
(1) SDRAM
(2) DDR SDRAM
(3) EDO/Fast
Page Ram
(4) Rambuss
(5) None of
these
80. How did
the SHIFT key get its name?
(1) From the
Latin word for large, Shiftius, which v as the first language
ever used on acomouter.
(2) Because it
shifts the ASC11 table by a value of 32.
(3) It was a
carry-over from typewriters which had both upper and
lower case letters on each print head and used a mechanical shifting of
the print head to differentiate.
(4) Because the Capitol is full of shifty
characters.
(5) None of
these
81. Codes
consisting of bars or lines of varying widths or lengths that
are computer-readable are known as___
(1) an ASCII
code
(2) a magnetic
tape
(3) a bar code
(4) an OCR
scanner
(5) None of
these
82. What does
BASIC stand for?
(1) Basically,
it's just your basic computer language, so they named it BASIC.
(2) Beginner's
All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
(3) Binary
Analysis System Interpretation Command set
(4) Byte
Arranging Software for Improved Coding
(5) None of
these
83. What does
ASCII stand for? '
(1) Array of
Simple Character Iteration Indices
(2) Another
Stupid Character Identification Idea
(3) Alternate
Source Code Image Improvement
(4) None of
these
(5) American
Standard Code for Information Interchange
84. The access
method used for magnetic tape is_____
(1) Direct
(2) Random
(3) All of the
above
(4) Sequential
(5) None of
these
(1) String
manipulation only
(2) None of
the above
(3) Processing
string of only words
(4) Processing
string of numbers and special symbols
(5) None of
these
86. The
difference between memory and storage is that the memory is ___
and storage is ____
(1) Slow, fast
(2) Temporary,
permanent
(3) Volatile memory, Non-
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
(1) Hard
disk
(2) Floppy
disk
(3) All of the
above
(4) Mother
board
(5) None of
these
(88) The
language that the computer can understand and execute is
called ____
(1) System
program
(2)
Application software
(3) Machine
language
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
(1) MICR
(2) OMR
(3) OCR
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
90. A floppy
disk contains
(1) Circular
tracks only
(2) Both
circular tracks and sectors
(3) Sectors
only
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
91. CD-ROM is
a
(1)
Semiconductor memory
(2) None of
these
(3) Magnetic
memory
(4) All of the
above
(5) Memory
register
92. Actual
execution of instructions in a computer takes place in ,
(1) Control
Unit
(2) ALU
(3) Storage
unit
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
93. Which of
the following is used as a primary storage device
(1) Magnetic
tape
(2) PROM
(3) Floppy
disk
(4) None of
these
(5) All of the
above
94.
Information retrieval is faster from
(1) Floppy
disk
(2) Hard disk
(3) Magnetic
tape
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
95. Operating
system is
(1) A
collection of software routines
(2) A
collection of input-output devices
(3) A
collection of hardware components
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
96. Operating
system
(1) Provides a
layered, user-friendly interface .
(2) Link a
program with the subroutines it references
(3) Enables a
programmer to draw a flowchart
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
97. Execution
of two or more programs by a single CPU is known as:
(1)
Multiprocessing
(2) Time
sharing
(3)
Multiprogramming
(4) None of
these
(5) All of
these
98. Modem
stands for
(1) A type of
secondary memory
(2) Mainframe
operating device memory
(3) Modulator
demodulator
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
99. Typical
data transfer rate in LAN are of the order of
(1) Kilo bits
per sec
(2) Bits per
sec
(3) Mega bits
per sec
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
(1) Ring
topology
(2) Bus
topology
(3) Mesh
topology
(4) All of the
above
(5) None of
these
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