COMPUTER QUIZ 1 : BOOST YOUR PROFICIENCY

Created on March 16, 2025 By

skverma.verma29@gmail.com

COMPUTER QUIZ

COMPUTER QUIZ 1

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS IN COMPUTER SUBJECT FOR VARIOUS COMPETITIVE EXAMS IN INDIA (UPSC, SSC, BANKING, PSU, RAILWAY, ETC.)

1 / 100

1. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING REFERS TO A VIRUS THAT SPREADS THROUGH EMAIL ATTACHMENTS?

A) MALWARE

B) WORM

C) TROJAN HORSE

D) EMAIL VIRUS

2 / 100

2. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A TYPE OF COMPUTER MEMORY THAT IS VOLATILE?

A) HARD DISK

B) ROM

C) EEPROM

D) RAM

3 / 100

3. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE FUNCTION OF A SEARCH ENGINE?

A) SEARCH FOR INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET

B) STORE FILES

C) NAVIGATE THE WEB

D) SEND EMAILS

4 / 100

4. WHAT DOES THE ACRONYM "SSD" STAND FOR IN COMPUTING?

A) SOLID STATE DRIVE

B) SUPER STORAGE DEVICE

C) SIMPLE STORAGE DEVICE

D) SECURE STORAGE DISK

5 / 100

5. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A TYPE OF SOFTWARE THAT ALLOWS A USER TO NAVIGATE THE INTERNET?

A) ANTIVIRUS

B) SPREADSHEET

C) WORD PROCESSOR

D) WEB BROWSER

6 / 100

6. WHAT DOES THE ACRONYM “HTTP” STAND FOR?

A) HYPER TRANSFER TEXT PROTOCOL

B) HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

C) HYPERTEXT TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL

D) HIGHTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

7 / 100

7. WHICH COMMAND IS USED TO DISPLAY THE FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN WINDOWS?

A) LIST

B) DIR

C) SHOW

D) LS

8 / 100

8. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED FOR ORGANIZING AND RETRIEVING DATA IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE?

A) SQL

B) JAVA

C) HTML

D) PYTHON

9 / 100

9. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT (ALU) IN A COMPUTER?

A) MANAGE INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONS

B) PERFORM ARITHMETIC AND LOGICAL OPERATIONS

C) STORE DATA

D) CONTROL DATA FLOW

10 / 100

10. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE "CTRL + V" COMMAND IN MOST APPLICATIONS?

A) SAVE

B) COPY

C) CUT

D) PASTE

11 / 100

11. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM?

A) WINDOWS

B) LINUX

C) PHOTOSHOP

D) ANDROID

12 / 100

12. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO REPRESENT THE DATA IN COMPUTERS?

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) HEXADECIMAL

C) DECIMAL

D) BINARY

13 / 100

13. WHICH SOFTWARE IS USED FOR IMAGE EDITING?

A) ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

B) MICROSOFT WORD

C) CORELDRAW

D) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

14 / 100

14. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO CONTROL THE CURSOR ON A COMPUTER SCREEN?

A) PRINTER

B) KEYBOARD

C) SPEAKER

D) MOUSE

15 / 100

15. WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF A FIREWALL IN A NETWORK?

A) MONITOR NETWORK TRAFFIC

B) IMPROVE NETWORK SPEED

C) STORE DATA

D) PREVENT UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS

16 / 100

16. WHICH TYPE OF SOFTWARE IS USED TO DETECT AND REMOVE VIRUSES FROM A COMPUTER?

A) ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE

B) DISK CLEANUP SOFTWARE

C) OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE

D) SYSTEM RESTORE SOFTWARE

17 / 100

17. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A SEARCH ENGINE USED TO FIND INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET?

A) BING

B) YAHOO

C) GOOGLE

D) ALL OF THE ABOVE

18 / 100

18. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT A TYPE OF SOFTWARE?

A) OPERATING SYSTEM

B) WEB BROWSER

C) NETWORK CABLE

D) DATABASE

19 / 100

19. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE PROTOCOL USED TO TRANSFER FILES OVER THE INTERNET?

A) SMTP

B) HTTP

C) FTP

D) POP3

20 / 100

20. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT AN INPUT DEVICE?

A) MOUSE

B) PRINTER

C) KEYBOARD

D) SCANNER

21 / 100

21. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO CONNECT TO A REMOTE COMPUTER?

A) ROUTER

B) WEB BROWSER

C) VPN

D) WI-FI

22 / 100

22. WHAT DOES THE ACRONYM "LAN" STAND FOR?

A) LINEAR AREA NETWORK

B) LOCAL AREA NETWORK

C) LONG AREA NETWORK

D) LARGE AREA NETWORK

23 / 100

23. WHICH COMMAND IS USED TO SHUT DOWN A COMPUTER IN WINDOWS?

A) EXIT

B) SHUTDOWN

C) STOP

D) CLOSE

24 / 100

24. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO CONNECT A COMPUTER TO THE INTERNET WIRELESSLY?

A) MODEM

B) ROUTER

C) WI-FI

D) BLUETOOTH

25 / 100

25. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT AN EXAMPLE OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM?

A) LINUX

B) ANDROID

C) WINDOWS

D) EXCEL

26 / 100

26. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A FUNCTION OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM?

A) PROVIDE USER INTERFACE

B) RUN APPLICATIONS

C) ALL OF THE ABOVE

D) MANAGE HARDWARE RESOURCES

27 / 100

27. WHICH TECHNOLOGY IS USED FOR WIRELESS INTERNET CONNECTIVITY?

A) BLUETOOTH

B) ETHERNET

C) WI-FI

D) USB

28 / 100

28. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SOFTWARE IS USED TO CREATE DOCUMENTS?

A) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

B) MICROSOFT EXCEL

C) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

D) MICROSOFT WORD

29 / 100

29. WHAT IS THE FULL FORM OF "SQL"?

A) SYSTEM QUERY LANGUAGE

B) SIMPLE QUERY LANGUAGE

C) STANDARD QUERY LANGUAGE

D) STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE

30 / 100

30. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A STORAGE DEVICE THAT USES FLASH MEMORY?

A) TAPE DRIVE

B) USB FLASH DRIVE

C) HARD DISK

D) CD

31 / 100

31. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A PROTOCOL USED FOR EMAIL TRANSMISSION?

A) FTP

B) SNMP

C) SMTP

D) HTTP

32 / 100

32. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM USED ON MOBILE DEVICES?

A) WINDOWS

B) LINUX

C) MACOS

D) IOS

33 / 100

33. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING OPERATING SYSTEMS IS OPEN-SOURCE?

A) WINDOWS

B) LINUX

C) MAC OS

D) ANDROID

34 / 100

34. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF A WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN)?

A) HOME NETWORK

B) OFFICE NETWORK

C) INTERNET

D) SCHOOL NETWORK

35 / 100

35. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A CLOUD STORAGE SERVICE?

A) GOOGLE DRIVE

B) ONEDRIVE

C) ALL OF THE ABOVE

D) DROPBOX

36 / 100

36. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO TEMPORARILY STORE DATA IN A COMPUTER?

A) ROM

B) HARD DISK

C) OPTICAL DISK

D) RAM

37 / 100

37. IN WHICH YEAR WAS THE FIRST IPHONE RELEASED?

A) 2008

B) 2009

C) 2006

D) 2007

38 / 100

38. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF CLOUD COMPUTING?

A) MICROSOFT ONEDRIVE

B) GOOGLE DOCS

C) DROPBOX

D) ALL OF THE ABOVE

39 / 100

39. WHICH SOFTWARE IS USED TO CREATE SPREADSHEETS?

A) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

B) MICROSOFT WORD

C) MICROSOFT EXCEL

D) MICROSOFT ACCESS

40 / 100

40. WHICH DEVICE IS USED TO CONNECT DIFFERENT NETWORKS?

A) HUB

B) REPEATER

C) ROUTER

D) SWITCH

41 / 100

41. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO ACCESS THE INTERNET?

A) CPU

B) HARD DISK

C) MODEM

D) MONITOR

42 / 100

42. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A COMMON TYPE OF FILE COMPRESSION?

A) .EXE

B) .JPG

C) .DOCX

D) .ZIP

43 / 100

43. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO STORE THE OPERATING SYSTEM IN A COMPUTER?

A) RAM

B) CACHE MEMORY

C) ROM

D) HARD DISK

44 / 100

44. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?

A) HTML

B) PYTHON

C) JAVA

D) SQL

45 / 100

45. WHAT DOES THE ACRONYM “VPN” STAND FOR IN NETWORK SECURITY?

A) VIRTUAL PUBLIC NETWORK

B) VERIFIED PRIVATE NETWORK

C) VERIFIED PROTOCOL NETWORK

D) VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK

46 / 100

46. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT A PART OF THE CPU?

A) RAM

B) ALU

C) CONTROL UNIT

D) REGISTER

47 / 100

47. WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE "CTRL + C" COMMAND?

A) PASTE

B) COPY

C) UNDO

D) CUT

48 / 100

48. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO IDENTIFY A SPECIFIC COMPUTER OR DEVICE ON A NETWORK?

A) DNS

B) BOTH IP ADDRESS AND MAC ADDRESS

C) IP ADDRESS

D) MAC ADDRESS

49 / 100

49. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A PRIMARY FUNCTION OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM?

A) SEND EMAILS

B) MANAGE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES

C) PERFORM ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS

D) STORE DATA

50 / 100

50. WHAT DOES THE ACRONYM "GUI" STAND FOR IN COMPUTING?

A) GRAPHICAL UNIT INTERFACE

B) GENERAL USER INPUT

C) GENERAL USER INTERFACE

D) GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

51 / 100

51. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO CONNECT MULTIPLE COMPUTERS WITHIN A LOCAL AREA?

A) WAN

B) MAN

C) VPN

D) LAN

52 / 100

52. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE CONTROL UNIT (CU) IN A CPU?

A) STORE DATA

B) PERFORM ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS

C) CONTROL THE FLOW OF DATA AND INSTRUCTIONS

D) MANAGE INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONS

53 / 100

53. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN INPUT DEVICE?

A) MONITOR

B) KEYBOARD

C) SPEAKER

D) PRINTER

54 / 100

54. WHAT IS THE FULL FORM OF "HTML"?

A) HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

B) HIGH TRANSFER MARKUP LANGUAGE

C) HIGHTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

D) HYPER TRANSFER MARKUP LANGUAGE

55 / 100

55. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF A WEB BROWSER?

A) VLC MEDIA PLAYER

B) MICROSOFT WORD

C) GOOGLE CHROME

D) ADOBE ACROBAT

56 / 100

56. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF A ROUTER?

A) DIRECT DATA PACKETS BETWEEN DEVICES ON A NETWORK

B) STORE DATA

C) PRINT DOCUMENTS

D) PROVIDE WI-FI CONNECTIVITY

57 / 100

57. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE?

A) NORTON

B) EXCEL

C) MS WORD

D) D) PHOTOSHOP

58 / 100

58. WHICH DEVICE CONVERTS DIGITAL DATA INTO ANALOG SIGNALS FOR TRANSMISSION OVER TELEPHONE LINES?

A) BRIDGE

B) ROUTER

C) SWITCH

D) MODEM

59 / 100

59. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO SAVE A DOCUMENT IN MICROSOFT WORD?

A) CTRL + P

B) CTRL + A

C) CTRL + B

D) CTRL + S

60 / 100

60. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE MOTHERBOARD?

A) STORE DATA

B) CONTROL PERIPHERAL DEVICES

C) PERFORM CALCULATIONS

D) CONNECT ALL HARDWARE COMPONENTS

61 / 100

61. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A WELL-KNOWN INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER?

A) D) HP

B) INTEL

C) GOOGLE

D) VODAFONE

62 / 100

62. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE MAIN FUNCTION OF THE CPU IN A COMPUTER?

A) CONTROL PERIPHERAL DEVICES

B) PERFORM CALCULATIONS

C) STORE DATA

D) ALL OF THE ABOVE

63 / 100

63. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?

A) CSS

B) SQL

C) HTML

D) JAVA

64 / 100

64. WHAT DOES THE ACRONYM "PDF" STAND FOR?

A) PORTABLE DOCUMENT FILE

B) PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT

C) PUBLIC DATA FORMAT

D) PERSONAL DATA FILE

65 / 100

65. WHAT DOES THE "ESC" KEY DO IN MOST SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS?

A) EXIT THE APPLICATION

B) MAXIMIZE THE WINDOW

C) OPEN THE FILE MENU

D) UNDO THE LAST ACTION

66 / 100

66. WHAT DOES THE "F1" KEY TYPICALLY DO IN MOST SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS?

A) OPEN THE SETTINGS MENU

B) PRINT THE DOCUMENT

C) OPEN THE HELP MENU

D) SAVE THE DOCUMENT

67 / 100

67. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO IDENTIFY A WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET?

A) URL

B) IP ADDRESS

C) HTTP

D) DNS

68 / 100

68. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING REPRESENTS 1 BYTE OF DATA?

A) 4 BITS

B) 32 BITS

C) 16 BITS

D) 8 BITS

69 / 100

69. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A COMMON CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER?

A) MICROSOFT AZURE

B) GOOGLE CLOUD

C) AWS

D) ALL OF THE ABOVE

70 / 100

70. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED FOR SECURING ONLINE TRANSACTIONS?

A) SMTP

B) VPN

C) FTP

D) SSL/TLS

71 / 100

71. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING STORAGE DEVICES IS USED TO STORE LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA PERMANENTLY?

A) CACHE

B) HARD DISK

C) RAM

D) ROM

72 / 100

72. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO NAVIGATE THE INTERNET?

A) ADOBE ACROBAT

B) GOOGLE CHROME

C) VLC MEDIA PLAYER

D) MICROSOFT WORD

73 / 100

73. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING STORAGE DEVICES USES OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY?

A) HARD DISK

B) RAM

C) USB FLASH DRIVE

D) CD-ROM

74 / 100

74. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING NUMBER SYSTEMS IS USED BY COMPUTERS TO REPRESENT DATA?

A) HEXADECIMAL

B) DECIMAL

C) BINARY

D) OCTAL

75 / 100

75. WHAT IS THE FULL FORM OF "BIOS"?

A) BASIC INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM

B) BINARY INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM

C) BASIC INTEGRATED OPERATING SYSTEM

D) BASIC INSTRUCTION OUTPUT SYSTEM

76 / 100

76. WHICH DEVICE IS USED TO STORE DATA PERMANENTLY IN A COMPUTER?

A) CACHE MEMORY

B) HARD DISK

C) ROM

D) RAM

77 / 100

77. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A MULTI-USER OPERATING SYSTEM?

A) MS-DOS

B) WINDOWS 10

C) LINUX

D) WINDOWS XP

78 / 100

78. WHAT IS THE BINARY EQUIVALENT OF THE DECIMAL NUMBER 15?

A) 1111

B) 1000

C) 1011

D) 1100

79 / 100

79. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFAULT FILE FORMAT FOR SAVING DOCUMENTS IN MICROSOFT WORD?

A) .DOCX

B) .PDF

C) .DOC

D) .TXT

80 / 100

80. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A FORM OF SECONDARY STORAGE IN COMPUTERS?

A) RAM

B) ROM

C) CPU

D) HARD DISK

81 / 100

81. WHAT IS THE FULL FORM OF "URL"?

A) UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATOR

B) UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR

C) UNIFORM REGISTERED LOCATOR

D) UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR

82 / 100

82. WHAT IS THE FULL FORM OF "USB"?

A) UNIFIED SERVICE BUS

B) UNITED SYSTEM BUS

C) UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS

D) UNIVERSAL SYSTEM BUS

83 / 100

83. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A VALID DOMAIN NAME?

A) GOOGLE.COM

B) GOOGLE

C) COM.GOOGLE

D) .COM

84 / 100

84. WHICH TYPE OF MEMORY IS USED TO STORE THE BIOS SETTINGS IN A COMPUTER?

A) ROM

B) CACHE

C) RAM

D) FLASH MEMORY

85 / 100

85. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE PRINTER IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM?

A) CONVERT DIGITAL SIGNALS TO ANALOG SIGNALS

B) STORE DATA

C) OUTPUT DATA TO PAPER

D) INPUT DATA

86 / 100

86. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFAULT FILE EXTENSION FOR FILES CREATED IN MICROSOFT EXCEL?

A) .PPTX

B) .XLSX

C) .TXT

D) .DOCX

87 / 100

87. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM?

A) TO MANAGE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES

B) TO STORE DATA

C) TO PROCESS DATA

D) TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET

88 / 100

88. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT PART OF THE CPU?

A) ALU

B) CONTROL UNIT

C) RAM

D) REGISTERS

89 / 100

89. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A TYPE OF MALWARE?

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) TROJAN

C) WORM

D) VIRUS

90 / 100

90. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?

A) XML

B) JAVASCRIPT

C) HTML

D) CSS

91 / 100

91. WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM IS MOST COMMONLY USED FOR MOBILE DEVICES?

A) WINDOWS 10

B) LINUX

C) ANDROID

D) IOS

92 / 100

92. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE FASTEST MEMORY IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM?

A) HARD DISK

B) ROM

C) CACHE MEMORY

D) RAM

93 / 100

93. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF A WEB SEARCH ENGINE?

A) YAHOO

B) BING

C) GOOGLE

D) ALL OF THE ABOVE

94 / 100

94. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO CREATE DIGITAL IMAGES?

A) MICROSOFT EXCEL

B) D) MICROSOFT WORD

C) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

D) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

95 / 100

95. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO SECURE COMMUNICATION OVER THE INTERNET?

A) IMAP

B) HTTPS

C) FTP

D) HTTP

96 / 100

96. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE CORRECT FILE EXTENSION FOR A

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT PRESENTATION?

A) .PPTX

B) .XLSX

C) .TXT

D) .DOCX

97 / 100

97. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF A VIDEO CONFERENCING TOOL?

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) GOOGLE MEET

C) SKYPE

D) ZOOM

98 / 100

1. WHAT DOES THE “CTRL + Z” KEYBOARD SHORTCUT DO?

A) UNDO THE PREVIOUS ACTION

B) ZOOM IN

C) SAVE THE DOCUMENT

D) REDO THE PREVIOUS ACTION

99 / 100

2. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED TO DISPLAY THE OUTPUT OF A COMPUTER?

A) KEYBOARD

B) MOUSE

C) PRINTER

D) MONITOR

100 / 100

1. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE SMALLEST UNIT OF DATA IN A COMPUTER?

A) KILOBYTE

B) BYTE

C) BIT

D) MEGABYTE

Your score is

The average score is 0%

0%

Exit

COMPUTER QUIZ 1 : BOOST YOUR PROFICIENCY

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

RECENT POST