COMPUTER QUIZ 1 : BOOST YOUR PROFICIENCY

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COMPUTER QUIZ

COMPUTER QUIZ 1

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

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

A) KILOBYTE

B) BIT

C) MEGABYTE

D) BYTE

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

A) .EXE

B) .ZIP

C) .DOCX

D) .JPG

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2. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?

A) JAVA

B) HTML

C) SQL

D) CSS

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

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT PRESENTATION?

A) .TXT

B) .XLSX

C) .PPTX

D) .DOCX

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

A) EXCEL

B) D) PHOTOSHOP

C) NORTON

D) MS WORD

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

A) MALWARE

B) WORM

C) TROJAN HORSE

D) EMAIL VIRUS

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

A) VPN

B) ROUTER

C) WI-FI

D) WEB BROWSER

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

A) SNMP

B) HTTP

C) FTP

D) SMTP

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

A) MS-DOS

B) WINDOWS 10

C) WINDOWS XP

D) LINUX

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

A) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

B) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

C) MICROSOFT EXCEL

D) D) MICROSOFT WORD

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

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) YAHOO

C) BING

D) GOOGLE

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

A) USB FLASH DRIVE

B) RAM

C) HARD DISK

D) CD-ROM

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

A) KEYBOARD

B) SPEAKER

C) PRINTER

D) MOUSE

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

A) SEND EMAILS

B) STORE DATA

C) PERFORM ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS

D) MANAGE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES

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

A) CONTROL DATA FLOW

B) STORE DATA

C) MANAGE INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONS

D) PERFORM ARITHMETIC AND LOGICAL OPERATIONS

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

A) HARD DISK

B) RAM

C) CACHE MEMORY

D) ROM

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

A) GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

B) GENERAL USER INPUT

C) GRAPHICAL UNIT INTERFACE

D) GENERAL USER INTERFACE

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

A) KEYBOARD

B) MOUSE

C) PRINTER

D) SCANNER

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

A) WEB BROWSER

B) SPREADSHEET

C) ANTIVIRUS

D) WORD PROCESSOR

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

A) HEXADECIMAL

B) DECIMAL

C) BINARY

D) OCTAL

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

A) GOOGLE DRIVE

B) ALL OF THE ABOVE

C) ONEDRIVE

D) DROPBOX

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

A) UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATOR

B) UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR

C) UNIFORM REGISTERED LOCATOR

D) UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR

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

A) DISK CLEANUP SOFTWARE

B) SYSTEM RESTORE SOFTWARE

C) ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE

D) OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE

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

A) BASIC INSTRUCTION OUTPUT SYSTEM

B) BASIC INTEGRATED OPERATING SYSTEM

C) BINARY INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM

D) BASIC INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM

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

A) SSL/TLS

B) VPN

C) FTP

D) SMTP

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

A) PRINTER

B) SPEAKER

C) MONITOR

D) KEYBOARD

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

A) IP ADDRESS

B) MAC ADDRESS

C) DNS

D) BOTH IP ADDRESS AND MAC ADDRESS

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

A) MICROSOFT WORD

B) GOOGLE CHROME

C) VLC MEDIA PLAYER

D) ADOBE ACROBAT

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

A) DNS

B) IP ADDRESS

C) URL

D) HTTP

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29. WHICH DEVICE IS USED TO CONNECT DIFFERENT NETWORKS?

A) ROUTER

B) HUB

C) SWITCH

D) REPEATER

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

A) MONITOR

B) HARD DISK

C) MODEM

D) CPU

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

A) HYPERTEXT TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL

B) HIGHTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

C) HYPER TRANSFER TEXT PROTOCOL

D) HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

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32. WHICH TECHNOLOGY IS USED FOR WIRELESS INTERNET CONNECTIVITY?

A) ETHERNET

B) USB

C) WI-FI

D) BLUETOOTH

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

A) ROM

B) HARD DISK

C) RAM

D) OPTICAL DISK

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

A) .COM

B) GOOGLE

C) COM.GOOGLE

D) GOOGLE.COM

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

A) IOS

B) MACOS

C) WINDOWS

D) LINUX

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

A) CTRL + B

B) CTRL + P

C) CTRL + A

D) CTRL + S

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

A) 1000

B) 1100

C) 1111

D) 1011

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

A) TROJAN

B) ALL OF THE ABOVE

C) WORM

D) VIRUS

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

A) MODEM

B) BLUETOOTH

C) ROUTER

D) WI-FI

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

A) SUPER STORAGE DEVICE

B) SOLID STATE DRIVE

C) SIMPLE STORAGE DEVICE

D) SECURE STORAGE DISK

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

A) PUBLIC DATA FORMAT

B) PERSONAL DATA FILE

C) PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT

D) PORTABLE DOCUMENT FILE

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

A) HTML

B) JAVASCRIPT

C) XML

D) CSS

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

A) MAXIMIZE THE WINDOW

B) EXIT THE APPLICATION

C) UNDO THE LAST ACTION

D) OPEN THE FILE MENU

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

A) RAM

B) ALU

C) CONTROL UNIT

D) REGISTERS

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

A) SIMPLE QUERY LANGUAGE

B) STANDARD QUERY LANGUAGE

C) STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE

D) SYSTEM QUERY LANGUAGE

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

A) TO MANAGE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES

B) TO PROCESS DATA

C) TO STORE DATA

D) TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET

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

A) INTEL

B) GOOGLE

C) D) HP

D) VODAFONE

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

A) OPEN THE SETTINGS MENU

B) OPEN THE HELP MENU

C) PRINT THE DOCUMENT

D) SAVE THE DOCUMENT

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

A) SMTP

B) POP3

C) HTTP

D) FTP

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

A) STORE DATA

B) MONITOR NETWORK TRAFFIC

C) IMPROVE NETWORK SPEED

D) PREVENT UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS

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

A) COPY

B) PASTE

C) SAVE

D) CUT

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52. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE MOTHERBOARD?

A) PERFORM CALCULATIONS

B) STORE DATA

C) CONTROL PERIPHERAL DEVICES

D) CONNECT ALL HARDWARE COMPONENTS

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

A) REGISTER

B) CONTROL UNIT

C) ALU

D) RAM

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

A) JAVA

B) HTML

C) SQL

D) PYTHON

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

A) PERFORM ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS

B) MANAGE INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONS

C) CONTROL THE FLOW OF DATA AND INSTRUCTIONS

D) STORE DATA

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56. IN WHICH YEAR WAS THE FIRST IPHONE RELEASED?

A) 2008

B) 2006

C) 2009

D) 2007

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57. WHICH SOFTWARE IS USED FOR IMAGE EDITING?

A) CORELDRAW

B) ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

C) MICROSOFT WORD

D) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

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

A) LINUX

B) WINDOWS 10

C) IOS

D) ANDROID

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

A) PYTHON

B) HTML

C) JAVA

D) SQL

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

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) SKYPE

C) GOOGLE MEET

D) ZOOM

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

A) ADOBE ACROBAT

B) VLC MEDIA PLAYER

C) GOOGLE CHROME

D) MICROSOFT WORD

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

A) HARD DISK

B) USB FLASH DRIVE

C) TAPE DRIVE

D) CD

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63. WHICH SOFTWARE IS USED TO CREATE SPREADSHEETS?

A) MICROSOFT ACCESS

B) MICROSOFT WORD

C) MICROSOFT EXCEL

D) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

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

A) NETWORK CABLE

B) OPERATING SYSTEM

C) WEB BROWSER

D) DATABASE

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

A) RAM

B) HARD DISK

C) CACHE

D) ROM

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

A) .TXT

B) .PDF

C) .DOCX

D) .DOC

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67. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF A ROUTER?

A) DIRECT DATA PACKETS BETWEEN DEVICES ON A NETWORK

B) PRINT DOCUMENTS

C) STORE DATA

D) PROVIDE WI-FI CONNECTIVITY

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

A) 4 BITS

B) 16 BITS

C) 32 BITS

D) 8 BITS

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

A) ROM

B) FLASH MEMORY

C) CACHE

D) RAM

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

A) VERIFIED PROTOCOL NETWORK

B) VERIFIED PRIVATE NETWORK

C) VIRTUAL PUBLIC NETWORK

D) VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK

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

A) OUTPUT DATA TO PAPER

B) INPUT DATA

C) CONVERT DIGITAL SIGNALS TO ANALOG SIGNALS

D) STORE DATA

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

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) CONTROL PERIPHERAL DEVICES

C) STORE DATA

D) PERFORM CALCULATIONS

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

A) PASTE

B) UNDO

C) CUT

D) COPY

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

A) BINARY

B) ALL OF THE ABOVE

C) HEXADECIMAL

D) DECIMAL

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

A) MANAGE HARDWARE RESOURCES

B) RUN APPLICATIONS

C) ALL OF THE ABOVE

D) PROVIDE USER INTERFACE

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

A) CPU

B) RAM

C) ROM

D) HARD DISK

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

A) DIR

B) SHOW

C) LS

D) LIST

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

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) GOOGLE DOCS

C) MICROSOFT ONEDRIVE

D) DROPBOX

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

A) LONG AREA NETWORK

B) LOCAL AREA NETWORK

C) LARGE AREA NETWORK

D) LINEAR AREA NETWORK

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

A) .XLSX

B) .DOCX

C) .PPTX

D) .TXT

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

A) ROM

B) HARD DISK

C) RAM

D) CACHE MEMORY

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

A) GOOGLE CLOUD

B) ALL OF THE ABOVE

C) AWS

D) MICROSOFT AZURE

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

A) WAN

B) LAN

C) MAN

D) VPN

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

A) CACHE MEMORY

B) HARD DISK

C) RAM

D) ROM

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

A) UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS

B) UNIVERSAL SYSTEM BUS

C) UNITED SYSTEM BUS

D) UNIFIED SERVICE BUS

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

A) WINDOWS

B) EXCEL

C) LINUX

D) ANDROID

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

A) HIGHTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

B) HIGH TRANSFER MARKUP LANGUAGE

C) HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

D) HYPER TRANSFER MARKUP LANGUAGE

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

A) OFFICE NETWORK

B) SCHOOL NETWORK

C) INTERNET

D) HOME NETWORK

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

A) BING

B) GOOGLE

C) ALL OF THE ABOVE

D) YAHOO

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

A) SEARCH FOR INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET

B) SEND EMAILS

C) NAVIGATE THE WEB

D) STORE FILES

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

A) FTP

B) HTTP

C) HTTPS

D) IMAP

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

A) MICROSOFT EXCEL

B) MICROSOFT WORD

C) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

D) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

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

A) LINUX

B) MAC OS

C) ANDROID

D) WINDOWS

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

A) BRIDGE

B) ROUTER

C) SWITCH

D) MODEM

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

A) ANDROID

B) PHOTOSHOP

C) LINUX

D) WINDOWS

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

A) STOP

B) EXIT

C) CLOSE

D) SHUTDOWN

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

A) RAM

B) HARD DISK

C) EEPROM

D) ROM

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

A) MONITOR

B) PRINTER

C) KEYBOARD

D) MOUSE

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

A) SAVE THE DOCUMENT

B) ZOOM IN

C) REDO THE PREVIOUS ACTION

D) UNDO THE PREVIOUS ACTION

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