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) BIT

B) BYTE

C) KILOBYTE

D) MEGABYTE

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

A) MOUSE

B) PRINTER

C) KEYBOARD

D) MONITOR

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

A) ZOOM IN

B) UNDO THE PREVIOUS ACTION

C) SAVE THE DOCUMENT

D) REDO THE PREVIOUS ACTION

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

A) .DOCX

B) .DOC

C) .PDF

D) .TXT

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

A) ROM

B) HARD DISK

C) RAM

D) EEPROM

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

A) RAM

B) CONTROL UNIT

C) REGISTERS

D) ALU

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

A) .DOCX

B) .JPG

C) .EXE

D) .ZIP

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

A) STORE DATA

B) CONTROL THE FLOW OF DATA AND INSTRUCTIONS

C) PERFORM ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS

D) MANAGE INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONS

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

A) CONVERT DIGITAL SIGNALS TO ANALOG SIGNALS

B) STORE DATA

C) INPUT DATA

D) OUTPUT DATA TO PAPER

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

A) MICROSOFT AZURE

B) ALL OF THE ABOVE

C) GOOGLE CLOUD

D) AWS

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

A) GOOGLE MEET

B) SKYPE

C) ALL OF THE ABOVE

D) ZOOM

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

A) WORD PROCESSOR

B) SPREADSHEET

C) WEB BROWSER

D) ANTIVIRUS

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

A) CTRL + S

B) CTRL + A

C) CTRL + B

D) CTRL + P

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

A) CUT

B) SAVE

C) COPY

D) PASTE

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

A) SSL/TLS

B) FTP

C) SMTP

D) VPN

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

A) RAM

B) ROM

C) CPU

D) HARD DISK

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

A) HTTPS

B) IMAP

C) HTTP

D) FTP

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

A) OFFICE NETWORK

B) SCHOOL NETWORK

C) HOME NETWORK

D) INTERNET

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

A) SHOW

B) LS

C) LIST

D) DIR

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

A) ANDROID

B) MAC OS

C) WINDOWS

D) LINUX

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

A) PHOTOSHOP

B) ANDROID

C) WINDOWS

D) LINUX

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

A) USB FLASH DRIVE

B) TAPE DRIVE

C) CD

D) HARD DISK

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

A) D) MICROSOFT WORD

B) MICROSOFT EXCEL

C) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

D) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

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

A) WORM

B) TROJAN

C) ALL OF THE ABOVE

D) VIRUS

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

A) .XLSX

B) .PPTX

C) .DOCX

D) .TXT

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

A) DATABASE

B) OPERATING SYSTEM

C) WEB BROWSER

D) NETWORK CABLE

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25. IN WHICH YEAR WAS THE FIRST IPHONE RELEASED?

A) 2007

B) 2008

C) 2006

D) 2009

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

A) OPEN THE HELP MENU

B) SAVE THE DOCUMENT

C) OPEN THE SETTINGS MENU

D) PRINT THE DOCUMENT

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

A) WEB BROWSER

B) WI-FI

C) VPN

D) ROUTER

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

A) 16 BITS

B) 32 BITS

C) 4 BITS

D) 8 BITS

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

A) TROJAN HORSE

B) MALWARE

C) WORM

D) EMAIL VIRUS

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

A) 1111

B) 1100

C) 1000

D) 1011

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

A) ALU

B) REGISTER

C) CONTROL UNIT

D) RAM

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

A) CD-ROM

B) USB FLASH DRIVE

C) HARD DISK

D) RAM

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

A) MODEM

B) CPU

C) HARD DISK

D) MONITOR

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

A) URL

B) HTTP

C) IP ADDRESS

D) DNS

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35. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF A ROUTER?

A) PRINT DOCUMENTS

B) DIRECT DATA PACKETS BETWEEN DEVICES ON A NETWORK

C) PROVIDE WI-FI CONNECTIVITY

D) STORE DATA

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

A) HYPERTEXT TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL

B) HYPER TRANSFER TEXT PROTOCOL

C) HIGHTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

D) HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

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

A) RAM

B) CACHE

C) HARD DISK

D) ROM

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

A) SUPER STORAGE DEVICE

B) SECURE STORAGE DISK

C) SOLID STATE DRIVE

D) SIMPLE STORAGE DEVICE

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

A) JAVA

B) HTML

C) SQL

D) PYTHON

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

A) GOOGLE DOCS

B) DROPBOX

C) MICROSOFT ONEDRIVE

D) ALL OF THE ABOVE

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41. 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) CONTROL DATA FLOW

D) STORE DATA

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

A) MANAGE HARDWARE RESOURCES

B) ALL OF THE ABOVE

C) RUN APPLICATIONS

D) PROVIDE USER INTERFACE

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

A) STORE DATA

B) PERFORM CALCULATIONS

C) ALL OF THE ABOVE

D) CONTROL PERIPHERAL DEVICES

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

A) PASTE

B) UNDO

C) CUT

D) COPY

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

A) BLUETOOTH

B) WI-FI

C) MODEM

D) ROUTER

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

A) DISK CLEANUP SOFTWARE

B) OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE

C) SYSTEM RESTORE SOFTWARE

D) ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE

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

A) ROM

B) CACHE MEMORY

C) HARD DISK

D) RAM

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

A) D) HP

B) GOOGLE

C) INTEL

D) VODAFONE

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

A) MS WORD

B) D) PHOTOSHOP

C) EXCEL

D) NORTON

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

A) GRAPHICAL UNIT INTERFACE

B) GENERAL USER INPUT

C) GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

D) GENERAL USER INTERFACE

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

A) IP ADDRESS

B) DNS

C) BOTH IP ADDRESS AND MAC ADDRESS

D) MAC ADDRESS

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

A) FLASH MEMORY

B) CACHE

C) RAM

D) ROM

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53. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE MOTHERBOARD?

A) CONNECT ALL HARDWARE COMPONENTS

B) STORE DATA

C) CONTROL PERIPHERAL DEVICES

D) PERFORM CALCULATIONS

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

A) ADOBE ACROBAT

B) GOOGLE CHROME

C) MICROSOFT WORD

D) VLC MEDIA PLAYER

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

A) LINEAR AREA NETWORK

B) LONG AREA NETWORK

C) LOCAL AREA NETWORK

D) LARGE AREA NETWORK

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

A) VLC MEDIA PLAYER

B) MICROSOFT WORD

C) GOOGLE CHROME

D) ADOBE ACROBAT

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57. 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

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

A) EXIT THE APPLICATION

B) OPEN THE FILE MENU

C) UNDO THE LAST ACTION

D) MAXIMIZE THE WINDOW

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59. 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

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

A) ROM

B) RAM

C) HARD DISK

D) CACHE MEMORY

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

A) RAM

B) HARD DISK

C) ROM

D) CACHE MEMORY

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

A) CSS

B) HTML

C) JAVASCRIPT

D) XML

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

A) MS-DOS

B) LINUX

C) WINDOWS XP

D) WINDOWS 10

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

A) HTML

B) JAVA

C) PYTHON

D) SQL

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

A) MANAGE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES

B) PERFORM ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS

C) STORE DATA

D) SEND EMAILS

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66. WHICH SOFTWARE IS USED TO CREATE SPREADSHEETS?

A) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

B) MICROSOFT ACCESS

C) MICROSOFT EXCEL

D) MICROSOFT WORD

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

A) MACOS

B) LINUX

C) WINDOWS

D) IOS

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

A) TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET

B) TO MANAGE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES

C) TO STORE DATA

D) TO PROCESS DATA

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

A) UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR

B) UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR

C) UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATOR

D) UNIFORM REGISTERED LOCATOR

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

A) BINARY

B) DECIMAL

C) HEXADECIMAL

D) ALL OF THE ABOVE

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

A) VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK

B) VERIFIED PRIVATE NETWORK

C) VIRTUAL PUBLIC NETWORK

D) VERIFIED PROTOCOL NETWORK

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

A) PERSONAL DATA FILE

B) PUBLIC DATA FORMAT

C) PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT

D) PORTABLE DOCUMENT FILE

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

A) GOOGLE.COM

B) GOOGLE

C) .COM

D) COM.GOOGLE

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

A) BASIC INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM

B) BASIC INSTRUCTION OUTPUT SYSTEM

C) BASIC INTEGRATED OPERATING SYSTEM

D) BINARY INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM

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

A) HIGH TRANSFER MARKUP LANGUAGE

B) HYPER TRANSFER MARKUP LANGUAGE

C) HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

D) HIGHTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

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

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) YAHOO

C) GOOGLE

D) BING

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

A) PREVENT UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS

B) MONITOR NETWORK TRAFFIC

C) STORE DATA

D) IMPROVE NETWORK SPEED

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

A) POP3

B) SMTP

C) FTP

D) HTTP

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

A) SWITCH

B) MODEM

C) ROUTER

D) BRIDGE

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

A) RAM

B) ROM

C) HARD DISK

D) OPTICAL DISK

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

A) ANDROID

B) LINUX

C) IOS

D) WINDOWS 10

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

A) SMTP

B) SNMP

C) HTTP

D) FTP

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

A) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

B) MICROSOFT EXCEL

C) MICROSOFT WORD

D) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

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

A) ANDROID

B) EXCEL

C) WINDOWS

D) LINUX

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

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT PRESENTATION?

A) .XLSX

B) .TXT

C) .PPTX

D) .DOCX

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

A) CLOSE

B) SHUTDOWN

C) EXIT

D) STOP

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

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) ONEDRIVE

C) GOOGLE DRIVE

D) DROPBOX

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

A) STANDARD QUERY LANGUAGE

B) SYSTEM QUERY LANGUAGE

C) STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE

D) SIMPLE QUERY LANGUAGE

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89. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?

A) HTML

B) JAVA

C) CSS

D) SQL

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90. WHICH DEVICE IS USED TO CONNECT DIFFERENT NETWORKS?

A) REPEATER

B) ROUTER

C) HUB

D) SWITCH

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

A) KEYBOARD

B) MOUSE

C) PRINTER

D) SPEAKER

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92. WHICH TECHNOLOGY IS USED FOR WIRELESS INTERNET CONNECTIVITY?

A) WI-FI

B) USB

C) BLUETOOTH

D) ETHERNET

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

A) BINARY

B) HEXADECIMAL

C) OCTAL

D) DECIMAL

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

A) KEYBOARD

B) PRINTER

C) MOUSE

D) SCANNER

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95. WHICH SOFTWARE IS USED FOR IMAGE EDITING?

A) ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

B) CORELDRAW

C) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

D) MICROSOFT WORD

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

A) UNITED SYSTEM BUS

B) UNIVERSAL SYSTEM BUS

C) UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS

D) UNIFIED SERVICE BUS

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

A) KEYBOARD

B) MONITOR

C) SPEAKER

D) PRINTER

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