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 USED FOR SECURING ONLINE TRANSACTIONS?

A) VPN

B) SMTP

C) FTP

D) SSL/TLS

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

A) OPERATING SYSTEM

B) NETWORK CABLE

C) WEB BROWSER

D) DATABASE

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

A) ROUTER

B) BRIDGE

C) MODEM

D) SWITCH

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4. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE MOTHERBOARD?

A) CONTROL PERIPHERAL DEVICES

B) STORE DATA

C) CONNECT ALL HARDWARE COMPONENTS

D) PERFORM CALCULATIONS

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5. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF A ROUTER?

A) STORE DATA

B) DIRECT DATA PACKETS BETWEEN DEVICES ON A NETWORK

C) PROVIDE WI-FI CONNECTIVITY

D) PRINT DOCUMENTS

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

A) HIGH TRANSFER MARKUP LANGUAGE

B) HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

C) HIGHTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

D) HYPER TRANSFER MARKUP LANGUAGE

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

A) REGISTER

B) CONTROL UNIT

C) RAM

D) ALU

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

A) OCTAL

B) DECIMAL

C) BINARY

D) HEXADECIMAL

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9. 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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10. IN WHICH YEAR WAS THE FIRST IPHONE RELEASED?

A) 2007

B) 2009

C) 2006

D) 2008

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

A) ROM

B) RAM

C) HARD DISK

D) OPTICAL DISK

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

A) .ZIP

B) .EXE

C) .JPG

D) .DOCX

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

A) MALWARE

B) TROJAN HORSE

C) EMAIL VIRUS

D) WORM

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

A) UNDO

B) PASTE

C) CUT

D) COPY

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

A) SQL

B) JAVA

C) PYTHON

D) HTML

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

A) USB FLASH DRIVE

B) CD-ROM

C) HARD DISK

D) RAM

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

A) VLC MEDIA PLAYER

B) ADOBE ACROBAT

C) GOOGLE CHROME

D) MICROSOFT WORD

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

A) HARD DISK

B) ROM

C) RAM

D) CACHE MEMORY

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

A) PORTABLE DOCUMENT FILE

B) PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT

C) PERSONAL DATA FILE

D) PUBLIC DATA FORMAT

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

A) TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET

B) TO STORE DATA

C) TO PROCESS DATA

D) TO MANAGE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES

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21. WHICH DEVICE IS USED TO CONNECT DIFFERENT NETWORKS?

A) HUB

B) ROUTER

C) REPEATER

D) SWITCH

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

A) WINDOWS 10

B) ANDROID

C) IOS

D) LINUX

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

A) STORE DATA

B) MANAGE INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONS

C) CONTROL DATA FLOW

D) PERFORM ARITHMETIC AND LOGICAL OPERATIONS

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

A) JAVASCRIPT

B) CSS

C) HTML

D) XML

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

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) GOOGLE DOCS

C) DROPBOX

D) MICROSOFT ONEDRIVE

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

A) .PDF

B) .DOCX

C) .DOC

D) .TXT

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

A) BINARY INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM

B) BASIC INTEGRATED OPERATING SYSTEM

C) BASIC INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM

D) BASIC INSTRUCTION OUTPUT SYSTEM

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

A) UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR

B) UNIFORM REGISTERED LOCATOR

C) UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR

D) UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATOR

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

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT PRESENTATION?

A) .TXT

B) .PPTX

C) .XLSX

D) .DOCX

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30. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?

A) HTML

B) SQL

C) JAVA

D) CSS

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

A) SCANNER

B) MOUSE

C) PRINTER

D) KEYBOARD

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

A) LINUX

B) ANDROID

C) PHOTOSHOP

D) WINDOWS

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

A) STORE DATA

B) IMPROVE NETWORK SPEED

C) MONITOR NETWORK TRAFFIC

D) PREVENT UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS

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

A) CACHE MEMORY

B) ROM

C) RAM

D) HARD DISK

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

A) LS

B) DIR

C) LIST

D) SHOW

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

A) SNMP

B) HTTP

C) SMTP

D) FTP

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

A) EXCEL

B) NORTON

C) MS WORD

D) D) PHOTOSHOP

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

A) LINUX

B) ANDROID

C) EXCEL

D) WINDOWS

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39. 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

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

A) PERFORM ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS

B) MANAGE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES

C) STORE DATA

D) SEND EMAILS

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

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) PROVIDE USER INTERFACE

C) MANAGE HARDWARE RESOURCES

D) RUN APPLICATIONS

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

A) REGISTERS

B) CONTROL UNIT

C) ALU

D) RAM

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44. 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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45. 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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46. WHAT IS THE BINARY EQUIVALENT OF THE DECIMAL NUMBER 15?

A) 1000

B) 1011

C) 1111

D) 1100

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

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) GOOGLE

C) BING

D) YAHOO

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48. WHICH TECHNOLOGY IS USED FOR WIRELESS INTERNET CONNECTIVITY?

A) USB

B) ETHERNET

C) WI-FI

D) BLUETOOTH

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

A) SECURE STORAGE DISK

B) SUPER STORAGE DEVICE

C) SIMPLE STORAGE DEVICE

D) SOLID STATE DRIVE

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

A) FTP

B) HTTP

C) POP3

D) SMTP

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

A) ROM

B) RAM

C) CACHE

D) FLASH MEMORY

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

A) HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

B) HYPERTEXT TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL

C) HIGHTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

D) HYPER TRANSFER TEXT PROTOCOL

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

A) KEYBOARD

B) MONITOR

C) SPEAKER

D) PRINTER

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

A) MICROSOFT AZURE

B) AWS

C) GOOGLE CLOUD

D) ALL OF THE ABOVE

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

A) BING

B) ALL OF THE ABOVE

C) GOOGLE

D) YAHOO

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

A) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

B) D) MICROSOFT WORD

C) MICROSOFT EXCEL

D) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

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

A) CPU

B) MODEM

C) MONITOR

D) HARD DISK

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

A) CUT

B) COPY

C) SAVE

D) PASTE

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

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) WORM

C) VIRUS

D) TROJAN

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

A) EXIT

B) CLOSE

C) SHUTDOWN

D) STOP

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

A) 4 BITS

B) 8 BITS

C) 32 BITS

D) 16 BITS

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

A) SPEAKER

B) KEYBOARD

C) MOUSE

D) PRINTER

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

A) MODEM

B) ROUTER

C) BLUETOOTH

D) WI-FI

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

A) TAPE DRIVE

B) USB FLASH DRIVE

C) CD

D) HARD DISK

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

A) GOOGLE

B) COM.GOOGLE

C) .COM

D) GOOGLE.COM

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

A) ANTIVIRUS

B) WORD PROCESSOR

C) SPREADSHEET

D) WEB BROWSER

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

A) OPEN THE FILE MENU

B) UNDO THE LAST ACTION

C) EXIT THE APPLICATION

D) MAXIMIZE THE WINDOW

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

A) CTRL + A

B) CTRL + P

C) CTRL + B

D) CTRL + S

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

A) GOOGLE CHROME

B) MICROSOFT WORD

C) VLC MEDIA PLAYER

D) ADOBE ACROBAT

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

A) PRINT THE DOCUMENT

B) OPEN THE SETTINGS MENU

C) OPEN THE HELP MENU

D) SAVE THE DOCUMENT

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

A) SEND EMAILS

B) STORE FILES

C) NAVIGATE THE WEB

D) SEARCH FOR INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET

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

A) .DOCX

B) .XLSX

C) .PPTX

D) .TXT

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

A) HARD DISK

B) ROM

C) RAM

D) CACHE

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

A) CONTROL THE FLOW OF DATA AND INSTRUCTIONS

B) STORE DATA

C) MANAGE INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONS

D) PERFORM ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS

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

A) SKYPE

B) ALL OF THE ABOVE

C) GOOGLE MEET

D) ZOOM

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

A) MICROSOFT EXCEL

B) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

C) MICROSOFT WORD

D) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

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

A) HOME NETWORK

B) SCHOOL NETWORK

C) INTERNET

D) OFFICE NETWORK

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

A) WEB BROWSER

B) VPN

C) WI-FI

D) ROUTER

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

A) DNS

B) MAC ADDRESS

C) BOTH IP ADDRESS AND MAC ADDRESS

D) IP ADDRESS

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

A) MAC OS

B) ANDROID

C) LINUX

D) WINDOWS

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

A) GOOGLE

B) VODAFONE

C) INTEL

D) D) HP

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

A) INPUT DATA

B) OUTPUT DATA TO PAPER

C) CONVERT DIGITAL SIGNALS TO ANALOG SIGNALS

D) STORE DATA

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

A) ALL OF THE ABOVE

B) GOOGLE DRIVE

C) ONEDRIVE

D) DROPBOX

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

A) STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE

B) SYSTEM QUERY LANGUAGE

C) STANDARD QUERY LANGUAGE

D) SIMPLE QUERY LANGUAGE

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

A) GENERAL USER INTERFACE

B) GENERAL USER INPUT

C) GRAPHICAL UNIT INTERFACE

D) GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

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87. WHICH SOFTWARE IS USED TO CREATE SPREADSHEETS?

A) MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

B) MICROSOFT ACCESS

C) MICROSOFT WORD

D) MICROSOFT EXCEL

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88. WHICH SOFTWARE IS USED FOR IMAGE EDITING?

A) ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

B) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

C) CORELDRAW

D) MICROSOFT WORD

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

A) VPN

B) WAN

C) MAN

D) LAN

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

A) HARD DISK

B) RAM

C) ROM

D) CPU

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

A) LONG AREA NETWORK

B) LARGE AREA NETWORK

C) LOCAL AREA NETWORK

D) LINEAR AREA NETWORK

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92. 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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93. 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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94. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS USED FOR ORGANIZING AND RETRIEVING DATA IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE?

A) PYTHON

B) SQL

C) HTML

D) JAVA

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

A) LINUX

B) WINDOWS 10

C) MS-DOS

D) WINDOWS XP

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

A) FTP

B) HTTP

C) IMAP

D) HTTPS

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

A) ROM

B) CACHE MEMORY

C) RAM

D) HARD DISK

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

A) MEGABYTE

B) KILOBYTE

C) BYTE

D) BIT

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

A) ZOOM IN

B) REDO THE PREVIOUS ACTION

C) SAVE THE DOCUMENT

D) UNDO THE PREVIOUS ACTION

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

A) PRINTER

B) KEYBOARD

C) MONITOR

D) MOUSE

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