COMPUTER AWARENESS SOLVED PAPER
(For Various Exams)
Q.1.Which of the following does not affect the resolution of a video display image?
- Bandwidth
- Raster scan rage
- Vertical and horizontal lines of resolution
- Screen size
Q.2.Which of the following is not true for a magnetic disk?
- It is expensive relative to magnetic tape
- It provides only sequential access to stored data
- Users can easily update records by writing over the old data
- All of above
Q.3.What is the name of the new color laptop computer which is powered by a 386 processor at 33 MHz and is built by Epson?
- AX3/33
- NEC-20
- Magnum 2000
- HCL-3000
Q.4.The primary advantage of key-to-tape data entry system is
- A large percentage of editing can be performed at the time of data entry
- Key verification is easily performed
- The tape is reusable
- Keying errors can be detected as they occur.
Q.5.A disadvantage of the laser printer is:
- It is quieter than an impact printer
- It is very slow
- The output is of a lower quality
- None of above
Q.6.The terminal device that functions as a cash register,computer terminal,and OCR reader is the:
- Data collection terminal
- OCR register terminal
- Video Display terminal
- POS terminal
Q.7.in which year was UK’s premier computing event called “The which computer” started?
- 1980
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
Q.8.Different components on the motherboard of a PC processor unit are linked together by sets or parallel electrical conducting lines. What are these lines called?
- Conductors
- Buses
- Connectors
- Connectively
Q.9.An application suitable for sequential processing is
- Processing of grades
- Payroll processing
- Both a and b
- None of above
Q.10.Which of the following professions has not been affected by personal computers?
- Medical
- Clerical and law
- Accounting
- None of the above
Q.11.The language that the computer can understand and execute is called
- Machine language
- Application software
- System program
- All of above
Q.12.The arranging of data in a logical sequence is called
- Sorting
- Classifying
- Reproducing
- Summarizing
Q.13.Which of the following is used as a primary storage device?
- Magnetic drum
- Prom
- Floppy
- All of above
Q.14.When was Apple Macintosh II microcomputer introduced in the market?
- 1964
- 1970
- 1983
- 1986
Q.15.While inserting a diskette into the diskette drive of a PC, the diskette’s label side should face
- East
- North
- South
- Up
Q.16.What does the disk drive of a computer do?
- Rotate the disk
- Read the disk
- Load a program from the disk into the memory
- Both b and c
Q.17.The latest PC keyboards use a circuit that senses the movement by the change in its capacitance,
- Capacitance keyboard
- Mechanical keyboard
- Qwerty keyboard
- Dvorak keyboard
Q.18.The word processing task associated with changing the appearance of a document is
- Editing
- Writing
- Formatting
- All of above
Q.19.Which of the following magazines covers only the IBM PC and its compatibles?
- Byte
- PC Magazine
- Personal Computing
- Interface Age
Q.20.Which of the following memories needs refreshing?
- SRAM
- DRAM
- ROM
- All of above
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