COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE PRACTICE QUESTIONS

1. Most modern TV’s draw power even if turned off the circuit the power is used in does what function? 
(a) Sound (b) Color balance (c) High voltage (d) Remote control (e) None of the above (Ans : d)

2. What is the name of the series of Laptop computers manufactured by IBM called? 
(a) LapPad (b) Aptiva (c) Thinkpad (d) Vaio (e) None of these (Ans : d)

3. Which computer has been designed to be as compact as possible? 
(a) Micro computer (b) Mini (c) Super computer (d) Mainframe (e) None of these (Ans : a)

4. A device mounted on a communication satellite which receives, amplifies and re-transmits signals from earth station is– 
(a) Track (b) Transistor (c) Transponder (d) Terminal (e) None of these (Ans : c)

5. Which of the following offers a combination of the features of RAM and ROM? 
(a) Flash Memory (b) DRAM (c) DDR (d) Cache (e) None of these (Ans : a)

6. Which technology is used in a CDROM Drive? 
(a) Mechanical (b) Optical (c) Electro mechanical (d) Fiber Optical (e) None of these (Ans : b)

7. What is the part of a database that holds only one type of information? 
(a) Field (b) Report (c) Record (d) File (e) None of these (Ans : a)

8. Soft copy of a document has the characteristics that it can be– 
(a) touched (b) touched and viewed (c) none (d) viewed only (e) Both (a) and (c) (Ans : d)

9. Data (information) is stored in computer as– 
(a) Directories (b) Files (c) Floppies (d) Magnetic disk (e) None of these (Ans : b)

10. The pieces of equipment which are attached to the CPU of a computer and which it can access are called– 
(a) output devices (b) peripherals (c) control units (d) hardware (e) None of these (Ans : b)

11. The binary system uses powers of– 
(a) 2 (b) 10 (c) 8 (d) 16 (e) 18 (Ans : b)

12. Which of the following is Not a type of motherboard expansion slot? 
(a) ISA (b) PCI (c) AGP (d) ATX (e) None of these (Ans : d)

13. The control of the jobs running within a system is– 
(a) Job monitoring (b) Job stream (c) Job min (d) Job step (e) None of these (Ans : a)

14. How many digits of the DNIC (Data Network Identification Code) identify the country? 
(a) first three (b) first four (c) first five (d) first six (e) first two (Ans : a)

15. A common boundary between two systems is called– 
(a) Interdiction (b) Interface (c) Surface (d) All of these (e) None of these (Ans : b)

16. Which of the following enables you to make multiple changes in a document at once? 
(a) Find command (b) Replace command (c) Drag and Drop (d) Copy command (e) None of these (Ans : b)

17. A computer program that converts assembly language to machine language is– 
(a) Compiler (b) Interpreter (c) Assembler (d) Comparator (e) None of the above (Ans : c)

18. Copying a process from memory to disk to allow space for other processes is Called– 
(a) Swapping (b) Deadlock (c) Demand Paging (d) Page Fault (e) None of the above (Ans : a)

19. All the information collected during database development is stored in a– 
(a) repository (b) data warehouse (c) RAD (d) CASE (e) None of these (Ans : b)

20. The track on a disk which can be accused without repositioning the R/W heads is– 
(a) Surface (b) Cylinder (c) Cluster (d) All of these (e) Circular (Ans : b)

21. Any piece of equipment forming an interface to a data communication system is– 
(a) DTE (b) DTA (c) CSA (d) DCA (e) None of these (Ans : b)

22. Which access method is used for obtaining a record from a cassette tape? 
(a) Direct (b) Sequential (c) Random (d) All of the above (e) Indirect (Ans : b)

23. Which of the following is NOT a type of computer hard drive? 
(a) IDE (b) FDD (c) SCSI (d) EIDE (e) None of these (Ans : b)

24. Pressing and quickly releasing the left button of the mouse is called– 
(a) Double Click (b) Right Click (c) Up Click (d) Left Click (e) Both (a) and (b) (Ans : d)

25. Primary memory stores– 
(a) Data alone (b) Programs alone (c) Results alone (d) Registers alone (e) All of these (Ans : e)

26. The word FTP stands for– 
(a) File Translate Protocol (b) File Transit Protocol (c) File Typing Protocol 
(d) File Transfer Protocol (e) None of the above (Ans : a)

27. Which of the following conditions is used to transmit two packets over a medium at the same time? 
(a) Contention (b) Collision (c) Synchronous (d) Asynchronous (e) None of the above (Ans : b)

28. IP address means– 
(a) Internet Protocol (b) Internal Power (c) Intranet protocol (d) Internal Protocol (e) Both (a) and (b) (Ans : a)

29. Which of the following are commonly found on web pages? 
(a) internet (b) hyperlinks (c) intranet (d) all of these (e) None of these (Ans : b)

30. A name applied by Intel corp. to high speed MOS technology is called– 
(a) HDLC (b) LAP (c) HMOS (d) SDLC (e) SMOS (Ans : c)

LIC AAO EXAM COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE SOLVED PAPER (Exam Held on: 22-03-2015)

1. What does the acronym PDF stand for? 
(a) Portable Documenting Format (b) Portable Documentation File 
(c) Portable Documentation Format (d) Portable Document Format 
(e) Portable Document File (Ans : d)

2. LSI in chip technology stands for– 
(a) Large-Scale Integration (b) Low-Scale Internet (c) Local-Scale Integration 
(d) Large-Scale Internet (e) Low-Scale Integration (Ans : a)

3. Which of the following best describes a network in which a company's data and applications are stored at offsite data centers that are accessed over the Internet? 
(a) Extranet (b) Intranet (c) Virtual Private Network 
(d) Cloud Computing (e) Local Area Network (Ans : d)

4. Which of the following is not a binary number? 
(a) 110 (b) 1001 (c) 100110 (d) 233 (e) 11101  (Ans : d)

5. Micro Processor speed is measured in–
(a) megabytes (b) bytes (c) kilobytes (d) gigabytes (e) gigahertz (Ans : e)

6.  ……….is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to computer network. 
(a) Networking Internet Connection (b) Newer Industrial Computer 
(c) Network Integration Card (d) Network Internal card 
(e) Network Interface Card (Ans : e)

7. A hard disk drive consists of several fixed, rotating disks called– 
(a) platters (b) RAIDs (c) cylinders (d) plotters (e) mini -disks (Ans : a)

8. Which of the following is the correct order of the four major functions of a computer? 
(a) Process, Storage, Input, Output (b) Input, Process, Output, Storage 
(c) Process, Output, Input, Storage (d) Storage, Output, Process, Input 
(e) Input, Output, Process, Storage (Ans : b)

9. What does the acronym PROM stand for? 
(a) Programmer Read-Only Memory (b) Programmable Read-Only Memory 
(c) Programmable Read-Only Memory (d) Program Read-Only Memory 
(e) Programmed Read-Only Memory (Ans : b)

10. Which of the following is an electronic or paper log used to track computer activity? 
(a) Monitor (b) Trace route (c) Cookie (d) Audit trail (e) Web log (Ans : d)

11. The largest unit of storage is– 
(a) Byte (b) Terabyte (c) Megabyte (d) Kilobyte (e) Gigabyte (Ans : b)

12. Which of the following devices sends and receives data over telephone lines to and from computers? 
(a) Modem (b) Expansion slot (c) Printer (d) Speaker (e) Sound Card (Ans : a)

13. How many bytes are there in a terabyte? 
(a) 1000 (b) 1 billion (c) 1 trillion (d) 1 million (e) 1 quadrillion (Ans : c)

14. Which is a pointing device? 
(a) Joystick (b) Monitor (c) Scanner (d) Plotter (e) Printer (Ans : a)

15. Checking whether a program functions correctly, and then correcting errors, is known as– 
(a) decoding (b) error-proofing a program (c) debugging 
(d) de-erroring (e) default error-checking (Ans : c)

16. This system conversion called ……….involves running the old and new systems simultaneously before converting completely to the new system. 
(a) pilot conversion (b) convergent conversion (c) phased conversion 
(d) direct conversion (e) parallel conversion (Ans : e)

17. Programs such as Mozilla Firefox that serve as navigable windows into web are called–
(a) Internet (b) Networks (c) Web browser (d) URL (e) Hypertext (Ans : c)

18. Which of the following protects the system from hackers? 
(a) Snort (b) Scanner (c) Firewall (d) Backup (e) Hub (Ans : c)

19. What is Linux ? 
(a) Input Device (b) Operating System (c) Processor 
(d) Storage Device (e) Output Device (Ans : b)

20. The cell reference for range D20 to H35 in MS Excel will be–
(a) D20 + H35 (b) D20:H35 (c) D20;H35 
(d) D20 - H35 (e) D20,H35 (Ans : b)

21. The digital telecommunications term ISDN is an abbreviation for– 
(a) International Services Digital Network (b) Integrated Standard Digital Networks 
(c) Internet Services Data Network (d) Interactive Standard Dynamic Networks 
(e) Integrated Services Digital Network (Ans : e)

22. Verification of login name and password is known as–
(a) Logging in (b) Alienation (c) Certification (d) Authentication (e) Configuration (Ans : d)

23. If you change Windows 98 operating system to Windows XP, you are performing a(n)–
(a) Push up (b) Patch (c) Upgrade (d) Update (e) Pull down (Ans : c)

24. While using MS Word, which key deletes text before, or to the left of the insertion point? 
(a) Escape (b) Delete (c) Backspace (d) Page down (e) Page up (Ans : c)

25. The minimum number of rows and columns in MS Word document is–
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 1 (c) 2 and 2 (d) 2 and 1 (e) 3 and 3 (Ans : b)

26. VoIP stands for–
(a) Voice Over Internet Protocol (b) Visual Object Integration Protocol 
(c) Virtual Object Integration Program (d) Virtual Object Integration Protocol 
(e) Voice Object Integration Program (Ans : a)

27. Which of the following place the common data elements in order from smallest to largest? 
(a) Character, record, field, database, file (b) Character, file, record, field, database 
(c) Character, record, field, file, database (d) Character, field, record, file, database 
(e) Database, file, record, field, character (Ans : d)

28. Which of the following is not an output device in computer organization ? 
(a) Plotter (b) Speaker (c) Scanner (d) Monitor (e) Printer (Ans : c)

29. The process of writing computer instructions in a programming language is known as–
(a) Algorithming (b) Processing (c) File (d) Instructioning (e) Coding (Ans : e)

30. Which language is directly understood by the computer without translation program? 
(a) High level language (b) Low level language (c) Middle level language 
(d) Assembly language (e) Machine language (Ans : e)