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1. The stuff would likely break if you threw it out of a fifth-story window is
Software
Firmware
Hardware
All of above
2. Which of the following is not a hardware?
Network Switch
Cisco Router
Firewall
Virtual Router
3. A computer without software is
like a book of blank pages
most power to perform tasks quicker
complete human being
all of above
4. Which of the following hardware you usually can’t find inside a CPU Casing?
Power Supply box
Video card
Video display unit
Graphics processor
5. Which of the following is not a peripheral hardware device in a computer system?
Keyboard
Optical Drive
HDD
Printer
6. Identify the network hardware of a home network
Access Point
NIC Card
Analog Modem
FireWire
7. Which of the following is not a network hardware?
Network Switch
Bridge
Print Server
Network Interface Card
8. A unit of a computer system that brings data and instructions into the computer
Input Devices
Encoders
Processing Unit Devices
All of above
9. Identify the odd one
Tracker ball
Microphone
Speaker
Sensors
10. Graphic Tablet is an
Input Unit Device
Output Unit Device
Video Processing Device
None of above
11. The process of capturing or collecting raw data at the beginning of computer based information system in to a form that is usable by the computer for processing.
Input
Gather
Acquire
Process
12. In any information system if the data is processed right away it is called
Batch processing
Online processing
Offline processing
Automatic processing
13. The two kinds of input devices – direct input and indirect input devices are classified based on
Whether the data conversion is involved or not
Whether the data is acquired from a device directly connected to CPU or through network
Whether the data is directly input or retrieved from disk
Whether the data is input with or without human intervention
14. In which input method the data is already in machine readable form?
Direct input method
Indirect input method
Stored input method
Network input method
15. In which input method the data should be converted into machine readable form so that a computer can process it?
Direct input method
Indirect input method
Network input method
Stored input method
16. A computer key board is a sophisticated electromechanical component designed to create specialized electronic codes when a key is pressed. What is that electronic codes called?
Scan code
Unicode
ASCII
EBCDIC
17. Keyboard is an example of
Direct input method
Indirect input method
Network input method
Stored input method
18. In a keyboard the arrow keys Home End PageUp PageDown keys are known
Standard keys
Function keys
Navigation keys
Special purpose keys
19. In a computer keyboard the Alt Ctrl Shift Del & Insert keys are known as
Standard keys
Function keys
Navigation keys
Special purpose keys
20. Devorak Colemark JCUKEN are some keyboard layouts for which scripts?
Latin Scripts
English Scripts
Complex Scripts
None of above
21. Which is the most common computer keyboard layout?
QWERTY
JCUKEN
Devorak
Colemark
22. QWERTY keyboard layout was originally designed
To improve the typing speed
To make typing more efficient
To make typing harder and inefficient
To improve the typing accuracy
23. Which of the following describes the types of keyboards?
QWERTY Devorak Colemark JCUKEN
XT AT Enhanced Windows
Both of above
None of above
24. Which of the following keyboard have 83 keys?
XT keyboards
AT keyboards
Enhanced keyboards
Windows keyboards
25. Which of the following type of keyboard introduced the SysRq (System Request) key?
XT keyboards
AT keyboards
Enhanced keyboards
Windows keyboards
26. Which type of computer keyboard contain 101 to 106 keys?
XT keyboards
AT keyboards
Enhanced keyboards
Windows keyboards
27. Which key was added in Windows keyboard?
SysRq
CapsLock
Menu key
None of above
28. The most common input device to control the movement of the cursor on the screen?
Arrow keys
Mouse
Joysticks
Plotter
29. Which of the following type of mouse contain a ball on its underside and sensors to detect direction of ball movement?
Mechanical mouse
Opto-mechanical mouse
Optical mouse
None of above
30. What is the difference between mechanical mouse and opto-mechanical mouse?
Mechanical mouse is connected with wire but opto-mechanical mouse are wireless
Mechanical mouse has a ball on its underside but opto-mechanical don’t have
Mechanical mouse has only 2 buttons while opto-mechanical mouse have 3 buttons.
All of the above
31. Cordless mouse or wireless mouse connects to the computer through
Infrared light
Radio wave
Both of above
None of above
32. What is the device that captures images from photographic prints for computer editing and display?
Scanner
Printer
Camera
All of above
33. Which of the following is not a type of scanner?
Hand held scanner
Feed-in scanner
Flatbed scanner
None of above
34. Which of the following is a scanning technology?
OCR
OMR
BCR
All of above
35. The scanning technology that allows to read the check boxes affixed in predefined space is
OCR
OMR
BCR
None of above
36. The scanning technology that makes it possible to recognize handwritten data when there is usually space among characters is
OMR
ICR
MICR
OCR
37. We use following scanner to recognize the printed and typed texts
OMR
OCR
MICR
None of above
38. The scanner used to verify the signatures written by magnetic ink in banks is
OMR
OCR
MICR
None of above
39. A unit that receives information from CPU and converts into suitable human readable form is
Input Unit
Output Unit
Processing Unit
Language Translator
40. A computer monitor is also called a
VDT
VDU
CRT
None of above
41. Text and images are displayed on monitor by individual dots called
Cursor
Pixels
CRT
LED
42. Specialized vacuum tube in which images are produced when an electron beam strikes a phosphorescent surface is
CRT
LED
LCD
All of above
43. The full form of EGA is
Enhanced Graphics Adapter
Extended Graphics Adapter
Enhanced Graphics Array
Extended Graphics Array
44. Which of the following technology can’t be used to build flat panel display monitors?
LCDs
Gas Plasma Display
CRT
LED
45. Which of the following printer can print a single character at a time?
Serial printer
Line printer
Page printer
Impact printer
46. Which of the following printer is suitable to print multiple carbon copies at once?
Impact Printer
Laser Printer
Inkjet Printer
All of above
47. Identify the printer that uses a kind of hub having set of spokes at the margin of the hub. When the required character is aligned to the print hammer the character is then struck into the ribbon to produce character on paper.
Inkjet printer
Dot matrix printer
Line printer
Daisy wheel printer
48. The printing technology in which one or more color of ink is sprayed at high speed onto the paper is
Laser Printer
Ink Jet Printer
Dot Matrix Printer
Chain Printer
49. Which company introduced the first desktop laser printer called LaserJet?
Compaq
Hewlett-Packard
Epson
Cannon
50. A special-purpose output device that draws images with ink pens is
Inkjet Printers
Laser Printers
Plotter
Light Pen
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