Basic Computer Knowledge Fundamentals Questions and Answers MCQs Set - 1

1.

The _______ icon and bold message heading indicating that the e-mail message has not been read.

   A.) Highlighted Envelope
   B.) Closed Envelope
   C.) Opened Envelope
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'B'

Closed Envelope

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2.

Which of the following is a method of transferring information between digital devices, especially audio and video equipment?

   A.) USB
   B.) Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)
   C.) Small Computer System Interface(SCSI)
   D.) Firewire

Answer: Option 'D'

Firewire

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3.

Which of the following is a specification that combines video and audio into a single digital interface?

   A.) MHL
   B.) HDMI
   C.) Serial Port
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'B'

​HDMI

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4.

________ is a method of providing website content such as news stories or software updates.

   A.) RSS
   B.) Upgrading
   C.) Piracy
   D.) Both (1) and (2)

Answer: Option 'A'

RSS

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5.

______ is a way to quickly access a favorite website by saving it in your browser

   A.) Cookie
   B.) Bookmark
   C.) blog
   D.) Both (1) and (2)

Answer: Option 'B'

Bookmark

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6.

Which of the following is used to move your paragraph closer to margin?

   A.) change case
   B.) increase indent
   C.) decrease indent
   D.) Both (1) and (2)

Answer: Option 'C'

​decrease indent

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7.

In Excel, what two keys must be pressed to enter multiple lines of text in one cell?

   A.) ALT + Enter
   B.) Ctrl + Enter
   C.) Shift + Enter
   D.) Shift + Tab

Answer: Option 'A'

ALT + Enter

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8.

________ is the masking of server resources, including the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and operating systems, from server users.

   A.) PC virtualization
   B.) Server virtualization
   C.) Desktop virtualization
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'B'

​Server virtualization

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9.

Microsoft’s Access and Corel’s Paradox are both examples of which type of software?

   A.) Network database systems
   B.) Relational database systems
   C.) Flat-file database systems
   D.) Hierarchical database systems

Answer: Option 'B'

​Relational database systems

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10.

Which of the following is a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) card used to generate encryption keys for secure transactions on e-commerce Web sites?

   A.) server accelerator card
   B.) smart card
   C.) PCMCIA card
   D.) network interface card

Answer: Option 'A'

server accelerator card

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11.

Storing same data in many places is called _______

   A.) Data Enumeration
   B.) Data Redundancy
   C.) Data Iteration
   D.) Data Concurrency

Answer: Option 'B'

Data Redundancy

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12.

Virtual memory is ______

   A.) an extremely large main memory
   B.) an illusion of extremely large main memory
   C.) a type of memory
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'B'

an illusion of extremely large main memory

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13.

Companies use ______ vendors to provide access to software and services rather than purchasing the applications and maintaining the applications themselves.

   A.) Open source vendors
   B.) Alliances
   C.) Application service providers
   D.) All of the above

Answer: Option 'C'

​Application service providers

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14.

Which of the following displays the contents of the active cell in Excel?

   A.) Name box
   B.) Column heading
   C.) Formula Bar
   D.) Task panel

Answer: Option 'C'

Formula Bar

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15.

By default, your documents print in ________ mode

   A.) Page setup
   B.) Portrait
   C.) Landscape
   D.) Print preview

Answer: Option 'B'

Portrait

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16.

The path of the creation of an executable program is _______

   A.) coding, linking, compiling, parsing
   B.) coding, parsing, compiling, linking
   C.) coding, compiling, parsing, linking
   D.) coding, compiling, linking, parsing

Answer: Option 'D'

coding, compiling, linking, parsing

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17.

The amount of digital data that is moved from one place to another in a given time

   A.) data transfer rate
   B.) data access rate
   C.) data migration rate
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'A'

data transfer rate

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18.

When data changes in multiple lists and all lists are not updated this causes _____

   A.) data redundancy
   B.) data inconsistency
   C.) duplicate data
   D.) data overload

Answer: Option 'B'

​data inconsistency

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19.

The storage device used to compensate for the difference in rates of flow of data from one device to another is known as ______

   A.) floppy
   B.) buffer
   C.) chip
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'B'

​buffer

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20.

When a website automatically retrieves information from another website is known as ________

   A.) Push
   B.) Pull
   C.) Receive
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'B'

​Pull

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21.

The load instruction is mostly used to designate a transfer from memory to a processor register known as ______

   A.) Program counter
   B.) instruction register
   C.) accumulator
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'C'

accumulator

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22.

Which of the following is the delivery of information through the internet that is initiated by the server rather than by Client?

   A.) Push
   B.) Pull
   C.) Receive
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'A'

Push

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23.

Signals can be analog or digital and a computer that processes the both type of signals is known as?

   A.) Analog computer
   B.) Digital Computer
   C.) Hybrid Computer
   D.) Mainframe Computer

Answer: Option 'C'

Hybrid Computer

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24.

_________ video is content sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer in real time.

   A.) Pushing
   B.) Uploading
   C.) Pulling
   D.) Streaming

Answer: Option 'D'

Streaming

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25.

Which one of the following is a cryptographic protocol used to secure http concession?

   A.) Transport Layer Security
   B.) Explicit Congestion Notification
   C.) Resource Reservation Notification (RRN)
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'A'

Transport Layer Security

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26.

Which is the standard monitor or display interface used in most PCs?

   A.) VGA
   B.) NIC
   C.) RAM
   D.) Router

Answer: Option 'A'

​VGA

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27.

_________ is a method of providing website content such as news stories or software updates.

   A.) RSS
   B.) Upgrading
   C.) Piracy
   D.) Both (1) and (2)

Answer: Option 'A'

RSS

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28.

Which of the following inputs a computer’s memory, but unlike a virus, it does not replicate itself?

   A.) Trojan Horse
   B.) Logic bomb
   C.) Firewall
   D.) Both (1) and (2)

Answer: Option 'B'

Logic bomb

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29.

Press _________ to move the insertion point to the Address box, or to highlight the URL in the Address box.

   A.) CTRL + S
   B.) ALT + A
   C.) ALT + D
   D.) TAB + CTRL

Answer: Option 'C'

​ALT + D

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30.

Which is an open source development environment to develop dynamic web pages?

   A.) PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)
   B.) VB Script
   C.) XML
   D.) None of these

Answer: Option 'A'

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)

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31.

Which of the following activity can be termed as software piracy?

   A.) Soft loading
   B.) Renting
   C.) Counterfeiting
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'D'

All of these

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32.

An email feature, which is used to send a copy of an email to one or many other people at the same time that you are sending it to the main recipient/s is called

   A.) CC
   B.) BCC
   C.) To
   D.) None of these

Answer: Option 'A'

CC

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33.

A dynamic website that is normally database driven and which enables the owner/user to manage the content of their own website without needing to know any coding at all is known as _____

   A.) Content Management System (CMS)
   B.) ASP
   C.) DNS
   D.) None of these

Answer: Option 'A'

Content Management System (CMS)

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34.

The process of analyzing large data sets in search of new, previously undiscovered relationships is known as ______

   A.) data mining
   B.) data marting
   C.) data maintenance
   D.) data warehousing

Answer: Option 'A'

data mining

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35.

A repository of data that is designed to serve a particular community of knowledge workers is called _________

   A.) data mart
   B.) data warehousing
   C.) data maintenance
   D.) None of these

Answer: Option 'A'

data mart

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36.

An intelligent Hub that has the ability to determine the destination of a packet sent across the network is called ______

   A.) Bridge
   B.) Switch
   C.) Repeater
   D.) None of these

Answer: Option 'B'

Switch

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37.

Which stores information about the user’s web activity?

   A.) Spam
   B.) Cache
   C.) Cookie
   D.) None of these

Answer: Option 'C'

Cookie

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38.

Layer which manages flow control & ensures reliable delivery of data packets in sequence with no losses or duplications is known as ______

   A.) Session Layer
   B.) Presentation Layer
   C.) Transport Layer
   D.) None of these

Answer: Option 'C'

Transport Layer

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39.

Layer which manages flow control & ensures reliable delivery of data packets in sequence with no losses or duplications is known as ______

   A.) Presentation Layer
   B.) Transport Layer
   C.) Session Layer
   D.) None of these

Answer: Option 'B'

Transport Layer

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40.

Vendor-created program modifications are called _______

   A.) patches
   B.) antiviruses
   C.) holes
   D.) None of these

Answer: Option 'A'

patches

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41.

Which of the following is the smallest and fastest computer imitating brain working?

   A.) Super Computer
   B.) Quantum Computer
   C.) Param 1000
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'B'

Quantum Computer

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42.

Which of the following programming language does not need a translator?

   A.) Assembly language
   B.) High level language
   C.) BASIC
   D.) Machine language

Answer: Option 'D'

Machine language

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43.

Which of the following is/are the core functions of all firewalls?

   A.) Filtering
   B.) Logging
   C.) Proxying
   D.) All of the above

Answer: Option 'D'

All of the above

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44.

A(n) ______ allows network users to share a single copy of software, which resides on the network server.

   A.) single-user license agreement
   B.) network site license
   C.) end-user license agreement
   D.) business software license

Answer: Option 'B'

​network site license

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45.

Programs that automatically submit your search request to several search engines simultaneously are called _______

   A.) Metasearch engines
   B.) Spiders
   C.) Web crawlers
   D.) Hits

Answer: Option 'A'

Metasearch engines

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46.

A device that regenerates the signal transmitted on a cable in a network is called _______

   A.) Repeater
   B.) Bridge
   C.) Router
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'A'

Repeater

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47.

A code that represents English characters as numbers and ranging from 0 to 127 is known as ______

   A.) ASCII
   B.) BCD
   C.) EBCDIC
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'A'

ASCII

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48.

A type of phishing attack where mobile phone users receive text messages containing a Web site hyperlink is called _____

   A.) Pharming
   B.) Smishing
   C.) Vishing
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'B'

Smishing

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49.

A most Sophisticated relay device used in a network that can be used to interconnect systems with different protocols, formatting languages and architecture is called ______

   A.) Gateway
   B.) Bridge
   C.) Switch
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'A'

Gateway

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50.

An Interface refers to a specification by which programs can communicate with a web server is called ______

   A.) Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
   B.) Graphical User Interface (GUI)
   C.) Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
   D.) All of these

Answer: Option 'C'

Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

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