Thursday, 3 December 2020

General Computer Test - 8

 

1. You just installed a new IDE hard drive, but your system BIOS will not recognize the new drive, what should you check first :

(a)    cable sequence

(b)    jumpers on the hard drive

(c)     drivers that need to be loaded

(d)    hard drive manufacturer web site information

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

2. What’s the best way to protect your hard drive data?

(a)    regular backups

(b)    periodically defrag it

(c)     run chkdsk at least once a week

(d)    run scandisk at least once a week

(e)    run a regular diagnostic

Ans : (a)

3. Laser Jet printer speeds are measured in pages per minute (ppm) what do we use to measure dot-matrix printers?

(a)    lines per inch

(b)    lines per sheet

(c)     characters per inch

(d)    characters per second

(e)    None of these

Ans : (d)

4. A modem could be attached to which port?

(a)    Parallel port

(b)    ASYNC port

(c)     Keyboard connector

(d)    Video port

(e)    None of these

Ans : (a)

5. You get a CMOS checksum error during bootup. What is most likely the cause?

(a)    power supply is bad

(b)    BIOS needs updating

(c)     CMOS battery is nearing end of life

(d)    hard drive types are incorrectly defined

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

6. What are the four key functions of a computer system?

(a)    input, processing, output, and storage

(b)    keyboard, display, memory, and disk drive

(c)     word processing, spreadsheets, database, calculations

(d)    bits, bytes, words, and OSI

(e)    None of these

Ans : (a)

7. Parity is :

(a)    a byte stored in the FAT to indicated remaining slots

(b)    the optimal transmission speed of data over a CAT 5 cable

(c)     an extra bit stored with data in RAM that is used to check for errors when the data is read back

(d)    the optimal transmission speed of data over a CAT 5 cable

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

8. What is different between AT and ATX power supplies?

(a)    They are identical except for their shape.

(b)    AT supplies use a single P1 power connector while ATX uses P8 and P9

(c)     AT supplies use P8 and P9 power connectors while ATX uses a single P1 connector.

(d)    AT power supplies run on 120V AC current while ATX uses 220V AC

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

9. What type of connector is used to plug a telephone line into a modem?

(a)    COM1

(b)    RJ-11

(c)     RJ-45

(d)    RJ-10

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

10. Which of the following is NOT a type of computer hard drive?

(a)    IDE

(b)    FDD

(c)     SCSI

(d)    EIDE

(e)    SATA

Ans : (b)

11. What does FDISK do?

(a)    performs low-level formatting of the hard drive

(b)    fixes bad sectors on the hard drive

(c)     recovers lost clusters on the hard drive

(d)    creates partitions on the hard drive

(e)    None of these

Ans : (d)

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. 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 these

Ans : (a)

14. Which of the following memory unit that processor can access more rapidly :

(a)    Main Memory

(b)    Virtual Memory

(c)     Cache Memory

(d)    Read Only Memory

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

15. Which one of the following is not the function of Operating System?

(a)    Resource Management

(b)    File Management

(c)     Networking

(d)    Processor Management

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

16. What is the meaning of “Hibernate” in Windows XP/Windows7?

(a)    Restart the Computer is safe mode

(b)    Restart the Computer in hibernate mode

(c)     Shutdown the Computer terminating all the running applications

(d)    Shutdown the Computer without closing the running applications

(e)    None of these

Ans : (d)

17. Unix Operating System is an :

(a)    Multi User Operating System

(b)    Time Sharing Operating System

(c)     Multi Tasking Operating System

(d)    All of these

(e)    None of these

Ans : (d)

18. What should be the extension to execute files?

(a)    EXE

(b)    BAT

(c)     COM

(d)    All of these

(e)    None of these

Ans : (d)

19. Which of the following memories need refresh?

(a)    SRAM

(b)    DRAM

(c)     COM

(d)    All of these

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

20. RJ45 UTP cable has………Cable :

(a)    2 pair

(b)    3 pair

(c)     4 pair

(d)    5 pair

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

21. Basic is language :

(a)    a procedural

(b)    an object oriented

(c)     user friendly

(d)    both A and B

(e)    None of these

Ans : (a)

22. The file system “NTFS” stands for :

(a)    New Type File System

(b)    Never Terminated File System

(c)     New Technology File System

(d)    Non Terminated File System

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

23. Which Operating System doesn’t support networking between computers?

(a)    Windows 3.1

(b)    Windows 95

(c)     Windows 2000

(d)    Windows NT

(e)    Windows XP

Ans : (a)

24. In which type of the following OS, the response time is very crucial :

(a)    Network Operating System

(b)    Real Time Operating System

(c)     Batch Operating System

(d)    Unix Operating System

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

25. Which of the following languages is more suited to structured program?

(a)    PL/1

(b)    FORTRAN

(c)     BASIC

(d)    PASCAL

(e)    None of these

Ans : (d)


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