CIT 726 - Computers in Society
  • 1. The 2 main types of computers in the modern computer world are
A) apple and microsoft
B) open and closed
C) digital and analog
D) mainframe and personal computer
  • 2. The term megahertz or MHz means
A) millions of cycles per minute
B) thousands of cycles per second
C) millions of cycles per second
D) billions of cycles per second
  • 3. The first general purpose all-electronic computer was developed in the year ______
A) 1960
B) 1946
C) 1970
D) 1936
  • 4. ENIAC means _______
A) Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
B) Electronic Neuron Interceptor and Computer
C) Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer
D) Electrical New Information Computer
  • 5. The first commercially available electronic computer was called __________
A) UNIVAC
B) ENIAC
C) STADIAC
D) EDVAC
  • 6. Which of the following represents the correct sequence in the development of the logical component of computers in the course of history?
A) microprocessors --> integrated circuits --> transistors --> vacuum tubes
B) vacuum tubes --> transistors --> integrated circuits --> microprocessors
C) transistors --> integrated circuits --> vacuum tubes --> microprocessors
D) vacuum tubes --> integrated circuits --> transistors --> microprocessors
  • 7. Which of the following is not an example of personal computer?
A) notebook
B) supercomputer
C) laptop
D) desktop
  • 8. Which of the following is not an input device on the computer?
A) printer
B) mouse
C) light pen
D) scanner
  • 9. Which of the following is not an output device?
A) monitor
B) printer
C) keyboard
D) speaker
  • 10. Which of these is not a type of printer commonly known?
A) pen jet
B) laser jet
C) ink jet
D) dot matrix
  • 11. Computer stores
A) data only
B) both data and instructions
C) instructions only
D) randomly only
  • 12. What is a computer?
A) an electronic machine
B) an electronic machine that can process and store data
C) a machine
D) an electronic machine that can stimulate data
  • 13. What is a PC?
A) low-cost computer usually desktop size
B) desktop
C) personal computational machine
D) mini computer
  • 14. ROM stands for __________
A) Read Only Memory
B) Read Output Memory
C) Read Only Memorize
D) Random Only Memory
  • 15. Terminal is an _______
A) output device only
B) input device only
C) in/ out device
D) input/ output device
  • 16. CPU means __
A) Central Processor Unit
B) Common Processing Unit
C) Central Processing Unit
D) Central Processing Utility
  • 17. What do we call computer programs used on the computer?
A) software
B) utility
C) translator
D) operating system
  • 18. What is a program?
A) computer software
B) A set of instructions that tells the computer what to do
C) an instruction
D) a set of codes
  • 19. What is an operating system?
A) the software responsible for controlling the allocation and usage of hardware resources
B) the software responsible for controlling the allocation and usage of hardware
C) the software responsible for determining the allocation and usage of resources
D) the software responsible for controlling the allocation and implementation of hardware resources
  • 20. Fortran is
A) a source code
B) a compiler
C) a high-level language
D) an operating system
  • 21. Computer machinery is the
A) utility
B) operating system
C) hardware
D) software
  • 22. What do you understand by booting?
A) Switching off the system
B) switching in the system
C) switching on the system
D) switching out the system
  • 23. What is a mouse used for?
A) to give instructions to a computer
B) to program the computer
C) to execute program
D) to guide the computer
  • 24. What is a directory?
A) shortcut
B) folder
C) program
D) Dictionary
  • 25. A small picture that represents either a program or a shortcut is
A) a shortcut
B) an icon
C) a pointer
D) a graphics
  • 26. What is a menu?
A) a program
B) a list of food
C) a list of items
D) a picture
  • 27. What is a window?
A) a rectangular box that contains programs
B) a box that contains icons or data (information)
C) a triangular box that contains icons or data (information)
D) a rectangular box that contains icons or data (information)
  • 28. GUI stands for
A) Graphical Utility Interface
B) Ground User Interface
C) Graphical User Interface
D) Graphical User Intensity
  • 29. A Computer
A) has no limitation
B) is mechanical
C) can think
D) cannot think
  • 30. There are ____________ areas in a PC where instructions and data can be temporarily stored.
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
  • 31. RAM chips are _________
A) set
B) downloadable
C) available
D) upgradeable
  • 32. Which of these is not an external storage device?
A) RAM
B) CD-ROM
C) hard disk
D) magnetic tapes
  • 33. The use of computer to create, revise and save documents for printing and future retrieval is
A) desktop publishing
B) MS Word
C) word processing
D) spreadheeting
  • 34. What do you use to enter data into the computer?
A) screen
B) keyboard
C) printer
D) plotter
  • 35. An example of an electronic spreadheet is
A) Excel
B) MS Word
C) CorelDraw
D) Adobe
  • 36. Word processor has many advantages over using a ---
A) plotter
B) typewriter
C) COM
D) printer
  • 37. By default, MS Word is in --- mode
A) delete
B) insert
C) Escape
D) update
  • 38. A program used to create text files or make changes to existing files is
A) a word processor
B) an application software
C) a dump
D) an editor
  • 39. _________ processes are involved in copying text
A) two
B) four
C) five
D) three
  • 40. _________ is one of the proofing tools in word processing
A) edit
B) Speller
C) format
D) Spelling Checker
  • 41. ________ is the final step in the production of a document
A) Formatting
B) Editing
C) Printing
D) Viewing
  • 42. In spreadsheet, a cell can contain either --- or text
A) diagram
B) numbered values
C) alpha
D) picture
  • 43. What is a spreadsheet?
A) It consists of information written in circular form
B) It consists of information written in triangular form
C) It consists of information
D) It consists of information written in tabular form
  • 44. An Excel file is called a
A) workbook
B) worksheet
C) Excel
D) sheet
  • 45. By default, there are _____ worksheets in an Excel workbook.
A) 3
B) 4
C) 2
D) 5
  • 46. What do you understand by Excel?
A) software application that provides a paper spreadsheet
B) software application that provides an electronic spreadsheet
C) software application
D) software application that provides an electronic word processing
  • 47. ___________ cells can contain formulas
A) worksheet
B) workbook
C) sheet
D) spreadsheet file
  • 48. Until it is ---, a workbook exists only in computer memory
A) solved
B) dumped
C) saved
D) done
  • 49. GUI stands for
A) Good User Interface
B) Graphical User Interface
C) Graphical Utility Interface
D) Graphical User Interlude
  • 50. MS Word is a _________ word processor
A) WYSIWYG
B) WYISWYG
C) WYSIWYGY
D) WSYIWYG
  • 51. There are ___________ alignment options in MS Word
A) 2
B) 4
C) 3
D) 5
  • 52. In spreadsheet, cell is the intersection of a __________ and a row
A) column
B) point
C) pixel
D) line
  • 53. The Operating System as a resource manager managers the following hardware resources except _________
A) Windows
B) primary memory
C) secondary storage devices
D) input/ output devices
  • 54. A machine oriented language consisting of symbolic codes in which instructions correspond to or resemble machine language and depends on the machine is called _______
A) high level language
B) symbolic language
C) machine language
D) low-level language
  • 55. A computer language that consists of binary digits is called _________
A) low-level language
B) machine language
C) high-level language
D) hypertext language
  • 56. A problem oriented language which is a restricted form of natural languages is called ______
A) low-level language
B) hypertext language
C) high-level language
D) machine language
  • 57. In which software generation was machine language developed?
A) 1st generation
B) 3rd generation
C) 2nd generation
D) 4th generation
  • 58. In which software generation was assembly language developed?
A) 3rd generation
B) 2nd generation
C) 4th generation
D) 1st generation
  • 59. In which software generation was high-level language developed?
A) 4th generation
B) 2nd generation
C) 1st generation
D) 3rd generation
  • 60. Which generation of software is regarded as application generation?
A) 4th generation
B) 3rd generation
C) 1st generation
D) 2nd generation
  • 61. Which generation of software is regarded as declarative language or expert system?
A) 5th generation
B) 4th generation
C) 1st generation
D) 3rd generation
  • 62. In Windows, clipboard __________
A) is an area in memory
B) provides a temporary storage area
C) provides a storage area
D) provides a temporary area
  • 63. In MS Word, what does the overtype mode do?
A) Pushes character by character
B) Inserts a character at a time
C) Moves a character one by one
D) Replaces existing text one character at a time
  • 64. Some formatting buttons are toggles, that means _____
A) the formatting button does multiple operations
B) the formatting button does only one formatting operation at a time
C) the same formatting button is used to turn a formatting feature on and off
D) the formatting button does not do anything
  • 65. What do we use to change the appearance and positioning of text in Word?
A) Formatting
B) Scaling
C) Re-appearance
D) Indenting
  • 66. In respect to alignment, justify means
A) lines of text are aligned along the left indent
B) lines of text are aligned along either the left or right indents
C) lines of text are aligned along the right indent
D) lines of text are aligned along both the left and right indents
  • 67. Automatic spell check _____
A) informs you of errors as you type
B) informs you of spelling errors as you type
C) informs you of spelling errors before you type
D) informs you of spelling errors as you finish
  • 68. By default, numbers are displayed _________ aligned as you type them into a cell
A) right
B) forward
C) center
D) left
  • 69. _______ are the instructions that you enter to perform calculations
A) Calculus
B) programs
C) Arguments
D) Formulas
  • 70. A range of cells is selected by --- methods
A) 3
B) 2
C) 4
D) 5
  • 71. The default alignment for text entries in MS Excel is _______
A) right
B) left
C) center
D) bold
  • 72. When the total number of characters of numeric data is greater than the column width of a cell --- are displayed
A) plain symbols
B) dash symbols
C) hash symbol
D) dot symbols
  • 73. In addition to its worksheet capabilities, Excel can
A) design logo
B) combine text with pictures
C) make presentations
D) create charts
  • 74. A data marker ______
A) charts a single data point
B) represents a single data point
C) charts symbol that represents a single data point
D) charts symbol that represents data points
  • 75. What does a Chart Wizard feature do?
A) leads one through a step-by-step process to create a chart
B) leads one through a step-by-step process of a chart
C) leads one through a process to create a chart
D) leads one through a step-by-step process
  • 76. An embedded chart is moved
A) by dropping
B) by painting
C) by wizard
D) by dragging
  • 77. A selection chart is based on
A) the type one is charting
B) the type of data one is charting
C) parameters
D) charting
  • 78. With Print Preview we ________
A) view printouts on screen
B) view layouts on screen
C) set print margins
D) set border lines
  • 79. Legend is used ___
A) to draw each series in a chart
B) to draw each section in a chart
C) to demonstrate each section in a chart
D) to identify each series in a chart
  • 80. There are --- working environments in PowerPoint
A) 4
B) 3
C) 2
D) 5
  • 81. PowerPoint is _________
A) an application program for presentation
B) an application program for spreadsheet
C) an application program for document preparation
D) an application program for graphics
  • 82. How do you display a presentation on your computer?
A) By inputting a slide show
B) By running a spreadsheet
C) By running a slide diagram
D) By running a slide show
  • 83. In slide view, you can work with --- slide(s) at a time
A) 2
B) 3
C) 1
D) 4
  • 84. How many tabbed categories,in the New Presentation dialog box, can you choose from when creating a presentation?
A) 2
B) 5
C) 4
D) 3
  • 85. To insert a new slide into a presentation, you ________
A) click on the Next Slide button on the Standard toolbar
B) click on the New Show button on the Standard toolbar
C) click on the New Slide button on the Standard toolkit
D) click on the New Slide button on the Standard toolbar
  • 86. What objects does PowerPoint enable you to create using a set of tools located on the Drawing toolbar?
A) pulled objects
B) dragged objects
C) shaped objects
D) drawn objects
  • 87. Two of the buttons that are found on the Drawing toolbar are Draw and ___________
A) AutoPicture
B) AutoShapes
C) AutoImage
D) AutoDraw
  • 88. Clip Arts are ___
A) graphic images
B) hand-drawn art
C) difficult drawings
D) user-defined images
  • 89. With WordArt toolbar, you can ______
A) create and edit text effects
B) create and edit text
C) create text effects only
D) edit text effects
  • 90. A browser is ______________
A) software tool for looking at web pages
B) software tool for describing web pages
C) tool for defining web pages
D) software tool for looking at pages
  • 91. MAN stands for _______
A) Metropolitan Access Nature
B) Metropolitan Access Network
C) Metro Area Network
D) Metropolitan Area Network
  • 92. e-mail is short for
A) external mail
B) electric mail
C) expanded mail
D) electronic mail
  • 93. Internet is _______
A) a general network
B) a global network
C) a public network
D) a national network
  • 94. A web page is ---
A) document
B) web stuff
C) hypermedia
D) hypermedia document on the web
  • 95. GIGO is short for
A) Garbage In Garbage Outlet
B) Garbage Inside Garbage Outside
C) Garbage In Garbage Outside
D) Garbage In Garbage Out
  • 96. PKZIP is for what?
A) Software for PCs
B) Shareware compression utility for PCs
C) Software compression utility for machines
D) Shareware compression utility for machines
  • 97. HTTP stands for
A) Hypertext Transmission Protocol
B) Hypertext Transfer Practice
C) Hypertext Transfer Practical
D) Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • 98. HTML stands for
A) Hypertext Makeup Language
B) Hover Technique Machine Language
C) Hypertext Markup Language
D) Hover Test Makeup Language
  • 99. A file server is a ______________
A) computer that provides access for remote users
B) computer that accesses files for remote users
C) computer that provides access to files for remote users
D) computer that provides access
  • 100. Microsoft Outlook provides ________
A) e-mail
B) e-document
C) e-send
D) e-paper
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