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