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