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Year 8 Assessment part-1
Contributed by: Ayub
  • 1. A computer is running slowly, what could you do to make it faster?
A) Add a monitor
B) upgrade the mouse
C) Add extra RAM
D) Clean the CD
  • 2. What does the graphics card plug into?
A) Motherborad
B) USB Drive
C) CD ROM
D) CPU
E) The printer
  • 3. Which item processes the data in your computer?
A) Mouse
B) RAM
C) Keyboard
D) CD
E) CPU
  • 4. A firewall helps keep a computer secure by…
A) stop Hackers from getting access to your computer
B) Optimising the CPU
C) Burns Viruses
D) Scanning the computer for driver updates
  • 5. Antivirus software is a type of…
A) Application software
B) Operating System
C) Utility Software
  • 6. Which applications software is best for viewing a website?
A) Web browser
B) Photoshop
C) Ms word
D) Ms Publisher
  • 7. Which one of these software utilities returns the computer to a previous state?
A) Firewall
B) Disk fragmentation
C) System Restore
D) antivirus
  • 8. Maryam keeps getting pop-up messages saying there might be a virus in some of her files, what does she need to do?
A) get a coffee and relax
B) Run a virus scan
C) Restart the computer
D) look through her files and delete some of them
  • 9. Morgan has noticed that someone keeps accessing his files over the internet and he has not given them permission. What does he need to do to prevent this from happening again?
A) Do a system restore
B) Install and configure a firewall
C) install an antivirus
  • 10. Stephen is writing an essay for homework, what will be the best software he can use
A) Microsoft excel
B) Microsoft Word
C) internet explorer
D) google chrome
  • 11. Which one is an input device?
A) Microphone
B) USB Flash drive
C) CPU
D) speaker
  • 12. Which one is an output device?
A) Monitor
B) CD
C) Touch screen
D) Motherboard
  • 13. Which one is a computer operating system?
A) MAC OSX
B) Android
C) iOS
  • 14. Which one is a Mobile Operating System
A) Windows
B) Debian
C) iOS
D) Fedora
E) MAC OSX
  • 15. Which operating system belongs to Linux family?
A) Ubuntu
B) iOS
C) MAC OSX
D) Android
  • 16. What does device driver software do?
A) It drives a car
B) It handles requests and data transfers between the computer and a device
C) It drives the computer
  • 17. What kind of software is an operating system?
A) Application software
B) utility software
C) system software
  • 18. Which of these is not a job of the operating system?
A) Managing files
B) Managing Memory
C) Managing users
D) browsing the internet
  • 19. How would you describe an operating system that is able to execute many programs simultaneously?
A) embedded system
B) Multitasking
C) Real time processing
  • 20. Which type of operating system is user friendly?
A) Menu driven
B) Graphical user interface
C) command line
  • 21. What are the two main types of software?
A) Firewall and Firefox
B) Application software and System Software
C) input and output software
  • 22. What is the biggest part of systems software?
A) utility software
B) Driver
C) Operating System
D) Application Software
  • 23. Which of these is an example of applications software?
A) Driver
B) firewall
C) antivirus
D) Word processor
  • 24. Which of these statements about Von Neumann architecture is true?
A) None
B) Both data and instructions are stored in memory
C) only instructions are stored in memory
D) only data is stored in memory
  • 25. What type of storage is a hard disk drive?
A) Flash
B) Magnetic
C) Optical
  • 26. What are the two types of primary memory?
A) Flash and Cache
B) Input and output
C) RAM and ROM
  • 27. Which of these user interfaces is difficult to use and requires little processing power?
A) Graphical User interface(GUI)
B) Command line(CLI)
C) Menu Driven
  • 28. What is the term given to the ability to run more than one program simultaneously?
A) Multihandling
B) Multitasking
C) Multiuser
D) Multimillionaire
  • 29. What is the purpose of utility software?
A) To maintain the system
B) to browse the internet
C) To manage users
D) To manage memory
  • 30. What is a peripheral?
A) A program which is designed for end-users to use
B) A hardware device connected to a computer
C) A program used to maintain a computer
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