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