Practice Set (Computer Awareness)

1. The memory dedicated for computer graphics is _____________.

A. CPU        B. ROM        C. GPU         D. FPU

Explanation : 

GPU - Graphics Processing Unit, GPUs are more efficient than central processing units (CPUs) at handling complex mathematical operations that run in parallel. GPUs can process many pieces of data simultaneously, which makes them useful for compute-intensive tasks.

FPU - Floating Point Unit, a hardware component in a computer that performs mathematical operations on floating-point numbers. It's also known as a Numeric Processing Unit (NPU) or math coprocessor.

2. A collection of related information sorted and dealt with as a unit is a 

A. Disk       B. Data          C. File           D. Floppy 

3. File extensions are used in order to 

A. Name the file 

B. Identify the file

C. Answer the file name is not last

D. Identify the file type

4. By default,  your documents print in ________ mode.

A. Landscape      B. Portrait       C. Page setup      D. Print view

5. A _______ is a software program used to view Web pages.

A. Site       B. Browser      C. Link        D. Site 

6. The homepage of a website is ________.

A. The largest page  B. The last page  C. The first page  D. The most colourful page

7. The ________ also called the Web contains billions of documents. 

A.  WWW       B. HTTP        C. Web portal       D. Domain 

8. What does the ".com" in the URL : www.abcd.com indicate?

A. Corporate     B. Commercial       C. Communication      D. Cooperation 

9. Which of the following terms is the collection of networks that can be joined together?

A. LAN         B. Intranet        C. Internet       D. Extranet

10. Main component of CPU is _______.

A. Control Unit        B. Memory      C. ALU         D. All of these 

11. Which of the following is the fastest?

A. CD-ROM         B. RAM         C. Registers        D. Cache

12. Output devices make it possible to _______.

A. View and print a data   

B. Scan a data 

C. Input a data 

D. Sending a data

13. OCR stands for _______.

A. Other character Restoration 

B. Optical CPU Recognition 

C. Optical Character Recognition 

D. None of the above 

14. Where is data saved permanently?

A. Memory        B. Storage        C. CPU       D. Printer 

15. A _________ is approximately one billion bytes.

A. Kilobyte        B. Megabyte       C. Bit        D. Gigabyte

16. ____________ is a program which make easy to use a computer.

A. Operating System        B. Application      C. Software      D. Network 

17. ______ uses HTTP.

A. Worksheet        B. Server        C. Workbook      D. Web page

18. Internet was started in India at _______.

A. 15 August, 1995 

B. 9 August, 1993

C. 8 August,  1994

D. 7 August,  1996

19. All deleted files go to ____________.

A. Recycle Bin        B. Task bar        C. Tool bar        D. My Computer 

20. Something which has easily understood instructions is said to be ______.

A. Analog data        B. Digital data        C. Modem data        D. None