Noun Past Questions and Answers: CIT101 – Computer In Society With Answer

1. The 2 main types of computers in the modern computer world are

A) apple and microsoft
B) digital and analog
C) open and closed
D) mainframe and personal computer

2. The term megahertz or MHz means

A) thousands of cycles per second
B) millions of cycles per second
C) billions 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) 1960
C) 1970
D) 1936

4. ENIAC means _______

A) Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer
B) Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
C) Electrical New Information Computer
D) Electronic Neuron Interceptor and Computer

5. The first commercially available electronic computer was called __________

A) EDVAC
B) ENIAC
C) UNIVAC
D) STADIAC

6. Which of the following represents the correct sequence in the development of the logical component of computers in the course of history?

A) microprocessors –> integrated circuits –> transistors –> vacuum tubes
B) transistors –> integrated circuits –> vacuum tubes –> microprocessors
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) notebook
B) laptop
C) supercomputer
D) desktop

8. Which of the following is not an input device on the computer?

A) light pen
B) scanner
C) printer
D) mouse

9. Which of the following is not an output device?

A) keyboard
B) monitor
C) printer
D) speaker

10. Which of these is not a type of printer commonly known?

A) dot matrix
B) ink jet
C) laser jet
D) pen jet

11. Computer stores

A) data only
B) instructions only
C) both data and instructions
D) randomly only

12. What is a computer?

A) an electronic machine that can stimulate data
B) a machine
C) an electronic machine that can process and store data
D) an electronic machine

13. What is a PC?

A) personal computational machine
B) desktop
C) mini computer
D) low-cost computer usually desktop size

14. ROM stands for __________

A) Read Only Memory
B) Read Output Memory
C) Random Only Memory
D) Read Only Memorize

15. Terminal is an _______

A) input device only
B) in/ out device
C) output device only
D) input/ output device

16. CPU means __

A) Central Processor Unit
B) Central Processing Unit
C) Common Processing Unit
D) Central Processing Utility

17. What do we call computer programs used on the computer?

A) utility
B) software
C) operating system
D) translator

18. What is a program?

A) A set of instructions that tells the computer what to do
B) a set of codes
C) an instruction
D) computer software

19. What is an operating system?

A) the software responsible for controlling the allocation and usage of hardware resources
B) the software responsible for controlling the allocation and implementation of hardware resources
C) the software responsible for determining the allocation and usage of resources
D) the software responsible for controlling the allocation and usage of hardware

20. Fortran is

A) a high-level language
B) a compiler
C) an operating system
D) a source code

21. Computer machinery is the

A) utility
B) software
C) operating system
D) hardware

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 give instructions to a computer
B) to execute program
C) to program the computer
D) to guide the computer

24. What is a directory?

A) shortcut
B) folder
C) program
D) Dictionary

25. A small picture that represents either a program or a shortcut is

A) an icon
B) a graphics
C) a pointer
D) a shortcut

26. What is a menu?

A) a list of items
B) a picture
C) a list of food
D) a program

27. What is a window?

A) a rectangular box that contains programs
B) a rectangular box that contains icons or data (information)
C) a triangular box that contains icons or data (information)
D) a box that contains icons or data (information)

28. GUI stands for

A) Ground User Interface
B) Graphical Utility Interface
C) Graphical User Intensity
D) Graphical User Interface

29. A Computer

A) can think
B) cannot think
C) is mechanical
D) has no limitation

30. There are ____________ areas in a PC where instructions and data can be temporarily stored.

A) 4
B) 5
C) 2
D) 3

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) word processing
D) spreadheeting

34. What do you use to enter data into the computer?

A) keyboard
B) printer
C) plotter
D) screen

35. An example of an electronic spreadheet is

A) MS Word
B) Excel
C) CorelDraw
D) Adobe

36. Word processor has many advantages over using a —

A) COM
B) printer
C) typewriter
D) plotter

37. By default, MS Word is in — mode

A) update
B) insert
C) Escape
D) delete

38. A program used to create text files or make changes to existing files is

A) an application software
B) a dump
C) an editor
D) a word processor

39. _________ processes are involved in copying text

A) five
B) four
C) two
D) three

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) Printing
B) Editing
C) Formatting
D) Viewing

42. In spreadsheet, a cell can contain either — or text

A) diagram
B) alpha
C) picture
D) numbered values

43. What is a spreadsheet?

A) It consists of information
B) It consists of information written in tabular form
C) It consists of information written in circular form
D) It consists of information written in triangular form

44. An Excel file is called a

A) sheet
B) workbook
C) worksheet
D) Excel

45. By default, there are _____ worksheets in an Excel workbook.

A) 2
B) 5
C) 3
D) 4

46. What do you understand by Excel?

A) software application
B) software application that provides an electronic spreadsheet
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) spreadsheet file
C) worksheet
D) workbook

48. Until it is —, a workbook exists only in computer memory

A) done
B) saved
C) solved
D) dumped

49. GUI stands for

A) Graphical User Interlude
B) Graphical Utility Interface
C) Good User Interface
D) Graphical User Interface

50. MS Word is a _________ word processor

A) WYISWYG
B) WYSIWYG
C) WYSIWYGY
D) WSYIWYG

51. There are ___________ alignment options in MS Word

A) 5
B) 2
C) 4
D) 3

52. In spreadsheet, cell is the intersection of a __________ and a row

A) line
B) pixel
C) column
D) point

53. The Operating System as a resource manager managers the following hardware resources except _________

A) Windows
B) input/ output devices
C) secondary storage devices
D) primary memory

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) machine language
B) low-level language
C) symbolic language
D) high level language

55. A computer language that consists of binary digits is called _________

A) hypertext language
B) low-level language
C) high-level language
D) machine language

56. A problem oriented language which is a restricted form of natural languages is called ______

A) low-level language
B) hypertext language
C) machine language
D) high-level language

57. In which software generation was machine language developed?

A) 1st generation
B) 4th generation
C) 3rd generation
D) 2nd generation

58. In which software generation was assembly language developed?

A) 2nd generation
B) 3rd generation
C) 4th generation
D) 1st generation

59. In which software generation was high-level language developed?

A) 2nd generation
B) 3rd generation
C) 4th generation
D) 1st generation

60. Which generation of software is regarded as application generation?

A) 4th generation
B) 1st generation
C) 3rd generation
D) 2nd generation

61. Which generation of software is regarded as declarative language or expert system?

A) 5th generation
B) 4th generation
C) 1st generation
D) 3rd generation

62. In Windows, clipboard __________

A) provides a temporary area
B) is an area in memory
C) provides a temporary storage area
D) provides a 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) Pushes character by character
D) Moves a character one by one

64. Some formatting buttons are toggles, that means _____

A) the formatting button does not do anything
B) the same formatting button is used to turn a formatting feature on and off
C) the formatting button does only one formatting operation at a time
D) the formatting button does multiple operations

65. What do we use to change the appearance and positioning of text in Word?

A) Formatting
B) Scaling
C) Indenting
D) Re-appearance

66. In respect to alignment, justify means

A) lines of text are aligned along both the left and right indents
B) lines of text are aligned along either the left or right indents
C) lines of text are aligned along the right indent
D) lines of text are aligned along the left indent

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) right
C) left
D) forward

69. _______ are the instructions that you enter to perform calculations

A) Arguments
B) programs
C) Calculus
D) Formulas

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) center
B) right
C) left
D) bold

72. When the total number of characters of numeric data is greater than the column width of a cell — are displayed

A) plain symbols
B) hash symbol
C) dash symbols
D) dot symbols

73. In addition to its worksheet capabilities, Excel can

A) create charts
B) combine text with pictures
C) make presentations
D) design logo

74. A data marker ______

A) represents a single data point
B) charts symbol that represents a single data point
C) charts symbol that represents data points
D) charts a single data point

75. What does a Chart Wizard feature do?

A) leads one through a step-by-step process
B) leads one through a step-by-step process of a chart
C) leads one through a process to create a chart
D) leads one through a step-by-step process to create a chart

76. An embedded chart is moved

A) by dragging
B) by wizard
C) by dropping
D) by painting

77. A selection chart is based on

A) the type of data one is charting
B) parameters
C) the type one is charting
D) charting

78. With Print Preview we ________

A) set border lines
B) set print margins
C) view printouts on screen
D) view layouts on screen

79. Legend is used ___

A) to draw each section in a chart
B) to identify each series in a chart
C) to draw 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) 3
D) 5

81. PowerPoint is _________

A) an application program for graphics
B) an application program for spreadsheet
C) an application program for document preparation
D) an application program for presentation

82. How do you display a presentation on your computer?

A) By running a slide show
B) By running a slide diagram
C) By inputting a slide show
D) By running a spreadsheet

83. In slide view, you can work with — slide(s) at a time

A) 3
B) 2
C) 1
D) 4

84. How many tabbed categories,in the New Presentation dialog box, can you choose from when creating a presentation?

A) 4
B) 2
C) 3
D) 5

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 Slide button on the Standard toolbar
D) click on the New Show 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) pulled objects
D) dragged objects

87. Two of the buttons that are found on the Drawing toolbar are Draw and ___________

A) AutoPicture
B) AutoImage
C) AutoDraw
D) AutoShapes

88. Clip Arts are ___

A) difficult drawings
B) hand-drawn art
C) user-defined images
D) graphic images

89. With WordArt toolbar, you can ______

A) create and edit text
B) create and edit text effects
C) edit text effects
D) create text effects only

90. A browser is ______________

A) tool for defining web pages
B) software tool for looking at web pages
C) software tool for looking at pages
D) software tool for describing web pages

91. MAN stands for _______

A) Metropolitan Access Nature
B) Metropolitan Access Network
C) Metropolitan Area Network
D) Metro Area Network

92. e-mail is short for

A) electronic mail
B) electric mail
C) expanded mail
D) external mail

93. Internet is _______

A) a public network
B) a global network
C) a general network
D) a national network

94. A web page is —

A) hypermedia
B) web stuff
C) document
D) hypermedia document on the web

95. GIGO is short for

A) Garbage In Garbage Outside
B) Garbage In Garbage Outlet
C) Garbage Inside Garbage Outside
D) Garbage In Garbage Out

96. PKZIP is for what?

A) Software for PCs
B) Shareware compression utility for machines
C) Shareware compression utility for PCs
D) Software compression utility for machines

97. HTTP stands for

A) Hypertext Transfer Practice
B) Hypertext Transfer Practical
C) Hypertext Transmission Protocol
D) Hypertext Transfer Protocol

98. HTML stands for

A) Hypertext Markup Language
B) Hover Technique Machine Language
C) Hypertext Makeup Language
D) Hover Test Makeup Language

99. A file server is a ______________

A) computer that provides access to files for remote users
B) computer that provides access 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-mail
D) e-paper

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