GENERAL AWARENESS 4 IN ENGLISH: COMPUTER APTITUDE 1: 30 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

 1.Everything computer does is controlled by its

Answer: CPU

2.It is any part of the computer that you can physically touch.

Answer: Hardware

3.A sender must not be able to deny that he sent a specific message when he in fact did. 

this is an aspect of security called

Answer: n-repudiation

4.References to each file on a disk are stored in a-

Answer: file allocation table

5.Which is the following is a part of central processing unit?

Answer: Arithemetic Logic unit

6.The binary system is a number system to the base

Answer: 2

7.In the binary language, each letter of the alphabets, each number and each special 

character is made up of a unique combination of-

Answer: eight bits

8.Computers process data into information by working exclusively with-',

Answer: numbers

9.Computers use which language to process data?

Answer: binary'

10.After a picture has been taken with a digital camera and processed appropriately, the 

actual print of the picture is considered',

Answer: output

11.A compiler-

Answer: produces object code

12.The name for the way that computers manipute data into information is called

Answer: processing

13.Which type of data has been organised or presented in a meaningful fashion?

Answer: Information

14.It is the science that attempts to produce machines that display the same type 

intelligence that humans do

Answer: Artificial Intelligence

15.It is the study of molecules and structures whose size ranges from 1 to 100 Nano-meters

Answer: Nano-science

16.Technology no longer protected by copyright, available to everyone, is considered to 

be

Answer: proprietary

17.Surgeons can perform delicate operations by manipulating devices through computers 

instead of manually. This technology is known as-

Answer: robotics

18.this tags, when placed on an animal, can be used to record and track in a database all 

of the animals movements

Answer: RFID

19.Which of the following is not one of the four major data processing functions of a 

computer?

Answer: Analysing the data or information

20.The ability to recover and read deleted or damaged files from a criminals computer is 

an example of a law enforcement speciality called-

Answer: Computer forencies

21.This system is a small, wireless handheld computer that scans an items tag and pulls 

up the current price as you shop

Answer: PSS

22.These terminals (formerly known as cash registers) are often connected to complex 

inventory and sales computer systems-

Answer: point-of-sale

23.This process is used by large retailers to study trends-

Answer: Data mining

24.All of the following are examples of real security and privacy risks except

Answer: spam

25.the place where data or program goes is known as-

Answer: CPU

26.The capacity of memory is measured in terms of-

Answer: Megabyte

27.During installation of which of the following, the program files should be copied into 

the hard disk from CD-ROM or other medium

Answer: Application hardware

28.In MICR, C stands for

Answer: Character

29.Telephone number, date of birth, name of customer are the examples of

Answer: data

30.It displays the result given by computer after processing data

Answer: output

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