1. A major function of main memory is to: 6.

The concentric circles a disk is divided

into are called:
a. Perform logical operations
b. Read and interpret instructions a. Tracks
c. Store information that is not currently b. Cylinders
being used c. Sectors
d. Store information that is currently d. Index holes
being used 7. Which of the following is not a direct
access secondary storage medium?
2. ROM chips are mainly used to:
a. Flash memory
a. Store programs such as utilities b. Hard disk
c. Floppy disk
b. Store application software such as d. Magnetic tape
word processors
c. Store start up instructions 8. Numbers marked a by a customer on a
d. Store erasable instructions lottery ticket slip can be read using the
input device:
3. Word size is measured in:
a. OCR
a. Seconds b. OMR
b. Bytes c. MICR
c. Bits d. POS
d. Kilobytes
9. Which ONE of the following is not a
4. In terms of access speed, which of the biometric system?
following is the slowest?
a. Retina scanning
a. Magnetic tape b. Encryption
b. Fixed head hard disk c. Finger print matching
c. Movable head hard disk d. Iris scanning
d. Flash memory
10. The following are impact printers
5. Which of the following groups are correct EXCEPT:
if they are listed in ascending order of
storage capacity? a. Dot matrix
b. Ink jet
a. Floppy disk, hard disk, flash memory, c. Plotter
CD d. Daisy wheel

11. Which of the following is a major

b. Floppy disk, flash memory, hard disk, advantage of a Liquid Crystal Display
CD monitor?

a. Faster output
b. Cheaper than CRT
c. Floppy disk, CD, flash memory, hard c. Consumes less electricity
disk d. Not easily damaged

12. Which one of the following is NOT a soft

d. Floppy disk, hard disk, CD, flash copy?
memory
a. Output from a speaker
b. Output from a monitor
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d. Output from a headphone

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13. The octal value of binary number 101011 19. The data transmission mode that allows
is: the transmission of data between
computers in both directions at the same
a. 57 time is called:
b. 53
c. 43 a. Simplex
d. 46 b. Duplex
c. Half duplex
14. 8-bit sign and magnitude representation of d. All of the above
24 is:
a. 00011000 20. The transfer of data from another
b. 10011000 computer to a user computer is known as:
c. 11100111
d. 11010111 a. Uploading
b. Downloading
15. Which ONE of the following is likely to c. Installing
be the storage capacity of a CD? d. Modifying

a. 100 KB 21. A device that modulates and demodulates

b. 300 MB signals is a:
c. 150 GB
d. 700 MB a. Converter
b. Multiplexor
16. Which of the following types of network c. Modem
is used to link computers between d. Router
countries?
22.A protocol used to transfer files from a
a. LAN remote computer using the internet is:
b. MAN
c. WAN a. HTTP
d. VAN b. HTML
c. FTP
17. Which of the following is NOT a wired d. XHTML
transmission media?
23.Encryption is a form of (.)
a. Fibre-optic restriction?
b. Satellite
c. Coaxial a. Hardware
d. Twisted pair b. Software
c. Virus
18. Which of the following is the slowest d. All of the above
bandwidth?
24.All of the following are proprietary
a. Voice band software EXCEPT:
b. Narrow band
c. Broadband a. Windows
d. Thin band b. Linux
c. Microsoft Word
d. Microsoft Office

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25.Telecommuting is:

a. communicating with people around the d. An architectural drawing from a

world without using computers plotter
b. working from home by having a link to
the office computer
c. working from home without having a link
to the office computer 30.Which of the following is NOT a
d. communicating with people around the validation check?
world by using computers
a. Consistency check
26.Read the following statements about b. Range check
information: c. Accuracy check
d. Data type check
I. Information is processed data
II. Information is raw facts 31.When you try to insert a word between
III. Information is the results of two words, the letters of the second word
processing are being erased. This is because the text
IV. Information can be numbers or is in:
characters
a. insert mode
Which statements are true? b. overwrite mode
c. correcting mode
a. I and II only
d. delete mode
b. I, and IV only
c. I and III only
32.The default alignment of text in word
d. I, II and IV only
processing is:
27. Which of the following is NOT a
a. justified
business information activity?
b. left
c. right
a. Payroll
d. centre
b. Accounts
c. Archiving
33.All of the following are line spacing
d. Budget
settings in Microsoft Word EXCEPT:
28.Which of the following devices is most
a. 1
likely to be present in a process control
b. 1
system?
c. 2
d. 2
a. Controller
b. Scanner
34.Which of the following Alignments is
c. Digital assistant
used to make text fit between left and
d. Sensor
right margins?
a. Left
29.Which of the following is NOT a human-
b. Right
readable document?
c. Justified
d. Center
a. Output from a printer
35.In order to display text that appears at the
top margin of every page of a multiple-
b. Output from a monitor
page document you should use a:

a. footer
c. A scanned image
b. footnote
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 c. header 42. By default, text entries into the
d. end note spreadsheet are aligned:

a. left
b. right
c. center
36.Which of the following is NOT a view d. justified
present in PowerPoint? 43. If a cell address contains $C$7, it is
what type of a cell reference?
a. Sorter view
b. Slide sorter view a. Mixed
c. Slide show view b. Relative
d. Slide view c. Absolute
d. Combined
37.Flying, drive-in and camera effects are
types of (..) effects to slides? 44. A collection of related records in a
database is known as a:
a. Action
b. Transition a. record
c. Animation b. database
d. Colour scheme c. table
d. entity
38.The first page that is displayed when a
website is accessed is called a: 45. Which of the following is NOT a data
type present in MS Access?
a. hyperlink
b. home page a. Number
c. thumbnail b. Text
d. search engine c. Character
d. Yes/no
39.Which of the following connects a
website to another website or webpage? 46. Which ONE of the following is a
variable?
a. Modem a. sum
b. Hyperlink b. sum
c. Hypertext c. 5
d. Connection d. 5
47. Which of the following is NOT
40.A group of adjacent cells in a characteristic of an algorithm?
spreadsheet is known as:
a. Precise
a. a template
b. a range
c. a record b. Finite number of steps
d. a worksheet

41.All numerical entries into a spreadsheet c. Ambiguous

are known as:

a. values d. Flow of control from one process to

b. string another
c. labels
d. characters

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48. All of the following are representation 54. The following are features of 1st
of algorithms EXCEPT a: generation languages EXCEPT:

a. Flow chart a. they are faster in execution

b. Data flow diagram
c. Narrative
d. Pseudocode b. they are machine independent

49. A control structure used in checking a

condition is: c. they are in binary

a. Selection
b. Sequencing d. they are hard to read, write and
c. Repetition understand
d. None of the above

50. An example of a bounded iteration 55. A program error that leads to the
statement used in algorithm is: display of wrong result is:
a. While endwhile
b. While wend a. application error
c. For endfor b. syntax error
d. Repeat-until c. logic error
d. run time error
51. Which ONE of the following involves a
relational operation? 56. All of the following are data types
found in Pascal language EXCEPT:
a. X= 10
b. x>=y a. integers
c. x= x+10 b. real
d. None of the above c. text
d. string

52. Consider the following algorithm 57. An example of a conditional loop

segment: m= m +n statement in Pascal is:
n = m- n
write m , n a. goto
b. if then
Suppose m = 10, n = 15. After the c. for
completion of the above statements, the d. while
values of m and n will be:
58. Which of the following is a selection
a. 25 10
control structure statement used in
b. 10 25
Pascal?
c. 10 -5
d. -5 10
a. While
b. If-then
53. Translator used by low level language
c. For
is:
d. Repeat
a. compiler
59. Which of the following is most likely
b. interpreter
to be an instruction in 2nd generation
c. assembler
language?
d. linker
a. 1000110111
b. Sort file1 by name
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 c. Mul A by B
d. Print Sum a. high level language
b. fifth generation language
60. Programming language that uses c. assembly level language
instructions can be given in a d. fourth generation language
conversational way known as:

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