Probationary officer and clerical level computer section quiz. Test your computer awareness with this free computer quiz.

A set of corresponding track in the all surface of a disk pack is known as-

  1. Surface
  2. Cylinder
  3. Track
  4. platter
  5. None of these

Option D
A storage device where the access time depends upon the location of the data is called

  1. Random access
  2. Serial access
  3. Sequential access
  4. Transaction access

Option B
____ of the worksheet appear vertically and are identified by letters at the top of the worksheet window.

  1. Rows
  2. Cells
  3. Columns
  4. Headings
  5. Range

Option C
Which term identifies main page of the entire site?

  1. URL
  2. Web site address
  3. Hyperlink
  4. Domain name
  5. None of these

Option A
A hexadigit can be represented by

  1. three binary (consecutive) bits
  2. four binary (consecutive) bits
  3. eight binary (consecutive) bits
  4. sixteen binary (consecutive) bits
  5. None of the above

Option B
What is the number of read-write heads in the drive for a 9-track magnetic tape?

  1. 9
  2. 16
  3. 18
  4. 27

Option A
Which of the following is normally used to initialize a computer system’s hardware?

  1. Bootstrap memory
  2. Volatile memory
  3. External mass memory
  4. Random access memory

Option D
The value of each bead in heaven is ___

  1. 1
  2. 3
  3. 5
  4. 7
  5. 8

Option C
Which language is most suited for commercial applications?

  1. Fortran
  2. Cobol
  3. Basic
  4. Prolog
  5. None of these

Option C
Which technique was introduced because a single job could not keep both the CPU and the I/O devices busy?

  1. Time-sharing
  2. Spooling
  3. Preemptive scheduling
  4. Multiprogramming
  5. Multi tasking

Option D
What digits are representative of all binary numbers?

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. both 0 and 1
  4. 3
  5. None of these

Option C
A file which has not been alerted, compressed, or manipulated in any way by the computer is called?

  1. temp file
  2. raw file
  3. permanent file
  4. distort file
  5. None of these

Option B
Which of the following represents anything written on the screen?

  1. Cursor
  2. Text
  3. Folder
  4. Boot
  5. None of these

Option B
Ethernet uses

  1. bus topology
  2. ring topology
  3. mesh topology
  4. All of these
  5. None of these

Option A
The binary equivalent of decimal number 98 is

  1. 1110001
  2. 1110100
  3. 1100010
  4. 1111001
  5. None of these

Option C
For running WINDOW minimum disk free space required is?

  1. 8 MB
  2. 10 MB
  3. 16 MB
  4. 32 MB
  5. None of these

Option A
The container that houses most of the electronic components that make up a computer system is known as the:

  1. arithmetic logic unit
  2. primary storage unit
  3. central processing unit
  4. system cabinet
  5. None of these

Option D
The category of O/S that you most likely have running on your PDA computer in a _______ O/S

  1. Real time
  2. Single user, multi – task
  3. Single user, single – task
  4. Multi- user, multi – task

Option C
Even if a disk drive fails, the computer application running and using it can continue processing. This application is said to have been designed with this feature called?

  1. 100 percent uptime
  2. Fault tolerance
  3. High reliability
  4. All of these
  5. None of the above

Option B
Which of the following converts high level language into machine language?

  1. Compiler
  2. Assembler
  3. Interpreter
  4. both A & C

Option D