Computers - General Knowledge Questions

1 .

A removable magnetic disc that holds information

Floppy disk

Hard drive

Monitor

None of the above

Correct Answer : Floppy disk

A removable magnetic disc that holds information Floppy disk.

2 .

A joystick is primarily used to / for

draw pictures

computer gaming

print text

control sound on the screen

Correct Answer : computer gaming

Joysticks are primarily used for computer gaming. ... These are input devices that are connected to a computer to manage game controls such as moving front, behind and sideways, shooting or other gaming tasks.

3 .

Which is not an item of hardware ?

A keyboard

A mouse

Both (a) & (b)

An MP3 file

Correct Answer : An MP3 file

4 .

Soft copy refers to______

screen output

music sounds

digitizing

printed output

Correct Answer : screen output

A soft copy is a digital reproduction of a physical document. For example, if you scanned a tax form into your computer, you would be creating a soft copy of it. The most common method of displaying a soft copy uses a computer monitor or another display, such as a smartphone screen.

5 .

Powerful keys that let you exit a program when pushed___

Spacebar

Arrow key

Escape key

Return key

Correct Answer : Escape key

6 .

The computer monitor is ......device.

Output

Input

Software

Scanning

Correct Answer : Output

A computer monitor is an output device that displays information in pictorial form. A monitor usually comprises the visual display, circuitry, casing, and power supply.

* Present we are the using monitors are LCD(Liquid Crystal Display), LED(Light Emitting Diode), O-LED(Organic Light Emitting Diode) monitors.

* Previous monitors used a cathode ray tube (CRT) and some Plasma (also called Gas-Plasma) displays.

7 .

The .......may also be called the screen or monitor

Software

Display

Hard disk

Printer

Correct Answer : Display

8 .

Trackball is an example of a/an

programming device

software device

output device

pointing device

Correct Answer : pointing device

* It is a pointing device consisting of a ball.

* The user rolls the ball with the thumb, fingers, or the palm of the hand to move a pointer.

* A Trackball is a small ball that is set in a holder and can be rotated by hand to move a cursor on a computer screen.

9 .

You can use the Tab key to the

Indent a paragraph

move a cursor across the screen

move the cursor down the screen

None of the above

Correct Answer : Indent a paragraph

In word processing, the word indent is used to describe the distance, or number of blank spaces used to separate a paragraph from the left or right margins.

A tab is an indentation at the beginning of a line of text to signify a new paragraph in a document or to help create equal spacing between multiple lines. When formatting marks are visible, tabs are represented by an arrow, as shown in the example picture to the right.

10 .

_____ports provide slow speed data transmission.

USB

Parallel

Serial

External

Correct Answer : Serial

Serial Port is used for serial data transmission. Transmission speed of a serial port is slow as compared to a parallel port.