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Answer Monitor
An input device is one which is used to pass on information to the computer. Of the choices given above,
the monitor is used to receive information from the computer. Hence it is an output device.
Ο Speakers
Ο Keyboard
Answer
Answer Keyboard
An output device is one which is used to receive information coming from the computer whereas an input
device is one which is used to pass on information. The keyboard is an input device.
7. Which device allows your computer to talk to other computers over a telephone line as well as access
the internet?
Ο Modem
Ο RAM
Ο CD-ROM drive
Ο Hard Drive
Answer
Answer Modem
Modem Stands for Modulator Demodulator. It is used to dial up your ISP and get you connected to the
net.
9. Which of the following is an operating system you would be using on the computer?
Ο Internet Explorer
Ο Netscape
Ο Microsoft Word
Ο Microsoft Windows
Answer
Answer Microsoft Windows
Windows is one of the most popular Operating Systems. Nowadays a number of Operating Systems are
available. Some of the good ones are Linux, BSD, BeOS, MacOS etc.
14. Physical components that make up your computer are known as:
Ο Software
Ο Operating Systems
Ο Web Browsers
Ο Hardware
Answer
Answer Hardware
The most common hardware components are Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, CPU etc.
15. Which of the following companies is famous for manufacturing computer processors?
Ο Intel
Ο Sony
Ο Macromedia
Ο Corel
Answer
Answer Intel
Most people these days use a Pentium 4, Pentium III or a Pentium II processor. Another company that
makes processors is AMD.
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16. Which of the following will you require to hear music on your computer?
Ο Video Card
Ο Sound Card
Ο Mouse
Ο Joy Stick
Answer
Answer Sound Card
A sound card is used to generate sound and provides audio output to external devices like speakers and
headphones.
Test your knowledge of last year's computer events with my annual computer triva quiz. All answers at
the end.
1. Some Microsoft officials are concerned about the growing popularity of Linux because:
2. The first version of Intel's Celeron processor, introduced last spring, wasn't as popular as
expected because:
3. Microsoft would like to put Sun Microsystems' Jini back in the bottle because:
4. According to a Microsoft VP, last summer's launch of Windows 98 was lower-key than the
introduction of Window 95 three years ago because:
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a) It might antagonize the U.S. Justice Department.
b) Tonight Show host Jay Leno demanded too much money to preside over the software launch.
c) It didn't deserve the same kind of incredible euphoric celebration.
d) There were insufficient funds in the marketing budget.
5. The Recording Industry Association of America announced a plan to let music lovers download
hits from the Internet by Christmas 1999 because:
a) It doesn't like the popular MP3 format for compressed digital audio.
b) It plans to phase out music CDs over the next year.
c) The plan will eliminate high packaging costs and allow songs to be sold for 10 cents apiece.
d) It fears competition from Microsoft's WinMusic 2000.
6. Palm III is the current top-of-the-line handheld organizer from 3Com, but the company recently
announced a new wireless model available in 1999 named:
a) Palm IV
b) Palm VII
c) Razor
d) Palm Trek 9: Insurrection.
7. Sun Microsystems' Java programming language was first used in a device that:
Answers
1. b).
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2. a).
3. d).
4. c).
5. a).
6. b).
7. b).
8. d).
9. c).
10. c).
Answer: CD
Answer: MD
3) What is the DOS command to display all the contents of a directory in wide fashion across
the screen?
Answer: dir /w
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Answer: File Manager
4A) Write a sentence that describes the function(s) of the program shown above.
Answer: Copy, move, delete, search for a file, open, view the programs and files on the hard
drive.
5) Where is data stored temporarily on the computer so the hard drive does less work?
Answer: In RAM
6) What is the DOS command to copy filename.txt from the hard drive's directory called
"departments" to a floppy disk and keep the file name the same?
7) What type of Pentium processor is made to handle multi-media files such as sound and
video?
9) What is HTML?
Answer: Pentium 90
14) What is the clock speed of the fastest Pentium II on the market today?
15) What is the industry standard for the average new system in terms about amount of RAM
it should have?
Answer: 32 MB or 64 MB
17) What is the term used for the small squares (icons) seen on this graphic?
Answer: C:\netscape
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Extra Credit) With which program is the user getting the file?
Answer: Netscape
Question 1: One of the components of a computer is its CPU. What is a CPU and what role does
it play in a computer?
Answer: The CPU, or Central Processing Unit, is the active part of the computer. Its function
is to execute programs that are coded in machine language and stored in the main
memory (RAM) of the computer. It does this by repeating the fetch-and-execute
cycle over and over; that is, it repeatedly fetches a machine language instruction
from memory and executes it.
Answer: An asynchronous event is one that occurs at an unpredictable time outside the control
of the program that the CPU is running. It is not "synchronized" with the program.
An example would be when the user presses a key on the keyboard or clicks the
mouse button. (These events generate "interrupts" that cause the CPU to interrupt
what it is doing and to take some action to handle the asynchronous event. After
handling the event, the CPU returns to what it was doing before it was interrupted.)
Answer: Compilers and interpreters have similar functions: They take a program written in
some programming language and translate it into machine language. A compiler
does the translation all at once. It produces a complete machine language program
that can then be executed. An interpreter, on the other hand, just translates one
instruction at a time, and then executes that instruction immediately. (Java uses a
compiler to translate java programs into Java Bytecode, which is a machine language
for the imaginary Java Virtual Machine. Java Bytecode programs are then executed
by an interpreter.)
Question 4: Explain the difference between high-level languages and machine language.
Answer: Programs written in the machine language of a given type of computer can be
directly executed by the CPU of that type of computer. High-level language
programs must be translated into machine language before they can be executed.
(Machine language instructions are encoded as binary numbers that are meant to be
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used by a machine, not read or written by people. High-level languages use a syntax
that is closer to human language.)
Question 5: If you have the source code for a Java program, and you want to run that program,
you will need both a compiler and an interpreter. What does the Java compiler do,
and what does the Java interpreter do?
Answer: The Java compiler translates Java programs into a language called Java bytecode.
Although bytecode is similar to machine language, it is not the machine language of
any actual computer. A Java interpreter is used to run the compiled Java bytecode
program. (Each type of computer needs its own Java bytecode interpreter, but all
these interpreters interpret the same bytecode language.)
Answer: A subroutine is a set of instructions for performing some task that have been grouped
together and given a name. Later, when that task needs to be performed, it is only
necessary to call the subroutine by giving its name, rather than repeating the whole
sequence of instructions.
Answer: An object consists of some data together with a set of subroutines that manipulate
that data. (An object is a kind of "module," or self-contained entity that
communicates with the rest of the world through a well-defined interface. An object
should represent some coherent concept or real-world object.)
Question 8: What is a variable? (There are four different ideas associated with variables in Java.
Try to mention all four aspects in your answer. Hint: One of the aspects is the
variable's name.)
Answer: A variable is a memory location that has been given a name so that it can easily be
referred to in a program. The variable holds a value, which must be of some
specified type. The value can be changed during the course of the execution of the
program.
Answer: A Java program can be compiled once into a Java Bytecode program. The compiled
program can then be run on any computer that has an interpreter for the Java virtual
machine. Other languages have to be re-compiled for each platform on which they
are going to run. The point about Java is that it can be executed on many different
types of computers without being recompiled.
Question 10: What is the "Internet"? Give some examples of how it is used. (What kind of services
does it provide?)
Answer: The Internet is a network connecting millions of computers around the world.
Computers connected to the Internet can communicate with each other. The Internet
can be used for Email (which lets a user of one computer send a message to a user on
another computer), file sharing (which is used to copy files between computers), and
the World Wide Web (which lets a user view "pages" of information published on
computers around the world).
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International Business Machines Corporation, the largest computer company in the world,
2. Name the device that is the "brain" of a computer system: CD-ROM, CPU, WWW, or
DNA?
The CPU, or Central Processing Unit, is the brain of the computer and its most important chip.
The computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Institute in
1963: "It was nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end."
HTML stands for "Hyper Text Mark-up Language" (which is used to create documents on the
6. What do you call a computer virus that spreads itself automatically through e-mail:
A worm.
7. What is the name of the 1997 breakthrough album by the alternative rock band
Radiohead?
OK Computer
8. In "2001: A Space Odyssey" (both the novel written by Arthur C. Clarke and the
film directed by Stanley Kubrick), what was the name of the computer aboard the
The HAL-9000, or "HAL" for short (standing for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic
computer). The computer originally was named Athena and was intended to have a female
voice.
9. What is the best-selling apple in the northeastern United States and in Canada?
The McIntosh apple, named after John McIntosh (a farmer in Dundela, Ontario, Canada), was
introduced in the 1800s. Jef Raskin of Apple Computers, who is often credited with coining the
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term "Apple Macintosh", spelled it wrong or purposefully (possibly to avoid a legal dispute with
electronic mail
the print out from a fax machine
a letter printed from a computer
all of the above
none of the above
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• KB, MB, GB, is respectively:
Kilo Bites Mega Bites Giga Bites
• A set of 8 bits is called:
Bite
• A set of 4 bit is called:
Nibble
• HDD and FDD are respectively:
Hard Disk Drive, Floppy Disk Drive
• Winchester drive is also called:
Hard disk Drive
• The center processing unit of a computer consist 3 units namely:
Arithmetic Logic Unit, Control Unit, Memory Unit
• A program written using binary codes is called:
Machine language
• The computer which has incorporated the characters of analog and
digital computers is:
Hybrid computers
• The medium is used by input dives light pen for graphical input is:
CRT screen
• SMPS stands for:
Switch Mode Power Supply
• UPS stands for:
Uninterrupted Power Supply
• The translator program that translates each line of the source program
as it run is called:
Interpreter
• The pictorial representation of the procedure proposed to solve a
problem by a program:
Flow chart
• ANCII stands for:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• ANSI stands for:
American National Standard Institute
• EBCDIC is the acronym for:
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
• ERP packages are:
Enterprise Resource Planning Package
• Example for ERP packages:
SAP, BAN etc..
• Write office automation package of Microsoft:
Ms Office
• The time gap during the failure of a computer system is also called
Down Time
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