Computer Awareness Fundamentals

Test your knowledge of essential computer concepts including hardware, software types, office productivity tools (Excel and Word), networking basics, and internet technologies

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is a diskette?

  1. A low cost, thin flexible magnetic storage device
  2. Floppy disk
  3. Primary storage device
  4. High volume storage device
  5. Both 1 and 2
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is used to create special effect with text?

  1. Word art
  2. Text box
  3. Text art
  4. Smart art
  5. Shapes art
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Every computer connected to an intranet or extranet must have a distinct_____.

  1. proxy server
  2. firewall
  3. IP address
  4. domain name
  5. none of these
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A client connects to which of the following devices for requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resources available from a different server?

  1. Bus
  2. Proxy server
  3. IP address
  4. Browser
  5. None of the above
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In excel, which of the following shortcut options enters the current date?

  1. Ctrl + ;
  2. Shift + F3
  3. Ctrl + k
  4. Ctrl + p
  5. Ctrl + Tab
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What does the shortcut key Ctrl + shift + L does in the word?

  1. Creates a bullet point
  2. Inserts link
  3. Undo the last content
  4. Opens the print dialogue box
  5. Saves the current document
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following comes under utility software category?

  1. Anti-virus
  2. Archivers
  3. Data compression
  4. Disk checkers
  5. All of the above options are true
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following softwares helps to analyze, configure, optimize and maintain the computer?

  1. System software
  2. Device drives
  3. Utility software
  4. GUI
  5. Both 1 and 2
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

IP addresses are______.

  1. binary numbers
  2. bytes
  3. files
  4. fields
  5. records
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a proxy type?

  1. Forward proxies
  2. Open proxies
  3. Reverse proxies
  4. Performance enhancing proxies
  5. Filtering proxy
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

172.16.254.2 is which type of IP address?

  1. IPv4
  2. Ipv6
  3. Ipv3
  4. IPv2
  5. None of the above
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How many rows are there in an excel sheet?

  1. 265
  2. 64436
  3. 256
  4. 65536
  5. 67736
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the purpose of a proxy server?

  1. To provide log/audit usage
  2. To speed up access to resources
  3. To prevent downloading the same content multiple times
  4. To scan transmitted content for malware before delivery
  5. All of the above
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following proxy servers takes DNS queries from a (usually local) network and forwards them to an Internet Domain Name Server?

  1. Open proxy server
  2. Reverse proxy
  3. DNS
  4. Performance enhancing proxy
  5. None of the above
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Softwares, such as Explorer and Firefox, are referred to as______.

  1. system softwares
  2. browsers
  3. utility softwares
  4. internet tools
  5. both 2 and 4