Application Gk interview questions

A help system in an application program is used to

1. Display explanatory information
2. Display menus to prompt the users with choices of available commands
3. Make it easy to switch from one mode to another
4. All of these

In text editor and graphic editors, moving text or graphics from one place to another as then a document is called

1. Cut and paste
2. Search and replace
3. Explicit
4. Clip art

Which approach is more likely to be successful in applications that process very high volumes of data?

1. Prototyping with fourth generation language
2. Total system development with a fourth generation language
3. Structured development
4. Traditional development

What is the name given to the last line or a paragraph which is printed at the top of a page?

1. Page break
2. Widow
3. Orphan
4. Header

Booting the computer means

1. Loading resident part of the operating system into memory
2. Turning the computer on
3. Logging in
4. Both (a) and (b)

A visual interface

1. does not allow users to take short cuts
2. is similar to doing traditional computer programming
3. is easy for programmers to create
4. all of these

In broadest sense, the computer graphics is concerned with

1. Painting
2. Animation
3. Modeling
4. Images

In a field window system

1. to open a window, you must cut an existing window in two
2. to resize a window, you move its lower right corner
3. windows are allowed to overlap
4. al of these

What is the name of the arrangement whereby served central processing units share one memory?

1. Multiprocessing
2. Multiprogramming
3. Multitasking
4. All of these

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the conventional process of developing application system?

1. Minimized maintenance of application software
2. Increasing labour cost for programming and system analysis
3. Slow implementation of system change
4. Very long time span of development

For which of the following computer application is real time processing is not essential?

1. Patient record
2. Traffic control
3. Intensive care monitoring
4. Guided missile control

Over the last thirty years, software labour cost have _______and hardware costs have _______.

1. Increased/stayed approximately the same
2. Decreased/stayed approximately the same
3. Increased/decreased
4. Decreased/decreased

Pre specified computing is most appropriate for

1. Operating system software
2. Information system
3. Decision support systems
4. Administrative procedures

A free-form window can be

1. Resized
2. Opened
3. Moved
4. All of these

What is the name given to a program which is promised by a publisher but is never released?

1. Mind ware
2. Software
3. Share ware
4. Vapor ware

Which of these applications must be real time?

1. flood warning systems
2. calculating gas bills
3. checking exam marks
4. none of these

When users do not know in detail what they want until they use a version of it, the type of computing is

1. Pre specified
2. Structured
3. User driven
4. Prospective

What type of magnetic material is normally used in bubble memories?

1. Metallic
2. Garnet
3. Magnetic core
4. Cobalt

Who built the world’s first electronic calculator using telephone relays, light bulbs and batteries?

1. George Stibits
2. Konard Zuse
3. Claude Shannon
4. None of the above

What is the name of the chip which has more than once processor on it?

1. Transputer
2. Parallel processor
3. Multi-processor chip
4. Parallel chip

The file manager is responsible for

1. Deleting files
2. Saving files
3. Naming files
4. All of these

Vertical market application programs include

1. Farm management programs
2. Database management system
3. Home finance program
4. All of these

A commercial application program normally includes

1. Program disks
2. Tutorial
3. Documentation
4. All of these

Statistical analysis packages have much in common with

1. Presentation packages
2. Spreadsheet packages
3. Design packages
4. Paint packages

What is the purpose of using reverse video feature in menu driven programs?

1. To enhance contrast
2. To make it user friendly
3. To improve visibility
4. To highlight a menu prompt

The normal speed of the motor in revolution per minute (rpm) used for a floppy diskette drive is

1. 200-300
2. 300-360
3. 300-900
4. 1000-1200

To be information, data must be

1. Relevant
2. Factual
3. News
4. All of these

Your computer’s ROM is used to contain

1. Software that can only be read
2. Permanent information
3. Manufacture specific software
4. All of the above

In negative logic, the logic state 1 corresponds to

1. Lower voltage level
2. More negative voltage
3. Zero voltage
4. Negative voltage

What is the alternative name for application software?

1. End-user software
2. Utility software
3. Specific software
4. All of these