Basic Quiz interview questions – page 2

Program promised by publisher but never released _____

1. Mind ware
2. Software
3. Shareware
4. Vaporware

Daisy wheel printer is _____

1. Impact printer
2. Character printer
3. A letter-quality printer that uses a printing head with the appearance of daisy and/or a wheel
4. All the above

The following is not an operating system ______

1. MS OFFICE
2. Window XP
3. LINUX
4. UNIX

A computer programmer is a person who _____

1. sells program
2. use programs
3. writes programs
4. none of these

The following is computer software ____

1. OCR
2. Payroll package
3. Console
4. Impact printer

Mouse has a use in _____

1. Applications as input device
2. Graphical User Interface (GUI)
3. Both (a) and (b)
4. None of these

CUI stands for

1. Chrome User Interface
2. Character User Interface
3. Character Unique Interchange
4. Character Using Interface

Following is not a non-impact printer _____

1. Dot-matrix printer
2. Laser printer
3. Ink jet printer
4. Thermal printer

PL/1 ( Programming Language One) is _____

1. Assembly language
2. Machine language
3. Low level programming language
4. High level programming language

Devices converts digital signals to Sine waves at the sending end and back to digital signals at the receiving end is called _____

1. Telephone
2. Modem
3. Mobile phone
4. None of these

Here a character to be printed is made up of a finite number of dots name the printer _____

1. Laser printer
2. Ink jet printers
3. Dot matrix printers
4. None of these

Direct-Access Storage Device is also referred as _____

1. DASD
2. DRDO
3. DISD
4. None of these

The processing of input to output is directed by ____

1. Software
2. Hardware
3. Printer
4. None of these

A number system with a base of 8 is referred as _____

1. Octal
2. Decimal
3. Binary
4. None of these

The alternative name for application software is _____

1. Practical software
2. End-user software
3. Specific software
4. Utility software

A system software package that converts a high-level language program to machine language is known as ____

1. AmiPro
2. Collate
3. Compiler
4. Comment

The following is not applications software ____

1. Window XP
2. Desktop publishing
3. Spreadsheet
4. Word processing

One can input data through _____

1. CPU
2. Printer
3. Keyboard
4. All the above

Assembly language ___

1. Need not be translated into machine language
2. Uses alphabetic codes in place of binary numbers used in machine language
3. Is the easiest language to write program
4. None of these

Printed or filmed output from a computer device in human readable form is called ____

1. Software
2. Hardware
3. Soft copy
4. Hard copy

Which of the following describe one or more characteristics of a modern computer?

1. A electro- mechanical device
2. A mechanical device
3. An electronic device
4. None of these

Since input and output devices are on the edge of the main processing therefore they are referred as _____

1. Personal devices
2. Peripheral devices
3. Processing devices
4. None of these

Software is _____

1. Peripheral
2. Equipment
3. Computer program
4. None of these

The computer is _____

1. Mechanical device
2. Not a data processor
3. A data processor
4. None of these

Device used to store the programs and data is _____

1. Memory Unit
2. Control Unit
3. Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU)
4. None of these

The ____ is a non impact printer that can produce very high quality, letter-perfect printing.

1. laser printer
2. dot-matrix printer
3. daisy-wheel printer
4. electrostatic printer

Following converts high-level language instructions into machine language _____

1. Application software
2. System software
3. Interpreter
4. Operating environment

Software should be recommended to use if one often need to create, edit, and print document _____

1. Internet explorer
2. Unix
3. Spreadsheet
4. Word processing

The unit of computer system that supplies information and results after processing is called ____

1. Input unit
2. Output unit
3. Processing unit
4. All the above

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) is an _____

1. Processing device
2. Input device
3. Output device
4. None of these