Thursday, 19 July 2018

Daily Computer Affairs Quiz - 20th July 2018

Q1. Which of the following terms is associated with Internet?
(a) Plotter
(b) Slide presentation
(c) Bookmark
(d) Pie Chart
(e) Microsoft Excel

Ans.(c)

Sol. A bookmark is a saved shortcut that directs your browser to a specific webpage. It stores the title, URL, and favicon of the corresponding page.

Q2. Which of the following is the name of an application similar to MS Office?
(a) LibreOffice
(c) OpenOffice
(c) NeoOffice
(d) FreeOffice
(e) All of the above

Ans.(e)

Sol. All of the above are types of Office suite. Productivity software (sometimes called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software dedicated to producing information, such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital paintings, electronic music and digital video.

Q3. Codes consisting of varying widths and spacing of parallel lines, which may be optically read, is known as _____.
(a) mnemonic
(b) Bar code
(c) Decoder
(d) All of the above
(e) None of the above

Ans.(b)
Sol. A barcode is a machine-readable representation of data relating to the object to which it is attached.

Q4. ER Diagram in DBMS is a graphical method used to represent _________.
(a) Primary Key and Candidate key
(b) Entity classes and their relationships
(c) Entity class and relationship to foreign key only
(d) Objects and methods with functions
(e) Foreign Key and Integrity Constrains

Ans.(b)
Sol. An ER model is composed of entity types (which classify the things of interest) and specifies relationships that can exist between instances of those entity types.

Q5. What is a bootstrap?
(a) A memory device
(b) A device to support the computer
(c) An error correction technique
(d) A small initialization program to start up a computer
(e) None of the above

Ans.(d)
Sol. A bootstrap is the process of starting up a computer. It also refers to the program that initializes the operating system (OS) during start-up.

Q6. Hybrid computer used the combined feature of _________ and _________ machine.
(a) analogue, digital
(b) super, sub
(c) client, server
(d) warehouse, mining
(e) RAM, ROM

Ans.(a)
Sol. Hybrid computers are computers that exhibit features of analog computers and digital computers. The digital component normally serves as the controller and provides logical and numerical operations, while the analog component often serves as a solver of differential equations and other mathematically complex equations.

Q7. What is Linux?
(a) Input Device
(b) Operating system
(c) Storage Device
(d) Output Device
(e) Processor

Ans.(b)

Sol. Linux is a Unix-like and mostly POSIX-compliant computer operating system (OS) assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution.

Q8. Which of the following is the default page setup orientation for notes pages, outlines and handouts?
(a) Hyphenation
(b) Landscape
(c) Portrait
(d) Footer
(e) Header

Ans.(b)
Sol. Page orientation is the way in which a rectangular page is oriented for normal viewing. By default, PowerPoint slide layouts appear in landscape orientation.

Q9. Which among the following was the first graphical web browser?
(a) Mosaic
(b) WAIS
(c) CERN
(d) Gopher
(e) None of the above

Ans.(a)

Sol. The explosion in popularity of the Web was triggered by NCSA Mosaic, a graphical browser which eventually ran on several popular office and home computers. This was the first web browser aiming to bring multimedia content to non-technical users, and therefore included images and text on the same page, unlike previous browser designs, its founder was Marc Andreessen.

Q10. What is a half byte also called as?
(a) Nibble
(b) Bit
(c) Bits
(d) Data
(e) Information

Ans.(a)

Sol. A nibble is equal to 4 bits 

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