What is Computer Awareness?
Computer Awareness, also known as Computer Aptitude is one of the prominent sections in various recruitment related competitive exams in India. IBPS Clerk Computer Viruses Quiz 3 lists some of the important questions for the preparation of Computer Awareness module. The most significant topics to be learnt for Computer Awareness module are as follows:
1. Which of the following is a type of program that either pretends to have, or is described as having, a set of useful or desirable features but actually contains damaging code.
A. Cracker
B. Worm
C. Trojan horses
D. Adware
Answer: Option A
2. Which of the following is the type of software that has self-replicating software that causes damage to files and systems?
A. Viruses
B. Trojan horses
C. Bots
D. Worms
Answer: Option D
3. Which of the following is a program capable of continually replicating with little or no user intervention?
A. Virus
B. Trojan horses
C. Rootkit
D. Worms
Answer: Option A
4. What is the software called that’s designed to exploit a computer user and is a broad term covering computer viruses, worms, Trojan, adware, etc.?
A. Backdoors
B. Key-logger
C. Malware
D. Bots
Answer: Option C
5. The attack that focuses on capturing small packets from the network transmitted by other computers and reading the data content in search of any type of information is ____
1. _________ is the action of recording the keys struck on a keyboard, typically covertly, so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored.
A. Denial of service
B. Exploits
C. Scams
D Keylogging
Answer: Option D
2. _______ is the part of malware such as worms or viruses which performs the malicious action; deleting data, sending spam or encrypting data.
A. Denial of service
B. Exploits
C. Scams
D. Payload
Answer: Option D
3. Boot sector viruses are also called:
A. Partition table viruses
B. File infecting viruses
C. Disk infecting viruses
D. All of the above
Answer: Option A
4. Which of the following is type of boot sector virus:
A. Junkee Disk Killer
B. Nemesis
C. Friday the 13th
D. Enigma
Answer: Option A
5. Computer virus is:
A. Computer program
B. Micro organism
C. Macro organism
D. All of the above