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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 PO Mains Computer Aptitude Quiz 12 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. History of Computers
  2. Computer Fundamentals
  3. Parts of a Computer System
  4. Data Processing Cycle of a Computer
  5. Computer Languages
  6. Input Devices & Output Devices
  7. Operating Systems
  8. Database Management Systems
  9. Microsoft Office
  10. Keyboard Shortcuts
  11. File Extensions
  12. Networking and Internet
  13. Computer Viruses
  14. Important Abbreviations

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1. What does the acronym PDF stand for?
    A. Portable Documentation File B. Portable Document Format C. Portable Document File D. Portable Documenting Format E. Portable Documentation Format

2. Which type of software is similar to an accountant’s worksheet?
    A. Word processing B. Database C. Spreadsheets D. Graphics E. File Manager

3. The Extension with which web documents are saved is _______.
    A. class B. .html C. .c D. .css E. None of these

4. One or more defects or problems that prevent the software from working as intended or working at all is (n)____.
    A. Bug B. Boot C. Programming language D. Fuzzy logic E. None of these

5. What kind of Protocol is used to provide Internet access from mobile?
    A. TCP/IP B. ISD C. WAP D. HTTP E. None of these

Answers and Explanations
1. Answer - Option B
Explanation -
PDF stands for "portable document format". It was introduced to ease the sharing of documents between computers and across operating system platforms when you need to save files that cannot be modified but still need to be easily shared and printed.
2. Answer - Option C
Explanation -
A spreadsheet is an interactive computer application program for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets developed as computerized simulations of paper accounting worksheets.
3. Answer - Option B
Explanation -
The most common filename extension for files containing HTML is .html. A common abbreviation of this is .htm, which originated because some file systems such asDOS and the limitations imposed by FAT data structure limited file extensions to three letters.
4. Answer - Option A
Explanation -
A software bug is an error, flaw, failure or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways.
5. Answer - Option C
Explanation -
WAP(Wireless Application Protocol) is a technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network.
1. A _______is a major database object used to display information in a printable page format
    A. form B. query C. report D. table E. None of these

2. What type of computers are client computers (most of the time) in a client-server system?
    A. mainframe B. mini-computer C. Microcomputer D. PDA E. None of these

3. Which of the following is used by the browser to connect to the location of the Internet resources?
    A. DOC B. XML C. HTML D. URL E. None of these

4. Which of the following will not protect you from spam?
    A. spam blockers B. e-mail rules C. popup blocker D. filters E. None of these

5. The physical arrangement of elements on a page is referred to as a document’s _____.
    A. features B. format C. pagination D. grid E. None of these

Answers and Explanations
1. Answer - Option C
Explanation -
Information from the database is organized in a nice presentation that can be printed in an Access Report.
2. Answer - Option A
Explanation -
Mainframe computers are client computers in a client-server system.
Note:- Mainframe computers are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning and transaction processing, etc.
3. Answer - Option D
4. Answer - Option C
Explanation -
A pop-up blocker (sometimes called a pop-up killer) is a program that prevents pop-ups from displaying in a user's Web browser.
5. Answer - Option B
Explanation -
The physical arrangement of elements on a page is referred to as a document’s format .
Note:- A document file format is a text or binary file format for storing documents on a storage media, especially for use by computers.
1. The denition of thrashing is_____.
    A. swapping data between virtual memory and RAM too frequently. B. insufficient hard disk space. C. too many processors being managed by the operating system. D. inaccurate information stored in the registry. E. None of these

2. If you selected text and click at I on the toolbar of MS Word, it makes the text ______.
    A. Italics B. Underlined C. Italics and under lined D. Bold E. None of these

3. What do you understand by the word 'U' in the word URL?
    A. Union B. University C. Universal D. Uniform E. None of these

4. Which of the following types of tables constraints will prevent the entry of duplicate rows?
    A. Primary key B. Unique C. Null D. Foreign key E. None of these

5. Which of the following search engines continuously sends out that starts on a homepage of a server and pursue all links stepwise?
    A. Spiders B. Packets C. Cookies D. asPaddle E. None of these

Answers and Explanations
1. Answer - Option A
Explanation -
In computer science, thrashing occurs when a computer's virtual memory subsystem is in a constant state of paging, rapidly exchanging data in memory for data on disk, to the exclusion of most application-level processing. This causes the performance of the computer to degrade or collapse.
2. Answer - Option A
Explanation -
To make selected text italic, select and highlight the text first. Then hold down Ctrl (the control key) on the keyboard and then press the I on the keyboard, it makes the text Italic.
3. Answer - Option D
Explanation -
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
4. Answer - Option A
Explanation -
In the relational model of databases, a primary key is a specific choice of a minimal set of attributes (columns) that uniquely specify a tuple (row) in a relation (table).
5. Answer - Option A
Explanation -
A programme that automatically fetches Web pages. Spiders are used to feed pages to search engines. It’s called a spider because it crawls over the Web another term for these programmes is Web Crawler.

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