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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 17 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 is the package called which helps create manipulate and analyse data arranged in rows and columns?
    A. Application package B. Word processing package C. Outlining package D. Outline processors E. Spreadsheet package

2. In most WANs, the network contains numerous cables of telephone lines, each one connecting a pair of ____.
    A. Packet B. Star topology C. Router D. Antennas E. None of these

3. A type of device used to connect a central processor and peripherals which uses multiplying is known as _____.
    A. Modem B. Network C. Multiplexer D. All of these E. None of these

4. ________is a power saving state designed primarily for laptops. It saves your open documents and programs to your hard disk and turns off our computer.
    A. Sleep B. Hibernate C. Suitcase D. Snooze E. None of these

5. On color monitor each pixel is composed of _____.
    A. A two mini dots B. five mini dots C. six mini dots D. three mini dots E. None of these

Answers and Explanations
1. Answer - Option E
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. The program operates on data represented as cells of an array, organized in rows and columns.
2. Answer - Option C
Explanation -
WAN spans a large geographical area. Often a country or continent. The host are connected by a communication subnet. This subnet consists of 2 distinct components : Transmission lines and switching elements. So.it WAN’s the network numerous cables of telephone lines. Each one connecting a pair of routers if two routers that do not share a cable nevertheless with to communicate they must do this indirectly.
3. Answer - Option C
Explanation -
In electronics, a multiplexer (or mux) is a device that selects one of several analog or digital input signals and forwards the selected input into a single line. A multiplexer of 2n inputs has n select lines, which are used to select which input line to send to the output.
4. Answer - Option B
Explanation -
Hibernation is a power-saving state designed primarily for laptops.While sleep puts your work and settings in memory and draws a small amount of power, hibernation puts your open documents and programs on your hard disk and then turns off your computer.
5. Answer - Option D
Explanation -
On color monitors, each pixel is actually composed of three dots a red, a blue and a green one.
1. Block caches or buffer caches are used____.
    A. A To improve disk performance B. To handle interrupt C. To increase the capacity of the main memory D. To speed up main memory read operation E. None of these

2. In order to avoid memorizing e-mail address, you should use ____.
    A. Browser B. Search engine C. List of Birth date D. Phonebook E. Address book

3. ERP is an acronym for _____.
    A. Enterprise Retirement Planning B. Enterprise Relationship Planning C. Enterprise Resource Planning D. Enterprise Reorder Planning E. Enterprise Retention Planning

4. Switch is a network device whose responsibility is to_______.
    A. Protect from virus attack B. turn of the power to network C. Connect Network devices D. Boot the network E. None of these

5. A special, high-speed storage area within the CPU in which all data must be represented before it can be processed is called _____.
    A. BIOS B. Cache C. RAM D. Register E. None of these

Answers and Explanations
1. Answer - Option C
Explanation -
By reading the information from disk only once and then keeping it in memory until no longer needed, one can speed up all but the first read. This is called disk buffering, and the memory used for the purpose is called the buffer cache.
2. Answer - Option E
Explanation -
In order to avoid memorizing e-mail address, you should use Address book.
An address book is a database that stores names, addresses and other contact information for a computer user.
Address books allow easy access to the user's friends, family, business associates and others by maintaining their email and other contact details on their computer.
3. Answer - Option C
Explanation -
ERP is an acronym for ‘Enterprise Resource Planning’.
Note: Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business management software typically a suite of integrated applications that a company can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities, including, Product planning, cost. Manufacturing or service delivery. Marketing and sales.
4. Answer - Option C
Explanation -
A network switch is a computer networking device that connects devices together on a computer network, by using packet switching to receive, process and forward data to the destination device.
5. Answer - Option D
Explanation -
Register is a special high-speed storage area within the CPU where all data must be represented before it can be processed.
Note: For example, if two numbers are to be multiplied, both numbers must be in registers, and the result is also placed in a register.
1. Which device consists of electronic circuits that interpret and execute program instructions?
    A. Central processing unit B. Input C. Output D. Pointer E. None of these

2. ____________ are specially designed computers that perform complex calculations extremely rapidly
    A. Servers B. Supercomputers C. Laptops D. Mainframes E. None of these

3. Which protocol does Ping use?
    A. TCP B. ARP C. ICMP D. BootP E. None of these

4. ________ is a measure of how much the strength of the signal is reduced in passing through a medium.
    A. Frequency B. Bandwidth C. Attenuation D. Amplification E. None of these

5. A computer on a network that access resources provided by another computer called _____.
    A. A Server B. A computer C. A Brewers D. A Beta test and Beker call E. None of these

Answers and Explanations
1. Answer - Option A
Explanation -
The central processing unit consists of electronic circuits that interpret and execute program instructions, as well as communicate with the input, output, and storage devices.
2. Answer - Option B
Explanation -
A supercomputer is a computer with a high-level computational capacity compared to a general-purpose computer. Performance of a supercomputer is measured in floating point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS).
3. Answer - Option C
Explanation -
ICMP is the protocol at the Network layer that is used to send echo requests and replies.
4. Answer - Option C
Explanation -
Attenuation is a general term that refers to any reduction in the strength of a signal. Attenuation occurs with any type of signal, whether digital or analog.
5. Answer - Option A
Explanation -
A server is both a running instance of some software that is capable of accepting requests from clients, and the computer that executes such software.
Note:- Servers operate within a client-server architecture, in which "servers" are computer programs running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients"

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