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 RRB Clerk Computer Awareness Quiz 18 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 Motherboard form factor uses one 20 pin connector
A. ATX
B. AT
C. BABY AT
D. All of the above
Answer: Option A
2. A hard disk is divided into tracks which are further subdivided into:
A. clusters
B. sectors
C. vectors
D. heads
Answer: Option B
3. A wrist grounding strap contains which of the following:
A. Surge protector
B. Capacitor
C. Voltmeter
D. Resistor
Answer: Option D
4. Which standard govern parallel communications?
A. RS232
B. RS-232a
C. CAT 5
D. IEEE 1284
Answer: Option D
5. In laser printer technology, what happens during the conditioning stage?
A. The corona wire places a uniform positive charge on the paper
B. A uniform negative charge is placed on the photosensitive drum
C. A uniform negative charge is placed on the toner
D. All of the above
1. A workstation has just been installed on an Ethernet LAN, but cannot communicate with the network. What should you check first?
A. reinstall the network protocols
B. reinstall the network interface card driver
C. verify the ip configuration on the workstation
D. verify the link status on the computer's network card
Answer: Option D
2. One of the major components of a PC is the Central Processing Unit (CPU) which can be best described as:
A. The device that sends the monitor signals telling it what to display
B. The area that regulates all of the system power usage
C. The area where ail the of the Basic input/output routines are stored
D. The area where all of the processing takes place
Answer: Option D
3. What is the i/o address for com2?
A. 2vb
B. 2f8
C. 8f8
D. 330
Answer: Option B
4. The floppy drive uses which DMA (direct memory access) channel?
A. 5
B. 4
C. 1
D. 2
Answer: Option D
5. The DC voltage on most circuit boards is: