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Q.1
Which icon would you access in the printer window to install a printer drive?
Add printer wizard
Setup
Install
None of above
Q.2
Which of the following is the allocation method of a disk space?
Contiguous allocation
Linked allocation
Indexed allocation
All of the Above
Q.3
You can set the width taskbar area and different components in it
By right click and set width menu
If the taskbar is not yet locked
If the applications are not opened
If other toolbars are not enabled
Q.4
When you cut or copy the text or picture, it stores temporarily in the
File
Clipboard
Icon
All of above
Q.5
A tiny dot of light on the monitor is called
Silicon chip
Optical illusion
Icon
Pixel
Q.6
Who is called a supervisor of computer activity?
Memory
Operating System
I / O Devices
Control Unit
Q.7
Operating System manages
Memory
Processor
I / O devices
All of the above
Q.8
When we double click on my computer
Show the content of your saved files
Show the list of your computer drive
List of deleted files and folders
All of the above
Q.9
Which of the following is the part of the operating system?
Cell
FAT
Kernel
Disk
Q.10
To send email, we use
MS Excel
Outlook Explorer
HTML
Netscape Navigator
Q.11
Which of the following concept is best to preventing page faults?
Paging
The working set
Hit ratios
Address location resolution
Q.12
Directory is similar to ......
File
Folder
Item
None of above
Q.13
Sleep is a good mode to use because
It saves power which in true is saving money
It makes computer fresh after it wakes up
It consumes low battery when you start it again
All of above
Q.14
The Primary job of the operating system is
Manage Commands
Manage Users
Manage Programs
Manage Resources
Q.15
Which of the following is not an operating system?
Windows 2000
Linux
Mac OS
Notepad
Q.16
Scandisk analyze and repair damage to which of the following?
Physical clusters
FAT
Lost clusters
All of the above
Q.17
What hole will allocates in "Worst-Fit" algorithm of memory management?
It allocates the smaller hole than required memory hole
It allocates the smallest hole from the available memory holes
It allocates the largest hole from the available memory holes
It allocates the exact same size memory hole
Q.18
Find can be used to
Locate a program
Locate a document
Locate a network computer
All of above
Q.19
...... is a new windows feature that offers a number of methods for searching for a file or folder?
Find
Search
Locate
All of the above
Q.20
A bar that inform you the available options in your computer, opened applications, background running applications and can be used to switch between applications quickly is
Menu bar
Tool bar
Status bar
Task bar
Q.21
Taskbar is used for
Navigation program
Switching between program
Start a program
All of above
Q.22
To install the new font in window XP
Start -> setting -> control panel -> font
Start -> setting -> control panel -> font -> install new font
Start -> control panel -> font -> install new font
Start -> setting -> font
Q.23
When a peripheral device needs immediate attention from the operating system, it generates a(n)
Interrupt
Spool
Stack
Page file
Q.24
If you hard disk is partitioned into 3 drives, the number of recycle bin for that hard disk is
1
2
3
4
Q.25
The date and time displays on
Taskbar
Status bar
System tray
Launch pad
Q.26
...... runs on a computer hardware and serves as a platform for other system to run on
Operating system
Application system
System software
All of above
Q.27
Which runs on computer hardware and serve as platform for other software to run on?
Operating System
Application Software
System Software
All
Q.28
Which is the first program run on a computer when the computer boots up?
System software
Operating system
System operations
None
Q.29
Recently deleted files are stored in
Recycle bin
Desktop
Taskbar
My computer
Q.30
Which components appear in the initial Windows start up display?
Dialog boxes
Start menu
Taskbar
All of above
Q.31
A small part of taskbar that has icons of background running applications is
Start button
Quick launch
Task bar
System tray
Q.32
An operating system version designed for use with a media center PC is Microsoft Windows XP
Home edition
Media center edition
Tablet PC edition
None of above
Q.33
An operating system version designed for use with a tablet PC is Microsoft Windows XP
Home edition
Media center edition
Tablet PC edition
None of the above
Q.34
Whenever you move a directory from one location to another
All files inside the directory are moved
All the subdirectory inside that directory are moved
The directory is moved the source file is not moved
Both A and B
Q.35
The Basic Input Output System (BIOS) resides in
RAM
ROM
The CPU
Memory Cache
Q.36
Which of the following does not occur during the power-on-self-test (POST)?
The scan disk utility begins to run
The video card and video memory are tested
The BIOS identification process occurs
Memory chip are checked to ensure that they are working properly
Q.37
The maximum size of a write file is limited to only
Name of the file
Extension of the file
The amount of memory in your computer
All of above
Q.38
Which of the following operating system reads and reacts in actual time?
Quick Response System
Real Time System
Time Sharing System
Batch Processing System
Q.39
All of the following are TRUE regarding virtual memory EXCEPT
Any amount of RAM can be allocated to virtual memory
The setting for the amount of hard disk drive space to allocate virtual memory can be manually change
This temporary storage is called the swap file or page file
Virtual memory is the physical space o the hard drive
Q.40
The essential difference between an operating system like Linux and one like Windows is that
Windows can run with an Intel processor, whereas Linux cannot
Linux is a proprietary whereas Windows is not
There are multiple versions of Linux, but only one version of Windows
Any programmer can modify Linux code which is not permitted with Windows
Q.41
What is dispatch latency?
The time taken by the dispatcher to stop one process and start another
The time taken by the processor to write a file into disk
The whole time taken by all processor
None of Above
Q.42
A page fault occurs when
the Deadlock happens
the Segmentation starts
the page is found in the memory
the page is not found in the memory
Q.43
Once text has been cut to the clipboard, you can ...... that text into another document
Paste
Copy
Transfer
None of the above
Q.44
What is the function of radio button?
To select multiple option
To select single option
To select all option
All of above
Q.45
The Banker's algorithm is used
to rectify deadlock
to detect deadlock
to prevent deadlock
to solve deadlock
Q.46
The primary purpose of an operating system is:
To make the most efficient use of the computer hardware
To allow people to use the computer
To keep systems programmers employed
To make computers easier to use
Q.47
You can use print manage window
To check status of files in the print queue
To cancel the print job
To interrupt printing
All of the above
Q.48
The ....... is the drive containing the files to be copied
Source drive
Destination drive
USB drive
None of the above
Q.49
Which one of the following is not a multitasking operating system?
DOS
Windows
Unix
Linux
Q.50
The most recent version of MAC OS is based on the ...... operating system
Windows
Linux
Unix
CMOS
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