Questions:

1. Which of the following devices can be used to directly image printed text?
a. OCR
b. OMR
c. MICR
d. All of above

2. Who designed the first electronics computer – ENIAC?

a. Von-Neumann
b. Joseph M. Jacquard
c. J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly
d. All of above

3. Who invented the high-level language C?

a. Dennis M. Ritchie
b. Niklaus Writh
c. Seymour Papert
d. Donald Kunth

4. When did archrivals IBM and Apple Computers Inc. decide to join hands?
a. 1978
b. 1984
c. 1990
d. 1991

5. Modern Computers are very reliable but they are not

a. Fast
b. Powerful
c. Infallible
d. Cheap

6. Personal computers use a number of chips mounted on the main circuit board. What is the common
name for such boards?
a. Daughter board
b. Motherboard
c. Father board
d. Breadboard

7. A computer program that translates one program instructions at a time into machine language is called
a/an:
a. Interpreter
b. CPU
c. Compiler
d. Simulator

8. ALU is
a. Arithmetic Logic Unit
b. Array Logic Unit
c. Application Logic Unit
d. None of above

9. WAN stands for

a. Wap Area Network
b. Wide Area Network
c. Wide Array Net
d. Wireless Area Network

10. Which device is used as a standard pointing device in a Graphical User environment?
a. Keyaboard
b. Mouse
c. Joystick
d. Trackball

11. Which number system is usually followed in typical 32 bit computers?

a. 2
b. 10
c. 16
d. 32

12. Which of the following is not the output device?

a. Scanner
b. Printer
c. Flatscreen
d. Touchscreen

13. Which of the following device have limitation that we can only store information but cannot erase or
modify it?
a. Floppy disk
b. Hard disk
c. CD ROM
d. Tape drive

14. Which of the following device can have maximum storage of data?
a. Floppy disk
b. Hard disk
c. Magneto optic disk
d. Compact disk

15. In UNIX the status of the process may be

a. Running
b. Orphan
c. Sleeping
d. All of above

16. The PID of kernel process is

a. Undefined
b. 9
c. 1
d. 3

17. A page fault occurs

a. When the page is not in the memory
b. When page is in the memory
c. When the process enters the blocked status
d. When the process is in the ready state

18. Virtual memory is

a. An extremely large main memory
b. An extremely large secondary memory
c. An illusion of extremely large secondary memory
d. A type of memory used in super computer

19. Which is not the state of process?

a. Blocked
b. Running
c. Ready
d. privileged

20. Which of the following is not valid version of MS Office?

a. Office XP
b. Office Vista
c. Office 2007
d. None of above

21. You cannot close MS Word application by

a. Choosing file menu then exit submenu
b. Press Alt+F4
c. Click X button on title bar
d. From file menu choose close submenu

22. The key F12 opens a

a. Save as dialog box
b. Open dialog box
c. Save dialog box
d. Close dialog box

23. What is the shortcut key to open the open dialog box?
a. F12
b. Shift F12
c. Alt F12
d. Ctrl F12

24. A feature of MS Word that saves the document automatically after certain interval is available on
a. Save tab on options dialog box
b. Save as dialog box
c. Both of above
d. None of above
25. Where can you find the horizontal split bar?
a. On the left of horizontal scroll bar
b. On the right of horizontal scroll bar
c. On the top of vertical scroll bar
d. On the bottom of vertical scroll bar

26. What is the place to the left of horizontal scroll bar?

a. Tab stop buttons
b. View buttons
c. Split buttons
d. indicators

27. Which file starts MS Word?

a. Winword.exe
b. Word.exe
c. Mswrod.exe
d. Word2003.exe

28. How many ways you can save a document?

a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6

29. If you want to keep track of different editions of a document, which features will you use?
a. Editions
b. Versions
c. Track change
d. All of above

30. Background color or effects applied on a document is not visible in

a. Web layout view
b. Print layout view
c. Reading view
d. Print preview

31. What is a portion of a document in which you set certain page formatting options?
a. Page
b. Document
c. Section
d. Page setup

32. Borders can be applied to

a. Cells
b. Paragraph
c. Text
d. All of above

33. Which of the following is not a type of page margin?

a. Left
b. Right
c. Center
d. top

34. You can use the formula palette to

a. format cells containing numbers
b. create and edit formula containing functions
c. enters assumptions data
d. copy a range of cells

35. When a range is selected, how can you activate the previous cell?
a. Press the Alt key
b. Press Tab
c. Press Enter
d. None of above

36. Which tool you will use to join some cells and place the content at the middle of joined cell?
a. From format cells dialog box click on merge cells check box
b. From format cells dialog box select the centered alignment
c. From format cells dialog box choose merge and center check box
d. Click on merge and center tool on formatting toolbar

37. Tab scroll buttons are placed on excel screen

a. Towards the bottom right corner
b. Towards the bottomleft corner
c. Towards the top right corner
d. Towards the top left corner

38. The name box on to the left of formula bar

a. Shows the name of workbook currently working on
b. Shows the name of worksheet currently working on
c. Shows the name of cell or range currently working on
d. None of above

39. Each excel file is a workbook that contains different sheets. Which of the following can not be
a sheet in workbook?
a. Worksheet
b. Chartsheet
c. Module sheet
d. Data sheet

40. Which of the following is not the correct method of editing the cell content?
a. Press the Alt key
b. Press the F2 key
c. Click the formula bar
d. Double click the cell

41. You can merge the main document with data source in Excel. In mail merge operation, word is
usually
a. Server
b. Source
c. Client
d. None of above

42. How can you update the values of formula cells if auto calculate mode of Excel is disabled?
a. F8
b. F9
c. F10
d. F11

43. You want to set such that when you type Baishakh and drag the fill handle, Excel should produce
Jestha, Ashadh and so on. What will you set to effect that?
a. Custom list
b. Auto fill options
c. Fill across worksheet
d. Fill series

44. Where can you change automatic or manual calculation mode in Excel?
a. Double click CAL indicator in status bar
b. Go to Tools >> Options >>Calculation and mark the corresponding radio button
c. Both of above
d. None of above

45. How can you show or hide the gridlines in Excel worksheet?
a. Go to tools >> options >> view tab and mark or remove the check box named gridline
b. Click gridline tool on Forms toolbar
c. Both of above
d. None of above

46. In the relational models, cardinality is termed as

a. Number of tuples
b. Number of attributes
c. Number of tables
d. Number of constraints

47. The view of total database content is

a. Conceptual view
b. Addition of new structures in the database system
c. Manipulation & processing of database
d. Definition of physical structure of database system

48. DML is provided for

a. Description of logical structure of database
b. Addition of new structures in the database system
c. Manipulation & processing of database
d. Definition of physical structure of database system

49. In Microsoft PowerPoint two kind of sound effects files that can be added to the presentation are
a. .wav files and .mid files
b. .wav files and .gif files
c. .wav files and .ppg files
d. .jpg files and .gif files

50. Material consisting of text and numbers is best presented as

a. A table slide
b. A bullet slide
c. A title slide
d. All of above

Answers:
1. OCR
2. J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly
3. Dennis M. Ritchie
4. 1991
5. Infallible
6. Motherboard
7. Interpreter
8. Arithmetic Logic Unit
9. Wide Area Network
10. Mouse
11. 2
12. Scanner
13. CD ROM
14. Hard Disks
15. All of above
16. It’s usually 0 but according to available options I’ll choose 1 as it is the process ID of init function.
17. When the page is not in the memory
18. An illusion of extremely large primary memory
19. Privileged
20. Office Vista
21. From file menu choose close submenu
22. Save As dialog box
23. Ctrl + F12
24. Save tab on Options dialog box
25. On the top of vertical scroll bar
26. View buttons
27. Winword.exe
28. 3 (silly question)
29. Versions
30. Print preview
31. Section
32. All of above
33. Center
34. Create and edit formula containing functions
35. None of above
36. Click on merge and center tool on formatting toolbar
37. Towards the bottom left corner
38. Shows the name of cell or range currently working on
39. Data sheet
40. Press the Alt key
41. Client
42. F9
43. Custom list
44. Go to Tools >> Options >> Calculation and mark the corresponding radio button
45. Both of above
46. Number of tuples
47. Conceptual view
48. Manipulation & processing of database
49. .wav and .mid files
50. A table slide