Information Technology Exam Question

1. .com is used for which types of websites?
Ans: Commercial

2. Who is the father of Networking?
Ans: Ray Noorda

3. The terms spooling and buffering come first under the processing of ______. 
Ans: Batch Processing

4. The latency time of a hard disk is the time taken by the disk for ______.  Ans: Half a rotation

5. Which key is almost always used as the help key?
Ans: F1

6. SMTP, FTP and DNS are applications of the ______ layer.
Ans: Application

7. Every device on the Internet has a unique ______ address that identifies it in the same way that a street address identifies the location of a house.
Ans: IP (Internet Protocol)

8. What is usually used for displaying information at public places?
Ans: Touch Screen Kiosks

9. Where is RAM located?
Ans: Mother Board

10. Which program is run by BIOS to check hardware components are working properly while computer is turned ON?
Ans: POST (Power-On Self-Test)

11. Default file extension for all the word documents is ______. 
Ans:  .doc

12. The term BIT is short form of ______. 
Ans: Binary digit

13. Network components are connected to the same cable in the ______ topology.
Ans: Bus

14. To make the number pad act as directional arrows, you press the ______ key.
Ans: NumLock

15. The person who writes and tests computer programs is called a ______. 
Ans: Software Engineer

16. The ability to find an individual item in a file immediately is called ______. 
Ans: Direct Access

17. Which type of software is similar to an accountant's worksheet?
Ans: Spreadsheets

18. Outlook Express is a ______. 
Ans: E-mail client

19. Where are programs and data kept while the processor is using them? 
Ans: Main Memory

20. Most of the commonly available personal computers/laptops have a keyboard popularly known as ______.
Ans: QWERTY

21. Codes consisting of lines of varying widths or lengths that are computer readable are known as:
Ans: A bar code

22. A website's main page is called:
Ans: Home Page

23. Computers used the _____ number systems to store data and perform calculations.
Ans: Binary

24. _____ are attempts by individuals to obtain confidential information from you by falsifying their identity.
Ans: Phishing

25. Shortcut key to select entire document is:
Ans: Ctrl + A

26. A disk's Content that recorded at the time of manufacture which cannot be erased by the user is _____.
Ans: Read-Only

27. What displays the contents of active cell in Excel?
Ans: Formula Bar

28. A central computer that holds collection of data and program for many PCs, Workstation and other computers is a _____.
Ans: Server

29. The basic unit of a worksheet into which you enter data in excel is called:
Ans: Cell

30. The process of transferring files from Internet to your computer is called: 
Ans: Downloading

31. To reload a webpage, press the _____ button.
Ans: Refresh

32. The computer abbreviation KB usually means:
Ans: Kilo Byte

33. Hardware that converts your computer's digital signal to an analog signal that can travel over telephone lines is called:
Ans: MODEM (MOdulator DEModulator)

34. What is the amount of Information transmitted through a communication medium in a certain amount of time?
Ans: Bandwidth

35. What type of cables uses light waves to carry information at high speed? Ans: Fiber-optic cables

36. The rules for exchanging data between a terminal and one or more computers is known as a(n):
Ans: Protocol

37. The network configuration that allows every computer to act as both a cent and a server is a _____. 
Ans: Peer-to-peer network

38. An error is known as:   
Ans: Bug

39. The binary number system is a number system to the base _____. 
Ans: 2

40. In word, replace option is available on _____ Menu.
Ans: Edit

41. What type of keys are 'ctrl' and 'shift'?
Ans: Modifier

42. To reverse the effect of your last action in word, use _____ the command.
Ans: Undo

43. The time for the actual data transfer after receiving the request for data from secondary storage is referred to as the disk's _____. 
Ans: Access Time

44. The main system board of a computer is called:
Ans: Motherboard

45. An educational institution would generally have the _____ extension in its domain name.
Ans: .edu