Computer Fundamentals MCQ Set-11

Set – 11

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1. The difference between memory and storage is that memory is _____ and storage is __
A) Temporary, permanent
B) Permanent, temporary
C) Slow, fast
D) All of above

2. You want to quickly transfer your laptop to your superior officer. However, you do not want him to see what you were doing on the computer. Which of the following key combinations should you press to do this?
A. CTRL+ALT+DEL
B. ALT+F4
C. CTRL+F5
D. CTRL+F3

3. A compiler is a translating program which
A) Translates instruction of a high level language into machine language
B) Translates entire source program into machine language program
C) It is not involved in program’s execution
D) All of above

4. Four users have placed their documents in a local Shared Documents folder. They want to be able to have the necessary permissions to read, write, and manage all files and folders in Shared Documents. Currently, they have Full Control permission only on the files and folders that they place in Shared Documents. Which of the following should you do to enable what they wish?
A. Modify the permissions on Shared Documents so that the Users group has Change permission and Read permission.
B. Instruct each user to modify the permission on the folders they create so that the Owner user has Full Control permission.
C. Instruct each user to modify the permission on the folders they create so that the Owner user has Change permission and Read permission.
D. Modify the permissions on Shared Documents so that the Users group has Full Control permission.

5. What is required when more than one person uses a central computer at the same time?
A) Light pen
B) Mouse
C) Digitizer
D) Terminal

6. Nasir is trying to fix a printer issue, where a user is not able to print color pages from a printer. In an attempt to fix the problem, he has installed the driver from the CD-ROM that came along with the printer. Which of the following should he do to be able print in color?
A. Install a signed printer driver from the manufacturer.
B. Reseat the printer cable to the computer.
C. Configure the Driver Signing Options to ignore unsigned driver software.
D. Run Verify Off command a the computer.

7. The term gigabyte refers to
A) 1024 bytes
B) 1024 kilobytes
C) 1024 megabytes
D) 1024 gigabyte

8. You are assisting a user who has issues connecting his USB hard drive to his laptop computer. The USB hard drive is accessible when he connects it to his desktop, but will not work when connected to the laptop. Which of the following should you do to ensure that the USB hard disk can function properly when connected to the USB hub on the user’s portable computer?
A. Ask him to use a different cable to connect the USB hard drive to the laptop.
B. Assign a different IRQ to the USB hub in the device manager.
C. Ask him to replace the laptop motherboard; it is faulty.
D. Ask him to replace the portable computer’s bus-powered USB hub with a self-powered USB hub.

9. Which of the following locations should you use to store your pictures to be able to use them as the Windows Screensaver?
A. My Documents folder
B. C drive
C. My Pictures folder
D. Desktop

10. You want to scan all of the protected files on your Windows XP computer to verify the versions. Which of the following should you use to do so?
A. System File Checker command
B. Driver signing wizard
C. Add/Remove Hardware wizard
D. Chkdsk command

11. You are assisting a user who has issues with his computer acting strangely when it goes to Standby mode. The computer sometimes fails to come out of the Standby mode. Which of the following should you check to get this issue fixed?
A. Update the computer’s physical memory.
B. Disable APM in Windows XP Professional.
C. Optimize the time-out settings in your BIOS Setup program.
D. Disable Standby mode in Power Options.

12. Which of the following features of Outlook Express allows multiple users to send and receive mail using separate accounts?
A. Group Sharing
B. Multiple accounts
C. Identities
D. Virtual account

13. Which of the following specifies the format of electronic business cards that are exchanged via e-mail?
A. bus
B. vcf
C. bcd
D. vac

14. You are assisting a customer who is trying to print a document from her workstation. She can see her document in the print queue, however it does not print. Which of the following steps should she take first to get the document to print?
A. Clear everything in the print queue.
B. Delete and recreate the printer object.
C. Reboot the printer.
D. Restart the print spooler.

15. You are assisting a user who is facing issues with the display getting distorted when he scrolls through a Microsoft Word document that contains graphics. Which of the following should you do to fix this?
A. Create a new user profile.
B. Adjust the Screen resolution to a lower value.
C. Adjust the hardware accelerator of the video adapter to a lower setting.
D. Adjust the mouse pointer acceleration to lower settings.

16. Which of the following accurately specifies the reason why the Standby feature is not preferred over the Hibernation feature?
A. It requires more disk space.
B. It requires less disk space.
C. It needs multiple processors.
D. It tends to lose data if there is a power outage.

17. Which of the following shortcut keys should you use to display the IE Favorites Explorer bar?
A. Ctrl+F
B. Ctrl+I
C. Ctrl+A
D. Ctrl+B

18. You want to change all your disks to dynamic disks and configure all free disk space to be combined and available for maximum disk space. Which of the following volume types should you deploy?
A. Simple volume
B. Mirrored volume
C. Striped volume
D. Spanned volume

19. You install a new printer on a Windows XP Professional computer and share this printer with the other users in your network. When you try to print for the first time using this printer, the output is several pages of unreadable characters. All other users report the same issue. How should you fix this problem?
A. Configure the printer to print directly to the print device. Instruct the other users to make the same configuration.
B. Run the Add Printer Driver Wizard to install the correct printer driver on your computer.
C. Configure the printer to use the WinPrint print processor and to use RAW as the default data type.
D. Configure the printer to hold mismatched documents. Disable the advanced printing features.

20. A byte consists of
A) One bit
B) Four bits
C) Eight bits
D) Sixteen bits

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