Computer General Knowledge Questions

Computer Basic General Knowledge Questions and Answers.

1. Data going into the computer is called

Answer: Input

2. How many values can be represented by a single byte?

Answer: 512

3. Microsoft Office is:

Answer: An application suite

4. Information travels between components on the motherboard through:

Answer: Buses

5. One megabyte equals approximately

Answer: 1 million bytes

6. When you are working on a document on PC, where is the document temporarily stored?

Answer: RAM

7. How are data organized in a spreadsheet?

Answer: Rows and columns

8. Magnetic tape is not practical for applications where data must be quickly recalled because tape is:

Answer: An expensive storage medium

9. When cutting and pasting, item cut is temporarily stored in:

Answer: Clipboard

10. One advantage of dial-up internet access is:

Answer: It utilizes existing telephone service

11. Network components are connected to the same cable in the ………… topology

Answer: Bus

12. Two or more computers connected to each other for sharing information form a:

Answer: Network

13. What is the term for unsolicited e-mail?

Answer: Spam

14. What type of program controls the various computer parts and allows the user to interact with the computer?

Answer: Operating system

15. Office LANs that are spread geographically apart on a large scale can be connected using a corporate

Answer: LAN

16. What is the process of copying software programs from secondary storage media to the hard disk called?

Answer: Installation

17. The code for a Web page is written using …………….

Answer: HTML

18. In a relational database, this is a data structure that organizes the information about a single topic into rows and columns.

Answer: Table

19. The first computers were programmed using:

Answer: Machine language

20. When the pointer is positioned on a …………., it is shaped like a hand.

Answer: Hyperlink