1. Name the portion of the CPU that coordinates the activities of all other computer components.
- 1) Arithmetic Logic Unit
- 2) Control Unit
- 3) Coordination Board
- 4) Motherboard
- 5) None of these
2. Which of the following is a combination of software and hardware that facilitates the sharing of information between computing devices?
- 1) Peripheral
- 2) Expansion board
- 3) Network
- 4) Device Manager
- 5) None of these
3. Which of the following statements is true?
- 1) Accessing data from RAM is slower than accessing data from virtual memory.
- 2) While using virtual memory, the operating system builds a file called the RAM file.
- 3) When a computer is memory-bound, adding more RAM will not solve the problem.
- 4) Virtual memory is the space on the hard drive where the operating system begins to store data when it becomes memory-bound.
- 5) None of these
4. Which of the following terms is not associated with spreadsheet software?
- 1) Worksheet
- 2) Cell
- 3) Virus detection
- 4) Formula
- 5) All the above are associated with spreadsheet software
5. What is the term used for the flaw that appears in a programme and causes it to produce incorrect or inappropriate results?
- 1) Bug
- 2) Attribute
- 3) Unit problem
- 4) Module
- 5) None of these
6. The set of keywords, symbols and a system of rules for constructing statements through which humans can communicate the instructions to be executed by a computer, is called a(n)
- 1) syntax
- 2) an assembler
- 3) a programming language
- 4) a computer programme
- 5) None of these
7. The process of restarting a computer that is already turned on ‘via the operating system’ refers to which of the following?
- 1) Cold boot
- 2) Warm boot
- 3) Shutdown
- 4) Log off
- 5) None of these
8. What is the expanded form of PCB as used in computer terminology?
- 1) Prime Circuit Board
- 2) Primary Connection Board
- 3) Prime Circuit Bus
- 4) Printed Circuit Board
- 5) None of these
9. Which of the following is an example of expansion board?
- 1) LAN Cards
- 2) Adapters
- 3) Network Interface Card
- 4) All the above
- 5) None of the above
10. Which of the following stores data or information temporarily and passes it on as directed by the control unit?
- 1) Virtual memory
- 2) Register
- 3) RAM
- 4) Auxiliary Memory
- 5) None of these
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