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Goodluck! 1 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS A collection of programs that control how your computer system runs and processes information is called buses computer operating system peripherals 2 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS An input device that is able to interpret pencil marks on paper media is known as magnetic disk optical mark reader card reader magnetic tape 3 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS A program used to detect overall system malfunction is system software utilities system analysis system diagnostics 4 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Memory which forgets everything when you switch off the power is known as non-corrupted memory volatile memory corrupted memory non-volatile memory 5 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Computer connectors are Male and wires male and female Boy and Girl cables and wires 6 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Physical or logical arrangement of network is routing networking topology ISP 7 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS These are the World Wide Protocols www and //tp TPHT and TMCH www.TMCH HTTP and HTML 8 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS A record is made up of names of musicians people in a town student marks related fields 9 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS The purpose of an application program is to meet specific user needs converts program written in high level language to machine language make off-line equipment run better allow the operating system to control resources better 10 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is a computer memory that can be programmed once, but not reprogrammed? ROM RAM EPROM PROM 11 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS COBOL is widely used in ___________ applications commercial space scientific mathematical 12 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS The difference between people with access to computer and those without this access is known as the internet divide cyberway divide web divide digital divide 13 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Check the odd term out Windows internet Linux Unix 14 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS The “Com” in www.schoolportalng.com stands for complain company commercial committee 15 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS The acronym FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol File Translate Protocol File Transit Protocol File Ping Protocol 16 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is a machine for reading documents that are encoded in a way that is readable by person and machine? Document reader Document Sorter distributed system Artificial Intelligent 17 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS WPA2 is used for security in infrared Ethernet Wi-Fi bluetooth 18 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Blue tooth is an example of Virtual Private Network Local Area Network Metropolitan Personal Area Network 19 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS What does PDF mean? Portable Document Format Private Document File Portable Dot File Product Document File 20 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS _________ translates and execute program at run-time line by line linker interpreter loader compiler 21 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS A language based on graphics for use in education is LOGO PROLOG BASIC COBOL 22 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS The Central Processing Unit (CPU) consist of control unit, primary storage and secondary storage control unit, arithmetic logic unit and primary storage input, output and processing control unit, processing and primary storage 23 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is not an input device? OCR optical scanner voice recognition device COM (Computer Output to Microfilm) 24 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Which of these is not an example of operating system Microsoft Office XP BSD Unix Red Hat Linux Windows 98 25 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS A hybrid computer resembles binary and octal resembles analog computers resembles digital computer resembles both digital and analog computers 26 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS The term ‘gigabyte’ refers to 1024 kilobytes 1024 megabytes 1024 bytes 1024 gigabytes 27 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Which of these are the building blocks of all the circuits in a computer? logical operators circuit switch logic gates instructors 28 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS A byte consists of four bits eight bits one bit sixteen bits 29 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS In the first generation computers, built between 1945 – 1956, what was used for calculations? very large scale Integration transistors vacuum tubes integrated circuits 30 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS The two kinds of memory are primary and secondary random and sequential Ram and temporary ROM and RAM 31 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS What was the computer conceived by Babbage? application software arithmetic machine analytical engine punch card engine 32 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Database is the end of data collection collection of data files conversion from base 8 to base 2. the data stored in base 8 33 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Dot-matrix is a type of disk bus printer tape 34 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS USB stands for United State Board Universal Serial Bus United Serial Bus Universal Serial Board 35 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS What is ‘SIM’? Subscribe Input Module Subscriber Identity Module Structured Input Module Some Information Modification 36 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS The linking of computers with a communication system is called networking pairing inter-locking assembling 37 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Conversion of an octal number 738 to binary number will give us 110010 111100 110111 111011 38 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS What is Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)? the hardware/software protocol that limits access to company data the database access protocol for SQL statements the protocol to copy files between computers the transfer protocol or transfer web pages to a browser 39 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS A program that keeps running indefinitely is said to be stubborn iterating looping working well 40 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS BIOS stands for Binary Input Output System Basic Input Off System Basic Input Output System Binary Input Off System 41 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Which gate sends on a pulse when it receives one at either or both of its terminals? NOT OR NOR NAND 42 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS The hardware in which data maybe control unit Bus register memory 43 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS The device used to carry digital data on analog lines is called multiplexer demodulator modulator modem 44 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Features of XML include which of the following governs the display of information in a web browser address the structuring and manipulation of the data involved governs the display of structures and information in a web server the tags are used to describe the appearance of the content 45 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS If you see a diskette with a piece of foil covering its notch, it is said to be write-protected write-enabled copy-protected foil-covered 46 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS A server-side extension is needed to do what? allow a request from a client to access webpages allow a request from HTML to access web pages allow a request from a client to access HTML-formatted page allow a request from a client to access database 47 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS The protocol HTML means Hyperbolic Text Mingle Language Hyper Text Markup Language High Tension Management Limited Hyperbolic Text Management Limited 48 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS F1, F2, F3 -------- F10. A keyboard with the above function keys (F10 being the last) is called: an enhanced keyboard a standard keyboard a function keyboard an F10 keyboard 49 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Floppy disks which are made from flexible plastic materials are also called high-density disks hard disks diskette templates 50 / 50 Category: COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS Another name for “network topology” is: large topology network organization network study network structure Your score is LinkedIn Facebook VKontakte 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Practice also: SS 3 COMMERCE PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 CIVIC EDUCATION PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 CHEMISTRY PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO)