Information Technology CXC Paper 1 Practice Questions

information technology. : the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data.

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#1. ________ is an internal DOS Command.

Format

Del

Recover

Fdisk

#2. Input devices is / are–

Microphone

Keyboard, Mouse and Track-ball

Scanner

All of these

#3. What does the abbreviation HTTP stands for

Hyper Transport Text Protocol

Hyper Text Transport Protocol

High Text Transport Protocol

High Transport Text Protocol

#4. When was the term Social Networking first used?

1904

1964

1954

1854

#5. All are types of output except:

Modem

Disk or tape

Soft copy

Microfilm

#6. Who founded ‘myspace’?

James Russel

Niclaus Wirth

Tom Anderson

#7. LAN is

Local Act Note

Local Area Network

Law Act Notice

None

#8. Utility programs performs tasks such as

Spreadsheet

Disk management

Graphic presentation

Wordprocessing

#9. A collection of programms that direct the operation of the computer. Programs are a set of instructions that produce a result.

Operating systems

Application

Software

Unix

#10. which one of the following is a software?

keyboard

mouse

speakers

microsoft word

#11. ”Microsoft office” is an example of ?

A database

Integrated software

Hardware

Desktop publishing

#12. In a computer terminology, OCR stands for

Online computer retrieval

Optical card reader

Optical character reader

Office cash receiver

#13. How many bits make a byte?

8 bits

16 bits

#14. One component of the motherboard is

Computer chip

Transistor

Processor

Bios

#15. How long is an IPV6 Address?

16 byte (128 bit)

12 byte (8 bits)

138 bit (6 byte)

128 bit (16 byte)

#16. Which of the following options is an open source operating system?

LINUX

Microsoft Window

UNIX

#17. which of the following is an example of an operating system ?

microsoft office

microsoft word

microsoft licenses

microsoft windows

#18. To centre the little rows of a spreadsheet across the columns___________

centre align title columns

merge and centre title rows

merge and centre the title columns

centre align the little rows

#19. Recycle bin ___________.

is a folder that contains deleted files and folders

is a folder that contains the files used for backup

is a file that contains the file information on the disk

#20. What is another name for application?

programms

drivers

peripherals

hardware

#21. The option used to save a modified file is

Save as

Exit

Save

Storage

#22. A language translator is best described as

a hardware component

an operating system

a system software

an application software

#23. Data is transmitted in one direction

Simple duplex

Half duplex

Full duplex

#24. What is the function of the hard drive disk?

visual displays

storage

memory

type letters

#25. What is intranet?

Internal Internet used to transfer information to the outside company

Internal network designed to serve informational needs of a single organization

Internal network designed to transfer information between two organization

Internal Internet use to transfer information internaly

#26. What is the name given to a collection of related fields in a database?

field

table

column

record

#27. The start button was introduced in which operating system?

Windows 98

None of the above

windows 95

Windows 96

#28. Application software fall into the following categories except:

Customization of general purpose software

Database package

General purpose

Specialized

#29. Java is a–

Design

Product of Computer System

Memory

Language of Computer

#30. The brain of the computer where all processing takes place

CPU

Process

Output devices

Storage

#31. The computer system is made up of three components hardware software and which one of the following ?

User

Output devices

CPu

#32. Which of the following is an input device ?

Keyboard

Printer

Overhead projector

Computer monitor

#33. Which menu is present in Wordpad, but not present in Notepad?

File

View

Edit

#34. The maximum speed at which the data can be transmitted on each channel of a standard PCM stream is

4Mps

64Kps

None of these

1Mbps

#35. What is the character limit for a tweet in Twitter?

140

120

160

#36. A student is required to email a copy of his/her SBA to her teacher. This emailed copy is refereed to as

hard copy

embedded

none of the following

soft copy

#37. Uploading or downloading data to or from a remote computer is done using__________

instant messaging

file transfer protocol

internet relay chat

blogging

#38. Which shortcut key used for undo ?

Ctrl +c

Ctrl+a

Ctrl+p

Ctrl+z

#39. In which grouping, the formatting of text is done in Word?

Paragraphs, indexes and selection

Tables, paragraphs and indexes

Character's, selections and paragraphs

Indexes ,characters and tables

#40. Microsoft word is an example of a/an

Processing device

Operating systems

Input device

Application software

#41. All the following are Characteristic of Lan except

Limited to a single building or site

Spread a wide geographical area

Owned by the user

High bandwidth

#42. Which system software does the job of merging the records from two files to one?

Utility program

Application

#43. Who is the creator of PASCAL language?

Tom Anderson

Niclaus Wirth

Tim Berners Lee

#44. What does the acronym USB stand for?

Universal Serial Bus

Union Series Bus

Universal System Bus

#45. Which multimedia messaging app created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, has pictures and messages which are only available for a short time before they become inaccessible?

Facebook

Snapchat

Instagram

#46. Compatibility is a important features of a good database management system

True

False

#47. Which function will you use to enter current time in a woksheet cell?

=currenttime ()

=now()

=nowtime()

=time ()

#48. The transmission of data overs far distance without changing it

Transmission media

Telecommunication

Teleprocessing

#49. What does the abbreviation CPU mean

Central processing unit

Central printing unit

Crucial process unit

Critical processing unit

#50. Used to provide storage for data, instruction and the reult of processing of the CPU