Computer Awareness Questions and Answers

1. If you want to connect to your own computer through the Internet from a different location, you can use _____.
1) E-mail
2) FTP
3) Instant message
4) Telnet
5) None of these

2. The sharing of a medium and its path by two or more devices is called ____.
1) Modulation
2) Encoding
3) Line discipline
4) Multiplexing
5) None of these

3. The server on the internet is also identified as ______.
1) Repeater
2) Host
3) Gateway
4) AND Gate
5) None of these

4. Personal computers can be connected together to form a____.
1) Server
2) Super computer
3) Network
4) Enterprise
5) None of these

5. DSL is an example of a (n) ______connection.
1) Network
2) Wireless
3) Slow
4) Broadband
5) None of these

6. What’s considered the “backbone” of the World Wide Web?
1) URL
2) HTML
3) HTTP
4) FTP
5) None of these

7. SMTP stands for ______.
1) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
2) Serve Message Text Process
3) Short Messaging Text Process
4) Short Messaging Transfer Protocol
5) None of these

8. A Proxy server is used for which of the following?
1) To provide security against unauthorized users
2) To process client requests for web pages
3) To provide TCP/IP
4) To process client requests for database access
5) None of these

9. Which term identifies main page of the entire site?
1) URL
2) Web site address
3) Hyperlink
4) Domain name
5) None of these

10. Which of the following is not a network topology?
1) Star
2) Bus
3) Linear
4) Ring
5) None of these

11. A central computer that holds collections of data and programs for many PCs, work stations, and other computers is a:
1) Supercomputer
2) Minicomputer
3) Laptop
4) Server
5) None of these

12. When the pointer is positioned on a __is shaped like a hand.
1) Grammar error
2) Formatting error
3) Screen Tip
4) Spelling error
5) Hyperlink

13. TCP stands for _______.
1) Transfer control protocol
2) Transfer control process
3) Transmission control protocol
4) Transmission control process
5) None of these

14. Peer-to-peer is a description:
1) Of communications between two dissimilar devices
2) Of communications between two equal devices
3) Of communications between two different devices
4) All of the above
5) None of these

15. The technique where digital signals are converted to its analog form for transmission over an analog facility is called___.
1) Modulation
2) Digitization
3) Multiprocessing
4) All of the above
5) None of these

16. Narrowband channel is a communication channels _______.
1) That handles low volumes of data
2) Used mainly for telegraph lines and low speed terminals
3) Both (a) and (b)
4) All of the above
5) None of these