basics of hardware & software Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 46 [IBPS Clerk, 2011]

Which of the following is hardware and not software ?

a) Excel

b) Printer driver

c) Operating System

d) Power Point

e) CPU

Question : 47

How did the SHIFT key get it's name?

a) From the Latin word for large, Shiftius, which v as the first language ever used on acomouter.

b) Because it shifts the ASC11 table by a value of 32.

c) It was a carry-over from typewriters which had both upper and lower case letters on each print head and used a mechanical shifting of the print head to differentiate.

d) (Bad pun alert!) Because the Capitol is full of shifty characters.

e) None of these

Question : 48

A KB represents ____bytes

a) 8

b) 1,000,000,000

c) 1,000,000

d) 1,000

e) None of these

Question : 49

Which computers are connected to many terminals and can multitask?

a) Minicomputers

b) LEO 1 computers

c) All of the above

d) None of these

e) Personal computers running MS-DOS

Question : 50

The symbol is used to indicate a point at which decision has to be made __ .

a) decision

b) Connector

c) processing

d) Terminal

e) None of these