COMPUTER QUIZ – DIFFICULTY LEVEL : EASY

1. The daily processing of corrections to customer accounts best exemplifies the processing mode of ____________
a) Interactive processing
b) Multi processing
c) Batch processing
d) Real-time processing

2. A Winchester disk is a _____________
a) Disk stack
b) Compact disk
c) Written disk
d) Removable disk

3. The communication line between the CPU, memory and peripherals is called a __________
a) Data
b) Bus
c) Tree
d) Ring

4. What key links records from one database table to a record or records in another database table?
a) Control key
b) Shift key
c) Foreign key
d) Primary key

5. Magnetic tapes are good storage media for ________________
a) storing original but low volume data
b) storing original but high volume data
c) backup and low volume data
d) backup and high volume data

6. A translator is best described as ______________
a) An Application software
b) A hardware component
c) A peripheral device
d) A system software

7. What Excel tool allows you to create quickly and automatically summary data from a large data set?
a) Sorting
b) Copying
c) Pivot tables
d) None of these

8. A step by step procedure used to solve a problem is called _____________
a) Application Program
b) Algorithm
c) User guide
d) Operating system

9. Terminal is a ________________
a) the last instruction in a program
b) device to give power supply to computer
c) input device
d) point at which data enters or leaves the computer

10. A bootstrap is ____________
a) output device
b) a device to support the computer
c) a small initialisation program to start up a computer
d) a memory device