Csec It Multiple Choice Qa
Csec It Multiple Choice Qa
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Which of the following devices is NOT used in c. processing
point of sale terminals? d. input
6. When the computer is working on given 12. ENIAC was the first:
instructions, it is called
a. Electromechanical computer
a. output b. Electronic computer
b. storage c. Computer with integrated circuits
d. Microcomputer
20. Third generation computers were used during the
13. Which is not an example of a peripheral device? period:
a. Keyboard a. 1933-1945
b. Mouse b. 1945-1956
c. Floppy disk c. 1956-1963
d. Speakers d. 1964-1970
14. A program is a: 21. Which generation of computers used ultra large
scale integration (ULSI)?
a. Hardware device
b. Memory device a. First generation
c. Set of instructions b. Second generation
d. Register c. Third generation
d. Fourth generation
15. Which device is not found in the CPU?
22. Which of the following duties is NOT expected of a
a. ALU database administrator?
b. Control Unit
c. Instruction register a. Creating and maintaining data dictionary
d. Printer b. Managing security
c. Maintaining performance
16. The ALU processes data and stores it in:
d. Writing programs
a. A diskette 23. Which of the following provides transmission of
b. Main Memory data in BOTH directions at the SAME time?
c. The instruction register
d. The program counter a. Half Duplex
b. Full Duplex
17. Which one of the following is not a function of the
c. Null Duplex
control unit?
d. Simplex
a. Fetch instructions from memory 24. In the URL http://www.shoes.com, ‘shoes.com’
b. Decode instructions stands for the
c. Process instructions
d. Fetch data for required instructions a. extension
b. company name
18. Complex scientific research is usually done using:
c. domain name
d. internet company
a. Microcomputers
b. Supercomputers 25. Google is an example of
c. Minicomputers
d. Mainframe computers a. the Internet Explorer
b. a Web browser
19. The main component that formed the basis for
c. a search engine
second generation computers was:
d. the World Wide Web
a. Vacuum tubes 26. Transferring of data from a remote computer to
b. Registers your computer is referred to as
c. Integrated circuits
d. Transistors a. uploading
b. browsing
c. downloading 33. A group of persons who share common interests
d. data mining and communicate by posting messages and replies
on the Internet is referred to as a/an
27. The acronym ‘HTTP’ stands for
a. podcast
a. HyperText Transfer Protocol b. newsgroup
b. HyperText Transmission Protocol c. uploader
c. Higher Text Transmission Protocol d. surfer
d. Higher Text Transfer Protocol
34. Each website on the Internet can be accessed by
28. E-mail is the transmission of messages and files via entering a unique address. This address is referred
a computer network. E-mail is short for to as the
a. encrypted mail a. HTTP
b. emerging mail b. HTML
c. entertainment mail c. FTP
d. electronic mail d. URL
29. Which of the following is NOT a type of 35. Which of the following items CANNOT be sent via
transmission medium? email?
a. Coaxial a. Text documents
b. Twisted pair b. Parcels
c. Modem c. Sound files
d. Microwave d. Graphic images
30. Persons at a downtown cafe realized that they were
able to access the Internet on their laptop Item 14 refers to the icon below.
computers. The cafe could be considered as a
32. Uploading or downloading data to or from a remote 37. The one’s complement of 01010011 is
computer is done using
a. 11010011
a. file transfer protocol b. 01011111
b. internet relay chat c. 10101100
c. blogging d. 11111111
d. instant messaging 38. Hexadecimal has a base value of
a. 6
b. 8 a. form
c. 16 b. table
d. 18 c. module
d. query
39. The decimal equivalent of 000011112 is
45. In a relational database, tables are also called
a. 8
b. 12 a. tuples
c. 15 b. files
d. 28 c. relations
d. entity
40. The BCD representation of (-15) is
46. Which of the following statements is NOT true of
a. 100000011111 primary keys?
b. 101100101111
c. 000000011111 a. They do not contain blank value.
d. 101100010101 b. They are unique identifiers.
c. They are always in text form.
41. Which of the following characteristics must two d. They may be composed of one or more
database tables have in order for them to be linked? attributes.
a. At least one common attribute name 47. A field in a table that appears as a match of the
b. Composite keys primary key in another table is called a
c. At least two tuples in the table
d. The same data in all tuples a. candidate key
b. secondary key
42. The term used to describe an attribute that can c. foreign key
function like a primary key is a d. composite key
a. candidate key 48. Which of the following devices is used to perform
b. secondary key input into the computer?
c. foreign key
d. composite key a. Monitor
b. Mouse
43. Which of the following is/are true of secondary c. External hard drive
keys? d. USB flash drive
I. They are used strictly for data retrieval 49. An example of a point and draw device is a
purposes.
II. They are always in text form. a. keyboard
III. They do not contain null values. b. joystick
IV. They do the same functions as a foreign c. mouse
key. d. scanner
SECTION A
Account Number Meter Number Bill Days Account Number Bill Date
111222-3 2009/12/04
TOTAL DATE DUE
$25.41 2009/12/29
Mr Tom Bill
21 Hill Top View
ST MICHAEL
a. an automated document 58. A device that enables the user to control the
b. a turnaround document movement of objects on the screen by operating a
c. a source document small lever is a
d. a transaction document
a. Touch-sensitive screen
55. Which type of technology is the information shown b. Joystick
as B in the document MOST likely printed in? c. Puck
d. Light pen
a. OCR
b. OMR 59. Which of these has a ball positioned at the top?
c. POS
d. MICR a. Optical mouse
b. Pointing stick mouse
56. What is the most common input device? c. Touchpad mouse
d. Trackball mouse
a. Mouse
b. Printer 60. Which type of keyboard would most likely be used
c. Monitor by a physically challenged person?
d. Keyboard
a. Concept keyboard
57. Which of the following is not a pointing device? b. Alphanumeric keyboard
c. Virtual keyboard
a. Joystick d. Left-handed keyboard
61. Which of the following is not a validation method? b. Touch pad
c. Light pen
a. Range check d. Remote control
b. Check digit
c. Dual input 68. The MOST suitable device for the output of
d. Format check architectural drawing is a
64. Which of the following is not true about barcodes? a. present horizontally on the screen
b. present vertically on the screen
a. They are cheaper than RFID. c. present in a unit area of the screen
b. They can be reused again and again. d. that makes up the colour
c. They can become difficult to read if they are
ripped, soiled or removed. 71. Which of the following is NOT an audio output
d. They must be passed over a reader. device?
j5 a. for v = 2 to 5
kj display v
jj+k
kj+3 b. h 1
while h < 5
display h 89. Which of the following is not a term used to
hh+1 describe the process of manually going through a
end while program looking for errors?
c. for k = 7 down to 4 step -1
display k a. Tracing
d. f 6 b. Dry run
while f < 3 c. Debugging
display f d. Documentation
ff-1
90. Which of the following is an example of a
84. The variables h and s are assigned the following conditional construct?
values, h 4 and s 3 * h.
Display h + s * 2 will show a. For-Next
b. If-Then-Else
a. 28 c. While-Endwhile
b. 30 d. For-Endfor
c. 32
d. 38 91. Which of the following reserved words in Pascal
displays data and places the cursor on a new line?
85. Which of the following languages is only
understood by computers? a. write
b. read
a. 4 GLs c. writeln
b. Machine languages d. readln
c. Natural Languages
d. Procedural languages 92. Program implementation involves a number of
steps. Which of the following steps is NOT
86. Which of the following languages is NOT a high- legitimate?
level language?
a. Executing
a. C b. Bonding
b. COBOL c. Compiling
c. ASSEMBLY d. Linking
d. PASCAL
93. Which of the following identifiers is NOT a valid
87. Errors that occur in a program when the rules of the variable name?
programming languages are NOT obeyed are called
a. input
a. Syntax errors b. totalCost
b. Logical errors c. 9Count
c. Execution errors d. NumCount
d. Run-time errors
94. The term used to describe a memory location
88. Which of the following is NOT a type of program whose value changes during program execution is
error?
a. constant
a. Logic error b. volatile
b. Syntax error c. variable
c. Run time error d. dynamic
d. Debug error
95. Consider the following algorithm.
A7 b. I and III only
B9 c. II and III only
AB-A d. I, II and III
BA+B
Write A, B 100. Which of the following are true about the use of
indentation in programming?
The output of this algorithm is
I. To make the layout of the code attractive
a. 2, 9 II. For compiler/interpreter to identify errors
b. 2, 11 easily
c. 7, 9 III. For easy understanding of the order of code
d. 7, 11 IV. For easy correction of syntax errors
105. The result of the expression 3 mod 4 is 111. Which of the following precautions is NOT a
physical restriction with respect to data security?
a. 0
b. 1 a. Firewall
c. 3 b. Locking up the hardware
d. 4 c. Fireproof cabinets
d. Biometric systems
106. Which of the following symbols is used to perform
assignments in the programming language Pascal? 112. A new employee at a financial company has been
asked to set a password on her computer. She has
a. = tried setting the password on several occasions but
b. gets an error message which says “password not
c. := effective”. The problem can be corrected by
d. == entering a password that is
107. The variable total is assigned the value 12. Which a. made up of several numbers
output shows the CORRECT display when the b. a relative’s name
Pascal code writeln(‘total = ’); is executed? c. composed of at least six upper case characters
d. a mixture of mixed case and alphanumeric
a. total = characters
b. 12
c. total = 12 113. Scrambling of messages at the sending end and
d. ‘total = ’ unscrambling them at the receiving end is called
109. Which of the following statements would be placed a. Control input/output operations
in the flowchart box shown below? b. Provide security
c. Perform calculations
d. Provide a friendly user interface
115. Which of the following is NOT a type of
application software?
a. Read A a. Word processor
b. A > 25 b. Spreadsheets
c. Count Count + 1 c. Windows
d. Output C
d. Smart Draw a. batch processing
b. real time processing
116. An example of multitasking is c. interactive processing
d. distributed processing
a. doing a background save while typing a
document 123. Which of the following is not a utility program?
b. allowing many users to use the same program
c. allowing one user to use one program a. Disk repair program
d. opening one program by many users b. Backup program
c. Spreadsheet program
117. Quality Developers is a company that writes d. File defragmentation program
programs to do specific jobs for other companies.
These programs are called 124. Application software consists of:
a. Track a. Byte
b. Sector b. Bit
c. Cylinder c. Megabyte
d. Cluster d. Terabyte
145. A diskette is divided into a number of concentric 152. Which device has the largest storage capacity?
circles called
a. Diskette
a. sectors b. CD-ROM
b. cylinders c. DVD
c. tracks d. Hard disk
d. clusters
153. Another name for primary storage is:
146. The storage capacity of a floppy disk is
a. Secondary storage
a. 1.44 MB b. Immediate access storage
b. 1.44 GB c. Magnetic tape
c. 1440 KB d. Hard disk
d. 1440 MB
154. Where are data and instructions held so that they
147. The process of preparing a floppy disk to store data are available to the CPU for processing?
from a computer is called
a. ROM
a. deleting b. DVD
b. erasing c. CD-ROM
c. formatting d. RAM
d. archiving
155. When a disk is formatted, which of the following
148. Which of the following does NOT provide serial happens?
access?
a. All data on the disk is erased
a. Reel to reel tape b. It becomes damaged
b. Microfilm c. Data files are copied onto the disk
c. Microfiche d. It contains files to boot up the computer
d. Cartridge tape
156. Magnetic tape is used to:
149. The acronym ROM stands for:
a. Hold data necessary for starting up the
a. Random Only Memory computer
b. Read Only Memory b. Back up large amounts of data
c. Read Optical Module c. Hold data that computer is processing at the
d. Random Organising Memory time
d. None of the above
162. Presentation software allows the user to
157. SCSI, IDE and SATA provide:
I. track changes
a. storage space II. design tables
b. processing power III. enhance public speaking
c. an interface IV. develop graphics to report on sales data
d. none of the above
a. I and II only
158. Slide design in a presentation software is used to b. II and III only
c. III and IV only
a. create a background for the slide d. I, II, III and IV
b. create your own design for the slide
c. create a layout for the slide 163. The pair of files used to produce merged letters
d. create a style for the slide during a mail merge is
159. Which of the following are uses of a typical a. primary document and data source
presentation software? b. primary document and merged letters
c. data source and merged letters
I. To enhance public speaking d. primary document and current letter
II. To store records in a structural fashion
III. To create graphs of sales Item 7 refers to the diagram shown below.
IV. To deliver lectures
a. I and II only
b. I and IV only
c. I, II and IV only
d. I, II, III and IV
160. Which of the following pairs of items is used to
create a web page?
a. undo
b. repeat
c. wordwrap
d. text alignment
166. The purpose of the icon labelled 2 is to
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