Professional CS Interview Questions & Answers:

1. What is the permanent memory built into your computer called?
[A] CD-ROM
[B] RAM
[C] ROM
[D] CPU

[C] ROM

2. Information on a computer is stored as:
[A] analog data
[B] digital data
[C] modem data
[D] watts data

[B] digital data

3. Which of the following is not an example of hardware?
[A] Interpreter
[B] scanner
[C] Monitor
[D] Mouse

[A] Interpreter

4. The pattern of printed lines on most products are called:
[A] prices
[B] scanners
[C] barcodes
[D] OCR

[C] barcodes

5. ISDN stands for:
[A] Integrated Services Digital Network
[B] Integrated Security Data Network
[C] Information Search and Data Nesting

[A] Integrated Services Digital Network

6. This is not a fun. category in Excel:
[A] Logical
[B] Data series
[C] Text

[B] Data series

7. Which of the following is hardware & not software?
[A] excel
[B] CPU
[C] Power point

[B] CPU

8. The binary system is a number system to the base:
[A] 2
[B] 4
[C] 8
[D] 10

[A] 2

9. The technique and process of searching, recovering,and interpreting information from large amounts of stored data is called:
[A] Browsing
[B] Chatting
[C] Information Retrival
[D] Desktop publishing

[C] Information Retrival

10. Ctrl, Shift and Alt are called __ keys.
[A] function
[B] modifier
[C] adjustment
[D] alphanumeric

[B] modifier

11. Which of the following is not valid version of MS Office:
[A] Office XP
[B] Office Vista
[C] Office 2007
[D] none

[B] Office Vista

12. VPN means:
[A] Vital Private Network
[B] Virtual Private Network
[C] Virtual projection Network
[D] none

[B] Virtual Private Network

13. As compared to diskettes, the hard disks are:
[A] More expensive
[B] More portable
[C] Rigid
[D] Slowly accessed

[A] More expensive

14. Which of the following is not a font style?
[A] subscript
[B] bold

[A] subscript

15. The act of retrieving existing data from memory is called:
[A] Read out
[B] Read form
[C] Read
[D] ALL

[D] ALL

16. What is the latest write-once optical storage media?
[A] Digital paper
[B] Magneto-optical disk
[C] WORM disk
[D] CD Rom Disk

[D] CD Rom Disk

17. MSI stands for:
[A] Medium Scale Integrated Circuits
[B] Medium System Integrated Circuits
[C] Medium Scale Intelligent Circuit

[A] Medium Scale Integrated Circuits

18. Application of information technology to the typical clerical and secretarial tasks such as communication, correspondence, documenting, and filing is called:
[A] Automation
[B] Documentation
[C] Information retrieval

[B] Documentation

19. A storage area used to store data to a compensate for the difference in speed at which the different units can handle data is:
[A] Memory
[B] Buffer
[C] Accumulator
[D] Address

[B] Buffer

20. Which printer is very commonly used for desktop publishing?
[A] Laser printer
[B] inkjet printer
[C] Daisy-wheel printer
[D] Dot matrix

[A] Laser printer

21. Dot-matrix is a type of:
[A] printer
[B] memory
[C] floppy
[D] disk

[A] printer

22. Floppy disks, which are made from flexible plastic material, are also called?
[A] Hard disks
[B] High-density disks
[C] Diskettes
[D] Templates

[C] Diskettes

23. The most important advantage of a video disk is:
[A] potential capacity
[B] Compactness
[C] Durability
[D] Cost effectiveness

[A] potential capacity

24. All modern computer operate on:
[A] Data
[B] Floppy
[C] Information
[D] none

[A] Data

25. VGA is:
[A] Video Graphics Array
[B] Visual Graphics Array
[C] Volatile Graphics Array

[A] Video Graphics Array

26. The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from:
[A] Primary memory
[B] Control Memory
[C] External memory
[D] cache memory

[B] Control Memory

27. WAN stands for:
[A] Wrap Area Network
[B] Wide Area Network
[C] Wide Array Net
[D] Wireless Area Network

[B] Wide Area Network

28. CD-ROM stands for:
[A] Compactable Read Only Memory
[B] Compact Data Read Only Memory
[C] Compactable Disk Read Only Memory
[D] Compact Disk Read Only Memory

[D] Compact Disk Read Only Memory

29. ALU is:
[A] Arithmetic Logic Unit
[B] Array Logic Unit
[C] Application Logic Unit
[D] none

[A] Arithmetic Logic Unit

30. UNIVAC is:
[A] Universal Automatic Computer
[B] Universal Array Computer
[C] Unique Automatic Computer
[D] Unvalued Automatic Computer

[A] Universal Automatic Computer

31. The most frequently used instructions of a computer program are likely to be fetched from:
[A] RAM
[B] cache memory
[C] the hard disk
[D] registers

[B] cache memory

32. Instruction in computer languages consists of:
[A] OPCODE
[B] OPERAND
[C] Syntax
[D] None of These

[C] Syntax

33. Where are cookies stored?
[A] In HTML
[B] On the server
[C] On the client
[D] In web .xml

[C] On the client

34. Which transmission media is fastest?
[A] coaxial cable
[B] infrared rays
[C] Bluetooth
[D] fiber optics

[D] fiber optics

35. Process is:
[A] contents of main memory
[B] a job in secondary memory
[C] a program in execution
[D] program in High level language kept on disk

[C] a program in execution