Introductory
Quiz
General
IT Knowledge
Note: the purpose of
this quiz is to ascertain your starting level of knowledge and your score will
not be used in your final assessment grade.
There are 30
questions
Question 1.
A numbering system
in which numbers and letters are used is known as
(a)
binary
(b) octal
(c)
hexadecimal
(d)
decimal
Question 2.
The number of bits
in a byte is
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Question 3.
Hard disks can have a storage capacity in
the region of
(a)
1.44Mb
(b) 40Gb
(c)
720K
(d)
300Gb
Question 4.
Formatting a disk results in all the data
being
(a)
copied from a disk
(b) made
clean of viruses
(c)
saved
to disk
(d)
erased
from disk
Question 5.
Which storage device has the largest
capacity?
(a)
magnetic disk
(b) floppy
disk
(c)
CD-ROM
(d)
DVD
Question 6.
Which one of the following is
FALSE? Floppy disks should NOT be stored
(a)
next
to speakers
(b) next
to a radiator
(c)
in
a drawer
(d)
next
to a television set
Question 7.
What are the individual dots which make
up a monitor screen called?
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Question 8.
Which one of the following is NOT an
input device?
(a)
printer
(b) keyboard
(c)
scanner
(d)
microphone
Question 9.
Which one of the following is NOT an
output device?
(a)
printer
(b) speakers
(c)
scanner
(d)
VDU
Question 10.
A daisy wheel is a type of
(a)
printer
(b) speaker
(c)
scanner
(d)
plotter
Question 11.
The result of adding
the binary numbers 101110 and 000010 is
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Question 12.
The contents of these chips are NOT lost
when the power is switched off
(a)
ROM
(b) RAM
(c) DRAM
(d)
SDRAM
Question 13.
The ASCII code for the letter D
is 68 in base 10. In base 2 this is
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Question 14.
The part of the computer that
carries out arithmetic calculations is the
(a)
ALU
(b) registers
(c)
clock
(d)
RAM
Question 15.
The ASCII code for the letter Z
is 90 in base 10. In hexadecimal this is
(a)
90
(b) 50
(c)
A5
(d)
105
Question 16.
Software can be categorised as
(a)
network software & systems software
(b) application
software & systems software
(c)
network software & application software
(d)
business software & user software
Question 17.
Application software is
used
(a)
for helping someone apply for a job
(b) for
a particular purpose such as editing, etc.
(c)
by the operating system to control hardware
(d)
to run the computer
Question 18
Which of the following would NOT
be used as a network operating system?
(a)
Novell
(b) Windows 2000
(c)
Linux
(d)
DOS
Question 19
What does the term LAN stand for?
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Question 20
What type of server stores files created
by network users?
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Question 21
Write down a make of CPU that is NOT Intel?
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Question 22
Write down one type of computer port you would find on the back of a computer
system?
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Question 23
Give one type of connector that a computer
mouse would have
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Question 24
What does POST stand for?
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Question 25
What does BIOS stand for ?
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Question 26
If there are 2 IDE connectors on a
motherboard, how many hard drives can be connected to the motherboard?
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Question 27
What does ESD stand for?
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Question 28
What is CPU speed measured in?
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Question 29
An Intel Pentium II will run faster than
an AMD XP 2000?
True or False?
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Question 30
Of the three different types of RAM chips -
SDRAM, DRAM, DDR. Which type is the most recent?
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General Question - About
You
Write a short paragraph describing your
current knowledge of computer hardware and any experience you have had
dismantling, upgrading or playing around with hardware components. Also,
how interested are you in knowing about computer hardware? Do you
want to be able to build/upgrade systems?
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