Computer Questions for IBPS and other Bank Exams

Q1. If you wish to extend the length of the network without having the signal degrade, you would use a _____. 

(a) Repeater 

(b) Router 

(c) Gateway 

(d) Switch 

(e) None of these 

Q2. What is a Firewall in Computer Network? 

(a) The physical boundary of Network 

(b) An operating System of Computer Network 

(c) A system designed to prevent unauthorized access  

(d) A web browsing Software 

(e) None of these 

Q3. The process of trading goods over the internet is known as _________.

(a) E-selling-n-buying 

(b) E-trading 

(c) E-finance 

(d) E-salesmanship 

(e) E-commerce 

Q4. C was developed by ______. 

(a) Ada Byron 

(b) Bill Gates 

(c) Blaise Pascale 

(d) Dennis Ritchie 

(e) None of these 

Q5. Which of the following is a programming language? 

(a) Lotus 

(b) Pascal 

(c) MS-Excel 

(d) Netscape 

(e) None of these 

Q6. The term is used to describe the intangible instructions that tell the computer what to do is known as_______.

(a) Hardware 

(b) Software 

(c) Storage 

(d) Input/output 

(e) None of these 

Q7. A set of instructions telling the computer what to do is called______.

(a) Mentor 

(b) Instructor 

(c) Complier 

(d) Program 

(e) Debugger 

Q8. Programs designed to perform specific tasks related to managing computer resources are called_____.

(a) Operating system 

(b) Helper software 

(c) System software 

(d) Application software 

(e) Utility software 

Q9. _____ is a Windows utility program that located and eliminates unnecessary fragments and rearranges filed and unused to disk space to optimise operations.

(a) Backup  

(b) Disk cleanup 

(c) Disk defragmenter 

(d) Restore 

(e) Disk restorer 

Q10. Which command is used to set a name to a disk in DOS?  

(a) VOLUME

(b) VOL

(c) LABEL

(d) DISKLABEL

(e) None of these 

Q11. Software that is actively utilised by end-users (like word or powerpoint) is called    

(a) Actionware  

(b) Operating system 

(c) System software 

(d) Driver 

(e) Application software 

Q12. Distributed processing involves  

(a) Solving computer component problems from a different computer 

(b) Solving computing problems by breaking them into smaller parts that are separately processed by different computers  

(c) Allowing users to share files on a network 

(d) Allowing users to access network resources away from the office 

(e) None of the above 

Q13. What is an intranet?  

(a) A LAN of an organization 

(b) A wide Area Network connecting all branches of an organization  

(c) A corporate computer network 

(d) A network connecting all computers of an organization and using the internet protocol  

(e) None of these 

Q14. Specialised program(s) designed to allow particular input or output device(s) to communication with the rest of the computer system is called  _______.

(a) Computer 

(b) Device drivers 

(c) Interpreters 

(d) Operating system 

(e) None of these 

Q15. Which of the following scrambles a message by applying a secret code?

(a) Encryption 

(b) Audits

(c) UPS

(d) Firewalls

(e) None of the above