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Question 1
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The following actions are the effects of virus infection in a system except

Adeletion of files
Bslow operation
Chard disk failure
Ddisplay of unwanted messages
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Question 2
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A computer program that gathers information about a person or organization without their knowledge or consent  is known known as

Aadware
Btime bomb
Ctrojan horse
Dspyware
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Question 3
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Which of the following options is not a similarity between computer file and manual file? Both can 

Abe accessed
Bbe retrieved
Cstore multimedia
Dcontain information
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Question 4
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The file access method shown in Figure 12 is called 

Ahashed access
Bindexed access
Crandom access
Dsequential access
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Question 5
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To prevent unforeseen data loss, a user must 

Aedit the data
Bcreate the data
Cbackup the data
Ddefragment the data
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Question 6
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The binary number 0.1101 in decimal is 

A0.8125
B0.8215
C0.8225
D0.8512
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Question 7
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Evaluate 10011\(_2\) - 1111\(_2\) 

A00010\(_2\)
B00100\(_2\)
C01000\(_2\)
D10000\(_2\)
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Question 8
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A single character in an EBCDIC encoding system can be represented using 

A4 bits
B6 bits
C8 bits
D16 bits
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Question 9
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The part of the computer system shown in Figure 11 is used to 

Aperform memory test
Bpower on or off the computer
Cprint a document from the computer
Dreset the computer to factory setting
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Question 10
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Changing the default settings or appearance of the Taskbar in windows by a user is known as 

Acustomization
Bdesigning
Cgeneralization
Dglobalization
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Question 11
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The windows shortcut key for closing an active application is

AAlt+F4
BCtrl+Alt+Del
CCtrl+Esc.
DCtrl+Shift+Del
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Question 12
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The screen background where icons and windows are displayed is GUI is called 

Aexplorer
Bdesktop
Copening screen
Dhomepage
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Question 13
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What type of relationship can you deduce from the statement a department has many employees?

AOne-to-one
BOne-to-many
CMany-to-many
DMany-to-one
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Question 14
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The part of the MS Word interface labelled II in Figure 10 is called 

ARead mode
BPrint Layout
CProofing error
DWeb layout
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Question 15
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Which of the following formulas will display the current seconds past the minute os the clock in MS Excel?

A=MINUTES()
B=MINUTES(NOW())
C=MINUTE(YEAR())
D=MINUTES(HOUR(NOW()))
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Question 16
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The part of the MS Access interface labelled X in Figure 9 is called 

AReport view
BReport wizard
CQuery design
DQuery view
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Question 17
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The figure 2 in the number 1101\(_2\) is indicated in MS Word using a feature called 

Asuperscript
Bsubscript
Croot
Dexponentiation
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Question 18
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The part of the graphic interface in Figure 8 labelled V is called 

Apan
Bzoom in
Czoom out
Dfit to window
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Question 19
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In MS Excel, the cell that contains the pointer or cursor is called

Aactive cell
Bcurrent cell
Cdefault cell
Dpassive cell
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Question 20
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The type of network represented in Figure 7 is called 

ALAN
BMAN
CPAN
DWAN
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