50 questions related to software - 1

1. Primary purpose of software is to turn data into information.
2. The ability to find an individual item in a file immediately sequential access is used.
3. You can use the tab key to move a cursor across the screen  and indent the paragraph.
4. A collection of related files is called a record.
5. Debugging is the process of finding errors in software code.
6. Syntax contains specific rules and word that express the logical steps of an algorithm.
7. Changing an existing document is called editing the document.
8. The Windows key will launch the start button.
9. To move the beginning of a line of text, press the Home key.
10. The Operating System tells the computer how to use its components.
11. Quick time, Window media player and Real player is the example of media player.
12. Word processing, spreadsheet and Photo editing are example of System Software.
13. Software is a set of computer programs used on a computer to help perform tasks.
14. The two broad categories of software are System and Application.
15. The operating system is the most common type of System Software.
16. Boot Sector:-Viruses are often transmitted by a floppy disk left in the floppy drive.
17. Linux is a open source operating system.
18. Back Up means restoring the information back up, an exact copy of a system’s information, the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure.
19. Menus are lists of commands that appear on the screen.
20. Verification of a login name and password is known as authentication.
21. FORTAN is Formula Translation.
22. C language has been developed by Ken Thompson.
23. Window 7 is an operating system.
24. C is a High level language with some Low level features.
25. Length of the string “correct” is 7.
26. UNIX was developed by Bell labs.
27. ASCII codes need 7 bits to represent a character.
28. When you delete files in windows OS, they are put in Recycle bin.
29. Compiler in computer system is a System Software.
30. VIRUS stands for Vital Information Resource Under Siege.
31. WORM stands for Write Once Read Many.
32. Usually, in MS DOS, the primary hard disk drive has the drive letter C.
33. The first UNIX operating system was written in the Assembly Language.
34. A pixel is the smallest resolvable part of a picture.
35. Difference between ‘cool booting’ and ‘warm booting’:- Cool booting is starting the computer from the power off position and warm booting is the restarting the computer.
36. The REN command in DOS is used to change the name of a file.
37. In DOS, the purpose of MD command is to create directory.
38. Word in MS-OFFICE – 7 allows creation of .docx type of documents by default.
39. An Animated character that gives help in MS-OFFICE is Office Assistant.
40. To standout a word, use the option Bold.
41. Entire document, Current Page and All number pages can be printed by using print option.
42. It is the way text appears on a page. It is Format.
43. It refers to the distance between text boundaries and page margins indent.
44. Selecting landscape changes our page from a tall to wide orientation.
45. In order to tell Excel that we are entering a formula in a cell we must begin the entry with an operator such as =.
46. Select the shortcut key to delete a file permanently: – Shift + Del.
47. F7 shortcut key can be used to invoke the spell checker in the MS Access.
48. F5 shortcut key can be used to view slide show.
49. An operation to retrieve information image as well as text which is stored in clip board and inserted it at the destined place is Paste.
50. The property that, when classes are arranged in a hierarchy each class assumes the attributes and method of its ancestors known as Inheritance.