Basic Computer Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams

1. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are changing the world of education by providing free online courses.

2. MOOC is a web-based free distance learning program that ensures the participation of students from geographically remote areas in the field of education.

3. It offers free online courses for higher education, executive education and employee development.

1. The full form of OTP is One one-time password.

2. OTP is used as one of the additional security features for secure online transactions.

3. The OTP feature prevents certain types of identity theft by ensuring that a captured username/password pair cannot be used a second time.

4. The user's login name usually remains the same, and the one-time password changes with each login.

5. One-Time Password (aka One-Time Passcode) is a form of strong authentication, providing better security to eBanking, corporate networks, and other sensitive data systems.

1. LCD panel types include normal and roof-mounted.

2. Liquid Crystal Display flats are thinner and lighter making them more useful and easier for users than CRTs. It consumes less power than CRT.

Copying files to a CD ROM is known as the burning process.

1. The full form of CD ROM is Compact Disc Read Only Memory. It is a storage device that can contain data as well as media files.

2. Burning is the process of copying media files like movies, pictures, etc. to a CD.

3. Ripping is the process of copying media files from a CD to a computer.

4. Zipping is the process that compresses a file into a folder to reduce the space used.

5. Digitization is converting information into digital format.

1. Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), sometimes also known as Digital Video Disc (DVD), is an optical disc storage media format for storing digital data.

2. DVD offers higher storage capacity than compact disc (CD) when having the same size.

3. It is a digital optical dose storage format. It can be used for storing video, audio, images or data.

1. Press the F5 key to start the presentation slide show.

2. View Show option is selected from the Slide Show menu to start the slide show of the presentation.

3. Shift+F5: Starts the slide show from the current slide.

The search engine performs the following tasks-

1. Web crawling: Search engines search all web pages on the web using a crawler. A crawler is a program that finds new web pages by following links on the web.

2. Indexing: Once the crawler finds all the web pages, the search engine indexes them in a database. The index contains information for each web page, such as title, URL, and content.

3. Searching: When a user types a search query, the search engine searches all the web pages in the index that may be related to the query.

1. Flash memory is a portable storage device that can store data for a short period of time.

2. Unlike traditional hard drives, flash memory is capable of retaining data even after the power is turned off.

3. A flash drive is a small, portable flash memory card that plugs into a computer's USB port and acts as a portable hard drive.

4. A flash drive is a portable data storage device. Flash drives contain multiple flash chips, which are large memory modules.

Type of secondary memory.

Solid State Drive

Hard Disk

USB Pen Drive

Ink-jet printers or band printers are classified based on the printing method.