COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS (SSCE)

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SSCE/NECO/GCE (COMPUTER STUDIES)

These are Computer Studies Past Questions. 40 questions will be picked at random from the question bank.

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1 / 40

USB stands for

Universal Serial Board

United Serial Bus

Universal Serial Bus

United State Board

2 / 40

Dot-matrix is a type of

printer

bus

disk

tape

3 / 40

The linking of computers with a communication system is called

assembling

pairing

inter-locking

networking

4 / 40

Which of the following is a machine for reading documents that are encoded in a way that is readable by person and machine?

distributed system

Document reader

Artificial Intelligent

Document Sorter

5 / 40

A collection of programs that control how your computer system runs and processes information is called

operating system

computer

buses

peripherals

6 / 40

Which of these is not an example of operating system

BSD Unix

Red Hat Linux

Microsoft Office XP

Windows 98

7 / 40

Which gate sends on a pulse when it receives one at either or both of its terminals?

NOR

NOT

NAND

8 / 40

These are the World Wide Protocols

www and //tp

www.TMCH

HTTP and HTML

TPHT and TMCH

9 / 40

If you see a diskette with a piece of foil covering its notch, it is said to be

write-protected

write-enabled

foil-covered

copy-protected

10 / 40

What is Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?

the hardware/software protocol that limits access to company data

the protocol to copy files between computers

the transfer protocol or transfer web pages to a browser

the database access protocol for SQL statements

11 / 40

A record is made up of

student marks

people in a town

names of musicians

related fields

12 / 40

What is ‘SIM’?

Structured Input Module

Some Information Modification

Subscribe Input Module

Subscriber Identity Module

13 / 40

A program used to detect overall system malfunction is

system analysis

utilities

system software

system diagnostics

14 / 40

The two kinds of memory are

random and sequential

Ram and temporary

primary and secondary

ROM and RAM

15 / 40

The device used to carry digital data on analog lines is called

modulator

multiplexer

demodulator

modem

16 / 40

Computer connectors are

male and female

cables and wires

Male and wires

Boy and Girl

17 / 40

A server-side extension is needed to do what?

allow a request from a client to access HTML-formatted page

allow a request from a client to access database

allow a request from HTML to access web pages

allow a request from a client to access webpages

18 / 40

The purpose of an application program is to

meet specific user needs

make off-line equipment run better

converts program written in high level language to machine language

allow the operating system to control resources better

19 / 40

Blue tooth is an example of

Virtual Private Network

Local Area Network

Metropolitan

Personal Area Network

20 / 40

Memory which forgets everything when you switch off the power is known as

corrupted memory

volatile memory

non-volatile memory

non-corrupted memory

21 / 40

Physical or logical arrangement of network is

topology

networking

routing

ISP

22 / 40

BIOS stands for

Binary Input Output System

Basic Input Off System

Basic Input Output System

Binary Input Off System

23 / 40

The “Com” in www.schoolportalng.com stands for

committee

complain

commercial

company

24 / 40

A language based on graphics for use in education is

PROLOG

BASIC

LOGO

COBOL

25 / 40

The acronym FTP stands for

File Ping Protocol

File Transit Protocol

File Transfer Protocol

File Translate Protocol

26 / 40

Database is

the data stored in base 8

the end of data collection

conversion from base 8 to base 2.

collection of data files

27 / 40

Which of the following is a computer memory that can be programmed once, but not reprogrammed?

RAM

PROM

ROM

EPROM

28 / 40

The term ‘gigabyte’ refers to

1024 megabytes

1024 gigabytes

1024 kilobytes

1024 bytes

29 / 40

Check the odd term out

internet

Windows

Linux

Unix

30 / 40

Another name for “network topology” is:

network organization

network structure

network study

large topology

31 / 40

Conversion of an octal number 73₈ to binary number will give us

110010

111011

111100

110111

32 / 40

Which of these are the building blocks of all the circuits in a computer?

logic gates

logical operators

circuit switch

instructors

33 / 40

WPA2 is used for security in

Wi-Fi

bluetooth

infrared

Ethernet

34 / 40

A program that keeps running indefinitely is said to be

stubborn

working well

looping

iterating

35 / 40

The protocol HTML means

Hyper Text Markup Language

High Tension Management Limited

Hyperbolic Text Mingle Language

Hyperbolic Text Management Limited

36 / 40

What was the computer conceived by Babbage?

arithmetic machine

application software

punch card engine

analytical engine

37 / 40

The Central Processing Unit (CPU) consist of

control unit, processing and primary storage

control unit, primary storage and secondary storage

input, output and processing

control unit, arithmetic logic unit and primary storage

38 / 40

The difference between people with access to computer and those without this access is known as the

internet divide

cyberway divide

digital divide

web divide

39 / 40

The hardware in which data maybe

control unit

memory

Bus

40 / 40

Features of XML include which of the following

address the structuring and manipulation of the data involved

governs the display of information in a web browser

the tags are used to describe the appearance of the content

governs the display of structures and information in a web server

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