Computer Operator; Interview Questions from Computer Fundamentals with answers.

Interview Questions from Computer Fundamentals with answers

Question 1. What Is the Difference Between Save and Save As?

Answer:

Use SAVE when you are revising an existing document.
Use SAVE AS when you are creating a new document from scratch or an existing document. This will keep the original document untouched in its original format and create a new document with a new name.

Question 2. How Can We Find Out Basic Information About Our Computer?
Answer:
We can get the basic information about our computer by following below steps.

· Right Click at my computer icon.

· Click Properties.

· General tab will show the processor and ram information.

· And Hardware Tab >> Device Manger will show the entire hardware resources attached with you computer.

Question 3. What Is Text Formatting?
Answer:
Text formatting refers to the attributes of text other than the actual text itself. For example, bold, italics, underlining, color, and size, are all formatting attributes of text. The location of text can also be considered part of the formatting. Text can be automatically centered, indented, or positioned in other ways. When you wish to change the format of text, you usually have to select the text, then do the formatting by clicking the appropriate buttons. Occasionally, there are exceptions to the select-then-do paradigm.

In Microsoft Word, there is a feature called Format Painter with which you click some already formatted text, then click the Format Painter toolbar button, then drag the mouse cursor across some other text. The other text will be "painted" with the formatting of the original text selected. If you double-click the Format Painter button, then it will be "locked" and you can paint lots of text. When you are done, click the Format Painter button again to turn it off.

Question 4. Explain Toolbar?
Answer:
A group of option buttons in some programs that usually make performing certain actions quicker and easier.

Question 5. What Is Driver Software?
Answer:
Driver software is software that works as a translator between another program and some piece of hardware. In the software industry, there are generally standard ways to do things.

There are many different types of hardware, however, and each piece of hardware may have its own protocol (or "language"). The driver software receives standard signals from another program, then translates these into commands for a particular piece of hardware. This way a program can be written in a standard way, and it will work with many different devices.

Question 6. What Is Icon?
Answer:
An icon is a picture used to represent an object. Some example objects are: data files, program files, folders, email messages, and drives. Each type of object has a different icon. That means that different types of files each have an icon representing its file type. MS Word files will have the MS Word icon; MS Excel files will have the MS Excel icon; Etc.

Question 7. What Is Map Network Drive?
Answer :
Associating a network drive. Doing this will have the drive appear in My Computer.

Question 8. What Is The Interface?
Answer :
The visible layer which allows a user to communicate with a computer.

Question 9. What Is Minimize Button?
Answer :
To make a window disappear from the screen and move down to the taskbar.

Question 10. What Is Floppy Disk?
Answer :
A round, flexible piece of magnetic media stored within a 3.5 inch square protective plastic case. One floppy disk can store 1.44 megabytes of data. Because floppy disks use magnetic media, they must be kept away from magnets, or the data on them could be erased! Computer speakers are magnetically shielded to prevent erasure of floppy disks, but standard speakers are not!

Question 11. What Is Cd-rom?
Answer :
Compact Disc - Read Only Memory. A CD-ROM is any compact disc which contains computer data. These discs can store huge amounts of data (up to 640 megabytes). If there is a large amount of data on a CD-ROM, then it is usually impractical to copy the data on to the hard disk; in this case, you must insert the disc whenever you want to use the data. The ROM simply means that you can not save information onto these discs. CD-ROM may also refer to the drive used to read these discs.

Question 12. How Do We Open A Rar File?
Answer :
RAR file (Resource Adapters aRchive) is a compressed file (like a Zip file). You need a decompressing program to see the contents of a RAR file. One you can use is called WinRAR.

Question 13. How Can We Get Detailed System Information about Our Computer?
Answer :
Sometimes, despite all efforts, it seems impossible to find a particular piece of information about your computer. 

This is especially frustrating when you're attempting to resolve a problem, and a support technician asks you to provide a simple piece of data. 

Wouldn't life be a little easier if information about your operating system, hardware resources and components, and software settings was all in one place? 

Microsoft System Information, which is included with almost all Windows systems, may be just what you need. To check out Microsoft System Information:
Go to Start > Run.
Type "msinfo32" into the Open field.
Click "OK".

Note: If "msinfo32" doesn't work, try "msinfo".

Question 14. How Do We Change The Screen Resolution Of Our Computer?
Answer :
Go to Control Panel > Display > Settings and adjust the resolution there.
OrRight click on an empty place on the desktop, choose "Properties" from the menu and then Settings.

Question 15. What Is the Difference Between The "system Tray" And The "quick LaunchTray"?
Answer :
The system tray is that portion of the task bar (usually on the bottom of the screen-but you can drag it to either side or to the top!) that is on the right hand side displaying the clock and some of those programs that are running in the background. 

The portion on the left is the 'quick launch tray' because you can drag icons/shortcuts there and with a single click you can start or 'launch' the program.

Question 16. Explain Desktop?
Answer :
This is what you see on your computer screen when you have no windows open. It may be a solid color, or it may be graphics. On the desktop, there will be icons, including one called "My Computer" and one called "The Recycle Bin."

Question 17. Explain Folder?
Answer :
A folder can be thought of as a location on your hard disk or floppy disk. Folders used to be called directories/subdirectories. A folder contains files and can contain nested folders (subfolders). 

Folders and subfolders are used to organize your hard disk. For example, you probably already have a folder named "My Documents" on your hard disk; you could place a subfolder named "Work" under "My Documents", and place all your work documents within this subfolder. 

This way, you can keep your work documents separate from your personal documents.

Question 18. Explain Restore?
Answer :
Restore means to make a window smaller than full screen, so that it can be resized.

Question 19. Explain Modem?
Answer :
A device, usually connected to a serial port of a computer that transmits data over regular phone lines. Modem stands modulator demodulator; it converts a digital stream of data into sound for transmission (modulator) and converts incoming sound signals into data (demodulator).

Question 20. Described Interface?
Answer :
The visible layer which allows a user to communicate with a computer.

Question 21. Explain Dialog Box?
Answer :
This is a small window that is demanding your attention. You must respond before you can continue using the program that displayed the dialog box. 

A dialog box does not have a minimize or maximize button and does not show up on the taskbar. It is only a portion of its "parent" program. 

Most dialog boxes have a cancel button.

Question 22. Explain Driver Software?
Answer :
Driver software is software that works as a translator between another program and some piece of hardware. In the software industry, there are generally standard ways to do things. 

There are many different types of hardware, however, and each piece of hardware may have its own protocol (or "language"). 

The driver software receives standard signals from another program, then translates these into commands for a particular piece of hardware. 

This way a program can be written in a standard way, and it will work with many different devices.

Question 23. Explain Drag And Drop?
Answer :
When you click your mouse once and an object and hold it, while simultaneously moving that item to a different location.

Question 24. Explain Download?
Answer :
Retrieving a file from a BBS, an FTP site, or a remote computer.

Question 25. Explain Control Panel?
Answer :
A system utility that comes with Windows that allows the use to change a variety if different Windows and system settings.

Question 26. What Is Cursor?
Answer :
The representation of the mouse on-screen. Depending on your settings, the cursor can be many different things.

Question 27. What Is Taskbar?
Answer :
A bar that usually runs at the bottom of Windows which shows all tasks that are currently being run. 

The Start button is usually on the left side of the Taskbar. 

A clock is usually on the right side of the Taskbar. 

The Taskbar can be moved to any edge of the screen, and the clock and Start button can be removed if desired. task list A list of applications that are currently running. Windows users can access the Task list by pressing Alt + Tab.

Question 28. What Is Client/server?
Answer :
Clients and Servers are separate logical entities that work together over a network to accomplish a task. Many systems with very different architectures that are connected together are also called Client/Server.

Question 29. What Is Mac Address?
Answer :
It is the 48 bit hardware address of LAN card. MAC address is usually stored in ROM on the network adapter card and it is unique.

Question 30. How Will You Test Lan Card?
Answer :

Ping 127.0.0.1
If getting reply its fine