Computer Quiz Questions – V8

Computer Quiz questions can really help you learn about your computer and these quizzes are proving to be very popular. I have previously made 8 Computer Quizzes which are available at in the Computer Quizzes category. Please feel free to share these with your friends by pressing the Facebook Share buttons above and below this post!
Each Computer Quiz is a bit different and this one has both easy questions and advanced questions, but bordering on easy. (In fact I may have lost touch with what is easy and hard.) However most computer users should be aware of these answers.
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Computer QUIZ – Learning about computers?

#1. What keyboard key will open up a help screen in almost any application?

F1
F2
The Windows key
The special ? key on some keyboards

#2. What is a Web browser cookie?

Another name for upvoting, digging, or liking on social media sites such as Reddit, Digg, and Facebook
A tool hackers and spammers use to track all of the sites you visit on the Internet
A small Adobe (Macromedia) Flash applet used to track visits to a single website
A small piece of text your Web browser saves on your computer on behalf of a website like www.google.com

#3. Why should you never run the following command: fmt C:\?

Because it will mess up the formatting in your Microsoft Word documents
Because it will reformat your hard drive, destroying all of the data on your computer
Because it will reformat your USB drive, destroying all of the data on it
As of Windows XP, fmt C:\ no longer does anything

#4. Which program should you use to edit system files with the extension .txt?

Microsoft Word
Text Editor
Notepad
Windows Registry Editor

#5. You bought a new 100 gigabyte drive but Windows says you only have 93.13 gigabytes disk space or less. What happened to the missing disk space?

This should not happen. There must have been an error on the disk drive’s packaging
Microsoft Windows never reports disk space correctly
The disk manufacturer listed the size in gigabytes, but Windows lists the size in gibibytes—plus, the manufacturer didn’t count the space taken up by the formatting for the disk filesystem
You installed the disk on an old computer which can’t access the entire drive

#6. What is the name of the system that turns human-readable addresses like www.google.com into computer addresses like 72.14.204.99?

The Domain Name Lookup (DNL)
The Domain Name System (DNS)
Structured Query Language (SQL)
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND)

#7. What kind of devices can you plug into your computer’s PS/2 port?

PlayStation 2 controllers
Keyboard and mouse
CAT–5 or CAT–6 network cable
USB 1.0 or USB 1.1 devices

#8. What does Microsoft Access do?

Lets you login to Microsoft-owned and Microsoft-affiliated websites with a single password
Lets you use the same account on your Windows PC, Windows Mobile Phone, and Microsoft XBox
Manages databases
Microsoft Access is the name of the administrator control panel on Windows XP and above

#9. What’s the difference between a network switch and a network router?

There’s no difference
A switch is a router with over 32 network connectors used mainly by companies
A router contains antennas to allow wireless networking
A switch connects computers on only one network; a router connects computers on two or more networks

#10.  How often should you backup your computer files?

Once a day
Once a week
Once a month
It depends on what you’re doing