I have joined the Calicut University for B.Com Course in this year. The classes in the Calicut University campus will start after some days. I want to collect all important notes and syllabus of B.Com First Year Program. I need detailed syllabus of General Informatics subject in first. So please provide all these things in Pdf format.

The General Informatics Question Bank for the B Com /BBA/BMMC III Semester Common Course by School of Distance Education for Calicut University is as given below.

University of Calicut
School of Distance Education
B Com/BBA/BMMC
III Semester Common Course
General Informatics Question Bank

1. Which of the following devices can be considered as input devices?
a) Keyboard and mouse
b) Scanner and printer
c) Hard drive and speakers
d) Microphone and CD-ROM drive

2. Which of the following is not one of the four major functions of a computer?
a) Output
b) Storage
c) Processing
d) Calculation

3. Which of the following is not an output device?
a) Printer
b) Hard drive
c) Monitor
d) Speakers

4. The resolution of a monitor is governed by the
a) Size of the screen
b) Cost of the monitor
c) Number of pixels on the screen
d) Contrast of the pixels on the screen

5. All of the following are important to consider when buying an LCD monitor EXCEPT
a) Brightness
b) Viewing angle
c) Pixel swap rate
d) Resolution

6. Restarting the system after it has been completed powered off is called
a) A warm boot
b) A standby start
c) Hibernation
d) A cold boot

7. An Ethernet port is used for connecting your computer to
a) A network
b) A printer
c) A monitor
d) A digital camera

8. Which of the following devices is considered the brain of the computer?
a) Read only memory
b) Central processing unit
c) Random access memory
d) Motherboard

9. Which of the following statements about the hard disks is TRUE?
a) Hard disks are always installed inside the system unit of a computer
b) Hard disks are considered volatile storage devices
c) With the rise of flash drives, hard disks are becoming legacy technology
d) Hard disks are considered nonvolatile storage devices
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10. Which one of the following statements is not true about instant messaging?
a) It is a popular form of communication
b) You communicate in real time
c) Only two people can IM at the same time
d) Like e-mail, IM is not good for private conversations

11. When shopping online which of the following does not indicate that you have a secure connection display?
a) A closed padlock icon in the status bar
b) The URL begins with https
c) The word “secure” in the title bar
d) The VeriSign seal on the Web Page

12. Pages on the web have spots youcan click called
a) Hyperlinks
b) Links
c) Hot spots
d) All of the above

13. Links you can click on a web site include
a) Highlighted text
b) Highlighted graphics
c) Buttons
d) All of the above

14. In addition to the web the internet also includes
a) E-mail
b) Gopher and ftp
c) Usenet and telnet
d) All of the above

15. To put a site on the web you need to work with
a) An access provider
b) A presence provider
c) The Internet Authority
d) A design company

16. A browser
a) Displays Web documents
b) Allows you to navigate
c) Allows you to copy, print and transfer documents
d) All of the above

17. To locate information on the web you can
a) Use a search engine
b) Select sites from list
c) Click any link to browse
d) All of the above

18. When you use a search engine, the term hit refers to
a) A popular site
b) Any site that’s listed
c) Any site that’s related to popular music
d) Any site related to baseball

19. Search engines search indexes of key terms that are often compiled by a software program called
a) An insect
b) A spider
c) A worm
d) None of the above

20. The term bandwidth refers to
a) How much data can be sent through a connection
b) The amount of data in a multimedia file
c) How fast your computer is
d) None of the above