Input Output Devices Of Computer 150+ MCQ For All Competitive Exam

Input Output Devices Of Computer 150+ MCQ For All Competitive Exam

 Input output devices of computer

1. A device that allows users to feed data into a computer for analysis and storage and to give commands to the computer is called

a) Output device

b) Input device

c) Memory

d) Both a and b

Ans - B

2. User communicates with a computer with the help of which devices?

a) Input device

b) Output device

c) Software device

d) Both a and b

Ans - D

3. Which device allows you to enter data and instructions into a computer?

a) Input device

b) Output device

c) ALU

d) CPU

Ans - A

4. Which device converts human-understandable data and programs into a form that computers can understand and process?

a) Output

b) Monitor

c) Input

d) All of the above

Ans - C

5. A device that communicates the results of data processed by the computer and converts the digital information into a form that humans can easily read and understood is called

a) Input

b) Monitor

c) Output

d) Keyboard

Ans - C

6. Which of the following groups are only input devices?

a) Mouse, keyboard, printer, Light pen

b) Mouse, keyboard, Scanner, Joystick, Light pen

c) Mouse, keyboard, Trackball, Touch Screen, Microphone

d) Both b and c

Ans - D

7. Which of the following is not a pointing device?

a) Mouse

b) Joystick

c) Light pen

d) Digitizer

Ans - D

8. Which input device is used for input text, numbers, and commands to the computer?

a) Mouse

b) Keyboard

c) Scanner

d) All of the above

Ans - B

9. Which input device is/are used to move the cursor position on a monitor screen?

a) Mouse

b) Joystick

c) Light pen

d) Both a and b

Ans - D

10. The number of function keys in a keyboard is

(a) 14

(b) 12

(c) 13

(d) 15

Ans - B

11. Ctrl, Shift, and Alt are known as _ _ _ _ _ _ _keys.

(a) function

(b) modifier

(c) alphanumeric

(d) adjustment

Ans - B

12. Which key of keyboard is used to make characters either upper or lower case?

(a) ESC

(b) Return

(c) Shift

(d) Both a and c

Ans - C

13. The use of tab key in the keyboard is

(a) to move a cursor across the screen

(b) to indent a paragraph

(c) to move the cursor down the screen

(d) Both a and c

Ans - D

14. Mouse is

(a) pointing and drop device

(b) cursor-control device

(c) monitoring device

(d) Both a and b

Ans - D

15. The first computer mouse was developed by

(a) Douglas Engelbart

(b) William English

(c) Daniel Cougher

(d) Robert Zawaski

Ans - A

17. Which of the following is used in an optical mouse?

(a) Infrared light

(b) Light Emitting Diode (LED)

(c) Sensor

(d) Microwave

Ans - B

18. Wireless mouse communicates through

(a) radiowaves

(b) infrared wave

(c) microwaves

(d) Electromagnetic signal

Ans - A

19. Which of the following are not input devices?

(a) Webcam and Microphone

(b) Bar Code Reader and Smart Card Reader

(c) Optical Character Reader and Optical Mark Recognition

(d) Monitor and Printer

Ans - D

20. Which of the following is/are input devices?

(a) Track ball

(b) Scanner

(c) Touch screen

(d) All of the above

Ans - D

21. Which of the following is not an output device?

(a) Monitor

(b) Printer

(c) Headphone

(d) Scanner

Ans - D

22. A projector is an _ _ _ _ _ _ device that can take images generated by a computer and reproduce

them on a large, flat surface.

(a) input

(b) output

(c) input and output

(d) monitor input

Ans - B

23. The OCR stands for

(a) Outsized Character Reader

(b) Optical Character Reader

(c) Operational Character Reader

(d) Only Character Reader

Ans - B

24. The OMR stands for

(a) Optical Mark Recognition

(b) Optical Magnetic Reader

(c) Only Mark Recognition

(d) Optical Markup Recognition

Ans - A

25. The MICR stands for

(a) Magnetic Ink Card Reader

(b) Magnetic Ink Code Recognition

(c) Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

(d) None of these

Ans - C

26. Which kind of device is a digital camera?

(a) Output

(b) Input

(c) Input and Output

(d) Software

Ans - B

27. Which of the following groups consists of only output devices?

(a) Scanner, monitor, printer

(b) Mouse, monitor, printer

(c) Keyboard, monitor, printer

(d) Monitor, printer, plotter

Ans - D

28. Which of the following is not an output device?

(a) LCD

(b) Printer

(c) CRT

(d) Touch screen

Ans - D

29. The computer monitor is connected to CPU through

(a) Bus

(b) Cable

(c) Wire

(d) Line driver

Ans - B

30. The number of pixels displayed on the computer screen is called

(a) color depth

(b) resolution

(c) refresh rate

(d) viewing size

Ans - B

31. Which of the following is a combination of input-output devices?

(a) VDT

(b) Keyboard

(c) Printer

(d) Laser

Ans - A

32. Which of the following units are used to count the speed of the printer?

(a) CPM

(b) PPM

(c) LPM

(d) All of the above

Ans - D

33. The output quality of a printer is measured in

(a) dots per sq

(b) dot per inch

(c) dots printer per inch

(d) All of these

Ans - B

34. Which of the following is a kind of port?

(a) Serial

(b) Parallel

(c) AGP

(d) All of these

Ans - D

35. How many bits of data can be transferred by parallel port?

(a) 2

(b) 4

(c) 8

(d) 16

Ans - C

36. The full form of USB port is

(a) United Serial Bus

(b) Universal Serial By-pass

(c) Universal System Bus

(d) Universal Serial Bus

Ans - D

37. Which of the following is the fastest port data transfer?

(a) USB

(b) Serial

(c) Parallel

(d) Firewire

Ans - D

38. USB port is a

(a) Serial port

(b) Parallel port

(c) infrared port

(d) AGP port

Ans - A

39. Which post is widely used on wireless devices to connect with network devices for easy communication?

(a) Serial port

(b) Parallel port

(c) Infrared port

(d) AGP port

Ans - C

40. Standard keyboard contains how many keys?

(a) 106

(b) 101

(c) 104

(d) 100

Ans - C

41. What are the most common input devices?

A) Microphone, printer

B) Scanner, monitor

C) Digital camera, speaker

D) Keyboard, mouse

Ans - D

42. Which of the following is not an input device?

A) Keyboard

B) Monitor

C) Joystick

D) Microphone

Ans - B

43. What is a function of a keyboard in computer?

A) Print

B) Input

C) Type

D) In between input and output

Ans - B

44. The general method for to input the text and numerical data in computer is by ____?

A) Keyboard

B) Scanner

C) Printer

D) Platter

Ans - A

45. Any data and instruction entered in the memory of a computer is

A) Storage

B) Output

C) Input

D) Information

Ans - C

46. What type of device is a computer printer?

A) Input

B) Output

C) Software

D) Storage

Ans - B

47. Information that comes from an external source and is fed into computer software is called _?

A) Input

B) Output

C) Throughput

D) Reports

Ans - A

48. Which keys enable the input of numbers quickly?

A) Function keys

B) The numeric keypad

C) hift and alt

D) Arrow keys

Ans - B

49. Which of the following could be digital input devices for computers?

A) Digital camcorder

B) Microphone

C) Scanner

D) All of the above

Ans - D

50. Which of these is a point and draw device?

A) Mouse

B) Scanner

C) Printer

D) CD-ROM

Ans - A

51. An optical mouse used

A) Infrared light

B) Light emitting diode (LED)

C) Sensor

D) Microwave

Ans - B

52. Mouse technique is used to access the properties of any object, is ___?

A) Dragging

B) Dropping

C) Right clicking

D) Shift clicking

Ans - C

53. The mouse _ usually appears in the shape of an arrow?

A) Indicator

B) Marker

C) Meter

D) Pointer

Ans - D

54. Mouse is known as ___?

A) Pointing device

B) Control device

C) Monitoring device

D) Gaming device

Ans - A

55. The first computer mouse is built by _?

A) Douglas engelbar

B) William English

C) Daniel cougher

D) Robertzawaski

Ans - A

56.The mouse generally has _?

A) Two buttons

B) Three buttons

C) Several buttons

D) Either (a) or (b)

Ans - B

57. Which among the following are the kinds of mouse?

A) Mechanical, general

B) Optical, mechanical

C) Optical, general

D) Optical, light

Ans - B

58. A device that is moved by hand to indicate a precise position on a digital data tablet is

A) Light pen

B) Mouse

C) Joystick

D) None of these

Ans - D

59. AUS standard keyboard follows

A) QWERTY model

B) 104-model

C) 108-model

D) All of these

Ans - A

60. What is a QWERTY keyboard?

A) is the most popular keyboard

B) is the fastest keyboard

C) Is a keyboard that is rarely used

D) All of the above

Ans - A

61. What do we call the keys that change the meaning of what you type?

A) Keyboard

B) Modifier keys

C) Disk space

D) Change keys

Ans - B

62. When a key is pressed on the keyboard, which standard is used for converting the keystroke into the corresponding bits?

A) ANSI

B) ASCII

C) EBCDIC

D) ISO

Ans - B

63.To select text by shading as you drag the mouse arrow over the text is referred to as ____?

A) Clip art

B) Highlight

C) Fetch

D) Decode

Ans - B

64. Letters, numbers, and symbols found on a keyboard are

A) Icon

B) Screen

C) Keys

D) Menu

Ans - C

65. Capital letters on a keyboard are referred to as?

A) Caps lock key

B) Grownups

C) Big guys

D) Upper case letters

Ans - A

66. Any letter, number, or symbol found on the keyboard that you can type into the computer is

A) Output

B) Character

C) Type

D) Print

Ans - B

67. Which of following groups have only input devices?

A) Mouse, Keyboard, Monitor

B) Mouse, Keyboard, Printer

C) Mouse, Keyboard, Plotter

D) Mouse, Keyboard, Scanner

Ans - D

68. Which of the following groups have only output devices?

A) Scanner, Printer, Monitor

B) Keyboard, Printer, Monitor

C) Mouse, Printer, Monitor

D) Platter, Printer, Monitor

Ans - D

69. Soft copy refers to.

A) Printed output

B) Music sounds

C) Screen output

D) Digitizing

Ans - C

70. The computer monitor is which type of device?

A) scanning

B) input

C) processor

D) output

Ans - D

71.A key that will erase information from the computer’s memory and characters on the screen

A) edit

B) delete key

C) dummy out

D) trust key

Ans - B

72. ___ is often used to select or highlight?

A) icon

B) keyboard

C) hard disk

D) mouse

Ans - D

73. The __ may also be called the screen or monitor?

A) printer

B) scanner

C) hard disk

D) display

Ans - D

74. The mouse ____ usually appears in the shape of an arrow?

A) indicator

B) marker

C) meter

D) pointer

Ans - D

75. You can use the tab key to _?

A) move a cursor across the screen

B) indent a paragraph

C) move the cursor down the screen

D) only (a) and (b)

Ans - D

76. What term is used to describe using the mouse to move an item on the screen to a new location?

A) Click

B) Double-click

C) Drag and drop

D) Point

Ans - C

77. what is the Powerful key that lets you exit a program when pushed?

A) Arrow key

B) Space bar

C) Escape key

D) Return key

Ans - C

78. ___ camera is a peripheral device used to capture still images in a digital format that can be easily transferred into a computer and manipulated using graphics software?

A) digital

B) analog

C) classic

D) film

Ans - A

79. Pick the odd one-

A) Mouse

B) Scanner

C) Printer

D) Keyboard

Ans - C

80. The device which helps you to communicate with computer is called

a) Input device

b) Output device

c) Software device

d) Both a and b

Ans - D

81. The two types of output devices are

a) Monitor and printer

b) Floppy disc and CD

c) Keyboard and Mouse

d) Windows 2000 and windows NT

Ans - A

82. Which part of a computer displays the work. done ?

a) RAM

b) ROM

c) Printer

d) Monitor

Ans - D

83. The mouse …….. usually appears in the shape of an arrow.

a) Indicator

b) Marker

c) Meter

d) Pointer

Ans - D

84. A US standard keyboard follows

a) QWERTY model

b) 104-model

c) 108-model

d) All of these

Ans - A

85. A device that is moved by hand to indicate a precise position on a

digital data tablet is

a) Light pen

b) Mouse

c) Joystick

d) Plotter

Ans - A

86. Any data and instruction entered in the memory of a computer is

a) Storage

b) Output

c) Input

d) Information

Ans - C

87. A button that makes characters either upper or lower case and

numbers to symbols

a) Monitor

b) Shift key

c) Icon

d) Mouse

Ans - B

88. Which is widely used in academic testing ?

a) MICR

b) POS

c) OCR

d) OMR

Ans - D

89. The OMR is able to evaluate only those documents which are

printed within …… position.

a) Marked

b) Magnetic

c) Special

d) Specific

Ans - A

90. Which is considered a direct entry input device ?

a) Optical scanner

b) Mouse

c) Light pen

d) Digitizer

Ans - C

91. For sound recording , what is necessary?

a) Speaker

b) Microphone

c) Talker

d) Mouse

Ans - B

92. The monitor of a computer is connected to it by a

a) Wire

b) Cable

c) Bus

d) Line driver

Ans - B

93. Which of the following is not an output device?

a) LCD

b) Printer

c) CRT

d) Touch screen

Ans - D

94. The first computer mouse is built by

a) Douglas Engel Bart

b) William English

c) Daniel Cougher

d) Revert Zawaski

Ans - A

95. A pixel is

a) A computer program that draws picture

b) A picture stored in secondary memory

c) The smallest resolvable part of a picture

d) The largest part of a picture

Ans - C

96. Daisy wheel printer is a type of

a) Matrix printer

b) Impact printer

c) Laser printer

d) Manual printer

Ans - B

97. Wireless mouse communicate through

a) Radio waves

b) Satellite

c) Microwaves

d) Infrared wave

Ans - A

98. The ….. Key and the ….. Key can be used in combination with

other keys to perform shortcuts and special tasks.

a) Ctrl, Alt

b) Function, Toggle

c) Delete, Insert

d) Caps lock, Num lock

Ans - A

99. An input device that reads printed text employing optical character

pattern matching, is known as

a) Scanner

b) Magnetic disk

c) Mouse

d) Magnetic tape

Ans - A

100. Which of the following could be digital input devices for computers

?

a) Digital camera

b) Microphone

c) Scanner

d) All of the above

Ans - D

101. The number of pixels displayed on a screen is known as

a) Resolution

b) Color depth

c) Refresh rate

d) Viewing size

Ans - A

102. The terminal device often used in checking charge cards that offers

both a limited keyboard input and visual output is the

a) Intelligent terminal

b) POS terminal

c) Video display terminal

d) Audio response unit

Ans - C

103. Which of the following printers cannot print graphics ?

a) Inkjet

b) Daisy wheel

c) Laser

d) Dot matrix

Ans - B

104. ……. Printers have tiny hammer-like keys that strike the paper

through an inked ribbon.

a) Inkjet

b) Impact

c) Non-impact

d) Laser moderate

Ans - B

105. A plotter is

a) Input device

b) Output device

c) Both a and b

d) Storage device

Ans - B

106. Wireless speakers are also known as

a) Compatible speakers

b) Reliable speaker

c) Non-wire speakers

d) Portable speakers

Ans - D

107. Which of the following device produce the best quality graphics

reproduction ?

a) Laser printer

b) Inkjet printer

c) Plotter

d) Dot matrix printer

Ans - C

108. Plotter print

a) With ball point pens

b) With ink pens

c) Electrostatically

d) All of these

Ans - D

109. Which of the following terminal output most closely resemble the

output produced by a plotter ?

a) Graphics terminal

b) POS terminal

c) Hardcopy terminal

d) All of the above

Ans - A

110. What is a keyboard used for?

a) Input text and numbers and send commands to the computer

b) To create new keys to use with your computer

c) To open the computer up

d) To create pictures and images and send them to your computer

Ans - A

111. Which of the following software could assist someone who cannot

use their hands for computer input?

a) Video conferencing

b) Speech recognition

c) Audio digitizer

d) Synthesizer

Ans - B

112. .…… devices convert human understandable data and programs

into a form that the computer can process.

a) Printing

b) Output

c) Solid state

d) Input

Ans - D

113. The CRT is ….. in shape.

a) Circular

b) Rectangular

c) Eclipse

d) Conical

Ans - D

114. What is the name of the computer terminal which gives paper

printout?

a) Display screen

b) Soft copy terminal

c) Hard copy terminal

d) Plotter

Ans - C

115. Which of the following units are used to count the speed of the

printer?

a) CPM

b) LPM

c) PPM

d) All of these

Ans - D

116. Which of the following printer uses light beam and electrostatically

sensitive black powder?

a) Dot matrix printer

b) Daisy wheel printer

c) Chain printer

d) Laser printer

Ans - D

117. Which among the following are the kinds of mouse?

a) Mechanical, general

b) Optical, mechanical

c) Optical, general

d) Optical, light

Ans - B

118.The arrow keys can be used to …….

a) Delete text

b) move the cursor in the text that has already been entered

c) save the document

d) move the cursor while deleting text

Ans - B

119. Which of the following devices can be used to control the movement

of a cursor on a video game screen?

a) Mouse

b) OCR

c) Card punch

d) Joystick

Ans - D

120. The primary output device of computers is a

a) Video monitor

b) Printer

c) Keyboard

d) Mouse

Ans - A

121. Output devices make it possible to

a) View and print a data

b) Scan a data

c) Input a data

d) Sending a data

Ans - A

122. A scanner scans ……….

a) Pictures

b) Text

c) Both picture and text

d) Neither picture nor text

Ans - C

123. What term is used to describe using the mouse to move an item on

the screen to a new location?

a) Click

b) Double-click

c) Drag and drop

d) Point

Ans - C

125. The key that must be pressed each time a new command or

information is entered

a) Esc

b) Return/Enter

c) Delete

d) Home

Ans - B

126. Which of the following is a device that provides electrical signals

from text or graphics character?

a) Light pen

b) Touch panel

c) Scanner

d) Mouse

Ans - C

127. A hard copy would be prepared on a

a) Line printer

b) Dot matrix printer

c) Typewriter

d) All of these

Ans - D

128. Inkjet printers and laser printer are examples of …….

a) Non-impact

b) Impact

c) Dot matrix

d) Thermal

Ans - A

129. Impact printer

a) Strike a ribbon against the paper to produce character images

b) Include inkjet and thermal devices

c) Are more expensive than laser printers

d) Use optical technology

Ans - A

130. Which of the following is not a Hardware?

a) Processor chip

b) Printer

c) Mouse

d) Java

Ans - D

131. Which of the following is a term related with scanner?

a) Laser

b) TWAIN

c) Cartridge

d) Medi

Ans - A

132. Which of the following groups consist of only input devices.

a) Mouse, keyboard, monitor

b) Mouse, keyboard, printer

c) Mouse, keyboard, plotter

d) Mouse, keyboard, scanner

Ans - D

133. Use this when you want to make all letters capital without having

to use the shift key for each character ………

a) Shifter

b) Upper case

c) Caps lock key

d) Icon

Ans - C

134. A ……. Is often used to select or highlight.

a) Icon

b) Keyboard

c) Hard disk

d) Mouse

Ans - D

135. A ….. can make it easier to play games.

a) Mouse

b) Joystick

c) Keyboard

d) Pen

Ans - B

136. Joystick allow the movements with

a) 90° angle

b) 180° angle

c) 360° angle

d) 45° angle

Ans - C

137. Which of the following is a CRO ( cathode ray oscilloscope) ?

a) Monitor

b) Printer

c) Scanner

d) Digital camera

Ans - A

138. A disadvantage of the laser printer is

a) It is quieter than an impact printer

b) It is very slow

c) The output is of a lower quality

d) It have a high cost

Ans - D

139. Which of the following is a type of port?

a) Serial

b) Parallel

c) AGP

d) All of these

Ans - D

140. Trackball is an example of a/an

a) Programming device

b) Pointing device

c) Output device

d) Software device

Ans - B

141. Which option is used for increasing and decreasing the speed of

the cursor of mouse?

a) Setting

b) Control

c) Control panel

d) C Drive

Ans - C

142. What type of device is digital camera?

a) Input

b) Output

c) Software

d) Storage

Ans - A

143. The barcode which is used on all types of items, is read by a

scanning device directly into the computer. What is the name of this

scanning device

a) Laser scanner

b) Wand

c) OCR

d) MICR

Ans - A

144. A ….. allows you to capture sound waves and transfer them to

digital format on your computer.

a) Speaker

b) Microphone

c) Keyboard

d) CPU

Ans - B

145. If you open a menu and then decide you don’t want to select an

option after all, click the menu title again or press the ……. key to close

the menu.

a) Shift

b) Tab

c) F1

d) Esc

Ans - D

146. Any letter, number, or symbol found on the keyboard that you can

type into the computer ……

a) Output

b) Character

c) Type

d) Print

Ans - B

147. Soft copy refers to ………

a) Printed output

b) Music sounds

c) Screen output

d) Digitizing

Ans - C

148. Which of the printers used in conjunction with computers uses

dry ink powder?

a) Daisy wheel printer

b) Line printer

c) Laser printer

d) Thermal printer

Ans - C

149. Which of the following high speed non-impact printers are fast

enough to print the entire book in about one minute?

a) Laser

b) Dot-matrix

c) Drum

d) Line

Ans - A

150. By which printer, a stroke print one character at a time?

a) Laser printer

b) Dot matrix printer

c) Line printer

d) Plotter

Ans - B

151. Small and cheap computers built into several home appliances are

of which type ?

a) Mainframes

b) Mini computers

c) Micro computers

d) None of the above

Ans - C

152. Which of the following groups consist of only output devices ?

a) Scanner, printer , monitor

b) Mouse, printer, monitor

c) Keyboard , printer , monitor

d) Plotter, printer, monitor

Ans - D

153. What is the name of the screen pointing device that rolls on

bearings and has one or more buttons on its top?

a) Trackball

b) Mouse

c) Light pen

d) Joystick

Ans - B

154. Mouse technique is used to access the properties of any object, is

a) Dragging

b) Dropping

c) Right clicking

d) Shift clicking

Ans - C

155. Have the cursor one spaces to the right or put spaces in between

words…….

a) Control key

b) Space bar

c) Printer

d) Mouse

Ans - B

156. Which of the following is inkless printer?

a) Inkjet printer

b) Laser printer

c) Thermal printer

d) Plotter printer

Ans - C

157. USB port comes under ………

a) Serial port

b) Parallel port

c) Infrared port

d) Fire wire port

Ans - A

158. In laser printer, printing is achieved by deflecting laser beam onto

…… surface of a drum.

a) Magnetized

b) Photosensitive

c) Magnetic

d) Either a or b

Ans - B

159. To select text by shading as you drag the mouse arrow over the

text is referred to as …..

a) Clip art

b) Highlight

c) Fetch

d) Decode

Ans - B

160. Input can be enter

a) Human data entry (keyboard, mouse, joystick)

b) By using pen drive.

c) Source data entry (speech recognition , digital camera, etc.)

d) Both a and c

Ans - D

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