Descriptive Questions for Computer Fundamentals IDB-BISEW IT Scholarship Programme

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. What are the advantages of ecommerce? What does Information and Communication Technology (ICT) mean? How can you protect against computer virus infection? How can you view your computers details? What are folders in Microsoft Windows? What is the Recycle Bin? What are the uses of Recycle Bin? What does Updating antivirus programs mean? How can you replace multiple wrong words with correct ones at a time in MS Word? Write down the keyboard shortcuts for the following functions:a) Making fonts bold: b) Making fonts underlined: c) Making fonts italic: d) Increasing font size: e) Making a paragraph right-aligned: 10. What is the procedure of inserting Symbols in an MS Word document? 11. How can you add automatic page numbering in the header of an MS Word document? 12. What is sorting? How can you sort a cell range in MS Excel? 13. What is a Function in MS Excel? What function is used for counting the number of cells in a range? 14. How can you select a range of cells not next to each other? 15. How can you rename a worksheet? 16. What is the advantage of using index in your database? 17. How can you create a MS Access Form? 18. Describe the Onetomany relationship in MS Access. 19. What is the use of Design View in MS Access? 20. What is the Slide Show view in MS PowerPoint? 21. What is a Slide Master? 22. How can you insert dates into the footer in a Power point presentation? 23. What are Web sites and URLs? 24. What is a Firewall? 25. What is Spam or Unsolicited Email? 26. What is the difference between operating system and application software? 27. What does Data Protection and Privacy Issues mean? 28. What do you know about password policies? 29. What does Drag and drop mean? 30. How can you customize your Desktop? 31. Discuss about various types of drives. 32. How can you use Searching option to search files on your hard disk? 33. What are the uses of Header and Footer in MS Word? 34. How can you correct the spelling and grammatical mistakes in MS Word? 35. How can you add columns to an existing table in MS Word? 36. Describe the keyboard methods for navigating between the cells in a table in MS Word document. 37. What is Numbers & Date formatting? How can you apply that in your MS Excel Worksheet? 38. What is the default text and number alignment in MS Excel? 39. How can you move the contents of a cell or a range of cell between worksheets (in different workbooks) 40. Why do you use the absolute cell referencing? 41. What is the difference between data and information? 42. What are queries in MS-Access? Name two types of queries? 43. What are uses of Reports in MS Access? 44. What is a relational database? 45. Write the steps for inserting slides with a particular slide layout. 46. How can you insert a picture (clipart) into a master slide? 47. What is Slide Transition? How can you apply the same slide transition to all the slides at a time? 48. What do you know about Web Browsers?

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49. What are the advantages of using email? 50. What is a digital signature? 51. What is storage media? Write the names of a few commonly used storage media. 52. What are the definitions for freeware and shareware? 53. What are the advantages of ebanking? 54. Describe how you can close an application that is not responding. 55. What are computer files? 56. What are file details? How can you view file details? 57. What is file compression? What are the benefits of file compression? 58. Discuss about Mail Merge in MS Word? 59. Describe how you can set custom margins and paper size for an MS Word document. 60. How can you insert a picture (available as file in the computer) in a MS Word document? 61. Write down the keyboard shortcut for the following functions of MS Word:a) Opening the File Open dialogue box: b) Saving the current document: c) Opening the Print dialogue box: d) Closing the current document: 62. What is Chart in MS Excel? Name three types of charts? 63. How can you select a range of cells located next to each other? 64. What is AutoFill in MS Excel 2007? 65. What is a function in MS Excel? How can you display the maximum value within the range C4:C9? 66. What are the available Data types in MS Access 2007? 67. How can you add criteria to an MS Access query? 68. What are Wildcards? 69. What are the uses of database? 70. What is Slide Sorter view in MS PowerPoint? 71. Write the steps to change background colour on all the slides within a presentation. 72. How can you apply automatic slide numbering in your Presentation? 73. What is search engine? 74. What are the issues to consider when sending file attachments in your email? 75. What are the full forms of the abbreviations: HTTP, FTP, WWW?