Viva questions(IT Practicals)

1.What is World Wide Web?

The world wide web ('www' or 'web' for short) is a collection of webpages found on this
network of computers. Your web browser uses the internet to access the web.

2.What is the difference between HTTP and WWW?

HTTP:hyper text transfer protocol

✓ HTTP is the protocol that enables communication online, transferring data from one
machine to another.
✓ WWW is the set of linked hypertext documents that can be viewed on web browsers
(such as Firefox, Google Chrome, and more).

3.What is an operating system and give examples?

An Operating System (OS) is an interface between a computer user and computer hardware.

4.An operating system is a software which performs all the basic tasks like (operations of OS)

• file management
• memory management
• process management
• handling input and output and
• controlling peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers.

5.What is netiquette explain?

Netiquette is a combination of the words network and etiquette and is defined as a set of rules
for acceptable online behavior. Similarly, online ethics focuses on the acceptable use of online
resources in an online social environment.

6.What is the process of troubleshooting?

Troubleshooting is a systematic process used to locate the cause of a fault in a computer

system and correct the relevant hardware and software issues.

a.What is Hardware Troubleshooting?

Hardware troubleshooting is the process of reviewing, diagnosing and identifying operational
or technical problems within a hardware device or equipment. It aims to resolve physical and/or
logical problems and issues within a computing hardware.

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 b.What is Software Troubleshooting?
Software troubleshooting is the process of scanning, identifying, diagnosing and resolving
problems, errors and bugs in software. It is a systematic process that aims to filter out and
resolve problems, and restore the software to normal operation.

7.What is mail merge?

Mail Merge is a handy feature that incorporates data from both Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel and
allows you to create multiple documents at once, such as letters, saving you the time and effort of
retyping the same letter over and over.

8.What is the main function of MS Word?

Microsoft Word allows you to create text documents.

Microsoft Word is a word processing program that is part of the Microsoft Office Suite package.
The main purpose of Word is to create text documents that can be saved electronically, printed
on paper or saved as PDF files.

9.What is Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program used to record and analyze numerical and
statistical data.

Microsoft Excel provides multiple features to perform various operations like calculations, pivot
tables, graph tools, macro programming, etc.

10.What is the main purpose of MS PowerPoint?I

Microsoft PowerPoint is a software application that is particularly used to present data and
information by using text, diagrams with animation, images, and transitional effects, etc in
the form of slides.

It helps people to better understand the idea or topic in front of the audience practically and
easily

11.Name some functions of excel

• SUM: SUM function adds all numbers in a range of cells and returns the result.
• AVERAGE: Returns the average (arithmetic mean) of the arguments.
• COUNT:COUNT function to get the number of entries in a number field that is in a range
• COUNTA:The COUNTA function counts cells containing any type of information, including error values
and empty text ("").
• IF: it allows you to make logical comparisons ...
• TRIM: Remove extra spaces from text.
• MAX To find maximum value with in a given range

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• MIN. To find minimum value with in a given range
• What is the difference between count and CountA function
• The COUNT function is generally used to count a range of cells containing numbers or dates excluding
blanks. COUNTA, on the other hand will count everything... numbers, dates, text or a range containing a
mixture of these items, but does not count blank cells. COUNTA stands for count all.

12.A Pivot Table is used to summarise, sort, reorganise, group, count, total or average data stored in
a table. It allows us to transform columns into rows and rows into columns.

13.What is the difference between a table and a pivot table in Excel?

pivot tables are a data analysis/summary tool whereas regular tables are a data organisation tool.
14 Name some charts in excel

o Line chart. ...

o Bar chart. ...
o Area chart. .
o Column chart
o Pie charts

15.what is animation
Animation is a method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images.
16.Different Types of layouts in power point
o Title Slide layout. ...
o Table of content Slide Layout. ...
o Simple Text Content Slide layout. ...
o Two Text Content Slide layout. ...
o Content Slide layout [Text + Picture] ...
o Content Slide layout [Texts + Pictures] ...
o Impact Message Slide Layout.

17.Examples of browsers
• internet Explorer.
• Google Chrome.
• Mozilla Firefox.
• Safari.
• Opera.

18. What is Internet?

The Internet is a global wide area network that connects computer systems across the world.
19.Examples of operating system

o MS-Windows.
o Ubuntu.
o Mac OS.
o Fedora.
o Solaris.
o Free BSD.
o Chrome OS.

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 20.What is a Search Engine?
The purpose of a search engine is to extract requested information from the huge database of resources available on the
internet.
Different Types of Search Engines
Search engines are classified into the following three categories based on how it works.

1. Crawler based search engines

2. Human powered directories
3. Hybrid search engines
4. Other special search engines