Unit 1: Computer System

1. What is a computer?
2. List the characteristics of a computer.
3. What are the applications of computers in daily life?
4. Explain the evolution of computer technology.
5. What are the units used to measure processing speed?
6. Differentiate between supercomputers and mainframe computers.
7. What is mobile computing? Give examples.
8. Explain computer architecture and organization.
9. Name the components of a computer system.
10. What is the function of the input unit?
11. What is the function of the output unit?
12. Explain the role of the processing unit.
13. What is a microprocessor?
14. Define clock speed and word length.
15. What are the components of a microprocessor?
16. What is a bus system? Explain data bus, address bus, and control bus.
17. Differentiate between RAM and ROM.
18. What is cache memory?
19. What is a buffer?
20. Name different types of RAM.
21. Name different types of ROM.
22. What is secondary memory? Give examples.
23. Differentiate between magnetic disk and optical disk.
24. What is a flash memory?
25. Name some input devices.
26. Explain the working principle of a scanner.
27. What is the difference between OCR and OMR?
28. What is MICR? Where is it used?
29. Name different types of monitors.
30. Differentiate between dot matrix and laser printers.
31. What are hardware interfaces?
32. Explain the use of USB and HDMI ports.

Unit 2: Number System and Boolean Logic

33. What is a number system?

34. Differentiate between decimal and binary number systems.
 35. Convert (25)₁₀ to binary.
36. Convert (1011)₂ to decimal.
37. Convert (45)₁₀ to octal.
38. Convert (A7)₁₆ to binary.
39. Perform binary addition: (1011)₂ + (1101)₂.
40. Perform binary subtraction: (1101)₂ - (1010)₂.
41. What is one’s complement?
42. What is two’s complement?
43. Subtract using two’s complement: (1010)₂ - (0110)₂.
44. What is Boolean algebra?
45. Define truth table.
46. What are logic gates?
47. Draw the symbol and truth table of an AND gate.
48. Draw the symbol and truth table of an OR gate.
49. Draw the symbol and truth table of a NOT gate.
50. What is a NAND gate?
51. What is a NOR gate?
52. What is an XOR gate?
53. What is an XNOR gate?
54. State the laws of Boolean algebra.
55. Verify the commutative law using a truth table.
56. Verify the associative law using a truth table.
57. Verify the distributive law using a truth table.

Unit 3: Computer Software and Operating System

58. What is software?

59. Differentiate between system software and application software.
60. What is utility software? Give examples.
61. What is an operating system?
62. Explain the role of an operating system.
63. List the functions of an operating system.
64. What is multiprogramming?
65. What is multitasking?
66. What is multiprocessing?
67. What is a distributed operating system?
68. What is a GUI-based operating system?
69. Explain the features of Windows OS.
70. How do you manage files and folders in Windows?
 71. How do you customize the desktop in Windows?
72. How do you install and remove devices in Windows?
73. What is the use of the Control Panel?
74. What is an open-source operating system?
75. Name some Linux distributions.
76. What is a mobile operating system?
77. Name different types of mobile operating systems.

Unit 4: Application Package

78. What is an office package?

79. Name some word processors.
80. What is a spreadsheet?
81. What is a presentation tool?
82. What is a database management system?
83. What is a school management system?
84. What is an inventory management system?
85. What is a payroll system?
86. What is financial accounting software?
87. What is a hotel management system?

Unit 5: Programming Concepts & Logics

88. What is a programming language?

89. Differentiate between low-level and high-level languages.
90. What is a 4GL language?
91. What is a compiler?
92. What is an interpreter?
93. What is an assembler?
94. Differentiate between syntax and semantic errors.
95. What are runtime errors?
96. What are control structures?
97. Explain sequence, selection, and iteration.
98. What is an algorithm?
99. What is a flowchart?
100. What is pseudocode?
101. Explain absolute binary and BCD.
102. What are ASCII and Unicode?
103. What are the features of the C language?
104. Explain the structure of a C program.
105. What is a preprocessor in C?
106. What are header files in C?
107. What are comments in C?
108. What are identifiers and keywords?
109. What are data types in C?
110. Differentiate between constants and variables.
111. What are arithmetic operators?
112. What are relational operators?
113. What are logical operators?
114. What are assignment operators?
115. What are unary operators?
116. What are conditional operators?
117. What are I/O functions in C?
118. Explain the if-else statement.
119. Explain the switch statement.
120. Explain the while loop.
121. Explain the do-while loop.
122. Explain the for loop.
123. What is an array?
124. What are 1D and 2D arrays?
125. How do you perform matrix addition in C?
126. What is a string?
127. Explain strlen(), strcat(), strcmp().
1. Unit 6: Web Technology I
128. What is web development?
129. Name some web browsers.
130. What is a search engine?
131. What is a CMS?
132. What is HTML?
133. Explain the structure of an HTML document.
134. What are HTML tags and attributes?
135. Explain the <head> and <body> tags.
136. How do you set background color in HTML?
137. What are heading tags?
138. What is the <font> tag used for?
139. How do you create paragraphs in HTML?
140. What is the <br> tag used for?
141. How do you add comments in HTML?
 142. How do you format text in HTML?
143. How do you create ordered and unordered lists?
144. What is the <a> tag used for?
145. How do you create tables in HTML?
146. How do you create forms in HTML?
147. What are HTML5 elements?
148. Explain <audio> and <video> tags.
149. What is the <canvas> tag used for?
150. What is domain name and web hosting?
151. What is CSS?
152. Differentiate between inline, embedded, and external CSS.

Unit 7: Multimedia

153. What is multimedia?

154. Name the components of multimedia.
155. What are the applications of multimedia?

Unit 8: Information Security and Cyber Law

156. What is a digital society?

157. What are computer ethics?
158. What is information security?
159. What is cybercrime?
160. What are malicious software?
161. What is spam?
162. How can you protect yourself from cybercrime?
163. What is intellectual property right?
164. What is a digital signature?
165. What is cyber law?
166. Explain ICT policy in Nepal.

Additional Practical-Based Questions

167. Write a C program to find the sum of two numbers.

168. Write a C program to check if a number is even or odd.
169. Write a C program to find the factorial of a number.
170. Write a C program to swap two numbers.
171. Write a C program to find the largest among three numbers.
172. Write a C program to print Fibonacci series.
173. Write a C program to check for a prime number.
174. Write a C program to reverse a number.
175. Write a C program to add two matrices.
176. Write a C program to multiply two matrices.
177. Write a C program to concatenate two strings.
178. Write a C program to compare two strings.
179. Write an HTML code to create a simple webpage.
180. Write an HTML code to display a table.
181. Write an HTML code to create a form.
182. Write an HTML code to embed a video.
183. Write a CSS code to change text color.
184. Write a CSS code to set a background image.
185. What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?
186. What is a URL?
187. What is a firewall?