In the name of ALLAH, the most beneficient, the most merciful

Human Computer Interaction (CS408)

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Objective Questions

  1. Which one is not a characteristic of usability test?

    1. The primary goal is to improve usability
    2. The participants do not represent real users
    3. Analyze the data, diagnose the real problems, and recommend changes to fix those problems
    4. Observe and record what participants do and say
  2. If we want to access remote system/Terminal to work on ________. Protocol is being used;

    1. FTP
    2. EBCDIC
    3. Telnet
    4. None of the given
  3. Once the user input into system, the input language is translated into the ________ language as operations to be performed by the system.

    1. Task
    2. Core
    3. Task & Core
    4. None of the given
  4. ________ is an early release of a product to a few users.

    1. Final version
    2. Focus
    3. Beta test
    4. Survey
  5. If system image does not make design model clear and consistent, then user will have wrong ________.

    1. Conceptual model
    2. User Model
    3. Designer image
    4. Conceptual model & Designer image
  6. Which of the following device can not be useful for a visually impaired person?

    1. a typical keyboard
    2. a typical monitor
    3. a typical speaker
    4. a typical processor
  7. Figuring out "where you are" on the Web is called ________.

    1. Webinar
    2. Web Navigation
    3. Web Designing
    4. Web Portal
  8. When the user mistypes, the ________ key "undoes" the erroneous characters.

    1. insert
    2. Backspace
    3. tab
    4. shift
  9. Web designers use the term ________ to describe the set of navigation elements that appear on every page of a site.

    1. Address Navigation
    2. Penitent navigation or global navigation
    3. Both of above
    4. None of the given
  10. Amazon's single row of tabs required only ________ graphics per page.

    1. five
    2. three
    3. four
    4. two
  11. Which of the following will result in using proper contrast?
    a) Visual patterns that users register and remember
    b) Provides a gross means of indicating the most important elements in an interface's visual hierarchy
    c) Provides a gross means of indicating the least important elements in an interface's visual hierarchy

    1. A and B
    2. B and C
    3. A and C
    4. A, B and C
  12. What is a multimedia system?

    1. A human-computer interace that provides multisensory, three-dimensional, and real-time interaction with computer-generated environments.
    2. A human-computer interace that provides a discrete interaction with digital, pre-recorded text, audio, graphics and video.
    3. A human-computer interace that provides multisensory, three-dimensional, and real-time interaction with computer-generated environments that requires the use of a head-mounted display (HMD)
    4. A human-computer interface designed for the purposes of entertainment
  13. ________ involves restricting the possible functions that can be carried out by a novice to the basics and then extending these as the novice becomes more experienced.

    1. Master-apprentice
    2. Initial training
    3. Master-apprentice & Initial training
    4. Training Wheel
  14. Trying to throw the icon of the hard disk into the wastebasket, in the dsktop metaphor, as a way of removing all existing files from the disk is a example of ________.

    1. Mistake
    2. Slip
    3. Lapse
    4. Mistake & Slip
  15. To organize the days for social, commercial, religious and administrative purpose, which application can use?

    1. Skype
    2. Amazon
    3. Calendar
    4. Gallary
  16. Which one is not an input Controls?

    1. checkboxes
    2. tags
    3. buttons
    4. text fields
  17. Which of the following should be avoided for making easy and pleasurable interfaces?

    1. Visual noise and clutter
    2. Contrast, similarity and layering to distinguish and organize elements
    3. Provision of visual structure and flow at each level of organization
    4. Use of cohesive, consistent and contextually appropriate imagery
  18. The ________ is like a building name for a Web site.

    1. Site ID or logo
    2. Subsections
    3. Windows
    4. None of the given
  19. "What site is this", Statement represents ________.

    1. Folder
    2. Site ID
    3. Scroll bar
    4. None of the given
  20. There are two aspects in which we can understand the nature of usability

    A. Strategic and Tactical
    B. Efficiency and Strategy
    C. Tactical and Reliability D. Efficiency and Reliability

    1. Only A
    2. Only C
    3. A and D
    4. B and C
  21. ________ is particularly useful early id design. It is excellent technique to use with the prototype, because it provides a wealth of diagnostic information.

    1. Co-discovery
    2. Splindid research
    3. Active intervention
    4. Formal test report
  22. The sensation can be excited by presenting a different, properly prepared, view to each eye. The pair of views is called a ________.

    1. stereopair
    2. stereogram
    3. stereopair & stereogram
    4. None of the given
  23. Which one of the below listed mobile devices are considered as a smartphone?

    1. Samsung Note2
    2. Samsung s5
    3. Apple iPhone
    4. All of the given
  24. The comparison of what happened in the world with what we wanted to happen is called

    1. efficiency
    2. execution
    3. evaluation
    4. action
  25. ________ of a device is formed by interpreting perceived actions and visible structure.

    1. Conceptual model
    2. User Model
    3. Designer image
    4. Mental Model
  26. Which of the following is not one of the primary colors?

    1. Red
    2. Yellow
    3. Blue
    4. Green
  27. Which of the following is a text entry device?

    1. keyboard
    2. mouse
    3. monitor
    4. touch pad
  28. ________ represents the Early-phase of ethnographic interviews.

    1. Clarify user roles and behaviours.
    2. Confirm patterns of use.
    3. Clarifying questions
    4. Focused on domain knowledge
  29. Global Navigation system is also called ________.

    1. Site ID
    2. Persistent Navigation
    3. Both of above
    4. None of the given
  30. During the ________ phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through analysis of the field research and interviews are synthesized into domain and user mosels.

    1. Refinement
    2. Framework definition
    3. Modeling
    4. Research
  31. ________ has agoal of assessing whether the product works acording to its specifications.

    1. Requirement elicitation
    2. Quality assurance
    3. Trunk Test
    4. Maintenance
  32. ________ involves thinking, comparing, and decision-making.

    1. Reflective cognition
    2. Experiential cognition
    3. Information Processing
    4. None of the given
  33. Which of the following can be varied to distinguish controls from the background or to group controls logically?

    1. dimensionality of affordance
    2. hue
    3. saturation
    4. All of the given
  34. ________ is the remarkable facility that lets us reverse a previous action.

    1. Undo
    2. Redo
    3. Forward
    4. Both Redo and Forward
  35. An interface will have zero to two ________ personas.

    1. Primary
    2. Secondary
    3. Supplemental
    4. Customer
  36. Which of the following is true regarding "Visibility"?

    1. The more visible functions are, the more likely users will be able to know what to do next.
    2. The more visible functions are, the less likely users will be able to know what to do next.
    3. functions visibility and user knowing of what to do next, are not related to each other
    4. None of the given
  37. A small picture that is used to represent a closed window is said to be a/an

    1. menu
    2. toolbar
    3. status bar
    4. icon
  38. Problem solving, planning, reasoning and decision-making are all cognitive processes involving ________.

    1. Reflective cognition
    2. Procedural cognition
    3. Reflective cognition & Procedural cognition
    4. None of the given
  39. The secret to designing a successful undo system is to make sure that it supports typically ________ tools.

    1. cheap
    2. unused
    3. expensive
    4. used
  40. Which of the following can be varied to distinguish controls from the background or to group controls logically?
    A) dimensionality of affordance
    2) hue
    3) saturation

    1. A and B
    2. A and C
    3. A, B and C
    4. B and C
  41. Which of the following will result in using proper contrast?

    1. Visual patterns that users register and remember
    2. Provides a gross means of indicating the most important elements in an interface's visual hierarchy
    3. Provides a gross means of indicating the least important elements in an interface's visual hierarchy
    4. All of the given
  42. User and system has its own unique language, the language used by the user is called ________.

    1. Task
    2. Core
    3. Task & Core
    4. None of the given
  43. Errors are generally ________, incorrect actions.

    1. double
    2. single
    3. triple
    4. bi-directional
  44. Which of the following depicts the shape of a check box?

    1. Square
    2. Round
    3. Triangle
    4. Rectangle
  45. What is orientation?

    1. A type of spatial contrast
    2. A type of user interface
    3. A type of website
    4. A type of spatial control
  46. Consistent interfaces refers to ________ for achieving similar tasks.
    A) to have similar operations
    B) use similar elements

    1. Only A
    2. Only B
    3. Both A & B
    4. None of the given
  47. ________ is a usability test in which a member of the test team sits in the room with the participant and actively probes the participant's understanding of whatever is being tested.

    1. Co discovery
    2. Active intervention
    3. Trunk test
    4. Beta test
  48. The ________ is given structure on the software side through interaction design.

    1. surface
    2. scope
    3. skeleton
    4. element
  49. "Mistakes" and "Slips" are two forms of

    1. errors
    2. goals
    3. evaluation
    4. objectives
  50. Certain factors that help us to interact with graphical based systems is ________.

    1. Indirect manipulation
    2. Direct manipulation
    3. Indirect manipulation & Direct manipulation
    4. None of the given
  51. The contrast of size is usable particularly in display of:

    1. Quantitative information
    2. Qualitative information
    3. Both Quantitative information and Qualitative information
    4. None of the given
  52. The workflow models and organizational charts, fall under the following ethnographic framework.

    1. Distributed co-ordination
    2. Plans and procedures
    3. Awareness of work
    4. Data-centric design
  53. Which of the following requires less cognitive effort than others?

    1. listening
    2. speaking
    3. hearing
    4. None of the given