Microsoft PowerPoint Questions for Interview and Examination
Includes Short Questions and Multiple Choice Questions
Short Questions about Microsoft PowerPoint
1. Define
the PowerPoint software.
PowerPoint is
a Microsoft Office application that can help you create a professional,
computerized slide show presentation. Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 can
illustrate your ideas, using slides, outlines, speaker’s notes, and audience
handouts.
2. Define the presentation.
A presentation is
the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a
demonstration, introduction, lecture, or speech meant to inform, convince, or
build good will.
3. What are the contents of a presentation?
A presentation
can include text, drawn graphics, clip art, photographs, tables, and charts.
Presentations can also include features such as Flash animation files, link to
websites, sound or movie clips.
4. Define the PowerPoint
presentation.
A PowerPoint
presentation is a presentation created using Microsoft PowerPoint software. The
presentation is a collection of individual slides that contain information on a
topic. PowerPoint presentations are commonly used in business meetings and for
training and educational purposes.
5. How PowerPoint presentations
can be viewed?
PowerPoint
presentations are viewed using a computer and monitor. Presentations are
usually shown to an audience using a projector on a screen.
6. Define
the Slide.
A slide is a
single screen or page of a presentation and every presentation is composed of
several slides.
7. Define the Slide & Outline
Tabs.
The Slides tab
shows thumbnail images of your slides, allowing you to rearrange and hide
slides and view set transitions as you work.
8. Define the Slide Panel.
This panel
is where you enter the content of your slides.
9. Define the Notes Panel.
This is where you can enter notes. You can go to the View
tab and select Notes Page for longer notes.
10. Define the View Buttons of PowerPoint Program.
These three buttons include the Normal view, the Slide
Sorter, which allows you to shuffle your slides, and the Slide Show, which
shows the slides
as if you were presenting.
11. What is keyboard shortcut to insert new slide?
Ctrl + M is
keyboard shortcut to insert new slide.
12. Define the slide layout.
Slide layout refers to design and placement of different
elements on a slide. It contains formatting, positioning, and placeholders
for all of the content that appears on a slide.
13. What are the placeholders?
Placeholders are the containers in layouts that
hold such content as text (including body text, bulleted lists, and titles),
tables, charts, Smart Art graphics, movies, sounds, pictures, and clip art.
14. Define the slide show.
A slide show is a presentation of a series of PowerPoint
slides on a projection screen or electronic display device. These slides
arranged in sequence that contain text and images for presenting to an
audience.
15. What is keyboard shortcut to start a slide show from
first slide?
F5 is keyboard
shortcut to start a slide show from first slide.
16. What is keyboard shortcut to start a slide show from
current slide?
Shift + F5 is
keyboard shortcut to start a slide show from first slide
17. What are navigation keys to move forward to next slide?
The Page down,
Right arrow key, Down arrow key, Spacebar or Enter are navigation keys to move forward to next slide.
18. What are navigation keys to move back to previous
slide?
The Press Page up, Left arrow key, Up arrow key are navigation keys to move back to previous slide.
19. What is shortcut key to exit the slide show?
The Esc
(Escape) key is used as a shortcut to exit the slide show anytime.
20. Define the Slide Transition.
A slide transition is how one slide is
removed from the screen and the next slide is displayed during a
presentation. For example, a fade transition can be used to fade in or out of
each picture in a slide show. A "wipe" moves the next slide onto the
first either horizontally, vertically, in a circle.
21. What is slide animation?
Predefined special visual effects applied to individual
items on a slide or to an entire slide in presentation
software is called animation. These effects can be applied to text,
images, clipart, charts and Smart Art in a slide.
Multiple Choice Questions About Microsoft PowerPoint for Examination
1. PowerPoint is type of ________________ software.
a. application b.
system c. custom built d. utility
2. PowerPoint
is part of _________________.
a. Apple iwork b.
Word Perfect Office c. Microsoft Office
d. None of these
3. MS
PowerPoint is used to create ________________.
a. document b. presentation c. drawing
d. account sheet
4. PowerPoint
presentations are widely used for ________________.
a. lecture delivering b. project
presentations
c.
communication of planning d. All of above
5. A
presentation can include _________________.
a. text b. graphics c. tables &
charts
d. all of these
6. A
presentation can be viewed using ________________.
a. a big monitor b. a laptop screen c. a projector
d. all of these
7. A new
presentation can be created from ___________________.
a. blank presentation b. from existing presentation
c. from design template d. All of above
8. What is
keyboard shortcut to insert a new slide in a presentation?
a. Ctrl + S b. Ctrl + M c. Ctrl + N d. Ctrl + P
9. To start slide show of a presentation
form first slide the ______________
shortcut
key is used.
a. F5 b. F1 c. Ctrl + F5 d. None of these
10. To start the slide show from current
slide the ______________ shortcut
key is used.
a. Ctrl + F5 b.
Shift + F5 c. Alt + F5 d. F5
11. To exit
the slide show anytime, the _______________ key is used.
a. Esc b. Enter c. Spacebar d. Tab
12. To move forward
to next slide, the _______________ key is used.
a. Enter b.
Spacebar c. Right & Down Arrow keys
d. All of these
13. To move
back to previous slide, the _______________ key is used.
a.
Page up b. Left Arrow key c. Up Arrow keys
d. All of these
14. The
______________ shows thumbnail images of your slides.
a. Slide Panel b.
Slide & Outline Tab c. Notes Panel
d. None of these
15. The panel
where you can enter notes about slides is known as _________.
a. Notes Panel b. Slide Panel c. Outline tab
d.
None of these
16. The view,
which allows you to shuffle your slides.
a. Normal View b. Slide Show c. Slide Sorter View
d. None of these
17. To save a previously saved
presentation with different name, type and in a
different location, the ______________ command is used.
a. Save b. Save As c. Save To d. Save In
18. Placeholders are the containers
in layouts that hold the contents as ______.
a.
Text/Tables b. Movies/Sound c. Charts/Pictures
d. All of these
19. Special
effects used to introduce slides in a presentation are known as?
a. transition b. effects c. custom animations
d. annotations
20. To print
PowerPoint presentation, press ________________.
a. Ctrl + A b.
Ctrl + B c. Ctrl +
C d. Ctrl + P
21. The first
slide in presentation is usually a ________________.
a. Table slide b. Blank slide c. Title slide
d. Comparison slide
22. To open the
existing presentation, press ________________.
a. Ctrl + A b. Ctrl + O c. Ctrl + N d. Ctrl + L
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