CBSE Class 12 Computer Science Publishing Documents Using Latex MCQs Set A

Question: To use______there is a requirement of LaTeX distribution (software).

a) TeX

b) SciTE

c) LaTeX

d) Ubuntu

Answer: LaTeX

Question: Most LaTeX distribution software includes_______and some additional software in them.

a) TeX

b) SciTE

c) LaTeX

d) Ubuntu

Answer: TeX

Question: TeX Live is a very popular LaTeX distribution software which is available in the standard_______repositories.

a) TeX

b) SciTE

c) LaTeX

d) Ubuntu

Answer: Ubuntu

Question: While using LaTeX, there is also a need for plain_______editor and software to view the output file.

a) Text

b) Transcript

c) Script

d) Word

Answer: Text

Question: LaTeX can produce output in different file______

a) Arrangements

b) Formats

c) Editors

d) Software's

Answer: Formats

Question: Depending on the output of file_______corresponding viewer software is needed.

a) Arrangement

b) Format

c) Editor

d) Software

Answer: Format

Question: LaTeX documents are typically created using any plain______editor.

a) Text

b) Transcript

c) Script

d) Word

Answer: Text

Question: ______are examples of plain text editors.

a) Gedit

b) SciTE

c) Both (A) and (B)

d) None of these

Answer: Both (A) and (B)

Question: The different parts of the text are marked using________commands that associate a meaning to them.

a) LaTeX

b) Simple

c) TeX

d) HTML

Answer: LaTeX

Question: _______command is used to define the document's title.

a) \ title

b) \author

c) \date

d) \document

Answer: \ title

Question: ________command is used to specify the author(s) of the document.

a) \title

b) \author

c) \date

d) \document

Answer: \author

Question: ______command is used to indicate the date the document was created.

a) \title

b) \author

c) \date

d) \document

Answer: \date

Question: ______command can be used to explicitly specify the logical structure of the document.

a) \ chapter

b) \ section

c) \paragraph

d) All of these

Answer: All of these

Question: LaTeX comes with______ways to format these document elements in a pleasant looking professional style.

a) Integrated

b) Built-in

c) Many

d) Incorporated

Answer: Integrated

Question: When typing the document, one can see it as plain______text with the built-in commands written as part of the text.

a) Unformatted

b) Formatted

c) In-line

d) None of these

Answer: Unformatted

Question: The document is compiled (processed) using the LaTeX_____and an output file is produced.

a) Organization

b) Commands

c) System

d) Document

Answer: System

Question: While compilation, LaTeX can also produce some additional_______

a) Records

b) Archives

c) Files

d) Directories

Answer: Files

Question: The produced additional files can be_______safely without losing any information.

a) Read

b) Deleted

c) Saved

d) Documented

Answer: Deleted

Question: When the output file is viewed using appropriate software or print it on a printer, one can see the______document.

a) Unformatted

b) Formatted

c) In-line

d) None of these

Answer: Formatted

Question: In the output file, if the looks of the document are not satisfactory, it can be further_______with the help of built-in styles or own styles can be defined.

a) Adapted

b) Formatted

c) Modified

d) Customized

Answer: Customized

Question: Every time a modification is made in the_______text, there will be a need to compile it again for seeing the effect of the change in the output document.

a) Source

b) Basic

c) Beginning

d) Main

Answer: Source

Question: Both TeX and LaTeX use the file extension_______

a) .text

b) .tex

c) .txe

d) .latex

Answer: .tex

Question: LaTeX has a command called_______that produces the popular PDF format files.

a) PDFtex

b) pdflatex

c) PDF

d) latexpdf

Answer: pdflatex

Question: Full form of PDF is________

a) Perfect Document Format

b) Portable Double Format

c) Portable Document Format

d) Perfect Deed Format

Answer: Portable Document Format

Question: _______files can be viewed on screen as well as printed to printers and the printout looks exactly same as the monitor display.

a) PDF

b) LaTeX

c) Text

d) TeX

Answer: PDF

Question: PDF files are very popular for sharing_______documents on the Web.

a) Producible

b) Printable

c) Printed

d) Scanned

Answer: Printable

Question: PDF documents can be viewed in________default viewer.

a) TeX's

b) SciTE's

c) LaTeX's

d) Ubuntu's

Answer: Ubuntu's

Question: Ubuntu's document default viewer is______

a) Evince

b) LaTeX

c) Evine

d) All of these

Answer: Evince

Question: The edit-compile-view cycle has________steps.

a) One

b) Two

c) Three

d) Four

Answer: Three

Question: The document can be edited by using any plain editor like______

a) Gedit

b) Word

c) Wordpad

d) Getit

Answer: Gedit

Question: The LaTeX document can be compiled by issuing the command_______at the command prompt.

a) Pdflatex filename

b) PDF filename

c) latexpdf filename

d) filename pdflatex

Answer: Pdflatex filename

Question: The generated PDF file can be viewed by opening it from the_______

a) Desktop

b) GUI

c) Adobe

d) LaTeX

Answer: GUI

Question: The generated PDF file can also be viewed by issuing the command______pdf filename at the command prompt.

a) Evince

b) LaTeX

c) Evine

d) All of these

Answer: Evince

Question: SciTE editor can also be used for editing_______files.

a) Evince

b) LaTeX

c) Basic

d) Gedit

Answer: LaTeX

Question: SciTE has one advantage over______one can compile and view the document from within the SciTE program itself.

a) Evince

b) LaTeX

c) Basic

d) Gedit

Answer: Gedit

Question: To use SciTE with pdflatex, there is a need to make changes in its______file.

a) Document

b) PDF

c) Configuration

d) LaTeX

Answer: Configuration

Question: LaTeX is essentially a_______language.

a) Markup

b) Highlighted

c) Object oriented

d) Simple

Answer: Markup

Question: The LaTeX source consists of plain text with some parts of the text marked up using markers known as_______

a) Instructions

b) Commands

c) Guidelines

d) Directions

Answer: Commands

Question: In LaTeX, some________are independent commands - they do not mark any specific part of the text.

a) Instructions

b) Commands

c) Guidelines

d) Directions

Answer: Commands

Question: The LaTeX commands can perform a variety of tasks when the_______is processed by the LaTeX system.

a) Organization

b) File

c) System

d) Document

Answer: Document

Question: The LaTeX commands provide information about the text or the_____

a) Organization

b) File

c) System

d) Document

Answer: Document

Question: The LaTeX commands indicate the role of the marked text in the overall structure of the______

a) Organization

b) File

c) System

d) Document

Answer: Document

Question: The LaTeX commands directly specify________

a) Formatting

b) Information

c) Data

d) File name

Answer: Formatting

Question: The LaTeX________instruct LaTeX to process the document in a certain way, for example, use a certain page size, start a new chapter only on an odd-numbered page, etc.

a) Instructions

b) Commands

c) Guidelines

d) Directions

Answer: Commands

Question: LaTeX commands start with a______character followed by the command name.

a) / (forward slash)

b) % (percentage)

c) \ (backslash)

d) A (caret)

Answer: \ (backslash)

Question: The LaTeX command name can be a______of alphabetic letters only, or it can be a single non-letter.

a) String

b) Sequence

c) Series

d) Chain

Answer: String

Question: LaTeX commands are______sensitive.

a) Event

b) Case

c) Instance

d) Example

Answer: Case

Question: Some commands accept additional information which is called_________

a) Examples

b) Data info

c) Arguments

d) Instances

Answer: Arguments

Question: There are two types of_______optional and compulsory.

a) Examples

b) Data Info

c) Arguments

d) Instances

Answer: Arguments

Question: _______arguments are not mandatory.

a) Optional

b) Compulsory

c) Instance

d) Event

Answer: Optional

Question: If one or more optional arguments are to be provided, they have to be written after the command name, enclosed in________

a) [] (square brackets)

b) ""(quotes)

c) <>(angular brackets)

d) {} (curly braces)

Answer: [] (square brackets)

Question: More than one optional argument has to be separated by_______

a) (:) colon

b) (,) comma

c) (;) semi colon

d) (A) caret

Answer: (,) comma

Question: Mandatory arguments (if there are any) have to be enclosed in in________

a) [ ] (square brackets)

b) "" (quotes)

c) <>(angular brackets)

d) { } (curly braces)

Answer: { } (curly braces)

Question: Documentclass is the________of the command.

a) Name

b) Optional argument

c) Compulsory argument

d) None of these

Answer: Name

Question: 12pt is an________argument.

a) Name

b) Optional

c) Compulsory

d) All of these

Answer: Optional

Question: Article is a_______argument.

a) Name

b) Optional

c) Compulsory

d) All of these

Answer: Compulsory

Question: LaTeX treats all_______characters (the space, tab and newline characters) as the same.

a) Special

b) Space

c) Line

d) Whitespace

Answer: Whitespace

Question: LaTeX converts all occurrences of multiple consecutive________into a single space character.

a) Special

b) Space

c) Line

d) Whitespace

Answer: Whitespace

Question: The________at the beginning of a line are generally ignored and one or more consecutive blank lines are considered to mark the beginning of a new paragraph.

a) Special

b) Space

c) Line

d) Whitespace

Answer: Whitespace

Question: To insert a break in lines use_______at the end of each line except the last line in the paragraph.

a) \\

b) ||

c) //

d) !!

Answer: \\

Question: _______is called the Line Break Command.

a) \\

b) ||

c) //

d) !!

Answer: \\

Question: Which of the following characters is not a reserved character in LaTeX?

a) #

b) &

c) !

d) $

Answer: !

Question: Which of the following is a reserved character in LaTeX?

a) #

b) $

c) %

d) All of these

Answer: All of these

Question: In LaTeX_______quotes are produced by repeating them twice.

a) Single

b) Double

c) Back

d) None of these

Answer: Double

Question: LaTeX uses______to mark portions of text.

a) Clusters

b) Groups

c) Sets

d) Collections

Answer: Groups

Question: A______is enclosed between curly braces {and}.

a) Cluster

b) Group

c) Set

d) Collection

Answer: Group

Question: Any______in a group applies only to text following the command within that group.

a) Instruction

b) Command

c) Guideline

d) Direction

Answer: Command

Question: ________are useful for applying few commands to a small amount of text such as a part of a line, few lines or a paragraph.

a) Clusters

b) Groups

c) Sets

d) Collections

Answer: Groups

Question: For the cases where a multitude of commands must be applied (for example, for formatting a table or mathematical equation properly) or where some command(s) have to be applied to large portions of the text (like several paragraphs, whole sections), LaTeX provides a facility called_________

a) Grouping

b) Printing

c) Environments

d) Sections

Answer: Environments

Question: An______begins with a \begin{environment-name} command and ends with a \end{environment-name} command.

a) Area

b) Extent

c) Environment

d) Section

Answer: Environment

Question: All the formatting characteristics of the______are applied to the entire text inside the environment.

a) Area

b) Extent

c) Environment

d) Section

Answer: Environment

Question: Environments can be nested. One_______can be nested inside another.

a) Area

b) Extent

c) Environment

d) Section

Answer: Environment

Question: LaTeX has several advanced features, including________and automatically generating parts of the documents or multiple documents (mail merge).

a) Programming

b) Designing

c) Planning

d) All of these

Answer: Programming

Question: In LaTeX, the_______Character marks the beginning of a comment.

a) #

b) %

c) @

d) $

Answer: %

Question: ________are meant for the humans who read the LaTeX source code in a text editor for understanding and modifying it.

a) Comments

b) Notes

c) Explanations

d) Remarks

Answer: Comments

Question: _________are completely ignored by the compilation process and hence never make it into the output.

a) Comments

b) Notes

c) Explanations

d) Remarks

Answer: Comments

Question: A LaTeX document has________parts namely preamble and content.

a) One

b) Two

c) Three

d) Four

Answer: Two

Question: The_______contains metadata (data about data)

a) Main content

b) Information

c) Preamble

d) Remarks

Answer: Preamble

Question: The_______is information about the document and instructions on how LaTeX should process the document.

a) Actual content

b) Information

c) Preamble

d) Metadata

Answer: Metadata

Question: The actual content is always inside the______document, written between \begin{document} and \end{document}.

a) Area

b) Extent

c) Environment

d) Section

Answer: Environment

Question: The very first element in the______must be \ document class {document-class- name} specifying the type of the document

a) Main content

b) Information

c) Preamble

d) Remarks

Answer: Preamble

Question: Option "article" in Document Class is used for writing individual_______

a) Articles

b) Books

c) Slides

d) Letters

Answer: Articles

Question: Option "book" in Document Class is used for writing entire_______

a) Articles

b) Books

c) Slides

d) Letters

Answer: Books

Question: Option "slides" in Document Class is used for creating presentation_______

a) Articles

b) Books

c) Slides

d) Letters

Answer: Slides

Question: Option "letter" in Document Class is used for writing______

a) Articles

b) Books

c) Slides

d) Letter

Answer: Letter

Question: Option_______in Document Class is used for generating presentations using beamer package.

a) Articles

b) Books

c) Slides

d) Letters

Answer: Books

Question: _______points is the default font size in the document.

a) 12

b) 11

c) 10

d) 14

Answer: 10

Question: The most common paper_______in regular office uses are A4, letter and legal.

a) Sizes

b) Dimensions

c) Scopes

d) Extent

Answer: Sizes

Question: With option_______displayed formulas and equations are flushed left (left-aligned).

a) Fleq

b) Fleqn

c) Formula

d) Forleft

Answer: Fleqn

Question: The default alignment of formulas and equations is________

a) Left

b) Right

c) Center

d) Justified

Answer: Center

Question: The_______option changes the layout of the document to print in landscape mode.

a) Portrait

b) Landscape

c) Vertical

d) Horizontal

Answer: Landscape

Question: The document class declaration is followed by optional_______declaration.

a) Package

b) Class

c) Variable

d) Formula

Answer: Package

Question: LaTeX allows users to write______that provide additional functionality.

a) Classes

b) Packages

c) Variables

d) Formulas

Answer: Packages

Question: There is a large community of LaTeX users who develop new LaTeX packages or enhance existing ones to cater to their own needs and then share them with others over the___________

a) Comparative TeX Archive Network (CTAN)

b) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)

c) Complete TeX Archive Network (CTAN)

d) Comprehensive TeX Archive Net (CTAN)

Answer: Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)

Question: LaTeX distributions themselves usually come with a large number of preinstalled_________

a) Classes

b) Packages

c) Variables

d) Formulas

Answer: Packages

Question: To use one or more packages in our document, there is a need to declare them in the________as \usepackage{package-name}.

a) Main content

b) File

c) Preamble

d) Comments

Answer: Preamble

Question: If the user is not using options for any packages, multiple package names can be declared in a single \use package command, separated by_______

a) (:) colon

b) (,) comma

c) (;) semi colon

d) (A) caret

Answer: (,) comma

Question: ________package contains the advanced math extensions for LaTeX originally developed for the American Mathematical Society.

a) Geometry

b) Amsmath

c) Setspace

d) Color

Answer: Amsmath

Question: ______package adds support for colored text.

a) Easylist

b) Listings

c) Setspace

d) Color

Answer: Color

Question: _______package adds support for multilevel text.

a) Geometry

b) Easylist

c) Setspace

d) Color

Answer: Easylist

Question: ________package is used for page layout tasks.

a) Geometry

b) Listings

c) Setspace

d) Color

Answer: Geometry

Question: ________package has special features for including programming code within the document.

a) Geometry

b) Listings

c) Setspace

d) Color

Answer: Listings

Question: ________package helps in changing line spacing.

a) Geometry

b) Listings

c) Setspace

d) Easylist

Answer: Setspace

Question: It is necessary to provide the title and the author if________has to create an automatic title.

a) TeX

b) SciTE

c) LaTeX

d) Ubuntu

Answer: LaTeX

Question: Providing date is_______If is omitted then the date of compilation is used in the title.

a) By choice

b) Optional

c) Compulsory

d) Important

Answer: Optional

Question: _______piece of information can be supplied in the preamble or as the first thing in the document environment also.

a) \title

b) \author

c) \date

d) All of these

Answer: All of these

Question: The document environments for articles and slides will only have a title followed by the_______of the document.

a) Main content

b) Information

c) Preamble

d) Remarks

Answer: Main content

Question: A title is automatically generated by LaTeX when it sees that_______command.

a) \ title

b) Vmaketitle

c) \marktitle

d) \spotitle

Answer: Vmaketitle

Question: The \title, \author and \date commands must precede the_______command because their information is used in creating the title.

a) \title

b) \maketitle

c) \marktitle

d) \spotitle

Answer: \maketitle

Question: The document environment of a book is divided into________main parts.

a) One

b) Two

c) Three

d) Four

Answer: Three

Question: The document environment of a book has______main parts.

a) The front matter

b) The main matter

c) The back matter

d) All of these

Answer: All of these

Question: The main content of a book has a hierarchical structure, where a book is divided into_________

a) Chapters

b) Sections

c) Parts

d) Subsections

Answer: Parts

Question: The parts are divided into_______

a) Chapters

b) Sections

c) Parts

d) Subsections

Answer: Chapters

Question: The chapters are divided into_______

a) Chapters

b) Sections

c) Parts

d) Subsections

Answer: Sections

Question: The sections are divided into_______

a) Chapters

b) Sections

c) Parts

d) Subsections

Answer: Subsections

Question: The subsections are divided into_______

a) Chapters

b) Paragraphs

c) Parts

d) Sub subsections

Answer: Sub subsections

Question: The sub subsections are divided into________

a) Chapters

b) Paragraphs

c) Parts

d) Subsections

Answer: Paragraphs

Question: The paragraphs are divided into_______

a) Chapters

b) Subparagraphs

c) Parts

d) Subsections

Answer: Subparagraphs

Question: Each of the above division (of the main content)_______one compulsory argument, the title; and one optional argument.

a) Accepts

b) Acknowledges

c) Receives

d) Agrees

Answer: Accepts

Question: The title has to be displayed in the table of______

a) Lists

b) Details

c) Contents

d) Elements

Answer: Contents