Q#1: The term mental model was first developed in the early 1640s by
(A) Johnson-Laird
(B) Donald Norman
(C) Kenneth Craik
(D) John Corman
Answer: (C) Kenneth Craik
Q#2: In _____ several keys must be pressed at once in order to enter a single character.
(A) QWERTY Keyboard
(B) Dvorak Keyboard
(C) Alphabetical Keyboard
(D) Chord Keyboards
Answer: (D) Chord Keyboards
Q#3: On my personal computer, I am listening to a song with headphones while entering data in MS Word. It means my system is:
(A) Uni-model
(B) Multi-model
(C) Mini-model
(D) Large-model
Answer: (B) Multi-model
Q#4: What is the main strength of the Problem Space Framework as a model of human problem solving?
(A) It operates within the constraints of the human processing system
(B) It explains what is involved in insight
(C) It allows ill-defined problems to be solved
(D) It allows poorly-defined problems to be solved
Answer: (A) It operates within the constraints of the human processing system
Q#5: Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type of _____ constraint.
(A) Physical
(B) Logical
(C) Cultural
(D) Graphical
Answer: (B) Logical
Q#6: There is usually a _____ attached to the top of a window identifying it to the user.
(A) Icon
(B) Title bar
(C) Menu
(D) Button
Answer: (B) Title bar
Q#7: Input in humans is mainly through the _____ and output through the _____ of the effectors.
(A) Senses, Rods
(B) Motor control, Senses
(C) Senses, Motor control
(D) Motor control, Rods
Answer: (C) Senses, Motor control
Q#8: _____ model is famous for risk analysis.
(A) Waterfall
(B) Spiral
(C) RAD
(D) Incremental
Answer: (B) Spiral
Q#9: _____ aspect(s) gives us hints and tips about using and creating user interface idioms.
(A) Efficient
(B) Strategic
(C) Tactical
(D) Reliable
(A) Only A
(B) Only C
(C) A and C
(D) B and D
Answer: (B) Only C
Q#10: In order to develop any product, which major activity should be undertaken?
(A) Designer must understand requirements
(B) Must develop the product
(C) Both A and B
(D) Neither A nor B
Answer: (C) Both A and B
Q#11: The persona’s needs are fully satisfied by a primary interface refers to _____ persona.
(A) Supplement
(B) Negative
(C) Secondary
(D) Primary
Answer: (D) Primary
Q#12: Suppose Ali is writing an article on Cloud Computing in Windows Mobile. Which cognitive mode contributes to generating this idea?
(A) Experiential cognition
(B) Reflective cognition
(C) Information cognition
(D) Execution cognition
Answer: (B) Reflective cognition
Q#13: Primary interface serves the needs of the persona with minor modifications or additions refers to _____ persona.
(A) Primary
(B) Secondary
(C) Supplement
(D) Negative
Answer: (B) Secondary
Q#14: As a designer, you get usage patterns and goals associated with users that drive creation of personas in the _____ phase.
(A) Requirements definition
(B) Framework definition
(C) Modeling phase
(D) Refinement
Answer: (C) Modeling phase
Q#15: _____ minimize errors.
(A) Affordance
(B) Visibility
(C) Constraints
(D) Affordance and Visibility
Answer: (C) Constraints
Q#16: Colors which are directly opposite to each other are said to be:
(A) Complementary colors
(B) Analogous colors
(C) Primary colors
(D) Secondary colors
Answer: (A) Complementary colors
Q#17: The _____ phase employs ethnographic field study techniques to provide qualitative data about potential users.
(A) Refinement
(B) Framework definition
(C) Modeling
(D) Research
Answer: (D) Research
Q#18: Comparing design standards with guidelines, standards are usually:
(A) Higher in authority and more limited in application
(B) Higher in authority and more general in application
(C) Lower in authority and more general in application
(D) Lower in authority and more limited in application
Answer: (A) Higher in authority and more limited in application
Q#19: Norman categorized errors into two main types:
(A) Mistakes, Error
(B) Self-blaming, Mistakes
(C) Error, Slips
(D) Mistakes, Slips
Answer: (D) Mistakes, Slips
Q#20: The transitions on the Interaction Framework:
(A) Are unimportant
(B) Simply link the whole system together
(C) Pass messages around the system
(D) Represent the translations required from one component to the next
Answer: (D) Represent the translations required from one component to the next
Q#21: Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of sound when frequency remains constant?
(A) Pitch
(B) Loudness
(C) Timber
(D) Rhythm
Answer: (B) Loudness
Q#22: The eye transforms received light into _____ energy.
(A) Electrical energy
(B) Heat energy
(C) Potential energy
(D) Kinetic energy
Answer: (A) Electrical energy
Q#23: WYSIWYG stands for:
(A) What you say is what you talk
(B) What you see is what you get
(C) What you sing is what you think
(D) What you sow is what you ripe
Answer: (B) What you see is what you get
Q#24: Which of the following is haptic perception?
(A) Touch
(B) Smell
(C) Taste
(D) Hear
Answer: (A) Touch
Q#25: _____ is required when someone is required to make a prediction about a particular state of affairs.
(A) Image model
(B) Mental model
(C) Initial model
(D) Spiral model
Answer: (B) Mental model
Q#26: _____ are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected by the user to invoke specific operations.
(A) Buttons
(B) Edition
(C) Cursors
(D) Windows
Answer: (A) Buttons
Q#27: In understanding usability, the way the user and the idiom interact is called:
(A) Strategic
(B) Tactical
(C) Non-technical
(D) Technical
Answer: (A) Strategic
Q#28: Unable to edit a PDF document is a type of _____ constraint.
(A) Physical
(B) Logical
(C) Cultural
(D) Update
Answer: (B) Logical
Q#29: The _____ appears in the center of the circle so there is the same distance to travel to any of the selections.
(A) Main menus
(B) Icon
(C) Pointer
(D) Title bar
Answer: (C) Pointer
Q#30: Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound when frequency remains constant?
(A) Pitch
(B) Loudness
(C) Timber
(D) None of these
Answer: (B) Loudness
Q#31: The human eye has approximately _____ rods and _____ cones per eye.
(A) 120 million, 6 million
(B) 190 million, 3 billion
(C) 150 billion, 6 million
(D) None of the given
Answer: (A) 120 million, 6 million
Q#32: What are the three types of reasoning?
(A) Deductive, Productive, Inductive
(B) Abdicative, Inductive, Deductive
(C) Inductive, Abdicative, Reproductive
(D) Productive, Reproductive, Deductive
Answer: (B) Abdicative, Inductive, Deductive
Q#33: Which of the following is not a goal of HCI?
(A) To produce usable systems
(B) To produce safe systems
(C) To produce non-functional systems
(D) To improve effectiveness of the systems
Answer: (C) To produce non-functional systems
Q#34: Which of the following is considered the most complex species?
(A) Humans
(B) Computers
(C) Animals
(D) Birds
Answer: (A) Humans
Q#35: Totality of characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated and implied needs is called:
(A) Quality
(B) Effectiveness
(C) Standard
(D) Quantity
Answer: (A) Quality
Q#36: Which of the following is not true regarding cones?
(A) A type of receptor in eye
(B) More sensitive to light
(C) Different types are sensitive to different wavelengths
(D) Eye has approx. 6 million cones
Answer: (B) More sensitive to light
Q#37: Which is a true statement?
(A) HCI specialists are user-centered; software engineers are system-centered
(B) HCI specialists are system-centered; software engineers are user-centered
(C) Both are system-centered
(D) Both are user-centered
Answer: (A) HCI specialists are user-centered; software engineers are system-centered
Q#38: Which of the following is not true?
(A) Utility refers to the functionality of a system
(B) Usability is concerned with adding complexity
(C) Usability is concerned with making systems easy to use
(D) Poorly designed system can be annoying
Answer: (B) Usability is concerned with adding complexity
Q#39: Formal methods are used to represent:
(A) Architecture aspects only
(B) Procedural aspects only
(C) Both architecture and procedural aspects
(D) None of the given
Answer: (C) Both architecture and procedural aspects
Q#40: Which interface system is based on question/answer dialogue?
(A) Command Line Interfaces
(B) Query interfaces
(C) Menus
(D) Natural Language Interfaces
Answer: (B) Query interfaces
Q#41: Choice of operations and services are offered on screen through:
(A) Pointers
(B) Toolbars
(C) Menus
(D) None of the given
Answer: (C) Menus
Q#42: What will be the Gulf of Execution if the user is able to formulate and perform actions easily?
(A) Smaller
(B) Greater
(C) Balanced
(D) None of the given
Answer: (A) Smaller
Q#43: Form-filling interfaces are used for:
(A) Data entry
(B) Data integration
(C) Data manipulation
(D) Data definition
Answer: (A) Data entry
Q#44: Which of the following is a flaw in the waterfall model?
(A) Requirements change over time
(B) Maintenance cannot be done at the end
(C) Testing should be done before requirements gathering
(D) All of the given
Answer: (A) Requirements change over time
Q#45: There are two aspects in understanding the nature of usability:
(A) Strategic and Tactical
(B) Efficiency and Strategy
(C) Tactical and Reliability
(D) Efficiency and Reliability
Answer: (A) Strategic and Tactical
Q#46: Once the user inputs into system, the input language is translated into language as operations performed by system:
(A) Task
(B) Core
(C) Both
(D) None of the above
Answer: (B) Core
Q#47: User and system each has its unique language; system’s language is called:
(A) Core
(B) Task
(C) Both
(D) None of the above
Answer: (A) Core
Q#48: Which of the following is used to toggle between two states?
(A) Check boxes
(B) Radio buttons
(C) Toolbars
(D) Menus
Answer: (B) Radio buttons
Q#49: Which of the following is a text entry device?
(A) Keyboard
(B) Mouse
(C) Monitor
(D) Touch pad
Answer: (A) Keyboard
Q#50: “Mistakes” and “Slips” are two forms of:
(A) Errors
(B) Goals
(C) Evaluation
(D) Objectives
Answer: (A) Errors
Q#51: The _____ model should match the _____ model.
(A) User, conceptual
(B) Conceptual, mental
(C) Mental, central
(D) Conceptual, central
Answer: (B) Conceptual, mental
Q#52: Which of the following is/are aspects of human action?
(A) Execution and evaluation
(B) Evaluation and efficiency
(C) Efficiency and execution
(D) Efficiency
Answer: (A) Execution and evaluation
Q#53: Building things from user’s perspective is called:
(A) Functionality
(B) Usability
(C) Portability
(D) None of the given
Answer: (B) Usability
Q#54: Certain factors that help us interact with graphical-based systems:
(A) Indirect manipulation
(B) Direct manipulation
(C) Both
(D) None of the given
Answer: (B) Direct manipulation
Q#55: If you hear music or voices from another room while taking lecture, it is called:
(A) Focused attention
(B) Divided attention
(C) Voluntary attention
(D) Involuntary attention
Answer: (D) Involuntary attention
Q#56: Which of the following is a long-term individual difference?
(A) Age
(B) Sex
(C) Fatigue
(D) Color
Answer: (B) Sex
Q#57: _____ refers to how good a system is at doing what it is supposed to do.
(A) Safety
(B) Usability
(C) Efficiency
(D) Effectiveness
Answer: (D) Effectiveness
Q#58: As a software designer, which aspects guide you to think about the way the user and idiom interact?
(A) Tactical
(B) Manual
(C) Technical
(D) Strategic
Answer: (D) Strategic
Q#59: Adeel renders financial services in “ABC” bank. He is specialized in his field. What is he called?
(A) Society of Manufacturing Engineer (SME)
(B) Subject Matter Expert (SME)
(C) Small and Medium Enterprise (SME)
(D) Subject Master Engineering (SME)
Answer: (B) Subject Matter Expert