Important File Extensions Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: .dmp

.dmp holds a memory dump - the contents of memory written to disk when the system crashes, for later analysis.

Answer: B

Correct answer: .doc

.doc is the Word document format used up to Office 2003; from Office 2007 the default became .docx. .ppt belongs to PowerPoint and .xls to Excel.

Answer: A

Correct answer: .fnt

.fnt is the generic bitmap font file extension. TrueType fonts use .ttf and OpenType .otf.

Answer: D

Correct answer: .odt

.odt is the OpenDocument Text format used by LibreOffice and OpenOffice Writer. It is an open ISO standard, in contrast to the proprietary .doc that preceded Microsoft’s own XML-based .docx.

Answer: A

Correct answer: .php

PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page and now for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor; its files take .php.

Answer: A

Correct answer: True

.sav holds a saved game - the state of play written to disk so it can be resumed - so the statement is true.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Graphics Interchange Format

GIF is Graphics Interchange Format. The first word is the noun Graphics, not the adjective Graphical, which is what separates the answer from its near neighbour among the options.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Drawing File

.drw is a vector drawing file, used by several drawing packages for shapes rather than pixels.

Answer: C

Correct answer: .cgi

.cgi marks a Common Gateway Interface script - a program a web server runs to generate a page rather than serving a file.

Answer: A

Correct answer: data file

.dat is a generic data file: the extension says only that the contents are data for some program, without identifying the program or the format.