MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Correct answer: an object on a slide, controlling how it appears or moves

An animation is applied to an object on a slide - text, an image, a chart, a shape - and controls how it behaves while that slide is displayed. The four kinds are worth distinguishing. Entrance effects bring an object onto the slide; emphasis effects draw attention to one already present; exit effects remove it; and motion paths move it along a defined route. The Animation Pane lists every effect on the slide in order and is where sequence and timing are controlled: each effect can start On Click, With Previous or After Previous, and can be given a duration and a delay. Building a list one point at a time is the commonest use. The contrast with a transition is the point examined: a transition governs the move between slides, an animation governs an object within one. The Animation Painter copies a set of effects from one object to another.

Answer: D

Correct answer: b and c

The organization chart object is placed by the presentation design, which fixes its default size - but that size is not locked: you can drag its handles to resize it, and it also grows or shrinks with the amount of text the chart holds. So both the “determined by the design but can be changed” statement and the “dependent on the amount of text” statement are true, which is why the combined choice is right and the “cannot be changed” option is wrong.

Answer: C

Correct answer: transitions

The effects that introduce each slide are transitions; animations apply to the objects on a slide once it is displayed.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Slide Transition

The effect played when one slide replaces another is a transition. Animations apply to objects within a slide.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Insert, New slide

A slide is added to an open presentation from the Insert menu, choosing New Slide (Ctrl + M). File → New starts a whole new presentation and File → Open loads an existing one; the File menu has no add a new slide command.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Ungrouping

A clip art picture arrives as one grouped drawing. Ungrouping it (Draw → Ungroup) breaks it into the individual shapes it was built from, and those become ordinary PowerPoint objects whose colours and positions can be changed one by one. Grouping and regrouping put the pieces back together.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Blinks diagonal

PowerPoint’s transitions include Dissolve, Fade Through Black, and the Blinds effects - Blinds Horizontal and Blinds Vertical. There is no diagonal Blinds effect and no transition called Blinks diagonal, so that is the odd one out.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Portrait

Slides default to landscape because they are projected on a screen, but notes pages, outlines and handouts are meant for paper, so they default to portrait - taller than they are wide. File → Page Setup sets the two orientations independently.

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of above

An organization chart’s boxes can be selected in any of the three ways: Edit → Select All, right-clicking the chart background and choosing Select All, or holding Shift while clicking each box in turn. All three end with every box selected, so the combined option is correct.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Placeholders

The dotted boxes a layout supplies for a title, bulleted text, a chart or a table are called placeholders. They reserve the position and formatting; clicking one and typing fills it. “Auto layouts” are the arrangements of placeholders, not the boxes themselves.