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English Literature and Informatics | Set 1

1. Informatics is used synonymous with

Correct : C. information technology

2. The invention of paper took place in:

Correct : D. 100ad

3. The limitations of print format are:

Correct : D. all of these

4. Who is called the father of modern Computing?

Correct : B. charles babbage

5. Who developed the Binary?

Correct : A. claud shannon

6. Which numbers represent the binary?

Correct : B. 1 and 0

7. Which of the following is the first fully automated computing device?

Correct : A. mark i

8. Which one of these is the first fully electronic computer?

Correct : A. edvac

9. Store program concept was introduced by:

Correct : D. john von newman

10. Which of the following is the first digital computer?

Correct : D. univac

11. What was the basic computing component of the second generation computers?

Correct : A. vacuum tubes

12. The third generation computers began with the advent of -------------.

Correct : C. ics

13. Which of the following is free software?

Correct : D. linux

14. The following is not a characteristic of first generation computer:

Correct : A. transistors as basic components

15. The following is not a characteristic of second generation computers:

Correct : C. programming was done in machine language

16. Following is not a characteristic of the third generation computer:

Correct : C. computational time was reduced from nanoseconds to microseconds

17. Which of the following is not a personal computer?

Correct : D. mainframe

18. Which of the following is not a computer?

Correct : D. algol

19. Pick the odd one out.

Correct : C. univac

20. Which of the following is software?

Correct : D. linux

21. Which of the following is not the name of Computer Company?

Correct : D. mac

22. Which of the following is a social network?

Correct : D. all of the above

23. Which of these is a search engine?

Correct : B. firefox

24. Which of these is a social network?

Correct : B. twitter

25. FORTRAN and COBOL are ----------------

Correct : A. computer languages

26. Manual integration of individual components into functioning units was required in ----

Correct : B. second generation computers

27. S S I can hold ---------------- transistors per chip.

Correct : A. 10 – 100

28. The first video game, called Space war was written in ------------------- and run on PDP-1

Correct : B. 1962

29. Computational time was reduced from micro to nano seconds in ----------------- generation computers.

Correct : C. third

30. The first micro computer was ------------------

Correct : D. altair8800

31. Steve Vozniak and Steve Jobs began the computer company called -------------- ----

Correct : C. apple

32. Embedded computer system can be found in -------------

Correct : D. all of the above

33. Which is the computer developed in India to facilitate the rural people?

Correct : D. simputer

34. Which model of computer is designed for technical or scientific application?

Correct : A. work station

35. Which kind of computer is used to predict weather and design supersonic aircrafts?

Correct : B. super computers

36. Amazon’s e-book reader is called ------------------

Correct : A. kindle

37. The term ‘virus’ came from a novel called -------------------

Correct : B. when harlie was one

38. The functions of an operating system are:

Correct : D. all of these

39. Pick the odd one out

Correct : D. microsoft

40. The following belong to the category of software distribution:

Correct : D. all of these

41. ‘Free software’ means:

Correct : D. all of these

42. ‘Free software’ does not mean:

Correct : C. should be distributed free of charges

43. M S Word is a

Correct : C. word processor tool

44. M S Excel is a

Correct : A. spreadsheet tool

45. --------------- is a presentation tool.

Correct : C. m s power point

46. Photoshop is a

Correct : B. graphic tool

47. The following is an anti-virus software:

Correct : D. all of these

48. Encrypted information is called:

Correct : A. cypher

49. Pick the odd one out:

Correct : D. interpreter

50. Linux kernel was written by ----------------.

Correct : A. linus torwald

51. The free software movement was conceived and developed in 1983 by ---------- -----.

Correct : C. richard stallman

52. The following is/are a malware(s):-

Correct : D. all of the above

53. A program that can copy itself and infect a computer is called ------------------.

Correct : C. virus

54. -------------- is a program that appears harmless but hides malicious functions.

Correct : A. trojans

55. -------------- was the first computer virus to appear ‘in the wild’.

Correct : D. elk clones

56. The first PC virus was called -----------.

Correct : C. brain

57. Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan created the first virus in the year ----- ------.

Correct : A. 1986

58. Cryptography is the practice and study of ------------------.

Correct : B. hiding information

59. Crypto linguistics includes the study of language including -----------------.

Correct : D. all of the

60. Cryptography is used for --------------------.

Correct : D. all of the above

61. In 1998, American President ------------------- signed the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DGMA).

Correct : B. bill clinton

62. The process of adopting software for a particular country or region is called ---- -----------.

Correct : A. localization

63. Indic language support is necessary for all software sold in -----------------.

Correct : C. india

64. Popularity of the non-standard fonts hamper the ---------------- of software tools in Indian languages.

Correct : D. all of the above

65. India is a member of the --------------------.

Correct : A. unicode consortium

66. The regular standard font is often labeled ------------.

Correct : B. roman

67. The thickness of a particular font is called -----------.

Correct : C. weight

68. Unicode originated in the year ----------.

Correct : A. 1987

69. ASCII includes definition for ---------------- characters.

Correct : A. 128

70. Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) is involved in -------------------.

Correct : D. all of the above

71. One of the following is not an application development tool:

Correct : C. c-dac

72. One of the following is not a web application:-

Correct : A. shaili

73. Which of the following is complete Indian language software?

Correct : D. leap office 2000

74. One of the following is a Dos based word processor:-

Correct : C. alp

75. Which of the following is the only solution for Indian languages in Unix:-

Correct : B. gist terminal

76. The software used for translation is --------------.

Correct : D. ntrams

77. Which of the following is a Machine assisted translation tool?

Correct : B. mantra

78. ----------- CD incorporates commonly used administrative jargons in the native tongue.

Correct : B. bharanamalayalam

79. The first phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ project is:-

Correct : C. nila

80. The second phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ is:-

Correct : D. kaveri

81. Which is the free Malayalam software?

Correct : B. kaveri

82. The third phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ is:-

Correct : D. periyar malayalam committee software

83. The Malayalam Typewriting software is:-

Correct : A. arogyasree

84. The first major work taken up by the computational linguistic team is ----------- ----.

Correct : D. click

85. The numeronym for localization is ------------.

Correct : A. 110n

86. The numeronym for internationalization is ------------.

Correct : C. i18n

87. Indic Computing means --------------.

Correct : C. computing in indian languages

88. Which of the following is the International standard for character encoding?

Correct : D. unicode

89. How many characters can be encoded using a 16-bit coding system?

Correct : A. 65536

90. The exact shape by which the character is represented on screen and pages is called a --------------.

Correct : D. italics

91. The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992, by ----------- CEO John Sculley.

Correct : B. apple computers

92. Computers are named so because they --------------.

Correct : A. make mathematical calculations

93. The Leibniz Wheel was created by ------------------.

Correct : B. gottfried leibniz

94. List of detailed instructions that direct a computer is called

Correct : C. program

95. The term ‘memory ‘applies to which of the following?

Correct : D. storage

96. Pick the odd one out.

Correct : D. speaker

97. A microprocessor is

Correct : C. cpu on a single chip

98. Pick the odd one out

Correct : B. printer

99. Where does a computer add and compare data?

Correct : C. cpu chip

100. The first six letters on a modern keyboard reads

Correct : A. qwerty