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Informatics and History | Set 1

1. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?

Correct : A. analytical engine

2. Which of the following is not a category of computer based on size?

Correct : D. digital computer

3. Which of the following is a fixed disk?

Correct : A. hard disks

4. The word Abacus is derived from Abax, a word from

Correct : A. latin language

5. Which is a valid statement

Correct : A. 1 kb = 1024 bytes

6. Who built the first Mechanical Calculator

Correct : C. blaise pascal

7. The most important advantage of a video disk is

Correct : B. potential capacity

8. Cursor is a ____

Correct : B. thin blinking line

9. The abbreviation PDF Stands for

Correct : D. portable document format

10. Which of the following items are examples of storage devices?

Correct : D. all of the above

11. ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does ASCII stand for?

Correct : C. american standard code for information interchange

12. A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to __________data?

Correct : C. 680 mb

13. All modern computers operate on

Correct : C. data

14. Dot-matrix is a type of

Correct : B. printer

15. Which is not consisted in a processor

Correct : C. memory

16. The Third Generation Computer was made with ________

Correct : C. ic

17. Which of the following are the two main components of the CPU?

Correct : C. control unit and alu

18. When was the world’s first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?

Correct : B. epson, 1981

19. Which of the following is an input device?

Correct : A. scanner

20. Who built the world’s first electronic calculator using telephone relays, light bulbs and batteries?

Correct : C. george stibits

21. WAN is a most used abbreviation in networking, what is its full form?

Correct : B. wide area network

22. In which language is source program written?

Correct : C. high level

23. Which of the following is correct acronym of VGA?

Correct : A. video graphics array

24. A song being played on computer speaker is

Correct : B. soft output

25. In the IBM PC-At, what do the words AT stand for

Correct : B. advance technology

26. Apple company used chips from ______ for its computers

Correct : B. motorola

27. Which of the following is a feature of fifth generation computers?

Correct : D. all of above

28. Charles Babbage was awarded by Royal Society for his

Correct : A. difference engine

29. A computer with CPU speed around 100 million instruction per second and with the word length of around 64 bits is known as

Correct : A. super computer

30. When we look at the cost, which of the following computer is most expensive?

Correct : D. super computers

31. Which device is used as the standard pointing device in a Graphical User Environment?

Correct : B. mouse

32. Mini computers and micro computers are from which generation of computers?

Correct : D. fourth

33. Pick the one that is used for logical operations or comparisons such as less than equal to or greater than.

Correct : A. arithmetic and logic unit

34. The operating speed of third generation computer was

Correct : C. nanoseconds

35. Which of the following have the fastest access time?

Correct : A. semiconductor memories

36. The computer that process both analog and digital is called

Correct : C. hybrid computer

37. What was the name of the first commercially available microprocessor chip?

Correct : C. intel 4004

38. CD-ROM stands for

Correct : C. compact disk read only memory

39. Which computers used operating systems by Microsoft?

Correct : D. both a & c

40. URL stands for ……

Correct : A. uniform resource locator

41. The expansion of HTTP is.......

Correct : D. hypertext transfer protocol

42. which of the following is the extension of HTML file?

Correct : A. html

43. Expand WI-Fi.....

Correct : B. wireless-fidelity

44. Which of the following is a search engine?

Correct : C. both aand c

45. Expansion of SMS

Correct : A. short message services

46. IC chips used in computers are usually made of

Correct : B. silicon

47. Which of the following is not an example of Operating System?

Correct : B. fox-pro

48. Which supercomputer is developed by the Indian Scientists?

Correct : A. param

49. ALU is

Correct : B. arithmetic logic unit

50. Find the odd term out

Correct : A. internet

51. What do you use to create a chart?

Correct : D. chart wizard

52. What is the full form of www?

Correct : B. world wide web

53. Which of the following commands is given to reboot the computer?

Correct : A. ctrl + alt + del

54. UNIVAC is

Correct : D. universal automatic computer

55. To move to the bottom of a document, press …

Correct : C. ctrl key + end key

56. Which of the following refers to a small, single-site network?

Correct : A. lan

57. By default, your documents print in – mode.

Correct : B. portrait

58. Select the odd one out.

Correct : B. monitor

59. What happens when you press Ctrl + V key?

Correct : B. the selected item is pasted from the clipboard

60. ATM means

Correct : D. automatic teller machine

61. M.S Power Point is a

Correct : A. presentation software

62. The term PC means

Correct : B. personal computer

63. Silicon Valley of India is located in

Correct : B. bangalore

64. A dot-matrix printer

Correct : B. is an output device only

65. MS-DOS is the name of a/an

Correct : C. system software

66. The retrieval of information from the computer is defined as

Correct : C. output

67. Which one of the following is not a computer language?

Correct : C. lotus

68. The brain of a computer is

Correct : A. cpu

69. The computer size was very large in

Correct : D. first generation

70. VIRUS stands for

Correct : B. virtual information resource under seize

71. What is the full form of CRT?

Correct : B. cathode ray tube

72. Transistors are associated with which computer system?

Correct : C. second generation

73. First generation computer systems used

Correct : B. vacuum tubes

74. Computers can be classified in which of the following hierarchical orders?

Correct : C. pc, super micro, large, super computer

75. Which is/are the main provisions of Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000?

Correct : D. all of the above

76. A computer programmer

Correct : D. writes programs

77. The term bugs refers to

Correct : C. errors in a computer program

78. Register is a

Correct : C. temporary storage unit within the cpu having dedicated or general purpose use

79. The abbreviation ‘OS’ usually means?

Correct : C. operating system

80. The operating system is the most common type of …………

Correct : D. system software

81. ‘.MOV’ extension refers usually to what kind of file?

Correct : B. animation/movie file

82. Carpel Tunnel Syndrome is an example for

Correct : C. repetitive strain injury

83. _______ allow(s) users to interactively send instructions (such as printing and closing a window) to a computer using graphical icons.

Correct : B. gui

84. Which one is best suited for use with paper of large size and for complex drawings in Computer Aided Design?

Correct : C. plotter

85. Which of the following is not an output device?

Correct : B. touch-screen

86. Which generation of computer was developed from microchips?

Correct : C. fourth generation

87. Which generation of computer was developed using integrated circuits?

Correct : B. third generation

88. The greatest exponent of Free Software Movement is ----

Correct : A. richard stallman

89. JSTOR means

Correct : C. journal storage

90. Linux is an Operating System initially conceived by

Correct : B. linus torvalds

91. An “Hacktivist”is a ___

Correct : A. politically motivated hacker

92. Which of the following crimes targets a computer?

Correct : A. denial of service

93. Internet’s initial development was supported by

Correct : A. arpanet

94. World Wide Web was invented by

Correct : C. tim berners-lee

95. Spamming is the act of

Correct : A. sending unsolicited messages

96. Which of the following is an example of a political cybercrime?

Correct : C. cyber terrorism

97. Before the invention of the…............. there wasn't email.

Correct : D. Internet

98. Many people in the business world communicate solely with………

Correct : A. Email

99. …………..is essential in our society in order to grow and move towards the future.

Correct : A. Technology

100. The invention of the ……………has brought economic and social change to the world.

Correct : A. Computer