1. Which of the following is the first fully automated computing device?
Correct : A. Mark I
2. Which one of these is the first fully electronic computer?
Correct : A. EDVAC
3. Store program concept was introduced by:
Correct : D. John Von Newman
4. Which of the following is the first digital computer?
Correct : D. UNIVAC
5. What was the basic computing component of the second generation computers?
Correct : A. Vacuum tubes
6. The third generation computers began with the advent of -------------.
Correct : C. ICs
7. Which of the following is free software?
Correct : D. Linux
8. The following is not a characteristic of first generation computer:
Correct : A. Transistors as basic components
9. The following is not a characteristic of second generation computers:
Correct : C. Programming was done in machine language
10. Following is not a characteristic of the third generation computer:
Correct : C. computational time was reduced from nanoseconds to microseconds
11. Which of the following is not a personal computer?
Correct : D. Mainframe
12. Which of the following is not a computer?
Correct : D. ALGOL
13. Pick the odd one out.
Correct : C. UNIVAC
14. Which of the following is software?
Correct : D. Linux
15. Which of the following is not the name of Computer Company?
Correct : D. Mac
16. Which of the following is a social network?
Correct : D. All of the above
17. Which of these is a search engine?
Correct : B. Firefox
18. Which of these is a social network?
Correct : B. twitter
19. FORTRAN and COBOL are ----------------
Correct : A. Computer languages
20. Manual integration of individual components into functioning units was required in ----
Correct : B. Second generation computers
21. S S I can hold ---------------- transistors per chip.
Correct : A. 10 – 100
22. The first video game, called Space war was written in ------------------- and run on PDP-1
Correct : B. 1962
23. Computational time was reduced from micro to nano seconds in ----------------- generation computers.
Correct : C. Third
24. The first micro computer was ------------------ a) PDP-1 b) IBM-1401 c) CDC3600 d) Altair8800
31. Steve Vozniak and Steve Jobs began the computer company called ------------------
Correct : D. Sony
25. Embedded computer system can be found in -------------
Correct : D. All of the above
26. Who put forth the idea that the phenomenon of exponential growth will continue
infinitely?
Correct : B. Gordon Moore
27. Which is the computer developed in India to facilitate the rural people?
Correct : D. Simputer
28. Which model of computer is designed for technical or scientific application?
Correct : A. Work station
29. Which kind of computer is used to predict weather and design supersonic aircrafts?
Correct : B. Super computers
30. Amazon’s e-book reader is called ------------------
Correct : A. Kindle
31. The term ‘virus’ came from a novel called -------------------
Correct : B. When Harlie was One
32. The functions of an operating system are:
Correct : D. All of these
33. Pick the odd one out
Correct : D. Microsoft
34. The following belong to the category of software distribution:
Correct : D. All of these
35. ‘Free software’ means:
Correct : D. All of these
36. ‘Free software’ does not mean:
Correct : C. Should be distributed free of charges
37. M S Word is a
Correct : C. Word processor tool
38. M S Excel is a
Correct : A. Spreadsheet tool
39. --------------- is a presentation tool.
Correct : C. M S Power point
40. Photoshop is a
Correct : B. Graphic tool
41. The following is an anti-virus software:
Correct : D. All of these
42. Encrypted information is called:
Correct : A. Cypher
43. Pick the odd one out:
Correct : D. Interpreter
44. Linux kernel was written by ----------------.
Correct : A. Linus Torwald
45. The free software movement was conceived and developed in 1983 by ---------------.
Correct : C. Richard Stallman
46. The following is/are a malware(s):- a) Worms b) Trojans c) Rootkits d) All of the above
55. A program that can copy itself and infect a computer is called ------------------.
Correct : D. adware
47. -------------- is a program that appears harmless but hides malicious functions.
Correct : A. Trojans
48. -------------- was the first computer virus to appear ‘in the wild’.
Correct : D. Elk Clones
49. The first PC virus was called -----------.
Correct : C. Brain
50. Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan created the first virus in the year -----------.
Correct : A. 1986
51. Cryptography is the practice and study of ------------------.
Correct : B. Hiding information
52. Crypto linguistics includes the study of language including -----------------.
Correct : D. All of the above
53. Cryptography is used for --------------------.
Correct : D. All of the above
54. In 1998, American President ------------------- signed the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
(DGMA).
Correct : B. Bill Clinton
55. The process of adopting software for a particular country or region is called ---------------.
Correct : A. Localization
56. The Malayalam word processing software that uses Old Malayalam font for text
creation is ---------------.
Correct : B. RACHANA
57. Indic language support is necessary for all software sold in -----------------.
Correct : C. India
58. Popularity of the non-standard fonts hamper the ---------------- of software tools in Indian
languages.
Correct : D. All of the above
59. India is a member of the --------------------.
Correct : A. Unicode Consortium
60. The constitution of India recognizes ------------- languages – apart from English which
has the status of the official language.
Correct : D. 22
61. The regular standard font is often labeled ------------.
Correct : B. Roman
62. The thickness of a particular font is called -----------.
Correct : C. Weight
63. Unicode originated in the year ----------.
Correct : A. 1987
64. -------------- could be roughly described as “wide-body ASCII” that has been stretched to
16 bits to encompass the characters of all the world’s living languages.
Correct : C. Unicode
65. ASCII includes definition for ---------------- characters.
Correct : A. 128
66. Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) is involved in -------------------.
Correct : D. All of the above
67. One of the following is not an application development tool:
Correct : C. C-DAC
68. One of the following is not a web application:-
Correct : A. Shaili
69. Which of the following is complete Indian language software?
Correct : D. Leap Office 2000
70. One of the following is a Dos based word processor:-
Correct : C. ALP
71. Which of the following is the only solution for Indian languages in Unix:-
Correct : B. GIST Terminal
72. The software used for translation is --------------.
Correct : D. Ntrams
73. ---------------- is a web application development tool, used to develop interactive Indian
language applications to be deployed over the internet or the intranet.
Correct : A. iPlugin
74. Which of the following is a Machine assisted translation tool?
Correct : B. MANTRA
75. ----------- CD incorporates commonly used administrative jargons in the native tongue.
Correct : B. Bharanamalayalam
76. The first phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ project is:-
Correct : C. Nila
77. The second phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ is:-
Correct : D. Kaveri
78. Which is the free Malayalam software?
Correct : B. Kaveri
79. The third phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ is:-
Correct : D. Periyar Malayalam Committee Software
80. The Malayalam Typewriting software is:-
Correct : A. Arogyasree
81. The first major work taken up by the computational linguistic team is ---------------.
Correct : D. CLiCK
82. The numeronym for localization is ------------.
Correct : A. 110n
83. The numeronym for internationalization is ------------.
Correct : C. i18n
84. Indic Computing means --------------.
Correct : C. Computing in Indian languages
85. Which of the following is the International standard for character encoding?
Correct : D. Unicode
86. How many characters can be encoded using a 16-bit coding system?
Correct : A. 65536
87. The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992, by ----------- CEO John Sculley.
Correct : B. Apple computers
88. Computers are named so because they --------------.
Correct : A. Make mathematical calculations
89. The Leibniz Wheel was created by ------------------.
Correct : B. Gottfried Leibniz
90. List of detailed instructions that direct a computer is called
Correct : C. Program
91. The term ‘memory ‘applies to which of the following?
Correct : D. Storage
92. Pick the odd one out.
Correct : D. Speaker
93. A microprocessor is
Correct : C. CPU on a single chip
94. Pick the odd one out
Correct : B. Printer
95. Where does a computer add and compare data?
Correct : C. CPU chip
96. The first six letters on a modern keyboard reads
Correct : A. QWERTY
97. An example of a pointing device is
Correct : D. All of the above
98. The acronym USB stands for
Correct : A. Universal serial Bus
99. The four steps CPU’s use in their operations are
Correct : B. Fetch, decode, execute and writeback
100. …………. Printers use electro-mechanical mechanism that causes hammers or pins to strike
against a ribbon and a paper to print the text