1. It is anything in a form suitable for use with a computer. What is it?
Ans. Data
2. Computer uses a numeral system which represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1. What is this numeral system known as.
Ans. Binary numeral system
3. On almost all modern computers, a byte is equal to.
Ans. 8 bits
4. The term used for identifying data storage chips or devices.
Ans. Memory
5. What does EEPROM stands for?
Ans. Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
6. A type of programming language easily understood by computers, but almost impossible for humans.
Ans. Machine language
7. Methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs or defects in a computer program.
Ans. Debugging
8. A program that translates source code into object code.
Ans. Compiler
9. FORTRAN was designed by
Ans. John Backus
10. Pascal, the high-level programming language was developed by.
Ans. Niklaus Wirth
11. The process which uses of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system.
Ans. Multiprocessing
12. The process of copying file from an online service or bulletin board service to one’s own computer.
Ans. Downloading
13. A design for a set of characters which is the combination of typeface and other qualities, such as size, pitch and spacing.
Ans. Font
14. Small, lightweight and inexpensive laptop computers suited for general computing and accessing web-based applications typically with long battery life.
Ans. Netbook
15. Microsoft released its operating system Windows 7 in:
Ans. 2009
16. In the computer history, James Gosling is known for
Ans. Developing Java
17. Who founded Free Software Foundation?
Ans. Richard Stallman
18. A type of printer that works by spraying ionized ink at a sheet of paper.
Ans. Ink-jet Printer
19. A unit used to measure spatial printing or video dot density.
Ans. dpi
20. If an image has higher resolution, it means
Ans. It has more image detail
21. Which of the following is a raster-based image editor?
Ans. Adobe Photoshop
22. What is common with JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP and SVG?
Ans. Image file formats
23. A Multipurpose national Identity Card (MNIC) project initiated by Government of India.
Ans. AADHAAR
24. A category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance.
Ans. RAID
25. A technique in which data is written to two duplicate disks simultaneously
Ans. Mirroring
26. A scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites.
Ans. Javascript
27. What does USB stands for
Ans. Universal Serial Bus
28. How many devices can be connected to a computer via USB
Ans. 127
29. Ability of a computer system to automatically configure expansion boards and other devices.
Ans. Plug-and-Play
30. In computing half of a Byte is known as
Ans. Nibble
31. A Petabyte is equal to
Ans. 1000 TB
32. One of the parts of the computer is sometimes shortened to mobo. What is it?
Ans. Motherboard
33. Intel corporation was founded by
Ans. Gordon E. Moore and Robert Noyce
34. A very large and expensive computer capable of supporting hundreds or even thousands of users, simultaneously.
Ans. Mainframe computer
35. Highest distinction in computer Science and often dubbed as “Nobel Prize of computing?
Ans. Turing Award
36. A short-range radio technology aimed at simplifying communications among Internet devices and between devices and the Internet.
Ans. Bluetooth
37. What does EBPP stands for?
Ans. Electronic Bill Presentment & payment.
38. Electronic delivery of invoices or bills and related information by a company to its customers is known as
Ans. Electronic Billing
39. What does ERP stands for.
Ans. Enterprise resource Planning
40. Computer software designed to help the user to perform singular or multiple related specific tasks is known as
Ans. Application Software
41. In computing terminology,…………….refers to the execution of a series of programs or jobs on a computer without manual intervention.
Ans. Batch Processing
42. Hotmail, a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft, was co-founded by an Indian Engineer. Who was he?
Ans. Sabeer Bhatia
43. The situation when in a linked list START=NULL is:
Ans. underflow
44. The term "push" and "pop" is related to:
Ans. stacks
45. A data structure where elements can be added or removed at either end but not in the middle:
Ans. Deque
46. The memory address of the first element of an array is called:
Ans. base address
47. When new data are to be inserted into a data structure, but there is no available space, this situation is usually called?
Ans. overflow
48. Ping is a command used for
Ans. Checking Networking functionality and validity of IP address
49. Normal Switch operates on which layer of OSI model?
Ans. Data Link Layer
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