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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