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1. Who invented Java?
👉 James A Gosling
 
2. Longhorn was the code name of ?
👉 Windows Vista
 
3. Who is known as the Human Computer of India?
👉 Shakunthala Devi
 
4. What is mean by Liveware?
👉 People who work with the computer
 
5. Which computer engineer got Nobel Prize for literature in 2003?
👉 J.M. Coetzee
 
6. ‘Weaving The Web’ was written by…..
👉 Tim Burners Lee
 
7. What is Beta Test?
👉 Trial test of a computer or software before the commercial launch
 
8. ‘Do no evil’ is tag line of ……
👉 Google
 
9. First Indian cinema released through internet is …..
👉 Vivah
 
10. Rediff was founded by…..
👉 Ajith Balakrishnan and Manish Agarwal
 
11. What is the extension of PDF?
👉 Portable document format
 
12. Mows is a type of mouse for …….. people.
👉 Physically handicapped people
 
13. Expand RDBMS?
👉 Relational Data Base Management System
 
14. Difference engine was developed by…..
👉 Charles Babbage
 
15. Orkut is now owned by ……
👉 Google
 
16. World’s first microprocessor is …..
👉 Intel 4004
 
17. What is SQL?
👉 Structured Query Language
 
18. What is the expansion of COBOL?
👉 Common Business Oriented Language
 
19. What is the expansion of SMS?
👉 Short Message Service
 
20. Which IT company’s nickname is ‘ The Big Blue ‘ ?
👉 IBM
 
21. What is the full form of  IEEE?
👉 Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers
 
22. Who developed COBOL?
👉 Grace Murry Hopper
 
23. Email was developed by……
👉 Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (Ray Tomlinson)
 
24. Green dam is ……
👉 Web Filter
 
25. What is the expanded form of CMOS ?
👉 Complementary Metal Oxide Semoconductor
 
26. Who is Netizen ?
👉 Net Citizen (Citizen who uses internet)
 
27. What is Scareware?
👉 Fake antivirus softwares
 
28. When was the first smart phone launched?
👉 1992 (IBM Simon)
 
29. "The fathers of the Internet" is
👉 Vint Cerf
 
30. Which is the news search engine introduced by Rediff.com in 2012?
👉 Realtime News Search

 

31. The inventor of the World Wide Web?
👉 Tim Berners-Lee  --> The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It was called WorldWideWeb and was later renamed Nexus.)

 

32. The founder of Netscape Communications?
👉 Marc Andreessen   -co-authored Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser and he founded Netscape Communications.

 

33. Where was the first computer installed in India?
👉 Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

 

34. In internet terminology IP means
👉 Internet Protocol

 

35. The first page of a website is called the
👉 Home page

 

36. A website addresss is a unique name that identifies a specific ____________ on the web.
👉Link

 

37. A ______ is a computer attached to the internet that runs a special web server software and can send web pages out to the other computer over the internet.
👉 Web sever

 

38. Which software application is used for accessing sites or information on a network ( as the world wide web) ?
👉 Web browser

 

39. It is a small piece of text stored on a user's computer by a web browser for maintaining the state. What we are talking about?
👉 Cookie

 

40. Which  company is nicknamed  "Big Blue" ?
👉 IBM(International Business Machines Corporation)

 

41. Which was the first ever web server software?
👉 CERN httpd(later also known as W3C httpd) - was a web server (HTTP) daemon originally developed at CERN , it live on 25 December 1990.

 

42. The standard protocol of the Internet is
👉 TCP/IP

 

43. The first web based e-mail sevice?
👉 Hot mail
(Sabeer Bhatia of India and Jack Smith founded the first free web-based email service, Hotmail, in 1995. Hotmail was commercially  launched in 4 July 1996 as "HoTMaiL" on American Independence Day. So why the name HoTMaiL)

 

44. In which decade was the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) founded ?

👉 1880s
 
45. What is part of a database that holds only one type of information ?
👉 Field
 
46. 'OS' computer abbreviation usually means ?
👉 Operating System
 
47. In which decade with the first transatlantic radio broadcast occur ?
 
👉 1900s
 
48. '.MOV' extension refers usually to what kind of file ?
 
👉 Animation/movie file
 
49. What do we call a network whose elements may be separated by some distance? It usually involves two or more small networks and dedicated high-speed telephone lines ?
 
👉 WAN (Wide Area Network)
 
50. After the first photons of light are produced, which process is responsible for amplification of the light
👉 Stimulated emission
 
 
(The word "laser" is actually an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Atoms or molecules of the active medium that have been excited to a higher energy level are stimulated by a passing photon to relax to a lower energy level and emit a photon that is indistinguishable from the passing photon, thereby increasing the number of photons like the incident one.)
 
51. How many bits is a byte ?
 
👉 8

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1.  Which of the following is the first calculating device?

A. Abacus
B. Calculator
C. Turing Machine
D. Pascaline

👉 A

 

2. Who invented mechanical calculator called Pascaline?

A. Charles Babbage
B. Blaise Pascal
C. Alan Turing
D. Lee De Forest

👉B

 

3. Who among the following considered as the 'father of artificial intelligence'?

A. Charles Babbage
B. Lee De Forest
C. John McCarthy
D.  JP Eckert

👉C

4. Which was the world's first successful electronic computer?

A. PARAM
B. CRAY-1
C. Pascaline
D. ENIAC electronic Numerical Integrator and computer
 

👉D

 

5. Who among the following used the term computer worm for the first time?

A. John Brunner
B. Alan Turing
C. John McCarthy
D.  JP Eckert

👉A

 

6. Which was first virus detected on ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet in the early 1970s?

A. Exe Flie
B. Creeper Virus
C. Peeper Virus
D. Trozen horse

👉B

 

7. Find out the correct definition of Wide Area Network (WAN)?

A. It is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.

B. It is a collection of computers interconnected with each other through cables to share their data, information and other common hardware resources.

C. A computer network that covers a broad area (i.e., any network, whose communications links cross metropolitan, regional or national boundaries).

D. A  computer network covering a small physical area like a home, office or small groups of buildings, such as a school or an airport.

👉C

 

8. Select the example of application software of computer:

A. Ms Word
B. Ms Excel
C. Both A and B
D. MS-DOS

👉C

 

9. Which of the following is also called translator?

A. Data representation
B. MS-DOS
C. Operating System
D. Language Processor

👉D

 

10. How the quality of printer is measured?

A. Alphabet per strike
B. Words per Inch
C. Strike per Inch
D. Dots per Inch

👉D

 

11. Number of bit used by the IPv6 address.

(a) 32 bit
(b) 64 bit
(c) 128 bit
(d) 256 bit
👉C
 
12. Which one is the first web browser invented in 1990 ?
(a) Internet Explorer
(b) Mosaic
(c) Mozilla
(d) Nexus
👉D
 
13. Which of the following programming language is used to create programs like applets?
(a) COBOL
(b) C Language
(c) Java
(d) BASIC
👉C
 
14. First computer virus is known as
(a) Rabbit
(b) Creeper Virus
(c) Elk Cloner
(d) SCA Virus
👉B
 
15. Which one programming language is exclusively used for artificial intelligence ?
(a) C
(b) Java
(c) J2EE
(d) Prolog
👉D
 
 
16. Firewall in computer is used for
(a) Security
(b) Data Transmission
(c) Authentication
(d) Monitoring
👉A

 
18. Which of the following is not an operating system ?
(a) DOS
(b) Mac
(c) C
(d) Linux
👉C
 
19. Which of the following is not a database management software ?
(a) MySQL
(b) Oracle
(c) Sybase
(d) COBOL
👉C
 
20. Number of layers in the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) Model
(a) 9
(b) 3
(c) 7
(d) 11
👉C
 
21. 1024 bit is equal to how many byte
(a) 1 Byte
(b) 128 Byte
(c) 32 Byte
(d) 64 Byte
👉B
 
22. Mac Operating System is developed by which company
(a) IBM
(b) Apple
(c) Microsoft
(d) Samsung
👉B
 
23. Where is the headquter of Microsoft office located ?
(a) Texas
(b) NewYork
(c) California
(d) Washington
👉D
 
24. .gif is an extension of
(a) Image file
(b) Video file
(c) Audio file
(d) Word file
👉D
 
25. Which one is the first fully supported 64-bit operating system ?
(a) Windows Vista
(b) Mac
(c) Linux
(d) Windows XP
👉C
 
26. Computer Hard Disk was first introduced in 1956 by
(a) Dell
(b) Apple
(c) Microsoft
(d) IBM
👉C
 
27. Which of the following is not a web browser ?
(a) MOSAIC
(b) WWW
(c) Facebook
(d) Netscape navigator
👉C
 
28. In computer world, Trojan refer to
(a) Virus
(b) Malware
(c) Worm
(d) Spyware
👉C
 
29. Which one of the followings is a programming language ?
(a) HTTP
(b) HTML
(c) HPML
(d) FTP
👉B
 
30. Which protocol is used to received e-mail ?
(a) SMTP
(b) POP3
(c) HTTP
(d) FTP
👉B
 
31. Which protocol is used to send e-mail ?
(a) HTTP
(b) POP3
(c) SMTP
(d) SSH
👉B
 
32. Which computer program converts assembly language to machine language ?
(a) Interpreter
(b) Compiler
(c) Assembler
(d) Comparator
👉B
 
33. In which year ‘@’ sign was first chosen for its use in e-mail address ?
(a) 1976
(b) 1980
(c) 1977
(d) 1972
👉D
 
34. Which one is the latest one from PARAM SuperSries computers ?
(a) PARAM Yuva II
(b) PARAM 10000
(c) PARAM Padma
(d) PARAMnet
👉A
 
35. Who is also know as the father of Indian Supercomputing ?
(a) Ragunath Mashelkar
(b) Vijay Bhatkar
(c) Jayant Narlikar
(d) Nandan Nilekani
👉B
 
36. A folder in windows computer can’t be made with the name
(a) can
(b) con
(c) mak
(d) make
,👉b
 
37. A computer use which type of number system to calculate and to store data
(a) decimal
(b) octal
(c) binary
(d) hexadecimal
👉C
 
38. What is the extension type of the excel 2007 files ?
(a) .xls
(b) .xlsx
(c) .xsl
(d) None of the above
👉B
 
39. The basic units of a excel spreedsheet where we enter data is called
(a) Tab
(b) Box
(c) Cell
(d) None of the above
👉C
 
40. The maximum number of rows supported by Excel 2003 spreadsheet is
(a) 10,000
(b) 35,356
(c) 55,782
(d) 65,536
👉D
 
41. The maximum number of rows supported by Excel 2007 spreadsheet is
(a) 9,68,576
(b) 12,15,857
(c) 13,42,554
(d) 10,48,576
👉D
 
42. Which one is a ‘text editor’ for Microsoft Windows ?
(a) MS Word
(b) Ms Excel
(c) WordPad
(d) Notepad
👉D
 
43. Which one is the default ‘Word Processor’ for Microsoft Windows ?
(a) MS Word
(b) Ms Paint
(c) WordPad
(d) Notepad
👉C
 
44. What is the maximum size of a word document created ?
(a) 1 MB
(b) 32 MB
(c) 16MB
(d) 999KB
👉B👉
 
45. What is the maximum number of Primary Partitions that can be created on a Hard-disk ?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 1
👉C
 
46. How many layers in the TCP/IP protocol layers ?
(a) 7
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 11
👉C
 
47. What is the binary value of ‘A’ ?
(a) 01000100
(b) 11000001
(c) 01100001
(d) 01000001
👉D
 
48. Which key combination is used to minimize all open windows and displays in the screen ?
(a) Alt+M
(b) Shift+M
(c) Windows Key+D
(d) CTRL+D
👉c
 
49. Which function key needs to be press during reboot to enter in Safe Mode of a Windows machine ?
(a) F8
(b) F2
(c) F1
(d) F9
👉A
 
50. ‘Linux’ is an example of
(a) Software
(b) Application
(c) Operating System
(d) Browser
👉C
 
51. Which key combination is used to permantly delete a file or folder ?
(a) Shift+delete
(b) Alt+delete
(c) CTRL+delete
(d) Delete
👉A
 
52. Which is an Input device ?
(a) Monitor
(b) Printer
(c) Mouse
(d) None of the above
👉C
 
53. Which one is an example of connectionless protocols ?
(a) TCP
(b) IPX/SPX
(c) Frame Relay
(d) UDP
👉D
 
54. A common boundary between two computer systems is known as
(a) Intradiction
(b) Surface
(c) Interface
(d) None of the above
👉C
 
55. Which one of the following is not a computer language ?
(a) BASIC
(b) LOTUS
(c) C++
(d) JAVA
👉B
 
56. Which one is used for making presentation file from Microsoft Office package ?
(a) MS Outlook
(b) MS Excel
(c) MS Word
(d) MS Powerpoint
👉D
 
57. Network Interface Card (NIC) is generally used for
(a) Connectivity
(b) Programming
(c) Printing
(d) None of the above
👉A
 
58. Total number of pins in a traditional parallel port is
(a) 5
(b) 14
(c) 25
(d) 27
👉C
 
59. Which web browser is developed by the Google ?
(a) IE
(b) FireFox
(c) Safri
(d) Chrome
👉D
 
60. Which web browser is provided default with a Windows machine ?
(a) Opera
(b) IE
(c) Chrome
(d) Mosaic
👉B
 
61. Which company first developed the Java programming language ?
(a) Microsoft
(b) Google
(c) Sun Microsystems
(d) IBM
👉C
 
62. Mark Zuckerberg is the owner of
(a) Facebook
(b) Google
(c) Linux
(d) Linkedln
👉A
 
 
 
 

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