Information Technology (Questions & Answers ) - 07
901. Which file format is used to represent documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware & operating systems?
PDF
902. ............. is used for coding audio-visual information in a digitally compressed format?
MPEG
903. TIFF stands for?
Tag Image File Format
904. What is the full form of GIF?
Graphics Interchange Format
905. What is the name of the computer storage that only maintains its data while the device is powered?
Volatile memory
906. Which type of memory is Random Access Memory (RAM)?
Volatile memory
907. What are the common types of volatile storage?
SRAM & DRAM
908. What was the earliest known tool for computation, developed in China?
Abacus
909. Who invented the different engine in 1822?
Charles Babbage
910. Who is regarded as the 'Father of modern computer science'?
Alan Turing
911. The storage of a computer is also known as:
Memory
912. What is the name of the process of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors?
Formatting
913. What is the name of the network where the computers are within 100 to 300 meters?
LAN
914. What is the name of the process of transferring files from the internet to the computer?
Downloading
915. Moving from one webpage to another webpage is known as:
Browsing
916. Which part of a computer performs logical operations?
Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
917. What is the fullform of URL ?
Uniform Resource Locator
918. What is the name of the collection of physical elements which comprises a computer?
Hardware
919. What is used to provide data and control signals to a computer?
Input devices
920. What is the full form of MICR?
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
921. Which input device is used to read the characters which are written in the magnetised ink?
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR)
922. What is the fullform of OMR?
Optical Mark Recognition
923. What is OCR stands for?
Optical Character Recognition
924. The Visual Display Unit of a computer is commonly known as:
Monitor
925. ........ is a kind of printer that interprets commands from a computer to make line drawings on paper?
Plotters
926. What is the major use of plotters?
Engineering applications like drawing maps
927. What is the name of a computer's memory which is accessible directly by the processing unit?
Primary memory
928. Which are the two types of primary memories?
ROM&RAM
929. Which is the non-volatile and resident memory of the computer?
ROM (Read Only Memory)
930. The information & instructions needed to operate a computer is present in
ROM
931. What is PROM, EPROM & EEPROM?
Types of ROM
932. Which is a temporary and volatile memory of a computer?
RAM (Random Access Memory)
933. What is the full form of VDU?
Visual Display Unit
934. Which type of RAM is a bit of data stored using the state of a flip-flop and has no need to refresh the memory?
SRAM
935. Which type of RAM stores a bit of data using a transistor and capacitor pair which together comprises a memory cell & must be periodically refreshed to access data?
DRAM
936. ............. is a RAM that a computer can access more quickly than it can access regular RAM?
Cache memory
937. Which type of memory is not directly accessible by the CPU and is non-volatile and it does not lose data when the power is switched off?
Secondary memory
938. Which are the different types of secondary memory?
Magnetic storage, hard disk drive, Floppy disk & Optical storage
939. What is the brain of the computer which handles all the instructions given to the computer?
CPU (Central Processing Unit)
940. Which are the three main parts of CPU?
Control Unit, Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) & Memory
941. To prepare a presentation/ slide show which application is commonly used?
PowerPoint
942. Who is known as 'the Father of Personal Computer'?
Henri Edward Roberts
943. A compiler translates a program written in a high-level language into-------?
Machine language
944. A Bluetooth network that supports communication between maximum 8 devices is called a - ---?
Piconet
945. Scatternet is a number of interconnected piconets that supports communication between--------?
More than 8 devices
946. Who discovered a computer mouse?
Douglas Engelbart
947. The World Computer Literacy Day is observed on------?
December-2
948. Who inaugurated the Akshaya program on 18 November 2002?
APJ Abdul Kalam
949. Who is known as 'the Father of E-mail'?
Ray Tomlinson
950. The optical disks are examples for ------storage devices?
Secondary storage device
951. Data in the floppy disc is recorded in rings called ------?
Tracks
952. Which part of the computer helps to store information?
Disk drive
953. The first cyber police station in India started at:
Bengaluru
954. World computer literacy day:
December 2
955. A 'Menu' contains a list of:
Commands
956. Unsolicited commercial email is commonly known as:
Spam
957. Creation of email messages with a forged sender address:
email spoofing
958. Sending massive volumes of email to a specific e-mail address for abuses is called :
email Bombing
959. Full form of ICANN :
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
960. First fully Wi-Fi enabled municipality in India:
Malappuram
961. Who developed LISP language:
John McCarthy
962. Graphical representation of a computer program:
Flow Chart
963. The first known use of the word "computer" was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer--------:
Richard Brathwait
964. Author of the book 'Passage from the Life of a Philosopher':
Charles Babbage
965. Who invented the first mechanical calculator?
Blaise Pascal
966. Who invented Jacquard Loom?
Joseph Marie Jacquard
967. Father of Computer Science:
Alan Turing
968. World's first computer programmer
Ada Lovelace
969. Who invented the 'Analytical Engine'?
Charles Babbage
970. Who wrote the book 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence'?
Alan Turing
971. First electronic Computer :
ENIAC
972. First Wi-Fi enabled train in India:
Rajadhani Express
973. India passed the IT Act 2000 and notified it for effectiveness on:
2000 October 17
974. Loosely organized groups of Internet criminals are called as:
Web gangs
975. ........... .is the practice and study of Hiding Information:
Cryptography
976. Feeling guilty or defensive about our internet use is a symptom of:
Cyber addiction
977. Making distributing and selling the software copies those are fake, known as :
Counterfeiting
978. Which memory is known as the 'work area of a computer ?
RAM
979. Storage capacity of a Floppy Disk:
1.44MB
980. Who discovered CD ROM?
James T Russel
981. A Computer program that is used to convert an assembly language to machine language is:
Assembler
982. Data going into the computer is called:
Input Data
983. Obtaining credit cards and loans in someone else's name or some one wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data:
Identity theft
984. Where was India's first computer installed?
Indian Statistical Institute (Calcutta)
985. The default font available in MS' WORD is:
Times New Roman
986. Unauthorized access of a computer system and networks:
Hacking
987. The social network Facebook was founded by :
Mark Zuckerberg
988. The brain of any computer system is:
CPU
989. Which was the first search engine in the Internet?
Archie
990. The programs which are as permanent as hardware and stored in ROM is known as:
Firmware
991. Which virus is treated as the first computer virus?
Creeper virus
992. The number of functional keys in a keyboard:
12
993. India's first banking Robot :
Lakshmi
994. ASCII stands for :
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
995. In IT Act 2000, which section deals with the punishment of cyber terrorism?
66 (F)
996. First High-Level Language:
FORTRAN
997. Second High-Level language :
LISP
998. Which technology is used in Compact disks?
Laser
999. The Indian president who gave assent to Information Technology Act 2000
K.R. Narayanan
1000. The first Cyber Police station in Kerala was inaugurated in:
2009
1001. India's first Cyber dome is established at :
Thiruvananthapuram
1002. In IT Act, Chapter 3 related to :
Electronic governance
1003. Paintbrush belongs to:
Application group
1004. Cyber Laws are included in:
Residuary Powers
1005. A digital signature is an:
Encrypted information
1006. The laptop was developed by:
Adam Osborne
1007. A website's main page is called :
Homepage
1008. The inventor of www (World wide web):
Tim Berners Lee
1009. The server on the internet is also known as:
Host
1010. Computer Mouse was invented by:
Douglas Engelbart
1011. Baidu is the most popular Search engine in:
China
1012. HTML is considered as a :
Markup language
1013. A computer on the internet is identified by:
IP address
1014. Free of cost repair of software bug available on the internet is called:
Patch
1015. ----------- is the process of finding and resolving defects or problems within a computer program:
Debugging
1016. Full form of SMPS :
Switched-mode power supply
1017. A combination of Hardware and Software :
Firmware
1018. A device which converts human-readable data into machine language is :
Character reader
1019. MICR stands for :
Magnetic Ink Character Reader
1020. ENIAC was a research that was sponsored by :
U.S military
1021. The disk's surface is divided into a number of invisible concentric circles called:
Tracks
1022. COBOL is an acronym for :
Common Business Oriented Language
1023. A mechanism for arranging controlled access to a shared resource is :
Lock-out
1024. VLSI Stands for ----------:
Very Large Scale Integration
1025. Which output device is known as Soft Copy Output device :
Monitor
1026. A ---- is a group of computers and network devices connected together, usually within the same building:
LAN (local area network)
1027. Network of Networks :
Internet
1028. ---------is a type of cybercrime in which data is altered as it is entered into a computer system:
Data diddling
1029. How many Toggle keys are there in a keyboard?
Three
Generation of Computer
1030. First Generation (1940-56)
• Technology was the use of vacuum tubes in electronic circuits.
• internal operating speed (IOS) was milliseconds.
• Operating systems (OS) were batch processing.
• Machine codes & electric boards were the languages.
• Examples- UNIVAC-I, IBM-701.
1031. Second Generation (1957-63)
• Technology was the use of transistors and diodes.
• ros was microseconds
• OS was Batch processing.
• Languages were assembly language & high-level language.
• Examples- UNIVAC-1004, IBM-1401.
1032. Third Generation (1964-71)
• Technology was the use of integrated circuits.
• IOS was nanoseconds
• OS was time-sharing.
• Languages were High-Level Languages like FORTRAN, COBOL & BASIC.
• Examples - UNIVAC-1100, IBM-360, PDP-8.
1033. Fourth Generation (1971-present)
• Technology was the use of large integrated circuits.
• IOS was in picoseconds
• OS were Dos & Windows.
• Languages were high-level languages like Java, C++ & Python.
• Examples - ALTAIR-8800, IBM-370.
1034. Fifth Generation
• Artificial intelligence is the major characteristic. It i's the realm of programming where devices are able to think & react to the environment around them.
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