150+ English Literature and Informatics Solved MCQs

1.

Informatics is used synonymous with

A. information
B. infotainment
C. information technology
D. none of these
Answer» C. information technology
2.

The invention of paper took place in:

A. 120ad
B. 300bc
C. 324ad
D. 100ad
Answer» D. 100ad
3.

The limitations of print format are:

A. retrieving information from a large collection
B. time
C. space
D. all of these
Answer» D. all of these
4.

Who is called the father of modern Computing?

A. claud shannon
B. charles babbage
C. presper eckert
D. john von newman
Answer» B. charles babbage
5.

Who developed the Binary?

A. claud shannon
B. john von newman
C. blaise pascal
D. none of these
Answer» A. claud shannon
6.

Which numbers represent the binary?

A. 1 and 2
B. 1 and 0
C. 9 and 10
D. none of these
Answer» B. 1 and 0
7.

Which of the following is the first fully automated computing device?

A. mark i
B. edvac
C. eniac
D. edsac
Answer» A. mark i
8.

Which one of these is the first fully electronic computer?

A. edvac
B. eniac
C. edsac
D. univac
Answer» A. edvac
9.

Store program concept was introduced by:

A. blaise pascal
B. charles babbage
C. goltfried leibniz
D. john von newman
Answer» D. john von newman
10.

Which of the following is the first digital computer?

A. eniac
B. edvac
C. edsac
D. univac
Answer» D. univac
11.

What was the basic computing component of the second generation computers?

A. vacuum tubes
B. transistors
C. ics
D. vlsi
Answer» A. vacuum tubes
12.

The third generation computers began with the advent of -------------.

A. vacuum tubes
B. transistors
C. ics
D. vsli
Answer» C. ics
13.

Which of the following is free software?

A. intel
B. amd
C. microsoft
D. linux
Answer» D. linux
14.

The following is not a characteristic of first generation computer:

A. transistors as basic components
B. worked on stored program
C. unreliable
D. magnetic core memory is used as primary memory
Answer» A. transistors as basic components
15.

The following is not a characteristic of second generation computers:

A. transistors as basic components
B. manual assembly of individual components
C. programming was done in machine language
D. limited commercial use
Answer» C. programming was done in machine language
16.

Following is not a characteristic of the third generation computer:

A. integrated circuits were used
B. e-mail was introduced during the third generation
C. computational time was reduced from nanoseconds to microseconds
D. totally general purpose
Answer» C. computational time was reduced from nanoseconds to microseconds
17.

Which of the following is not a personal computer?

A. desk top
B. notebook
C. laptop
D. mainframe
Answer» D. mainframe
18.

Which of the following is not a computer?

A. eniac
B. fortran
C. unival
D. algol
Answer» D. algol
19.

Pick the odd one out.

A. cobol
B. fortran
C. univac
D. algol
Answer» C. univac
20.

Which of the following is software?

A. laptop
B. netbook
C. nettop
D. linux
Answer» D. linux
21.

Which of the following is not the name of Computer Company?

A. h p
B. apple
C. dell
D. mac
Answer» D. mac
22.

Which of the following is a social network?

A. face book
B. orkut
C. you tube
D. all of the above
Answer» D. all of the above
23.

Which of these is a search engine?

A. face book
B. firefox
C. you tube
D. orkut
Answer» B. firefox
24.

Which of these is a social network?

A. chrome
B. twitter
C. internet explorer
D. firefox
Answer» B. twitter
25.

FORTRAN and COBOL are ----------------

A. computer languages
B. processor
C. operating systems
D. servers
Answer» A. computer languages
26.

Manual integration of individual components into functioning units was required in ----

A. fourth generation computers
B. second generation computers
C. third generation computers
D. fifth generation computers
Answer» B. second generation computers
27.

S S I can hold ---------------- transistors per chip.

A. 10 – 100
B. 100 – 1000
C. 1 – 10
D. infinite numbers
Answer» A. 10 – 100
28.

The first video game, called Space war was written in ------------------- and run on PDP-1

A. 1972
B. 1962
C. 1982
D. 1992
Answer» B. 1962
29.

Computational time was reduced from micro to nano seconds in ----------------- generation computers.

A. first
B. second
C. third
D. none of these
Answer» C. third
30.

The first micro computer was ------------------

A. pdp-1
B. ibm-1401
C. cdc3600
D. altair8800
Answer» D. altair8800
31.

Steve Vozniak and Steve Jobs began the computer company called -------------- ----

A. dell
B. intel
C. apple
D. sony
Answer» C. apple
32.

Embedded computer system can be found in -------------

A. cars
B. thermostats
C. microwave ovens
D. all of the above
Answer» D. all of the above
33.

Which is the computer developed in India to facilitate the rural people?

A. palmtop
B. desktop
C. laptop
D. simputer
Answer» D. simputer
34.

Which model of computer is designed for technical or scientific application?

A. work station
B. super computer
C. server computer
D. mainframe computer
Answer» A. work station
35.

Which kind of computer is used to predict weather and design supersonic aircrafts?

A. work station
B. super computers
C. server computers
D. mainframe
Answer» B. super computers
36.

Amazon’s e-book reader is called ------------------

A. kindle
B. pda
C. i pod
D. smart phone
Answer» A. kindle
37.

The term ‘virus’ came from a novel called -------------------

A. adventures of tom sawyer
B. when harlie was one
C. treasure island
D. none of these
Answer» B. when harlie was one
38.

The functions of an operating system are:

A. process management
B. memory management
C. file management
D. all of these
Answer» D. all of these
39.

Pick the odd one out

A. window me
B. window vista
C. window xp
D. microsoft
Answer» D. microsoft
40.

The following belong to the category of software distribution:

A. fedora
B. ubuntu
C. mandriva
D. all of these
Answer» D. all of these
41.

‘Free software’ means:

A. the freedom to run the program for any purpose
B. the freedom to redistribute copies
C. the freedom to improve the program
D. all of these
Answer» D. all of these
42.

‘Free software’ does not mean:

A. the freedom to run the program for any purpose
B. the freedom to redistribute copies
C. should be distributed free of charges
D. the freedom to improve the program
Answer» C. should be distributed free of charges
43.

M S Word is a

A. spreadsheet tool
B. presentation tool
C. word processor tool
D. database tool
Answer» C. word processor tool
44.

M S Excel is a

A. spreadsheet tool
B. presentation tool
C. word processor tool
D. database tool
Answer» A. spreadsheet tool
45.

--------------- is a presentation tool.

A. m s word
B. m s excel
C. m s power point
D. photoshop
Answer» C. m s power point
46.

Photoshop is a

A. spreadsheet tool
B. graphic tool
C. presentation tool
D. database tool
Answer» B. graphic tool
47.

The following is an anti-virus software:

A. avira
B. avast
C. mc a fee
D. all of these
Answer» D. all of these
48.

Encrypted information is called:

A. cypher
B. plain text
C. clear text
D. key
Answer» A. cypher
49.

Pick the odd one out:

A. basic
B. cobol
C. fortran
D. interpreter
Answer» D. interpreter
50.

Linux kernel was written by ----------------.

A. linus torwald
B. claud shannon
C. richard stallman
D. none of the above
Answer» A. linus torwald
51.

The free software movement was conceived and developed in 1983 by ---------- -----.

A. linus torvald
B. claud shannon
C. richard stallman
D. none of the above
Answer» C. richard stallman
52.

The following is/are a malware(s):-

A. worms
B. trojans
C. rootkits
D. all of the above
Answer» D. all of the above
53.

A program that can copy itself and infect a computer is called ------------------.

A. malware
B. spyware
C. virus
D. adware
Answer» C. virus
54.

-------------- is a program that appears harmless but hides malicious functions.

A. trojans
B. worms
C. rootkits
D. virus
Answer» A. trojans
55.

-------------- was the first computer virus to appear ‘in the wild’.

A. virus
B. trojan
C. rootkits
D. elk clones
Answer» D. elk clones
56.

The first PC virus was called -----------.

A. cerebrum
B. trachea
C. brain
D. none of the above.
Answer» C. brain
57.

Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan created the first virus in the year ----- ------.

A. 1986
B. 1996
C. 2006
D. 1976
Answer» A. 1986
58.

Cryptography is the practice and study of ------------------.

A. accessing information
B. hiding information
C. distributing information
D. none of the above.
Answer» B. hiding information
59.

Crypto linguistics includes the study of language including -----------------.

A. frequency of data
B. letter combinations
C. universal patterns
D. all of the
Answer» D. all of the
60.

Cryptography is used for --------------------.

A. privacy
B. safety
C. copyright purpose
D. all of the above
Answer» D. all of the above
61.

In 1998, American President ------------------- signed the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DGMA).

A. george bush
B. bill clinton
C. obama
D. john f. kennedy
Answer» B. bill clinton
62.

The process of adopting software for a particular country or region is called ---- -----------.

A. localization
B. networking
C. blog
D. none of the above.
Answer» A. localization
63.

Indic language support is necessary for all software sold in -----------------.

A. britain
B. america
C. india
D. france
Answer» C. india
64.

Popularity of the non-standard fonts hamper the ---------------- of software tools in Indian languages.

A. inter-operability
B. collaboration
C. development
D. all of the above
Answer» D. all of the above
65.

India is a member of the --------------------.

A. unicode consortium
B. ascii
C. c-dac
D. none of the above
Answer» A. unicode consortium
66.

The regular standard font is often labeled ------------.

A. bold
B. roman
C. thin
D. italics
Answer» B. roman
67.

The thickness of a particular font is called -----------.

A. italics
B. font
C. weight
D. bold
Answer» C. weight
68.

Unicode originated in the year ----------.

A. 1987
B. 1988
C. 1989
D. 1986
Answer» A. 1987
69.

ASCII includes definition for ---------------- characters.

A. 128
B. 129
C. 200
D. 215
Answer» A. 128
70.

Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) is involved in -------------------.

A. machine translation system
B. information extractions and retrieval
C. language tutors
D. all of the above
Answer» D. all of the above
71.

One of the following is not an application development tool:

A. gist
B. ism
C. c-dac
D. ntrans
Answer» C. c-dac
72.

One of the following is not a web application:-

A. shaili
B. glite
C. gjlet
D. iplugin
Answer» A. shaili
73.

Which of the following is complete Indian language software?

A. dnyaneswari
B. jsm
C. chitrankan
D. leap office 2000
Answer» D. leap office 2000
74.

One of the following is a Dos based word processor:-

A. gist terminal
B. gist card
C. alp
D. gistsdk
Answer» C. alp
75.

Which of the following is the only solution for Indian languages in Unix:-

A. gist card
B. gist terminal
C. alp
D. gistsdk
Answer» B. gist terminal
76.

The software used for translation is --------------.

A. ism soft
B. ileap
C. gist java
D. ntrams
Answer» D. ntrams
77.

Which of the following is a Machine assisted translation tool?

A. iplugin
B. mantra
C. ism
D. java
Answer» B. mantra
78.

----------- CD incorporates commonly used administrative jargons in the native tongue.

A. aksharamala cd
B. bharanamalayalam
C. nila
D. kaveri
Answer» B. bharanamalayalam
79.

The first phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ project is:-

A. arogyasree
B. bharanamalayalam
C. nila
D. kaveri
Answer» C. nila
80.

The second phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ is:-

A. arogyasree
B. bharanamalayalam
C. nila
D. kaveri
Answer» D. kaveri
81.

Which is the free Malayalam software?

A. arogyasree
B. kaveri
C. nila
D. bharanamalayalam
Answer» B. kaveri
82.

The third phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ is:-

A. kaveri
B. nila
C. arogyasree
D. periyar malayalam committee software
Answer» D. periyar malayalam committee software
83.

The Malayalam Typewriting software is:-

A. arogyasree
B. nila
C. kaveri
D. none of the above
Answer» A. arogyasree
84.

The first major work taken up by the computational linguistic team is ----------- ----.

A. ism
B. ileap
C. gist
D. click
Answer» D. click
85.

The numeronym for localization is ------------.

A. 110n
B. 111n
C. 19n
D. none of the above
Answer» A. 110n
86.

The numeronym for internationalization is ------------.

A. i17n
B. i19n
C. i18n
D. none of the above
Answer» C. i18n
87.

Indic Computing means --------------.

A. computing in india
B. computing in malayalam
C. computing in indian languages
D. computing in hindi
Answer» C. computing in indian languages
88.

Which of the following is the International standard for character encoding?

A. ascii
B. iscii
C. ebcdic
D. unicode
Answer» D. unicode
89.

How many characters can be encoded using a 16-bit coding system?

A. 65536
B. 65500
C. 65000
D. 65534
Answer» A. 65536
90.

The exact shape by which the character is represented on screen and pages is called a --------------.

A. bold
B. glyph
C. font
D. italics
Answer» D. italics
91.

The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992, by ----------- CEO John Sculley.

A. microsoft
B. apple computers
C. intel
D. none of these.
Answer» B. apple computers
92.

Computers are named so because they --------------.

A. make mathematical calculations
B. r ead books
C. type matters
D. none of these
Answer» A. make mathematical calculations
93.

The Leibniz Wheel was created by ------------------.

A. pascal
B. gottfried leibniz
C. joseph jacquard
D. none of the above
Answer» B. gottfried leibniz
94.

List of detailed instructions that direct a computer is called

A. execution
B. control
C. program
D. storage
Answer» C. program
95.

The term ‘memory ‘applies to which of the following?

A. logic
B. output device
C. control
D. storage
Answer» D. storage
96.

Pick the odd one out.

A. digital camera
B. image scanner
C. microphone
D. speaker
Answer» D. speaker
97.

A microprocessor is

A. same as microcomputer
B. a small piece of equipment
C. cpu on a single chip
D. a way of doing something fast
Answer» C. cpu on a single chip
98.

Pick the odd one out

A. mouse
B. printer
C. image scanner
D. keyboard
Answer» B. printer
99.

Where does a computer add and compare data?

A. hard disk
B. floppy disk
C. cpu chip
D. memory chip
Answer» C. cpu chip
100.

The first six letters on a modern keyboard reads

A. qwerty
B. asdfgh
C. zxcvbn
D. qazwsx
Answer» A. qwerty
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