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| 201. |
Which of the following is the first fully automated computing device? |
| A. | Mark I |
| B. | EDVAC |
| C. | ENIAC |
| D. | EDSAC |
| Answer» A. Mark I | |
| 202. |
Which one of these is the first fully electronic computer? |
| A. | EDVAC |
| B. | ENIAC |
| C. | EDSAC |
| D. | UNIVAC |
| Answer» A. EDVAC | |
| 203. |
Store program concept was introduced by: |
| A. | Blaise Pascal |
| B. | Charles Babbage |
| C. | Goltfried Leibniz |
| D. | John Von Newman |
| Answer» D. John Von Newman | |
| 204. |
Which of the following is the first digital computer? |
| A. | ENIAC |
| B. | EDVAC |
| C. | EDSAC |
| D. | UNIVAC |
| Answer» D. UNIVAC | |
| 205. |
What was the basic computing component of the second generation computers? |
| A. | Vacuum tubes |
| B. | Transistors |
| C. | ICs |
| D. | VLSI |
| Answer» A. Vacuum tubes | |
| 206. |
The third generation computers began with the advent of -------------. |
| A. | Vacuum tubes |
| B. | Transistors |
| C. | ICs |
| D. | VSLI |
| Answer» C. ICs | |
| 207. |
Which of the following is free software? |
| A. | Intel |
| B. | AMD |
| C. | Microsoft |
| D. | Linux |
| Answer» D. Linux | |
| 208. |
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 | |
| 209. |
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 | |
| 210. |
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 | |
| 211. |
Which of the following is not a personal computer? |
| A. | Desk top |
| B. | Notebook |
| C. | Laptop |
| D. | Mainframe |
| Answer» D. Mainframe | |
| 212. |
Which of the following is not a computer? |
| A. | ENIAC |
| B. | FORTRAN |
| C. | UNIVAL |
| D. | ALGOL |
| Answer» D. ALGOL | |
| 213. |
Pick the odd one out. |
| A. | COBOL |
| B. | FORTRAN |
| C. | UNIVAC |
| D. | ALGOL |
| Answer» C. UNIVAC | |
| 214. |
Which of the following is software? |
| A. | Laptop |
| B. | Netbook |
| C. | Nettop |
| D. | Linux |
| Answer» D. Linux | |
| 215. |
Which of the following is not the name of Computer Company? |
| A. | H P |
| B. | Apple |
| C. | Dell |
| D. | Mac |
| Answer» D. Mac | |
| 216. |
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 | |
| 217. |
Which of these is a search engine? |
| A. | Face book |
| B. | Firefox |
| C. | You tube |
| D. | Orkut |
| Answer» B. Firefox | |
| 218. |
Which of these is a social network? |
| A. | Chrome |
| B. | |
| C. | Internet explorer |
| D. | Firefox |
| Answer» B. twitter | |
| 219. |
FORTRAN and COBOL are ---------------- |
| A. | Computer languages |
| B. | Processor |
| C. | Operating systems |
| D. | Servers |
| Answer» A. Computer languages | |
| 220. |
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 | |
| 221. |
S S I can hold ---------------- transistors per chip. |
| A. | 10 – 100 |
| B. | 100 – 1000 |
| C. | 1 – 10 |
| D. | Infinite numbers |
| Answer» A. 10 – 100 | |
| 222. |
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 | |
| 223. |
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 | |
| 224. |
The first micro computer was ------------------ a) PDP-1 b) IBM-1401 c) CDC3600 d) Altair8800 31. Steve Vozniak and Steve Jobs began the computer company called ------------------ |
| A. | Dell |
| B. | Intel |
| C. | Apple |
| D. | Sony |
| Answer» D. Sony | |
| 225. |
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 | |
| 226. |
Who put forth the idea that the phenomenon of exponential growth will continue infinitely? |
| A. | Steve Jobs |
| B. | Gordon Moore |
| C. | Cland Shannon |
| D. | Charles Babbage |
| Answer» B. Gordon Moore | |
| 227. |
Which is the computer developed in India to facilitate the rural people? |
| A. | Palmtop |
| B. | Desktop |
| C. | Laptop |
| D. | Simputer |
| Answer» D. Simputer | |
| 228. |
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 | |
| 229. |
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 | |
| 230. |
Amazon’s e-book reader is called ------------------ |
| A. | Kindle |
| B. | PDA |
| C. | I pod |
| D. | Smart phone |
| Answer» A. Kindle | |
| 231. |
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 | |
| 232. |
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 | |
| 233. |
Pick the odd one out |
| A. | Window Me |
| B. | Window vista |
| C. | Window Xp |
| D. | Microsoft |
| Answer» D. Microsoft | |
| 234. |
The following belong to the category of software distribution: |
| A. | Fedora |
| B. | Ubuntu |
| C. | Mandriva |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» D. All of these | |
| 235. |
‘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 | |
| 236. |
‘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 | |
| 237. |
M S Word is a |
| A. | Spreadsheet tool |
| B. | Presentation tool |
| C. | Word processor tool |
| D. | Database tool |
| Answer» C. Word processor tool | |
| 238. |
M S Excel is a |
| A. | Spreadsheet tool |
| B. | Presentation tool |
| C. | Word processor tool |
| D. | Database tool |
| Answer» A. Spreadsheet tool | |
| 239. |
--------------- 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 | |
| 240. |
Photoshop is a |
| A. | Spreadsheet tool |
| B. | Graphic tool |
| C. | Presentation tool |
| D. | Database tool |
| Answer» B. Graphic tool | |
| 241. |
The following is an anti-virus software: |
| A. | Avira |
| B. | Avast |
| C. | Mc A Fee |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» D. All of these | |
| 242. |
Encrypted information is called: |
| A. | Cypher |
| B. | Plain text |
| C. | Clear text |
| D. | Key |
| Answer» A. Cypher | |
| 243. |
Pick the odd one out: |
| A. | BASIC |
| B. | COBOL |
| C. | FORTRAN |
| D. | Interpreter |
| Answer» D. Interpreter | |
| 244. |
Linux kernel was written by ----------------. |
| A. | Linus Torwald |
| B. | Claud Shannon |
| C. | Richard Stallman |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. Linus Torwald | |
| 245. |
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 | |
| 246. |
The following is/are a malware(s):- a) Worms b) Trojans c) Rootkits d) All of the above 55. A program that can copy itself and infect a computer is called ------------------. |
| A. | Malware |
| B. | spyware |
| C. | virus |
| D. | adware |
| Answer» D. adware | |
| 247. |
-------------- is a program that appears harmless but hides malicious functions. |
| A. | Trojans |
| B. | worms |
| C. | Rootkits |
| D. | Virus |
| Answer» A. Trojans | |
| 248. |
-------------- was the first computer virus to appear ‘in the wild’. |
| A. | Virus |
| B. | Trojan |
| C. | Rootkits |
| D. | Elk Clones |
| Answer» D. Elk Clones | |
| 249. |
The first PC virus was called -----------. |
| A. | Cerebrum |
| B. | Trachea |
| C. | Brain |
| D. | None of the above. |
| Answer» C. Brain | |
| 250. |
Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan created the first virus in the year -----------. |
| A. | 1986 |
| B. | 1996 |
| C. | 2006 |
| D. | 1976 |
| Answer» A. 1986 | |
| 251. |
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 | |
| 252. |
Crypto linguistics includes the study of language including -----------------. |
| A. | Frequency of data |
| B. | Letter combinations |
| C. | Universal patterns |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 253. |
Cryptography is used for --------------------. |
| A. | Privacy |
| B. | safety |
| C. | copyright purpose |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 254. |
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 | |
| 255. |
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 | |
| 256. |
The Malayalam word processing software that uses Old Malayalam font for text creation is ---------------. |
| A. | iLEAP |
| B. | RACHANA |
| C. | DNYANESHNARI |
| D. | CHITHRANKAN |
| Answer» B. RACHANA | |
| 257. |
Indic language support is necessary for all software sold in -----------------. |
| A. | Britain |
| B. | America |
| C. | India |
| D. | France |
| Answer» C. India | |
| 258. |
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 | |
| 259. |
India is a member of the --------------------. |
| A. | Unicode Consortium |
| B. | ASCII |
| C. | C-DAC |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. Unicode Consortium | |
| 260. |
The constitution of India recognizes ------------- languages – apart from English which has the status of the official language. |
| A. | 24 |
| B. | 31 |
| C. | 40 |
| D. | 22 |
| Answer» D. 22 | |
| 261. |
The regular standard font is often labeled ------------. |
| A. | Bold |
| B. | Roman |
| C. | Thin |
| D. | Italics |
| Answer» B. Roman | |
| 262. |
The thickness of a particular font is called -----------. |
| A. | Italics |
| B. | Font |
| C. | Weight |
| D. | Bold |
| Answer» C. Weight | |
| 263. |
Unicode originated in the year ----------. |
| A. | 1987 |
| B. | 1988 |
| C. | 1989 |
| D. | 1986 |
| Answer» A. 1987 | |
| 264. |
-------------- could be roughly described as “wide-body ASCII” that has been stretched to 16 bits to encompass the characters of all the world’s living languages. |
| A. | Apple |
| B. | ASCII |
| C. | Unicode |
| D. | Italics |
| Answer» C. Unicode | |
| 265. |
ASCII includes definition for ---------------- characters. |
| A. | 128 |
| B. | 129 |
| C. | 200 |
| D. | 215 |
| Answer» A. 128 | |
| 266. |
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 | |
| 267. |
One of the following is not an application development tool: |
| A. | GIST |
| B. | ISM |
| C. | C-DAC |
| D. | NTrans |
| Answer» C. C-DAC | |
| 268. |
One of the following is not a web application:- |
| A. | Shaili |
| B. | GLite |
| C. | GJLET |
| D. | iplugin |
| Answer» A. Shaili | |
| 269. |
Which of the following is complete Indian language software? |
| A. | Dnyaneswari |
| B. | JSM |
| C. | Chitrankan |
| D. | Leap Office 2000 |
| Answer» D. Leap Office 2000 | |
| 270. |
One of the following is a Dos based word processor:- |
| A. | GIST Terminal |
| B. | Gist Card |
| C. | ALP |
| D. | GISTSDK |
| Answer» C. ALP | |
| 271. |
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 | |
| 272. |
The software used for translation is --------------. |
| A. | ISM Soft |
| B. | iLEAP |
| C. | GIST Java |
| D. | Ntrams |
| Answer» D. Ntrams | |
| 273. |
---------------- is a web application development tool, used to develop interactive Indian language applications to be deployed over the internet or the intranet. |
| A. | iPlugin |
| B. | iLEAP |
| C. | ISM |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. iPlugin | |
| 274. |
Which of the following is a Machine assisted translation tool? |
| A. | iPlugin |
| B. | MANTRA |
| C. | ISM |
| D. | JAVA |
| Answer» B. MANTRA | |
| 275. |
----------- CD incorporates commonly used administrative jargons in the native tongue. |
| A. | Aksharamala CD |
| B. | Bharanamalayalam |
| C. | Nila |
| D. | Kaveri |
| Answer» B. Bharanamalayalam | |
| 276. |
The first phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ project is:- |
| A. | Arogyasree |
| B. | Bharanamalayalam |
| C. | Nila |
| D. | Kaveri |
| Answer» C. Nila | |
| 277. |
The second phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ is:- |
| A. | Arogyasree |
| B. | Bharanamalayalam |
| C. | Nila |
| D. | Kaveri |
| Answer» D. Kaveri | |
| 278. |
Which is the free Malayalam software? |
| A. | Arogyasree |
| B. | Kaveri |
| C. | Nila |
| D. | Bharanamalayalam |
| Answer» B. Kaveri | |
| 279. |
The third phase of ‘Mission Malayalam’ is:- |
| A. | Kaveri |
| B. | Nila |
| C. | Arogyasree |
| D. | Periyar Malayalam Committee Software |
| Answer» D. Periyar Malayalam Committee Software | |
| 280. |
The Malayalam Typewriting software is:- |
| A. | Arogyasree |
| B. | Nila |
| C. | Kaveri |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. Arogyasree | |
| 281. |
The first major work taken up by the computational linguistic team is ---------------. |
| A. | ISM |
| B. | iLEAP |
| C. | GIST |
| D. | CLiCK |
| Answer» D. CLiCK | |
| 282. |
The numeronym for localization is ------------. |
| A. | 110n |
| B. | 111n |
| C. | 19n |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. 110n | |
| 283. |
The numeronym for internationalization is ------------. |
| A. | I17n |
| B. | i19n |
| C. | i18n |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. i18n | |
| 284. |
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 | |
| 285. |
Which of the following is the International standard for character encoding? |
| A. | ASCII |
| B. | ISCII |
| C. | EBCDIC |
| D. | Unicode |
| Answer» D. Unicode | |
| 286. |
How many characters can be encoded using a 16-bit coding system? |
| A. | 65536 |
| B. | 65500 |
| C. | 65000 |
| D. | 65534 |
| Answer» A. 65536 | |
| 287. |
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 | |
| 288. |
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 | |
| 289. |
The Leibniz Wheel was created by ------------------. |
| A. | Pascal |
| B. | Gottfried Leibniz |
| C. | Joseph Jacquard |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Gottfried Leibniz | |
| 290. |
List of detailed instructions that direct a computer is called |
| A. | Execution |
| B. | Control |
| C. | Program |
| D. | Storage |
| Answer» C. Program | |
| 291. |
The term ‘memory ‘applies to which of the following? |
| A. | Logic |
| B. | Output device |
| C. | Control |
| D. | Storage |
| Answer» D. Storage | |
| 292. |
Pick the odd one out. |
| A. | Digital camera |
| B. | Image scanner |
| C. | Microphone |
| D. | Speaker |
| Answer» D. Speaker | |
| 293. |
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 | |
| 294. |
Pick the odd one out |
| A. | Mouse |
| B. | Printer |
| C. | Image scanner |
| D. | Keyboard |
| Answer» B. Printer | |
| 295. |
Where does a computer add and compare data? |
| A. | Hard disk |
| B. | Floppy disk |
| C. | CPU chip |
| D. | Memory chip |
| Answer» C. CPU chip | |
| 296. |
The first six letters on a modern keyboard reads |
| A. | QWERTY |
| B. | ASDFGH |
| C. | ZXCVBN |
| D. | QAZWSX |
| Answer» A. QWERTY | |
| 297. |
An example of a pointing device is |
| A. | Trackball |
| B. | Light pens |
| C. | Digitizing tablets |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 298. |
The acronym USB stands for |
| A. | Universal serial Bus |
| B. | United server Bus |
| C. | Universal segment of bus |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. Universal serial Bus | |
| 299. |
The four steps CPU’s use in their operations are |
| A. | Endeavour, drive, encode and serialize |
| B. | Fetch, decode, execute and writeback |
| C. | Copy, sever, cut and paste |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Fetch, decode, execute and writeback | |
| 300. |
…………. Printers use electro-mechanical mechanism that causes hammers or pins to strike against a ribbon and a paper to print the text |
| A. | Impact printers |
| B. | Liquid inkjet printer |
| C. | Laser printer |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. Impact printers | |
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