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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) , Bachelor of Arts in History (BA History) .
| 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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