1. What is the size of Floppy Diskette which is used normally?
1) 3
”
2) 5”
3) 4”
4) 3”
Ans: 1) 3
”
2. A compact disc is a data storage system of the type
1) Magnetic
2) Optical
3) Electrical
4) Electromechanical
Ans: 2) Optical
3. Where is the National Institute of Excellence in the field of Information Technology and Allied Sciences proposed to be set up?
1) Bangalore
2) Hyderabad
3) Pune
4) Allahabad
Ans: 4) Allahabad
4. Which of the following devices is used as a ‘Memory Device’ in computers?
1) Rectifier
2) Flip Flop
3) Comparator
4) Attenuator
Ans: 2) Flip Flop
5. Which of the following is not reckoned as a ‘value added’ telecommunication service?
1) Electronic Mail
2) STD
3) FAX
4) Radio-Paging Service
Ans: 3) FAX
6. The basic function of an ‘AND’ gate in computer is for:
1) Addition
2) Subtraction
3) Multiplication
4) Division
Ans: 3) Multiplication
7. Who developed the concept of e-mail?
1) Bill Gates
2) Arthur C. Clark
3) Ray Tomlinson
4) Sabir Bhatia
Ans: 3) Ray Tomlinson
8. What is an organisation’s introductory web page called?
1) Portal
2) Vortal
3) Homepage
4) Website
Ans: 4) Website
9. The first computer language developed was
1) COBOL
2) BASIC
3) FORTRAN
4) PASCAL
Ans: 3) FORTRAN
10. Who among the following developed World Wide Web (WWW), which gave a new type of information exhibition?
1) Bob Cohen
2) Tim Berners-Lee
3) Robert Morris Jr.
4) Michael Derstuses
Ans: 2) Tim Berners-Lee
11. Which among the following is a distinctive feature by which a CD ROM drive is classified in a personal computer?
1) Software bundle
2) Data transfer rate
3) Memory capacity
4) Storage period
Ans: 2) Data transfer rate
12. What is ‘Teletext’ ?
1) Flashing of telephone conversation on TV screen
2) Printing the text of the message on the Telex machine
3) Connecting the local telephone with outstation telephones without STD codes
4) Flashing of the text of news and information on the TV screen
Ans: 4) Flashing of the text of news and information on the TV screen
13. Which of the following mobile telephone network is not based on GSM technology ?
1) Idea
2) BPL Mobile
3) Airtel
4) Reliance Infocomm
Ans: 4) Reliance Infocomm
14. WLL stands for
1) Walking Land Line
2) Walking Loop Line
3) Wireless Land Line
4) Wireless in Local Loop
Ans: 4) Wireless in Local Loop
15. A computer virus is
1) A chemical that attacks silicon
2) A micro-organism that destroys integrated circuits
3) data that the computer fails to handle
4) A special kind of computer programme
Ans: 4) A special kind of computer programme
16. Which of the following companies announced sometime back the launch of India’s first personal computer with one terabyte hard drive capacity ?
1) Infosys Technologies
2) Wipro
3) HCL Infosystems
4) IBM
Ans: 3) HCL Infosystems
17. Nanotechnology deals with objects with dimensions in the range of
1) 
m
2) 
m
3) 
m
4) 
m
Ans: 3) 
m
18. An Intelligent terminal
1) has a microprocessor, but cannot be programmed by the user
2) can process small data processing jobs, with the use of large CPU
3) interacts with the user in English
4) cannot take data from the user
Ans: 2) can process small data processing jobs, with the use of large CPU
19. Processor’s speed of a computer is measured in
1) BPS
2) MIPS
3) Baud
4) Hertz
Ans: 2) MIPS
20. ‘C’ language is a
1) Low level language
2) High level language
3) Machine level language
4) Assembly level language
Ans: 2) High level language
21. Windows 7, an operating system from Microsoft Corporation has……..Indian languages fonts
1) 14
2) 26
3) 37
4) 49
Ans: 4) 49
22. In a 14” TV or computer monitor, the dimension of 14” stands for
1) The length of the screen
2) The breadth of the screen
3) The diagonal of the screen
4) The maximum length of the screen
Ans: 3) The diagonal of the screen
23. Who is called the Father of Computer ?
1) Charles Babbage
2) Stephen Hawking
3) W.G. Grace
4) John Lennon
Ans: 1) Charles Babbage
24. What is clickjacking ?
1) Malicious technique of tricking web user into revealing confidential information
2) A device that sends and receives data in a bit of second
3) A form of computer engineering
4) A digital process that is used to display an image on monitor
Ans: 1) Malicious technique of tricking web user into revealing confidential information
25. Where was India’s first computer installed
1) Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
2) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
3) Indian Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Burnpur
4) Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
Ans: 4) Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
26. A Group Ware is a
1) Hardware
2) Network
3) Software
4) Firmware
Ans: 3) Software
27. Microsoft Office’s personal information manager is
1) Outlook
2) Internet Explorer
3) Organizer
4) Access
Ans: 1) Outlook
28. WIKILEAKS, a whistleblowers website is an international organisation based in
1) U.S.A.
2) U.K.
3) Sweden
4) Norway
Ans
: 1) U.S.A.
29. A parallel port is most often used by a
1) Printer
2) Monitor
3) Mouse
4) External storage device
Ans: 1) Printer
30. The symbols used in an assembly language are
1) Codes
2) Mnemonics
3) Assembler
4) Machine codes
Ans: 2) Mnemonics
31. The ‘NOSHADE’ attribute in HTML
1) defines the thickness of the line
2) displays the line in red
3) displays the line in dark grey
4) displays the example in red
Ans: 2) displays the line in red
32. Which of the following is a system software?
1) Database programs
2) Word processors
3) Spreadsheets
4) Compilers
Ans: 4) Compilers
33. Who introduced “MMX” technology
1) IBM
2) Apple
3) Microsoft
4) Intel
Ans: 4) Intel
34. ‘IC-Chips’ for computer are usually made of
1) Silicon
2) Lead
3) Chromium
4) Gold
Ans: 1) Silicon
35. If you undergo a CAT scan, then you have been subjected to
1) a computer aided test
2) a computerised axial topology
3) a computer aided tomography
4) a computerised axial tomography
Ans: 4) a computerised axial tomography
36. Information Technology is the combination of
1) computing, business and communications
2) business, internet and software
3) Microelectronics, computing and communications
4) database management, communications and internet
Ans: 4) database management, communications and internet
37. A technique for producing animation in which one image changes into another is called
1) Embedding
2) Linking
3) Morphing
4) Scanning
Ans: 3) Morphing
38. Information in a combination of graphics, text, sound, video and animation is called
1) Multiprogram
2) Multifacet
3) Multimedia
4) Multiprocess
Ans: 3) Multimedia
39. How much data does a standard floppy disk hold ?
1) 512KB
2) 1.44MB
3) 20MB
4) 1GB
Ans: 2) 1.44MB
40. Consider the following statements:
A. Adam Osborne produced the first portable computer.
B. Ian Wilmut created the cloned sheep.
Which of the statements given above is(are) correct?
1) A only
2) B only
3) Both A and B
4) Neither A nor B
Ans: 3) Both A and B
41. What is the full form of RAM?
1) Ready to Access Memory
2) Read At-a time Memory
3) Random Access Memory
4) Readily Available Memory
Ans: 3) Random Access Memory
42. The period of second generation computers was from
1) 1946-1958
2) 1940-1960
3) 1959-1964
4) 1965-1975
Ans: 3) 1959-1964
43. LAN stands for
1) Land Area Network
2) Local Area Network
3) Local Access Network
4) Local Area Netware
Ans: 2) Local Area Network
44. Correct expansion of ‘http’ in computer address is
1) Higher text transfer protocol
2) Higher transfer text protocol
3) Hybrid text transfer protocol
4) Hypertext transfer protocol
Ans: 4) Hypertext transfer protocol
45. The term PC means:
1) Private computer
2) Personal computer
3) Professional computer
4) Personal calculator
Ans: 2) Personal computer
46. 1024 bytes equals
1) 1 TB
2) 1 GB
3) 1 MB
4) 1KB
Ans: 4) 1KB
47. The term PC-XT means:
1) Personal Computer External Technology
2) Personal Computer Extended Technology
3) Personal Computer Expanded Technology
4) Personal Computer Embedded Technology
Ans: 2) Personal Computer Extended Technology
48. ENIAC stands for
1) An electronic calculator
2) An electronic computer
3) A memory device
4) An engine
Ans: 2) An electronic computer
49. One byte consists of
1) One bit
2) Four bits
3) Eight bits
4) Ten bits
Ans: 3) Eight bits
50. The first operational electronic computer was
1) ENIAC
2) EDVAC
3) EDSAC
4) UNIVAC
Ans: 1) ENIAC
51. DTP stands for
1) Daily Text Printing
2) Desk Top Publishing
3) Desk Top Printing
4) Daily Text Printing
Ans: 2) Desk Top Publishing
52. Which of the following is not a computer network?
1) Wide area network
2) Local area network
3) Personal network
4) Metropolitan area network
Ans: 3) Personal network
53. When a group of computers is connected together in a small area without the help of
telephone lines, then it is called as
1) Remote Connection Network (RCN)
2) Local Area Network (LAN)
3) Wide Area Network (WAN)
4) Value Added Network (VAN)
Ans: 2) Local Area Network (LAN)
54. Fifth generation computers do not have
1) Speech recognition
2) Artificial intelligence
3) Very large scale integration
4) Vacuum tubes
Ans: 4) Vacuum tubes
55. Where does the computer add, compare and shuffle data?
1) Memory chip
2) CPU chip
3) Floppy disk
4) Hard disk
Ans: 2) CPU chip
56. Double is a __________ data type
1) Primitive
2) User defined
3) System defined
4) Local
Ans: 1) Primitive
57. PDAstands for
1) Personal digital assistant
2) Personal development agency
3) Personal data authority
4) Personal data array
Ans: 1) Personal digital assistant
58. The device that converts computer output for transmission over telephone lines is called
1) Interface
2) Interpreter
3) Modem
4) Input/ Output port
Ans: 3) Modem
59. A ‘bug’in a programme is a
1) Statement
2) Error
3) Signature
4) Both (2) and (3)
Ans: 2) Error
60. DOS is a
1) Direct operating system
2) Dual operating system
3) Disk operating system
4) Dial-Up operating system
Ans: 3) Disk operating system
61. What is the process of defining tables called?
1) Data definition
2) Data normalisation
3) Index definition
4) Data administration
Ans: 3) Index definition
62. What are the signals that inform the operating system that some activity has taken place,called?
1) Informers
2) Interrupts
3) Events
4) Handlers
Ans: 4) Handlers
63. Small and cheap computers built into several home appliances are of which type?
1) Mainframes
2) Mini computers
3) Micro computers
4) None of these
Ans: 3) Micro computers
64. Which one of the following is an optical disk?
1) Jaz disc
2) Super disc
3) Worm disk
4) Zip disk
Ans: 2) Super disc
65. The term APIrefers to
1) Application program interface
2) Application program interaction
3) Applied program interaction
4) Application process interface
Ans: 1) Application program interface
66. Pick the odd one out:
1) Java clients
2) Worms
3) Trojan horse
4) Virus
Ans: 3) Trojan horse
67. The rate at which scanning is repeated in a CRT is called
1) Refresh rate
2) Resolution
3) Pitch
4) Bandwidth
Ans: 1) Refresh rate
68. Telnet is a
1) Browser
2) Protocol
3) Gateway
4) Search engine
Ans: 2) Protocol
69. The term ODBCstands for
1) Object da
tabase communication
2) Open database communication
3) Open database connectivity
4) Object database connectivity
Ans: 3) Open database connectivity
70. Both ALU and the control unit have special purpose storage locations called as:
1) Registers
2) Accumulators
3) Bus
4) Address
Ans: 1) Registers
71. A translator for the machine language is called?
1) Assembler
2) Compiler
3) Interpreter
4) Linker
Ans: 1) Assembler
72. ___________ is a program that places programs into memory and prepared them for execution.
1) Assembler
2) Compiler
3) Loader
4) Microprocessor
Ans: 3) Loader
73. Icons are _________
1) Typed
2) Verbal
3) Picture
4) Imaginary
Ans: 3) Picture
74. An address consists of
1) An offset
2) A
base register
3) An index register
4) All of the above
Ans: 4) All of the above
75. A ____________ is an input device that is used for converting pictures, maps and drawings into digital form for storage in computers.
1) OCR
2) OMR
3) MICR
4) Digitizer
Ans: 4) Digitizer
76. In C language, the formatting character should be preceded by the symbol
1) + symbol
2) / symbol
3) {37632549f10ffff720969b4ab77e00ced6668940cd3eefd99db86ec5b5daf659} symbol
4) – symbol
Ans: 3) {37632549f10ffff720969b4ab77e00ced6668940cd3eefd99db86ec5b5daf659} symbol
77. “ Booting the system” means
1) loading the operating system
2) Dismissing the computer
3) Running an application program called “Booting”
4) Physically kicking the computer
Ans: 1) loading the operating system
78. An attribute that uniquely identifies the rows of a table is known as
1) Primary
2) Candidate
3) Composite
4) Foreign
Ans: 1) Primary
79. In MS Excel, _______ provide a visual representation of the values in a worksheet
1) Charts
2) Formulas
3) Templates
4) Views
Ans: 1) Charts
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80. Speed of a processor chip is measured in
1) Mbps
2) Mhz
3) bits/second
4) bytes/second
Ans: 2) Mhz
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