Introduction to Computer

Ø  Which of the following is not an internet browser? AOL while on the other hand Netscape and WAN are the internet  Browser. 

Ø  What is cookies? Internet information file

Ø  There is a process in which an item or a file is moved into an application or environment which is different than that native to it what is it called? Import

Ø  The kernel provides low level services which of the following is included in kernel services? hardware software interaction and memory management

Ø  What is used in a computer to protect a network server from damage by those who log in to it? firewall

Ø  what is called a geographical representation of a directory or subdirectory? Folder 

Ø  Bat extension refers usually to what kind of file? System file

Ø  What was the first arpanet message? Lo

Ø  A cathode ray tube is found in what? Monitor

Ø  Which of the following is not an image file? TMP while on the other hand JPEG TIM BING are image file extension

Ø  Which one is not an output device? keyboard while on the other hand, modem CPU Mouse are output devices

Ø  which is the fastest type of Computer memory?Cache memory

Ø  what is the name of Professor who coined the name virus for self replicating programs? Fred Cohan

Ø  The capacity of computer bus depend upon the number of data lines it contains

Ø  the interface between users and computers is programming

Ø  What type of device is a computer mouse? Input 

Ø  which of the following is the section of a hard drive? Partition

Ø  where is the headquarter of Microsoft located? Santa Clara, California

Ø  BAK extension refers usually to what kind of file? Backup file

Ø  1 MB is equal to 1024 KB 

Ø  which one word as an input and output device? Modem

Ø  the windows registry consists of which two files user.dat and system.dat

Ø  why was the first Intel celeron Processor not as popular as expected? Because it has No level 2 cache

Ø  a computer Tower is NOT  A peripheral   while on the other hand a computer Tower is a CPU

Ø  what does bios stand for? Binary input output system

Ø  Fortran, a computer programming language is mainly used for what purpose? Scientific research

Ø  Compact disc,  according to the original CD specification hold how many minutes of music? 74 mins

Ø  which one is an email address? ABC@hotmail.com

Ø  which hard disk will be able to store more information? 24 GB rather than 24 MB

Ø  which file extension indicates only graphic files? JPEG and TXT

Ø  in the world of computer what is bus width? The number of bits that can be sent to a CPU simultaneously

Ø  What does term IQR stand for? Interrupt request

Ø  What type of device is a 3 1/2 inch floppy disc? Storage

Ø  Which Window program do you use to manage folders and files? Windows Explorer

Ø  A computer virus cannot be contracted by computer scanner

Ø  A computer port is used to communicate with other computer peripherals

Ø  What type of device is a computer keyboard? Input

Ø  which computer is the fastest? P3 600 megahertz rather than Pentium 600 megahertz

Ø  In order for your computer to play music you need a sound card and a speakers

Ø  What is latency? The number of clock cycles need to read a particular bit of information

Ø  Which was the first company in the world to manufacture computer for commercial use? Remington Rand

Ø  Which of the following computer was the first to use the concept of stored program? Mark 1

Ø  What is referred by path? Specifies the location of a file

Ø  Which of the following is a PC video file extension? Avi

Ø  Which kind of Computer memory is the first to activate when you turn on your computer? Bios

Ø  what is a memory cache? A temporary memory storage device that is certain data available for quick reference

Ø  When your computer speed begins to drop , which element of the memory is likely over taxed? Ram

Ø  Which of the following is not an Operating System? OSD

Ø  What type of device is a computer monitor? Output

Ø  In order to assess the world wide web you need an Internet connection, an internet service provider and Browser software

Ø  The sampling rate, how many samples per second are stored for a CD is? 44.1 kilohertz

Ø  Software is a set of instructions

Ø  What is degauss? Erasing magnetic media

Ø  Which of the following file extensions is not an audio file format ? COM

Ø  The resolution of a printer is measured in dots per inch

Ø  TMP extension refers usually to what kind of file? Temporary file

Ø  Typically hard disk drive employees work Technology has a storage mechanism? Magnetic

Ø  Which Indian co founder of Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft? Sabeer Bhatia

Ø  Who is the founder of Microsoft computer company? Bill Gates

Ø  USB is the acronyms for Universal serial bus

Ø  Which is the oldest search engine it was founded in 1993?AliWeb

Ø  British scientist Tim Berners Lee was the founder of World Wide Web

Ø  Who is considered to be the first programmer? Ada lovelace

Ø  When was first email sent?1971

Ø  Where is the BIOS stored?On a flash memory chip rather than on the hard disk, on a disk, on a USB drive

Ø  Who was one of the original founder for the Intel Corporation? Gordon E. Moore

Ø  Which of the following is not a social networking site?Amazon while other options are Myspace, Orkut, Twitter

Ø  Who created the first mouse in 1963?Douglas Englebart

Ø  How many bits is a byte? 8

Ø  Computer calculate numbers in which mode?Binary

Ø  What is the voice box? Specification for VCD and photo CD

Ø  Which country's people used more internet? China

Ø  Name of the great Muslim plastic who was considered as one of the founder of computer? Al-khwarizmi

Ø  Who found the term cyberspace? William Gibson

Ø  What is the meaning of Fetch?To retrieve data or instructions from storage

Ø  Who send the first email?Ray Tomlinson in 1971

Ø  Unix was developed by Bell laboratories

Ø  Who was the founding father of Yahoo?Jerry Yang and David filo

Ø  Who was the founding father of Hotmail?Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith

Ø  Which is the world's largest web based email service with 369 million members? Windows live Hotmail

Ø  Google is an American multinational corporation which provides internet related products and services, including Internet search Cloud Computing, software and Advertising Technologies. who is the founding father of Google?Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Ø  Information of text message from one computer to another over a network is called electronic mail email

Ø  Which is called is decoding or scrambling of information in a file so that it can only be decoded and freed by someone who has the correct decoding key? Encryption

Ø  What is called the high capacity optical disc that looks like a CD but can store misinformation than CD? Digital versatile disc DVD

Ø  Who or what is Lara Croft? The main characters in the tomb Raider game

Ø  In which year was ASCII formed:  1963

Ø  1 kb is equal to 1024 bytes

Ø  Where is the headquarters of Intel located? Santa Clara California

Ø  Which is the largest search engine of the internet? Google

Ø  Second largest search engine of the internet is Yahoo

Ø  Which type of devices are computer speakers or headphones?Output

Ø  INI extension refers usually to what kind of file? System file

Ø  Where does most data go first within a Computer memory hierarchy? Ram

Ø  What is the capacity of a standard PC floppy? 1.44 MB

Ø  Which of the following is not a Unix or Linux variant? DOS

Ø  What is a clock cycle? CPU processing speed

Ø  Which media holds more information? DVD rather than CD ROM

Ø  All computer must have operating system

Ø  Which part is the brain of the computer? CPU

Ø  ROM is composed of microprocessor

Ø  Which of the following is a Universal Gate? NAND Gate

Ø  Which of the following is used as a memory device in computer? Flip flop

Ø  Winchester drive is also called hard disk drive

Ø  Write office automation package of Microsoft MS Office

Ø  The power of supercomputer is measured in the unit of flops

Ø  What is a computer virus? Software program

Ø  IC chips used in a computer are usually made of silicon

Ø  The central Processing Unit of a computer consists 3 units namely arithmetic logic unit, control unit, memory unit

Ø  Which term is used for a group of personal computer linked together in order to hear program, data and peripherals? LAN

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