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Ans: Charles Babbage
2. In a computer, most processing takes
place in _______?
Ans: CPU
3. What is the name of an application program
that gathers user information and sends it to someone through the Internet?
Ans: Spybot
4. In which type of computer, data are
represented as discrete signals?
Ans: Digital Computer
6. Scientific Name of Computer?
Ans: Sillico sapiens
7. What is the name of the display feature
that highlights are of the screen which requires operator attention?
Ans: Reverse Video
8. Computers, combine both measuring and
counting, are called _______?
Ans: Hybrid Computer
9. What is FORTRAN?
Ans: Formula Translation
10. What translates and executes program at run
time line by line?
Ans: Interpreter
11. What converts an entire program into
machine language?
Ans: Compiler
12. Who is the father of personal computer?
Ans: Edward Robert
13. EEPROM stands for _______?
Ans: Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only
Memory
14. Who developed the first electronic
computer?
Ans: J.V. Atansoff
15. Which programming languages are classified
as low level languages?
Ans: Assembly Language
16. The first web browser is _______?
Ans: Mosaic
17. First page of Website is termed as _______?
Ans: Homepage
18. IBM stands for _______?
Ans: International Business Machines
19. Office LANs, which are scattered
geographically on large scale, can be connected by the use of corporate
_______?
Ans: WAN (wide area network )
20. To move a copy of file from one computer to
another over a communication channel is called?
Ans: File Transfer
21. Large transaction processing systems in
automated organizations use ____?
Ans: Batch Processing
22. MICR stands for _______?
Ans: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
23. Name of 1st electronic computer?
Ans: ENIAC
24. No. of different characters in ASCII coding
system?
Ans: 1024
25. MSIC stands for _______?
Ans: Medium Scale Integrated Circuits
26. The scrambling of code is known as _______?
Ans: Encryption
27. The first computers were programmed using
_______?
Ans: Machine Language
28. A fault in a computer program which
prevents it from working correctly is known as _______?
Ans: Bug
29. Which button makes alphabets/letters in
uppercase and lowercase and numbers to symbols?
Ans: Shift
30. When a computer is switched on, the booting
process performs _______? Ans: Power
on self test
31. What is the software frequently utilized by
end users called (like Word, PowerPoint)?
Ans: Application Software
32. Unit of measurement of the output quality
of a printer?
Ans: Dot per sq. inch
33. Switching device of fifth generation
computer is _______?
Ans: VLSI
34. The unit KIPS is used to measure the speed
of _______?
Ans: Processor
35. DOS stands for _______?
Ans: Disk Operating System
36. What is a joy stick primarily in computers
used for?
Ans: Computer Gaming
37. In 1999, the Melissa virus was a widely
publicized _______?
Ans: E-mail virus
38. Which of the following commands is given to
reboot the computer?
Ans: Ctrl+Alt+Del
39. What is correcting errors in a program
called?
Ans: Debugging
40. BCD is _______?
Ans: Binary Coded Decimal
41. What type of virus uses computer hosts to
reproduce itself?
Ans: Worm
42. SMTP, FTP and DNS are applications of the
_______ layer?
Ans: Application
43. Which command is used to select the whole
document?
Ans: Ctrl+A
44. COBOL is an acronym for _______?
Ans: Common Business Oriented Language
45. The ability of an OS to run more than one
application at a time is called?
Ans: Multitasking
46. What is the functional key to display
save-as box?
Ans: F12
47. Full form of NOS?
Ans: Network Operating system
48. Something which has easily understood
instructions is said to be _______?
Ans: Analog Data
49. A modem is connected to a _______?
Ans: Telephone Line
50. Refresh Rate of monitor is measured in?
Ans: Hertz