Points to study-1

 

Points to study helps you to remember facts, figures, topics and methodologies that you have covered some time ago. It will also help to increase your confidence and reduce anxiety and you will be well prepared for your examination.

 1.       Who is the father of Computer science?    

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


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