COMPUTER GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS

1) Father of Computer is Charles Babbage
2) Father of Internet is Vint Cref
3) In the development of Computer Von Neumen shared his experience.
4) World's First Electronic Computer 'ENIAC'
5) First computer developed in India is 'Siddharth'
6) World's first computerized Post Office is in Delhi
7) India's Sillicon Valley is in Banglore
8) Computer Language founded by Sun Microsystem is 'JAVA'
9) Computer language which accepts Hindi Command is 'Pradesh'
10) Nick Name of IBM is Blue Bird
11) FORTRAN is the first ever computer language which was developed for programming.
12) IBM 1401 was the computer in which first time Transistor was used in place of Vacuum Tube.
13) Digital Equipment Corporation(DEC) staretd to manufacture the Mini Computers.
14) Integrated Circuit (IC) was developed by J. S Kilbi
15) The ascending order of a data hierarchy is–bite, byte, record, field, file, database
16) The blinking symbol on the computer screen is called the– Cursor
17) One megabyte equals approximately– 1 Million Bytes
18) Data going into the computer is called- Input
19) What is the ultimate purpose of Defragmentation-Create more free space
20) Computers process data into information by working exclusively with–  numbers(binary numbers)
21) You must install a/an router on a network if you want to
share a broadband Internet connection.
22) The design of the network is called the network– architecture
23) Which of the following language support garbage collection–Java
24) Procedural programming language is–COBOL
25) The most common system security method is–firewall
26) A temporary storage are, used generally for cut/copied of text or
graphics– Clipboard
27) Which command is used to copy files?Copy Command
28) You can save your document using which command– save
29) What does OCR stands for- optical character recognition
30) Which command is DOS used to change the file name- ren or rename
31) Microsoft Office is– shareware
32) How many options does a BINARY choice offer– It depends on the speed of the computer’s processor
33) A collection of program that controls how your computer system
runs and processes information is called–Compiler
34) Computer connected to a LAN (Local Area Network) can– run faster
35) Information travels between components on the motherboard
through– Flash memory
36) Information. is data that has been organized or presented in a
meaningful fashion.
37) The name for the way that computers manipulate data into
information is called– Processing
38) After a picture has been taken with a digital camera and
processed appropriately, the actual print of the picture is
considered– Output
39) A circuit with about 100 transistors fabricated on a single chip
is called– MSI
40) The first operating system used in micro-processor is–CP/M
41) A byte represents a group of– 8 bits
42) When a key is present on the keyboard, which standard is used
converting the keystrokes into the corresponding bits? ASCII
43) BIOS stands for–Basic Input Output system
44) Father of ‘C’ programming language– Thomas Kurtz
45) The 16 bit Microprocessor means that it has– 16 address lines
46) A type of semiconductor memory that usually has small
capacity but very fast access is–Scratchpad
47) A single pole, single throw switch with one common line and
one output line is–SPST switch
48) A one-bit signal that indicates the start of data transmission by
an asynchronous device is– star bit
49) Which of the following requires a device driver– cache
50) 92 in octal number system is equivalent to– 134
51) Icons are– picture commands
52) The gray code for decimal 7 is–0100
53) Cookies are used to identify a user who returns to a Website
54) Interpreter translates and executes program at run time line by
line.
55) COBOL is widely used in space applications
56) A single dimensional array is called– List
57) Data processing is–associated with commercial work
58) In computer terminology, information means–Data in more useful