Computer and Information Technology (Part I) One Liner Questions & Answers
| Questions | Answers | |
| 1 | The first Computer was made by – | Charles Babbage |
| 2 | To safeguard against cyber attacks and threats of data theft, the ‘Centre for Development of Advanced Computing’ has developed a new software called – | NAYAN |
| 3 | Who invented the electronic computer? | Dr. Alan M. Turing |
| 4 | The digital computer was developed in – | Britain |
| 5 | The first digital computer built with IC chips is known as – | IBM System/360 |
| 6 | The main board of the computer is known as – | Motherboard |
| 7 | A pen drive is – | A removable secondary storage unit |
| 8 | Mouse is – | Input Device |
| 9 | Which is the most common ‘input device’ used today? | Keyboard |
| 10 | The most common input device used today is – | Mouse |
| 11 | The body of the mouse used in computers was designed about 40 years ago. Then it was made of – | Wood |
| 12 | After the double click of the mouse, the information goes to – | C.P.U. |
| 13 | In which port do you plug in the cable of your keyboard? | USB Port |
| 14 | A network of networks is simply called – | Internet |
| 15 | What is the Internet? |
An international computer-based information network.
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| 16 | Slowest Internet connection service is – | Dial-up Service |
| 17 | The first page that you normally view on any website is known as? | Home page |
| 18 | The internet works on – | Packet switching only |
| 19 | IPv6 protocol defines an IP address of – | 128 bit |
| 20 | ‘Bluetooth’ technology allows – | Wireless communication between equipment |
| 21 | What is the difference between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices? |
Bluetooth uses a 2.4 GHz radio frequency band whereas Wi-Fi can use 2.4 GHz or 5GHz frequency band.
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| 22 | The first railway station in the country to provide Google’s free public Wi-Fi service is – | Mumbai Central Railway Station |
| 23 | The computer system that links and stores information among different countries in the world through a satellite is known as – | Nicnet |
| 24 | What is a ‘Virtual Private Network’? |
It is a computer network across a public internet that allows users to access their organization’s network while maintaining the security of the information transmitted.
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| 25 | The layer between the Physical and the network is known as? | Data Link Layer |
| 26 | Talaash is – |
A multimedia portal on the Internet and optical character recognition (OCR) software in Devanagari developed by C-DAC.
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| 27 | India manufactured supercomputer ‘PARAM’ in – | Pune |
| 28 | The first indigenously developed Indian supercomputer is named as – | Param |
| 29 | The name of the Indian Supercomputer is – | Pratyush |
| 30 | Who is known as the father of the Indian supercomputer? | Vijay Bhatkar |
| 31 | Word length for supercomputer ranges up to – | 64 bits |
| 32 | Which is the largest, fastest, and costliest computer? | Supercomputer |
| 33 | The world’s fastest computer has been able to perform (as of Dec. 1996) – | 1012 operations per second |
| 34 | The supercomputer ‘Magic Cube’ inaugurated has been prepared by which country? | China |
| 35 | Which is the smallest and fastest computer imitating brain working – | Quantum computer |
| 36 | Y2K problem relates to – |
To find a suitable replacement when the last two digits of the year become zero.
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| 37 | At the end of this century, there will be great difficulty in the use of existing equipment and heavy expenditure will be required to rectify them. They are – | Computers |
| 38 | W.L.L. Means – | Wireless in the local loop |
| 39 | Which type of computers are the most widely used? | Microcomputers |
| 40 | Which type of computer could be found in a digital watch? | Embedded computer |
| 41 | Which printer is usually used for desktop printing? | Laser printer |
| 42 | Daisy wheel printer is a type of – | Impact Printer |
| 43 | WWW on the Internet stands for – | World Wide Web |
| 44 | Who, is considered the inventor of the World Wide Web (www)? | Tim Berners-Lee |
| 45 | The World Wide Web (www) is a hypermedia system because – | It links to other computer resources |
| 46 | A set of rules that governs data communication is called – | Protocols |
| 47 | The set of protocols, which define all transmission exchanges across the internet is called – | TCP/IP |
| 48 | Junk e-mail is also called – | Spam |
| 49 | Sending an identical e-mail message repeatedly to a particular address by any abuser is called – | E-mail Bombing |
| 50 | DuckDuckGo is a – | Search engine |
| 51 | Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by – | Microsoft |
| 52 | Yahoo, Google, and MSN are – | Internet sites |
| 53 | Which web browser was developed by Google? | Chrome |
| 54 | Web Crawler is also known as – | Web Spider |
| 55 | In the field of computers, 9IRUS stands for – | Vital Information Resource Under Siege |
| 56 | Computer virus is a – | Software program |
| 57 | An Internationally disruptive software that spreads from computer to computer is known as – | Virus |
| 58 | A computer virus is a – | Destructive program |
| 59 | A firewall is used in the Communication Network/system for protection from – | Unauthorized attack |
| 60 | One of the first viruses to attract widespread public attention was designed to infect MS-DOS on 6th March 1992. The name of the virus is – | Michael Angelo |
| 61 | The ‘Stuxnet’ worm detected in the computers of Iran is – |
A malicious program to sabotage nuclear centrifuges.
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| 62 | The terms ‘WannaCry, Petya, and EternalBlue’ sometimes mentioned in the news recently are related to – | Cyberattacks |
| 63 | American Television and Telegraph has developed such computer procedure which gives a multi-user environment, it is called – | Unix |
| 64 | MS-DOS was first released in – | 1981 |