100 BASIC COMPUTER RELATED QUESTIONS

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1. Who is the father of Computer science? Charles Babbage

2. In a computer, most processing takes place in _______? CPU

In which type of computer, data are represented as discrete

3. signals? Digital Computer

4. Scientific Name of Computer? Sillico sapiens

What is the name of the display feature that highlights are of the
5. screen which requires operator attention? Reverse Video

Computers, combine both measuring and counting, are called

6. _______? Hybrid Computer

7. What is FORTRAN? Formula Translation

8. What translates and executes program at run time line by line? Interpreter

9. What converts an entire program into machine language? Compiler

10. Who is the father of personal computer? Edward Robert

Electronic Erasable Programmable

11. EEPROM stands for _______? Read Only Memory

12. Who developed the first electronic computer? J.V. Atansoff

Which programming languages are classified as low level

13. languages? Assembly Language

14. The first web browser is _______? Mosaic

15. First page of Website is termed as _______? Homepage

16. IBM stands for _______? International Business Machines

Office LANs, which are scattered geographically on large scale,

17. can be connected by the use of corporate _______? WAN ( wide area network )

To move a copy of file from one computer to another over a

18. communication channel is called? File Transfer

Large transaction processing systems in automated organisations

19. use _______? Batch Processing

Magnetic Ink Character

20. MICR stands for _______? Recognition
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21. Name of 1st electronic computer? ENIAC

22. No. of different characters in ASCII coding system? 1024

23. MSIC stands for _______? Medium Scale Integrated Circuits

24. The scrambling of code is known as _______? Encryption

25. The first computers were programmed using _______? Machine Language

A fault in a computer program which prevents it from working

26. correctly is known as _______? Bug

Which button makes alphabets/letters in uppercase and

27. lowercase and numbers to symbols? Shift

When a computer is switched on, the booting process performs

28. _______? Power on self test

What is the software frequently utilized by end users called (like

29. Word, PowerPoint)? Application Software

30. Unit of measurement of the output quality of a printer? Dot per sq. inch

31. Switching device of fifth generation computer is _______? VLSI

32. The unit KIPS is used to measure the speed of _______? Processor

33. DOS stands for _______? Disk Operating System

34. What is a joy stick primarily in computers used for? Computer Gaming

35. In 1999, the Melissa virus was a widely publicized _______? E-mail virus

Which of the following commands is given to reboot the

36. computer? Ctrl+Alt+Del

37. What is correcting errors in a program called? Debugging

38. BCD is _______? Binary Coded Decimal

39. What type of virus uses computer hosts to reproduce itself? Worm

40. SMTP, FTP and DNS are applications of the _______ layer? Application

41. Which command is used to select the whole document? Ctrl+A

Common Business Oriented

42. COBOL is an acronym for _______? Language

43. The ability of an OS to run more than one application at a time is Multitasking
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called?

44. What is the functional key to display save-as box? F12

45. Full form of NOS? Network Operating system

Something which has easily understood instructions is said to be

46. _______? Analog Data

47. A modem is connected to a _______? Telephone Line

48. Refresh Rate of monitor is measured in? Hertz

49. What was the chief component of first generation computer? Vacuum tube & Valves

50. Name the Father of Computer Mouse? Douglas Engelbart

A program that performs a useful task while simultaneously

51. allowing destructive acts is _______? Trojan Horse

The geometric arrangement of devices on the network is called

52. _______? Topology

The basic goal of computer process is to convert data into

53. _______? Information

54. Where are the CPU and memory located? Motherboard

55. Who is known as the founder of IBM Company? Thomas J. Watson

56. An image on a computer screen is made up of _______? Pixels

57. Full form of MAN? Metropolitan Area Network

Which command in DOS can be used to recover accidentally

58. deleted files? UNDELETE

A computer program that converts an entire program into

59. machine language atone time is called _______? Characters

60. In which year, the Microsoft company was founded? 1975

What is the personal computer operating system that organizes

61. and uses a graphic desktop environment? Windows

62. What are Light pen and joystick? Input Devices

63. What is a half byte also called as? Nibble

64. SMPS stands for _______? Switched mode Power Supply

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What do we use to change the appearance and positioning of text

65. document in MSWord? Formatting

66. A _______ is approximately a million bytes? Megabyte

67. Daisy wheel, Drum, chain etc are the _______? Printers

68. XML stands for _______? Extensible Markup Language

69. What kind of scheme is the HTTP protocol? Request/Response

70. Magnetic disk is an example of _______? Secondary Memory

71. What is the meaning of OSI, in terms of computers ? Open system Interconnection

72. Which type of storage device is a BIOS ? Primary

73. What is the extension type of the excel 2007 files? .xlsx

Collecting personal information and effectively posing as

74. another individual is known as the crime of _______? Identity theft

The amount of vertical space between lines of text in a document

75. is called _______? Line Spacing

76. A computer cannot ‘boot’ if it does not have the _______? Operating system

77. What is the other name for programmed chip? LSIC

78. A normal CD- ROM usually can store up to _______ data? 680 MB

79. What does DMA stand for? Direct Memory Access

80. Full form of LAN? Local Area Network

American Standard Code for

81. ASCII stands for _______? Information Interchange

82. Second Generation computers were developed during _______? 1956-65

When did arch rivals IBM and Apple Computers Inc. decide to
83. join hands? 1991

84. What kind of memory is both static and non-volatile? ROM

An error in software or hardware is called a bug. What is the

85. alternative computer jargon for it? Glitch

86. Unwanted repetitious messages, such as unsolicited bulk e-mail Spam

is known as _______?
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The common name for the crime of stealing passwords is

87. _______? Spoofing

88. BIOS stands for _______? Basic Input Output System

89. Who is regarded as Father of “C” programming language? Dennis Ritchie

RAM can be treated as the _______ for the computer’s

90. processor. Waiting Room

Computers manipulate data in many ways, and this manipulation

91. is called _______? Processing

92. Joshy, Perfumes are examples of _______? Viruses

The ability to recover and read deleted or damaged files from a

criminal’s computer is an example of a law enforcement
93. speciality called _______? Computer Forensics

Where does most data go first with in a computer memory

94. hierarchy? RAM

95. Help Menu is available at which button? Start

Which file contains permanent data and gets updated during the
96. processing of transactions? Master File

97. A DVD is an example of an _______? Optical Disc

Which is most common tool used to restrict access to computer

98. system? Passwords

The technology that stores only essential instructions on a

microprocessor chip and thus enhances its speed is referred as
99. _______? RISC

What is the name of an application program that gathers user

100. information and sends it to someone through the Internet? Spybot