Kerala PSC Study Material: Information Technology & Cyber Laws Questions and Answers.

Information Technology & Cyber Laws Questions

1. A bus is a / an – special memory
2. India’s first super computer is – Param
3. Java was originally invented by – Sun
4. One press F key to – Display help
5. Fire ware is stored in – Read only memory
6. Whose trademark is the operating system UNIX – BELL Laboratories
7. Select the smallest memory size – Kilobyte
8. Full form of TCP is – Transmission control protocol
9. UNIVAC is an example of – First generation computer
10. The binary system uses powers of – 2
11. A single packet on a data link is known as – Frame
12. ASCII stands for – American standard code for information interchange
13. The list of coded instructions is called – Computer program
14. A Process is – a program in execution
15. A microprocessor with 12 address lines is capable of addressing – 4096 locations
16. The word length of the 32 bit microprocessor is equal to – 4 bytes
17. The flow and timing of data to and from the microprocessor is regulated by – Control Pins
18. A beam of light used to record and retrieve data on optical disks is known as – Laser Light
19. For connecting several devices , we use – Bus
20. The drawback and advantage of using the Assembly language is that it is – Complex and Fast
21. Which languages use the structured programming approach? – Java
22. WINDOWS work in the mode – Enhanced and Compressed
23. An octal system has a base – 8
24. When a computer suddenly stops working, it – Is said to hang
25. A 16 bit computer word consists of __ bytes – 16
26. Example of fastest printer? – Laser
27. A computer virus is a software program which has essential ability to – Clone itself
28. The decimal equivalent of hexadecimal number D7F is – 3455
29. The decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal number A2C is – 2674
30. The part of computer, which receives the information supplied is? – Input Unit
31. The super computer that beat Kasparov in 1997? : Deep Blue
32. The first computer graphics used movie : TRON (1982)
33. The first film which used the morphing? : Willow
34. The first computer game : Space War
35. The first indigenously developed computer in India: ISIJU (Indian Standard Institute and Jadavpur University)
36. The first super computer installed in India : Cray X-MP-14 (made in USA)
37. India’s first private internet service provider (ISP) : Satyam Infoway Ltd.
38. The first World Wide Web information service in India was launched on : January 14, 1995
39. The first computer animated news reader : Ananova (Russia)
40. World’s first (woman) computer programmer : Ada King
41. The first personal Computer : The Altair (1975)

IT Fathers

• Father of Computer – Charles Babbage 
• Father of Computer Science – Alan Turing
• Father of Information Theory – Claude Elwood Shannon
• Father of Information Technology in India – Rajiv Gandhi
• Father of the Indian Software Industry – Faqir Chand Kohli
• Father of electronic digital computer – John Vincent
• Father of Internet – Vinton Cerf
• Father of free software – Richard Stallman
• Father of Binary Code – Eugene Paul Curtis
• Father of Supercomputer – Seymour Cray
• Father of Indian Super Computer – Dr. Vijay B. Bhatkar
• Father of Personal Computer – Philip Don Estridge  (Henry Roberts is also known as the father of Personal Computer)
• Father of videogames – Ralph Baer
• Father of data processing – Herman Hollerith
• Father of Artificial Intelligence – John McCarthy