GENERAL QUESTIONS OF COMPUTER

1) Father of Computer is Charles Babbage
2) Father of Internet is Vint Cref
3) Stored program concept developed by Von Neumen
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

59) Father of the personal computer - Henry Edward Roberts released Altair 8800 on December 19, 1974

60) The first laptop or portable computer -  IBM 5100  (1975)

 61) Dennis Ritchie  : He created the C programming language 

62) Brian Kernighan : contributed to the development of Unix, He is also coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages.63) Bjarne Stroustrup : developed C++ programming language.

64) Niklaus Wirth : developed PASCAL programming language

 65)James Gosling :  Father of the Java programming language. 

66) Larry Wall : Developed  Perl programming language in 1987.

 67) Guido van Rossum : Author of the Python programming language. 

 68) Richard Matthew Stallman : foundi Free Software Foundation, developing the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and writing the GNU General Public License.

69) Bill Joy: co-founder of Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim.

 70) Philippe Kahn : who is credited with creating the first camera phone sharing pictures instantly on public networks. 

71) Paul Allen : Co-founder of Microsoft Corporation along with Bill Gates, a leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications.

72) Bill Gates : William Henry “Bill” Gates III is an American business magnate and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.

73) Larry Ellison : Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison is an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's leading enterprise software companies.

74) Larry Page : Lawrence "Larry" Page is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. On April 4, 2011, he took on the role of chief executive officer of Google, replacing Eric Schmidt.

75) Sergey Brin : Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Soviet-born American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the most profitable Internet companies. As of 2012, his personal wealth is estimated to be $20.3 billion.

76) Steve Jobs : Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc

77) Robert Taylor :Robert William Taylor, known as Bob Taylor, is an Internet pioneer, who led teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies.

78) Paul Baran : Paul Baran was a Polish American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks

79Vint Cerf : Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American computer scientist Bob Kahn.

80)Robert E. Kahn : Robert Elliot "Bob" Kahn is an American Internet pioneer, engineer and computer scientist, who, along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol.
 81) Inventors of Computer Hardware  

(1) Key board — Herman Hollerith, first keypunch device in 1930s

(2) Transistor — John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley (1947 - 1948)

(3) RAM — An Wang and Jay Forrester (1951)

(4) Trackball — Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff (1952)

(5) Hard Disk — IBM , The IBM Model 350 Disk File (1956 )

(6) Integrated Circuit— Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce (1958)

(7) Computer Mouse — Douglas Engelbart (1964)

(8) Laser printer— Gary Stark weather at XEROX in (1969)

(9) Floppy Disk— Alan Shugart & IBM( 1970)

(10) Microprocessor — Faggin, Hoff&Mazor – Intel 4004

82) Which IT company got name from Sanfrancisco?Ans- CISCO

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