Quiz on Computer - Round 1 to 5 with Answers


COMPUTER Quiz
Quiz on Computer 1
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan.
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1.      Name the first web browser?
2.      Who introduced the first web browser to the world?
3.      When was the Worldwide Web introduced to the world publicly?
4.      On which platform did the first browser run?
5.      What do HTTP stands for?
6.      What do JVM stands for?
7.      What is Windows XP?
8.      What is Window 7?
9.      What does FTP stand for?
10.  Name the first ever web server software?
11.  How many bytes does One kilobyte contain?
12.  To what kind of file does '. TMP' extension refers usually to computer?
13.  What Does BIOS Stand For?
14.  How many layers are described in OSI module of networking?
15.  What do CGI stands for?
16.  Name the first supercomputer developed by the Indian Scientists?
17.  One Gigabyte approximately contains how many bytes?
18.  What is a LAN?
19.  What does ATM mean?
20.  What do CRM means?

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Answer

1.      Worldwide Web (www) later renamed as Nexus.
2.      British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
3.      6th August, 1991.
4.      NeXTSTEP operating system
5.      Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
6.      Java Virtual Machine.
7.      Operating System.
8.      Operating System.
9.      File Transfer Protocol.
10.  CERN httpd.
11.  1024 bytes
12.  Temporary file.
13.  Basic Input Output System.
14.  7.
15.  Common Gateway Interface.
16.  PARAM 8000
17.  1,000,000,000 bytes
18.  A small, single-site computer network.
19.  Automatic Teller Machine.
20.  Customer Relationship Management.

Quiz on Computer 2
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan.
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1.      What do PC stands for?
2.      What is ‘MIPS’?
3.      What is MS-DOS?
4.      What is FoxPro?
5.      What does WAN mean?
6.      Name the domain that was registered first?
7.      When was the first domain registered?
8.      Name the person who used the smiley for the first time? When?
9.      Who invented the first email system?
10.  When was email implemented?
11.  Name the first Intel Chip that supported 32-bit bus architecture?
12.  Name the first program translator in computer?
13.  What does boot mean?
14.  Name the vital part of the operating system that contains references that allows the window to function?
15.  Name the panel that is used to play a game on the computer?
16.  What does CD-ROM stand for?
17.  What is the full form of CPU?
18.  Who is called as the “Father of computing”?
19.  What is file compression software?
20.  What does FAT stand for?

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Answer

1.      Personal Computer.
2.      It is associated with the measure of a computer’s processor speed.
3.      It is an operating system.
4.      A computer programming language and Database Management System.
5.      Wide Area Network.
6.      Symbolics.com.
7.      15th March, 1985.
8.      Scott E. Fahlman, 19th September, 1982.
9.      Ray Tomlinson.
10.  1971.
11.  386dx.
12.  An assembler.
13.  To start or restart on the computer.
14.  Window registry.
15.  Console.
16.  CD-Read only memory.
17.  Central Processing Unit.
18.  Charles Babbage.
19.  Software that makes files smaller.
20.  Fill Allocation Table.

Quiz on Computer 3
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan.
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1.      What is CPU also called as?
2.      What does modem stand for?
3.      What does NT in Window NT stand for? 
4.      What is Cookie?
5.      What is HTTP?
6.      Name the storage device that can store the maximum amount of data?
7.      Which company’s nickname is "Big Blue"?
8.      What manages and coordinates the activities and shares the resources of the computer?
9.      What is the full form of DBMS?
10.  What is the shortcut key of printing a document from a computer having windows?
11.  What is the shortcut key to reboot the computer?
12.  What do you press to enter the current date in an Excel cell?
13.  What happens when you press Ctrl + V keys?
14.  What happens when you press CTRL+C key?
15.  What happens when you press CTRL+X key?
16.  What happens when you press F2 key in Microsoft word?
17.  What happens when you press SHIFT key when you insert a CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive?
18.  What happens when you press CTRL+ESC key?
19.  What happens when you press Windows Logo+ E key?
20.  What happens when you press ALT + O keys on Microsoft word?

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Answer

1.      Microprocessor.
2.      Modulator Demodulator.
3.      New Technology.
4.      A browser file that stores state into Transfer Protocol of the user session, preferences etc.
5.      Hypertext.
6.      Hard Disc/ Drive.
7.      Microsoft
8.      Operating System
9.      Database Management System
10.  Ctrl + P.
11.  Ctrl + Alt + Del.
12.  CTRL +; (semicolon).
13.  The selected item is pasted from the Clipboard
14.  The selected item is copied from the Clipboard
15.  The selected item is cut from the Clipboard
16.  The selected item is in the edit mode.
17.  It prevent the CD-ROM from automatically playing
18.  Display the Start menu.
19.  Open My Computer.
20.  Display the Favourites menu.

Quiz on Computer 4
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan.
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1.      What copies itself and infects a computer without the permission or knowledge of the user?
2.      What is a Machine language also known as?
3.      What do BCC means in Email?
4.      Who is known as the father of the Java programming language?
5.      What are the two broad categories of software?
6.      What is a Java?
7.      What performs modulation and demodulation of a signal by extracting it from the carrier wave?
8.      In windows computers, MPEG extension refers to what kind of file?
9.      What was the first general-purpose electronic computer?
10.  What is the term 'Pentium' is related to?
11.  When did Oracle Corporation acquire Sun Microsystems?
12.  What is a Compiler?
13.  With what type of files is the WAV file format associated?
14.  Errors in computer results could be due to what?
15.  What is Register?
16.  What is Terminal?
17.  What does a CD ( Compact Disc ) audio player used for reproducing sound?
18.  What are IC chips used in computers usually made up of?
19.  Which computer works faster, Minicomputer or Microcomputer?
20.  What is ROM composed of?

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Answer

1.      Virus.
2.      Low level language.
3.      Blind Carbon Copy.
4.      James Gosling.
5.      System and Application.
6.      Programming Language.
7.      Modem.
8.      Video file.
9.      ENIAC.
10.  Microprocessor
11.  January 27, 2010.
12.  A program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program
13.  Sound.
14.  It is due to encoding, transmission, manipulation of data.
15.  Storage unit within the CPU having dedicated or general purpose use.
16.  It is a point at which data may leave or enter the computer.
17.  Lens laser beam.
18.  Silicon.
19.  Mini-computer.
20.  A storage medium to store program code and non-volatile data.

Quiz on Computer 5
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan.
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1.      What is the most widely used commercial programming computer language?
2.      Who was the inventor of mechanical calculator for adding numbers?
3.      Name the person who wrote the book 'Computer Liberation and Dream Machine' (the first book on personal computers)?
4.      What do ISP stands for?
5.      What is FTP?
6.      What is FTP used for?
7.      What do URL stands for?
8.      What is the main function of the URL?
9.      What do ANSI stands for?
10.  What do you mean by archive?
11.  What is the full form of JPEG?
12.  What is a system used to secure a company’s or organization’s internal network from unauthorized external access by hackers?
13.  What is the slang term for unwanted (junk) Email?
14.  What are ZIP files?
15.  What does 56K stands for?
16.  Name the fastest and most popular file transfer protocol.
17.  Name the slowest file transfer protocol?
18.  What is DAT file?
19.  Name an input device designed to increase the hand-eye coordination of the user.
20.  What is the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)?

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Answer

1.      COBOL.
2.      Pascal.
3.      Ted Nelson.
4.      Internet Service Provider.
5.      File Transfer Protocol.
6.      FTP is used to transfer files from one computer to another across the web.
7.      Universal Resource Locator.
8.      It locates and identifies any resource that is available on the Internet.
9.      American National Standards Institute.
10.  A data backup or a store of old data or versions.
11.  Joint Photographic Experts Group.
12.  Firewall.
13.  Spam.
14.  A file containing compressed versions of other computer files.
15.  56,000 kbps
16.  ZMODEM.
17.  XMODEM.
18.  Digital Audio Tape File.
19.  Mouse.
20.  The glass tube used to produce a picture in standard computer or TV screen.


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