Latest Computers General Knowledge(GK) Questions and answers

1 .

Condensing output data to exhibit specific information is

A)

Merging

B)

Calculating

C)

Recording

D)

Summarising

Correct Answer : Option (D) - Summarising

2 .

A packet switching network that was sponsored by the Commission of the EEC and became operational in 1979 is

A)

LAN

B)

Euronet

C)

Star network

D)

Broadband network

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Euronet

3 .

What is the term which represents the use of links between information of all sorts whether text, graphics, video oi audio-based?

A)

HyperCard

B)

Wildcard

C)

Hypermedia

D)

Hypertext

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Hypermedia

Hypermedia is an extension to what is known as hypertext, or the ability to open new Web pages by clicking text links on a Web browser. Hypermedia extends upon this by allowing the user to click images, movies, graphics and other media apart from text to create a nonlinear network of information.

4 .

A machine associated with card-based data processing is

A)

Codomain

B)

Collator

C)

Cartridge

D)

Digitizer

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Collator

5 .

An adder in which the bits of the operands are added one after another is

A)

Serial adder

B)

Full-adder

C)

Half-adder

D)

None of the above

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Serial adder

The serial binary adder or bit-serial adder is a digital circuit that performs binary addition bit by bit.

6 .

A medium for transferring data between two locations is called

A)

Bus

B)

Modem

C)

Network

D)

Communication channel

Correct Answer : Option (D) - Communication channel

A medium for transferring data between two locations is called Communication channel.

7 .

Which language is used in the areas of pattern recognition, artificial intelligence & for simulation of games.

A)

APL

B)

CORAL

C)

LISP

D)

FORTH

Correct Answer : Option (C) - LISP

Lisp is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

8 .

Conversion of an octal number 20â‚ˆ to its binary number is

A)

10000â‚‚

B)

10110â‚‚

C)

10111â‚‚

D)

11110â‚‚

Correct Answer : Option (A) - 10000â‚‚

9 .

The first mechanical calculating machine was made by

A)

Charles Babbage

B)

Blaise Pascal

C)

Gottfried Leibnitz

D)

William Oughtred

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascaline, also called Arithmetic Machine, the first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used. The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644.

10 .

Which output device is used for translating information from a computer into pictorial form on paper.

A)

Touch panel

B)

Card punch

C)

Mouse

D)

Plotter

Correct Answer : Option (D) - Plotter

The plotter is a computer printer for printing vector graphics. In the past, plotters were used in applications such as computer-aided design, though they have generally been replaced with wide-format conventional printers. A plotter gives a hard copy of the output. It draws pictures on a paper using a pen.