Computers - General Knowledge Questions

A)
FRAM
B)
Flash
C)
Fury
D)
Flange

Correct Answer :   Flash

A special form of EEPROM is flash memory, which uses normal PC voltages for erasure and reprogramming.
 
Flash devices have a limited number of erase cycles (typically 10,000 to 1,000,000 cycles) so they're not as good a choice for applications in which the data changes constantly.

A)
Process status word
B)
Primitive status word
C)
Program status word
D)
Processor status word

Correct Answer :   Program status word

PSW stands for Program Status Word. It is an IBM System/360 architecture and successors control register which performs the function of a Status register and Program counter in other architectures, and more. It contains status bits that reflect the current CPU state.

A)
Micro technology
B)
Micro encapsulation
C)
Micro millimetric
D)
Micro array

Correct Answer :   Micro encapsulation

Micro encapsulation is one of the several technologies used in Electronic printing. It is widely used in “carbonless” carbon paper and “scratch-and-sniff” cologne and perfume advertisements in magazines. This technology involves the usage of millions of transparent fluid-filled capsules containing microscopic particles (Chemistry By Steven Zumdahl, Susan Zumdahl, p. 488).

A)
Control unit
B)
Hard disk
C)
Random access memory
D)
Arithmetic logic unit

Correct Answer :   Arithmetic logic unit

An arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) is the part of a computer processor (CPU) that carries out arithmetic and logic operations on the operands in computer instruction words. It performs all arithmetic computations, such as addition and multiplication, and all comparison operations.

A)
TCS
B)
Wipro
C)
Infosys
D)
Mahindra

Correct Answer :   TCS

Tata Consultancy Services emerged the country’s No. 1 software exporter in 2001-02 with an export earning of Rs. 3,882 crore. Infosys occupied the second position with Rs. 2,553 crore while Wipro was the third-largest software exporter with export revenue of Rs. 2,298 crore.

A)
.jpeg
B)
.gif
C)
.png
D)
.mdb

Correct Answer :   .mdb

The most common image file formats, the most important for cameras, printing, scanning, and internet use, are JPG, TIF, PNG, and GIF. In computing, .mdb file-extension is used in certain versions of Microsoft Access databases.

A)
One
B)
Two
C)
Three
D)
Four

Correct Answer :   Three

Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as email, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Normally, there could be three types of recipients: the target recipient; a carbon copy (Cc) recipients; and blind carbon copy (Bcc) recipients.

A)
Single user
B)
Multi-user
C)
Distributed Processing
D)
Real-Time Processing

Correct Answer :   Multi-user

UNIX is a popular multi-user, multitasking operating system developed at Bell Labs in the early 1970s. Created by just a handful of programmers, UNIX was designed to be a small, flexible system used exclusively by programmers. It was designed to be portable, multi-tasking and multi-user in a timesharing configuration.

A)
Machine Language
B)
Command Language
C)
Markup Language
D)
Modeling language

Correct Answer :   Modeling language

A modeling language is any artificial language that can be used to express information or knowledge or systems in a structure that is defined by a consistent set of rules. The rules are used for interpretation of the meaning of components in the structure.

A)
a programming language
B)
an operating system
C)
a software
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   a programming language