Latest Computers General Knowledge(GK) Questions and answers

1 .

Which of the following is a server side scripting language?

A)

DHTML

B)

PHP

C)

HTML

D)

JavaScript

Correct Answer : PHP

2 .

Punched card is also called

A)

Video card

B)

Accelerator card

C)

Sound card

D)

Hollerith card

Correct Answer : Hollerith card

Punch cards (or "punched cards"), also known as Hollerith cards or IBM cards, are paper cards where holes may be punched by hand or machine to represent computer data and instructions. They were a widely-used means of inputting data into early computers.

3 .

Which among them is the largest network in terms of area?

A)

Intranet

B)

Internet

C)

MAN

D)

WAN

Correct Answer : Internet

4 .

Convert decimal number 106 to binary.

A)

1101000

B)

1110000

C)

1101010

D)

1100110

Correct Answer : 1101010

5 .

The attribute ___________ specifies (in pixels) the distance between two adjacent cells.

A)

Cellspacing

B)

Cellpadding

C)

Width

D)

Height

Correct Answer : Cellspacing

6 .

The passenger reservation system of the Indian Railways is designed by

A)

TCS

B)

CMS

C)

CRIS

D)

Google

Correct Answer : CRIS

A nationwide online passenger reservation and ticketing system, developed and maintained by CRIS(Centre for Railway Information Systems
), was developed in C and Fortran on a Digital OpenVMS operating system using RTR (Reliable Transaction Router) as middleware.

7 .

The operating system UNIX is the trademark of

A)

Apple

B)

Microsoft

C)

Motorola

D)

Bell Laboratories

Correct Answer : Bell Laboratories

The original Unix operating system was developed at AT&T's Bell Labs research center in 1969. In the 1970s and 1980s, AT&T licensed Unix to third-party vendors, leading to the development of several Unix variants, including Berkeley Unix, HP-UX, AIX, and Microsoft's Xenix. In 1993, AT&T sold the rights to the Unix operating system to Novell, Inc., which a few years later sold the Unix trademark to the consortium that eventually became The Open Group.

Unix (officially UNIX) is a registered trademark of The Open Group that refers to a family of computer operating systems and tools conforming to The Open Group Base Specification, Issue 7 (also known as POSIX.1-2008 or IEEE Std 1003.1 - 2008).

8 .

In Microsoft Word, _______ allows us to move selected paragraphs to the left.

A)

Increase Indent

B)

Decrease Indent

C)

Single Indent

D)

Double Indent

Correct Answer : Decrease Indent

9 .

Who is considered to be The Father of Artificial Intelligence?

A)

Allen Newell

B)

George Boole

C)

Alan Turing

D)

John McCarthy

Correct Answer : John McCarthy

John McCarthy, father of artificial intelligence, in 2006, five years before his death. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The future father of artificial intelligence tried to study while also working as a carpenter, fisherman and inventor (he devised a hydraulic orange-squeezer, among other things) to help his family.

10 .

Information on a computer is stored as

A)

digital data

B)

hybrid data

C)

modem data

D)

analog data

Correct Answer : digital data