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Question : 6

__________ are often delivered to a PC through an email attachment and are often designed to do harm.

a) Viruses

b) Spam

c) Portals

d) Email messages

e) None of these

Answer: (a)

Computer viruses are often delivered to a PC through an email attachment and are often designed to do harm.

Viruses spread through opening an email attachment that is infected, visiting websites that are infected, connecting USB drives that are infected, and even viewing infected advertisements.

Question : 7

ALGOL means –

a) Advance logarithmic language

b) Algorithmic language

c) Algorithmic output language

d) Algorithmic operation language

e) None of these

Answer: (b)

Formerly known as IAL, ALGOL is short for algorithmic language. 

It is a family of portable programming languages for scientific computations that had a strong influence on other languages. 

Additionally, ALGOL was used as the standard method for creating algorithms by the ACM in textbooks and academia for over 30 years.

Question : 8 [IBPS Clerk, 2011]

ASCII stands for

a) American Special Computer for Information Interaction

b) American Standard Computer for Information Interchange

c) American Special Code for Information Interchange

d) American Special Computer for Information Interchange

e) American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Answer: (e)

ASCII, in full American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a standard data-encoding format for electronic communication between computers. ASCII assigns standard numeric values to letters, numerals, punctuation marks, and other characters used in computers.

Before ASCII was developed, different makes and models of computers could not communicate with one another. Each computer manufacturer represented alphabets, numerals, and other characters in its own way. IBM alone used nine different character sets. In 1961 Bob Bemer of IBM submitted a proposal to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for a common computer code. The X3.4 committee, with representation from key computer manufacturers of the day, was formed to work on the new code. On June 17, 1963, ASCII was approved as the American standard.

However, it did not gain wide acceptance, mainly because IBM chose to use EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) in its OS/360 series of computers released in 1964. Nevertheless, ASCII underwent further development, and revisions were issued in 1965 and 1967. On March 11, 1968, U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson mandated that ASCII be termed a federal standard to minimize incompatibility across federal computer and telecommunications systems. Furthermore, the mandate that all new computers and related equipment purchased by the U.S. government from July 1, 1969, onward should be ASCII-compatible. The code was revised again in 1968, 1977, and 1986.

Question : 9

What is the full form of KB related to computers?

a) Key Block

b) Kernel Boot

c) Kilo Byte

d) Kit Bit

e) None of these

Answer: (c)

In the metric system, a kilo is 1,000, and in some cases, a kilobyte is defined as 1,000 bytes. This definition is commonly used by storage medium companies to measure data transfer speeds.

But because computers work in binary, computer scientists usually define a kilobyte as 210, or 1,024 bytes. Computer scientists used the term "kilo" because a kilobyte is close enough to 1,000 bytes.

The abbreviation for kilobyte is kB in the metric system (1,000 bytes) or KB in the binary system (1,024 bytes).

Some groups have proposed the name kibibyte for a unit of 1,024 bytes to prevent confusion. The abbreviation for kibibyte is KB.

Question : 10

BIT stands for

a) Megabyte

b) Binary language

c) Binary Information Unit

d) Binary Number

e) Binary Digit

Answer: (e)

A bit is the most basic unit of information in computing.

It is short for binary digit, which means that it can only have one of two values, 0 or 1.

Large denominations of computer memory are composed of bits, moving up through bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes.

Bits are usually grouped into bit multiples called bytes to store data and execute instructions. A group of eight bits is usually defined as a byte, while four bits are called a nibble.

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