Practice Quiz set 1 - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) Window 7, the latest operating system from Microsoft Corporation has ....... Indian languages fonts.
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Windows 7 is the first version of Windows to ship with more fonts for non-Latin scripts than for Latin-based scripts. One major area of improvement is for the languages of India. earlier windows have nine (9) fonts for Indian languages that shipped in Vista, Windows 7 adds forty (40) more.
Windows 7 will now include multiple fonts (often in multiple weights) for each of the official languages of India.
Q-2) The most crucial portion of any computer is the _____.
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The most crucial portion of any computer is the Central Processing Unit (CPU). The CPU is the brain of the computer where most calculations take place.
Q-3) A communication network which is used by large organizations over regional, national or global area is called
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A Wide Area Network (WAN) is a network that covers a broad area (i.e., any telecommunications network that links across metropolitan, regional, or national boundaries) using private or public network transports.
Business and government entities utilize WANs to relay data among employees, clients, buyers, and suppliers from various geographical locations.
In essence, this mode of telecommunication allows a business to effectively carry out its daily function regardless of location.
Q-4) What is the brain of the computer called?
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The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is commonly referred to as the “brains” of a computer since it carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions. The CPU is also known as the processor or microprocessor.
Q-5) Pick the odd one out.
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Read Only Memory (ROM) is a class of storage medium used in computers and other electronic devices. A hard disc drive is a data storage device. ROM is a primary storage medium while all others are secondary storage units.
Q-6) Both the ALU and Control Section have special purpose storage locations called :
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Both the ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) and Control Section have special purpose storage locations called registers.
Q-7) How many bytes are equal to one kilobyte ?
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The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. It refers to either 1024 (210) bytes or 1000 (103 ) bytes, dependent upon context, in the fields of computer science and information technology.
Q-8) Processor’s speed of a computer is measured in
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million instructions per second (MIPS) is a measure of a computer’s processor speed. Many reported IPS values have represented “peak” execution rates on artificial instruction sequences with few branches, whereas realistic workloads typically lead to significantly lower IPS values.
Q-9) Which was the first electronic computer constructed at the Moore School of Engineering ‘?
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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer. Charles Babbage, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering, was one of its co-inventors.
Q-10) The Indian Supercomputer built by CRL, Pune which ranked fourth fastest in the world and most powerful in Asia is called
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EKA (the Sanskrit name for number one) was ranked fourth fastest supercomputer in the world in November 2007. It was built by the supercomputer facility at Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, in Pune.
A Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system, EKA uses nearly 1,800 computing nodes and has a peak performance of 170 teraflops.