Practice Quiz set 6 - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) Which among the following statements is / are correct?- Search giant Google has launched a new tool designed to allow users to explore the human body in a Google Earth-like style.
- Users will be able to explore and study bones, tissues and ligaments, along with various organs and muscles.
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Body Map is an interactive visual search tool that allows users to explore the human body in 3-D. With easy-to-use navigation, users can search multiple layers of the human anatomy, view systems and organs down to their smallest parts, and understand in detail how the human body works.
Q-2) Where is the National Institute of Excellence in the field of Information Technology and Allied Sciences proposed to be set up?
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The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT-A) was established in 1999, as a centre of excellence in Information Technology and allied areas.
The mission of IIIT, Allahabad is to be a unique and world-class nucleating “Apex Center of Excellence” in the area of Information Technology and Allied Sciences, so as to enhance India’s Technological strength in IT and for become a pace-setting institution for other similar institutes to be established in the future.
IIIT seeks to derive its strength from a linkage with sound Indian traditions of centuries past and sets out to create knowledge-based resources in regional languages.
Q-3) Which of the following manages the computer resources ?
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An operating system (OS) is a set of programs that manages a computer’s resources, especially the allocation of those resources among other programs. It does so by interacting with the computer’s software and hardware.
Typical resources include the central processing unit (CPU), computer memory, file storage, input/output (I/O) devices, and network connections. It establishes a user interface and executes and provides services for applications software.
Q-4) Telnet is a :
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Telnet is a protocol.
Q-5) Which of the following is not a secondary storage unit?
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RAM is not a secondary storage device. Storage consists of storage devices and their media not directly accessible by the Central Processing Unit (CPU).
Secondary storage is all data storage that is not currently in a computer’s primary storage or memory.
Q-6) In present day computing, which code is used and is accepted worldwide?
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is the predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices.
Most modern character encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.
Q-7) Which one of the following converts assembly language into machine language ?
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Assembly language is converted into executable machine code by a utility program referred to as an assembler. The conversion process is referred to as assembly, or assembling the code.
Q-8) A ‘bug’ in a program is
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A bug in a program is an error, flaw, mistake or failure.
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. It was Turing-complete, digital, and capable of being reprogrammed to solve “a large class of numerical problems”.
The ENIAC was built between 1943 and 1946 in The Moore School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.
Q-10) Which algorithm is used to decide the path to transfer the packets from source to destination?
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In order to transfer packets from a sending host to the destination host, the network layer must determine the path that the packets are to follow. Routing is the process by which systems decide where to send a packet.
It directs network packets from their source toward their destination through intermediate network nodes by specific packet forwarding mechanisms.