IT &computer MCQ section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

ASCII stands for The American Standard Code for Information Interchange, which is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet that encodes 128 specified characters -

• the numbers 0-9,
• the letters a-z and A-Z,
• some basic punctuation symbols,
• some control codes that originated with Teletype machines, and
• a blank space - into the 7-bit binary integers.

Answer: (d)

The Pan-India mobile Tele-network was launched in Coimbatore. Dr A. Jayathilak, Chairman, Spices Board India launched the programme at a farmers meet held at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.

Around 300 farmers across the state attended the programme where around 6000 farmers have already registered in the Tamil Nadu spices community. The purpose of the scheme is to get in direct touch with the spice farmers of the state who are the core section of the society.

Answer: (d)

Google derived its name from the word “googol”, a term coined by then nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner.

The story goes, Kasner had asked his nephew to invent a name for a very large number - ten to the power of one hundred (the numeral one followed by 100 zeros), and Milton called it a googol.

Answer: (a)

Associative memory in computer organization is when memory is accessed through content rather than through a specific address. Associative memory is also known as associative storage, associative array or content-addressable memory, or CAM.

Associative memory is found on a computer hard drive and used only in specific high-speed searching applications.

Answer: (c)

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.

Answer: (b)

In MS-Excel charts provide a visual representation of the values in a worksheet.