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

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: (c)

Garbage collection involves traversing the entire file system, marking everything that can be accessed. Then, a second pass collects everything that is not marked onto a list of free space.

Garbage collection for a disk-based file system, however, is extremely time-consuming and is thus seldom attempted. Garbage collection is necessary only because of possible cycles in the graph.

Answer: (c)

ENIAC was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital, and capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.

It was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory.

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.