COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE




1.      The first microprocessor was developed in 1971 by Intel
2.      A small, single-site network is called LAN
3.      IBM was provided software for PCs by Microsoft.
4.      Binary digits are briefed as bit.
5.      An error in software designing which can even cause a computer to crash is called bug.
6.       'Worm' and 'virus' are actually programs.
7.      The part of a computer that works with the data/programs is called CPU.
8.      The term 'micro' (extremely small) denotes 10-6m.
9.      The B-programming language was developed by Ken Thompson
10. A collection of 8 bits is called byte.
11. The process of eliminating programming faults is called debugging.
12. Mark-1, Apple-1, and collossus were initial desktop computers.
13. The unwanted or non-requested emails are called "spam".
14. An improvement on the ENIAC, which pioneered 'stored program', was made possible with the help of the mathematician John von Neumann.
15. While cutting and pasting, the cutitem is temporarily stored in the clipboard.
16. Java, C, ForTran, Pascal and BASIC are computer programming languages.
17. www stands for world wide web.
18. A megabyte has 106(million) bytes.
19. http stands for hyper text transfer protocol.
20. A pentium 4 (P-4) employs roughly 40 million transistors.
21. The printers in pre-1950s were? punch cards.
22. A program used to browse the web is called browser.
23. A website containing periodic posts is called blog
24. 'Nano' stands for one billionth part.
25. The transformation from heavy computers to PCs was made possible using microprocessors
26. Before the 1950s, computers were mostly owned by universities and research labs.
27. A 'file' is a unit of information.
28. The device which sends computer data using a phone line is called MODEM.
29. The first home computer (1977), which was sold in millions of units was Apple II.
30. 'PARAM' is a supercomputer.
31. The 1st commercially produced and sold computer (1951) was UNIVAC.
32. Starting up on operating system is called booting.
33. Time-sharing, teletyping, were associated with mainframe computers.
34. To convert a binary number to a decimal, we have to express it in power of 2.
35. The earlier computers, which were massive in size, were based on?vacuum tubes.
36. A computer framed to give various network services is called server.
37. The number of bit patterns using an n-bit code is 2n.
38. A processor that collects several data and sends them over a single line is called bridge.
39. A collection of bits is called byte.
40. Click and double-click are achieved using the mouse.


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