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1. Which was the first Electronics digital programmable computing device?

a) Analytical Engine  

b) Difference Engine            

c) Colossus     

d) ENIAC

Ans. C

2. EDVAC stands for ______.

a) electronic discrete variable automatic calculator   

b) electronic discrete variable automatic computer

c) electronic data variable automatic calculator         

d) electronic data variable automatic computer

Ans. B

3. Which was the first commercial computer?

a) Ferranti Mark 1      

b) analytical engine    

c) difference engine   

d) colossus

Ans. A

4. UNIVAC stands for_______.

a) universal automatic calculator                                

b) universal native input automatic  computer

c) universal native input automatic calculator            

d) universal automatic computer

Ans. D

5. ENIAC stands for ______.

a) electronic numerical integrator and computer                    

b) electronic numerical integrator and calculator

c) electronic numerical integrator automatic computer          

d) electronic numerical integrator automatic calculator

Ans. A

6. Who invented the punch card ?

a) Charles babbage     

b) semen Korsakov    

c) herman Hollerith    

d) joseph marie jacquard

Ans. C

7. Which Electronic components are used in Second Generation Computers?

a)Transistors   

b) Integrated Circuits

c) Vacuum Tubes       

d) VLSI

Ans. A

8. Which Electronic components are used in Third Generation Computers?

a)Transistors               

b) Integrated Circuits

c) Vacuum Tubes       

d) VLSI

Ans. B

9. Which Electronic components are used in fourth  Generation Computers?

a)Transistors   

b) Integrated Circuits

c) Vacuum Tubes       

d) VLSI

Ans. d

10. Which Electronic components are used in Fifth Generation Computers?

a)Transistors   

b) Integrated Circuits

c) Vacuum Tubes       

d) ULSI Microprocessor

Ans. D

11. ENIAC Computer belongs to ______.

a) First Generation computers                        

b) Second Generation Computers

c) Third Generations Computers                    

d) fourth Generation computers

Ans. A

12. VLSI stands for

a) Very large storage integratior        

b) Very large storage integration

c) Very large Scale Integration          

d) Very Large Scale Integrator

Ans. C

13. ULSI stands for______.

a) Ultra Large Storage Integration     

b) Ultra Large Scale Integration

c) Ultra Large Storage Integrator      

d) Ultra Large Scale integrator

Ans. B

14. ________ is used as a programming language in first generation computers?

a) FORTRAN            

b) COBOL      c) BASIC        d) Machine Language

Ans. D

15. FORTRAN stands for ______.

a) For Translation       

b) Format Transformation      

c) Fork Transformation          

d) Formula Translation

Ans. D

16. The word computer comes from______.

a) compute                 

b) compote                 

c) copute                    

d) calculator

Ans.A

17. How many vacuum tubes used in first generation computer ENIAC ?

a) 1800                       

b) 18000         

c) 1024                       

d) 512

Ans. B

18. Which computer belongs to the first generation ?

a) ENIAC      

b) EDSAC     

c) EDVAC     

d) All of these

Ans. D

19. Which language used in First generation computers ?

a) Machine language  

b) Assembly language            

c) High level language           

d) BASIC

Ans. A

20. Which language used in second Generation computers?

a) Machine language              

b) Assembly language                        

c) High level language                       

d) BASIC

Ans. B

21. Which language used in third Generation computers ?

a) FORTRAN            

b) COBOL     

c) PASCAL   

d) All of these

Ans. D

22. Which is third Generation computer?

a) ICL 2903   

b) ICL 1900   

c) UNIVAC 1800      

d) All of these

Ans. D

23. Intel Microprocessor 4004 developed in _______

a) 1971                       

b) 1980           

c) 1960                       

d) 1965

Ans. A

24. What  is used  in first generation for storage?

a) magnetic drum       

b) IC               

c) vacuum tubes         

d) floppy disk

Ans. A

25. First microcomputer in the world _______

a) ALTAIR 8800                   

b) HP              

c) ENIAC      

d) UNIVAC

Ans. A

26. First super computer in the world is _______.

a) CRAY-1    

b) MARK-1   

c) PARAM     

d) C-DAC

Ans. A

27. CRAY-1 super computer was developed in the year______

a) 1975                       

b) 1976                       

c) 1999                       

d) 1980

Ans. B

28. India’s first super computer is _______

a) PARAM     

b) CRAY-1    

c) C-DAC      

d) MARK-1

Ans. A

21. PARAM super computer was developed in ________

a) 1980                       

b) 1960                       

c) 1991                       

c) 1976

Ans. C

22. First keeping records on clay tablets was used in _____

a) Babylon merchants            

b) china          

c) japan                       

d) haddapa

Ans. A

23. CDC stands for_______.

a) Control data corporation                  

b) Company data company   

c) Communication data control           

d) Company data control

Ans. A

24. KIPS stands for _________.

a) kite information processing system                        

b) Knowledge information Processing system 

c) knowledge information printing system                

d) knowledge integration processing system

Ans. B

25. DVD invented in the year_____

a) 1995                       

b) 1990                       

c) 1980                       

d) 2000

Ans. A

26. The first linux kernel was released in ________.

a) 1991                       

b) 1992                       

c) 1999                       

d) 1984

Ans. A

27. MAC operating system was developed in _________ .

a) 1985                       

b) 1984                       

c) 1999                       

d) 1981

Ans. B

28. First floppy disk was developed in ______.

a) 1980                       

b) 1990                       

c) 1984                       

d) 1960

Ans. D

29.  __________as switching devices are for fourth generation.

a) vacuum tube                       

b) transistor                

c) microprocessors      

d) assembly board

Ans. c

30. “C” language invented by _______.

a) Dennis M. Ritchie  

b) John mauchely       

c) Charles babbage     

d) Allen turing

Ans. a

31. Arch rivals IBM and Apple computers Inc. decided to join hands_________.

a) 1984                       

b) 1991                       

c) 1980                       

d) 1970

Ans. b

32. The Shockwave rider  is a Science Fiction Novel written  by ________in 1975.

a) John Brunner          

b) charlesbabbage       

c) timberners lee         

d) lady adalovelace

Ans. a

33. A computer that is old and perhaps not satisfactory is referred to as a ________.

a) old system              

b) legacy system         

c) ancient system        

d) former system

Ans. b

34. Who invent first electronic digital computer in 1930?

a) John Vincent Atansoff      

b) charlesbabbage       

c) Allen turing            

d) lady Ada lovelace

Ans. a

35. First computer Mark 1 in 1937 was invented by______.

a) John Vincent Atansoff      

b) Howard H. Aiken  

c) Allen turing            

d) lady Ada lovelace

Ans. b

36.  Fortran language was developed by IBM  in the year_________.

a) 1995                       

b)1984            

c) 1972                       

d) 1957

Ans. d

37. Prolog language was developed in year________.

a) 1995                       

b)1984            

c) 1972                       

d) 1957

Ans. c

38. India’s first computer_________ made by electronics corporation of india.

a) Siddharth   

b) Param         

c) C-DAC      

d) Microsoft

Ans. a

39. India’s first computerised petrol pump opened in __________.

a) Delhi          

b) Mumbai      

c) Kolkata      

d) Chennai

Ans. b

40. India’s first Politician party which make his own website on the internet.

a) Congress    

b) BJP            

c) JJP              

d) AAP

Ans. b

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