100 Basic Computer Related General Knowledge Questions

Question 1. Who is the father of Computer science?
Charles Babbage

Question 2. In a computer, most processing takes place in _______?
CPU

Question 3. In which type of computer, data are represented as discrete signals?
Digital Computer

Question 4. Scientific Name of Computer?
Sillico sapiens

Question 5. What is the name of the display feature that highlights are of the screen which requires operator attention?
Reverse Video

Question 6. Computers, combine both measuring and counting, are called _______?
Hybrid Computer

Question 7. What is FORTRAN?
Formula Translation

Question 8. What translates and executes program at run time line by line?
Interpreter

Question 9. What converts an entire program into machine language?
Compiler

Question 10. Who is the father of personal computer?
Edward Robert

Question 11. EEPROM stands for _______?
Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

Question 12. Who developed the first electronic computer?
J.V. Atansoff

Question 13. Which programming languages are classified as low level languages?
Assembly Language

Question 14. The first web browser is _______?
Mosaic

Question 15. First page of Website is termed as _______?
Homepage

Question 16. IBM stands for _______?
International Business Machines

Question 17. Office LANs, which are scattered geographically on large scale, can be connected by the use of corporate _______?
WAN ( wide area network )

Question 18. To move a copy of file from one computer to another over a communication channel is called?
File Transfer

Question 19. Large transaction processing systems in automated organisations use _______?
Batch Processing

Question 20. MICR stands for _______?
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

Question 21. Name of 1st electronic computer?
ENIAC

Question 22. No. of different characters in ASCII coding system?
1024

Question 23. MSIC stands for _______?
Medium Scale Integrated Circuits

Question 24. The scrambling of code is known as _______?
Encryption

Question 25. The first computers were programmed using _______?
Machine Language

Question 26. A fault in a computer program which prevents it from working correctly is known as _______?
Bug

Question 27. Which button makes alphabets/letters in uppercase and lowercase and numbers to symbols?
Shift

Question 28. When a computer is switched on, the booting process performs _______?
Power on self test

Question 29. What is the software frequently utilized by end users called (like Word, PowerPoint)?
Application Software

Question 30. Unit of measurement of the output quality of a printer?
Dot per sq. inch

Question 31. Switching device of fifth generation computer is _______?
VLSI

Question 32. The unit KIPS is used to measure the speed of _______?
Processor

Question 33. DOS stands for _______?
Disk Operating System

Question 34. What is a joy stick primarily in computers used for?
Computer Gaming

Question 35. In 1999, the Melissa virus was a widely publicized _______?
E-mail virus

Question 36. Which of the following commands is given to reboot the computer?
Ctrl+Alt+Del

Question 37. What is correcting errors in a program called?
Debugging

Question 38. BCD is _______?
Binary Coded Decimal

Question 39. What type of virus uses computer hosts to reproduce itself?
Worm

Question 40. SMTP, FTP and DNS are applications of the _______ layer?
Application

Question 41. Which command is used to select the whole document?
Ctrl+A

Question 42. COBOL is an acronym for _______?
Common Business Oriented Language

Question 43. The ability of an OS to run more than one application at a time is called?
Multitasking

Question 44. What is the functional key to display save-as box?
F12

Question 45. Full form of NOS?
Network Operating system

Question 46. Something which has easily understood instructions is said to be _______?
Analog Data

Question 47. A modem is connected to a _______?
Telephone Line

Question 48. Refresh Rate of monitor is measured in?
Hertz

Question 49. What was the chief component of first generation computer?
Vacuum tube & Valves

Question 50. Name the Father of Computer Mouse?
Douglas Engelbart

Question 51. A program that performs a useful task while simultaneously allowing destructive acts is _______?
Trojan Horse

Question 52. The geometric arrangement of devices on the network is called _______?
Topology

Question 53. The basic goal of computer process is to convert data into _______?
Information

Question 54. Where are the CPU and memory located?
Motherboard

Question 55. Who is known as the founder of IBM Company?
Thomas J. Watson

Question 56. An image on a computer screen is made up of _______?
Pixels

Question 57. Full form of MAN?
Metropolitan Area Network

Question 58. Which command in DOS can be used to recover accidentally deleted files?
UNDELETE

Question 59. A computer program that converts an entire program into machine language atone time is called _______?
Characters

Question 60. In which year, the Microsoft company was founded?
1975

Question 61. What is the personal computer operating system that organizes and uses a graphic desktop environment?
Windows

Question 62. What are Light pen and joystick?
Input Devices

Question 63. What is a half byte also called as?
Nibble

Question 64. SMPS stands for _______?
Switched mode Power Supply

Question 65. What do we use to change the appearance and positioning of text document in MSWord?
Formatting

Question 66. A _______ is approximately a million bytes?
Megabyte

Question 67. Daisy wheel, Drum, chain etc are the _______?
Printers

Question 68. XML stands for _______?
Extensible Markup Language

Question 69. What kind of scheme is the HTTP protocol?
Request/Response

Question 70. Magnetic disk is an example of _______?
Secondary Memory

Question 71. What is the meaning of OSI, in terms of computers ?
Open system Interconnection

Question 72. Which type of storage device is a BIOS ?
Primary

Question 73. What is the extension type of the excel 2007 files?
.xlsx

Question 74. Collecting personal information and effectively posing as another individual is known as the crime of _______?
Identity theft

Question 75. The amount of vertical space between lines of text in a document is called _______?
Line Spacing

Question 76. A computer cannot 'boot' if it does not have the _______?
Operating system

Question 77. What is the other name for programmed chip?
LSIC

Question 78. A normal CD- ROM usually can store up to _______ data?
680 MB

Question 79. What does DMA stand for?
Direct Memory Access

Question 80. Full form of LAN?
Local Area Network

Question 81. ASCII stands for _______?
American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Question 82. Second Generation computers were developed during _______?
1956-65

Question 83. When did arch rivals IBM and Apple Computers Inc. decide to join hands?
1991

Question 84. What kind of memory is both static and non-volatile?
ROM

Question 85. An error in software or hardware is called a bug. What is the alternative computer jargon for it?
Glitch

Question 86. Unwanted repetitious messages, such as unsolicited bulk e-mail is known as _______?
Spam

Question 87. The common name for the crime of stealing passwords is _______?
Spoofing

Question 88. BIOS stands for _______?
Basic Input Output System

Question 89. Who is regarded as Father of 'C' programming language?
Dennis Ritchie

Question 90. RAM can be treated as the _______ for the computer's processor.
Waiting Room

Question 91. Computers manipulate data in many ways, and this manipulation is called _______?
Processing

Question 92. Joshy, Perfumes are examples of _______?
Viruses

Question 93. The ability to recover and read deleted or damaged files from a criminal's computer is an example of a law enforcement speciality called _______?
Computer Forensics

Question 94. Where does most data go first with in a computer memory hierarchy?
RAM

Question 95. Help Menu is available at which button?
Start

Question 96. Which file contains permanent data and gets updated during the processing of transactions?
Master File

Question 97. A DVD is an example of an _______?
Optical Disc

Question 98. Which is most common tool used to restrict access to computer system?
Passwords

Question 99. The technology that stores only essential instructions on a microprocessor chip and thus enhances its speed is referred as _______?
RISC

Question 100. What is the name of an application program that gathers user information and sends it to someone through the Internet?
Spybot