Computer Science and Information Technology Quiz

Which of the following is the first calculating device?

• Turing Machine

• Abacus

• Pascaline

• Calculator

Who invented mechanical calculator called Pascaline?

• Charles Babbage

• Blaise Pascal

• Alan Turing

• Lee De Forest

Who among the following considered as the 'father of artificial intelligence'?

• JP Eckert

• John McCarthy

• Lee De Forest

• Charles Babbage

Which was the world's first successful electronic computer?

• ENIAC electronic Numerical Integrator and computer

• Pascaline

• CRAY-1

• PARAM

Who among the following used the term computer worm for the first time?

• JP Eckert

• John McCarthy

• Alan Turing

• John Brunner

Which was first virus detected on ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet in the early 1970s?

• Trojan horse

• Peeper Virus

• Creeper Virus

• Exe File

Find out the correct definition of Wide Area Network (WAN)?

• A computer network that covers a broad area (i.e., any network, whose communications links cross metropolitan, regional or national boundaries).

• A computer network covering a small physical area like a home, office or small groups of buildings, such as a school or an airport.

• It is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.

• It is a collection of computers interconnected with each other through cables to share their data, information and other common hardware resources.

Select the example of application software of computer:

• Ms Word

• MS-DOS

• Both A and B

• Ms Excel

Which of the following is also called translator?

• Data representation

• Operating System

• Language Processor

• MS-DOS

How the quality of printer is measured?

• Alphabet per strike

• Dots per Inch

• Words per Inch

• Strike per Inch