Kerala PSC - IT and Cyber Law Question and Answers - 50

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1. Which among the following is not a payment card technology?
[a] Magnetic Stripe Card
[b] Smart Card
[c] Fleet Card
[d] All of them are payment card technologies

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2. Which of the following was used in programming the first computers?
[a] Object code
[b] Source code
[c] Machine Language
[d] Assembly Language

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3. Core Banking Solutions are developed to perform__?
[a] recording of transactions
[b] passbook maintenance
[c] interest calculations
[d] All of the above

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4. Which of the following device is a volatile storage?
[a] RAM
[b] Hard disk
[c] Magnetic Tape
[d] Floppy disk

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5. Which among the following is the time period during which a computer is malfunctioning or not operating correctly due to machine failures?
[a] Down time
[b] Up time
[c] Response time
[d] Run time

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6. Which among the following is a high-level language used to develop software applications in compact, efficient code that can be run on different types of computers with minimal change?
[a] FORTRAN
[b] C
[c] COBOL
[d] ALGOL

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7. In which year Microsoft was founded ?
[a] 1970
[b] 1974
[c] 1975
[d] 1976

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8. “Don’t be evil” was the informal corporate motto of which of the following internet giants?
[a] google
[b] Yahoo
[c] Microsoft
[d] Baidu

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9. Symantec is the maker of which among the following popular antivirus software?
[a] Norton
[b] BitDefender
[c] Avast
[d] McAfee VirusScan

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10. When were the first digital electronic calculating machines developed?
[a] During Industrial Revolution
[b] During World War I
[c] During World War II
[d] During Cold War

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11. Which of these is not an email service provider?
[a] Yahoo
[b] Rediff
[c] WhatsApp
[d] Hotmail

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12. Which of the following comprise the input devices?
[a] Keyboard
[b] Mouse
[c] Both 1 and 2
[d] Only 1

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13. What are the components of the Central Processing Unit?
[a] Control Unit
[b] Arithmetic Logic Unit
[c] Memory
[d] All of the above

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14. What parts did the first Analytical Engine incorporate which made it the first design for a general-purpose computer?
[a] Integrated memory
[b] Arithmetic Logic Unit
[c] Control Flow
[d] All of the above

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15. Which of the following is not an arithmetic capability of a computer?
[a] Addition and Subtraction
[b] Calculation
[c] Copy and Paste
[d] All of the above

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16. Which of the following is a quickly accessible location which is available to the Central Processing Unit of the computer?
[a] Memory
[b] BIOS
[c] Processor Register
[d] Graphic Card

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17. Which of the following is a common property of a computer program?
[a] Terms of Reference
[b] Reference files
[c] Locality of Reference
[d] Line of Reference

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18. Which of the following registers can hold both data and addresses?
[a] General Purpose Register
[b] Data Register
[c] Address Register
[d] Status Register

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19. With which scientist is the discovery of first practical mechanical calculator associated?
[a] Gottfried Leibniz
[b] Blaise Pascal
[c] George Boole
[d] Charles Babbage

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20. Who had designed and constructed the first recognizably modern digital stored-program computer?
[a] J. Lyons
[b] John Newmann
[c] Tom Kilburn
[d] Maurice Wilkes

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