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Computer GK-QUiZ Based on Information Technology

Posted by admin On December - 24 - 2011
1. “Stored Program Concept” postulated by:
Ans. John von neumann
2. Founder of the social networking website ‘Facebook’:
Ans. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
3. Name associated with Open Source Program:
Ans. Richard Stallman
4. The main routes that data travels over the internet is called:
Ans. Internet backbone
5. An IT term refers to allowing someone to open web pages and see web sites on the internet.
Ans. Web Surfing
6. An internet protocol that allows quick file tarnsmission to remote computers is know as:
Ans. FTP
7. Protocol used to temporarily store new messages in your mailbox on an e-mail server is known as:
Ans. POP
8.Company which maintains internet computers and telecommunications equipment in order to provide internet access to businesses, organizations and individuals is called:
Ans. Internet Service Provider
9. The device that protects all computers in the network from many attacks is called:
Ans. Firewall
10. Free telephone style conversations to travel over the internet to virtually anywhere in the world is known as:
Ans. Internet Telephony

GKToday -Computer Gk Series

Posted by admin On September - 11 - 2011

Q.  Who invented Microprocessor?
A.  Ted Hoff
Q.  Software that can manipulate or destroy data or programs in a computer is known as
A.  Virus
Q.  Binary Code’ used in computers makes use of which numbers
A.  0 & 1
Q.  One kilobyte is equal to
A.  1024 bytes
Q.  Which computer company introduced mouse for the first time
A.  Apple Corporation

Q.  Who developed the World Wide Web first
A.  Timothy Berners Lee
Q.  The first large scale, general purpose digital computer
A.  ENIAC
Q.  What high-level computer language was named after a French mathematician and philosopher?
A.  PASCAL.
Q.  What computer was introduced in 1984 Super Bowl ads?
A.  The Macintosh.

Cloud Computing

Posted by admin On August - 12 - 2011

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.

Cloud computing works on a client-server basis, using web browser protocols. The cloud provides server-based applications and all data services to the user, with output displayed on the client device. If the user wishes to create a document using a word processor, for example, the cloud provides a suitable application running on the server which displays work done by the user on the client web browser display. Memory allocated to the client system’s web browser is used to make the application data appear on the client system display, but all computations and changes are recorded by the server, and final results including files created or altered are permanently stored on the cloud servers. Performance of the cloud application is dependent upon the network access, speed and reliability as well as the processing speed of the client device.

History of Computers

Posted by admin On June - 9 - 2011

ENIAC( Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.]

ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory. When ENIAC was announced in 1946 it was heralded in the press as a “Giant Brain”. It boasted speeds one thousand times faster than electro-mechanical machines, a leap in computing power that no single machine has since matched. This mathematical power, coupled with general-purpose programmability, excited scientists and industrialists. The inventors promoted the spread of these new ideas by teaching a series of lectures on computer architecture.

The ENIAC’s design and construction was financed by the United States Army during World War II. The construction contract was signed on June 5, 1943, and work on the computer began in secret by the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering starting the following month under the code name “Project PX”. The completed machine was announced to the public the evening of February 14, 1946 and formally dedicated the next day at the University of Pennsylvania, having cost almost $500,000 (nearly $6 million in 2010, adjusted for inflation). It was formally accepted by the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps in July 1946. ENIAC was shut down on November 9, 1946 for a refurbishment and a memory upgrade, and was transferred to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland in 1947. There, on July 29, 1947, it was turned on and was in continuous operation until 11:45 p.m. on October 2, 1955.

ENIAC was conceived and designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania.[9] The team of design engineers assisting the development included Robert F. Shaw (function tables), Chuan Chu (divider/square-rooter), Thomas Kite Sharpless (master programmer), Arthur Burks (multiplier), Harry Huskey (reader/printer) and Jack Davis (accumulators).

Computer History
Year/Enter
Computer History
Inventors/Inventions
Computer History
Description of Event

1936

Konrad Zuse – Z1 Computer First freely programmable computer.

1942

John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
ABC Computer
Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC.

1944

Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper
Harvard Mark I Computer
The Harvard Mark 1 computer.

1946

John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
ENIAC 1 Computer
20,000 vacuum tubes later…

1948

Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn
Manchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube
Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories.

1947/48

John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley
The Transistor
No, a transistor is not a computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers.

1951

John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
UNIVAC Computer
First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners.

1953

International Business Machines
IBM 701 EDPM Computer
IBM enters into The History of Computers.

1954

John Backus & IBM
FORTRAN Computer Programming Language
The first successful high level programming language.

1955
(In Use 1959)

Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric
ERMA and MICR
The first bank industry computer – also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks.

1958

Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
The Integrated Circuit
Otherwise known as ‘The Chip’

1962

Steve Russell & MIT
Spacewar Computer Game
The first computer game invented.

1964

Douglas Engelbart
Computer Mouse & Windows
Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end.

1969

ARPAnet The original Internet.

1970

Intel 1103 Computer Memory The world’s first available dynamic RAM chip.

1971

Faggin, Hoff & Mazor
Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor
The first microprocessor.

1971

Alan Shugart &IBM
The “Floppy” Disk
Nicknamed the “Floppy” for its flexibility.

1973

Robert Metcalfe & Xerox
The Ethernet Computer Networking
Networking.

1974/75

Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers The first consumer computers.

1976/77

Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers More first consumer computers.

1978

Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston
VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software
Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner.

1979

Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby
WordStar Software
Word Processors.

1981

IBM
The IBM PC – Home Computer
From an “Acorn” grows a personal computer revolution

1981

Microsoft
MS-DOS Computer Operating System
From “Quick And Dirty” comes the operating system of the century.

1983

Apple Lisa Computer The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface.

1984

Apple Macintosh Computer The more affordable home computer with a GUI.

1985

Microsoft Windows Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.

Intel® Core™ Processor Family

The 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processor family brings visibly smart performance to your business PCs—delivering benefits you can readily see and appreciate. Users can be more productive. PCs and laptops can be better protected. Your operation can be a smooth-running machine. Clearly, 2nd generation Intel Core processors are the smart choice for  business.

Intelligence runs in the family

Smart performance is a trait of every member of the 2nd generation Intel Core processor family. That’s because every 2nd generation Intel Core processor features remarkably intelligent technologies. Examples?

  • Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 automatically dials up the processor clock speed when demanding tasks require additional power, then dials down to save energy whenever possible.¹
  • Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) and other innovative Intel® technologies enable four-way (or eight-way) processing that makes multi-tasking between business applications quick and effortless.²

And smart performance is literally on display in 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors, as they offer stunning visual performance due to built-in visuals . There’s no need for dedicated graphics cards (or the added cost and power requirements that come with them).³

Greater performance enables seamless security

Security shouldn’t get in the way of user productivity. And that’s another reason why the exceptional performance of 2nd generation Intel Core processors is so important. It enables security applications and protocols to run efficiently and unobtrusively in the background. In many cases, users won’t even know their PCs are actively being secured. And that’s the way it should be.

New PCs for Your New Compute Environment

New PCs for Your New Compute Environment

IT is changing at warp speed, and PCs must keep pace. That’s why 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors bring smart performance and new capabilities to secure mobility, online rich media, and business operations optimization.

Computer Knowledge Question and Answer Series Continues

Posted by admin On March - 17 - 2011

1. The port number used by SMTP is:

25

2. A packet filter is a type of

Firewall

3. Which among the following utilities can detect a bad sector?

CHKDSK and SCANDISK

4. In 100BASE-T, ‘T’ stands for:

Twisted pair

5. A head crash is said to occur when the read-write head of a hard disk drive:

Touches the magnetic media

6. Category 5 cable includes —twisted pairs in a single cable jacket.

4

7. The port number used by the HTTP protocol is

80

8. In PowerPoint presentations, individual pages are called:

Slides

9. _________ is a powder used in laser printers to form the images on a paper.

Toner

10. Worms and Trojan Horses are examples of:

Malware

11. ___________ Printers work by selectively heating regions of special heat-sensitive paper.

Thermal

12.The ISI mark is given by:

BIS

13. The laser printer was invented at:

Xerox

14. A flaw in a system whereby the output is unexpectedly dependent on the sequence or timing of other events is called a:

Race condition

15. A 56k modem can transfer data at up to bits per second over the phone line.

56000

16. The original implementation of the C programming language was standardized by :

ANSI

17. ________Is a signaling method that handles a relatively wide range of frequencies.

Broadband

18. Power-on-self-test is built into the:

BIOS

19. PowerPoint can embed content from other applications through:

OLE

20. The latest release of Microsoft Windows is called:

Vista

21. GRUB is an:

Boot loader

22. __________Is a family of programmable interrupt controller chips.

8259

23.card allows television signals to be received by a computer.

TV tuner

24. ________Is an IEEE 1394 implementation.

Fire Wire

25 ‘Windows protection error’ messages may result from:

Damage to the system registry

26 Sound Blaster line of audio cards were made by :

Creative Technology Ltd.

27 Indiscriminate sending of unsolicited bulk messages is known as :

Spamming.

28. The ‘blue screen of death’ may occur due to:

All the above

29. FAT manages files in contiguous groups of sectors called:

Clusters

30. The utility which can be used to clean the windows registry is:

regedit

Computer Awareness-Computer Knowledge Question Series

Posted by admin On December - 22 - 2010
1. A group of attribute/field in a database is known as a______.
a) Record b) File   c) Database   d) Entry   e) None
2. A ______ describe a category of information in a table of database.
a) Record   b) File   c) Entry   d) Field e) None
3. A goal of data mining includes which of the following?
a) To confirm that data exists
b) To create a new data warehouse
c) To analyze data for expected relationships
d) To explain some observed event or condition
e) None of the above
4. The correct hierarchical order, smallest to largest, for the following database terms is:
a) File, Field, Record, Database
b) File, Record, Field, Database
c) Record, Field, File, Database
d) Field, Record, File, Database
e) None of the above
5. In RDBMS , DBA is responsible for:
a) Physical database design
b) Defining conceptual models and schema
c) Defining security and integrity rules
d) Defining backup and recovery mechanisms
e) All the above
6. When data changes in multiple lists and all lists are not updated, this causes _______.
a) Duplicate data
b) Data redundancy
c) Data inconsistency
d) Information overload
e) None
7. Which of the following programming method is used to minimize data errors when data
is transferred over a network?
a) Checksum b) Checkbit  c) Cryptography d) Encryption  e) None
8. Which device act as a traffic cop over a network?
a) Modem   b) Hub   c) Switch   d) Router e) None
9. How many layers are present in Open System Interconnection (OSI) model of network
architecture?
a) Five   b) Six   c) Seven d) Eight  e) None of these
10. Which layer of OSI model, firstly make use of unit of data called “Packet”?
a) Datalink Layer
b) Transport Layer
c) Network Layer
d) Presentation Layer
e) None
11. Communication between computers is established, maintained and terminated by _____ .
a) Network Layer
b) Session Layer
c) Application Layer
d) Presentation Layer
e) None
12. Which term identifies a specific computer on the web and the main page of the entire
site?
a) URL   b) Hyperlink   c) Web site address   d) Domain name e) None of these
13. The place where data or information is stored for a short time is
a) Memory   b) Control Unit   c) Buffer d) ALU   e) None
14. The section of CPU which selects, interprets and sees to the execution of program
instructions?
a) ALU   b) Control Unit c) Register Unit   d) Processing Unit   e) None
15. Which program is used to convert assembly language to machine language?
a) Compiler   b) Interpreter   c) Linker   d) Assembler e) None
16. The process of finding errors in software’s source code
a) Debugging b) Compiling   c) Testing   d) Running   e) None
17. A computer programmer
a) can draw only flowchart
b) can enter data quickly
c) does all the thinking for a computer
d) can operate all type of computer equipment
e) None
18. Primary Memory of a personal computer consists of
a) RAM only
b) ROM only
c) Hard Disk only
d) Both (a) and (b)
e) All (a), (b), and (c)
19. A Trojan horse is
a) An ad ware program
b) A virus disguised as a useful program.
c) A program that blows up every time you use it
d) A spy ware which steal information over internet
e) None
20. Which one of the following is not true?
a) HTTP Protocol is used to view a web page in a browser
b) Android is Google’s operating system for mobile devices
c) GHz is the measurement used to determine the speed of processor
d) WAN requires the same technology as LAN

e) All are true

CAD and CADD

Posted by admin On November - 25 - 2010

Computer-aided design (CAD), also known as computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation. Computer Aided Drafting describes the process of drafting with a computer.

CADD software, or environments, provide the user with input-tools for the purpose of streamlining design processes; drafting, documentation, and manufacturing processes. CADD output is often in the form of electronic files for print or machining operations. The development of CADD-based software is in direct correlation with the processes it seeks to economize; industry-based software (construction, manufacturing, etc.) typically uses vector-based (linear) environments whereas graphic-based software utilizes raster-based (pixelated) environments.

Virtual Memory,ROM and RAM

Posted by admin On November - 25 - 2010

Virtual Memory

Virtual Memory is a feature of an operating system that enables a process to use a memory (RAM) address space that is independent of other processes running in the same system, and use a space that is larger than the actual amount of RAM present, temporarily relegating some contents from RAM to a disk, with little or no overhead.

ROM

ROM – Read-only memory: On ROM, data is prerecorded for read only which can not be removed. ROM is nonvolatile and it retains its contents regardless the computer is on or off. Most personal computers contain a small amount of ROM that stores critical programs such as the program that boots the computer. In addition, ROMs are used in calculators and peripheral devices such as laser printers, whose fonts are often stored in ROMs. There are a few variations of ROM such as programmable read-only memory(PROM), which is manufactured as blank chips on which data can be written with a special device called a PROM programmer.

RAM

RAM – Random access memory: whose contents can be accessed (read, write and remove) in any order. This is in contrast to sequential memory devices such as magnetic tapes, discs and drums, in which the mechanical movement of the storage medium forces the computer to access data in a fixed order. RAM is usually used for primary storage in computers to hold active information such as data and programs. Common forms of RAM are: SRAM (Static RAM) and DRAM (Dynamic RAM).

Cloud Computing The New Technology in Computing

Posted by admin On November - 24 - 2010

Cloud Computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth.

Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers  and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid.

Cloud computing is a natural evolution of the widespread adoption of virtualization, Service-oriented architecture and utility computing. Details are abstracted from consumers,who no longer have need for expertise in, or control over, the technology infrastructure”in the cloud” that supports them. Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for IT services based on the Internet, and it typically involves over-the-Internet provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources

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