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1. Which of the following is the scripting and programming language developed by John .H.Thompson for use in Adobe Director?
Java
Lingo
VBA
Ruby
2. Who among the following developed the LISP programming language family?
Ken Thompson
Donald Knuth
John McCarthy
Von Belt
3. Which of the following are the examples of ORDBMS?
PostgreSQL
Greenplum
SQL Server
All of the Above
4. What is the full form of IEC?
International Electrotechnical Commission
International Electrical Council
Internet Embedded Commission
None of the Above
5. Which of the following form is based on the concept of functional dependency?
1NF
2NF
3NF
All of the Above
6. Which of the following networking is used when centralized management is desired or if there is little room for cabling?
Local Area Networking
Wide Area Networking
Passive Optical Local Area Networking
Optical Area Networking
7. Which one of the following is a discontinued computer network operating system developed by Novell, Inc.?
Netware
Novellware
IPX network
None of the Above
8. Which of the following are the basic functions of a gateway?
Protocol Translation
DHCP Service
Network Address Translation
All of the Above4
9. What is the time needed by each device on a network, to hold the message before processing, called as?
Propagation time
Queuing time
Transmission time
Jitter
10. Which of the following represents a sine wave?
Non-periodic analog signal
Periodic analog signal
Periodic digital signal
Non-periodic digital signal
11. Which of the following radio signals are used by 1G networks?
Analog
Digital
Both Analog and Digital
None
12. Which of these provided the first online service to offer electronic mail capabilities to personal computer users?
APPLE
Microsoft
CompuServe
NPL
13. Which of these protocols is considered as the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web?
LDAP
Gopher
SMTP
SSH
14. What is the address given to each computer on the Internet known as?
Hardware number
Device address
IP address
NET address
15. Which of the following is correct about Digital Subscriber Line?
It is always on
It is faster than Dial-up
Internet and phone can be used in the same time
All of the above
16. Which of these Internet protocols work at the Application layer?
IP
UDP
FTP
TCP
17. What is the length of addresses used by IPv4?
16-bit
32-bit
64-bit
8-bit
18. Which of these ports is used by POP3?
110
22
143
25
19. Which of these protocols is used to manage the membership of Internet Protocol multicast groups?
SCP
LDAP
LPR
IGMP
20. Which of these layout engines was used by Opera before it transitioned to Blink?
Goanna
KHTML
Gecko
Presto
21. Who was the first head of the state to send an email?
George Washington
Queen Elizabeth II
Jimmy Carter
None of the above
22. Which of these protocols is used to login into a remote computer?
Telnet
IMAP
HTTP
SMTP
23. Which of these protocols is used by network components to find other devices in the same broadcast domain?
LPR
LADP
NTP
ARP
24. In which year the Internet Explorer version 1 was released?
1994
1998
1997
1995
25. Which of these rendering engines is used by Chrome web browser?
Gecko
Blink
Quantum
None of the above
26. Which of these web browsers has the largest market share presently, across all platforms?
Edge
Chrome
Safari
Firefox
27. Which of these was the first browser for the classic Mac operating system?
Samba
Pumba
Timothy
Tyson
28. In which year Google search engine was launched?
1996
1998
1999
2001
29. Which was the first smartphone launched by Nokia?
Nokia 6600
Nokia 9000 communicator
Nokia 7250
Nokia Ngage
30. Which country Xiaomi mobile belongs to?
China
USA
UK
South Korea
31. Which menu in MS Word contains the ‘Restrict Editing’ option?
View
Edit
Insert
Review
32. Which button in MS Excel is clicked to calculate the sum of a series of numbers?
Autosum
Fill
Merge
Insert
33. What is the default file extension of MS Excel files?
.acs
.exc
.exe
.xls
34. Which of these keys combination will insert a hyperlink in MS PowerPoint?
Ctrl + N
Ctrl + M
Ctrl + K
Ctrl + H
35. What is ‘Fly in’ in MS PowerPoint?
Colour scheme
Animation effect
Page Design
None of the above
36. What do we call a file in MS PowerPoint which is a pattern of a group of slides that can be used for a presentation?
Text Styles
Template
Colour scheme
Master slide
37. What do we call the boxes in the slides that contain content in them?
Word Art
Text Styles
Placeholder
Animation
38. What is MS Access?
A RDBMS
An OODBMS
An ORDBMS
A Network Database Model
39. What do we call the columns of a table in Microsoft Access?
Rows
Records
Fields
Category
40. Which of these folders in Gmail will contain the emails which are composed but not yet sent?
Inbox
Sent
Spam
Drafts
41. What is the use of Cascade Delete option in MS Access?
Deletes all records of a table
Deletes all records with duplicate values
Deletes all records automatically when the record is deleted in the parent table
Makes a Duplicate table
42. Which of these folders in Gmail will contain the emails which are composed but not yet sent?
Inbox
Sent
Spam
Drafts
43. When was the first SMS sent?
1991
1992
1993
1994
44. What happens usually when we delete an email?
It is moved to the trash folder
It gets permanently deleted
It is moved to the outbox
It keeps a copy in the inbox
45. What is the email attachment size limit in Gmail?
10 MB
20 MB
25 MB
40 MB
46. What is the technique called as by which an attacker illicitly impersonates another machine by manipulating IP packets to gain unauthorized access?
DDOS
Sandboxing
IP Spoofing
Password attack
47. Which is the correct full form of RTGS?
Raw Transaction Gaining System
Real Time Gross Settlement
Real Time Ground Support
Readymade Transaction Gross System
48. Which organisation developed BHIM Application?
SBI
RBI
NPCI
SEBI
49. Which of the following is not true about Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) app?
BHIM framework allows its usage without internet also.
Money can also be sent to non-UPI supported banks using IFSC code and account number.
BHIM allows daily transaction limit of Rs 20,000.
Through BHIM app, a maximum of Rs 5,000 is allowed per transaction.
50. Which of the folWhat is the USSD code for Query Service on Aadhaar Mapper (QSAM)?lowing is not true about Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) app?
*9999#
*999#*
*99*99#
*999#
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