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(CAR) Computer Flashcards

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Foxpro is a

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Computer Language
(FoxPro was a text-based procedurally oriented programming language and database management system (DBMS), and it is also an object-oriented programming language, originally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX)
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Super computer was invented by

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J. H. Van Tassel
(but, Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which built many of these machines. Called “the father of supercomputing,” )

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The special files of DOS are

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  • COM
  • EXE
  • BATCH
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______ is the unit to express the memory of a computer

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Byte

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5
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FORTRAN?

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A computer programming language is mainly used for scientific research

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6
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INTERNET is

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Computer based databank and communication highway

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_______ was the first company in the world to manufacture computers for commercial use

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Remington Rand
(was an early American business machines manufacturer, best known originally as a typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation as the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mainframe computers.)
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When was the first commercial computer was invented

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The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC.

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9
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IBM was known as ______ before the year 1924

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Computer Tabulating & Recording Company

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____ computer was the first to use the concept of stored programs

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Mark I

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11
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______ was the first to distribute mouse as a standard component with personal computers

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Apple Computer

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12
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______ intel microprocessor started the PC revolution

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8088

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13
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‘Intel’ stands for ?

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Integerated Electronics

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14
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Computer power is measured in MIPS, it stands for ?

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Million Instruction Per Second

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15
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How many generations of computer till now

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the five generations of computers and the advances in technology that have led to the development of the many computing devices that we use today

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16
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A single worksheet cotains

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256 columns

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17
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PC wasa originally a trade name of

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IBM

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18
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GW BASIC

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It is an earlier version of BASIC

It stands for ‘Gee Whiz’

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19
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Dr Ted Hoff

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  • In 1971, he put all the elements of a computer processor on a single chip slightly larger than one square inch.
  • The result of his efforts was the intel 4004, the world first commercially available microprocessor
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The power of super computer is measured in terms of

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FLOPS

Floating Point Operations per second

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21
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_____ was the first truly electronic computer

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ENIAC

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22
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A computer virus is

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A small malicious program written in machine language

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23
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Who created World Wide Web (WWW)

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Tim Berner
(also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is currently a professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. )

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24
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The First sentence uttered by Neil Armstrong upon reaching moon in 1969 was, “One small step for man, a giant step for the mankind.” These words came through on which make a transponder?

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Motorolla

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25
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______ Virus which originated from Lahore, Pak in January 1986; which can infect only 5.25 inch floppies.

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Brain Virus

26
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______, the professor who coined the name virus for self replicating programs.

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Fred Cohen
(Frederick B. Cohen (born 1956) is an American computer scientist and best known as the inventor of computer virus defense techniques. He gave the definition of "computer virus".)
27
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Microprocessors were introduced first time in

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4th gen computers

28
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Hybrid computer is

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Combination of analog and digital computer

29
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the interface b/w user and computer is

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Programming

30
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BASIC stands for

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Beginner’s All-purpose symbolic instruction code

31
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The output of a compiler is

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Object Code

32
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WORM stands for

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Write once read many

33
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Volatile Memory?

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Random Access Memory

34
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An algorithm is

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Generic type
(a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.)
35
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1Kb is equal to

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2^10 bytes

36
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Cache memory is

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  • Faster than the main memory

- smaller than the main memory

37
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Silicon Valley

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Situated in USA, California

38
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The First computer Virus was created in

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The first IBM PC virus in the “wild” was a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.

39
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______ computer virus which effects computer programmes written in Java

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Strange Brew
(The Strange Brew virus is only capable of spreading when an infected Java application file is launched.)
40
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______ company launched the geostationary communication satellite Telstra.

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AT&T

41
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_____ computer company was bron in a garage at 367, Addison Avenue

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Hewlett Packard

42
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Cyber Space

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  • the term refers to networked digital environments, esp advavnced systems that produce an illusion of reality.
  • Coined by William Gibson
43
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A terabyte represents

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1 trillion bytes

44
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1 byte consists of

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8 bits

45
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WAN

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a network that covers small geographic area or single or group of building

46
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A device which connects multiple nodes to the network is

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A Hub

47
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ISDN stands for

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Integrated Service Digital Network

48
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SNA stands for

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System Network Architecture

it is an example of De Facto Protocol

49
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Bar Codes symbols are read by

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Bar code reader by using Photoelectric Scanner

50
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MICR stands for

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Magnetic Ink Character Reader

51
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Famous Virus is

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Firday 13
(The virus Jerusalem, also known as Friday the 13th, was created in Israel in 1988 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Jewish state)

52
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FAST stands for

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Federation against software theft

53
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The short cut key for renaming file and folder is

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F2

54
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The shortcut key to delete a file without sending to recycle bin is

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Shift+Delete

55
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The part that control all parts of computer is

A

CU

56
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1024 bytes equal to

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One kilo Bytes

57
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____, a country uses more internet

A

China

58
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____ Muslim scientist is considered as one of the founder of computers

A

Al Khawarizimi

59
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Biggest company of computer

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IBM

60
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Biggest software company

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Microsoft

61
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Computer Languages?

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  • Algol
  • BASIC
  • COBAL
  • 4GL
  • 3GL
  • JAVA
  • Pascal
  • C
  • C++
  • VB

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