Science Quiz 33: Computer Science Quiz (IT Quiz)

Computer Science Quiz (IT Quiz)

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1. Which one of the following social networking service was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg?

LinkedIn
Twitter
Goodreads
Facebook

2. Who is the creator of the programming language Perl?

Larry Wall
Linus Torvalds
Guido van Rossum
Adobe Systems

3. Name the Taiwanese company founded by Terry Gou which is the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and the largest private employer in China

Foxconn
Sony
Huawei
Panasonic

4. With which one of the following social networking platforms will you associate Pyra Labs?

WordPress
Blogger
LinkedIn
Delicious

5. Which one of the following is the highest award in the field of computer science and known as the "Nobel Prize of computing"?

Godel Prize
Turing Award
Loebner Prize
Dijkstra Prize

6. By which name the Canadian multinational company Research In Motion Limited popularly known to the general public?

Apple
Seagate
Nokia
Blackberry

7. Guido van Rossum is known for the development of which programming language?

Pascal
Python
Perl
AppleScript

8. Yukihiro Matsumoto is known as the chief designer of which one of the following programming languages?

PHP
Perl
Python
Ruby

9. RJ is a standard type of physical connector for network cables. What does RJ stand for?

Registered Jacket
Reduced Joint
Registered Jack
Registered Joint

10. Which one of the following was developed under the name Mocha, and was officially called LiveScript when it was released?

VBScript
JavaScript
Ruby
AppleScript

Science Quiz 32: Computer Science Quiz (IT Quiz)

Computer Science Quiz (Information Technology Quiz)

Questions and answers on Information Technology (IT Quiz) - Computer Science Quiz questions with answers

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1. Who launched the GNU Project and founded the Free Software Foundation?

Richard Stallman
Linus Torvalds
Bill Gates
Dennis Ritchie

2. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP). How many bits are used in IPv6 addresses?

64
256
128
32

3. Which Indian state was declared as the first Digital State in the country in 2016 by then President Pranab Mukherjee?

Karnataka
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Kerala

4. The code name "Project Purple" was associated with

BlackBerry
iPhone
Android OS
Windows 10

5. Who is the creator of the JavaScript programming language?

Yukihiro Matsumoto
Larry Wall
Brendan Eich
Guido van Rossum

6. When is the World Computer Literacy Day celebrated?

April 24
December 21
December 2
November 2

7. Name the American computer professional who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without authorization.

Jeff Bezos
Julian Assange
Edward Snowden
Alan Shugart

8. What was the name of the first smartphone ( the first phone with a touchscreen)?

IBM Simon
Nokia 2110
Ericsson R380
Kyocera 6035

9. In proprietary software we normally encounter EULA. What does it stand for?

Every User License Arrangment
End-User License Arrangement
Everyday-Usage License Arrangement
End-User License Agreement

10. Which one of the following was founded by Lawrence Edward Page?

Google
Apple
Foxconn
Panasonic

Science Quiz 24: Computer Science Quiz

Science Quiz 24: Computer Science Quiz

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1. Who coined the term "artificial intelligence"?

Marvin Misnky
Claude Shannon
John McCarthy
Steve Wozniak

2. How many bits are used in IPv6 which is intended to replace IPv4?

32 bit
64 bit
128 bit
256 bit

3. Name the first web browser which was also the first WYSIWYG HTML editor

Internet Explorer
Mozilla
Opera
Nexus

4. The mobile operating system android was developed by

Apple
Microsoft
Google
Nokia

5. The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model defines a networking framework to implement protocols in layers, with control passed from one layer to the next. How many layers are there in OSI Model?

7
4
5
9

6. With which one of the following social networking sites will you associate Mark Zuckerberg?

Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
LinkedIn

7. Who founded the organisation WikiLeaks?

Thomas J. Watson
Steve Jobes
Bill Gates
Julian Assange

8. Which company created the video gaming brand Xbox?

IBM
Sony
Microsoft
Apple

9. TIFRAC (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Automatic Calculator) was the first computer developed in India, at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. Do you know who suggested the name TIFRAC?

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Jawaharlal Nehru
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
Sathyendra Nath Bose

10. What does X stand for in XML?

Extensible
Exportable
Exchangeable
Expendable

Science Quiz 23: Computer Science Quiz

Science Quiz 23: Computer Science Quiz

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1. "Spacewar!" is a space combat video game developed in 1962 which is the first known video game to be played at multiple computer installations. Do you know the developer?

Sid Meier
Steve Russell
Konrad Zuse
Alan Kotok

2. Who is known as the "father of supercomputing"?

Seymour Cray
Donal Knuth
Alan Turing
John von Neumann

3. Who along with co-inventor Bob Kahn is recognised as the "father of the Internet"?

Tim Berners Lee
Sergey Brin
Vint Cerf
Alan Perlis

4. The ACM A.M Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) which is considered as the Nobel Prize of Computing. Do you know who is the first recipient of the award?

Vint Cerf
Seymour Cray
Alan Perlis
Konrad Zuse

5. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of World Wide Web in 1989, was awarded Turing Award "for the invention of WWW, first web browser and fundamental protocols and alogoriths allowing the Web to scale". In which year he was awarded?

1990
2000
2010
2016

6. Which one of the following programming languages was created by James Gosling?

Java
Perl
C++
Python

7. Name the American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard

Grace Hopper
Larry Page
Christopher Latham Sholes
Edsger W Dijkstra

8. Who is the creator of the Linux Operating System?

Linus Torvalds
Shinya Yamanaka
Raphael Finkel
Johan McCarthy

9. Which one of the operating system has a pufferfsih named Puffy as its logo and mascot?

OpenBSD
FreeBSD
Linux
MacOS

10. Which is considered to be the first Internet search engine?

Altavista
Archie
Google
Yahoo