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Technology Quiz - 8, General Knowledge


20 Questions MCQ Test General Knowledge | Technology Quiz - 8, General Knowledge


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Attempt Technology Quiz - 8, General Knowledge | 20 questions in 40 minutes | Mock test for Current Affairs preparation | Free important questions MCQ to study General Knowledge for Current Affairs Exam | Download free PDF with solutions
QUESTION: 1

According to CNN, how much did Internet traffic increase between 1994 and 1996?

Solution:
QUESTION: 2

In 1983, which person was the first to offer a definition of the term 'computer virus'?

Solution: 1983 Fred Cohen, while working on his dissertation, formally defines a computer virus as 'a computer program that can affect other computer programs by modifying them in such a way as to include a (possibly evolved)copy of itself.'
QUESTION: 3

What is the World Wide Web?

Solution: The World Wide Web is a subset of the Internet. Specifically, the Web is a collection of documents and applications residing on Internet servers around the world.
QUESTION: 4

What is the Websites code for the country United Kingdom?
Solution:
QUESTION: 5

What is a MAC?
Solution: MAC is short for Media Access Control address, an address unique to every piece of network hardware.
QUESTION: 6

This virus activated every Friday the 13th, affects both .EXE and .COM files and deletes any programs run on that day. What is the name of that virus?
Solution: This was one of the most common viruses unleashed in 1988.
QUESTION: 7

What is the Websites code for the country New Zealand?
Solution:
QUESTION: 8

A program that neither replicates or copies itself, but does damage or compromises the security of the computer. Which 'Computer Virus' it is?
Solution: Typically it relies on someone emailing it to you, it does not email itself, it may arrive in the form of a joke program or software of some sort.
QUESTION: 9

Which Intel chip was the first to support a 32-bit bus architecture?
Solution: The 386 chip was the first to offer a possible 32- or 64-bit access to data. OS-2 2.x or higher and Windows 95 required at least a 386 CPU while Windows NT 4.x required at least a 486 CPU to run.
QUESTION: 10

What does ECP stand for?
Solution: An Extended Capabilities Port is about 10 times faster than the old standard one, but it is used the same way a regular parallel port is.
QUESTION: 11

The first graphical browser for the WWW was named:
Solution:
QUESTION: 12

What is RISC?
Solution: Reduced Instruction Set Computer - a type of microprocessor that relies on simple instructions which can be used to build more complicated ones.
QUESTION: 13

What does ICMP stand for?
Solution: ICMP Packets are used to send control messages including errors.
QUESTION: 14

What is FMD?
Solution: A new type of disc developed by Constellation 3D Inc. These discs can hold up to to 140 GB of data.
QUESTION: 15

Which of these is a documented hoax virus?
Solution: A virus hoax is usually an email that gets mailed in chain letter fashion describing some devastating highly unlikely type of virus, you can usually spot a hoax because there's no file attachment, no reference to a third party who can validate the claim and the general 'tone' of the message.
QUESTION: 16

What does SSL stand for?
Solution: A protocol developed by Netscape to allow secure connections over the net.
QUESTION: 17

What is a URL?
Solution: URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It is an address for a specific document found on the Web.
QUESTION: 18

The Central Processing Unit is an embeded chip that acts as the 'brains' of a computer. What Intel chip was used in the Altair (the first real personal computer)?
Solution: The Intel 8080 was a jazzed-up calculator chip. It was included in microcomputer kits which were little more than demonstration tools and did little except blink lights. Besides the 8080 chip, the Altair included a power supply, a front panel with a large number of lights and 256 bytes (not kilobytes) of memory. The kit sold for {$395} and had to be assembled.
QUESTION: 19

What is a NIC?
Solution: A NIC is a Network Interface Card. Usually a card that is plugged into a computer's expansion slot.
QUESTION: 20

The Internet was developed in the...
Solution: As surprising as its age is, the Internet was born from the U.S. military's need to construct a decentralized computer network that could withstand a nuclear war. The network was used and refined by universities throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but it wasn't until 1992 that the Internet was made available to the general public.
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