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This section includes 5672 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your UPSC IAS Exam knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 951. |
A ……………connects computers by means of cabling systems,specialized software, and devices that manage data traffic. |
| A. | Network |
| B. | open source |
| C. | Hard drives |
| D. | clients |
| Answer» B. open source | |
| 952. |
A ……………..connects computers within a single geographical location,such as one office building, office suite, or home. |
| A. | LAN |
| B. | ICT |
| C. | Cyberethics |
| D. | DRM |
| Answer» B. ICT | |
| 953. |
………………….. are collections of computers, software, and hardwarethat are all connected to help their users work together. |
| A. | DRM |
| B. | Networks |
| C. | Hard drives |
| D. | server |
| Answer» C. Hard drives | |
| 954. |
……………….. are a form of digital storage media found in personalcomputers and servers. |
| A. | Hard drives |
| B. | server |
| C. | clients |
| D. | ICT |
| Answer» B. server | |
| 955. |
An ………………is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarilyfor the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals. |
| A. | e-book reader |
| B. | ARPANET |
| C. | open source |
| D. | Barcode reader |
| Answer» B. ARPANET | |
| 956. |
Like a flatbed scanner, …………. consists of a light source, a lens and alight sensor translating optical impulses into electrical ones. |
| A. | Barcode reader |
| B. | CD |
| C. | DVD |
| D. | ICT |
| Answer» B. CD | |
| 957. |
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a ……………-owned utility thatprovides users with positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services. |
| A. | U.S |
| B. | Russia |
| C. | China |
| D. | Britain |
| Answer» B. Russia | |
| 958. |
A …………..is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a baseand reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling. |
| A. | joystick |
| B. | ICT |
| C. | DRM |
| D. | ARPANET |
| Answer» B. ICT | |
| 959. |
A computer …………………is an important device that allows a person toenter symbols like letters and numbers into a computer. |
| A. | Keyboard |
| B. | ARPANET |
| C. | open source |
| D. | Mouse |
| Answer» B. ARPANET | |
| 960. |
A …………..is a small device that a computer user pushes across a desksurface in order to point to a place on a display screen and to select one or more actions to take from that position. |
| A. | Mouse |
| B. | ICT |
| C. | ARPANET |
| D. | open source |
| Answer» B. ICT | |
| 961. |
A ………….is a device that captures images from photographic prints,posters, magazine pages, and similar sources for computer editing and display. |
| A. | scanner |
| B. | ARPANET |
| C. | ICT |
| D. | Mouse |
| Answer» B. ARPANET | |
| 962. |
A computer ……………is a computer peripheral device that produces ahard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics, usually on paper) from data stored in a computer connected to it. |
| A. | printer |
| B. | ICT |
| C. | ARPANET |
| D. | scanner |
| Answer» B. ICT | |
| 963. |
………………, supercomputer and Internet pioneer, was born in 1954, inNigeria, Africa. |
| A. | Philip Emeagwali |
| B. | George B.Selden |
| C. | Todd Anderson |
| D. | Larry Augustin |
| Answer» B. George B.Selden | |
| 964. |
During the World war II, a young German engineer, ……………studied the application of electronic analog circuits for the guidance and control system of liquid-propellant rockets and developed a special purpose analog computer, the ‘Mischgerat’ and integrated it into the rocket. |
| A. | Peter Scott |
| B. | George B.Selden |
| C. | Lawrence Roberts |
| D. | Helmut Hoelzer |
| Answer» E. | |
| 965. |
…………..built the Z4, a relay computer with a mechanical memory ofunique design, during the war years in Berlin. |
| A. | Korad Zuse |
| B. | Eduard Stiefel |
| C. | Dr. Heinz |
| D. | George B.Selden |
| Answer» B. Eduard Stiefel | |
| 966. |
…………….is popularly recognized in Germany as the father of the computer and his Z1, a programmable automaton built from 1936 to1938, is said to be the world’s ‘first programmable calculating machine’. |
| A. | Peter Scott |
| B. | Lawrence Roberts |
| C. | Ray Tomlinson |
| D. | Korad Zuse |
| Answer» E. | |
| 967. |
…………………first machine was known as Mark I and originally namedthe IBM ASCC and this was the first machine that could solve complicated mathematical problems by being programmed to execute a series of controlled operations in a specific sequence. |
| A. | Bob Kahn’s |
| B. | George B.Selden’s |
| C. | Lawrence Roberts’ |
| D. | Howard Aiken’s |
| Answer» E. | |
| 968. |
The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) wasdisplayed to the public on February 14, 1946, at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of………………….. |
| A. | Georgia |
| B. | Massachusetts |
| C. | California |
| D. | Pennsylvania |
| Answer» E. | |
| 969. |
………………….invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) whichintroduced electronic binary logic in the late 1930s. |
| A. | Lawrence Roberts |
| B. | Howard Aiken |
| C. | George B.Selden |
| D. | John Atanasoff |
| Answer» E. | |
| 970. |
In 1970 …………………of Bell Labs developed yet another simplificationof CPL called simply B, in connection with an early implementation of the UNIX operating system. |
| A. | Ken Thompson |
| B. | George B.Selden |
| C. | Larry Augustin |
| D. | Lawrence Roberts |
| Answer» B. George B.Selden | |
| 971. |
……………….of Cambridge developed a subset of CPL called BCPL (BasicComputer Programming Language, 1967). |
| A. | Martin Richards |
| B. | George B.Selden |
| C. | Todd Anderson |
| D. | Larry Augustin |
| Answer» B. George B.Selden | |
| 972. |
In 1964, …………….developed the CDC 6600, which was the firstarchitecture to use functional parallelism. |
| A. | Larry Augustin |
| B. | George B.Selden |
| C. | Seymour Cray |
| D. | Bob Kahn |
| Answer» D. Bob Kahn | |
| 973. |
The first general purposes programmable electronic computer was theElectronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), built by J. Presper Eckert and John V. Mauchly at the University of……………….. |
| A. | Pennsylvania |
| B. | Cambridge |
| C. | London |
| D. | Harvard |
| Answer» B. Cambridge | |
| 974. |
A second early electronic machine was Colossus, designed by ……………….for the British military in 1943. |
| A. | Alan Turing |
| B. | Eckert |
| C. | Mauchly |
| D. | John von Neumann |
| Answer» B. Eckert | |
| 975. |
………………, together with Ada Lovelace recognized several importantprogramming techniques, including conditional branches, iterative loops and index variables. |
| A. | Herman Hollerith |
| B. | George Scheutz |
| C. | Babbage |
| D. | J.V.Atanasoff |
| Answer» D. J.V.Atanasoff | |
| 976. |
In…………., Babbage designed a more ambitious machine, called theAnalytical Engine but unfortunately it also was only partially completed. |
| A. | 1842 |
| B. | 1852 |
| C. | 1862 |
| D. | 1872 |
| Answer» B. 1852 | |
| 977. |
The first multi-purpose or programmable computing device wasprobably Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, which was begun in …………….but never completed. |
| A. | 1823 |
| B. | 1827 |
| C. | 1832 |
| D. | 1865 |
| Answer» B. 1827 | |
| 978. |
………………., Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibnitz were amongmathematicians who designed and implemented calculators that were capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division included. |
| A. | Wilhelm Schickhard |
| B. | Clifford Berry |
| C. | Ray Tomlinson |
| D. | Burton Stein |
| Answer» B. Clifford Berry | |
| 979. |
……………..have from 4k to 64k storage location and are capable ofhandling small, single-business application such as sales analysis, inventory, billing and payroll. |
| A. | Microcomputers |
| B. | Minicomputers |
| C. | Medium-size computers |
| D. | Large computers |
| Answer» B. Minicomputers | |
| 980. |
……………..is a digital computer system that is controlled by a storedprogram that uses a microprocessor, a programmable read-only memory (ROM) and a random-access memory (RAM). |
| A. | Minicomputers |
| B. | The microcomputer |
| C. | Medium-size computers |
| D. | Large computers |
| Answer» C. Medium-size computers | |
| 981. |
In the……………, the growing demand for a smaller stand-alonemachine brought about the manufacture of the minicomputer, to handle tasks that large computers could not perform economically. |
| A. | 1960s |
| B. | 1970s |
| C. | 1970s |
| D. | 1980s |
| Answer» B. 1970s | |
| 982. |
The Apple IIe, the Radio Shack TRS-80, and the Genie III are examplesof microcomputers and are essentially …………..generation devices. |
| A. | First |
| B. | second |
| C. | third |
| D. | fourth |
| Answer» E. | |
| 983. |
The …………..defines the instructions to be executed by the computerwhile RAM is the functional equivalent of computer memory. |
| A. | ARPANET |
| B. | ROM |
| C. | Silicon chips |
| D. | Metals |
| Answer» C. Silicon chips | |
| 984. |
Large-scale production of ……………began in 1971 and this has been ofgreat use in the production of microcomputers. |
| A. | ARPANET |
| B. | Silicon chips |
| C. | Minicomputers |
| D. | ROM |
| Answer» C. Minicomputers | |
| 985. |
………….. were used in the early machines of Pascal, Thomas, and theproduction versions from firms such as Brundsviga, Monroe, etc |
| A. | Rough stones |
| B. | Metals |
| C. | polished stones |
| D. | papers |
| Answer» C. polished stones | |
| 986. |
In the early ……………… century, the main technology being developed isElectronics. |
| A. | 15Th |
| B. | 16th |
| C. | 18th |
| D. | 21st |
| Answer» E. | |
| 987. |
Manufacture of ships' pulley blocks by all-metal machines at the …………… block mills instigated the age of mass production. |
| A. | Portsmouth |
| B. | Massachusetts |
| C. | California |
| D. | Canada |
| Answer» B. Massachusetts | |
| 988. |
The sailing ship (Nau or Carrack) enabled the Age of Exploration withthe European colonization of the Americas, epitomized by ………………..New Atlantis. |
| A. | Francis Bacon's |
| B. | Robert Stephenson’s |
| C. | Richard Roberts |
| D. | Joseph Whitworth |
| Answer» B. Robert Stephenson’s | |
| 989. |
Military technology developed rapidly with the widespread use of thecross-bow and ever more powerful artillery, as the city-states of ………….were usually in conflict with one another. |
| A. | Italy |
| B. | Harvard |
| C. | New Jersey |
| D. | New York |
| Answer» B. Harvard | |
| 990. |
Architects and engineers were inspired by the structures of AncientRome, and men like ……………created the large dome of Florence Cathedral as a result. |
| A. | Brunelleschi |
| B. | George B.Selden |
| C. | Alexander W.Astin |
| D. | Sir Robert Cotton |
| Answer» B. George B.Selden | |
| 991. |
Note books of the ……………….artist-engineers such as Taccola andLeonardo da Vinci give a deep insight into the mechanical technology then known and applied. |
| A. | Renaissance |
| B. | Reformation |
| C. | Enlightenment |
| D. | Ancient |
| Answer» B. Reformation | |
| 992. |
………….credited the spinning wheel with increasing the supply of rags,which led to cheap paper, which was a factor in the development of printing. |
| A. | Lynn White |
| B. | George B.Selden |
| C. | Linus Torvalds |
| D. | Richard Stallman |
| Answer» B. George B.Selden | |
| 993. |
Paper making technology was spread to Mediterranean by the ……………….conquests. |
| A. | Muslim |
| B. | Chinese |
| C. | portuguese |
| D. | Spanish |
| Answer» B. Chinese | |
| 994. |
…………….technology in the middle Ages may be best described as asymbiosis of traditio et innovatio. |
| A. | African |
| B. | Asian |
| C. | American |
| D. | European |
| Answer» E. | |
| 995. |
The main contribution of the …………..rule was a system ofcommunications between the conquered cities. |
| A. | Aztec |
| B. | Maya |
| C. | Inca |
| D. | Roman |
| Answer» B. Maya | |
| 996. |
Though the ………….. civilization had no metallurgy or wheeltechnology, they developed complex writing and astrological systems, and created sculptural works in stone and flint. |
| A. | Greek |
| B. | Inca |
| C. | Roman |
| D. | Maya |
| Answer» E. | |
| 997. |
……………. engineers were also the first to devise automaton such asvending machines, suspended ink pots, automatic washstands and doors, primarily as toys, which however featured many new useful mechanisms such as the cam and gimbals. |
| A. | Greek |
| B. | Harvard |
| C. | Switzerland |
| D. | Oxford |
| Answer» B. Harvard | |
| 998. |
The famous ………………mechanism, a kind of analogous computerworking with a differential gear, and the astrolabe show great refinement in the astronomical science. |
| A. | Antikythera |
| B. | IPR |
| C. | Automobile |
| D. | Airplane |
| Answer» B. IPR | |
| 999. |
…………..construction and architecture, called 'Vaastu Shastra',suggests a thorough understanding of materials engineering, hydrology, and sanitation. |
| A. | Indian |
| B. | Chinese |
| C. | Romans |
| D. | Greek |
| Answer» B. Chinese | |
| 1000. |
Ancient India was at the forefront of seafaring technology—a panelfound at…………….., depicts a sailing craft. |
| A. | Mohenjodaro |
| B. | Calcutta |
| C. | Goa |
| D. | Bihar |
| Answer» B. Calcutta | |