Computers and IT MCQs
Computer Awareness Questions and Quiz for Banking, IBPS, RRB, RBI, SBI, NABARD examinations of 2024-2025. Computer Awareness MCQs for Competitive Exams. GKToday Computer Awareness for IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, Bank PO, Bank Clerk and other entrance / competitive examinations.
1. Alerts are mostly appear in ______?
[A] Check box
[B] Combo box
[C] Dialog box
[D] None of the above
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Correct Answer: C [Dialog box]
Notes:
A dialog box is a small area on a screen through which the user interacts with the computer. User is either asked to provide information or commands using this. The alerts also appear in this.
2. A unit of data storage that equals 2 to the 70th power is called?
[A] Zebibyte
[B] Yottabite
[C] Yobibite
[D] None of the above
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Correct Answer: A [Zebibyte]
Notes:
A zebibyte is a unit of data storage. It is equal to 2 to the 70th power, or 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes. While a zettabyte can be estimated as 10^21 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes, a zebibyte is exactly 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes.
3. Which among the following is not a payment card technology?
[A] Magnetic Stripe Card
[B] Smart Card
[C] Fleet Card
[D] All of them are payment card technologies
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Correct Answer: D [All of them are payment card technologies ]
Notes:
EMV is a payment method based upon a technical standard. It is for smart payment cards and for payment terminals and automated teller machines which can accept them. EMV originally stood for “Europay, Mastercard, and Visa”, the three companies which created the standard. The Magnetic strip cards,smart cards and Fleet cards are the different technologies available.
4. Which of the following was used in programming the first computers?
[A] Object code
[B] Source code
[C] Machine Language
[D] Assembly Language
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Correct Answer: C [Machine Language ]
Notes:
Machine Language or Machine code is a strictly numerical language which is intended to run as fast as possible. This was used in the first computers.
5. Which among the following is an example of “Card not present transaction” in context with the Credit / Debit Cards?
[A] A person paying a restaurant bill by giving details of his credit card
[B] A person making an online purchase using his / her credit card
[C] A person making a purchase using mobile banking
[D] Both 2 & 3
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Correct Answer: D [Both 2 & 3 ]
Notes:
A card not present transaction is a payment card transaction made where the cardholder is not physically present the card for a merchant’s visual examination at the time that an order is given and payment effected. A person using credit card online or using mobile banking can use this kind.
6. In which year Microsoft was founded ?
[A] 1970
[B] 1974
[C] 1975
[D] 1976
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Correct Answer: C [1975]
Notes:
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows.
7. “Internet escrow ” is a term most commonly related to which of the following?
[A] E-commerce
[B] Software Development
[C] Privacy Security
[D] Database Management
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Correct Answer: A [E-commerce]
Notes:
Escrow is a financial instrument whereby an asset is held by a third party on behalf of two other parties that are in the process of completing a transaction. E commerce hold the asset of a merchant before it is sold to a customer. So it is Internet escrow.
8. Who had proposed the principle of modern computer in his 1936 paper?
[A] Alan Turing
[B] Geoff Tootill
[C] Ferranti Mark
[D] Grace Hopper
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Correct Answer: A [Alan Turing]
Notes:
The principle of the modern computer was proposed by Alan Turing. His seminal paper “On Computable Numbers” has proposed a device called the Universal Computing Machine.
9. Which of the following is a single integrated circuit on which a CPUs are typically constructed?
[A] Microprocessor
[B] Memory
[C] Motherboard
[D] Hard Disk
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Correct Answer: A [Microprocessor]
Notes:
CPUs are typically constructed on a single integrated circuit known as the microprocessor.
10. Which of the following was the first commercial transistor computer?
[A] EDSAC
[B] Metrovick 950
[C] SIRAC
[D] Zuse Z4
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Correct Answer: B [Metrovick 950]
Notes:
Metrovick 950 was the first commercial transistor computer.
