Information Technology Quiz

#1. 1 TB (terabyte) is equal to

1024 MB

512 GB

1024 GB

512 MB

#2. Which key combination is used to minimize all open windows on the screen?

Ctrl+D

Windows Key+D

Windows Key+M

Alt+M

#3. Which among the following is NOT an operating system

Windows 10

Linux

Mac OS

Java

#4. In May 2000 this worm, which shares a name with a Disney film, spread through e-mail. What was one of its names?

Robin Hood

Mickey Mouse

Love bug

Mulan

#5. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the founders of Google. What did they initially call their search engine?

BackRub

Archie

Googol

BackLinks

They developed a page ranking technology based on backlinks. So they called their search engine BackRub.

#6. How many users can access a shared folder simultaneously in a Windows 7 machine?

Unlimited

20

8

10

#7. What language is most used on the internet?

Hindi

Spanish

English

Chinese

#8. Total number of function keys in a computer keyboard are

8

12

4

10

#9. Intranet is

hidden part of the Internet

just another name for the Internet

visible part of the Internet

a computer network within an organization

#10. .xlsx has been the default extension for spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel since

2010

2013

2003

2007

#11. PARAM 8000 is India’s first Super Computer. When was it developed?

2000

1991

1998

2002

Param 8000 is a series of gigaflop supercomputers that was designed and assembled by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune.

#12. Mac Operating System is developed by which company

Microsoft

Apple

Samsung

IBM

#13. Who put the "@" sign to email addresses?

Steve Jobs

Ray Tomlinson

Linus Torvalds

Bill Gates

#14. This butler is associated with a search engine called Ask. What's his name?

Sancho

Jeeves

Giovanni

Alfred

#15. What is nomophobia?

Fear of hackers

Fear of being without a mobile phone

Fear of computers

Fear of losing passwords

#16. Which of the following is considered as the first search engine on the Internet?

Lycos

Archie

AltaVista

Baidu

#17. Which of the following is a programming language?

FTP

SMTP

HTTP

HTML

#18. Which of the following is NOT an anti-virus software?

Kaspersky

Norton

Maxthon

Comodo

Maxthon is a browser.

#19. Which of the following is the first web browser invented in 1990?

Internet Explorer

Mosaic

Nexus

Netscape

The WorldWideWeb (not to be confused with the World Wide Web) was the first browser ever created by W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee, then renamed Nexus to differentiate from the actual World Wide Web.

#20. Which one is a volatile memory in computer system?

ROM

Hard disk

Optical drive

RAM

#21. What was the first computer virus called?

Rabbit

SCA Virus

Elk Cloner

Creepers

Bob Thomas, who wrote Creepers, just wanted to create an experimental, self-duplicating program to illustrate that it could be done. It made it appearance in 1971 and baffled the computer scientists at ARPANET (an experimental network which would eventually give rise to the internet) when this phrase was displayed on their teletype computer screens: “I’m the creeper, catch me if you can!”