100+ Information Technology Quiz Questions for college level IT Quiz

General Information Technology Quiz Questions for college level IT Quiz 2017

1. Who is known as the father of Free Software Foundation?

Ans: Richard Mathew Stallman

2. In which year was the ‘C’ programming language developed?

Ans: 1972

3.Who is known as the father of Internet?

Ans: Vinton Cerf

4.Who used the binary system of numeration for the first time?

Ans: Thomas Harriot

5.Who is the first computer programmer?

Ans: Ada Lovelace

6.In which year was computer graphics oringinated?

Ans: 1940

7.Who is the inventor of Supercomputer?

Ans: Seymour Cray

8.What is the name of World’s first digital Computer?

Ans: Mark 1

9.What is the name of India’s first indigenous supercomputer developed by CDAC named?

Ans: Param

10.Which was the first Pocket Computer?

Ans: SHARP PC1211

11.What is the name of the tablet introduced by Amazon?

Ans: Kindle Fire

12.Who invented Computer Mouse?

Ans: Doughles Engelbert

13.Speak to Tweet is a service given by which giant?

Ans: Google

14.’Xoom’ is the name of tablet developed by which company?

Ans: Motorola

15. ‘WIT’ is the NASDAW code of which Indian IT company?

Ans: Wipro

16.Expand HDMI

Ans: High Defenition Multimedia Interface

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17.What was developed by PYRA Labs and later sold to google?

Ans: Blogger

18.Who is known as the father of World Wide Web?

Ans: Tim Berners Lee

19.Which mehod is used to connect to a remote computer?

Ans: Dialup

20.What do you call a single point on a computer screen?

Ans: Pixel

21.The CPU Chip used in a computer is made of which element?

Ans: Silica

22.Which computer was designed to be compact as possible?

Ans: Micro Computer

23.What is the name of the device which produce hard copy graphics?

Ans: Plotter

24.When is world computer literacy day celebrated?

Ans: December 2

25.The processing power of a CPU is measured in?

Ans: MIPS

26.Windows 10 was released on which day?

Ans: July 29

27.Which command is used to view the sub directory structure of a drive?

Ans: TREE

28.Round robin scheduling is he premptive version of?

Ans:FIFO

29.When did IBM released its first version of DOS OS 1.0?

Ans:1981

30.Start button was introduced in which operating system?

Ans:Windows 95

31.Groupon was rebranded in India to what name?

Ans: Nearbuy

32.Which system software does the job of merging the records from two files to one?

Ans:Utility Program

33.While running DOS on a computer, which command is used to duplicate the entire diskette?

Ans:DISKCOPY

34.What is the name given to the organized collection of software that control the entire operation of c computer?

Ans: Operating System

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35.What is the name of the OS for the laptop MACLITE?

Ans: OZ

36.What is the memory range from 1k-640k called?

Ans: Conventional memory

37.IBM released its first PC in 1981, what was the name of OS that was popular at that time?

Ans:CP/M

38.How long is an IPV6 Address?

Ans: 128 bit (16 byte)

39.Which protocol does DHCP uses at the transport layer?

Ans:UDP

40.Which protocol is used to send a destination network unknown messge back to originating host?

Ans:ICMP

41.Which WLAN IEEE Specification allows upto 54 mbps at 2.4 Ghz?

Ans: IEEE 802.11G

42.Which protocol does PPP uses to identify the network layer protocol?

Ans:NCP

43.HBA Stands for?

Ans:Host Bus Adapter

44.What is the second generation of the Web called?

Ans:Web 2.0

45. If you have a CISCO Mesh network , what protocl allows multiple AP’s to connect with many redundant connection between nodes?

Ans:AWPP

46.Which protocol is used to identify the hardware address of a local device?

Ans: Address Resolution Protocol

47. PAT Address translation is also termed as what?

Ans: NAT Overload

48. When was the term Social Networking first used?

Ans: 1954

49.Who founded ‘myspace’?

Ans:Tom Anderson

50.Which social media allows a user to create map of exactly where a photo was taken?

Ans:Flickr

51.What type of audience are primarily in a social network?

Ans:Joiners

52.Twitter is an example of what service?

Ans Micro Blogging

53.What is the character limit for a tweet in Twitter?

Ans: 140

54.What was the largest social network prior to facebook?

Ans:myspace

55. Which social network does not have followers?

Ans:Google Plus

56.When was the social networking first become popular online?

Ans:2003

57. Which is used to search and browse for information online?

Ans: Netscape

58.What is Youtube’s Slogan?

Ans: Broadcast Yourself

59.P2P,B2B, and B2C are part of?

Ans: Share Economy

60. Winchester drive is also called as what?

Ans: Hard disk drive

61.What kind of connectors are used to connect a PC power supply to a hardware?

Ans:Molex

62.What is the term ‘Wave Table Synthesis’ related to?

Ans:Sound

63.What type of memory is Pendrive?

Ans:Flash Memory

64.Which IRQ does the hard disk drive use?

Ans:14

65.Who invented Compact disc?

Ans: James Russel

66.What is ‘Arrandale’ code name for?

Ans: Intel Processor

67.What hardware was used by the initial generation of computers?

Ans:Valves

68. Which was the first computer made available for commercial use?

Ans:UNIVAC

69.Name the first mechanical computer designed by Charles Babbage called?

Ans:Analytical Engine

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70.The concentric circles on the platter of hard disk is known as?

Ans:Tracks

71.IRQ6 is commanly assigned to?

Ans:Floppy Drive Controller

72.Which component in a PC regulated the color depth and screen resolution of a monitor?

Ans:VRAM

73. A Computer programming language for simulating models of business activity is?

Ans:GPSS

74.The words that are set aside by the programming language for its own use is called as what?

Ans:Control Structures

75.Which programming language is used for scientific calculations?

Ans:FORTRAN

76.Which computer language is used on the Internet?

Ans:Java

77.Which language is used for the developedment of various games?

Ans:C++

78.Which language was devised by Dr, Seymour Papart?

Ans:LOGO

79. Which computer language is used for Artificial Intelligence?

Ans: Prolog

80.Who is the creator of PASCAL language?

Ans: Niclaus Wirth

81.A systems programming language for micro computers in the Intel family is called?

Ans:PC/M

82. Which language is more suited to a structured program?

Ans:PASCAL

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83.MS/DOS is written in which language?

Ans:C++

84. A program element that allwos strucuring of a program in a different way is called?

Ans:Co-Routine

85. A name given by Intel to high speed MOS technology is called?

Ans:HMOS

86. Who is the new CEO of Flipkart.com ?

Ans: Kalyan Krishnamoorthy

87. Identify

Ans: Michael Dell

88.Identify the logo

Ans: Linux MultiMedia Studios (LMMS)

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89.Identify the logo

Ans: Tasker

90. Identify him

Ans: Tim Berners Lee (Father of WWW)

91.Which country recently shut down the use of FM Radio?

Ans: Norway

92.Who is the newly elected Vice Chancellor of Nalanda University?

Ans: Dr. Vijay Bhatkar ( Father of Indian Super Computing)

93.Mobicash is a wallet owned by which bank?

Ans: SBI

94.Who is the new CEO of Tata Sons group?

Ans: N Chandrashekaran

95.Identify this logo

Ans: WikiBooks

96.Identify this logo

Ans: Google Allo

97. Identify this logo

Ans: Periscope

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98.Identify this logo

Ans: Stage Fright

99.Identify him

Ans: Lee Calgote

100.Identify this logo

Ans: Microsoft Encarta