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MCQ on Computer and ICT (Set – 1)


Most Important MCQs on the topic ” Computer and ICT “(Set-1). These questions are very important for SSC, Railways, Defence, CTET, State PCS, UPSC, Judiciary and all other examinations of India.

Q. Who invented electronic computer?
(A) Dr. Alan M. Turing
(B) Karl Benz
(C) Thomas Alva Edison
(D) Edward Teller

Ans:- (A) Dr. Alan M. Turing

Q. The digital computer was developed in______.
(A) Russia
(B) Britain
(C) U.S.A.
(D) Japan

Ans:- (B) Britain

Q. The first Computer was made by______.
(A) Bill Gates
(B) Bill Clinton
(C) Charles Babbage
(D) Marconi

Ans:- (C) Charles Babbage

Q. Who is considered to be the ‘Father of Computers’?
(A) Bill Gates
(B) Charles Babbage
(C) Narayan Murthy
(D) Tim Berners Lee

Ans:- (B) Charles Babbage

Q. For which word, the letter ‘G’ has been used in ‘2G Spectrum’?
(A) Global
(B) Government
(C) Generation
(D) Google

Ans:- (C) Generation

Q. A pen drive is______.
(A) A fixed secondary storage unit
(B) A magnetic secondary storage unit
(C) A removable secondary storage unit
(D) None of the above

Ans:- (A) A fixed secondary storage unit

Q. Mouse is______.
(A) Memory
(B) C.P.U.
(C) Input Device
(D) Output Device

Ans:- (C) Input Device

Q. Which of the following is not an output device?
(A) Monitor
(B) Printer
(C) Mouse
(D) Plotters

Ans:- (C) Mouse

Q. Which of the following is not an output device?
(A) Monitor
(B) Touch screen
(C) Printer
(D) Plotter

Ans:- (B) Touch screen

Q. Which is the most common ‘input device’ used today?
(A) Motherboard
(B) Central Processing Unit
(C) Keyboard
(D) Semi-conductor

Ans:- (C) Keyboard

Q. The most common input device used today is______.
(A) Trackball
(B) Scanner
(C) Mouse
(D) None of these

Ans:- (C) Mouse

Q. The body of mouse used in computers was designed about 40 years back. Then, it was made of______.
(A) Aluminium
(B) Plastic
(C) Steel
(D) Wood

Ans:- (D) Wood

Q. After the double click of the mouse, the information goes to______.
(A) Documents
(B) Video Gard
(C) C.P.U.
(D) Hard Drive

Ans:- (C) C.P.U.

Q. In which port do you plug-in the cable of your keyboard?
(A) VGA Port
(B) Ethernet Port
(C) USB Port
(D) Sanpedro Port

Ans:- (C) USB Port

Q. A network of networks is simply called ______.
(A) Extranet
(B) Intranet
(C) Webnet
(D) Internet

Ans:- (C) Webnet

Q. What is the Internet?
(A) A net for catching fish in the ocean
(B) Name of international Basketball Championship
(C) A system for tracking movement of railway wagons on Railway lines
(D) An international computer based information network

Ans:- (C) A system for tracking movement of railway wagons on Railway lines

Q. Slowest Internet connection service is ______.
(A) Digital Subscriber Line
(B) Dial-up Service
(C) Leased Line
(D) Cable Modem

Ans:-(B) Dial-up Service

Q. The first page that you normally view at any website is known as______.
(A) Home page
(B) Master page
(C) First page
(D) Banner page

Ans:- (A) Home page

Q. Internet system uses which of the following technology?
(A) Bus
(B) Ring
(C) Star
(D) Tree

Ans:- (D) Tree

Q. The service of the Internet that provides ‘audio’ and ‘video’ conversation, is called ______.
(A) chat
(B) e-mail
(C) video conferencing
(D) video chat

Ans:- (C) video conferencing

Q. The Internet works on______.
(A) Circuit switching only
(B) Packet switching only
(C) Both circuit and packet switching
(D) None of the above

Ans:- (B) Packet switching only

Q. Ethernet is an example of______.
(A) MAN
(B) LAN
(C) WAN
(D) Wi-Fi

Ans:- (B) LAN

Q. MS-DOS was first released in______.
(A) 1971
(B) 1981
(C) 1991
(D) 2001

Ans:- (B) 1981

Q. What is the difference between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices?
(A) Bluetooth uses 2.4 GHz radio frequency band whereas WiFi can use 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz frequency band
(B) Bluetooth is used for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) only, whereas Wi-Fi is used for Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN) only
(C) When information is transmitted between two devices using Bluetooth technology, the devices have to be in the line of sight of each other. But when Wi-Fi technology is used, the devices need not be in the line of sight of each other
(D) The statement (A) and (B) given above are correct in this context

Ans:- (A) Bluetooth uses 2.4 GHz radio frequency band whereas WiFi can use 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz frequency band

Q. The first railway station in the country to provide Google’s free public Wi-Fi service is______.
(A) New Delhi Railway Station
(B) Mumbai Central Railway Station
(C) Howrah Railway Station
(D) Chennai Railway Station

Ans:- (B) Mumbai Central Railway Station

Q. The computer system which links and stores information among different countries in the world through a satellite is known as______.
(A) Apollo
(B) INSAT 2D
(C) Internet
(D) Nicnet

Ans:- (D) Nicnet

Q. What is ‘Virtual Private Network’?
(A) It is a private computer network of an organization where the remote users can transmit encrypted information through the server of the organization
(B) It is a computer network across a public Internet that provides users to access their organization’s network while maintaining the security of the information transmitted
(C) It is a computer network in which users can access a shared pool of computing resources through a service provider
(D) None of the statements (A), (B) and (C) given above is a correct description of Virtual Private Network

Ans:- (B) It is a computer network across a public Internet that provides users to access their organization’s network while maintaining the security of the information transmitted

Q. The layer between Physical and Network is known as______.
(A) Data Link Layer
(B) Transport Layer
(C) Session Layer
(D) None of the above

Ans:- (A) Data Link Layer

Q. Talaash is ______.
(A) a navy aircraft
(B) a recently developed missile
(C) a multimedia portal on Internet and an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software in Devanagari developed by C-DAC
(D) a low-cost PC-based super computing platform

Ans:- (C) a multimedia portal on Internet and an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software in Devanagari developed by C-D

Q. To safeguard against cyber attacks and threats of data theft, the ‘Centre for Development of Advanced Computing’ has developed as new software called ______.
(A) AVARODH
(B) NAYAN
(C) TRIKAL
(D) None of these

Ans:- (B) NAYAN

Q. India manufactured supercomputer ‘PARAM’ in______.
(A) Chennai
(B) Bangalore
(C) Delhi
(D) Pune

Ans:- (D) Pune

Q. First indigenously developed Indian supercomputer is named as______.
(A) Gati
(B) Dharam
(C) Shakti
(D) Param

Ans:- (A) Adam Smith

Q. The name of Indian Supercomputer is ______.
(A) Shubham
(B) Param
(C) SX-2
(D) BBC-Micro

Ans:- (B) Param

Q. Who is known as the father of Indian supercomputer?
(A) Raghunath Mashelkar
(B) Vijay Bhatkar
(C) Jayant Narlikar
(D) Nandan Nilekani

Ans:- (B) Vijay Bhatkar

Q. Which one of the following is a supercomputer project developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre?
(A) PARAM Padma
(B) Chipps
(C) Flosolver Mark
(D) Anupam

Ans:- (D) Anupam

Q. Word length for supercomputer range up to ______.
(A) 16 bits
(B) 32 bits
(C) 64 bits
(D) 128 bits

Ans:- (C) 64 bits

Q. Among following which is the largest, fastest and costliest computer?
(A) Personal
(B) Supercomputer
(C) Laptop
(D) Notebook

Ans:- (B) Supercomputer

Q. The world’s fastest computer has been able to perform ______.
(A) 106 operations per second
(B) 109 operations per second
(C) 1012 operations per second
(D) 1015 operations per second

Ans:- (C) 1012 operations per second

Q. Vidya Vahini Project lays emphasis on which of the following?
(A) Computer Education
(B) Value Education
(C) Environmental Education
(D) Skill Development

Ans:- (A) Computer Education

Q. Supercomputer ‘Magic Cube’ inaugrated has been prepared by which of the following countries?
(A) U.S.A.
(B) China
(C) Germany
(D) Japan

Ans:- (B) China

Q. Y2K problem relates to______.
(A) Finding out a solution to control computer virus
(B) To establish uniformity with the computers operating all over the world
(C) To find out a suitable replacement when the last two digits of the year become zero
(D) To make drastic change in the working of computers after an experience of sixty years experience

Ans:- (C) To find out a suitable replacement when the last two digits of the year become zero

Q. At the end of this century, there will be great difficulty in the use of existing equipments and heavy expenditure will be required to rectify them. They are______.
(A) Computers
(B) T.V. Sets
(C) Communication Satellite
(D) Air Conditioners

Ans:- (A) Computers

Q. Which of the following would be the smallest and fastest computer imitating brain working?
(A) Supercomputer
(B) Quantum computer
(C) Param-10,000
(D) IBM chips

Ans:- (B) Quantum computer

Q. Which one of the following pairs is not matched?
(A) Y2K – Computer
(B) Arthritis – Uric acid
(C) Noise pollution – Decibel
(D) PARAM 10,000 – Land to land missile

Ans:- (D) PARAM 10,000 – Land to land missile

Q. W.L.L. means_______.
(A) Without lever line
(B) Within local line
(C) Wireless in local loop
(D) Wireless in long line

Ans:- (C) Wireless in local loop

Q. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing is situated_______.
(A) In Ahmedabad
(B) In Dehradun
(C) In Sriharikota
(D) None of the above

Ans:- (B) In Dehradun

Q. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) is situated at______.
(A) Dehradun
(B) New Delhi
(C) Lucknow
(D) Nagpur

Ans:- (A) Dehradun

Q. Cycle and cars used ball bearing, because ______.
(A) The actual area of contact between the wheel and axle is increased
(B) The effective area of contact between the wheel and axle is increased
(C) The effective area of contact between the wheel and axle is reduced
(D) None of the above statement is correct

Ans:- (C) The effective area of contact between the wheel and axle is reduced

Q. Which industry is primary user of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR)?
(A) Banks
(B) Footwear designing
(C) Book Publishing
(D) None of the above

Ans:- (A) Banks

Q. Which type of computers are the most widely used?
(A) Supercomputers
(B) Mini Computers
(C) Main Frame Computers
(D) Micro Computers

Ans:- (D) Micro Computers


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