IT Quiz Questions and Answers - Summary
Information technology (IT) plays a vital role in our lives by using computer systems and devices to access information. With IT being such an important part of our workforce, business operations, and personal access to information, it shapes a significant portion of our daily activities.
IT basics can be broadly divided into six categories: computer hardware and peripherals, operating systems, office productivity software, servers, networking, and coding.
IT Quiz Questions and Answers
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 the 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 did computer graphics originate?
Ans: 1940
7. Who is the inventor of the Supercomputer?
Ans: Seymour Cray
8. What is the name of the world’s first digital computer?
Ans: Mark 1
9. What is the name of India’s first indigenous supercomputer developed by CDAC?
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 the Computer Mouse?
Ans: Douglas Engelbart
13. Speak to Tweet is a service provided by which giant?
Ans: Google
14. ‘Xoom’ is the name of the tablet developed by which company?
Ans: Motorola
15. ‘WIT’ is the NASDAQ code of which Indian IT company?
Ans: Wipro
16. Expand HDMI.
Ans: High Definition Multimedia Interface
17. What was developed by PYRA Labs and later sold to Google?
Ans: Blogger
18. Who is known as the father of the World Wide Web?
Ans: Tim Berners-Lee
19. Which method 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 as compact as possible?
Ans: MicroComputer
23. What is the name of the device that produces 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 subdirectory structure of a drive?
Ans: TREE
28. Round-robin scheduling is the preemptive version of?
Ans: FIFO
29. When did IBM release its first version of DOS OS 1.0?
Ans: 1981
30. The 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 merges records from two files into 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 controls the entire operation of a computer?
Ans: Operating System
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 the OS that was popular at that time?
Ans: CP/M
38. How long is an IPV6 address?
Ans: 128 bits (16 bytes)
39. Which protocol does DHCP use at the transport layer?
Ans: UDP
40. Which protocol is used to send a destination network unknown message back to the originating host?
Ans: ICMP
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