Sunday, July 17, 2011

General Studies (Mains) – Science & Technology


Computer

1.       What do the following stand for? ( 1997 / 3 )
(i)           IREDA
(ii)         APPLE
(iii)       INMAS 2. What is E-mail? (98/20)
2.       Describe the development of Super-computer in India. (1998/20)
3.       What is a modem? What is it used for? (1999/3)

4.       What is a computer virus? How does it infect systems? (1999/2)
5.       Answer the following about 20 words each: (2000/2)
a.                   What does the ‘clock speed’ of a computer signify?
b.                  What do the following stand for?
                                                                                            i.         http
                                                                                          ii.         CPU
                                                                                        iii.         ROM
                                                                                         iv.         BIOS
c.                   What is a modem and what is it used for?
d.                  What is spamming?
e.                  How does a computer virus destroy data?

6.       Answer the following in about 20 words each: (2001/2)
a.                   What is “handshake” in computer language?
b.                  What is “ethernet” and what is it used for?
c.                   What is “digital signature” and what is it used for ?
d.                  What do the following stand, for?
                                                                                      i.      DRAM
                                                                                    ii.      JPEG
                                                                                  iii.      ASCII
                                                                                   iv.      IMAP
7.       What is a WAP-enabled phone?
8.       Answer the following in about 20 words each: 2002/02
a.                   What is a digital camera?
b.                  What is firewall in Computer Language?
c.                   What is multimedia?
d.                  What do the following stand for?
                                                                                i.            HTML
                                                                              ii.            FTP
                                                                            iii.            MELOPS
                                                                             iv.            PLANIT
e.                  What is Piracy?
9. Answer the following (in about 20 words each): (2003/02)
a.                   What- is ‘Sympathetic Haptics’?
b.                  What are special features of ’Linux’?
c.                   What is an operating system? List the basic services provided by an operating system.
d.                  What is an ‘Internet Worm’? Explain DDoS,
e.                  What do the following stand for?
                                                                          i.                  EPROM
                                                                        ii.                  POSIX
                                                                      iii.                  MODEM
                                                                       iv.                  COBOL
10.Answer the following (in about 20 words each) (2004/02)
a.                   What do you understand by E-governance?
b.                  What is a URL?
c.                   What do the following stand for?
                                                                                i.            CD-ROM
                                                                              ii.            USB
                                                                            iii.            ITES
                                                                             iv.            FORTRAN
d.                  What do you understand by MP3?
e.                  What are cyber crimes? How are these protected?
11.               Write about the following: Bluetooth. (2005//2)
12.               Answer the following (in about 20 words each)(2005/02)
a.                   What is an exabyte?
b.                  What is VIRUS?
c.                   What do the following stand for?
                                                                                   i.         XML
                                                                                 ii.         MASER
                                                                               iii.         SECAM
                                                                                iv.         TIPS
d.                  What is avatar?
e.                  What is Wikipedia?

13.               What do you understand by optical computing? Why is optical computing envisaged to have much better performance than that of electronic computing? (2006/15)
14.               Answer all the five (in about 20 words each) (2006/02)
a.                   What do you understand by a ‘search engine’ in computing?
b.                  Expand the following:
                                                              i.      CAD
                                                            ii.      CAM
                                                          iii.      CIM
c.                   Explain what Thin Film Memory is in computers.
d.                  Write a short note on ‘Artificial Intelligence’.
e.                  Who are called ‘Hackers’ in computer world?
15.               Answer all the five (in about 20 words each)(2007/02)
a.                   What is firewall?
b.                  What is malware?
c.                   What do the following stand for?
                                                        i.            MPEG
                                                      ii.            ISP
                                                    iii.            HTML
                                                     iv.            ASCII
d.                  What is Root kit?
e.                  What is computer architecture?


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