Who is the creator of the social media platform “Facebook”?
- (A) Bill Gates
- (B) Steve Jobs
- (C) Mark Zuckerberg
- (D) Steve Wozniak
- (C) Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is the creator of the social media platform Facebook (which is now a part of Meta Platforms) which he established on February 4, 2004, during his studies in Harvard University. The site was initially started by him as TheFacebook with his college roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. He is a chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms today.
Name of the founder of ‘Zoom’ video conferencing app?
- (A) Mark Zuckerberg
- (B) Jeff Boss
- (C) Eric Yuan
- (D) Ghose Peel
- (C) Eric Yuan
Eric Yuan (also known as Eric S. Yuan) is the founder of the video conferencing Zoom app. In 2011 (initially called Saasbee, Inc.), Eric Yuan was the founder of Zoom, which aims at offering a more user-friendly video conferencing product with the focus on cloud-based technology. Previously, he worked as a corporate vice president of engineering in Cisco Webex before he left to develop his own company.
Who invented the World Wide Web (WWW) with Robert Cailliau?
- (A) Bill Gates
- (B) Laiszlo Neztjev
- (C) Tim Berners-Lee
- (D) Tom Burns
- (C) Tim Berners-Lee
The British scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, who was employed at CERN, developed the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989-1990. He worked hand in hand with the Belgian systems engineer, Robert Cailliau who assisted in formalizing the proposal and selling the project and funding to start off on the project.
American computer company which is known as ‘Big Blue’?
- (A) Microsoft
- (B) Compaq
- (C) IBM
- (D) Tandy Stevenson
- (C) IBM
The term “E-mail” is a short name of:
- (A) Engine mail
- (B) Electronic mail
- (C) Electromagnetic mail
- (D) Electrical mail
- (B) Electronic mail
The term “E-mail” is a short name of (B) Electronic mail. It is a way of transferring of digital messages, files and images between individuals, electronically through the use of electronic devices, which are linked through a network, like the internet. E- is a prefix of electrical.
A file that is sent along with an e-mail is known as:
- (A) Header
- (B) Folder
- (C) Attachment
- (D) Document
- (C) Attachment
Amongst the following which is the largest unit of storage?
- (A) Bytes
- (B) Gigabyte
- (C) Terabyte
- (D) Kilobyte
- (C) Terabyte
A program that can destroy or damage all of your computer programs:
- (A) Dust
- (B) Anti-virus
- (C) Virus
- (D) Switched computer
- (C) Virus
A virus is a harmful computer program that is designed to copy itself and move from one system to another. Its main goal is to interfere with computer operations. This interference can involve damaging, corrupting, or even completely destroying other programs and data on the machine. Some specific viruses, like “overwrite viruses,” are made to erase all files they infect.
Which was the first truly electronic computer?
- (A) ENIAC
- (B) IBM
- (C) EDSAC
- (D) UNIVAC
- (A) ENIAC
The first truly electronic, general-purpose computer was (A) ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator). ENIAC was completed in 1945 and publicly unveiled in 1946. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert designed it at the University of Pennsylvania to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army. It used more than 17,000 vacuum tubes and was much faster than earlier electromechanical computers. This marked the start of the electronic computing era.
The default language of Microsoft Word is typically _____.
- (A) American English
- (B) British English
- (C) Canadian English
- (D) Australian English
- (A) American English
The default language of Microsoft Word is usually American English. Although Microsoft Word can change to match the language settings of the Windows Operating System or can be modified in the options, the default language setting for new documents in most installations, including Microsoft 365 and Word Online, is typically English (United States).