SSc Important Computer Questions & Answer

1. Who is known as father of computer ?
Answer: Charles Babbage


2. Who is the father of World Wide Web ?
Answer: Tim Berners Lee


3. Who invented Computer Mouse ?
Answer: Douglas Carl Engelbart


4. Who is the founder of Hotmail ?
Answer: Sabeer Bhatia


5. Which day is observed as Computer Literacy Day ?
Answer: December 2


6. Which company introduced mouse as an input device ?
Answer: Apple corporation


7. Which is the first Personal computer ?
Answer: The Altair


8. A group of 4 bits is called as ?
Answer: Nibble


9. Where is first Techno park in India situated ?
Answer: Trivandrum (Kerala)


10. India's first private Internet Service Provider ?
Answer: Satyam Infoway Ltd


11. Who wrote the autobiography  'Passage from Life of a Philosopher' ?
Answer: Charles Babbage

Important computer Abbreviations (computer short forms)
LAN = Local Area Network
WAN = Wide Area Network
MAN = Metropolitan Area Network
VAN = Value Add Network
URL = Uniform Resource Locator
MS-DOS = Micro Soft Disk Operating System
OCR = Optical Character Recognition
UUCP = Unix to Unix Copy
IBM = International Business Machine
DBMS = Data Base Management System
ROM = Read Only Memory
RAM = Random-access memory
BASIC = Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
VIRUS = Vital Information Resources Under Siege
HTTPS = Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
DSL = Digital Subscriber Line
ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange
COBOL = Common Business Oriented Language
DNS = Domain Name System