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Electronics and Computer

01 The unit of frequency is Hertz
02 The unit of resistance is Ohm
03
The device which makes or breaks
a circuit is
Switch
04
The path of an electric current is
known as a
Circuit
05
Device which opposes the flow of
electric current is known as
Resistor
06 Arc Lamp was invented by C.F.Brush
07 Television was invented by J.L.Baird
08 Transistor was invented by
J.Bardeen,W.Shockley
and W.Brattain
09 The unit of wavelength of light is Angstrom
10
A device which converts light into
electricity is known as
Photo cell
11 Hertz was the first to discover Radio waves
12 Marconi invented Radio
13
In 1901,Marconi beamed a signal
from Cornwall in England to
Newfoundland
14 Thomas Edison was an American inventor
15
A glass tube with two electrodes is
called a
Diode
16 Lee de Forest was an American scientist
17 Lee de Forest discovered the Triode
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18
Radio and television transmit
signals using
Electromagnetic waves
19
To turn pictures into electrical
signals,television Cameras rely on
Photo-electric effect
20
Transistor was invented in the
year
1948
21
The first electronic components
invented were the
Thermionic valves
22 Microchip was invented in the year 1958
23 Microchip was invented by Jack Kilby
24
The microchip invented first was
also the first
Integrated circuit
25
Silicon and germanium are ideal
examples of
Semi conductors
26 LED stands for Light Emitting Diode
27
The first computer was invented in
the year
1834
28
The first computer was invented
by
Charles Babbage
29
The first computer invented was
called
Analytical Engine
30
In the present day electronic
machines,computers function as
Artificial brains
31 CAD means Computer Aided Design
32 CPU stands for Central Processing Unit
33 RAM stands for Random Access Memory
34 J.J. Thomson was a British physicist
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35 In 1897,J.J.Thomson discovered Electrons
36
A device used for increasing the
strength of electric signal is called
Amplifier
37 The height of a wave is called Amplitude
38 An electron carries a charge Negative
39 In a transistor,a base is the
Filling in the
semiconductor sandwich
40
The tube behind the screen in TVs
and most computers is called
Cathode Ray Tube
41
The force which makes an electric
current is called
Electromotive Force
42
Device used for measuring small
amounts of electric current is
called
Galvanometer
43
Sound too low to be heard by
humans is called
Infrasound
44 VDU stands for Visual Display Unit
45 One kilobyte is approximately 1000 bytes
46 DOS stands for Disk Operating System
47 WORD STAR is a popular
Word processing
programme
48 WORD STAR was developed by Micro pro Company
49 PC stands for Personal Computer
50 ALU stands for Arithmetic Logic Unit
51
The VDU and Keyboard together
form a
TERMINAL
52 The speed of the dot matrix characters per second
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printers is measured by CPS which
stands for
53
The speed of the line printers is
measured by LPM which stands for
Lines per second
54 DBMS stands for
Database Management
System
55
IBM is a famous computer
company.IBM stands for
International Business
Machines Corporation
56 ROM stands for Read Only Memory
57
The actual machine of the
computer is commonly known as
Hardware
58
The programs run on the computer
are commonly known as
Software
59
All the output which is printed on
paper is called
Hard Copy
60
The number of pixels on a
computer screen determines a
screes's
Resolution
61 A processor's speed is measured in Megahertz
62
A software that assists the
computer in performing
instructions,is called as
system software
63 CAM stands for
Computer Aided
Manufacturing
64 DPI stands for Dots per Inch
65 DTP stands for Desk Top Publishing
66 EPROM stands for
erasable and
Programmable Read only
Memory
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67
A magnetic storage disk made out
of a thin piece of plastic is called
Floppy Disk
68
A pictorial representation of the
step by step sequence for solving
a problem is known as a
Flow Chart
69
A measure of storage capacity
equal to one thousand megabytes
is one
Gigabyte
70
A variable whose value is
accessible throughout the program
is called
Global Variable
71
A huge,worldwide network of
computers that communicate with
each other,allowing global
communications between users is
known popularly known as
Internet
72 KB stands for Kilobyte
73 LAN stands for Local Area Network
74
A printer which uses light to
transfer the image to paper is the
Laser Printer
75
Memory which retains all its
contents even after the power is
turned off is known as
Non-Volatile Memory
76
The result that is generated by the
computer after processing the
information provided to it is known
as
Output
77
Electronic mail is more popularly
known as
E-Mail
78 PILOT stands for
Programmed Inquiry
Learning Or Teaching
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79 PILOT was developed by Doug Engelbardt
80 IQL stands for
Interactive Query
Language
81 LOGO was developed by Dr.seymour Papert
82 CAL stands for
Computer Assisted
Learning
83 APT stands for
Automatically
Programmed Tooling
84 `C'language was invented by Dennis M.Ritchie
85 Modula-2 was developed by Niklaus Wirth
86
Terminals that have their own
memory are called
Smart terminals
87
The memory that needs electric
power to sustain its contents is
known as
Volatile Memory
88 MOS stands for
Metallic Oxide
Semiconductors
89 Dvorak key board was designed by August Dvorak
90
A simple device which functions as
a simpler alternative to the
keyboard is the
Mouse
91
Automatic drawing input device is
called
Scanner
92
In the second generation
computers,magnetic cores were
used as
Main Memory Devices
93 LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display
94 RADAR stands for Radio Detection and
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Ranging
95 RADAR works on the principle of Echo
96
software-in-Hardware modules are
called
Firmware
97
A device by which any
microcomputer can use ordinary
television set for producing output
is called
RF modulator
98 EDSAC stands for
Electronic Delayed
Storage Automatic
Computer
99 EDVAC stands for
Electronic Discrete
Variable Automatic
Computer
100 EDSAC was developed in the year 1949
101 EDVAC was developed in the year 1952
102 ENIAC stands for
Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Calculator
103
The most successful computing
device in the ancient time was
Abacus
104
Use of some mechanism for the
operation of a machine is known
as
Automation
105
Radar contact with the moon was
first made in
1945
106
Radar contact with Venus was first
made in
1961
107
A system in which information is
displayed on a television screen is
Video Text System
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known as
108
A modern means of
communication in which the
information is stored in a
computer at a TV station is known
as
Teletext
109
Global communication became
possible by using
Satellites
110 Morse code was invented by Samuel Morse
111
The code used in a teleprinter is
the
Baudot Code
112
Teleprinter exchange is popularly
known as
Telex
113
A device which converts sound
waves into electrical waves is
called
Microphone
114 AVC stands for Automatic Volume Control
115
The device used to measure
wavelengths of radio waves is
Wavemeter
116
A hollow metallic tube used in
place of wire in electric circuits
carrying high frequency currents is
called
Waveguide
117
An instrument used to measure
the intensity of radiations is the
Radiometer
118
An instrument used to measure
electrical voltage is the
Voltmeter
119 VTVM stands for Vacuum Tube Volt Meter
120 A circuit which maintains a Voltage Stabilizer
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constant voltage is called
121 SCR stands for Silicon Controlled Rectifier
122
A device used to increase or
decrease electric voltageis called a
Transformer
123
A magnetic tape that records both
audio and video signals is called a
Video Tape
124
The first electronic calculator was
manufactured in 1963 by
Bell Punch Company,USA
125 MASER stands for
Microwave Amplification
by stimulated Emission of
Radiation
126
A computer which can handle a
large volume of numbers is called
a
Number cruncher
127 POST stands for Power on Self Test
128
POST is a test carried out just
after the computer has been
Switched on
129
An index of the files stored on a
disk is called
Directory
130 CP/M stands for
Control program for
Microcomputers
131 CP/M was developed by digital Research Inc.,USA
132 MVS stands for
Multiple Virtual Storage
Operating System
133 MVS is used in Mainframe computers
134
The process of starting a computer
is called
Booting
135 A group of four binary digits is NIBBLE
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called a
136 BPI stands for Bit per Inch
137 A smart card is a
multifunctional
microprocessor
138 LIPS stands for
Logical Inferences Per
Second
139
A computerized machine is
normally called a
Robot
140 A robot is a machine directed by a Computer
141
A robot which resembles a human
being is called an
Android
142 PL/1 stands for Programme Language-1
143
The language PL/1 has combined
features of
COBOL and FORTRAN
144 BASIC stands for
Begineers All Purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code
145 COBOL stands for
Common Busines
Oriented Language
146 ALGOL stands for Algorithmic Language
147
ALGOL was developed in the early
1960s in
Europe
148
COBOL was first introduced in the
year
1961
149 FORTRAN stands for Formula Translation
150
FORTRAN was developed and
introduced by IBM in the year
1957
151 PL/1 was introduced in the 1960s IBM
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by
152 COMAL stands for
Common Algorithmic
Language
153 BASIC was developed by
John Kemeny and Thomas
Kurtz
154 SNOBOL stands for
String Oriented Symbolic
Language
155 SNOBOL was developed in 1962
156 LISP stands for List Processing Language
157 LISP was developed by John McCarthy
158 Loud speaker was invented by Rice Kellogg
159 PROM stands for
Programmable Read Only
Memory
160 Two types of RAM chips are Dynamic,static
161
Data is fed into the computer by
first converting it into
Binary codes

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