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Quick Revision Notes on
Computer Awareness
1. The earlier computers, which were
massive in size, were based on vacuum
Questions on
tubes.
Computer 2. Early computing machines, like the
Awareness have ENIAC, were actually meant to assist the
recently been armed forces.
introduced in most 3. The printers in pre-1950s were
Bank Recruitment punch cards.
4. An improvement on the ENIAC,
exams. To help you
which pioneered ‘stored program’, was
prepare better for made possible with the help of the mathe-
the Bank exams matician John von Neumann.
we present to you 5. Before the 1950s, computers were
the revision notes mostly owned by universities and
on Computer research labs.
6. The B-programming language was
Awareness.
developed by Ken Thompson.
7. Famous people, associated with the
ENIAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC computers are
Eckert & Mauchly.
8. The 1st commercially produced
and sold computer (1951) was UNIVAC.
9. IBM was provided software for PCs
by Microsoft.
10. Time-sharing, teletyping, were
associated with mainframe computers.
11. The transformation from heavy
computers to PCs was made possible using
microprocessors.
12. The first microprocessor was
developed in 1971 by Intel.
13. The term ‘micro’ (extremely small)
denotes 10–6 m.
14. The Harvard student, who chose to
write computer programs and dropped
studies was Bill Gates.
15. A pentium 4 (P-4) employs roughly
40 million transistors .
16. Mark-1, Apple-1, and collossus
were initial desktop computers.
17. Binary digits are briefed as bit.
18. A collection of bits is called byte.
19. C++, is a computer language.
20. The process of eliminating pro-
gramming faults is called debugging.
21. Starting up on operating system is
called booting.
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22. A program used to browse the web
is called browser.
23. An error in software designing
which can even cause a computer to crash
is called bug.
24. Click and double-click are achieved
using the mouse.
25. Java, C, ForTran, Pascal and BASIC
are computer programming languages.
26. The device which sends computer
data using a phone line is called MODEM.
27. ‘Worm’ and ‘virus’ are actually
programs.
28. A ‘file’ is a unit of information.
29. A megabyte has 106 (million)
bytes.
30. A small, single-site network is
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called LAN.
31. A processor that collects several
data and sends them over a single line is
called bridge.
32. ‘Nano’ stands for one billionth
part.
33. The number of bit patterns using
an n-bit code is 2n.
34. The part of a computer that works
with the data/programs is called CPU.
35. To convert a binary number to a
decimal, we have to express it in power of 2.
36. www stands for world wide web.
37. Mathematics employed in compu-
ters is called Boolean algebra.
38. A collection of 8 bits is called byte.
39. The first home computer (1977),
which was sold in millions of units was
Apple II.
40. ‘PARAM’ is a supercomputer.
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41. A website containing periodic
posts is called blog.
42. While cutting and pasting, the cut
item is temporarily stored in the clipboard.
43. http stands for hypertext transfer
protocol.
44. The unwanted or non-requested e-
mails are called “spam”.
45. A computer framed to give various
network services is called server.