Computer Awareness GK Questions with Answers

Assembly language replaces the binary machine codes of a processor with short symbols called mnemonics, such as MOV, ADD and JMP.

Artificial Intelligence is the ability of a machine to perform tasks that normally need human intelligence, such as reasoning, learning and taking decisions.

Multimedia means using several forms of media, such as text, graphics, audio, video, images and animation, together, often in a way the user can interact with.

A Trojan is a program that looks useful or harmless but secretly carries harmful code, so it is a piece of malicious software, or malware.

A linker is system software, a programming tool that joins compiled pieces of code into one program that can run; it does not do a task for the end user.

A firewall stands between a computer or private network and the outside world and blocks traffic that is not allowed.

SWAYAM is an online learning platform, so live classroom lectures are not one of its parts.

It is the batch file that MS-DOS runs automatically, line by line, every time the computer starts. A batch file is a plain text file of DOS commands with the.BAT extension.

SGML was designed to be independent of both hardware and software, so saying it depends on a computer's hardware is false.

Joining a program to the library routines it calls is the job of a linker, a separate system utility, not of the operating system.

TELNET is an application-layer protocol that lets a user log in to a remote computer and work on it through a text terminal.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the European Union's data protection law, adopted in April 2016 and applied from 25 May 2018.

A firewall inspects incoming traffic, keeps out unauthorised users and blocks suspicious activity, but it has nothing to do with connecting telephones.

Division is an arithmetic operator that works on numbers, while logical operators work on true and false values. Logical (Boolean) operators take one or more conditions that are either true (1) or false (0) and return a true or false result.

A software port is a logical number, not a physical socket, so it is used for network connections and for telling services apart.

Neither statement describes the real difference between the two. LTE is a fourth-generation mobile broadband standard and is sold to customers as 4G, not 3G. VoLTE is not a separate network at all: it is a way of carrying voice calls as data packets over that same LTE network, using…

In the binary system every step up the ladder of memory units is a factor of 2 raised to 10, that is 1024, so one gigabyte holds 1024 megabytes.

Cache memory is small and very fast, but it is the most expensive memory per byte after the CPU registers, so statement 2 is wrong.

A bus is the shared set of electrical lines on the motherboard that carries data, addresses and control signals between the CPU, memory and input-output devices.

NLP is the branch of artificial intelligence that lets computers understand, interpret and produce human language. Artificial intelligence covers systems that perform tasks normally needing human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning and understanding speech or text.