Computer Awareness GK Questions with Answers – Page 10

HTML offers six levels of heading, from h1 down to h6, and h1 is the largest and most important; it is normally used once on a page, for the page's own title, with h2 for the main sections and h3 for their subsections.

An empty or void tag has no closing tag because it encloses no content; it simply performs an action at the point where it is written, and the line break tag, written as br, moves the following text to a new line.

Working at CERN, the European nuclear research organisation, he proposed a hypertext system in 1989 and by 1991 had written HTML, the first web browser and the first web server, and he went on to found the World Wide Web Consortium, which maintains the standards.

Hypertext means text that carries links to other text, so that a reader can jump from one document to another instead of reading in a fixed order, and markup means the system of tags that labels each part of the content for the browser.

A form is the part of a page that collects information from the visitor, and the individual items placed in it to receive that information are called controls, or form controls: the text box, password box, radio button, check box, drop-down list, text area, submit button and reset button.

An HTML document has two parts inside the html element, and the body is the one that holds everything the visitor actually sees: headings, paragraphs, images, tables, lists, links and forms.

It is a shorthand property, which means it sets several related properties in a single declaration: the type of the marker, its position and an image to use as the marker, in any order and with the omitted ones falling back to their default values.

CERT-In works under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and is the national nodal agency for collecting, analysing and issuing alerts on cyber security incidents such as intrusions, phishing campaigns and malware outbreaks; it was given statutory backing by Section 70B of the Information Technology Act.

VLSI is the technique of placing a very large number of transistors on a single silicon chip, and it made the microprocessor possible; the microprocessor in turn defines the fourth generation of computers, just as the integrated circuit defines the third, the transistor the second and the vacuum tube the…

C-DAC is a research and development organisation under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and developed the PARAM series of supercomputers, India's own high performance computing line.

The row of numerals printed at the foot of a cheque is set in magnetic ink, and a MICR reader senses the magnetic pattern rather than the shape of the figures, so the code is read correctly even when the cheque is stamped or soiled.

BASIC was designed as a teaching language with simple English-like statements, which is the reason the word Beginner appears in its name.

The family runs in a clear order: ROM is fixed when made, PROM is written once by the user, EPROM can be erased by exposing the chip to ultraviolet light, and EEPROM can be erased and rewritten by an electrical signal without removing it from the circuit.

The correct answer is B, SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, which carries a message from the sender's programme to the mail server and onward between servers.

The BIOS is held in a read only memory chip on the motherboard; when the machine is switched on it tests the hardware through the power-on self test and then loads the operating system from the disc into main memory, a process called booting.

ASCII assigns a number to every letter, digit and punctuation mark so that text can be stored and sent as binary; in its original form it is a seven-bit code and therefore represents 128 characters.

A bit is a single binary digit, zero or one; four bits together form a nibble, and two nibbles, that is eight bits, form a byte.

ENIAC was built to compute artillery firing tables and is remembered as the first general-purpose electronic digital computer; it used thousands of vacuum tubes and belongs to the first generation of computers.

Section 79 gives an intermediary such as a network service provider or a social media platform a safe harbour, provided it merely transmits or hosts the content, does not initiate or modify it, and observes the due diligence prescribed by the rules; the Shreya Singhal judgment read the section down…

A bench of nine judges held in 2017 that the right to privacy is intrinsic to the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21, which became the constitutional basis for India's data protection framework and for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.