Computer Awareness GK Questions with Answers – Page 18

Alan Turing proposed in 1950 that instead of arguing about what thinking means, we should set a practical trial: a human questioner communicates in writing with an unseen machine and an unseen person, and if the questioner cannot reliably tell which is which, the machine is said to have passed.

The American computer scientist John McCarthy used the phrase artificial intelligence in the proposal for the Dartmouth conference of 1956, the meeting generally treated as the birth of the subject as a separate field, and he is therefore called the father of artificial intelligence; he also created the programming language…

SMART governance is the standard shorthand for the aim of administrative reform in India, and it expands to simple, moral, accountable, responsive and transparent government; e-governance is treated as the means by which each of these five qualities becomes possible, since an online process is simpler, leaves a record, can…

BharatNet lays optical fibre to the panchayat level so that village institutions, Common Services Centres, schools and health centres can get broadband, and it is the main project under the Broadband Highways pillar of Digital India.

The application was built by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology with the National e-Governance Division so that a citizen can reach hundreds of central and state services, from provident fund enquiries to gas bookings, from a single app in several languages.

This is the model in which a service is delivered directly to an individual, such as an online caste or income certificate, a driving licence application or a pension payment, and it is the model most visible to the public.

The same corporation runs the RuPay card network, the BHIM application and the immediate payment service, so a question about any of these has the same answer.

It was set up in 2009 and was given statutory standing by the Aadhaar Act of 2016, and the first Aadhaar number was issued in 2010 at Tembhli village in the Nandurbar district of Maharashtra.

The nine pillars are Broadband Highways, Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity, the Public Internet Access Programme, e-Governance or reforming government through technology, e-Kranti for the electronic delivery of services, Information for All, Electronics Manufacturing, IT for Jobs, and Early Harvest Programmes.

The correct answer is B, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, shortened to MeitY, which is the nodal ministry for the programme and also for the National e-Governance Division, DigiLocker, UMANG and CERT-In.

Digital India was launched on that day with the tagline Power to Empower, and it is implemented by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology; the launch week was observed as Digital India Week.

It is India’s first cyberlaw, and it is the statute that gave legal recognition to electronic records and to digital and electronic signatures, so that a contract concluded online is as enforceable as one written on paper and a department may accept a filing or issue a licence electronically.

A 301 reply means Moved Permanently: the page now lives at a new address and the browser or search engine should use that address from now on.

An online store is a website or an app and not a shop with shutters, so it can take orders at any hour of any day, and that round-the-clock selling is one of the clear gains of e-commerce.

An electronic spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel or LibreOffice Calc can filter, merge and sort data, so all three belong to its work and no single one of them is the answer.

Flipkart, Alibaba and Amazon run online marketplaces whose storefronts sell goods to individual shoppers, and a business selling to a consumer is business-to-consumer, or B2C. In this model a firm lists its products on a website or an app, the customer orders and pays online, and the goods reach the…

A file ending in.exe is an executable, which means it contains instructions the processor can run, so double clicking it starts a program.

This combination opens Task Manager at once, the window that lists running programs and background processes and allows a program that has stopped responding to be ended.

The part of the name after the last dot is the extension, so in the name result.docx the extension is docx and the operating system uses it to decide which program will open the file and which icon will be shown.

Holding Ctrl while pressing Home carries the cursor right to the top of the document, no matter how many pages have been typed, and Ctrl + End does the same to the bottom.