Computer Awareness Mixed Quiz: Set 12

Animations act on the objects of a slide — text, shapes, pictures, charts, SmartArt — and fall into four groups: Entrance, Emphasis, Exit and Motion Paths.

In the 8085A microprocessor the program counter is a 16-bit register that always holds the memory address of the next instruction, or op-code, to be fetched.

HTTPS is HTTP wrapped in encryption, and web servers listen for it on port 443. When an address begins with https, the browser opens a secure channel on that port, and the padlock shown beside the address means the traffic on it is coded.

EBCDIC is an 8-bit character encoding scheme developed by IBM in 1963 for its mainframe and midrange computers. Because it uses 8 bits for each character it can represent 256 different characters, twice as many as the 7-bit ASCII code, which handles 128.

Shift + F5 is the "play from here" key, and it saves a presenter from running through a long deck while checking one slide.

Data can travel between two devices in three modes. In half-duplex mode both devices can send and receive, but only one of them may transmit at any given moment, so the traffic takes turns; a walkie-talkie is the standard example, and older hubs and CB radio worked the same way.

Bcc stands for blind carbon copy. An address typed there receives the letter, but it is hidden from everyone else on the list, and the people in Bcc cannot see one another either.

The plain remove-directory command is built to delete an empty folder only. In Windows it is rmdir, also written rd, and in Linux it is rmdir; both stop with a message such as "The directory is not empty" when anything is still inside.

The slide master holds the formatting that every slide built on it inherits — title font, body font, bullet style, background, colour scheme and the position of a logo — so one edit there updates the whole deck.

In an entity relationship diagram each symbol has a fixed meaning, and an attribute that can hold more than one value for the same entity, such as a person's several phone numbers, is drawn as a double ellipse.

IPv6 was framed because the older scheme was running out of addresses, and its 128-bit length yields a pool so large that shortage is no longer a worry.

Java is an object-oriented programming language, so it is the right pick for Preet.

A template stores the theme, masters, layouts and sample content that new presentations are started from, and its extension in the current format is.potx; the older format used.pot.

The Internet of Things means giving everyday objects — machines, sensors, meters, shelves, vehicles — an address on the internet so that they can report what they sense and be controlled from a distance.

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is the rule set that pushes a letter out of your mail program to the server and onward from one server to the next until it reaches the receiver's mailbox.

The National Digital Library of India is a single window that brings together lakhs of learning resources, from school books to research papers, and lets a student search them free of cost in many Indian languages.

The Print pane of PowerPoint offers handout layouts of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 9 slides per page, so nine is the largest number, and the 3-slide layout is the one that leaves ruled lines beside the slides for the audience to write on.

The Domain Name System is the directory of the internet. People remember names, while machines route traffic by numbers, so a DNS server looks up the name typed in the browser and returns the matching IP address before the page is fetched.

The program was created by Forethought Inc., where Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin designed it, and the first version ran on the Apple Macintosh in 1987.

The last part of a domain name is the top-level domain and tells you the kind of owner. Government offices use.gov, often with the country code added, as in india.gov.in for the National Portal of India.