Computer Awareness Mixed Quiz: Set 45

Services such as Google Docs and Microsoft 365 save a copy of a document each time it changes, show who edited what and allow a user to restore an older version, which is what makes group editing safe.

In this model the provider runs finished software on its own servers and the user simply opens it in a browser, as with Gmail, Google Docs, Microsoft 365 or Salesforce, paying by subscription instead of buying a licence and installing it.

A constructor carries the same name as its class, is called automatically the moment an object is created and is normally used to give the data members their initial values; it returns no value at all, not even void, and it can be overloaded.

Recursion is a general programming technique in which a function calls itself, and it works equally well in procedural languages such as C, so it is not a feature of the object-oriented approach.

An ERP package replaces separate departmental programs with one integrated suite built on a single shared database, so a transaction entered once flows through stock, production, dispatch and the ledger.

The company was registered in 1945 by M. H. Hasham Premji and made vanaspati cooking oil and laundry soap at Amalner in Maharashtra.

The correct answer is A, the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit body of software companies, governments and individual experts that publishes the Unicode Standard, assigns code points to characters and releases a new version with new scripts and symbols from time to time.

This is the first phase of the SDLC: the team meets the users, records what the system must do and what constraints apply, and sets it all down in the Software Requirements Specification, which then becomes the agreed basis for everything that follows and the yardstick for acceptance testing.

Java deliberately leaves out multiple inheritance of classes to avoid the ambiguity that arises when two base classes supply a member of the same name, the problem often called the diamond problem, and it provides interfaces so that a class can still take behaviour from more than one source.

It splits a large file into fixed-size blocks, 128 megabytes by default in current versions, scatters those blocks over the machines of the cluster and keeps more than one copy of each block so that the failure of a machine does not lose data.

Customer relationship management software keeps the record of every dealing with a customer or prospect, including contacts, enquiries, calls, complaints, campaigns and purchase history, and is divided into operational, analytical and collaborative CRM.

A digital signature is made by hashing the document and encrypting that digest with the signer's private key.

This block of 128 code points holds the Devanagari consonants and independent vowels, the dependent vowel signs or matras, the virama, the nukta, the danda and double danda, and the Devanagari digits; characters added later sit in a separate Devanagari Extended block.

A question mark in a file specification matches any single character in that position, so the command DIR FILE?.TXT lists FILE1.TXT and FILEA.TXT but not FILE12.TXT.

Private is the most restricted access specifier and is also the default for a C++ class, so private data members can be read or changed only by the member functions of that class, and by a friend function or friend class if one is declared.

WPA3 is the newest of the four and the strongest; it replaces the old pre shared key handshake with simultaneous authentication of equals, which resists offline guessing of the password, and it encrypts traffic even on an open network.

Tally, from Tally Solutions of Bengaluru, keeps ledgers and groups, takes entries as vouchers, and produces the trial balance, profit and loss account, balance sheet, day book and stock summary without separate work; later versions added inventory, payroll and tax features, and the current line is TallyPrime.

ISCII was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards as IS 13194 in 1991; it is an 8-bit code whose lower 128 positions are the same as ASCII and whose upper 128 positions carry an Indian script, a single table serving ten scripts because they share the phonetic order inherited…

A TPS serves the operational level, capturing sales, deposits, bookings, issues of material and payroll entries as they happen, where accuracy, speed and reliability matter more than analysis; it is also the source of the data that higher systems later summarise.

InScript, short for Indian Script, is the standard layout notified by the Government of India and built into Windows, Linux, macOS and Android; it places vowels and matras under the left hand and consonants under the right in the dictionary order of the script, so the same layout works for…