Computer Awareness Mixed Quiz: Set 46

All three are sold as enterprise resource planning suites, with modules for finance, human resources, materials, manufacturing and sales working on one shared database; Infor belongs to the same list, and Odoo and the Indian ERPNext are the open-source examples.

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.

Kruti Dev places Devanagari glyphs on the code positions of English letters, so the computer stores ordinary ASCII characters while the reader sees Hindi; open the file on a machine without that font and the text appears as meaningless Roman letters and symbols, and it cannot be searched or indexed.

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.

A decision support system is interactive and model-based: it holds data, models and a user interface so that a manager can change assumptions, run alternatives and compare outcomes on problems that are neither wholly routine nor wholly open-ended, such as pricing a product, choosing a warehouse site or planning a…

Google Docs is finished software delivered through a browser; the user installs nothing, manages no server and only works on the document, which is the definition of Software as a Service.

The correct answer is A, Mangal, the Devanagari Unicode font shipped with Windows and the font that government typing tests pair with the InScript layout; later Windows versions also carry Nirmala UI, Aparajita, Kokila and Utsaah as Unicode Devanagari fonts.

Encapsulation means binding the data members and the member functions that act on them inside one unit, the class, and keeping the data private so that it can be reached only through the methods provided; the standard illustration is a capsule holding the medicine inside it.

After a company is created or selected, the user reaches the Gateway of Tally, from which the masters, vouchers, reports and utilities are opened; it is the screen named in question papers because every later action starts there.

Shiv Nadar and a group of colleagues left their jobs at an electronics firm and set up Hindustan Computers Limited, shortened to HCL, in 1976 to design and sell Indian-made microcomputers.

UTF-8 is a variable width encoding: code points up to U+007F take one byte, the next range takes two bytes, code points from U+0800 up to the end of the Basic Multilingual Plane take three bytes, and anything beyond that plane takes four.

If one module must know the internal data or logic of another to work, the two are tightly coupled, and a change in one forces a change in the other.

A contra voucher records movements that do not change the total funds of the business but only shift them between cash and bank or between two bank accounts, which is why both sides of the entry are the firm's own accounts.

In the process called Knowledge Discovery in Databases, or KDD, the stages run from selection of the relevant data, through cleaning and preprocessing, to transformation, then data mining, and finally interpretation and evaluation of what was found.

Standard ASCII uses seven bits, and two raised to the power seven is 128, which covers the uppercase and lowercase English letters, the ten digits, punctuation and thirty-three control characters.

In a key pair, whatever one key locks only the other can unlock. So a message encrypted with the receiver's public key can be opened only by the receiver's private key, which nobody else holds; that is exactly what confidentiality requires.

Online analytical processing answers few but complex queries that aggregate, slice and compare historical data held in a data warehouse, which is what business intelligence dashboards and drill-down reports rest on.

Every Devanagari consonant carries an inherent short vowel, and the virama cancels it, giving the bare consonant; when a bare consonant is followed by another consonant the rendering engine joins the two into a conjunct or half form, which is why the virama is the key character in Devanagari text…

Salesforce is the best-known customer relationship management product delivered as a cloud service, used over a browser on subscription, with Zoho from India and Microsoft Dynamics 365 among the other names in the category.

The Technology Development for Indian Languages programme, known as TDIL, develops and distributes fonts, dictionaries, corpora, optical character recognition, speech and machine translation tools for Indian languages, and it maintains a data centre from which these resources are shared.