University Assistant Exam 2016: Held on 24-May-2016
1. Who is considered to be the first programmer?
(A) Ada Lovelace
(B) Alan Turing
(C) Charles Babbage
(D) Von Neumann
Answer: (A)
Ada Lovelace is considered to have written instructions for
the first computer program on Charles Babbage's early mechanical
general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.in the mid-1800s. The daughter
of famed poet Lord Byron, Augusta Ada Byron.
2. An attempt to make a computer resource
unavailable to its intended users is called:
(A)Malware Attack
(B) Worms Attack
(C) Denial-of-service
attack
(D) Adware attack
Answer: (C)
Denial of Service ( DoS ) attack
In computing, a denial-of-service (DoS) attack is
an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended
users, such as to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of
a host connected to the Internet.
3. A computer program that is used to convert an
assembly language to machine language is:
(A) Compiler
(B) Interpreter
(C) Assembler
(D) Comparator
Answer: (C)
Assembler
An assembly language is a low-level programming language
for microprocessors and other programmable devices.
4. Codes consisting of light and dark marks of
various thickness which may be optically read is known as :
(A) Operand
(B) Bar code
(C) Decoder
(D) Opcode
Answer: (B)
Norman Joseph Woodland was the inventor of the
barcode, for which he received a patent in October 1952.
5.The inventor of world wide web :
(A) Tim
Berners Lee
(B) Marc Andreessen
(C) James H Clark
(D) Robert Cailliau
Answer: (A)
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English
computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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