Monday, March 11, 2002		Compuquiz

Compuquiz — 74

1. Which is the basic Internet program that lets you verify that a particular Internet address exists and can accept requests?

2. Byte is the smallest unit of data in a computer. True or false?

3. Name the program your personal computer's microprocessor uses to get the computer system started after you turn it on.

4. Which is the standard interactive and programming language for getting information from a database?

5. Name the collection of small programs, any of which can be called when needed by a larger program that is running in the computer.

6. Which is the place in a computer where the operating system, application programs, and data in current use are kept so that they can be quickly reached by the computer's processor?

7. What do we call a network point that acts as an entrance to another network?

8. Name the measure of the range of frequencies a communication signal occupies.

9. Name the device, or in some cases, software in a computer, that determines the next network point to which a packet is forwarded toward its destination.

10. What do we call a set of related programs, located at a network gateway server, that protects the resources of a private network from users from other networks.

1. Spoofing

2. Streaming

3. Token Ring

4. Toolbars

5. Trackball

6. USB (Universal Serial Bus)

7. Vector graphics

8. Window

9. WWW or simply the Web

10. XML (Extensible Mark-up Language)

1. Chitralekha Bhardwaj, New Delhi

2. Randeep Singh, Gurdaspur

3. Yash Pal Singh, New Delhi

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