Science Week Quiz by IEEE AJCE SB

Which of the following is the first calculating device?

• Abacus
• Calculator
• Turing Machine
• Pascaline

Which was the world's first successful electronic computer?

• PARAM
• CRAY-1
• Pascaline
• ENIAC electronic Numerical Integrator and computer

Find out the correct definition of Wide Area Network (WAN)?

• It is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.
• It is a collection of computers interconnected with each other through cables to share their data, information and other common hardware resources.
• A computer network that covers a broad area (i.e., any network, whose communications links cross metropolitan, regional or national boundaries).
• A  computer network covering a small physical area like a home, office or small groups of buildings, such as a school or an airport.

Which of the following is also called translator?

• Data representation
• MS-DOS
• Operating System
• Language Processor

The third generation computers were made with

• Bio Chips
• Transistors
• Integrated Circuits
• Vacuum Tubes

How the quality of printer is measured?

• Alphabet per strike
• Words per Inch
• Strike per Inch
• Dots per Inch

In which year did IBM developed ORTRAN High Level programming languages used to write scientific applications?

• 1989
• 1956
• 1978
• 1924

Web Crawler is also known as?

• Link Directory
• Search Optimizer
• Web Spider
• Web Manager

JSP stands for -

• Java Simple Pages
•  Java System Protocol
•  Java Server Pages
• Java Server Protocol

Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by -

• Microsoft
• Yahoo
• Alphabet Inc.
• Amazon