Information Technology Questions For Competitive Exams

1. First Indian Online Newspaper?

Ans: Financial Express

2. The Indian who designed hotmail?

Ans: Sabir Bhatia

3. Which is the first computer game?

Ans: Space War

4. Which element is used to make micro chips?

Ans: Silicon

5. Where is the first software technology park in India located?

Ans: Noida, near New Delhi

6. Where was the first computer in India established?

Ans: Indian statistical Institute, Kolkatta

7. What is the name of the autobiography of Charles Babbage, the father of computers?

Ans: Passage from the life of a philosopher

8. Where is the first techno park in India located?

Ans: Thiruvananthapuram

9. The year in which internet facility was made available in India?

Ans: 1947 august 15  

10. Which company introduced internet television?

Ans: Videocon

11. Which company is the largest producer of computer chips?

Ans: Intel

12. Which company is controlling internet in India?

Ans: VSNL

13. Which is the standard High level language used in internet?

Ans: Java

14. What is the full form of VIRUS?

Ans: Vital Information Resources Under Siege

15. Who is considered to be the father of Artificial Intelligence?

Ans: John McCarthy

16. Who invented the mouse?

Ans: Douglas Engelbart

17. Which is the first micro processor?

Ans: Intel-4004

18. Who is the inventor of C programming language?

Ans: Dennis Ritchie

19. Which is the first web browser developed by India?

Ans: EPIC

20. When was EDUSAT launched?

Ans: 20th Sep 2004

21. On which day first Cyber Crime police station of Kerala state started?

Ans: 01-07-2009

22. What is the full form of CDIT?

Ans: Center for Development of Information Technology

23. Which is Asia's fastest computer?

Ans: 'EKA' (It is developed by TATA Group of India)

24. Which Indian IT Company’s name when expanded stands for western India Product?

Ans: WIPRO

25. Which prominent IT city in India is nicknamed 'Cyberabad'?

Ans: Hyderabad

26. Who is the founder of GNU Project?

Ans: Richard Stallman

27. What is 'DEEP BLUE'?

Ans: It is a chess playing computer developed by IBM. On may 11, 1997.

28. Which is the first computer magazine in Malayalam?

Ans: Info Kairali.

29. What does BIOS stand for?

Ans: Basic Input/output System.

30. On which day internet was introduced in India?

Ans: Basic Input/output System.

31. In which year did Symantec Corporation first released Norton Antivirus?

Ans: 1990

32. Which is India's first e-literate district?

Ans: Malappuram

33. What is ROCK (Rocker)?

Ans: It is a small Robert that can move like human rock climbers or apes swinging through trees

34. Which is the largest software company in Asia?

Ans: TCS (Tata Consultancy Service in India)

35. Which software had been employed to give special effects to Harry Potter movies?

Ans: MAYA

36. Which state in India was the first one to put forth a dedicated Information Technology policy?

Ans: Karnataka

37. A computer virus that actively attacks an antivirus program or programs in an effort to prevent detection is:

Ans: Retrovirus

38. Who developed Yahoo?

Ans: David Fib & Jerry Yang

39. Where is the headquarters of Intel located?

Ans: Santa Clara, California

40. In which year was the ‘@’ choosen for its use in e-mail address?

Ans: 1972

41. What is XP short for in Windows XI'? 

Ans: eXPerience

42. Which was the first Indian movie to release its soundtrack on the Internet for sale before it being released offline via cassettes and CDs?

Ans: Allaipayuthey. It was available at www.Fabmall.com

43. Which global IT company re-entered India in 1992 after having been banned (along with another MNC Coca Cola) from conducting business in India in the 1970s?

Ans: IBM - International Business Machines

44. The general purpose very-high level programming language released by Guido Von Russom:

Ans: Python

45. Along with whom did Bill Gates found Microsoft?

Ans: Paul Allen