Sample Paper 2
1) Babel Fish, a web translation service owned by Yahoo! was originally created by
what? AltaVista
2) ‘Kindle’, the e-book reader was launched by which company? Amazon
3) What was created by James Gosling and originally named ‘Oak’? Java
4) Which company began as ‘Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory’? Canon
5) Which company did Google acquire in 2005 to enter the mobile devices software
business? Android
6) What is described in its patent application as an “X-Y position indicator for a
display system”? Mouse
7) What name is given to software applications that run automated tasks over the
Internet? Bots
8) Alan J. Perlis was the first recipient of which award in the world of computing?
Turing Award
9) What term was coined by John McCarthy who defined it as the “science and
engineering” of making intelligent machines? Artificial Intelligence
10) Whose autobiography is titled “iWoz”? Steve Wozniak
11) What word is commonly used to refer to “unsolicited bulk e-mail”? Spam
12) What is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled and has
its own address? Pixel
13) What term is used to describe a program that appears to perform a harmless
action but actually performs another act such as transmitting a virus? Trojan
14) Which web search engine from Microsoft is advertised as “Decision Engine”?
Bing
15) Who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Google Inc.? Larry Page