What is UniCode ?

• With the onset of globalization through Internet, there emerged a need to Cater for data interchange of the more common languages of the different nationalities like Chinese, Korea and Japanese.
• ASCII, EBCDIC and other forms of representation proved insufficient.
• The Unicode/ISO 10646 standard was devised to overcome this problem.
• The 16 bits used by Unicode can represent 65536 symbols, one extra parity bit for parity check, which is more than enough to represent all the worlds written characters.
• Although Unicode solves the problem of multi-language data representation, it is not the perfect solution as there remain issues to be addressed.
• Problems include the wastage of storage space, time needed for data transmission and the lack of support of current operating systems.
• Furthermore, Unicode does not guarantee a particular sort order.

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Basic Computer Questions

Q : The main system board of the computer is called ____.
(A) Motherboard
(B) Processor
(C) Microchip
(D) None of these

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Q : Which of the following system components is the brain of a computer?
(A) Circuit board
(B) CPU
(C) Memory
(D) Network card

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Answer ⇒ { B }

 
Q : What is the built-in permanent memory in a computer called?
(A) RAM
(B) ROM
(C) CPU
(D) CD-ROM

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Answer ⇒ { B }

 
Q : Which of the following is the full form of NTFS?
(A) New Tree File system
(B) New Technology file system
(C) New Table file system
(D) Both B and C

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Answer ⇒ { B }

 
Q : Which of the following is not a hardware processing chip ?
(A) Processing chip
(B) printer
(C) mouse
(D) Java

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Answer ⇒ { B }

 
Q : The monitor of a computer is-
(A) storage device
(B) processing device
(C) input device
(D) output device

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Answer ⇒ { D }

 
Q : Which protocol does Ping use?
(A) TCP
(B) ARP
(C) ICMP
(D) BootP
(E) None of these

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Answer ⇒ { C }

 
Q : If you wish to extend the length of the network without having the signal degrade, you would use a ___.
(A) Gateway
(B) Router
(C) Modem
(D) Repeater
(E) Resonator

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Answer ⇒ { D }

 
Q : A series of instructions that tells a computer what to do and how to do it is called a ______.
(A) program
(B) command
(C) user response
(D) processor
(E) None of these

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Answer ⇒ { A }

 
Q : Verification of a login name and password is known as_____.
(A) Configuration
(B) Accessibility
(C) Authentication
(D) logging in
(E) None of these
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