Computer and Information Technology-part (1)

31. The first railway station in the country to provide Google's free public WI-Fi service is: [U.P. Lower Sub (mains) 2015]

(a) New Delhi Railway Station.
(b) Mumbai Central Railway Station.
(c) Howrah Railway Station.
(d) Chennai Railway Station.

Correct Answer: (b) Mumbai Central Railway Station.

Solution:On September 12, 2015, the Indian Railways announced its partnership with the tech giant Google to provide fee Wi-Fi services to 400 railway stations across the country. In January 2016, Mumbai Central Railway Station had became the first railway station in India to have Wi-Fi facility.

32. The computer system which links and stores information among different countries in the world through a satellite is known as- [U.P. Lower Sub. (Spl.) (pre) 2004]

(a) Apollo
(b) INSAT 2D
(c) Internet
(d) Nicnet

Correct Answer: (c) Internet

Solution:Internet is the largest satellite-based communication network of the world. It links and stores information among different countries in the world through satellite and cables.

33. Talaash is : [U.P.P.C.S.(MAINS) 2004]

(a) A navy aircraft.
(b) A recently developed missile.
(c) a multimedia portal on Internet and an optical character recognition (OCR) software in Devanagari developed by C-DAC.
(d) A low-cost PC- based super computing platform.

Correct Answer: (c) a multimedia portal on Internet and an optical character recognition (OCR) software in Devanagari developed by C-DAC.

Solution:Talaash is developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), is indeed a significant project encompassing both a multimedia portal on the internet and OCR software specifically designed for the Devanagari script (used for languages like Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali).

34. To safeguard against cyber attacks and threat of data theft, the 'Centre for development of advanced Computing' has developed a new software called- [U.P.P.C.S.(MAINS) 2009 U.P.P.C.S. (Spl) (MAINS) 2008]

(a) AVARODH
(b) NAYAN
(c) TRIKAL
(d) None of these

Correct Answer: (b) NAYAN

Solution:Software NAYAN was developed by C-DAC to safeguard against cyber attcks and threats of data theft.

35. India manufactured super computer'PARAM' in- [R.A.S/R.T.S (PRE) 1999-2000]

(a) Chennai
(b) Bangalore
(c) Delhi
(d) Pune

Correct Answer: (d) Pune

Solution:PARAM, a series of the supercomputer was designed assembled by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC), Pune.

36. First indigenously developed Indian supercomputer named is- [M.P.P.C.S.(PRE) 2004]

(a) Gati
(b) Dharam
(c) Shakti
(d) Param

Correct Answer: (d) Param

Solution:First Indigenously developed Indian supercomputer is named as Param-8000. It was developed by the government-run centre for development of Advance computing(C-DAC) in 1991. All the chips and other element that were used in the making of PARAM were bought from the open domestic market.

37. The name of Indian Supercomputer is- [Uttarakhand P.C.S.(PRE) 2010]

(a) Shubham
(b) Param
(c) SX-2
(d) BBC-Micro

Correct Answer: (b) Param

38. Who is known as the father of Indian supercomputer? [M.P.P.C.S.(PRE) 2015]

(a) Raghunath Mashelkar
(b) Vijay Bhatkar
(c) Jayant Narlikar
(d) Nandan Nilekani

Correct Answer: (b) Vijay Bhatkar

Solution:Dr. Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar is known as the father of Indian supercomputer. He contributed in developing the first supercomputer of India 'Param 8000' which was installed in 1991.

39. Which one of the following is a supercomputer project developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre? [U.P.P.C.S.(MAINS) 2004]

(a) PARAM Padma
(b) Chipps
(c) Flosolver Mark
(d) Anupam

Correct Answer: (d) Anupam

Solution:Computer division of BARC had started development of supercomputer under the ANUPAM project in 1991, based on parallel processing techniques. The first supercomputer which was based on this parallel processing technique was 'Anupam'860/4 using 4 Intel 860 microprocessor base boards as compute nodes. It was developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre for their internal work/usages.

40. Word length for supercomputer range up to : [R.A.S/R.T.S (PRE) 2015]

(a) 16 bits
(b) 32 bits
(c) 64 bits
(d) 128 bits

Correct Answer: (c) 64 bits

Solution:Word length of a personal computer is generally 32 bits while for supercomputer it is 64 bits.

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