Computer and Information Technology (Physics) Part-II

Total Questions: 50

31. Which of the following acronyms is normally used to describe unsolicited junk e-mails? [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2018]

Correct Answer: (d) SPAM
Solution:

Junk email messages are 'spam' messages which are unsolicited (and typically unwanted) email messages that are filtered by the service. By default, the service rejects the spam message based on the reputation of the sending IP address.

32. The word 'Spam' is related to which of the following subject? [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2016, Chhattisgarh P.C.S. (Pre) 2005]

Correct Answer: (a) Computer
Solution:

Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising often for dubious get rich quick schemes or quasi-legal services.

33. Sending an identical e-mail message repeatedly to a particular address by any abuser is called: [Uttarakhand P.C.S. (Pre) 2012]

Correct Answer: (c) E-mail Bombing
Solution:

E-mail bombing is a form of net abuse consisting of sending large volumes of email to an address in an attempt to overflow the mailbox.

34. DuckDuckGo is a [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2017]

Correct Answer: (a) search engine
Solution:

DuckDuckGo is a search engine which is quite famous in Europe. Its speciality is that it does not collect user-related information like other search engines such as Google do.

35. Which of the following is not a search engine? [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2010]

Correct Answer: (d) Orkut
Solution:

Orkut is not a search engine. It was a social networking website which has been closed. Rest are the search engines

36. Which of the following is a search engine? [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2016]

Correct Answer: (a) Baidu
Solution:

Baidu INC. is a Chinese web services company offers many services including a Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, and images

37. Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by: [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2019]

Correct Answer: (a) Microsoft
Solution:

Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. It was launched in 2009. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products.

38. Yahoo, Google, and MSN are- [Uttarakhand P.C.S. (Pre) 2005]

Correct Answer: (a) Internet sites
Solution:

Yahoo, Google and MSN are internet websites.

39. Which of the following is not a web browser? [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2023]

Correct Answer: (d) Yahoo
Solution:

Among the given options, Yahoo is not a web browser, it is a web search engine. Internet Explorer (now replaced by Microsoft Edge), Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are examples of web browser.

40. Which web browser was developed by Google? [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2016]

Correct Answer: (d) Chrome
Solution:

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows and later ported to Linux, macOS and Android.