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