CATEGORY: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Question 1

What does CPU stand for?

Answer 1

Answer: Central Processing Unit

Question 2

Who is known as the father of the computer?

Answer 2

Answer: Charles Babbage

Question 3

What is the full form of URL?

Answer 3

Answer: Uniform Resource Locator

Question 4

What does HTTP stand for in web addresses?

Answer 4

Answer: HyperText Transfer Protocol

Question 5

Which company developed the Windows operating system?

Answer 5

Answer: Microsoft

Question 6

What is the most widely used programming language for web development?

Answer 6

Answer: JavaScript

Question 7

What does AI stand for?

Answer 7

Answer: Artificial Intelligence

Question 8

What is the binary number system based on?

Answer 8

Answer: 0s and 1s

Question 9

Which search engine was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin?

Answer 9

Answer: Google

Question 10

What is the primary function of RAM in a computer?

Answer 10

Answer: Temporary storage for quick data access

Question 11

What is the name of the first electronic general-purpose computer?

Answer 11

Answer: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

Question 12

In which year was the World Wide Web (WWW) invented?

Answer 12

Answer: 1989

Question 13

Who is the founder of Linux?

Answer 13

Answer: Linus Torvalds

Question 14

Which company manufactured the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004?

Answer 14

Answer: Intel

Question 15

What is the Turing Test used for?

Answer 15

Answer: To determine if a machine can exhibit human-like intelligence

Question 16

What is the main purpose of an IP address?

Answer 16

Answer: Identifies devices on a network

Question 17

What does SQL stand for?

Answer 17

Answer: Structured Query Language

Question 18

What is the name of the malicious software that locks users out of their own files until they pay a ransom?

Answer 18

Answer: Ransomware

Question 19

What type of database model is commonly used for large-scale applications, such as NoSQL databases?

Answer 19

Answer: Document-based model

Question 20

What is the primary purpose of a firewall in a network?

Answer 20

Answer: To filter and monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic for security

Question 21

What sorting algorithm has the best worst-case time complexity of O(n log n)?

Answer 21

Answer: Merge Sort

Question 22

What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?

Answer 22

Answer: IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, while IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses

Question 23

What does DNS stand for in networking?

Answer 23

Answer: Domain Name System

Question 24

What cybersecurity term describes an attack where a hacker intercepts communication between two parties?

Answer 24

Answer: Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Attack

Question 25

What programming concept describes a function calling itself?

Answer 25

Answer: Recursion

Question 26

What is the name of the first-ever computer virus?

Answer 26

Answer: Creeper Virus

Question 27

What does Moore’s Law predict about computing power?

Answer 27

Answer: The number of transistors on a microchip doubles approximately every two years

Question 28

What is the most commonly used hashing algorithm for secure password storage?

Answer 28

Answer: SHA-256

Question 29

Which type of attack is used to guess passwords by trying every possible combination?

Answer 29

Answer: Brute Force Attack

Question 30

What does the term "Big-O Notation" refer to in computer science?

Answer 30

Answer: A way to describe the efficiency of an algorithm

Question 31

What type of attack uses fraudulent emails to trick users into revealing sensitive information?

Answer 31

Answer: Phishing

Question 32

What is the primary purpose of a Zero Trust security model?

Answer 32

Answer: Never trust, always verify—continuously authenticate users and devices.

Question 33

Which encryption algorithm is widely used for securing HTTPS connections?

Answer 33

Answer: TLS (Transport Layer Security) with AES encryption

Question 34

What is a Brute Force Attack, and how can it be mitigated?

Answer 34

Answer: Trying all possible password combinations; mitigated with multi-factor authentication and rate limiting.

Question 35

What cybersecurity framework was created by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)?

Answer 35

Answer: NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Question 36

What AI system defeated world champion Lee Sedol in the game of Go?

Answer 36

Answer: AlphaGo

Question 37

What is the difference between Supervised Learning and Unsupervised Learning?

Answer 37

Answer: Supervised Learning uses labeled data; Unsupervised Learning finds patterns without labels.

Question 38

What is backpropagation in neural networks?

Answer 38

Answer: An algorithm to adjust weights in a neural network using gradient descent.

Question 39

What AI model architecture is the foundation of GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer)?

Answer 39

Answer: Transformer

Question 40

What is the Turing Test, and who created it?

Answer 40

Answer: A test to measure machine intelligence; created by Alan Turing.

Question 41

What is the fundamental unit of information in quantum computing?

Answer 41

Answer: Qubit

Question 42

What blockchain mechanism prevents double spending in cryptocurrencies?

Answer 42

Answer: Proof of Work (PoW) or Proof of Stake (PoS)

Question 43

What is the primary communication protocol used by Internet of Things (IoT) devices?

Answer 43

Answer: MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport)

Question 44

What is the purpose of a smart contract in blockchain?

Answer 44

Answer: Self-executing contracts with pre-defined rules stored on a blockchain.

Question 45

What is the name of Google's quantum supremacy experiment?

Answer 45

Answer: Sycamore

Question 46

What is the Big-O complexity of QuickSort in the worst case?

Answer 46

O(n^2)

Question 47

What does SOLID stand for in software engineering principles?

Answer 47

Answer: Single Responsibility, Open-Closed, Liskov Substitution, Interface Segregation, Dependency Inversion

Question 48

What programming language is used to build smart contracts on Ethereum?

Answer 48

Answer: Solidity

Question 49

What is a race condition, and how can it be prevented?

Answer 49

Answer: A concurrency issue where multiple processes access shared data unpredictably; mitigated with locks or semaphores.

Question 50

What is the difference between interpreted and compiled languages?

Answer 50

Answer: Interpreted languages run line by line (Python), while compiled languages are translated into machine code before execution (C++).