MALABAR CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CALICUT
 Core Course III                      FE3B03 Informatics
 2nd Internal Examination   October 2011
 Time: 3 Hrs                                                                               Total Weightage: 30      
Section A: Objective Questions
Answer all 12 questions                         (Weightage 3)
1)    LAN is _________________
a)      Local And Networked         b) Local Access Node
c)   Local Area Network               d) Local Aided Node

2)      PDA is also known as ______________________
a)      Personal Digital Assistant       b) Personal Do it yourself Assistant
c)      Personal Data Assistant          d) Personal Definite Assistant

3)    www can be expanded as ____________________
a)      world without walls                b) world with a web
b)    world within web                      d) world wide web

4)    The father of modern computing is ____________  .
a)      V S Naipaul                            b) Charles Babbage
c)    Steve Jobs                               d) Graham Greene

5)      Color Monitors are also known as _____________ monitors
a)   RYB                            b) RCV
c)   RIB                              d) RGB

6) Excel is a ___________________ application.
a)   Database                                 b) Word processing
c)   Spreadsheet                           d) Powerpoint

7) A series of instructions that performs a particular task is called ____________
a)   Instructions                                         b) Protocol 
c)   Program                                               d) Process control

8) Free software movement was conceived and launched by________________
a)   Bill Gates                                b) Gordon Bell
c)   Claude Shannon                   d) Richard Stallman

Expand the following

  9) USB
10) HTML
11) OCR
12) CPU

 

II. Short answer type questions. Answer all 9 questions                                                     (9 x 1wt = 9)

13. What is a notebook?.

14. Expansion of MODEM?

15. What according to you is Informatics?

16. Explain .doc file extension.

17. What is booting?

18. Mention a few lines about chips?

19. Explain the function of a scanner

20. Clarify the meaning of VoIP

21. Mention different types of hand-held computers



III. Short essay/paragraph questions. Answer any 5 questions from 7                           (5 x 2wt = 10)

22. What are Blogs? Mention a few of them.

23. Explain Crytpography.

24. What is meant by Virtual Reality?

25. Outline Bluetooth devices

26.  What is Open Office?

27. What are thumb drives?

28. Write a short note on tablets


IV. Essay questions (Answer 2 question from 3)                                                                   (2 x 4wt = 8)

29. Outline the history of the development of computers
30. State the different types of Operating systems and their applications
31. Explain the benefits of networking.
                                                         (Total 31 questions and 30 weightage)


Answers for Objective:

1          C                     5          D                       9 Universal Serial Bus
2          A                     6          C                     10 Hyper Text Markup Language
3          D                     7          C                     11 Optical Character Recognition
4          B                     8          D                     12 Central Processing Unit