1. The internet, sometimes called simply “Net” is
(a) a huge network of networks that joins computers from all across the world.
(b) an internal communication system
(c) a communication system for the government.
(d) All of the above
Answer: (a)
2. The interconnection of networks all across the world is known as
(a) Communication
(b) Internet
(c) Web page
(d) Ethernet
Answer: (b)
3. The concept of the internet was originated in
(a) 1970
(b) 1969
(c) 1971
(d) 1981
Answer: (b)
4. The origin of the internet was developed from the concept of
(a) Microsoft
(b) IBM
(c) ARPANET
(d) Web
Answer: (c), ARPANET stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network that is a network of computers.
5. In 1969, ARPANET was developed by which country?
(a) France
(b) England
(c) USA
(d) Russia
Answer: (c), ARPANET was developed by the United States Department of Defence. Initially, the basic purpose of ARPANET was to provide communication among the various bodies of government, to ensure connectivity even during nuclear attacks.
Later on, ARPANET was opened for many purposes such as educational fields, business, etc, across different countries and then became known as internet.
6. What is the full form of internet?
(a) InterContinental Network
(b) Internal Network
(c) Interconnected Network
(d) International Network
Answer: (c)
7. What is the major use of internet?
(a) Sharing data and information
(b) Browsing webpages
(c) Sending and receiving emails
(d) Social networking
(e) All of the above
Answer: (e), the other major uses of internet are advertising and video conferencing, online registrations, education, net banking, booking tickets, etc.
8. The transmission of a file from one computer system to another computer or to a server so that others can see or retrieve it is called
(a) downloading
(b) sharing
(c) uploading
(d) sending file
Answer: (a)
9. The transmission of a file to our computer from the internet is called
(a) uploading
(b) downloading
(c) receiving file
(d) saving
Answer: (b)
10. Each computer on a network is recognized by a unique
(a) IP address
(b) HTTP
(c) HTTPS
(d) www
Answer: (a), IP stands for Internet Protocol.
11. A computer communicates with other computers on the internet through
(a) IP
(b) TCP/IP
(c) HTTPS
(d) Web browser
Answer: (b), TCP/IP stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
12. What is the full form of HTML?
(a) High Transfer Machine Language
(b) High Transmission Markup Language
(c) Hyper Text Markup Language
(d) Hypermedia Markup Language
Answer: (c)
13. A set of rules followed by each computer present on a network is called
(a) Web
(b) HTTP
(c) Domain
(d) Protocol
Answer: (d), A protocol is a set of rules that define how computers will act when communicating with each other.
14. Inventor of www (World wide web) is . . . . . .
(a) Bill Gates
(b) Lee. N. Feyong
(c) Tim Berners Lee
(d) Tom Berners Lee
Answer: (c), www is also known as web. It was developed by Tim Berners Lee in 1989 at CERN in Geneva.
15. Internet is governed by several voluntary organizations such as
(a) IAB (Internet Architecture Board)
(b) IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
(c) InterNIC
(d) All of the above
Answer: (d)
16. What is the full form of W3C?
(a) World Wide Web Communication
(b) World Wide Web Cyber
(c) World Wide Web Consortium
(d) World Web Wide Consortium
Answer: (c)
17. A . . . . . . . . . that contains billions of documents in the form of webpages, is one of the most popular services on the internet.
(a) Web
(b) Web internet
(c) Telnet
(d) FTP
Answer: (a), A web (also known as world wide web) is a large collection of information or data that can be accessed using browser software.
18. To access a webpage, an URL is required. What is the full form of URL?
(a) Uniform Resource Locator
(b) Universal Resource Locator
(c) Universal Resource Line
(d) Uniform Resource Line
Answer: (a), URL (also known as web address) is a unique complete internet address used to identify webpage on the world wide web.
19. A world wide web contains billions of webpages
(a) residing in several computers
(b) created using HTML
(c) residing in many computer systems linked together using HTML
(d) Both b and c
Answer: (d)
20. An interconnected network exclusively used within organizations such as banking, business firms, etc that uses web technologies for sharing data or information internally is called
(a) Protocol
(b) Intranet
(c) Internet
(d) hypertext
Answer: (b),
21. A computer network that is used to controlled access from outside of an organization’s intranet is called
(a) Intranet
(b) Frame
(c) Extranet
(d) ISP
Answer: (c)
22. A software program that is used to view web pages is called
(a) site
(b) host
(c) link
(d) browser
Answer: (d)
23. Every computer machine host on the internet network has
(a) similar IP address
(b) unique 15-digit number
(c) unique IP address
(d) the same IP address
Answer: (c), IP addresses of two computers on the internet cannot be the same.
24. An identifier that sends and receives information across the Internet is called
(a) IP address
(b) www
(c) Network
(d) URL
Answer: (a)
25. Which of the following statement is not correct about IP address?
(a) IP address is always unique for each computer.
(b) An IP address consists of four bytes (or 32 bits) each of which can be a number from 0 to 255.
(c) For browsing or sending an email, an IP address assigned to the computer is required.
(d) All are correct
Answer: (d)
26. Which IP addresses are mostly used by web, email, and gaming servers?
(a) Dynamic
(b) Static
(c) MAC
(d) Both a and b
Answer: (b), Static IP address is the kind of IP address that never changes once it is assigned to a computer on an internet network.
27. Which IP addresses are mostly used by companies, and business firms?
(a) Static
(b) MAC
(c) Dynamic
(d) Both b and c
Answer: (c), Dynamic IP address changes each time the device logs on the internet network. This kind of IP address is difficult to trace.
28. Who is known as the father of Wikipedia?
(a) John Smith
(b) Albert Brown
(c) Jimmy Wells
(d) Stephen Hawkins
Answer: (c)
29. Which of the following plays an important role in developing common protocols for the evolution of www?
(a) Internet
(b) WWW Consortium
(c) Internet Architecture Board
(d) None of these
Answer: (b)
30. Which device is required to establish an internet connection on a computer?
(a) Modem
(b) Router
(c) ISP
(d) Both a and b
Answer: (d)
31. A device that is used to convert digital signals (or data) into analog signals and vice versa is called
(a) Keyboard
(b) Router
(c) Modem
(d) Light pen
Answer: (c), Modem stands for modulator-demodulator. It is a small box device that connects one computer to another computer with the help of telephone lines. A computer sends and receives data through a modem. It is provided to the user by ISP.
32. What is the full form of ISP?
(a) International Service Provider
(b) Internet Service Provider
(c) Ithernet Service Provider
(d) Intra Service Provider
Answer: (b), ISP are companies such as Airtel, JIO, etc that provide to access internet to customers via the telephone line. ISP is also known as IAP (Internet Access Provider).
33. Internet address is a
(a) 8-bit number
(b) 16-bit number
(c) 32-bit number
(d) None of these
Answer: (c)
34. In HTTPS, S means
(a) Secret
(b) Secure
(c) Socket
(d) Software
Answer: (b)
35. Which device is required to connect multiple computers on the same internet network?
(a) Modem
(b) Hotspots
(c) IAP
(d) Router
Answer: (d)
36. What is the full form of NIC?
(a) Network Interconnection Card
(b) Network Internet Card
(c) Network Interface Card
(d) Network Intra Card
Answer: (c), NIC connects our computer to a local data network or internet. It is also known as network adapter.
37. A unique name used in the URLs that identify website is called
(a) domain name
(b) IP
(c) TCP
(d) Host
Answer: (a)
38. A collection of publicly accessible, interlinked web pages that share a common domain name is called
(a) website
(b) web content
(c) hypertext
(d) Search engine
Answer: (a)
39. Which of the following statement is not correct about the webpage?
(a) Webpage is a document that is displayed in the web browser on www.
(b) Static webpage contains fixed information to visitors that are not frequently changed.
(c) In a dynamic webpage, information frequently changes.
(d) All of the above are correct.
Answer: (d)
40. What is the full form of DNS in a computer network?
(a) Domain Name System
(b) Decimal Number System
(c) Domain Numeric System
(d) Dual Name System
Answer: (a), DNS stores many types of information with domain names. The main function of DNS is to translate a domain name (computer host name) to IP address.
41. In a computer, .com, .edu, .gov, and .net are the examples of
(a) tag
(b) protocol
(c) top level domain extension
(d) IP address
Answer: (c)
42. Which of the following domain extension is not abbreviated for the country?
(a) .in
(b) .us
(c) .com
(d) .uk
Answer: (c)
43. Internet differentiate one computer from another computer on the basis of
(a) extension
(b) domain name
(c) IP address
(d) TCP
Answer: (c), domain name is the text version of IP address.
44. Which of the following domain name is used for an educational institution?
(a) .com
(b) .in
(c) .edu
(d) .inst
Answer: (c)
45. A computer that is used to store data or information for users on the internet is called
(a) web server
(b) web client
(c) web database
(d) web application
Answer: (a)
46. A protocol in the URL “https://www.scientecheasy.com” is
(a) www
(b) HTTPS
(c) .com
(d) All of the above
Answer: (b)
47. Each computer connected to internet must have a unique IP address. The IP address is converted into
(a) a binary string
(b) alphanumeric string
(c) a domain name
(d) a hexadecimal string
Answer: (c)
48. Currently, the unique IP address (or Internet Address) is
(a) 6 bytes long
(b) 4 bytes long
(c) 8 bytes long
(d) 16 bits long
Answer: (b), IP address is 32 bits (4 bytes) long assigned to each host on a TCP/IP internet, which is used in all the communication.
49. A small piece of data sent from a website and stored in the user’s web browser is called
(a) anonymous file
(b) cookie
(c) web page
(d) information
Answer: (b), a cookie is also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie.
50. Which of the following is the nature of the cookie?
(a) Non-volatile
(b) Volatile
(c) Transient
(d) Intransient
Answer: (c)
51. The most widely used internet connections are
(a) Dial-Up
(b) Broadband (Broad Bandwidth)
(c) DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)
(d) Wireless connection
(e) All of the above
Answer: (e)
52. Which of the following is not an internet connection?
(a) Dail-Up
(b) Cable
(c) DSL
(d) WWAN
Answer: (d)
53. The first dial-up connection was made in 1965 by
(a) Lawrence G. Roberts
(b) Robert Hook
(c) Bill Gates
(d) None of these
Answer: (a)
54. The most commonly used internet connection wirelessly are
(a) Wireless (WiFi stand for Wireless Fidelity)
(b) Mobile and Hotspots
(c) Satellite
(d) ISDN
(e) All of the above
Answer: (e)
55. What is the full form of ISDN?
(a) Internet Service Digital Network
(b) Integrated Service Digital Network
(c) Intranet Service Digital Network
(d) International Service Digital Network
Answer: (b)
56. Which standard network protocol is used to transfer computer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet?
(a) HTTPS
(b) HTTP
(c) IP
(d) FTP
Answer: (d), FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It is a program that allows us to easily transfer computer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet.
57. Which standard network protocol is used to communicate between web browser and web server?
(a) FTP
(b) HTTP
(c) IP
(d) NTTP
Answer: (b)
58. Which standard internet protocol provides secure data transmission between web server and browser with the help of encryption?
(a) HTTP
(b) HTTPS
(c) TELNET
(d) ARPANET
Answer: (b)
59. Which of the following protocol is used to connect to Usenet server and transfer newsgroup articles between systems over the internet?
(a) FTP
(b) NTTP
(c) TCP
(d) TCP/IP
Answer: (b)
60. Which of the following is used to connect the internet with a computer?
(a) Router
(b) Modem
(c) Network Switch
(d) Server
Answer: (b)
61. Which of the following is responsible for routing traffic from one to another network?
(a) Modem
(b) Hub
(c) Network Router
(d) Network Switch
Answer: (c)
62. A computer system, device, or program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, serving back HTTP responses along with data to clients is called
(a) Web
(b) Network Hub
(c) Web server
(d) FTP
Answer: (c)
63. Which of the following is the most popular web server on the web?
(a) Apache
(b) Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
(c) Sun Java System Web Server
(d) All of these
Answer: (a)
64. Suppose you have received an encrypted message and want to convert this message into the actual message (before encryption). Which technique you will use for it?
(a) Conversion
(b) Encryption
(c) Decryption
(d) Both a and c
Answer: (c)
65. Which of the following techniques cannot be used for the security of data or information?
(a) Authentication
(b) Authorisation
(c) Encryption
(d) Decryption
Answer: (d)
66. Which of the following protocols is used in internet technology?
(a) HTTPS
(b) DHCP
(c) DNS
(d) All of the above
Answer: (d)
67. Which of the following protocol assigns an IP address to the client computer connected to the internet?
(a) IP
(b) RSVP
(c) DHCP
(d) RPC
Answer: (c)
68. What is the full form of MIME?
(a) Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
(b) Multipurpose Intra Mail Extensions
(c) Multiple Internet Mail Extensions
(d) Multiplepurpose Internet Mail Email
Answer: (a)
69. The web server on the internet is also known as
(a) hub
(b) host
(c) gateway
(d) repeater
Answer: (b)
70. Which of the following is the most popular activity on the internet?
(a) Shopping
(b) Entertainment
(c) Searching
(d) Video calling
Answer: (c)
