Computer fundamentals Previous Year Questions with Answers

Visual recall · Computer core

Input→Processing→Memory→Output

Memory tip

Hardware is physical; software is instructions.

Linked concepts

Data, security and emerging media Communication models and process

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Previous Year Question practice

Questions, answers & explanations

Open each answer after attempting the question.

11 of 11 questions

Question 1 of 11Original Question No.: 20Asked in: June 2010 Paper II

Which of the following is a major cause for digital divide?

High speed networks
Biometric data storage
Illiteracy
Computer games

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C. Illiteracy

The keyed response is option 3, “Illiteracy”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this computer fundamentals question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 2 of 11Original Question No.: 37Asked in: June 2011 Paper II

Search the correct chronological sequence of India’s colour feature films

Jhansi Ki Rani – Awara – Bobby – Ram Teri Ganga Maili
Awara – Jhansi Ki Rani – Bobby – Ram Teri Ganga Maili
Awara – Bobby – Jhansi Ki Rani – Ram Teri Ganga Maili
Jhansi Ki Rani – Bobby – Awara – Ram Teri Ganga Maili

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B. Awara – Jhansi Ki Rani – Bobby – Ram Teri Ganga Maili

Option 2 gives the keyed pairing or order: Awara – Jhansi Ki Rani – Bobby – Ram Teri Ganga Maili. Reconstruct the dates or associations in computer fundamentals before comparing the four sequences.

Question 3 of 11Original Question No.: 40Asked in: June 2011 Paper II

Match List – I (Script) with List – II (Production) List – I (Script) List – II (Production) (a) Screenplay (i) Song-Music (b) Functional specification (ii) Computer software (c) Program writing (iii) Multimedia (d) Lyric (iv) Film Codes: (a) (b) (c) (d)

(iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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C. (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

Option 3 gives the keyed pairing or order: (iv) (iii) (ii) (i). Reconstruct the dates or associations in computer fundamentals before comparing the four sequences.

Question 4 of 11Original Question No.: 66Asked in: June 2013 Paper III

Match List – I with List – II: List – I List – II a. Eagle eye 1. Television b. Dragon’s tait 2. Surveillance c. Watchdog 3. Shooting d. Sting 4. Computer software Codes: a b c d

3 4 2 1
1 3 4 2
2 4 3 1
4 1 2 3

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A. 3 4 2 1

Option 1 gives the keyed pairing or order: 3 4 2 1. Reconstruct the dates or associations in computer fundamentals before comparing the four sequences.

Question 5 of 11Original Question No.: 74Asked in: December 2014 Paper III

Passage for this question

Read the following passage and answer question Nos. from 71 to 75: Since the Cold War was officially declared over in 1990, to be followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the announcement by US President Bush of the existence of a ‘New World Order’, global events now appear to be moving so rapidly and chaotically that disorder seems a more appropriate description of what is happening in the international system. It has even been suggested that an ‘unparalleled popular interest in international affairs’ has taken place as ‘a natural reaction to the spectacle of a shrinking globe, a sober reflection on the part of millions of bewildered people who have learned through bitter experience that their own lives and fortunes may be jeopardized by the turn of events in a remote part of the world’. Those who have yet to consult the note might guess that those words were written quite recently — in 1991 perhaps, possibly even as far back as 1989. In fact they were written in 1940, in one of the earliest textbooks specifically dedicated to international relations. Historians often irritate other scholars when they point out that there is rarely anything new under the sun. The phrase ‘New World Order’, after all, was used by H.G. Wells as long ago as 1944. From the establishment of the international news agencies in the mid-nineteenth century to the formation of the global digital superhighways of today, the speed at which information flows around the world has revolutionized every aspect of our daily lives in ways no less significant than the agricultural and industrial revolutions did so. This ‘communications revolution’ had no tangible beginnings, in that it can be traced back variously to the development of the printing press, of writing, even of language, and it is certainly far from finished as we approach the next millennium in anticipation of travelling through ‘cyberspace’. But the past one hundred and fifty years, and the past fifty especially, have seen it accelerate at an ever more rapid rate, to the point where it is now almost impossible to understand how our world ever functioned without telephones, television or computers. Indeed, ‘the technologies and institutions of communication that have become so central to world politics and economics over the past couple of decades have fundamentally altered the nature and sources of power and influence, both domestically and internationally’.

What has changed the nature and sources of power and influence?

Computers
Politics
Economics
Communication

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D. Communication

The keyed response is option 4, “Communication”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this computer fundamentals question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 6 of 11Original Question No.: 13Asked in: June 2015 Paper III

The first country to envisage a computeropolis to manage the future activities of an information society is:

The United States
France
South Korea
Japan

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D. Japan

The keyed response is option 4, “Japan”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this computer fundamentals question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 7 of 11Original Question No.: 34Asked in: September 2016 Paper III

Cable TV and home computers are classified as

indirect media
public video
neo-video
scattered media

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C. neo-video

The keyed response is option 3, “neo-video”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this computer fundamentals question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 8 of 11Original Question No.: 72Asked in: July 2018 Paper II

Assertion (A): Feminist media studies should rewrite the narratives of male dominated binary oppositions. Reason (R): For it is not necessary for feminist media narratives to have a new space to revise the cultural narratives of the day. Code:

Both (A) and (R) are true.
Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(A) is true, but (R) is false.
(A) is false, but (R) is true.

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C. (A) is true, but (R) is false.

Option 3 states the keyed relationship between the assertion and reason: (A) is true, but (R) is false.. Check each statement first, then test whether the reason actually explains the assertion.

Question 9 of 11Original Question No.: 46Asked in: December 2022 cycle - 3 March 2023, Shift I

Which of the following Talk shows on TV channels and their anchors are correctly matched? A.Faceto Face - Karan Thapper B. Hard talk - Shekhar Gupta C. Cover Story - Vir Sanghavi D. We the people - Nalini Singh E. The South File - N. Ram, Sasi Kumar Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A, B, C only
A, C, E only
D, B, Aonly
B,C, D only

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B. A, C, E only

The keyed response is option 2, “A, C, E only”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this computer fundamentals question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 10 of 11Original Question No.: 25Asked in: December 2023 - 13 December 2023, Shift II

DHCP stands for

Domain Host Control Protocol
Domain Host Connectivity Protocol
Domain Host Computer Program
Domain Host Communication Program

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A. Domain Host Control Protocol

The keyed response is option 1, “Domain Host Control Protocol”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this computer fundamentals question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 11 of 11Original Question No.: 45Asked in: June 2024 - 3 September 2024, Shift II

Arrange the following in the ascending order of the year in which they were established. (A) Computer Emergency Response team (CERT-In) (B) My Gov. (C) Unique Identification Authority of India (D) National Informatics centre (E) Software Technology Parks of India Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Option 3 gives the keyed pairing or order: (D), (B) (A), ©, 8). Reconstruct the dates or associations in computer fundamentals before comparing the four sequences.

References

Question papers and answer keys: UGC NET Mass Communication and Journalism — June 2010 Paper II; June 2011 Paper II; June 2013 Paper III; December 2014 Paper III; June 2015 Paper III; September 2016 Paper III; July 2018 Paper II; December 2022 cycle - 3 March 2023, Shift I; December 2023 - 13 December 2023, Shift II; June 2024 - 3 September 2024, Shift II.
Rebecchi, Alessandra, Elisa Cavalli, et al. ICT: Information Communication Technology.
University Grants Commission. UGC NET syllabus listing, Subject Code 63: Mass Communication and Journalism.