Technology MCQs Archives

111. What do we call a network whose elements may be separated by some distance? It usually involves two or more small networks and dedicated high-speed telephone lines.

A. URL (Universal Resource Locator)

B. LAN (Local Area Network)

C. WAN (Wide Area Network)

D. World Wide Web

✅ The correct answer is option C.

112. What is an FET?

A. Farad Effect Transformer

B. Field Effect Transformer

C. Field Effect Transistor

D. French Energy Transfer

✅ The correct answer is option C.

113. What Designates where the next action occurs?

A. Decode

B. Highlight

C. Select

D. Mother board

✅ The correct answer is option C.

114. Another word for ‘Graphics for a word processor’?

A. Peripheral

B. Clip art

C. Highlight

D. Execute

✅ The correct answer is option B.

115. The average power (in watts) used by a 20 to 25 inch home color television is…?

A. 70-100

B. 25-50

C. 500-800

D. Over 1000

✅ The correct answer is option A.
About the same as as the most popular light bulb size.

116. What does VVVF stand for?

A. Variant Voltage Vile Frequency

B. Variable Velocity Variable Fun

C. Very Very Vicious Frequency

D. Variable Voltage Variable Frequency

✅ The correct answer is option D.
It is a method of controlling the speed of an AC induction motor, whereby speed, current and torque can all be accurately controlled.

117. What was the active medium used in the first working laser ever constructed?

A. A diamond block

B. Helium-neon gas

C. A ruby rod

D. Carbon dioxide gas

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Theodore Maiman built the first working laser using a ruby rod while working at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. It lased for the first time on May 16, 1960.

118. In 1983, which person was the first to offer a definition of the term ‘computer virus’?

A. McAfee

B. Smith

C. Cohen

D. Norton

✅ The correct answer is option C.
1983 Fred Cohen, while working on his dissertation, formally defines a computer virus as ‘a computer program that can affect other computer programs by modifying them in such a way as to include a (possibly evolved)copy of itself.’

119. Who developed Yahoo?

A. Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson

B. David Filo & Jerry Yang

C. Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn

D. Steve Case & Jeff Bezos

✅ The correct answer is option B.

120. To select text by shading as you drag the mouse arrow over the text is known as…

A. Clip art

B. To highlight

C. To fetch

D. To decode

✅ The correct answer is option B.