Informatics Set 7

Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English),

Bachelor of Arts in History (BA History)

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This set of Informatics Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Informatics Set 7

Q1 | SPSS (originally, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a software program developed in the late 1960s by graduate students at……………… University
  • oxford
  • harward
  • stanford
  • cambridge
Answer: stanford
Q2 | ……………..is the data analysis package of choice for people wanting to analyze quantitative data.
  • scilab
  • spss
  • cobol
  • univac
Answer: spss
Q3 | …………….for Windows is a comprehensive, interactive, generalpurposepackage for data analysis and it includes most routine statistical techniques.
  • spss
  • scilab
  • eniac
  • access digital data
Answer: spss
Q4 | ………….is a true Windows package being mouse-driven with movable, scalable windows, drop-down menus and dialog boxes.
  • scilab
  • spss
  • access digital data
  • insat
Answer: spss
Q5 | In July……………, in order to improve the technology transfer, the Scilab Consortium joined the Digiteo Foundation
  • 2002
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2011
Answer: 2008
Q6 | ……………….. allows even inexperienced users to run complicated statistical analyses at the click of a few buttons.
  • eniac
  • scilab
  • spss
  • access digital data
Answer: spss
Q7 | ……………is an open source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language.
  • scilab
  • eniac
  • access digital data
  • cobol
Answer: scilab
Q8 | MATLAB code, which is similar in syntax, can be converted to…………...
  • fortran
  • scilab
  • cobol
  • insat
Answer: scilab
Q9 | …………..is one of several open source alternatives to MATLAB.
  • fortran
  • eniac
  • scilab
  • cobol
Answer: scilab
Q10 | Scilab includes a free package called ………..for modeling and simulation of explicit and implicit dynamical systems, including both continuous and discrete sub-systems.
  • access digital data
  • eniac
  • xcos
  • fortran
Answer: xcos
Q11 | ……….can be compared to Simulink from the MathWorks.
  • xcos
  • access digital data
  • scilab
  • fortran
Answer: xcos
Q12 | Scilab syntax is largely based on the ………..language.
  • eniac
  • scilab
  • matlab
  • xcos
Answer: matlab
Q13 | The Scilab Consortium was formed in May ………. to broaden contributions and promote Scilab as worldwide reference software in academia and industry.
  • 1983
  • 1993
  • 2003
  • 2006
Answer: 2003
Q14 | In July 2008, in order to improve the technology transfer, the Scilab Consortium joined the……………...
  • digiteo foundation
  • scilab
  • eniac
  • access digital data
Answer: digiteo foundation
Q15 | ………………….is a method by which a company can convert paper documents into digital format.a) Digital documentation b) Scilab c) Access Digital Data d) MATLAB 190.Indus script is a product of one of the largest ………….civilisations often referred to as the Harappan civilisation.
  • neolithic age
  • paleolithic age
  • bronze age
  • mesolithic age
Answer: neolithic age
Q16 | ………….. Civilisation was distinguished for its highly utilitarian and standardised life style, excellent water management system and architecture.
  • american
  • mayan
  • indus valley
  • egyptian
Answer: indus valley
Q17 | The first publication of a Harappan seal dates to 1873, in a drawing by………………..
  • alexander cunningham
  • yuri knorozov
  • john e. mitchiner
  • w.w.grummond
Answer: alexander cunningham
Q18 | In the early 1970s, ………………published a corpus and concordance of Indus writing listing about 3700 seals and about 417 distinct signs inspecific patterns.
  • iravatham mahadevan
  • john e. mitchiner
  • w.w.grummond
  • t.v. mahalingam
Answer: iravatham mahadevan
Q19 | ………………..thought that the Indus script was the archetype of the Brāhmī script.
  • alexander cunningham
  • w.w.grummond
  • mgs narayanan
  • k.a.nilakandasastri
Answer: alexander cunningham
Q20 | In May 2007, the Tamil Nadu Archaeological Department found pots with arrow-head symbols during an excavation in Melaperumpallam near………………….
  • poompuhar
  • madras
  • adayar
  • tirunelveli school of distance education
Answer: poompuhar
Q21 | A computational study od Indus Script conducted by a joint Indo-US team led by Rajesh P N Rao of the University of ………………….., consisting of Iravatham Mahadevan and others from the Tata Instituteof Fundamental Research and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, was published in April 2009 in Science.
  • russia
  • washington
  • france
  • delhi
Answer: washington
Q22 | The book ‘Deciphering the Indus Script’ was written by ……………
  • asko parpola
  • shikaripura ranganatha rao
  • k.a. nilakanta sastri
  • appadorai
Answer: asko parpola
Q23 | The Finnish scholar ……………….led a Finnish team in the 1960s-80s that vied with Knorozov's Soviet team in investigating the Indus script using computer analysis.
  • shikaripura ranganatha rao
  • asko parpola
  • john e. mitchiner
  • w.w.grummond
Answer: asko parpola
Q24 | ‘South Indian History and Society Studies from Inscriptions A.D.850- 1800’ was written by …………………………
  • noboru karashima
  • prof.champakalakshmi
  • d.n.jha
  • m.g.s. narayanan
Answer: noboru karashima
Q25 | …………………. initiated a joint research project on the “Socio – economic development in South India from the 13th century through the 18th century in 1984.
  • robert scoble
  • goldman
  • noboru karashima
  • jason calacanis.
Answer: noboru karashima
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