Deck 6: Technology in Education and Communication

Question 1

………………. can be used in any area or field that works with numbers and are commonly found in the accounting, budgeting, sales forecasting, financial analysis, and scientific fields.

A)Microsoft Office Access
B)Spreadsheets
C)PowerPoint
D)CIET

Answer 1

Spreadsheets

Question 2

………………..is a presentation graphics software tool.

A)Microsoft Office Access
B)PowerPoint
C)INSAT
D)CIET

Answer 2

PowerPoint

Question 3

………………… provides users the easy ability to create professionallooking presentations.

A)CIET
B)Microsoft Office Access
C)PowerPoint
D)INSAT

Answer 3

PowerPoint

Question 4

………………. provides editing, outlining, drawing, graphing, and presentation management functions, in one convenient software package.

A)PowerPoint
B)Microsoft Office Access
C)INSAT
D)Spreadsheets

Question 5

The original version of……………….. was created by Thomas Rudkin and Dennis Austin of a company called Forethought.

A)PowerPoint
B)Microsoft Office Access
C)Spreadsheets
D)INSAT

Question 6

……………….. describes the way text and graphics can be combined together on a single page which can then be printed out as a high quality print.

A)Desk Top Publishing
B)CIET
C)Scilab
D)INSAT

Question 7

DTP is good for…………………

A)importing text and graphics created elsewhere
B)long or specialised writing tasks
C)specialised graphics tasks
D)exporting text and graphics

Question 8

DTP is not best for……………….

A)exporting text and graphics
B)combining text and graphics
C)importing text and graphics created elsewhere
D)creating columns of text

Question 9

……………..referring to a type of publishing that does not include printed books.

A)E-publishing
B)INSAT
C)JDPC
D)CIET

Question 10

In 2008 Stephen Turner and………………, both Cyber Classroom instructors, realized that they had a rare opportunity to make direct comparisons of student outcomes both without and with the Cyber Classroom recordings.

A)Herman Hollerith
B)Sir Hans Sloane
C)Robert Harley
D)Michael Farmer

Question 11

……………… includes all forms of electronically supported learning and teaching, and more recently Edtech.

A)E-learning
B)INSAT
C)TDCC
D)CIET

Question 12

…………………….was founded in 1999, as a vehicle for education to reach students who would otherwise never have the opportunity to participate in Model UN.

A)Global Classrooms
B)INSAT
C)JDPC
D)SIT

Question 13

On May 13, 2010, MTV Networks International President, MTV Staying Alive Chairman, and UNAIDS Ambassador ………………..addressed the Global Classrooms international student delegation at the UN General Assembly, during which he discussed issues ranging from AIDS and HIV to global media.

A)Hillary Clinton
B)Bill Roedy
C)Esther Brimmer
D)N.Karashima George

Question 14

With Launching of a series of satellites by ……………….broadcasting (audio and video) and teleconferencing facilities are now available in almost every states and UTs of our country.

A)SIT
B)INSAT
C)TDCC
D)ISRO

Question 15

The concept of beaming educational programmes through satellites was demonstrated for the first time in India through ……………. in 1975-76 using American Application Technology Satellite (ATS-6).

A)SlTE
B)INSAT
C)JDPC
D)TDCC

Question 16

Keeping in view usefulness of the INSAT in educational programmes MHRD visualized EDUSAT project in October……………...

A)2002
B)1989
C)1996
D)1998

Question 17

The EDUSAT was launched on 20 September…………..

A)1982
B)1984
C)1999
D)2004

Question 18

………………is the first Indian satellite built exclusively for serving the educational sector offering an interactive satellite based distance education system for the country.

A)EDUSAT
B)MBHS
C)Scilab
D)INSAT

Question 19

………………is specially configured for the audiovisual medium, employing digital interactive classroom and multimedia multicentric systems.

A)EDUSAT
B)INSAT
C)FORTRAN
D)MBHS

Question 20

……………. is primarily meant for providing connectivity to school, college and higher levels of education and also to support non-formal education including developmental communication.

A)EDUSAT
B)MBHS
C)Scilab
D)FORTRAN

Question 21

……………. carries five Ku-band transponders providing spot beams, one Ku-band transponder providing a national beam and six Extended C- band transponders with national coverage beam.

A)EDUSAT
B)COBOL
C)FORTRAN
D)HTML

Question 22

In the first phase of pilot projects, a …………..transponder on board INSAT-3R, which is already in orbit, is being used.

A)FORTRAN
B)CIET
C)MBHS
D)Ku-band

Question 23

The …………..configuration has allowed CIET, NCERT to develop a network of institutions; together constituting a national network.

A)EDUSAT
B)MBHS
C)HTML
D)Scilab

Question 24

……………….., leader in analysis software, provides business intelligence (BI) software that helps leading organizations make better business decisions every day.

A)MBHS
B)Scilab
C)FORTRAN
D)Access Digital Data

Question 25

The …………Library is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items.

A)German
B)French
C)British
D)Russian

Question 26

British Library is located on the north side of Euston Road in St Pancras, ………...

A)Hardward
B)Cambridge
C)Oxford
D)London

Question 27

In…………, the British Library absorbed the National Sound Archive, which holds many sound and video recordings, with over a million discs and thousands of tapes.

A)1983
B)1986
C)1987
D)1992

Question 28

The core of the British Library's historical collections is based on a series of donations and acquisitions from the 18th century, known as……………………….

A)The 'foundation collections'
B)MBHS
C)HTML
D)Scilab

Question 29

An Act of Parliament in …………… established the principle of the legal deposit, ensuring that the British Library and five other libraries in Great Britain and Ireland are entitled to receive a free copy of every item published or distributed in Britain.

A)1901
B)1909
C)1911
D)1931

Question 30

………………… 'Sitting on History' was purchased for the British Library by Carl Djerassi and Diane Middlebrook in 1997.

A)John E. Mitchiner's
B)Herman Hollerith's
C)Bill Woodrow's
D)T.V. Mahalingam's

Question 31

In …………2010 the British Library launched its Management and business studies portal.

A)October
B)November
C)December
D)January

Question 32

The …………Library Philatelic Collections are held at St Pancras

A)British
B)American
C)French
D)Indian

Question 33

……………..founded the Tabulating Machine Company in 1896 which later became the popular IBM (International Business Machines Corporation.A variety of machines were developed during the WWII.

A)John E. Mitchiner
B)Herman Hollerith
C)W.W.Grummond
D)T.V. Mahalingam

Question 34

The first all-electronic computer is called ………..

A)ENIAC
B)COBOL
C)FORTRAN
D)HTML

Question 35

The first non-military electronic programmable computer, …………, for data processing was introduced in 1950.

A)UNIVAC
B)COBOL
C)FORTRAN
D)HTML

Question 36

The ……………is a computer application that provides statistical analysis of data.

A)SPSS
B)Scilab
C)UNIVAC
D)COBOL

Question 37

……………..is the data analysis package of choice for people wanting to analyze quantitative data.

A)Scilab
B)SPSS
C)COBOL
D)UNIVAC

Question 38

…………….for Windows is a comprehensive, interactive, general- purpose package for data analysis and it includes most routine statistical techniques.

A)SPSS
B)Scilab
C)ENIAC
D)Access Digital Data

Question 39

………….is a true Windows package being mouse-driven with movable, scalable windows, drop-down menus and dialog boxes.

A)Scilab
B)SPSS
C)Access Digital Data
D)INSAT

Question 40

…………… for Windows is probably one of the easiest major statistics package to use.

A)Scilab
B)SPSS
C)INSAT
D)JDPC

Question 41

In July……………, in order to improve the technology transfer, the Scilab Consortium joined the Digiteo Foundation

A)2002
B)2007
C)2008
D)2011

Question 42

……………….. allows even inexperienced users to run complicated statistical analyses at the click of a few buttons.

A)ENIAC
B)Scilab
C)SPSS
D)Access Digital Data

Question 43

……………. for Windows provides a powerful statistical analysis and data management system in a graphical environment, using descriptive menus and simple dialog boxes to do most of the tasks for you.

A)CIET
B)Scilab
C)JDPC
D)SPSS

Question 44

……………. provides a powerful statistical-analysis and data- management system in a graphical environment, using descriptive menus and simple dialog boxes to do most of the work for you.

A)JDPC
B)Scilab
C)INSAT
D)SPSS

Question 45

……………is an open source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language.

A)Scilab
B)ENIAC
C)Access Digital Data
D)COBOL

Question 46

MATLAB code, which is similar in syntax, can be converted to…………...

A)FORTRAN
B)Scilab
C)COBOL
D)INSAT

Question 47

…………..is one of several open source alternatives to MATLAB.

A)FORTRAN
B)ENIAC
C)Scilab
D)COBOL

Question 48

Scilab includes a free package called ………..for modeling and simulation of explicit and implicit dynamical systems, including both continuous and discrete sub-systems.

A)Access Digital Data
B)ENIAC
C)Xcos
D)FORTRAN

Question 49

……….can be compared to Simulink from the MathWorks.

A)Xcos
B)Access Digital Data
C)Scilab
D)FORTRAN