Important GK and Current Affairs Questions

 

General knowledge, current affairs questions and frequently asked gk questions for upsc, psc, RRB, bank exams, intelligence bureau, postal assistant and ibps. Also includes General Awareness question, confusing facts, Quiz questions, computer short forms and banking terms important gk Questions


UPSC important Computer Questions


Important computer Abbreviations (computer short forms)

LAN = Local Area Network

WAN = Wide Area Network

MAN = Metropolitan Area Network

VAN = Value Add Network

URL = Uniform Resource Locator

MS-DOS = Micro Soft Disk Operating System

OCR = Optical Character Recognition

UUCP = Unix to Unix Copy

IBM = International Business Machine

DBMS = Data Base Management System

ROM = Read Only Memory

RAM = Random-access memory

BASIC = Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

VIRUS = Vital Information Resources Under Siege

* HTTPS = Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

* SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

* DSL = Digital Subscriber Line

* ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange

* COBOL = Common Business Oriented Language

* DNS = Domain Name System

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