Important Abbreviations Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: Microsoft DOS

MS-DOS is Microsoft Disk Operating System, the operating system supplied with the original IBM PC.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Wide Area Network

A WAN is a Wide Area Network - one spanning cities or countries, as against the LAN's single site.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Balance of Payments

The balance of payments is the record of all economic transactions between a country and the rest of the world over a period.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Least Significant Bit

The LSB is the bit of lowest place value in a binary number - the one that changes with every increment.

Answer: C

Correct answer: External Commercial Borrowing

ECB is borrowing raised by an Indian entity from a foreign lender, within limits set by the RBI.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Active server page

ASP is Active Server Pages, Microsoft's technology for building a page on the server before sending it.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Optical Mark Reader

An OMR is an Optical Mark Reader: it detects pencil marks in fixed positions, which is how multiple-choice answer sheets are scored.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Internet Service Provider

An ISP is an Internet Service Provider - the company that connects a subscriber to the internet.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Cyclic Redundancy Check

A CRC is a Cyclic Redundancy Check: the data is treated as a polynomial and divided by a fixed one, and the remainder is sent as the check value. It catches burst errors that a simple checksum would miss.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Wireless Fidelity

Wi-Fi is commonly expanded as Wireless Fidelity, on the model of Hi-Fi, though it was coined as a brand name for the IEEE 802.11 standards rather than as an abbreviation.