ICT and Media Questions and Answers

Q: Which of the following is the most compressed video format ?

The key gives MP4 as the most compressed of the four.MP4 is the format most associated with small files, since it usually carries H.264 video with AAC audio at modest bit rates. Comparisons of AVCHD and MP4 report an MP4 file roughly a third the size of an AVCHD file of the same footage, because AVCHD is made for camcorders and keeps a high bit rate.AVI is an older container that often holds lightly compressed or uncompressed video, so its files are large. WMV is a Microsoft format that is compressed but is mainly used in the Windows world and has no reputation for being the smallest.Strictly, compression depends on the codec and settings used inside the file, not on the container, and MP4 and AVCHD can use the same H.264 codec. The question follows the common textbook ranking, and that is the reading the key rests on.

Q: In the context of typing in MS-Word, what is the adjustment of space between characters called ?

The adjustment is called kerning.Kerning is the adjustment of space between particular pairs of characters, such as 'AV' or 'To', so that the spacing looks even. In MS-Word it is set under Font, Advanced, 'Kerning for fonts'.Leading (line spacing) is the space between lines of type, runaround is text wrapped around a picture, and 'spacing' is a general word; tracking is the uniform adjustment of spacing across a whole block of text.

Q: What is known as 'Invisible road' ?

The key gives the Internet as the 'Invisible road'.The phrase uses the road as an image of a path along which things travel: the Internet carries information, goods and money for its users, but there is nothing physical to see. It is a common way in popular writing to describe a network that moves data the way a road moves traffic.Telecom is the wider industry of telephone and radio networks, a computer is a device and not a route, and WiFi is only a wireless way of reaching a network. None of them is the network that connects the world.I could not find 'Invisible road' as a defined term in a standard reference, so the answer rests on this reading and on elimination; it is the official key's answer.

Q: With which decade would you associate the beginning of mobile telephony in India ?

Mobile telephony in India began in the 1990s.The first mobile phone call in India was made on 31 July 1995, when the West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu called the Union Communications Minister Sukh Ram over the Modi Telstra network in Kolkata. Licences for private cellular operators had been issued after the National Telecom Policy of 1994.The 1970s and 1980s came before any cellular service, and the 2000s were the decade of mobile growth, not its beginning.

Q: Which website allows us to see where our traffic is coming from and how visitors interact with our site ?

The tool is Google Analytics.Google Analytics is a web analytics service that reports where a website's visitors come from (search, social media, referral or direct), which pages they view, how long they stay and what actions they take, using a tracking code placed on the site.Google Assistant is a voice-based virtual assistant, Google Maps is a mapping service, and Siri is Apple's assistant, not a Google product; none of them measures website traffic.

Q: Which of the following is not a correct statement in the context of the concept of network society ?

The incorrect statement is that network society evolved during the industrial revolution.Manuel Castells, in The Rise of the Network Society (1996), describes the network society as the social structure of the information age, emerging in the late twentieth century from digital information and communication technologies. It is a product of the information technology revolution, not of the industrial revolution.The other statements are correct descriptions of it: its social units are fragmented and dispersed, its scope is both global and local, and it is less centralised than industrial-era organisation.

Q: Which of the following accurately describes the term 'Information Society' ?

An information society is one marked by creation, distribution and manipulation of information as economic and cultural activity.The concept describes a society in which the creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information is the most significant economic, political and cultural activity, replacing industrial production as the main source of wealth.The other options are too narrow. Every society transmits and uses information; what defines the information society is that these activities become the core of its economy and culture.

Q: Which of the following is not the typical characteristic of the phase of internet popularly called as Web 2.0 ?

The feature that is not typical of Web 2.0 is an entirely new system of hardware and protocols.Web 2.0, a term popularised by Tim O'Reilly in 2004, describes a change in how the web was used, not a new technical infrastructure. It ran on the same internet protocols and hardware, but emphasised user participation, interactivity, social networking and user-generated content.A high degree of interactivity, a large share of user-generated content and the rise of wikis such as Wikipedia are all typical characteristics of Web 2.0.

Q: In computer technology, after booting process which file executes automatically ?

The file is autoexec.bat (printed as autoexe.bat).In MS-DOS, booting runs in a fixed order: IO.SYS loads the basic input-output routines, CONFIG.SYS is read to configure the system, and the command interpreter COMMAND.COM is loaded. COMMAND.COM then automatically executes AUTOEXEC.BAT, the batch file of commands the user wants run every time the computer starts, such as setting the path or starting a program.So io.sys, config.sys and command.com are part of the booting process itself; autoexec.bat is the file executed automatically once booting is complete.

Q: Which of the following is an indicator or measure of traffic on a web site or webpage ?

The measure is hits.A hit is recorded each time a file (a page, an image, a script) is requested from a web server, and hit counts were the earliest standard measure of traffic on a website or page. Analysts now prefer page views and unique visitors, because one page with many images produces many hits, but hits remain a recognised indicator.Lists are not a traffic measure. TRW and TRPI are not web measurement terms; the similar-looking TRP (Television Rating Point) measures television viewership, not website traffic.

21.

Which of the following is the most compressed video format ?

A.AVI
B.WMV
C.AVCHD
D.MP4

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: D

The key gives MP4 as the most compressed of the four.

MP4 is the format most associated with small files, since it usually carries H.264 video with AAC audio at modest bit rates. Comparisons of AVCHD and MP4 report an MP4 file roughly a third the size of an AVCHD file of the same footage, because AVCHD is made for camcorders and keeps a high bit rate.

AVI is an older container that often holds lightly compressed or uncompressed video, so its files are large. WMV is a Microsoft format that is compressed but is mainly used in the Windows world and has no reputation for being the smallest.

Strictly, compression depends on the codec and settings used inside the file, not on the container, and MP4 and AVCHD can use the same H.264 codec. The question follows the common textbook ranking, and that is the reading the key rests on.

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22.

In the context of typing in MS-Word, what is the adjustment of space between characters called ?

A.Leading
B.Kerning
C.Runaround
D.Spacing

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: B

The adjustment is called kerning.

Kerning is the adjustment of space between particular pairs of characters, such as 'AV' or 'To', so that the spacing looks even. In MS-Word it is set under Font, Advanced, 'Kerning for fonts'.

Leading (line spacing) is the space between lines of type, runaround is text wrapped around a picture, and 'spacing' is a general word; tracking is the uniform adjustment of spacing across a whole block of text.

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23.

What is known as 'Invisible road' ?

A.Telecom
B.Computer
C.WiFi
D.Internet

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: D

The key gives the Internet as the 'Invisible road'.

The phrase uses the road as an image of a path along which things travel: the Internet carries information, goods and money for its users, but there is nothing physical to see. It is a common way in popular writing to describe a network that moves data the way a road moves traffic.

Telecom is the wider industry of telephone and radio networks, a computer is a device and not a route, and WiFi is only a wireless way of reaching a network. None of them is the network that connects the world.

I could not find 'Invisible road' as a defined term in a standard reference, so the answer rests on this reading and on elimination; it is the official key's answer.

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24.

With which decade would you associate the beginning of mobile telephony in India ?

A.1970s
B.1980s
C.1990s
D.2000s

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

Mobile telephony in India began in the 1990s.

The first mobile phone call in India was made on 31 July 1995, when the West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu called the Union Communications Minister Sukh Ram over the Modi Telstra network in Kolkata. Licences for private cellular operators had been issued after the National Telecom Policy of 1994.

The 1970s and 1980s came before any cellular service, and the 2000s were the decade of mobile growth, not its beginning.

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25.

Which website allows us to see where our traffic is coming from and how visitors interact with our site ?

A.Google assistant
B.Google map
C.Google analytics
D.Google siri

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

The tool is Google Analytics.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service that reports where a website's visitors come from (search, social media, referral or direct), which pages they view, how long they stay and what actions they take, using a tracking code placed on the site.

Google Assistant is a voice-based virtual assistant, Google Maps is a mapping service, and Siri is Apple's assistant, not a Google product; none of them measures website traffic.

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26.

Which of the following is not a correct statement in the context of the concept of network society ?

A.The social units of network society are fragmented and dispersed
B.The scope of network society is both global and local
C.Network society evolved during industrial revolution
D.Network societies are less centralized

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

The incorrect statement is that network society evolved during the industrial revolution.

Manuel Castells, in The Rise of the Network Society (1996), describes the network society as the social structure of the information age, emerging in the late twentieth century from digital information and communication technologies. It is a product of the information technology revolution, not of the industrial revolution.

The other statements are correct descriptions of it: its social units are fragmented and dispersed, its scope is both global and local, and it is less centralised than industrial-era organisation.

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27.

Which of the following accurately describes the term 'Information Society' ?

A.Creation, distribution and manipulation of information as economic and cultural activity
B.Transmission of information in society
C.Socio-economic use of information by people
D.Production-distribution and consumption of information by members of society

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

An information society is one marked by creation, distribution and manipulation of information as economic and cultural activity.

The concept describes a society in which the creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information is the most significant economic, political and cultural activity, replacing industrial production as the main source of wealth.

The other options are too narrow. Every society transmits and uses information; what defines the information society is that these activities become the core of its economy and culture.

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28.

Which of the following is not the typical characteristic of the phase of internet popularly called as Web 2.0 ?

A.An entirely new system of hardware and protocols
B.High degree of multilinear interactivity
C.A high percentage of user generated content
D.The rise of 'wiki' phenomenon

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

The feature that is not typical of Web 2.0 is an entirely new system of hardware and protocols.

Web 2.0, a term popularised by Tim O'Reilly in 2004, describes a change in how the web was used, not a new technical infrastructure. It ran on the same internet protocols and hardware, but emphasised user participation, interactivity, social networking and user-generated content.

A high degree of interactivity, a large share of user-generated content and the rise of wikis such as Wikipedia are all typical characteristics of Web 2.0.

Discuss in Forum

29.

In computer technology, after booting process which file executes automatically ?

A.command.com
B.io.sys
C.autoexe.bat
D.config.sys

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: C

The file is autoexec.bat (printed as autoexe.bat).

In MS-DOS, booting runs in a fixed order: IO.SYS loads the basic input-output routines, CONFIG.SYS is read to configure the system, and the command interpreter COMMAND.COM is loaded. COMMAND.COM then automatically executes AUTOEXEC.BAT, the batch file of commands the user wants run every time the computer starts, such as setting the path or starting a program.

So io.sys, config.sys and command.com are part of the booting process itself; autoexec.bat is the file executed automatically once booting is complete.

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30.

Which of the following is an indicator or measure of traffic on a web site or webpage ?

A.Lists
B.TRW
C.Hits
D.TRPI

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: C

The measure is hits.

A hit is recorded each time a file (a page, an image, a script) is requested from a web server, and hit counts were the earliest standard measure of traffic on a website or page. Analysts now prefer page views and unique visitors, because one page with many images produces many hits, but hits remain a recognised indicator.

Lists are not a traffic measure. TRW and TRPI are not web measurement terms; the similar-looking TRP (Television Rating Point) measures television viewership, not website traffic.

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