Email and Internet MCQs with Answers
1. What does E-mail stand for?
Answer: Electronic Mail
2. Define the term 'Internet'.
Answer: A vast collection of different networks, also known as a 'network of networks'.
3. What else is the Internet called?
Answer: The Net
4. Who supported the early development of the Internet?
Answer: ARPANET
5. What is the full form of ARPANET?
Answer: Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
6. What is the medium for sharing data between two computers?
Answer: Network
7. Who is known as the Father of the Internet?
Answer: Vinton Cerf
8. In an email, what does 'CC' stand for?
Answer: Carbon Copy
9. What is the use of 'CC' in emails?
Answer: All recipients added in CC can see who else has received the same email.
10. What does 'BCC' stand for?
Answer: Blind Carbon Copy
11. What is the use of 'BCC'?
Answer: Recipients in BCC are invisible to other recipients.
12. Difference between CC and BCC?
Answer: CC recipients can see each other, BCC recipients cannot.
13. What is the full form of DNS?
Answer: Domain Name System
14. Junk emails are also called?
Answer: Spam
15. Which part of an email contains a short description?
Answer: Subject line
16. Information required for creating a new email ID?
Answer: Name, address, DOB, father’s name, alternate email ID.
17. Internet is a system of _______?
Answer: Interconnected networks.
18. Which country has the largest number of Internet users?
Answer: China
19. Which protocol transfers files between computers?
Answer: FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
20. What is the full form of FTP?
Answer: File Transfer Protocol
21. What is the full form of HTTP?
Answer: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
22. What is the full form of HTTPS?
Answer: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
23. What is the purpose of HTTPS?
Answer: It secures data transfer on websites.
24. What is the full form of IP?
Answer: Internet Protocol
25. What is the full form of URL?
Answer: Uniform Resource Locator
26. What is a web browser?
Answer: A software that helps users access the Internet.
27. Give examples of web browsers.
Answer: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Edge.
28. What is the full form of WWW?
Answer: World Wide Web
29. What is the difference between Internet and WWW?
Answer: Internet is the network; WWW is a service running on it.
30. What is the full form of ISP?
Answer: Internet Service Provider
31. What is an example of ISP?
Answer: PTCL, AT&T;, Vodafone.
32. What is the full form of IP address?
Answer: Internet Protocol Address
33. What is an IP address used for?
Answer: To identify a device on the Internet.
34. How many bits are in an IPv4 address?
Answer: 32 bits
35. How many bits are in an IPv6 address?
Answer: 128 bits
36. What is the full form of SMTP?
Answer: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
37. What is the function of SMTP?
Answer: To send emails.
38. What is the full form of POP3?
Answer: Post Office Protocol version 3
39. What is the function of POP3?
Answer: To receive and download emails.
40. What is the full form of IMAP?
Answer: Internet Message Access Protocol
41. What is the function of IMAP?
Answer: To access emails without downloading them.
42. What is the full form of LAN?
Answer: Local Area Network
43. What is the full form of WAN?
Answer: Wide Area Network
44. What is the full form of MAN?
Answer: Metropolitan Area Network
45. What is a modem used for?
Answer: To convert digital signals to analog and vice versa.
46. What is the full form of Wi-Fi?
Answer: Wireless Fidelity
47. What is a search engine?
Answer: A tool used to find information on the Internet.
48. Examples of search engines?
Answer: Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo.
49. What is the full form of VPN?
Answer: Virtual Private Network
50. Purpose of VPN?
Answer: To secure Internet connections and protect privacy.
