TN State Board 12th Computer Applications Question Paper 2024

The Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) was developed by Apple Inc. in 1988 based on the Electronic Arts Interchange File Format (IFF). The other options (TCS, IBM, Microsoft) were not involved in its original development.

The SELECT command is used in SQL to retrieve or fetch data from a database. DELETE, INSERT, and UPDATE are Data Manipulation Language (DML) commands used to remove, add, and modify data respectively, not to retrieve it.

The 'echo' statement is a language construct in PHP used to output strings or variables to the screen. 'for', 'switch', and 'while' are control flow statements, not output functions.

The 'break' statement is specifically used to exit or terminate the current loop or switch block. 'goto' is a jump statement, 'return' exits a function, and 'continue' skips the current iteration of a loop.

The loop starts with $i=5$ and continues as long as $i>=1$, decrementing $i$ by 1 each time. It outputs 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Therefore, the sequence displayed is 54321.