IT Quiz – Set 9

QUESTIONS:

1. What does SIM in SIM Card stand for?

2. What is 'Code division multiple access' better known as?

3. This company was founded in 1979 by Alan Shugart and Finis Conner under the name 'Shugart Technology'. It is the world's largest storage solutions and is based in Scotts Valley, California, with Bill Watkins as its CEO. Which company is being referred to?

4. This is typically a company that uses a component made by a second company in its own product or sells the product of the second company under its own brand. The specific meaning of the term varies in different contexts. What term is being referred to?

5. FlashCP is a digital rights management technology for the storage of electronic materials and data on portable devices like pen drives. FlashCP is primarily targeted at students and allows transportation of copyrighted material while enforcing copy restrictions against the user. Which company now owns this technology and who is the founder of the company?

6. The companies Shibaura Seisakusho and Tokyo Denki merged in 1939 giving a birth to a new company named Tokyo Shibaura Denki. This company was nicknamed with a particular name derived from the words of the company Tokyo Shibaura Denki. This nickname became an official name of the company from 1978, which till today remains the same. Which famous company is being referred to here?

7. Who is the CEO of Luck GoldStar Group?

8. This website was flooded with thousands of spammers by using the freeware program Floodtudo, which created serious consequences for the website. This website is a part of Google. Which is this website?

9. The general definition of the name of the company is 'rude, unsophisticated and uncouth'. The official meaning of the name of the company is 'Yet another hierarchical officious oracle'. Which company is this and who are the founders?

10. The abbreviation for this is DoS and it is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users for a particular time or permanently. This technique is mainly used by hackers. Give the full form of DoS.

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ANSWERS:

1. Subscriber Identity Module

2. CDMA

3. Seagate Technology

4. OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer

5. Company - SanDisk. Founder – Eli Harari

6. TOSHIBA – from TOkyo SHIBAura

7. Bon Moo Koo

8. Orkut.com

9. Company – Yahoo! Founders – Jerry Yang and David Filo

10. Denial-of-Service