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. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 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
IT Quiz – Set 9
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0 commentsQUESTIONS: 1. What is the ebook reader which is an embedded system for reading electronic books, launched by Amazon called? 2. This group's original and technical name is "ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee, Subcommittee 29, Working Group 1". What is this group well known today? 3. This was adopted at Geneva in 1952 and was developed by the UNESCO (United Nations Educational Social and Cultural Organisation) as an alternative to the Berne Convention for those states which disagreed with some aspects of the Berne Convention , but still wished to participate in some form of multilateral copyright protection. What is being referred to?' 4. This company was founded in 1988 by Peter Shu and has its headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan. This became the first memory module manufacturer in Taiwan and the second in the world to receive the ISO 9001 certification. Its tagline is "Exceeding your Expectations". Which famous company is this? 5. What was formerly known as BTVL (Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited) ? 6. Who is the present CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.? 7. The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administration (CEPT) created the Groupe Special Mobile in 1982 to develop a standard for the mobile phone system to be used across Europe. The first network was launched in 1991 by Radiolinja in Finland. What is being referred to? 8. The IEEE is incorporated in the state of New York in United States. It was formed in 1963 by the merger of Institute of Radio Engineers and American Institute of Electrical Engineers. What does IEEE stand for? 9. This company was founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page description language. InDesign is one of its famous products. Which company is being referred to? 10. ".ttf" is the file format for what? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ANSWERS: 1. Amazon Kindle 2. Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) 3. Universal Copyright Convention (UCC) 4. Transcend Information Inc. 5. Bharti Airtel (Airtel) 6. Derrick Meyer (Advanced Micro Devices – AMD) 7. GSM – Global System for Mobile communications 8. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 9. Adobe Systems 10. TrueType Fonts
IT Quiz – Set 7
0 commentsQUESTIONS: 1. This was first released by Justin Frankel and is written by a company which is now a subsidiary of Time Warner. It was a popular and a early example of application skinning. It has many number of "Easter Eggs", i.e hidden features that are accessible via undocumented options. What is being referred to? 2. Who is the creator of the Linux kernel and what is its official mascot? 3. This is a Unix-like operating system intended for academic use and was first released by Andrew.S.Tanenbaum in 1987. Later, the Linux Kernel evolved from this. Which is this operating system? 4. What is the full form of JVC, the international consumer and electronics corporation? 5. What is the maximum capacity of a DVD-18 disc with DS and DL (double side and double layer)? 6. This company was founded in 1984 as a subsidiary of Acer Inc. It was renamed to its present name in 2001 and completely separated from Acer in 2006. Their corporate vision is : Bringing enjoyment and quality to life. Which is this famous company? 7. This website is an American internet company founded in San Jose, California on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian computer programmer Pierre Omidyar. PayPal, Skype, StubHub and Kijiji are owned by the same company as this. Name the website. (The company name and website name is same). 8. 'Modulator demodulator' is popularly known as what? 9. This company was founded by Cecil. H. Green, J. Erik Jonsson, Euguene McDermott and Patrick Haggerty in 1951. This company is renowned for developing and commercializing semiconductor and computer technology. It is the top supplier of chips for cellular handsets. It is listed as TXN under NYSE. What is the company's initial name? 10. This company was founded in 1896 as Tabulating Machine Company and was incorporated as Computing Tabulating Recording Coporation (CTR) on June 16, 1911. This company's employees have got 3 Nobel Prizes, 4 Turing Awards, 5 National Medals of Technology, and 5 National Medals of Science. Give the name of its founder. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ANSWERS: 1. Winamp Media Player 2. Creator is Linus Torvalds, mascot is the Tux. 3. MINIX 4. Victor Company of Japan 5. 17.08 GB. These DVD's are very rare compared to the popular DVD-5 6. BenQ 7. eBay.com owned by eBay Inc 8. MODEM 9. General Instruments. The company is Texas Instruments 10. Herman Hollerith. The company is IBM.
IT Quiz – Set 6
0 commentsQUESTIONS: 1. Which technical word was first published in 1965 by Frederic C Billingsley of JPL to describe the picture elements of video images from space probes to the moon and the mars? 2. Which document was originally written by Richard Stallman which is the most popular and well known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft? 3. The founder of this organization is Tim-Berners-Lee. This is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Name the organization. 4. What does UTF stand for in the UTF-8 encoding for text? 5. This was built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, at a cost of US $ 133m. This has a performance of 1.7 petaflops and has been ranked to be the world's first Top500 Linpack sustained. What is being referred to? (Specifically). 6. This company was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. They first considered naming their company as "TTK", "Totsuko" and "Tokyo Teletech" but ended up with some other name. This company's present CEO is Howard Stringer. Which company? 7. This corporation was created in 1998 to oversee internet related tasks which was previously performed directly on behalf of the US Government by other organizations, one being the IANA ( Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). Which corporation is being referred to? 8. The INRegistry was setup by NIXI, and the former InterNIC of USA was its counterpart. What does NIXI stand for, in the field of Internet related companies? 9. This programming language was conceived in the 1980s by Guido van Rossum at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC Programming language. This programming language is mainly used in web scripting and information security industries. Which programming language? 10. Who is considered by many to be the 'father' of transistors? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ANSWERS: 1. Pixel (Picture Element) 2. The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) 3. W3C – World Wide Web Consortium 4. Unicode Transformation Format 5. Roadrunner – IBM's supercomputer 6. Sony Corporation 7. ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers 8. National Internet Exchange of India 9. Python Programming Language 10. William Shockley
IT Quiz – Set 5
0 commentsQUESTIONS: 1. What product was released by Sony in December 2003, which is a digital video recorder and DVD burner in addition to playing PS2 games? 2. Vinnie Chieco was called by the company to figure out how to introduce their product into the market. When Chieco saw the prototype of the product, he thought of the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" and a phrase from it. This product has been the trend since the recent years. What is the product? 3. What product by a reputed company has the slogan "Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play" and is manufactured by Pegatron Technology? 4. This technology was named after a 10th century king Harald. The logo of this technology merges the Germanic runes analogous to the modern Latin letters H (Hagall) and B (Berkanan). What technology is being referred to? 5. This person is believed to be the inventor of email and the person who popularized the '@' sign for the emails. Which person is being referred to? 6. This was created by a core group of companies consisting of Intel, Compaq, Microsoft, Digital, IBM and Northern Telecom. The original Apple "Bondi Blue" iMac G3 was the first computer to offer this. What was the creation? 7. What does RSS stand for? 8. This Indian company was started off with a sum of INR 10,000, and N.S.Raghavan was officially the first employee of the company. It has been rated as the 'Best Employer in India', and is the only Indian company to win the Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises. Which famous MNC company is this? 9. What is New Technology File System better known as? 10. This company was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York, as "The Haloid Company" which originally manufactured photographic paper and equipment, though its currently well known for something else. Which famous company is being referred to? _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ANSWERS: 1. Sony PSX 2. Apple iPod 3. Asus EEE PC 4. Bluetooth (named after Harald Bluetooth) 5. Ray Tomlinson 6. Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports 7. Really Simple Syndication 8. Infosys Technologies Limited 9. NTFS 10. Xerox Corporation
IT Quiz – Set 4
0 commentsQUESTIONS: 1. What does EULA stand for ? 2. What project was codenamed as "Whistler"? 3. This company was founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore who were widely associated with Andrew Grove. With its current CEO as Paul Otellini, and a pioneer in computing, which company is this? 4. This company has become a major supplier of Integrated Circuits, Graphics Processing Units and video-game consoles. Its name suggests "envy", and its CEO is Jen-Hsun Huang. Which company? 5. The MAC OS X is based on the Mach Kernel and was originally derived from what? 6. What products were introduced in the 1960's and were primarily designed by Seymour Cray at the Control Data Corporation? 7. What is "Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format" better known as? 8. What does VAIO stand for in Sony VAIO laptops? 9. Which Indian writer presented the first known description of a binary numeral system? 10. What was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ANSWERS: 1. End-User License Agreement 2. Windows XP development 3. INTEL Corp. (INTegrated ELectronics) 4. NVIDIA 5. BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) 6. Supercomputers 7. S/PDIF (which is used to carry digital audio signals between devices and stereo components) 8. Video Audio Integrated Operation 9. Pingala 10. C programming language
IT Quiz – Set 3
0 commentsQUESTIONS: 1. Trek Technology and IBM started selling this product commercially in 2000. This product was marketed by IBM in N.America with its product "DiskOnKey". Which product is it? 2. A Swedish website which is "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker" and ranked as the 120th most popular website by Alexa Internet, which is this website? 3. Which company has HP merged with recently? 4. In computer display standards, what does SVGA standard for? 5. This company is a part of NASDAQ 100 and Fortune 500 companies of 2008. Enlisted as SYMC in NASDAQ, this company is one of the 10 largest companies of the world and Gary Hendrix is its founder. Which is this famous company? 6. The famous Ctrl + Alt + Del key combination was first implemented by whom? 7. What is "Redundant array of inexpensive disks" better known as? 8. The 'Chernobyl' or 'Spacefiller' virus was written by Chen Ing Hau, and believed to be one of the most dangerous virus. What is this virus better known as? 9. This term was coined by Luis Von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas.J.Hopper and John Langford in 2000. The term means "completely automated public turing test to tell computers and humans apart". What is the term? 10. Which virus, believed to be one of the first viruses and the first to be detected on the ARPANET, displayed a message "I M THE ________ : CATCH ME IF YOU CAN" ? _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ ANSWERS: 1. USB Drives (Pen drives/Thumb drives) 2. The Pirate Bay 3. Compaq 4. Super Video Graphics Array 5. Symantec 6. David Bradley 7. RAID 8. CIH (after the name of the writer) 9. CAPTCHA 10. The Creeper
IT Quiz – Set 2
0 commentsQUESTIONS: 1. What does WAP stand for? 2. This term was coined by a business consulting firm called Interbrand Corporation in August 1999. It was hired by Alliance to coin a name that was catchy than "IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence". Which was the term which was coined? 3. A film is being developed by Sony Pictures and the The West Wing creator, Aaron Sorkin about the founder of this social networking site, who is Mark Zuckerberg. Which is the networking site? 4. Who was named as Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Businessman of 2007? 5. "iWoz" and "Wonderful Wizard of Woz" are his nicknames in the field of computers. Which famous person are we talking about? 6. This person founded a company called "BGC3". He is also the author of the book "Business @ The speed of thought". Who is this very famous person in the field of technology? 7. This project was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in January 2001, and evolved into its current state from Nupedia. What are we talking about? 8. 'Longhorn' was the codename for which operating system? 9. This company's camera lenses were popularized by the American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan's use at the time of Korean War. Registered under "Kabushiki-gaisha" under Japanese law, which company is it? 10. This company has its headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois, US and has Sanjay Jha as its Co-CEO. Previously known as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, which is the company? ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ANSWERS: 1. Wireless Access Point 2. Wi-Fi 3. Facebook 4. Steve Jobs 5. Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple Inc.) 6. Bill Gates 7. Wikipedia 8. Windows Vista 9. Nikon 10. Motorola
IT Quiz - Set 1
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QUESTIONS :
1. Which company is the America’s largest online retailer?
7. Which famous object-oriented programming language was named after an island which is the 13th largest island in the world and the 5th largest in Indonesia?
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ANSWERS:
1. Amazon.com
