Q No.01 : What term was coined by Don Hoeffler and appeared in 1971 in a magazine called "Electronic news"?
ANS : Silicon Valley
Q No.02 : Who pioneered the Personal Computing and developed the CP/M operating system?
ANS : Gary Kildall
Q No.03 : What connects the Suse, Mandrake, Debian, Caldera and StakeWare?
ANS : Linux OS, All are various linux flavours.
Q No.04 : Tim Patterson developed this legendary product which set the base for easy computing. What was that?
ANS : Disk Operating System. He invented QDOS which later became PC-DOS
Q No.05 : Along with which company did Intel co-invent the "Itanium" Processor?
ANS : Hewlett Packard
Q No.06 : 'Business @ the Speed of Thought' was the book from Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, Bill Gates. Name the person who co-authored the subject?
ANS : Collins Hemingway
Q No.07 : Which legendary computing man's autobiography is titled as the ' Passages from the Life of a Philosopher '?
ANS : Charles Babbage
Q No.08 : Which law states that 'The value of a network is squared each time another peer joins the network ' ?
ANS : Metcalfe Law
Q No.09 : How a virus which attacks or infects specific anti-virus softwares is known?
ANS : Anti-Antivirus Virus
Q No.10 : Federal Bearau of Investigation, better known as FBI, uses a Net-Surveillance system to monitor the systems. Name it?
ANS : Carnivore
Q No.11 : What is known as the art of hiding messages inside other messages so that one can't figure them out?
ANS :Steganography
Q No.12 : Kevin Mitnick entered the Guinness Book of World Records after he hacked most of the America's leading telephone companies' network and was banned from using a computer till January 2003. And later he played a role in a ABC's spy thriller 'Alias'. What role?
ANS : CIA Computer Expert
Q No.13 : Which corporate was founded by Jerry Sanders, John Carey and six others in May 1, 1969 which is initially placed in the living room of Carey and later moved to the backside of a rug cutting company in Santa Clara?
ANS : Advanced Micro Devices, popularly known as AMD
Q No.14 : Barry Collin, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Security and Intelligence at Stanford University, California, coined the term which is very much used in today's computing environment. Name it?
ANS : Cyber Terrorism
Q No.15 : What path-breaking device was founded by Vijay Chandru, Prof Ramesh Hariharan, Prof. Swami Manohar and Prof. V.Vinay?
ANS : SIMPUTER
Q No.16 : Name the Princeton University Statistician who coined the word "Software" and the term 'Bit', an abbreviation of Binary Digit?
ANS : John W. Tukey
Q No.17 : Harvard dropout Bill Gates and Seattle based Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975 and they coined the term 'Microsoft' by combing which two words?
ANS : Microcomputer and Software
Q No.18 : What was born from the 'Operation Somerset' initiated by IBM, Apple and Motorola?
ANS : Power PC
Q No.19 : The processing power of a CPU in a computer is measured in MIPS. What does it stand for?
ANS : Million Instructions Per Second
Q No.20 : Which company develops the mobile chip Crusoe?
ANS : Transmeta Corporation
Q No.21 :With which computer giant is Starbucks planning the `Hear Music Coffeehouse' outlets?
ANS : Hewlett-Packard.
Q No.22 : What common feature in today's e-mails is attributed to Scott Fahlman, a research professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University?
ANS : The textual smiley faces.
Q No.23 : Who is the first to introduce a 400 GB hard drive called Deskstar 7K400?
ANS : Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
Q No.24 : What is `Highwire'?
ANS : It's new software, launched by Corda Technologies, for converting HTML Webpages into files that conform to PDF.
Q No.25 : Name the worm that manifested itself at the beginning of the month and masqueraded as an official Microsoft patch for the MyDoom worm.
ANS : Sober.D.
Q No.26 : Which popular, but now vanishing, iTunes song-swap helper was wriiten by Trinity College sophomore Bill Zeller?
ANS : MyTunes.
Q No.27 : If it's Prescott for Northwood, Dothan is for?
ANS : Bania. Dothan is an improved version of the Pentium M processor.
Q No.28 : Michael Robertson is the CEO of...?
ANS : Lindows.
Q No.29 : In cyber-jargon, what is a `Zombie Computer'?
ANS : It's a computer containing a hidden software program that enables the machine to be controlled remotely.
Q No.30 : Where in California is Siebel headquartered?
ANS : San Mateo.
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