INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY QUIZ PACK - 03

Q No.01 :What is the expansion of ‘ YAHOO ’
ANS :Yet Another Heirarchical Officious Oracle
Q No.02 :What is ‘ QWERTYUIOP ’
ANS : It was the first Email message send by Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of Internet based e-mail in the early 1970’s.
Q No.03 :What was the world’s first ARPANET message?
ANS : ‘ lo ’ ( From this word the term ‘Hello’ was emerged. )
Q No.04 :Who devolped JAVA, the programming language?
ANS :James Gosling at Sun Micro Systems.
Q No.05 :Give the expansion of ‘CHAT’
ANS :Conversational Hypertext Across Technology
Q No.06 :Who devoloped C, the programming language
ANS :Dennis Ritchie at A T and T Bell Labs
Q No.07 :Who devoloped C++, the programming language
ANS :Bjarne Stroustrup at A T and T Bell Labs
Q No.08 :Who invented ‘Internet’ ?
ANS :Tim Berner – Lee in 1989
Q No.09 :Who was the first computer programmer in world ?
ANS :Lady Ada Byron Lovlace
Q No.10 :What is the expansion of AMD
ANS :Advanced Micro Devices
Q No.11 :What is ‘VR’?
ANS :Virtual Reality
Q No.12 :Expand ‘HTTP’
ANS :Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
Q No.13 :What is VBR ?
ANS :Variable Bit Rate
Q No.14 :In which year the symbol ‘ @ ’ was used for sending Email ?
ANS : 1972
Q No.15 :Expand DMA
ANS : Direct Memmory Access
Q No.16 :Which corporate invented Floppy disc
ANS :IBM. In 1971.
Q No.17 :Who devoloped PHP ?
ANS : Ramus Lerdorf
Q No.18 :Who is Marc Andreessen ?
ANS :He is the devoloper of Mosaic browser and co-founder of Netscape communications
Q No.19 :What is a Shareware ?
ANS : Shareware is software you may pay for after an initial time period of use.
Q No.20 : There are rules governing the storage and supply of computer-based information.What are these rules called?
ANS : Data Protection Act.
Q No.21 : What does RSI Mean?
ANS : Repetitive Strain Injury.
Q No.22 :What is a freeware ?
ANS : Freeware is copyrighted software given away without charge by the author.
Q No.23 : Which stage in the System Devolopment Life Cycle (SDLC) ensures that the computer system will perform as expected?
ANS : Testing
Q No.24 : Who co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft?
ANS : Sabeer Bhatia
Q No.25 : Amazon’s search engine A9 has a facility called “ Block View ”. What is its use?
ANS : It allows users to virtually walk down the blocks in US cities.
Q No.26 : The French minister for culture and communication Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres wrote this “I do not believe that the only access to our culture is automatic ranking by popularity”. What was he referring to?
ANS : Google
Q No.27 : This company grew ten fold in a matter of ten years to $25 billion and achieved its position of dominance by consistently delivering on what is known as the Moore’s Law. (Gordon Moore, one of the company’s founding members predicted that computers would double in power and halve in price every 18 months).Which is this company?
ANS :Intel
Q No.28 : In 1946 twenty people met in a burned-out department store in Tokyo to form a new company – The Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering Corporation. One of its founders, Masaru Ibuka, wanted to create a product that would be useful to the general public.What is the company known as today?
ANS :SONY Corporation
Q No.29 : Which company uses this slogan: “What Mankind Can Dream, Technology Can Achieve” ?
ANS : Fujitsu
Q No.30 : What is the historic contribution of Linus Torvalds ?
ANS : He was the developer of the kernel for “open source” Linux GNU.