Friday, December 13, 2013

13-12-13

TCS IT Wiz 2013 Chennai Prelims



1.Yahoo has partnered with which company to help Yahoo mail users attach files easily and quickly ?
Ans:Dropbox
2.She is Eesha Khare. What did she do ?
Ans:Invented 20 second mobile charger
3.'Pulse' is a News Reader App acquired by Which tech giant ?
Ans:Linkedin
4.Expand GIF 
Ans:Graphical Interchange Format
5.Identify this person
 Ans:Krishnakumar Natarajan
6.Which company has recently launched the 'Cup of Coffee' campaign to demonstrate to small business owners how easy it is to built websites ?
Ans:Godaddy
7.It was originally released as a powertoy for the Tablet PC in 2002.The program is  a screen-capture tool that comes with Windows.How do we know it?
Ans:Snipping tool
8.Which international organization was founded in 1998 by Steve Linford to track email spammers and spam-related activity, was  in the news because of some serious spam attacks ?
Ans:The Spamhaus Project
9.Which Chinese search engine is developing a prototype digital eyewear similar to Google Glass ?
Ans:Baidu
10.Ricoh Innovations Corporation (RIC), a subsidiary of Ricoh Company Ltd, recently launched a mobile visual search platform which connects users with a variety of digital media by capturing an image. What is it called ?
Ans:Ocutag
11.Identify the logo
Ans:Wechat
12.It is a group of similar binary-to-text encoding schemes that represent binary data in ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-64 representation. What is this called ?
Ans:Base64
13.Gameloft, a Paris based publisher and developer of games has tied up with this channel's digital arm to distribute their mobile games in India. Which one ?
Ans: Disney UTV
14.Identify

Ans:Free Software Foundation
15.Identify(not sure about the image)

Ans:Memes
16.What did he invent ?

Ans:Sumit Dagar created Braille Smartphone
17.A Carnegie Mellon computer professor is credited for creation of this.He thought it would help people on message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from jokes.What did he create ?
Ans:Smiley
18.Identify

Ans:Justdial (Amitabh Bachan is the brand ambassador , the phone no of Justdial)
19.In the context of the World Wide Web, X is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that is stored for later retrieval in any of various storage formats. All modern web browsers include X features. X are called favorites or Internet shortcuts in Internet Explorer, and by virtue of that browser's large market share, these terms have been synonymous with X since the first browser war.
What is X ?
Ans:Bookmark
20.Which global company has partnered with small companies in India to build several technologies
Ans:Yahoo 

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Monday 9 th december 2013

IT Quiz 2

1.He coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson has also been credited as being the first person to use the words transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity, and teledildonics.Who is he ?
Ans:Ted Nelson
2.Identify this person

Ans:Kevin Mitnick
3.X is a series of fighting games created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. The first four renditions and their updates were developed by Midway Games and initially released on arcade machines, and later to home consoles
Ans:Mortal Kombat
4.Identify this OS
Ans:Sailfish
5.What is the full form of QDOS ?
Ans:Quick and Dirty Operating System
6.Identify this person
Ans:Dries Buytaert
7.What is the full form of 'TLS' as in protocol ?
Ans:Transport Layer Security
8.Who is the current CEO of Wipro ?
Ans:T K Kurien
9.Identify this logo
Ans:Wikidata
10.What was first patented in 1949 as “classifying apparatus and methods” and described as“article classification through the medium of identifying patterns”?
Ans:Bar Code

IT Quiz 1

IT Quiz 1

1.Identify this person

Ans:Robert Cailliau
2.Plankalkül  is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by X between 1943 and 1945. It was the first high-level non-von Neumann programming language to be designed for a computer. Name X
Ans:Konrad Zuse
3.Flutter is a gesture recognition technology startup based in San Francisco, California, United States (US). Founded by Navneet Dalal and Mehul Nariyawala, the company received early-stage funding from Y Combinator and was acquired by which company in 2013 ?
Ans:Google
4.Identify this logo
Ans:Wikiversity
5.Expand GFDL ?
Ans:Gnu Free Documentation License
6.First version is Yarrow , Latest version is Schrödinger's Cat , And upcoming version is Heisenbug.What ?
Ans:Fedora
7. Grabbon.com , esportsbuy.com , Shopo.in are all subsidiaries of ?
Ans:Snapdeal
8.Identify this person
Ans:Gurdeep Singh Pall

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Friday, November 29, 2013

TCS IT Wiz 2013 Delhi Prelims

TCS IT Wiz 2013 Delhi Prelims


1.Identify this logo

Ans:Datawind
2.In the context of the World Wide Web, this is a Uniform Resource Identifier(URI) that is stored for later retrieval in any of various storage formats.What?
Ans:Bookmark
3.In the world of e-mail retrieval protocols what dos IMAP stands for ?
Ans:Internet Message Access Protocol
4.Peter Stern was the founder of this company.It is a popular URL shortening and bookmarking service website.It came under some scrutiny due to its connection to Libiya.Name it
Ans:Bit.ly
5.With which media company would you associate this ?

Ans:NDTV
6.Expand PPM (With relation to Printers)
Ans:Pages Per Minute
7.Identify this person [hint: He is the inventor of GIF format]

Ans:Steve Wilhite
8.William Herschel discovered this invisible radiation, which is now used for short range transmission.What is it [some more info was given]
Ans:Infrared
9.With which search engine did rapper Jay Z tie with for the launch of his book "Decoded"?
Ans:Bing
10.Identify this person
Ans:Dick Costolo
11.Plus is an interbank network that covers all _____ credit,debit, and prepaid cards, as well as ATM cards issued by various banks worldwide. Fill in the blank
Ans:VISA
12.Identify this technology
Ans:Augmented reality
13.The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is referred to as the ______ of E and denoted by PR(E). It was named after one of the founders of the company.What ?
Ans:Pagerank
14.With which gaming company would you associate this animal
Ans:Sega(This is the image of Hedgehog)
15.Who has been rated as “India’s most dangerous cricketer” by McAfee?
Ans:Chris Gayle
16.People were calling this problem as CDC (Century Date Change), FADL (Faulty Date Logic). The current name was given by David Eddy. Which problem?
Ans:Year 2000 (Y2K Problem)
17.Sony Pictures has tied up with which company to introduce a mobile game based on the movie 'After Earth' ?
Ans:Reliance
18.Bichitra is a project with all the works and info of which author?
Ans:Rabindranath Tagore
19.Developed by Balendu Sharma Dadhich , X is a Devanagari word processor that complies with the InScript Devanagari Text Input Standard authenticated by the Government of India, the Unicode Consortium and Bureau of Indian Standards. It allows typing text in Indian languages, i.e. Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali and Konkani.What is X ?
Ans:Madyham
20.S-schools is an initiative by which electronics giant for making education better in schools?
Ans:Samsung

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Kerala State IT Quiz 2014

Kerala State Level IT Quiz conducted at Tirur Malappuram 2014

തിരൂരിൽ നടക്കുന്ന സംസ്ഥാന സ്‌കൂൾ ശാസ്‌ത്ര-ഐടി മേളയിൽ Sri VK ആദര്ശ് നടത്തിയ  വിവരസാങ്കേതികവിദ്യ പ്രശ്‌നോത്തരി

വിക്കി സംരംഭങ്ങൾ, കേരള@ഐടി എന്നീ റൗണ്ടുകൾ പുതുതായി ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തിയിരുന്നു.ചിലങ്ക ഫോണ്ടിനെ പറ്റിയുള്ള ചോദ്യം സദസ് ആണ് നന്നായി പ്രതികരിച്ചത്.

Preliminary round-  click here to download

 

HS FINAL Round- click here to download

 

HSS Final Round - click here to download



Click here to download the questions

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

IT Quiz #14

Who wrote the book " Being Digital" ?
 Nicholas Negpronte
The power to do more' . Is the tagline of ?
Dell
Crespo is the codename of which android device?
Nexus from Google
Which company was started as 'Mascot System Ltd' ?
igate
'Keep Moving' is the tagline of ?
BB 10
Who is knows as the Web Master of Google Doodles ?
 Dennis Hwang
The guy who created Skype and Kazaa ?
Nicklaus zennstorm
1.What is the full form of 'IVR'?
Interactive voice response
2.Ethernet was patented by which IT giant company?
Xerox
 3.What was established as "MIRC Electronics" in ?
ONIDA
4.Which is the first Web Browser with GUI?
Mosaic
5.Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger are the developers of what?
 instagram


Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Tech Quiz

Tech Quiz Questions -#1

1.Who wrote the book " Being Digital" ?
 Nicholas Negpronte
2.The power to do more' . Is the tagline of ?
Dell
3.Crespo is the codename of which android device?
Nexus from Google
4.Which company was started as 'Mascot System Ltd' ?
igate
5.'Keep Moving' is the tagline of ?
BB 10
6.Who is knows as the Web Master of Google Doodles ?
 Dennis Hwang
7.The guy who created Skype and Kazaa ?
Nicklaus zennstorm

8.What is the full form of 'IVR'?
Interactive voice response

9.Ethernet was patented by which IT giant company?
Xerox

10..What was established as "MIRC Electronics" in ?
ONIDA

11..Which is the first Web Browser with GUI?
Mosaic

12.Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger are the developers of what?

 instagram


Wednesday, May 29, 2013

IT fest results of Ernakulam district click here

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY QUIZ Questions

1. As of March 2011, world's largest mobile operator with more than 600 million
subscribers?
A: China Mobile

2. "Gesher" was it's first codename, it was released in 9th January 2009 by Intel. On what code name you know it now?
A: Sandy Bridge

3. We often say a processor is manufactured under "32 nm"(nanometer) process. What does 32 nm indicate?
A: It refers to the expected average halfpitch (i.e., half the distance between identical features) of a memory cell at this technology level.

4. What do you mean by Data archaeology?
A: It refers to the art and science of recovering computer data encrypted in now obsolete media or formats.

5. What are Haswell & Broadwell ?
A: These are the codename for a processor microarchitecture to be developed by Intel.

6. Who is in the designation  CEO, Yahoo ( as of 10 September 2011).?
A: Tim Morse

7. Who is known as the father of IBM PC?
A: Don Estridge

8. Name the optical semiconductor that is the core of DLP projecion Technology and was invented by Dr. Larry Hornbeck and Dr. William E Nelson of Texas Instrument in 1987?
A: DMD (Digital Micromirror Device)

9. This term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline used it in an article about the advantages of selfregulating humanmachine systems in outer space. Which is the term?
A: Cyborg

10.This company was started by G.L. Mirchandani and Vijay Mansukhani in 1981 in Mumbai and it is one of India’s leading electronics brand. Identify the company?
A: Onida Electronics



TCS IT Wiz 2011 Lucknow Prelim 2011


1.The current incarnation of this famous website is the result of a March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com.In Oct 2002 became a wholly owned subsidiary of ebay. Which famous website is this?
Ans.Paypal

2.World’s largest producer of guided missiles .Established in 1922 the company reincorporated in 1928 & adopted its present name in 1959. What?
Ans.Ratheon

3.Started as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation....?
Ans.Motorola

4.Identify the person?


Ans.Jack Kilby

5.What was created by John Backus?
Ans.Fortran

6.Verizon Wireless has released a line of smartphones that go by a name which is a trademark of Lucasfilms Ltd. It It was involved in a lawsuit with Google with a very popular OS. Identify this series of smartphones?
Ans.Droid

7.Started as Haloid Photographic company..?
Ans.Xerox

8.Lindon Labs headquartered in California launched in June 2003 . It was developed by Philip Rosedale, as a computer hardware allowing people to immerse in a virtual world. In its earliest form, the company struggled to produce a commercial version of the hardware, known as "The Rig", which was realized in prototype form as a clunky steel contraption with computer monitors worn on shoulders.What is this famous in virtual world?
Ans:Second Life

9.Which is the Mascot of JAVA?
Ans.Duke

10.Identify the person who is the co-inventer of USB?

Ans.Ajay Bhatt

11.The Fujifilm FinePix Real X cameras can take X-dimensional pictures using two lenses, and display them to the naked eye in X format .What is X?.
Ans.3 D

12.Contrived acronym was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford?Carnegie Mellon University attempted to trademark the term, but the trademark application was abandoned on 21 April 2008.Identify the term?
Ans.CAPTCHA

13.Precept software by Judith Estrin and Bill Carrico designed and built and internet video product.Identify?
Ans.IPTV(Internet Protocol TeleVision)

14.Identify the person who is the creator of Computer Mouse?

Ans.Douglas Engelbert

15.Started in 1928, as AT&T's Western Electric division , established a division for the specific purpose of installing and servicing their loudspeakers and electronic products for motion picture use. Called "E.R.P.I." (Electrical Research Products, Inc.), it was purchased as part of a consent decree in 1936 by a group of E.R.P.I. executives, including George Carrington, Sr. and Mike Conrow. They changed the name to "All Technical Service Company". How do we know this company today?

Ans.Altec Lansing

16.Identify the logo?


Ans.Blu Ray

17.What is defined as “Collection of duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier where the original data is inexpensive to fetch “?
Ans.Cache Memory

18.Identify the company?

Ans.Cisco

19.Veronica was based on ?
Ans.Gopher

20.Which technology czar has committeed to put aside well over 10%of his wealth for philanthrophic issues . His foundation’s education venture include SSN educational Institute named after his father and is setting up Seven Vidyagyan schools in UP for rural students?
Ans:Shiv Nadar









 TCS IT WIZ KOCHI PRELIMS 2011

1. In 1999,“The old man and the sea” became the first movie of film in the world to appear in what format?
A.IMAX

2.What stands for the last two “E” in the “IEEE”?
A.Electronic Engeneering

3.In 1992,Bell south and a giant company came out with Simon,the first ever smart phone in the world.Who was the other company?   
A.IBM
4.Identify the person who is the co-founder, present CEO & President of Sandisk Corporation?

                    
                         
A: Sanjay Mehrotra
5.“Go” is handheld game console from whom?
A.Sony
6.Microsoft realised very early that e books on the windows platform would be a big thing.They created a free downloadable software to help you browse through these ebooks on windows based
devices.What is it called from Microsoft?
A.Reader
7.What is full form of PCB as in PCB Boards?
A.Printed Circuit Board
8.Identify the inventor & mathematician?

   A.Blaise Pascal
9.DC Comics was tied up with which electronic giant to create the Super Hero universe for MMO game platforms.Who is its partner? 
A.Sony
10.Which technology giant ran the campaign “Life without walls”?
A.Microsoft Windows
11.Which company came out with the 'Zune' range of media players?
A.Microsoft
12.Which company is making this wrist watch

  A.Nike
13.It was a huge file sharing service, a P2P  which has to to stop services for leaking the song " I disappear" before the official release of the song. Which is the P2P service mentioned?
A: Napster
14.Paneesh Murthy is the chairman of which software company that recently took over Patni computers?
A.iGATE
15.Which was the first restaurant chain to start online services as a trial way back in 1999 at University of California?
A: Pizza hut
16.Identify the logo?

                       
17.It is a device used to forward data packets to the appropriate parts of a computer network. What is the device?
A: Router
18Which Hindi Daily today has partnered with Yahoo India & to promote the content in Hindi for Yahoo India.?
A: Jagran
19.Sony along with which other company develops Internet TV for Google. This company is better known for providing keyboards, mouse etc...?
A: Logitech
 20.Identify this person who is known as the father of logic?

A.George Boole       


Tuesday, January 22, 2013

kerala state school IT Fest 2013

About IT FEST


The State IT Fest is a platform provided by the IT@School Project enabling the students state-wide to showcase their talents in ICT enabled contents, which is part of their curriculum. The event is aimed at developing interest, provide encouragement to the student community for exhibiting independent initiatives and imbue the necessary thrust to embrace IT beyond the curriculum. Students from Government Schools and Government Aided schools compete in various IT based competitions including Digital Painting, Multimedia presentation, Web Designing, Malayalam Tying and IT Quiz during the 2-day event. The IT Fest is conducted in four phases- School level, Educational District level, District level and State level. Winners from the school- level would compete in the Educational district level. The winning teams would proceed to the District level and from there to the final State level meet.

Variety of competitions:

The contestants of the IT Fest get an opportunity to try their expertise on the following IT skills:-
Digital Painting- This one hour contest gives the students an opportunity to showcase their creativity in a digital canvas. Free software applications like Xpaint and Gimp are is used in this competition. The contestants would be given the theme for the competition 10 minutes prior to the start of the contest.
Multimedia Presentation- In this, students gets a chance to prove their skills in developing multimedia presentations using Open Office Impress free software application. The theme would be provided to the participants 10 minutes before the start of the competition. Students would get 1 hour to make their presentations, for which resources such as picture, audio/video clips would be provided to them.
Web Designing- The students would get 1 hour to design a web-page using HTML in this competition, for which resources such as pictures and videos would be provided to them. Similar to other contests, the theme would be provided to the participants 10 minutes before the start of the competition
IT Quiz- In this unique quiz which is based on IT and ICT contents, the teams would go through various rounds comprising of IT topics including IT applications used in day-to day activities, contents from IT textbook, Individuals/ institutions contributing to the growth of IT, etc. From this year onwards, there would be preliminary rounds followed by the Finals.
IT Project- Similar to the multi-media presentation competition, students are required to present an IT Project before a panel of judges. Each student would get 10 minutes for presenting the project followed by 5 minutes of interaction with the judges. The Project should be on any of the IT/ICT related topics in the curriculum or something of social relevance. Three copies of the Project report and the printout of the slides of the presentation needs to be submitted to the Jury in advance.
Malayalam Typing- This competition would test the speed and accuracy of students in Malayalam typing. A customised free software application is used for this exercise, wherein students need to key-in the text given to them in the prescribed column with accuracy and 

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