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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