TCS IT Wiz 2016 Ahmedabad Prelims

TCS IT Wiz 2016 Ahmedabad Prelims

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1.Which wallet service based on Ahmedabad started by Pramod Saxena is the first non-bank wallet approved by RBI ?
Ans:Oxigen Wallet
2.T9 is a typing technique used in old phones.What is the full form of T9 ?
Ans:Text on 9 Keys
3.He is the father of http , identify him

Ans:Ted Nelson
4.X is a South Korean memory semiconductor supplier of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips and flash memory chips.it was founded as Hyundai Electronic Industrial Co., Ltd. in 1983 and known as Hyundai Electronics.What is X ?
Ans:SK Hynix
5.This online store was started as 'Fabmall' by V S Sudhakar. Shahrukh Khan is an endorser.Which store ?
Ans:Bigbasket.com
6.Identify the logo

Ans:Tesla Motors
7.Who made the Amoeba OS [Hint: He is also the creator of Minix]

Ans:Andrew S Tannenbaum
8.This logo is also called the cute logo.It is designed after Homer Simpson and it is also created after the creator and a programming language. Which logo ?
Ans:Tux
9.Which company acquired Jaybird, an Utah based earphones manufacturer ?
Ans:Logitech
10.This is a file extension mainly used in web browsers.It was created by Compuserve in 1983.Which format ?
Ans:GIF Format
11.Which company introduced the 'Pinch to Zoom' feature to smartphones ?
Ans:Apple
12.X is a company which started by Nolan Bushnell and was named after a game called 'Go'.What is X ?
Ans:Atari
13.Which company's name means 'Three Oceans'. Because they want to spread their products across Pacific, Atlantic and Indian ocean?
Ans:Sanyo
14.Identify the company

Ans:Myspace
15.This Google doodle signifies what ?

Ans:This is the Google Doodle in Morse code
16.Who informally launched an initiative called 'Music Foundry' which allows users to upload their own music ?
Ans:Youtube
17.Which term was coined by Ben Hammersly which is a a portmanteau of "iPod" (a brand of media player) and "broadcast."
Ans:Podcast
18.Visicalc is the first form of this software, it was a killer app for the Apple computers.What software was this ?
Ans:Spreadsheet
19.The following is an image of debit card used to handle bitcoins.What are they called ?

Ans:Cryptocurrency
20.Identify him

Ans:Mike Lazaridis (Founder of RIM)

TCS IT Wiz 2016 Ahmedabad Prelims

Hi friends , here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2016 Ahmedabad prelims . We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Maharsh Shah, runner-up of TCS IT Wiz 2016 Ahmedabad Edition


1.Which wallet service based on Ahmedabad started by Pramod Saxena is the first non-bank wallet approved by RBI ?
Ans:Oxigen Wallet
2.T9 is a typing technique used in old phones.What is the full form of T9 ?
Ans:Text on 9 Keys
3.He is the father of http , identify him

Ans:Ted Nelson
4.X is a South Korean memory semiconductor supplier of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips and flash memory chips.it was founded as Hyundai Electronic Industrial Co., Ltd. in 1983 and known as Hyundai Electronics.What is X ?
Ans:SK Hynix
5.This online store was started as 'Fabmall' by V S Sudhakar. Shahrukh Khan is an endorser.Which store ?
Ans:Bigbasket.com
6.Identify the logo

Ans:Tesla Motors
7.Who made the Amoeba OS [Hint: He is also the creator of Minix]

Ans:Andrew S Tannenbaum
8.This logo is also called the cute logo.It is designed after Homer Simpson and it is also created after the creator and a programming language. Which logo ?
Ans:Tux
9.Which company acquired Jaybird, an Utah based earphones manufacturer ?
Ans:Logitech
10.This is a file extension mainly used in web browsers.It was created by Compuserve in 1983.Which format ?
Ans:GIF Format
11.Which company introduced the 'Pinch to Zoom' feature to smartphones ?
Ans:Apple
12.X is a company which started by Nolan Bushnell and was named after a game called 'Go'.What is X ?
Ans:Atari
13.Which company's name means 'Three Oceans'. Because they want to spread their products across Pacific, Atlantic and Indian ocean?
Ans:Sanyo
14.Identify the company

Ans:Myspace
15.This Google doodle signifies what ?

Ans:This is the Google Doodle in Morse code
16.Who informally launched an initiative called 'Music Foundry' which allows users to upload their own music ?
Ans:Youtube
17.Which term was coined by Ben Hammersly which is a a portmanteau of "iPod" (a brand of media player) and "broadcast."
Ans:Podcast
18.Visicalc is the first form of this software, it was a killer app for the Apple computers.What software was this ?
Ans:Spreadsheet
19.The following is an image of debit card used to handle bitcoins.What are they called ?

Ans:Cryptocurrency
20.Identify him

Ans:Mike Lazaridis (Founder of RIM)

IT Quiz Questions 2016

Information Technology Quiz questions and answers 2016


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1. _____ was launched in 1990 by Colin Needham, a British computer programmer. The site originally comprised of four lists detailing actors, actresses, directors and retired actors/actresses. Today, it is one of the biggest websites in its respective field. Which website?                  (ANSWER: IMDb) 

2. This picture (below) is the logo of 'Stop The Cyborgs', a London-based group whose primary aim is to protest against the use of a very particular gadget. Which gadget?                              (ANSWER: Google Glass)
3. A __________ is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. Often, it uses a computer network to spread itself, relying on security failures on the target computer to access it. Unlike a computer virus, it does not need to attach itself to an existing program. What term is being described here?                    (ANSWER: Computer Worm)

4. The mascot of which social-networking/entertainment/news website is an adorable alien called 'Snoo'?                      (ANSWER: Reddit)

5. Which American Pop Singer is the most followed person on Twitter currently with 85.4 Million followers?                                  (Answer: Katy Perry)

6. One of the first computers to offer GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) was the Apple LISA. It was developed in the early 1980s by Apple Computers Inc., and it was aimed at individual business users. What is the significance of the name of this computer?                    (ANSWER: It was named after Steve Jobs' daughter)

7. What is being celebrated in this Google Doodle?    (ANSWER: Google's 17th Birthday)

8. Connect: Maverick, Yosemite, El-Capitan (Exhaustive List)                    (ANSWER: Versions of Mac OS X named after places in California, USA)

9. While small test programs existed since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase __________ as a test message was influenced by an example program in the seminal book 'The C Programming Language'. Since then, this phrase has been used as a test message or as the first programme learnt by a programmer when he/she starts to learn how to code. ID this famous phrase.              (ANSWER: Hello World!)

10. Who or what tweeted this?                      (ANSWER: Mangalyaan (More specifically, its Twitter account))

11. This website gets part of its name from the Hawaiian word for 'fast'. It is one of the largest repositories of data and knowledge in the world. Which website? (ANSWER: Wikipedia)

12. X joined Google in 1999 as the company's 20th employee and it's first female employee. She became well-known in the company due to her attention to detail and was responsible for various projects including Google AdSense and the design of the Google homepage. X is now the CEO of another famous company. ID X.                          (ANSWER: Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!)

13. ____   __________ is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003. What important internet concept are we talking about here?             (ANSWER: Net Neutrality)

14. X is an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company founded in 2002 with the goal of creating technologies that would reduce space transportation costs and enable the colonisation of the planet Mars. It was founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. What is X?    (ANSWER: SpaceX)

15. When Chennai was severely affected by floods in December 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the city and conducted an aerial survey of the city. This photo of him during the survey was released by the Press Information Bureau and was met with great controversy. Why was this photo controversial? (ANSWER: The photo was edited using Adobe Photoshop, that is, the image outside the window was added digitally)

16. Which famous entrepreneur's autobiography is aptly titled 'Things A Little Bird Told Me'?                     (ANSWER: Biz Stone, Co-Founder Of Twitter)

17. Google Apps now sport a very minimalistic and flat UI. This look has been created using the ________ _________ design language by Google. This design language makes more liberal use of grid-based layouts, responsive animations and transitions, padding, and depth effects such as lighting and shadows. Here (below) is an example of this design being used in an app. What is the name of this design language used by google?        (ANSWER: Material Design)                 

18. You may (or may not) have noticed that when most experts, articles and advertisements refer to 4G speeds, they always say '4G LTE'. What is the expansion of 'LTE'?            (ANSWER: Long Term Evolution)

19. As of 2016, the most subscribed user on YouTube is PewDiePie with a documented 43 million subscribers. The owner of this channel is Felix Kjellberg, a Swede. What is the primary objective of this YouTube Channel, that is, what kind of content is shown in its videos?                                                     (ANSWER: This YouTube channel reviews Video Games)

20. Connect the following people [Inexhaustive List]: Jawed Karim (Co-Founder of YouTube), Peter Thiel (Angel Investor; One of the first outside investors in Facebook), Elon Musk (Founder Of Tesla and SpaceX), Reid Hoffman (Founder of LinkedIn), Russell Simmons (Co-Founder Of Yelp!)….                                          (ANSWER: All of them co-founded/worked at PayPal before going on to found their own respective companies)

21. Currently, which is the highest-rated movie on IMDb?   (ANSWER: The Shawshank Redemption)

22. "1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA" is the official address of which tech company? Notice how this is also a clever play on the computing error of the same name.      (ANSWER: Apple, Inc)

23. Identify this app used for live-streaming any event.     (ANSWER: Periscope)

24. It's common knowledge that Android OS versions are named after sweets. OS X versions used to be named after members of the cat family and now are named after places in California. Wordpress, also, has a naming system for its software updates. On what basis are Wordpress versions named?                                       (ANSWER: They are named after Jazz Musicians.)

25. Expand AVI (The video format).           (ANSWER: Audio-Video Interleave)

IT Quiz Questions 2016

IT quiz questions and answers

1.'X'is a research and scientific development company that now belongs
to Nokia. Its headquarters are located in Murray Hill.
X when translated to Malayalam is the name of a Late Film Actor.
Famous developments by Researchers working on X are  transistor, the
laser, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the
operating systems Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and the programming languages
C, C++, and S.
What is X?

Ans: Bell Labs

2.X  is a Japanese multinational telecommunications and Internet
corporation, with operations in broadband, fixed-line
telecommunications, e-commerce, Internet, technology services,
finance, media and marketing, and other businesses established in 1981
and is headquartered in Tokyo.
As at 2015, X was the 62nd largest company in the world.
Subsidiaries of X include Supercell,Sprint Corporation,
- X invested $210 million in OlaCabs
 -X invested $627 million in Snapdeal with 30% stake in the company
-X invested $100 million in Housing.com with 30% stake in the company
What is X?

Ans: SoftBank

3. X is the process of earning a commission by promoting other

people's (or company's) products. You find a product you like, promote
it to others, and earn a piece of the profit for each sale that you
make.
Indian ecommerce companies like Flipkart,amazon,Snapdeal.. has X
program to promoted their sales.
X is a simplest way to make money online.
If you have a blog then you should must know about X.
Moreover cashkaro.com works on principle of X
What is X?

Ans: Affiliate Marketing

4.Leshi Internet Information & Technology, also known as X,is a

Chinese technology company, and one of the largest online video
companies in China. It is headquartered in Chaoyang District, Beijing.
'X' also consists of the film production company called Le Vision Pictures.
We all know X by their  Mobile Phones, and their other products
includes  Leie (Smart hardware), Internet Finance,Wangjiu.com,X
Music,X Sports, Le Auto,X Super TVs,Le Vision Pictures (LeVP), Flower
Film & TV, X Cloud Computing, LeMall
What is X?

LeTV

5.. X is a is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer,.
He is a fellow of Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and
development organisation in Rakuten Inc. He was appointed to the role
of technical advisor for VASILY, Inc. starting in June 2014.
Well known as the founder of a programming language.
Who is X?

Ans:Yukhihito Matsumoto

6.Which company owns the brand digiflip with products including tablets,
USBs, and laptop bags?

Ans: Flipkart

7.“If you are from any country in the world with a computer science
degree, you are imminently employable.”
Who made this statement  recently.?

Ans: Max Levchin

8. Id the logo

Ans: Jugnoo

9.This language was created by  Brad Cox and Tom Love.

It is the main programming language used by Apple for the OS X and iOS
operating systems.
Which language I am talking about?

Ans: Objective C

10. Ritesh started his entrepreneurial journey when he was 17 years old.
He dropped out of college and launched his first start‐up Oravel Stays
Pvt. Ltd which was designed as a platform to enable listing and
booking of budget and premium accommodations. He soon realized that
the budget hospitality sector lacked predictability.
Ritesh's story has been widely covered by the Indian media.He has won
Business World Young Entrepreneur Award and the TiE-Lumis
Entrepreneurial Excellence Award. More recently, he was named by
Forbes in its "30 Under 30" list in the consumer tech sector.
It  is now India’s largest budget hotel chain
How do we better know his startup today?

Ans: OYO Rooms

11. Weekend Hashtag Project,Throwback Thursday and selfies are the
popular trends on?

Ans: Instagram

12.UL Cyber Park is an ambitious project of ULCCS Ltd, by creating an
IT/ITES SEZ Park with a total built-up area of 2.7 million sq ft @
Kozhikode.
Unlike the state-backed IT parks in capital Thiruvananthapuram and
Kochi, the cyber park in Kozhikode is sponsored by a daily labourers'
co-operative society-
What does UL stands for?

Ans: Uralungal Labour

13.Who is the president of New Development Bank or BRICS bank?

Ans: KV Kamath

14..Ittiam Systems is a venture capital funded global technology
company founded by ex-Managing Director of Texas Instruments' India
Srini Rajam in 2001, It develops  Digital Signal Processing Systems.It
is headquartered in Bangalore, India
How does the company got its name?

Ans: I think therefore I am

15.Which courier company has launched a parcel locker service for
customers for their online orders.You can open them with a one-time
password delivered on your phone after you key in the airway bill
number.

Ans: Bluedart

16.Cypherpunks is a book written by whom?

Ans: Julian Assange

17.This company is owned by Dubai government.
Founded on March 19, 2008.
But this year the Birthday was a Black day.
Which company?

Ans: FlyDubai

18.Everyone finally got to hit send on the fire tweets they had saved in Drafts.
It has become the most-tweeted about moment in Academy Awards history
with 440,000 posts per minute,
Everyone told Well deserved!!! and made trolls,memes and celebrated his victory.
What was the event for this subsequent tweet storm?

Ans: leonardo dicaprio won oscar