IT quiz questions

IT quiz questions
1. Which cyber-giant recently bought Palm, the PDA and smartphone pioneer, and for how much?
2. Who/what was referred to as ‘Appholes' by newscaster Jon Stewart in his popular Comedy Central show recently?
3. Kevin Lynch is the CTO of…?
4. Expand WHATWG, the community involved in the development of HTML5.
5. Who leads Greenpeace's latest annual ‘Cool IT Leaderboard', the environmental agency's ranking of computing vendors' activity on climate change?
6. Engineers at which pioneering tech company recently used atoms to create a 3D map of the globe? 10
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7. The now defunct Microsoft's awards program where chosen members were given the benefit of new Windows Live products/software to test before the beta releases was called…?
8. Which Oscar-winning director is helping NASA develop a high-resolution 3D camera for Curiosity, the next Mars rover?
9. Name the Indian VC, founder of Sustainable Innovations, who has won the prestigious $1,00,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability for his ‘Aakash Ganga' rain-harvesting system and ‘Arogya Ghar' health clinic for mass care.
10. In its latest report, covering the first quarter of 2010 by security vendor Sophos, which two Asian countries are in the leading quartet which accounted for more than 30 per cent of spam relayed by hacked computers worldwide?
Answers
1. Hewlett-Packard for $1.2 billion.
2. Apple after its decision to take on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen for the lost iPhone prototype incident.
3. Adobe
4. Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
5. Cisco
6. IBM
7. Windows Live Butterfly programme.
8. James Cameron.
9. B.P. Agarwal.
10. India (No. 2) and South Korea, along with the US (No.1) and Brazil.
Questions
1. The office of which technology weblog about consumer electronics was searched because it came in possession of what it believed to be a 4th generation iPhone prototype?
2. In which Indian city did game developer Zynga open the company's first office outside the US?
3. Which was the first major computer maker to eliminate the floppy completely, way back in 1998?
4. Android's next iteration is called….?
5. Which recent hit blockbuster recently became the best selling Blu-ray of all time after just four days in stores?
6. ‘Vail' is the Microsoft codename for….?
7. What was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus, Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler?
8. Which online legend launched ‘Civil Beat', a new online site where people can read and discuss local news, in Hawaii (for now) recently?
9. What did Guinness World Records confirm recently as the most successful entertainment launch of all time?
10. Which two entities have teamed up to launch an online document-sharing service called ‘Docs.com'?
Answers
1. Gizmodo
2. Bangalore
3. Apple
4. Froyo
5. Avatar
6. Its next version of Windows Home Server.
7. Zynga
8. eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
9. The game ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'.
10. Facebook and Microsoft.
Questions
1. After whom is the international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science named?
2. What is so special about www.insure.com?
3. In the context of our country and Yahoo!, why is June 29, 2000 an important date?
4. Name the longtime Digg CEO who is stepping down.
5. According to research by professors at the La Sapienza in Rome, the formula for what can be represented as “estimate of time (log v/phi X log squared 1/phi)” where 'v' stands for number of vertices of communication and 'phi' stands for conductance.
6. Name the creator of the Altair 8800 computer, which helped inspire Bill Gates and Paul Allen to start Microsoft. He died recently.
7. What is common to GMail, Yahoo Sideline and Scribd's ‘Paper to iPaper' as regards their introduction?
8. If Ubuntu 10.04 was ‘Lucid Lynx', what has 10.10 been dubbed as?
9. What is the codename for the planned smartphone by Microsoft and Verizon to compete with the Apple iPhone?
10. What happened to GMail on April 1 @ 6:01 am Pacific Time?
Answers
1. Ada Lovelace. It was observed on March 24.
2. It is considered the most expensive domain name having been reportedly sold to QuinStreet for $16 million in 2009.
3. Yahoo! India was launched.
4. Jay Adelson.
5. How celebrity gossip spreads on the Internet!
6. Ed Roberts.
7. They were launched on April 1.
8. ‘Maverick Meerkat'.
9. Pink
10. There was a ‘vowel outage' and only consonants were displayed. It was an April Fool's Day prank
Questions:
1. On March 15, the silver jubilee of the first .com web domain name was celebrated. What was it? 2. Name the entertainer whose music videos have cumulatively carried her beyond the 1 billion online-views threshold, a first for a crooner.
3. If Apple can use the name iPhone for its smartphone, for what can Cisco use the same name?
4. In a big leap forward, how many cores will the AMD Opteron 6100 series processors soon have?
5. According to recent deposition by its CEO Eric Schmidt, how much premium did Google pay for YouTube?
6. According to the International Telecommunication Union, what is defined as “transmission capacity that is faster than primary rate Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) at 1.5 or 2.0 Megabits per second (Mbits)”?
7. What is the claim to fame of the Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz also called the ‘Jaguar'?
8. Which Indian State is ‘numero uno' as regards the telephone subscriber base data?
9. With whom has Google teamed up to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes called Google TV?
10. Which very popular, free web-based, collaborative, multilingual project is readying for its first major UI overhaul by adopting a new theme called ‘Vector'?
Answers
1. symbolics.com.
2. Lady Gaga.
3. Its VoIP phone.
4. 12 and 8 cores.
5. $ 1 billion
6. Broadband
7. It is the fastest Supercomputer in existence.
8. Maharashtra
9. Intel and Sony.
10. Wikipedia
Questions
1. What is ‘RE<C'?
2. Name the Twitter style version of Wikipedia that gives definitions in under ten words with a touch of humour. For example, Google is ‘The Centre of the Internet. They can find you anything'.
3. In Net lingo, who or what are ‘MUD flaps'?
4. Which cyber major sponsors ‘Project Looking Glass', a free software project under the GPL to create an innovative 3D desktop environment for Linux, Solaris, and Windows?
5. Whose first venture into the PC-manufacturing business is the Booklet 3G netbook?
6. Jay Adelson is the CEO of which popular headline aggregation system? 13
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7. Who makes the PlaySport Video Camera, capable of shooting full 1080p HD even underwater?
8. Haitian Creole was the latest to be added to this Google offering of which there were 51 before. What is it?
9. Which Nobel Laureate started tweeting from late February after meeting President Obama and on a suggestion by Twitter founder Evan Williams?
10. On which day in March is ‘World Day Against Cyber Censorship' observed?
Answers
1. Google.org's project to produce renewable energy at a profit from wind and solar sources, particularly solar thermal energy.
2. Ten Word Wiki.
3. The extra flab that accumulates due to playing online multi-user dungeons (MUDs) for extended periods of time without much physical activity.
4. Sun Microsystems.
5. Nokia
6. Digg
7. Kodak
8. Languages in Google Translate.
9. The Dalai Lama.
10. March 12.
Questions
1. What is Sony PlayStation's recently unveiled motion-sensitive controller called?
2. For what reason was the Apple COO Tim Cook rewarded with a one-time $5-million bonus recently?
3. What is the ‘Streak'?
4. If it is iTunes for Apple, for whom is it Qriocity (pronounced "curiosity")?
5. Streaming-video service Vudu will soon be a service of the world's largest retailer. Name the latter.
6. ‘Let's Do Amazing' is the new tagline of…?
7. Which ‘cult' band recently won a court battle against EMI that may force the latter to stop selling the band's individual songs as downloads?
8. Dr. Hank Chien, a 35-year-old plastic surgeon from New York, has set a new record high score of 1,061,700 in playing which iconic game?
9. Which online poster-boy has become the world's youngest billionaire, as per Forbes magazine's recent list, with a fortune of $4 billion?
10. Which spaceman sold Thawte Consulting to VeriSign for $575 million in 2000?
Answers
1. Move
2. As a ‘reward' for taking over while Steve Jobs was on medical leave from January to June 2009.
3. Dell's forthcoming touch-screen tablet.
4. Sony. It is its new digital download service.
5. Wal-Mart
6. Hewlett-Packard.
7. Pink Floyd.
8. Donkey Kong.
9. Mark Zuckerberg.
10. Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu fame.
Questions
1. Recently the mayor Bill Bunten of the capital city of Kansas decided that the city should ‘be known for the month of March as “Google, Kansas, the capital city of fibre optics.” Name the city.
2. Name the three Indian companies in Nasdaq's list of international companies.
3. Name the Indian who is the new SVP of Yahoo! Search Products.
4. The first twitter-only mobile device is called…?
5. According to a report from the International Telecommunications Union, what percentage of people on Earth were cell-phone subscribers as of end 2009?
6. Who makes the UX-3 Personal Mobility Device?
7. Which online giant runs the ‘Purple Acts of Kindness' monthly programme that offers unexpected generous acts to better the community?
8. Which semiconductor design and manufacturing company was founded by T.J. Rodgers?
9. Who has launched a new app called ‘Gesture Search'?
10. According to a recent Fortune magazine ranking for most admired companies, which company leads, according to its peers, in the computer software category?
Answers
1. Topeka
2. Infosys Technologies, Rediff.com India and Sify Technologies.
3. Shashi Seth.
4. TwitterPeek.
5. 67 per cent (about 4.6 billion subscribers).
6. Honda
7. Yahoo!
8. Cypress Semiconductor.
9. Google for its Android phones. It lets the users search with finger-drawn letters.
10. Adobe Systems.

IT QUIZ part-2

Questions
1. ‘You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies' is the tagline for….?
2. If Honda has ASIMO, then what does Hitachi have?
3. Microsoft's Project Natal, the motion-based control system for the Xbox 360 video game console, has been rechristened as…?
4. Expand CFML.
5. 3,085 tweets of a big sporting result on June 17 saw the highest rate of tweets per second that Twitter has ever seen. What result?
6. Which game-maker is to bring out a video game based on the life and performances of Michael Jackson?
7. Microsoft's new OS for rugged handhelds used by package handlers, shop floor workers, etc, is called..?
8. Name the two majors who have agreed to merge their mobile phone divisions with the hope of hope of becoming ‘the number one provider of mobile phones in Japan'.
9. The online jargon PNATTMBTC (Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain) is a reference to which classic film?
10. Which IBM supercomputer is scheduled to take on contestants in the popular quiz show ‘Jeopardy!'?
Answers
1. ‘The Social Network', the upcoming flick about the origins of Facebook.
2. Emiew
3. Kinect
4. Cold Fusion Markup Language.
5. LA Lakers retaining the NBA crown.
6. Ubisoft
7. Windows Embedded Handheld.
8. Toshiba and Fujitsu.
9. The Wizard of Oz.
10. IBM Watson.
Questions
1. One for the FIFA World Cup. What happens when one types ‘World Cup' into Google Search?
2. What did Google end just 14 hours into a 24-hour experiment with its home page recently?
3. What does AIR stand for in Adobe AIR?
4. How did ‘Caffeine' make news recently?
5. The iPhone OS has been officially rechristened as…?
6. What was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang, and Edouard Bugnion in 1998?
7. Jaguar, Nebulae and Roadrunner are the top three in the world in which category?
8. Which global superstar is playing the role of Yahoo's brand ambassador at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa?
9. What is ‘binary blob' in free software community lingo? 6
10. The optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on the PSP is called…?.
Answers
1. The header at the bottom changes to ‘Goooooooal' from the usual ‘Goooooogle'.
2. Background imagery.
3. Adobe Integrated Runtime.
4. It is Google's new Web indexing system that provides 50 per cent fresher results for Web searches than its last index.
5. iOS
6. VMware
7. Supercomputers.
8. David Beckham.
9. According to Wikipedia, it is a ‘term for an object file loaded into the kernel of a free or open source operating system without publicly available source code.'
10. Universal Media Disc (UMD).
Questions
1. Name the program that offered users cash back on purchases made through Microsoft's search engine, on which the software giant is pulling the plug by end of July.
2. Which telecom giant has come up with a phone charger that powers up from the pedalling motion of a bicycle's rider?
3. Which now-retired legend is to grace the next cover of Take-Two's NBA 2K series of basketball sims?
4. Who owns the H.264 codec?
5. Name the former chief architect who has become the chief technology officer of Yahoo!
6. Which company has the screen technology called Mirasol used in e-readers?
7. Which manufacturer of hand-held devices has the tagline ‘quietly brilliant'?
8. Dell's soon-to-be launched Android-powered smartphone with a five-inch screen is called…?
9. Name the new music subscription service that is being unveiled by Skype and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.
10. Name the company behind Roxio that is to buy codec company DivX in a $300-million deal.
Answers
1. Bing Cashback.
2. Nokia.
3. Michael Jordan.
4. MPEG LA consortium of 26 companies.
5. Raymie Stata.
6. Qualcomm.
7. HTC Corporation.
8. Streak.
9. Rdio.
10. Sonic.
Questions
1. What is ‘Lanikai'?
2. Which is the smartphone in the world to provide 5-band 3G support?
3. Mark Gasson, senior research fellow in the UK, has become the first human to do what with the intention of demonstrating how sophisticated medical implants will become vulnerable?
4. A ‘privacy protecting derivative of each user's IP address built into a 9-block image and displayed next the user's name' is the definition for…?
5.On which product — once ubiquitous in most computers, and which Sony pioneered in 1981 — is Sony planning to pull the plug on in March 2011 because of dwindling sales?
6. If 404 is error message for ‘Not Found' what is it for ‘Found'?
7. According to John Doerr, the famous partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which companies are the “four great horsemen of the Internet”?
8. On May 26, what did Apple achieve vis-à-vis Microsoft?
9. Name the Austrian-born American actress known for co-inventing an early technique for spread spectrum communications?
10. What is ‘Wirth's Law' named after the famous Swiss scientist who invented Pascal?
Answers
1. The codename for the latest version of Mozilla email client Thunderbird 3.1 Release Candidate 1.
2. Nokia N8.
3. Inserted into his hand an ‘infected' chip containing a computer virus.
4. Identicon.
5. The 3.5-inch floppy disk.
6. 302.
7. Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple.
8. It passed Microsoft in terms of market capitalisation, with a value of roughly $222 billion, about $3 billion ahead of Microsoft.
9. Hedy Lamarr.
10. ‘Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster'.
Questions
1. On May 21, Google celebrated the 30th anniversary of a popular game with a doodle. In what way was the doodle special?
2. What new innovation has the tagline ‘TV meets web. Web meets TV’?
3. In the world of gaming, what is common to Tanooki Suit, Fire Flower and Kuribo’s Shoe, amongst other similar things?
4. If it is App Store for Apple and Android Market for Google, what would it be for Chrome?
5. What is ‘Sodaville’ the codename for?
6. ‘Project Nike’ is a deal between which online pioneer and telecom giant?
7. Mozilla is to re-brand Weave as…?
8. How did Cantarell, Vollkorn, Tangerine and 15 others make news recently?
9. Jerry Quindlen is the CEO of…?
10. Apple’s photo editing and management software program developed for its OS is called…?
Answers
1. It was a playable doodle of a Pac-Man game!
2. Google TV.
3. They all are Mario Power-Ups.
4. Web Store.
5. Intel’s Atom CE4100 chip that will power the Google TV.
6. Yahoo and Nokia.
7. Firefox Sync.
8. They are Google’s freely usable fonts for the web.
9. Logitech.
10. Aperture.
Questions
1. What is ‘Bhuvan'?
2. According to the seventh annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study, how much did piracy cost the software industry in 2009: $31, 41 or 51 billion?
3. Who is the ‘Chief Lizard Wrangler' at the Mozilla Corporation?
4. Under what name was Thunderbird originally launched?
5. What is going to replace the current low-end home productivity software Microsoft Works?
6. ‘Be Like the Web' is to be the theme of which invitation-only event happening in July at Whistler, Canada?
7. The live worldwide version of Monopoly, using Google Maps as the game board and created by Google and Hasbro, was called..?
8. What is SAP to buy in an all-cash deal valued at about $5.8 billion?
9. What does the texting acronym COBRAS stand for?
10. Which video-offering Web site's name comes from the Mandarin Chinese words meaning ‘bottle gourd' and ‘interactive recording'?
Answers
1. It is the satellite mapping tool, similar to Google Earth, developed by ISRO.
2. $51 billion.
3. Its chairman Mitchell Baker.
4. Minotaur
5. Office Starter 2010.
6. 2010 Mozilla Summit.
7. Monopoly City Streets.
8. Sybase.
9. Come On By Right After School.
10. Hulu.

Questions
1. Satoru Iwata is the CEO of…?
2. What is Windows Intune?
3. Which famous studio has launched the ‘DVD2Blu' program which offers customers an opportunity to send in a DVD copy of a movie and receive back from the studio a Blu-ray version?
4. What is ‘Gianduia'?
5. If Google dubs its tracks-free way to browse ‘Incognito', how does Microsoft refer to it?
6. Google is to open an online e-books store soon. What is it to be called?
7. Which current rage, before its launch, was referred to in some publishing circles as “the Jesus tablet”?
8. Which famous American made this observation recently: “With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations...information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation."
9. Name the only Asian country among the nine chosen by Apple for the iPad to debut on May 28?
10. What is Intel's series of the recently launched chip for smartphones and tablets called?
Answers
1. Nintendo
2. It is Microsoft's cloud-based Windows management and security platform aimed primarily at small and medium businesses.
3. Warner Bros.
4. Apple's technology, being developed, according to Apple watchers, as a Flash alternative.
5. InPrivate
6. Google Editions.
7. iPad
8. The US President, Barack Obama.
9. Japan
10. Atom Z6.

IT QUIZ QUESTIONS

 IT QUIZ QUESTIONS



1. Thanks to 35 CPU-years of idle computer time from which tech giant have a team of researchers shown that when solving a Rubik's Cube, no position requires more than 20 moves?
2. Frash has been creating a buzz for some time among iPhone and iPad enthusiasts. What is it?
3. What historic ruling did the US Copyright Office give on July 26 as regards manufacturer's protection mechanisms?
4. Which two manufacturers supply the NAND flash RAM chips for the iPad?
5. Name the rendering engines used in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
6. According to the Gartner figures for worldwide mobile device sales for the second quarter of 2010, name the three makers with more than 10 per cent share.
7. Name the content focussed start-up with a beverage-sounding name, founded by a former Google AdSense exec Gokul Rajaram, which has been snapped up by FaceBook for $10 million.
8. What is Asus' upcoming tablet called?
9. Ivan Seidenberg is the CEO of…?
10. What is ‘Muro' unveiled recently?
Answers
1. Google, of course!
2. It's a new third-party tool that for jailbroken devices that adds Flash compatibility.
3. It said that jailbreaking any mobile device did violate federal copyright law.
4. Toshiba and Samsung.
5. Gecko and Trident.
6. Nokia, Samsung and LG.
7. Chai Labs.
8. Eee Pad.
9. Verizon.
10. It's a free, HTML5-based Web drawing tool from DeviantArt, the popular social network for artists.
Questions
1. Name the conference held recently at Lake Tahoe in California, and addressed by people such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, that branded itself as “a new way to look at the economic power of innovation”?
2. ‘Menlo' is the codename for…? 1
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3. The head of which cyber-giant resigned recently following accusations of sexual harassment by a former marketing contractor to the company?
4. Charles Phillips is the President of…?
5. What is ‘Blackpad' that is expected to debut before the end of 2010?
6. Name the Japanese imaging major who is to introduce a mouse-calculator called ‘X Mark I Mouse'?
7. Who sold off social network Bebo, chat client ICQ and an investment in travel search site Kayak in the past quarter?
8. Name the site founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin that makes widgets that help people express themselves, bought by Google recently for $182 million.
9. Name Microsoft Live Labs' Web optimised visualisation technology that had its genesis under the name Sand Codex.
10. Name the Web site where one can view charity pledges made by billionaires such as Larry Ellison, Bill & Melinda Gates, Paul Allen, George Lucas and Pierre Omidyar, amongst others.
Answers
1. Techonomy.
2. Microsoft's upcoming touch-screen phone.
3. Hewlett-Packard's Mark Hurd.
4. Oracle.
5. Research In Motion's touch-screen tablet to take on Apple iPad.
6. Canon.
7. AOL.
8. Slide.
9. Seadragon.
10. http://givingpledge.org/
Questions :
1. Name the inventor of the Lisp programming language who is also credited with coining the term ‘Artificial Intelligence'.
2. Tim Cook is the COO of…?
3. Which famous brand has launched ‘TheSmokingJacket.com', a site that contains no nudity but plenty of sex talk and jokes?
4. Name the famous American politician who has sparked off a Twitter meme by coining a new word ‘refudiate' in the tweet and drawing comparisons with Shakespeare?
5. Who is to buy off most of telecom giant Motorola's wireless network equipment business for about $1.2 billion?
6. Paul D. Ceglia recently attracted headlines by claiming to own 84 per cent of which happening site by citing a contract he signed with the latter's founder?
7. What is the ‘Gorilla Grip of Death'?
8. Name the American actor who held the patent that is the basis for the Wi-Fi, GPS and mobile communications that we use today.
9. Thomas Flowers designed the world's first programmable electronic computer. What was it called?
10. If it is Dennis Ritchie for C, then who is it for D? 2
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Answers
1. John McCarthy.
2. Apple
3. Playboy
4. Sarah Palin.
5. Nokia Siemens.
6. Facebook
7. The now problematic way of holding the Apple iPhone 4 that affects the antenna's performance.
8. Hedy Lamarr.
9. Colossus
10. Walter Bright.
Questions
1. The first entirely Indian made Web browser announced recently is called…?
2. Which major, with a profit of $2.9 billion, recently achieved the best quarter results in the company's 42-year history?
3. According to Google's DoubleClick Ad Planner, which site tops the 1,000 most-visited sites on the Web?
4. Which tech major announced a major $100-million healthcare initiative recently?
5. Name the password-stealing Firefox add-on that Mozilla disabled recently after it had been downloaded 1,800 times.
6. The codename for the processor microarchitecture being developed by Intel as a planned successor to Nehalem is called…?
7. Who makes the product mentioned in the first question of this quiz?
8. In a novel marketing exercise, which brand launched a Facebook app that ‘whitens' your profile pic?
9. According to security analysis firm Sophos' recent annual list, if India is the World No. 2 in spam, which country takes the top spot?
10. The first message sent over the pioneering Arpanet was ‘login'. On which letter is the link said to have crashed?
Answers
1. Epic
2. Intel
3. Facebook.com
4. IBM
5. Mozilla Sniffer.
6. Sandy Bridge.
7. Hidden Reflex.
8. Vaseline
9. US
10. G.
Questions
1. YouTube now supports which high-end resolution videos?
2. If Amazon has Kindle, what does Borders have?
3. Who tops Fortune magazine's latest list of ‘50 Smartest CEOs in Tech'?
4. Facebook is to close on August 1 which popular feature it launched in 2007, to allow the company to focus on improving other features.
5. What new but now very popular feature has Sony introduced in its Cyber-shot DSC-TX9 and DSC-WX5 cameras?
6. Twitter's new own bargains alert service feed is called…?
7. According to a recent Vizisense report, what is India's most used photo sharing Web site today?
8. Which US security company that administers one of the root servers of the Internet has started ‘Project Apollo' to not only deal with the increase in bandwidth demand but also strengthen the .com and .net domains?
9. With which electronics giant would one associate the LifeStudio family of external hard drives?
10. Name the Taiwanese company that produces the iPod, the iPad, the iPhone and branded motherboards for Intel Corp.
Answers
1. 4k, a standard resolution for films that measures 4096x3072 pixels.
2. Kobo
3. Who else but Steve Jobs!
4. Gift Shop.
5. Ability to shoot 3D panorama photos.
6. @earlybird
7. Facebook
8. VeriSign
9. Hitachi
10. Foxconn Technology Group anchored by the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd.
Questions
1. Microsoft's a new technology that allows batteries to be inserted either way, regardless of polarity, is called. …?
2. Beginning July 1, which famous beverage brand has decided to offer free Wi-Fi Internet access in every one of its American stores with no time limit and no registration required?
3. If Google has Android, what does Samsung have?
4. The M11x is considered the world's smallest gaming laptop. Who makes it?
5. Name the company that provides travel information to various Web sites and which Google has acquired for $700 million.
6. The third expansion set of the MMORPG World of Warcraft is called…?
7. Which pioneering cyber-giant has decided to use Firefox as the default browser for nearly 4,00,000 of its employees?
8. What is Google's recently unveiled Android 3.0 operating system codenamed? 4
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9. What are suites such as Sunspider, Celtic Kane's JSBenchmark and Futuremark's Peacekeeper Benchmark used to test?
10. Which popular P2P engine was founded by Mark Gorton?
Answers
1.Instaload
2. Starbucks
3. ‘Bada'
4. Alienware
5. ITA Software.
6. Cataclysm
7. IBM
8. Gingerbread
9. Speed of browsers.
10. Limewire
Questions
1. Name the actor behind HitRecord.org, a site that lets artists collaborate on a film and have a share in the profits if something commercially viable is made.
2. To which much-requested domain name did ICANN finally give its conditional approval?
3. After the N8, Nokia is to replace the Symbian OS in its smartphones with which OS?
4. ‘Etherlink' released by 3Com was the first….?
5. Expand the acronym PowerPC, the RISC architecture created by the AIM alliance in the early 1990s.
6. Which company was named after a water body that ran behind the home of its co-founder in Los Altos, California?
7. How many terabytes in a zettabyte?
8. What is grown on the two fully grown plots of land when one starts to play FarmVille?
9. Whose tagline is ‘quietly brilliant'?
10. Which game is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's most popular free MMORPG?
Answers
1. Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
2..xxx (for porn sites).
3. MeeGo.
4. Ethernet card.
5. Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing.
6. Adobe.
7. One billion!
8. Eggplant and strawberries.
9. HTC.
10. RuneScape.

KERALA STATE IT QUIZ

KERALA STATE IT QUIZ
Note: All hints mentioned were given by the quizmaster himself.
1] Name the general purpose very-high level programming languagedesigned by Rossum. [Hint: It is dangerous.]
Ans: Python [Pythons are dangerous :D]
2] It was created by James Gosling, and is alternatively known as the OakProject.
Ans: Java [Java was formerly called Oak, after the oak tree that stoodoutside Gosling's office.]
3] The word Compaq comes from which two English words?
Ans: Compatibility And Quality
4] Identify the logo.
Ans: Western Digital Corporation
5] Which company started as Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory?
Ans: Canon
6] Who started the Free Software Foundation? [Hint: He is God for all freesoftware lovers.]
Ans: Richard Stallman [The hint was no help whatsoever, although almosteverybody knew the answer.]

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7] Identify this co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
Ans: William Nelson Joy or Billy Joy
8] “Middleware is History.” Identify this person.
Ans: Jonathan Schwartz
9] Which product led Cisco to file a lawsuit on trademark infringementagainst Apple Inc.?
Ans: iPhone [InfoGear (now owned by Cisco Systems) released the iPhonemodem in 1998. Even though the product was discontinued, Cisco Systemsheld the trademark for the name, and also released another modem,known as the Linksys iPhone in December 2006, after Apple Inc. releasedtheir iPhone in June, 2006.]
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10] The acquisition of which company by Google Inc. marked their entryinto the world of mobile device software?
Ans: Android [Google Inc. acquired Android in 2005. Android is now anoperating system and a software platform based on the Linux kerneldeveloped by the Open Handset Alliance.]
11] Photorealistic Renderman or PR Man is the product owned by whichcompany? [Hint: It is owned by a company which makes many animationfilms.]
Ans: Pixar Animation Studios [Unfortunately, the hint was too obvious.]
12] Identify this person from the world of Hewlett-Packard.
Ans: Mark Hurd
13] The interface of which photo mapping software bears a similarity to theprogram described in Neal Stephenson's sci-fi work Snow Crash?
Ans: Google Earth
14] Started as Quantum Computer Services, it is currently a part of TimeWarner. Identify.
Ans: America Online [AOL]
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15] Toshiba launched the Qosmio G55 recently. It was the first laptop tohave the Cell CPU. Which other gaming console has the Cell CPU in it?
Ans: PlayStation Portable or PlayStation 3 [The former answer is probablywrong, as the PlayStation Portable operates on the MIPS or Microprocessorwithout Interlocked Pipeline Stages RISC processor. Interestingly, Qosmio'shome page has no mention of the Cell CPU at all. It mentions only the IntelCore2Duo.]
16] Identify the game.
Ans: Far Cry 2 [The same screenshot was not used. The real screenshotdepicted a character holding a weapon and standing in a mustard field.]
17] Which company has lauched the Ideapad series of notebooks, which istouted to be the next generation of the Thinkpad series?
Ans: Lenovo [Which is actually a subsidiary of IBM, manufacturer of theThinkpad series of notebooks.]
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18] _________ is a project which encompasses two related projects, withthe combined aim of creating a family of open-source mobile phones. It wasstarted by the FIC. [Hint: There were three options for this: a)Mobilemoko; b) Openmoko; and c) Mokomoko.]
Ans: Openmoko [The two projects being discussed here are: a) OpenmokoLinux, a Linux based operating-system designed for mobile phones, builtusing free software; and b) Development of hardware devices on whichOpenmoko Linux runs. The first device based on the Openmoko project wasthe Neo 1973.]
19] Which service do all Apple Inc. devices, such as the Macbook, the iMac,the iPhone and the iPod Touch, use to synchronize data?
Ans: MobileMe [Formerly known as iTools and .Mac, MobileMe is asubscription-based collection of online services primarily designed for MacOS X, but later targeted Microsoft Windows, iPhone, and iPod Touch users]
20] Identify the logo.
Ans: Kingston Technology Company
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kerala State IT quiz MODEL

Sample Paper  IT quiz
1) What is the term used to refer to one billon gigabytes? Exabyte
2) Robert Metcalfe’s first experimental network was called the Alto Aloha Network. In
1973, Metcalfe changed the name to what? Ethernet
3) Whose auto-biography is titled ‘Passages from the Life of a Philosopher’?
Charles Babbage
4) ‘Big Blue’ is the nickname for which IT giant? IBM
5) Which well-known programming language was developed in the 1970s by Dennis
Ritchie and Brian Kernighan? C
6) Which online major was created by Jeff Bezos? Amazon.com
7) What was developed by Larry Wall as a replacement for AWK, a text processing
language? Perl
8) What was invented by Peter Kramer & Lou Ottens at Philips? Compact Disc
9) Which gaming company was originally called Amazin’ Software? Electronic Arts
10) ‘Connect’ is the online music store set up by which company? Sony
11) Telstra is a telecommunications company based in which country? Australia
12) In the world of IT, the name of what is derived from the words ‘center’ and
‘neutrino’? Centrino
13) Who is known as the “father of the World Wide Web”? Tim Berners Lee
14) What one word is used to describe a web based seminar? Webinar
15) What word was coined to describe the process of outsourcing work to India?
Bangalored

   it quiz questions prepared by amal augustine

6. Which educational and research institution hosts the ‘Digital Library of India’ in co-operation with CMU, IIIT, NSF, ERNET and MCIT for the Government of India and 21 participating centres?

A; 6. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

5. Which project, launched in November 2008, is Google going to terminate on February 28?

A; 5. Print Ads.

4. What ‘new’ concept did Richard Stallman dismiss as an industry bluster saying “it’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign”?

A; 4. Cloud computing.

3. Name the Chinese e-mail and messaging company that IBM is acquiring and which will be part of its Lotus’ Bluehouse project

A; 3. Outblaze

10. ‘Share what you know’ is the tagline for…?

A;10. Google’s Knol.

6. Expand JIDL.

A; 6. Java Interface Definition Language.

3. What new feature was introduced in the new, remodelled White House Web site after Obama’s assumption of office?

3. A blog

1. When asked to comment about an occasion that occurred on January 24, Steve Jobs said: “If you look backward in this business, you will be crushed. You have to look forward.” What event is being talked about?

A; 1. The silver jubilee of Apple Macintosh

7. Name the three Indian cities where Amazon has software development centres?

7. Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.

3. Google’s new software that lets mobile phone users share their location with close contacts is called…?

A;3. Latitude

4. One more on Google! What snafu did the search engine do on January 31 between 6:30 and 7:25 a.m. PST?

A; 4. It listed every site on the Internet as malware with the message ‘This site may harm your computer

1. Wilber is the official mascot of…

GIMP

5. Name Amazon’s self-publishing service wherein any US citizen can sign up for an account, upload and sell eBooks through Amazon.

Digital Text Platform (DTP).

1. Which computer-maker is touted as having the ‘greenest family of notebooks’?

Apple (for its MacBook).

1. Whose smartphone brand is called ‘Pre’?

PALM

3. According to tagline, which two cyber giants ‘bring the Internet to Television’ with its Widget Channel?

Intel and Yahoo!

6. The industry’s most advanced and open Linux-based mobile project created in 2007 is called…?

MOBLIN

3. In 1991, three cyber giants formed the AIM alliance to create a new computing standard based on the PowerPC architecture. Name the three.

Apple, IBM and Motorola

1. According to a recent survey, which Asian country has been judged to have the worst online restrictions?

MYANMAR

6. Name the embedded operating system developed by Palm for the Pre smartphone, set to be released on June 6.

WEB OS

6. In which three European countries is Gmail known as Google Mail?

6. Germany, Austria and the UK.

4. In the context of cyber security strategy for the US federal government, if George W. Bush’s document was called ‘National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace’, what is Barack Obama’s just released document called?

Cyberspace Policy Review’.

1. Expand the messaging standard XMPP.

1. eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol.

3. What does the S stand for in the recently unveiled iPhone 3G S?

SPEED

10. Google’s recent launch to present search results in grid format is called…?

10. Google Squared.

6. Why is June 5, 2002, important in the timeline of browsers?

Mozilla 1.0 made its debut.

5. According to ‘global market share statistics’ provided by Net Applications, which is the fourth most used OS now after Windows, Mac and Linux?

5. The iPhone OS.

7. Which is the country, outside of the US, to have most students involved in this year’s Google’s global program ‘Summer of Code’?

INDIA

9. What is the Google Podium?

9. It is the Google site where one can find a selection of public presentations made by Google executives

1. Expand VAIO as in the name for the sub-brand for many of Sony’s computer products

Video Audio Integrated Operation

7. Name the founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware who has launched a new venture fund along with Ben Horowitz, also a co-founder of Opsware

7. Marc Andreessen

2. According to Akamai’s latest ‘State of the Internet’ report, which Asian country has the distinction of having the highest average connection speed, at 11 Mbps, in the world?

2. South Korea.

10. Which market leader in its field of activity has the tagline ‘Confidence in a connected world’ to highlight its mission?

10. Symantec

8. Who makes the Inferno OS?

8. Bell Labs.

2. In the context of 4G wireless technology, expand LTE.

2. Long Term Evolution

3. In the context of Google, what is commonly called ‘Omaha’?

Google Update, the software installer and auto-updater for Windows.

8. Which browser-maker’s proprietary Web server service is called Unite?

OPERA

3. Who operates the generic top-level domains for .com and .net?

3. VeriSign Inc

3. Name the former two codenames of the upcoming Windows 7.

3. Blackcomb and Vienna

10. The open-source counterpart to the Google Chrome Web browser is called…?

10. Chromium

1. Which electronics major is making its debut in the netbook market with ‘Booklet 3G’?

NOKIA

2. In which city will Windows 7 get its formal launch on October 22?

NEWYORK

9. Name the world’s fourth richest person who has decided to take a base salary of $1 for fiscal 2010?

9. Larry Ellison of Oracle.

6. In the context of software, expand FLOSS.

6. Free, Libre and Open Source Software

7. To whom is this quote about free software attributed: “To understand the concept, you should think of ‘free’ as in ‘free speech’, not as in ‘free beer’”?

7. Richard Stallman

7. Which company has developed a high-quality raw video format initiative called CinemaDNG, where DNG stands for Digital Negative

ADOBE

4. The non-profit, open-source foundation created by Microsoft with a contribution of $1 million is called…

4. CodePlex Foundation.

2. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed and apologised for which ‘unnecessary’ part of a Web address

The forward slashes

9. Who makes the Reclaim and Blue Earth range of mobile phones?

9. Samsung.

1. Which recently-discontinued but one-time popular service was called Beverly Hills Internet?

GeoCities

7. Who makes the Droid Eris smartphones?

HTC

1. Google's new URL-shortening service is called…?

1. Goo.gl.

Amazon's founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, what is the most gifted item in the company's history?

KINDLE

5. The team from which prestigious varsity won a $40,000 online, nine-day challenge in early December, proposed by the US government's DARPA, in just nine hours?

MIT

9. Which popular duo have plans to sell 5 million shares each in the company they co-founded, representing about 17 per cent of their overall holdings, over the next five years?

9. Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google.

9. Name the chip that runs the iPad.

A4

10. Codenamed the LeapFrog, the 950 was the first true …?

BLACKBERRY

7. Who makes Pi, being held up as ‘India's 1st Reading Device'?

INFIBEAM

6. Which popular Web site's tagline says ‘Ideas Worth Spreading'?

TED.COM

8. Of which leading Indian IT company was Vijay K. Thadani one of the two founders in 1981

NIIT

10. Name the Vijayawada-born lady now serving as the CTO of Cisco

Padmasree Warrior.

9. Who made this ‘criticism' of the iPad: “You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen, and a real keyboard — in other words, a Netbook — will be the mainstream on that”?

BILL GATES

3. Who was named the ‘Mobile Industry Personality of the Year' at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona?

STEVE JOBS

1. Name the recently unveiled music file format, developed by some of the key figures behind the MP3 and intended to be a competitor to Apple's iTunes LP.

1. MusicDNA

1. Recently the mayor Bill Bunten of the capital city of Kansas decided that the city should ‘be known for the month of March as “Google, Kansas, the capital city of fibre optics.” Name the city

TOPEKA

10. According to a recent Fortune magazine ranking for most admired companies, which company leads, according to its peers, in the computer software category?

ADOBE

1. What is ‘RE<C'?

1. Google.org's project to produce renewable energy at a profit from wind and solar sources, particularly solar thermal energy.

2. Name the Twitter style version of Wikipedia that gives definitions in under ten words with a touch of humour. For example, Google is ‘The Centre of the Internet. They can find you anything'

2. Ten Word Wiki.

4. Which cyber major sponsors ‘Project Looking Glass', a free software project under the GPL to create an innovative 3D desktop environment for Linux, Solaris, and Windows

Sun Microsystems.

3. If Apple can use the name iPhone for its smartphone, for what can Cisco use the same name?

Its VoIP phone.

7. What is the claim to fame of the Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz also called the ‘Jaguar'?

It is the fastest Supercomputer in existence

8. Which Indian State is ‘numero uno' as regards the telephone subscriber base data?

8. Maharashtra

9. With whom has Google teamed up to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes called Google TV?

;Intel and Sony.

10. Which very popular, free web-based, collaborative, multilingual project is readying for its first major UI overhaul by adopting a new theme called ‘Vector'?

Wikipedia

1. After whom is the international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science named?

Ada Lovelace. It was observed on March 24.

3. In the context of our country and Yahoo!, why is June 29, 2000 an important date?

Yahoo! India was launched

10Which two entities have teamed up to launch an online document-sharing service called ‘Docs.com'?

10. Facebook and Microsoft.

4. Android's next iteration is called….?

FROYO

2. In which Indian city did game developer Zynga open the company's first office outside the US?

Bangalore

3. Which was the first major computer maker to eliminate the floppy completely, way back in 1998?

APPLE

10 In its latest report, covering the first quarter of 2010 by security vendor Sophos, which two Asian countries are in the leading quartet which accounted for more than 30 per cent of spam relayed by hacked computers worldwide?

India (No. 2) and South Korea, along with the US (No.1) and Brazil.

11 Engineers at which pioneering tech company recently used atoms to create a 3D map of the globe

IBM

4 Google is to open an online e-books store soon. What is it to be called?

Google Editions.

4 Name the only Asian country among the nine chosen by Apple for the iPad to debut on May 28?

JAPAN

4 What new innovation has the tagline ‘TV meets web. Web meets TV’?

GOOGLE TV

4. If it is App Store for Apple and Android Market for Google, what would it be for Chrome

WEB STORE

6 ‘Project Nike’ is a deal between which online pioneer and telecom giant?

Yahoo and Nokia.

4. Who owns the H.264 codec?

MPEG LA consortium of 26 companies.

6. Which company has the screen technology called Mirasol used in e-readers?

Qualcomm

5. The iPhone OS has been officially rechristened as…?

I OS

7 Jaguar, Nebulae and Roadrunner are the top three in the world in which category?

Supercomputers

8. Which global superstar is playing the role of Yahoo's brand ambassador at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa?

8. David Beckham.

10. Which IBM supercomputer is scheduled to take on contestants in the popular quiz show ‘Jeopardy!'?

10. IBM Watson

7. Which pioneering cyber-giant has decided to use Firefox as the default browser for nearly 4,00,000 of its employees?

IBM

1. Microsoft's a new technology that allows batteries to be inserted either way, regardless of polarity, is called. …?

1.Instaload

3. If Google has Android, what does Samsung have?

BADA

8. Which US security company that administers one of the root servers of the Internet has started ‘Project Apollo' to not only deal with the increase in bandwidth demand but also strengthen the .com and .net domains?

VeriSign

10. The first message sent over the pioneering Arpanet was ‘login'. On which letter is the link said to have crashed?

10. G.

1. Name the inventor of the Lisp programming language who is also credited with coining the term ‘Artificial Intelligence'.

1. John McCarthy.

 1. Name the conference held recently at Lake Tahoe in California, and addressed by people such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, that branded itself as “a new way to look at the economic power of innovation”?

TECHNOMY

10. Name the Web site where one can view charity pledges made by billionaires such as Larry Ellison, Bill & Melinda Gates, Paul Allen, George Lucas and Pierre Omidyar, amongst others

10. http://givingpledge.org/

5. What is ‘Blackpad' that is expected to debut before the end of 2010?

5. Research In Motion's touch-screen tablet to take on Apple iPad.

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മലയാളം സഞ്ചാരസാഹിത്യത്തിന് ഇലക്ട്രോണിക് മാധ്യമമായ ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റിലൂടെ പുതുഭാഷ്യം രചിച്ചുയര്‍ത്തിയെടുത്തിയവരിലൊരാളായ നിരക്ഷരന്‍ എന്ന മനോജ് രവീന്ദ്രനെ മാത്‍സ് ബ്ലോഗ് വായനക്കാര്‍ക്ക് പ്രത്യേകിച്ചൊരു പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തലിന്റെ ആവശ്യമില്ലല്ലോ. പഠനാനുബന്ധപ്രവര്‍ത്തനങ്ങള്‍ക്കും മറ്റുമായി അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ ബ്ലോഗായ ചില യാത്രകള്‍ കുട്ടികള്‍ക്ക് ധൈര്യമായി നമുക്ക് പരിചയപ്പെടുത്താവുന്നതേയുള്ളു. അദ്ദേഹം ഇന്‍ഡ്യയിലെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ സാങ്കേതിക ക്വിസ് എന്നറിയപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന TCS IT Wiz നെ നമ്മുടെ വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികള്‍ക്ക് പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുകയാണ് ഈ വാര്‍ത്തയിലൂടെ.


സ്ക്കൂളുകള്‍ക്കായുള്ള ഇന്ത്യയിലെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ സാങ്കേതിക ക്വിസ്സ് ഒക്ടോബര്‍ 7ന് കൊച്ചിയില്‍ വെച്ച് നടക്കും. ഈ മത്സരത്തില്‍ നിന്നും വിജയിക്കുന്ന ടീം ഡിസംബറിലുള്ള ദേശീയ ഫൈനല്‍ മത്സരത്തില്‍ കൊച്ചിയെ പ്രതിനിധീകരിക്കും. ഐ.റ്റി. സേവനത്തിലും കണ്‍സള്‍ട്ടിങ്ങിലും വ്യവസായത്തിലും പ്രമുഖരായ ടാറ്റാ കണ്‍സള്‍ട്ടന്‍സി സര്‍വ്വീസസ് (TCS) കമ്പനി, സ്ക്കൂള്‍ തലത്തിലെ ഇന്ത്യയിലെ തന്നെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ ഐ.റ്റി. ക്വിസ്സ് ആയ ടി.സി.എസ്. ഐ.റ്റി.വിസ് (TCS IT Wiz) ഒക്ടോബര്‍ 7 വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച്ച, കലൂര്‍ പ്രൈവറ്റ് ബസ്സ് സ്റ്റാന്‍‌ഡിന് എതിര്‍വശത്തുള്ള ഗോകുലം കണ്‍‌വെന്‍ഷന്‍ സെന്ററില്‍ വെച്ച് നടത്തുന്നു. കൊച്ചിയില്‍ നടക്കുന്ന മത്സരത്തില്‍, പ്രീ യൂണിവേര്‍സിറ്റി ജൂനിയര്‍ കോളേജ് വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികള്‍ അടക്കം 8 മുതല്‍ 12 ക്ലാസ്സ് വരെയുള്ള എല്ലാ സ്കൂള്‍ കുട്ടികള്‍ക്കും പങ്കെടുക്കാവുന്നതാണ്. മത്സരത്തിന് പ്രവേശന ഫീസ് ഒന്നും ഈടാക്കുന്നില്ല. ഓരോ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ സ്ഥാപനങ്ങള്‍ക്കും രണ്ട് അംഗങ്ങള്‍ വീതമുള്ള എണ്ണമറ്റ ടീമുകളെ പങ്കെടുപ്പിക്കാവുന്നതാണ്.

മത്സരത്തിന്റെ പ്രാദേശിക റൌണ്ടുകള്‍ രാജ്യത്തെ പ്രമുഖ 12 നഗരങ്ങളായ ഹൈദരാബാദ്, അഹമ്മദാബാദ്, ചെന്നൈ, കോയമ്പത്തൂര്‍, പൂനെ, കൊല്‍ക്കത്ത, ഭുവനേശ്വര്‍, ലക്നൌ, കൊച്ചി, ഡല്‍ഹി, മുംബൈ എന്നിവിടങ്ങളിലായാണ് നടത്തുന്നത്. പ്രാദേശിക മത്സരങ്ങളില്‍ വിജയികളാകുന്ന 12 ടീമുകള്‍, ഡിസംബര്‍ മാസത്തില്‍ നടത്തുന്ന ദേശീയ തലത്തിലുള്ള ഫൈനലില്‍, നാഷണല്‍ ചാമ്പ്യന്‍ഷിപ്പ് പട്ടത്തിനുവേണ്ടി മാറ്റുരയ്ക്കും. മത്സരത്തിനിനുള്ള അപേക്ഷകള്‍ അതാത് വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ സ്ഥാപനങ്ങള്‍ വഴി, ഒക്ടോബര്‍ 5ന് മുന്‍പ് കിട്ടത്തക്കവിധം, ടി.സി.എസ്. ഐ.റ്റി. വിസ് കോ-ഓര്‍ഡിനേറ്റര്‍, ടാറ്റാ കണ്‍സള്‍ട്ടന്‍സി സര്‍വ്വീസസ്, തേജോമയ, എല്‍. & റ്റി. ടെക് പാര്‍ക്ക് ലിമിറ്റഡ്, ഇന്‍‌ഫോ പാര്‍ക്ക് ക്യാമ്പസ്, കുസുമഗിരി പി.ഓ, കാക്കനാട്, കൊച്ചി, എന്ന വിലാസത്തില്‍ അയക്കേണ്ടതാണ്. കൂടുതല്‍ വിവരങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് ബന്ധപ്പെടുക:- ശ്രീമതി ലിമി റോസ്, (ഫോണ്‍) 0484 6618081, (ഫാക്സ്) 0484 6645255, (ഇ-മെയില്‍), limi.rose@tcs.com (മൊബൈല്‍) +91 9037010003. www.tcsitwiz.com എന്ന സൈറ്റ് വഴി ഓണ്‍ലൈനില്‍ രജിസ്റ്റര്‍ ചെയ്യാനുള്ള സൌകര്യവും ഇക്കൊല്ലം ഉണ്ട്.

കമ്പനിയുടെ കോര്‍പ്പറേറ്റ് സാമൂഹ്യ പ്രതിബദ്ധതയൂടെ ഭാഗമായി കഴിഞ്ഞ 12 വര്‍ഷമായി, രാജ്യത്തെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ ഐ.റ്റി. ക്വിസ്സ് മത്സരമായ TCS IT Wiz നടത്തിപ്പോരുന്നു. ഏഷ്യയിലെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ വിവര സങ്കേതികവിദ്യാ കമ്പനിയായ ടി.സി.എസ്, സാങ്കേതിക മേഖലയിലും, ലോക വിവര സാങ്കേതിക വിദ്യയിലും വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികള്‍ക്ക് ബോധവല്‍ക്കരണം നടത്തുന്നതില്‍ മുന്നിട്ടുനില്‍ക്കുന്നു. സ്കൂള്‍ വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികളില്‍ വിവര സാങ്കേതിക വിദ്യയോടുള്ള അഭിരുചി വര്‍ദ്ധിപ്പിക്കാനും, സാദ്ധ്യതകള്‍ ഉണര്‍ത്താനും, ജിജ്ഞാസ തുളുമ്പുന്ന യുവമനസ്സുകളില്‍ അതിനുള്ള അഭിനിവേശവും ഊര്‍ജ്ജവും വളര്‍ത്താനുമാണ് TCS IT Wiz ലൂടെ കമ്പനി ലക്ഷ്യമിടുന്നത്. ഇന്നത്തെ സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ വിവിധ മേഖലകളിളും, ധനപരമായ കാര്യങ്ങളിലും വിവരസാങ്കേതിക വിദ്യ അഖണ്ഡമായ ഒരു പങ്കാണ് കൈയ്യാളുന്നത്.

ക്വിസ്സ് ഘടന :- പൊതുവായ 20 ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍ അടങ്ങുന്ന പ്രാഥമിക എഴുത്ത് റൌണ്ടായിരിക്കും എല്ലാ ടീമുകള്‍ക്കും ഉണ്ടാകുക. കാല്‍ ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍ ശബ്ദ ദൃശ്യങ്ങള്‍ ഉള്‍ക്കൊള്ളുന്ന ഓറല്‍ സംവിധാനത്തിലൂടെ ആയിരിക്കും. കമ്പനിയുടെ, പ്രിന്റ് ചെയ്ത് തയ്യാറാക്കിയ ഉത്തരക്കടലാസില്‍ ആണ് മത്സരാര്‍ത്ഥികള്‍ ഉത്തരമെഴുതേണ്ടത്.

ഫൈനല്‍ :- ഏറ്റവും മുന്നിലെത്തുന്ന ആദ്യത്തെ ആറ് ടീമുകള്‍ അന്തിമ മത്സരത്തിലേക്ക് യോഗ്യരാവും. ഒരു വിദ്യാലയത്തില്‍ നിന്ന് ഒന്നിലധികം ടീമുകള്‍ മുന്നിലെത്തുകയാണെങ്കില്‍ അതില്‍ നിന്ന് മികച്ച ടീമിനെ മാത്രമേ ഫൈനലിലേക്ക് പരിഗണിക്കൂ. ഈ ആറ് ടീമുകളെ വെച്ച് നടത്തുന്ന ഫൈനല്‍ മത്സരത്തില്‍ വിജയിയാകുന്ന ടീമായിരിക്കും ഡിസംബറില്‍ നടക്കുന്ന രാജ്യാന്തര ഫൈനല്‍ മത്സരത്തില്‍ കൊച്ചിയെ പ്രതിനിധീകരിക്കുക.

പ്രാദേശിക വിജയികള്‍ ഗാലക്സി ടാബ്‌ലെറ്റ് കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിന് പുറമേ ഡിജിറ്റല്‍ ക്യാമറയും ട്രോഫിയും സമ്മാനമായി നേടും. രണ്ടാം സമ്മാനാര്‍ഹര്‍ക്ക് ഓരോ ഐ പോഡ് ടച്ചിന് പുറമേ ട്രോഫിയും ലഭിക്കും. ഫൈനലില്‍ എത്തുന്ന ആറ് ടീമംഗങ്ങള്‍ക്കും കമ്പനിയുടെ വക ട്രാവല്‍ ബാഗ്, ഹെഡ്ഫോണുകള്‍, സ്പീക്കറുകള്‍, യു.എസ്.ബി. പെന്‍ ഡ്രൈവ് മുതലായവ സമ്മാനമായി ലഭിക്കും.

വിഷയം :- ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റ് ലോകവും വ്യത്യസ്തമായ വെബ് സൈറ്റുകളും, ഐ.റ്റി. പദങ്ങളും അപരപദങ്ങളും, അന്തര്‍ദേശീയവും ദേശീയവും പ്രാദേശികവുമായ ഐ.റ്റി. വ്യക്തിത്വങ്ങള്‍, ഐ.റ്റി. കമ്പനികളുടെ പരസ്യങ്ങളും, സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ ഉല്‍‌പ്പന്നങ്ങളും ബ്രാന്‍ഡുകളും, ഐ.റ്റി. ചരിത്രം എന്നതിന് പുറമേ ഐ.റ്റി. ഫലിതങ്ങളുമൊക്കെ ചേര്‍ന്ന വിവരസാങ്കേതിക വിദ്യയുടെ വിവിധ മേഖലയിലുള്ള പ്രായോഗിക വിഷയങ്ങളില്‍ മത്സരം ശ്രദ്ധ കേന്ദ്രീകരിക്കും. വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം, ഉല്ലാസം, പുസ്തകങ്ങള്‍, മള്‍ട്ടിമീഡിയ, സംഗീതം, സിനിമ, ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റ്, ബാങ്കിങ്ങ്, പരസ്യങ്ങള്‍, സ്പോര്‍ട്ട്സ്, കളികള്‍, സോഷ്യന്‍ നെറ്റ്‌വര്‍ക്കുകള്‍, ബ്ലോഗിങ്ങ്, സെല്‍ ഫോണുകള്‍ എന്നുതുടങ്ങി ഐ.റ്റി മേഖലയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട് കാര്യമായ ചലനങ്ങള്‍ സൃഷ്ടിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള വിവിധ കാര്യങ്ങളും മത്സര വിഷയത്തിന്റെ ഭാഗമാകും. ടി.സി.എസ്. കമ്പനിയെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഒരു പ്രത്യേക റൌണ്ടും ഉണ്ടായിരിക്കുന്നതാണ്. (റെഫര്‍ ചെയ്യുക - www.tcsitwiz.com & www.tcs.com )

ടാറ്റാ കണ്‍സള്‍ട്ടള്‍സി സര്‍വ്വീസിനെപ്പറ്റി (TCS) :- വിവര സാങ്കേതികവിദ്യാ സേവനങ്ങള്‍, കണ്‍സള്‍ട്ടന്‍സി, വ്യവസായിക പരിഹാരങ്ങള്‍, ആഗോള വ്യവസായത്തിന് ആനുകാലികമായ ഫലപ്രാപ്തി, എന്നിവയൊക്കെ മറ്റേതൊരു ഐ.റ്റി. സ്ഥാപനത്തേക്കാളും ഉയര്‍ന്ന തലത്തില്‍ ടാറ്റാ കണ്‍സള്‍ട്ടന്‍സി സര്‍വ്വീസസ് നല്‍കുന്നു. ടാറ്റാ വ്യവസായ ശൃഖലയുടെ ഭാഗമായ ടി.സി.എസ്സില്‍, വിദദ്ധ പരിശീലനം ലഭിച്ച 202,000 ല്‍ അധികം കണ്‍സള്‍ട്ടന്‍സ് 42 രാജ്യങ്ങളിലായി സേവനം അനുഷ്ടിക്കുന്നു. 2011 മാര്‍ച്ച് 31 വരെയുള്ള കണക്കുകള്‍ പ്രകാരം 8.2 ബില്യണ്‍ അമേരിക്കന്‍ ഡോളറിന്റെ വ്യവസായം ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്ന ടാറ്റാ കള്‍സള്‍ട്ടന്‍സി, നാഷണല്‍ സ്റ്റോക്ക് എക്ച്ചേഞ്ച്, മുംബൈ സ്റ്റോക്ക് എക്ച്ചേഞ്ച് പട്ടികയിലുണ്ട്. കൂടുതല്‍ വിവരങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് www.tcs.com സന്ദര്‍ശിക്കുക.

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