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Prelims
Questions : 30
Marks : 1 point for each correct answer. No negatives..
Time : 15 Mins
Questions
Q1. "Broadcast Yourself" is the slogan of which company?
Answer : YouTube
2. Vodafone has a stake in Airtel... True or False?
Answer : True
3. Facebook was developed by students from which university : Stanford, MIT, Harvard, CMU?
Answer : Harvard
4. What is Sun's Ticker symbol on NASDAQ
Answer : JAVA
5. What is the default TCP port for https connections ?
Answer : 443
6. WordPad is a product of which company. Corel or Microsoft ?
Answer : Microsoft
7. Apple Computers was established in 1976. Please mention the date.
Answer : 1st April
8. Yahoo Widgets software was previously called ... ?
Answer : Konfabulator
9. What is "Gutsy Gibbon" ?
Answer : Ubuntu 7.10
10. There is an advertisement hoarding of Akamai near Forum Mall. Which famous personality's photo is on display in that hoarding? ;-)
Answer : Madonna
11. Name the banking product suite which has been ranked the world’s No. 1 selling core banking solution for five consecutive years--2002, 2003, 2004 2005 and 2006--by the UK-based International Banking Systems
Answer : FLEXCUBE
12. Expand REST (software architecture)
Answer : Representational State Transfer
13. Name the Chennai company that develops Zoho suite of online office products... which is a major competitor to google in the online office suite market.
Answer : AdventNet
14. What is IFrame
a) It is a widely used Javascript API
b) It is a small app found on Mac computers which helps in modifying photos before printing it out for framing
c) It is a HTML tag
d) It is a startup company spinned off recently from Apple Inc.
Answer : C (It is a HTML tag)
15. Symbian OS is an open source Operating System. True or False ?
Answer : False
16. Webex, the online webconferencing, videoconferencing website was brought out by which company ?
Answer : Cisco Systems
17. Name the product by NASA which is the opensource equivalent for Google Earth.
Answer : NASA World Wind
18. Oracle took on RedHat at last year's Oracle OpenWorld by announcing Unbreakable Linux. This year there was a repeat, Oracle announced plans for entering into another market. Media was all over it, saying that Oracle was about to take on this company. Which company ?
Answer : VMWare
19. Tell me the date of this year's FOSS.in conference Bangalore
Answer : December 4th to 8th, 2007
20. Blogs : Ok, There was a controversy a couple of years back, when a blogger Gaurav Sabnis from a company X blogged about an article by JAM magazine which did a story on an Indian institute Y saying that Y makes tall claims. Sabnis blogged about Y and basically said in his blog that Y's tall claims were fraudulent. Y thereatened to sue Sabnis. Y also contacted X regarding the issue. Sabnis resigned from X to avoid causing any unnecessary problem to X. Who are X and Y.
Answer : X is IBM, Y is IIPM.
21. Nintendo is a Korean company or Japanese company ?
Answer : Japanese
22. "X" was extracted from Basecamp, a project management tool developed by a webdesign company. What is X.
Answer : Ruby on Rails
23. Which company has its slogan as "The Indian Search Engine".
Answer : Guruji.com
24. BitTorrent is considered to be the brainchild of this programmer. Who?
Answer : Bram Cohen
25. KML files are used in Google Earth. What does KML stand for?
Answer : Keyhole Markup Language
26. Codenamed Milan, It is a forthcoming Multi-touch product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of natural motions, hand gestures, or physical objects. It was announced on May 29, 2007 at D5 conference. What is it?
Answer : Microsoft Surface
27. The albums of the famous British music group The Beatles is available on iTunes Music Store. True or False?
Answer : False
28. One of the questions posted by a well known Indian on Yahoo Answers website created a record of sorts with over 31,000 responses of answers to that question. Name the Indian.
Answer : Abdul Kalam
29. The CPUs for Xbox360, Nintendo Wii and Sony Playstation3 are developed by the same company. Name the company.
Answer : IBM
30. New York Times mentioned Babajob.com in one of its columns as a social networking site which "seeks to bring the social-networking revolution popularized by Facebook and MySpace to people who do not even have computers — the world’s poor". The question is "In which significant(!) event was the social networking and job site babajob.com launched?" :)
Answer : BCB4 (Barcamp Bangalore 4)
