TECH BYTES 2013 QUESTIONS

1.Which website name site stands for “iBuild iBond”?

A. ibibo

2.Which company owns the brand “Blackberry”? 

A. Research in Motion

3.What is the full form of TCP?

A. Transmission Control Protocol

4.Ms.Virginia Rometty is the present CEO of which IT giant?

A.  IBM

5.Which is the parent company of the online shopping site junglee.com? 

A. Amazon

6.Which product was developed at Stanford Research Institute and later incorporated into iPhone 4s? 

A. Siri

7.Which group in India owns Computational Research Laboratories? 

A. TATA

8.What was invented by Herman Hollerith for the 1890 US Census following which he founded the 

Tabulation Machine Company? 

A. Punch cards

9.Which company invented the Walkman? 

A. Sony

10.What is the Android 4.0 called? 

A. Icecream Sandwich

11.The proprietary Google Search Algorithm is known as the Page Rank system. Who is it named after? 

A. Larry Page

12.“Flyte” is the online music store set up by which company?

A. Flipkart

13.What is the name of the body and trade association of Indian Information Technology headed by Som Mittal as its President?

A. NASSCOM

14.Who now owns IMdB?

A. Amazon

15.What is the term used to describe software that is available to use or download at no cost? 

A. FREEWARE

16.What is the full form of WMAN in networks? 

A. Wireless Metropolitan Area Network

17.Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes founded which online entity? 

A. Facebook

18.Aisha, the voice assistant which stands for Artificial Intelligence Speech Handset Assistant is an offering from which company in India?

A. Micromax

19.If Chrome:: Google then Firefox::? 

A. Mozilla

20.Which company created the game Angry Birds? 

A. Rovio

TCS IT WIZ 2013 PUNE PRELIMS QUESTIONS

1.Which celebrity became the first Indian to cross 1 million follower mark on Twitter ?
Ans:A R Rahman
2.Which site makes users copy another persons photos and put them on instagram as their own?
Ans:Insta Slash
3.nexGTv is a mobile application,which  provides access to live TV channels and video on demand on handsets. This app allowed people to watch videos of one of the largest events in human history this year. Which event ?
Ans:Maha Kumbh Mela
4.Identify this CEO of a famous mobile company

Ans:Stephen Elop(Nokia)
5.Which famous company did  Sanjay Mehrotra form, headquartered at  Milpitas, california, this company produces what are today known as pendrives?
Ans:Sandisk
6.We all say Giga bye. Now this is 10 to power how much ?
Ans:9
7.In the world of books what is the full form of ISBN ?
Ans:International Standard Book Number
8.Identify this logo such that before the .ly a meaningful word is formed?

Ans:Bit.ly
9.Identify this logo

Ans:Norton
10.Sometimes advertisements on the net have virus in them,that is you might think it is a genuine ad but in real it is a virus. identify this term.
Ans:Mal Advertising
11.TCS has been in the news due to its acquisition of a French Technology services company for over 75 million euro.Name the company?
Ans:ALTI SA
12.In which famous indian directors memory did Google have this doodle.

Ans:Satyajit Ray
13.What is Samsung's answer to Siri ?
Ans: S Voice
14.In the domain extension .com what does com actually stands for ?
Ans:Commercial
15.What is the full-form of the famous company AMD ?
Ans:Advanced Micro Devices
16.Today we have a better system of security on social networking sites other than usernames and passwords. Identify it.

 Ans:Dual Authentication
17.What is this device called: it was used to watch movies nearly 15-20 years back,it was big than todays CD roms?
Ans:VCR
18.What is Mozilla's online paying application called?
Ans;Mozpay
19.Mozilla and which famous Korean telecom giant is collaborating to produce Mozilla's next generation web browser SERVO?
Ans:Samsung
20.Identify him . He is not very famous.But founder of a famous website

Ans:Eduardo Saverin (Facebook)

IT QUIZ

1.With which company would you associate the Optimus range of smart phones?

A.LG 
2.Which Taiwaneesw multinational compay has recently started making mobile phones named Liquid and Stream?
A.Acer
3.Identify the website that this man created?

A.Linkedin(Reid Hoffman 
4.This is an common error message in internet .Recently a south Indian movie was made with the same title.Identify the movie title or the error message?
A.404 
5.In videography we often find figures like 720p,1080p etc.What does 'p' mean?
A.Progressive Scans 
6.This man created a website that we all use for ur TCS IT Wiz research. 

A.Wikipedia (Jimmy Wales)              
7.This company was founded in 1970 by Alvin.B.Philips, a former Motorola employee.This company is one of the leading integrated circuit and storage device makers
A.Western Digital 
8.Linux-based open source mobile operating system project.It was first announced at mobile world congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference.AMD,Acer and Novell also supports the project.
A.Meego
9.Identify the logo? 

A.Picasa
10.What is Nomophobia?
A.Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The term, an abbreviation for "no-mobile-phone phobia". 
11.The shorty awards are given to the developers of which website?
A.Twitter 
12.This tech savvy head of the state uses technology to reach out to her people
A.Angela merkel,Germany
13.Identify the logo? 

A.AIM(AOL Instant Messenger)
14.This company is the pioneer P2P file sharing website.Identify the logo of the company? 

IT QUIZ

1.) If you +1 on Google+.Then what is it on Facebook?
Ans: Like

2.) An Acquarium inside a Macintosh is called what?
Ans: Macquarium

3.) Apple is on the NASDAQ as 'AAPL'.What is it known on NYSE?
Ans:It remains AAPL 

4.) Name the company which is Tata's electronic store range?
Ans: Croma

5.) Sun Microsystems has been acquired by which famous company?
Ans: Oracle

6.) Google's service that incoporates social networking,news & chat?
Ans: Google Wave 

7.) Two guys at  Percept software started what that revolutionized the world of television?
Ans:IPTV

8.) Microsoft's  service that was earlier classified only for US military use & was known as 'Munitions'. Its known by a different name today.
Ans: MSN TV

9.) Intelliweb Mouse is by which company?
Ans: Microsoft

10.) What was originally to be named '80856' but couldn't trademark it.What was it later named?
Ans: Pentium

11.) Which is the famous device does Foxconn manufacture for Amazon?
Ans: Kindle

12.) Expand JAR with filename extension
Ans: Jave ARchive

13.) High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a a form of digital copy protection from this compnay which is famous for making chips. Identify the company?
Ans: Intel

14.) Chase Bishop  is less known for his innovation for Microsoft. It is one of the prime offerings of Microsoft. Identify the product he designed?
Ans: Windows

TECH QUIZ

1.) This penguin character is the mascot of Linix Kernel. Name this penguin? 
A: TUX 

2.) We have independence day, republic day, science day etc. Like that, this day was first observed on 28 August 2004. Since 2006, it has been observing in the third saturday of September every year. What is significance of this day? 
A: Software Freedom Day(SFD) 

3.) Shelfari is a social cataloging website for books. Shelfari users build virtual bookshelves of the titles they own or have read, and can rate, review, tag, and discuss their books. Which company is offering this service? 
A: AMAZON 

4.) Which is the world's largest mobile operator with more than 600 million subscribers as of March 2011? 
A: China Mobile 

5.) 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_archaeology 

6.) "Patni Computer Systems " was it's former name. How do you know the company now? 
A: iGATE Patni 

7.) It was started in 1999 by 10 industry professionals who came from Cambridge Technology Partners, Lucent Technologies and Wipro. This company crossed USD 100 million in revenues in April 2006 & has been involved in the creation of Bluetooth technology and is an Associate Member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. 
A: Mind Tree Ltd. 

8.) It is a technology introduced by Intel Corporation that uses NAND flash memory modules to reduce the time it takes for a computer to power up, access programs, and write data to the hard drive. During development, the technology was codenamed Robson. How do you know this technology? 
A: Intel Turbo Memory 

9.) This gaming console was known by the code name of "Revolution" until April 27, 2006, immediately prior to E3(Electronic Entertainment Expo). How this console is popular now? 
A: Nintendo Wii 

10.) It is the brand name of an LCD color display technology produced by Sharp Electronics. The technology utilizes a fourth color subpixel, yellow, in addition to the standard RGB color subpixels, which Sharp claims increases the range of displayable colors, and which may mimic more closely the way the brain processes color information. Name the technology? 
A: Quattron 

TCS IT WIZ 2013 HYDERABAD QUESTIONS

1.The logo consists of Nordic runes of the king initials. According to legend, the king gained his nickname due to his love for berries which stained his teeth. Identify the technology ?
Ans: Bluetooth
2.In the world of technology, what does the acronym BYOD stands for ?
Ans: Bring Your Own Device
3.It started int he year 1938 as a small trading company with forty employees located in Su-dong. It dealt in groceries produced in and around the city and produced its own noodles. Who is this electronics giant ?
Ans:Samsung
4.While PB & J stands for peanut butter and jelly, now it also stands for Process,Bureaucracy & Jams. Which technology company started this concept?
Ans: Yahoo
5.Turing awards recipient, computer scientist John McCarthy, coined this term in 1956 which means 'the science and engineering of making intelligent machines'. What term ?
Ans:Artificial Intelligence
6.In the term mVoIP, VoIP stands for 'voice over Internet Protocol', What does 'm' stands for?
Ans:Mobile 
7.According to a Google 2012 study which movie toped the 'most searched movie in India' category ?
Ans:Ek Tha Tiger
8.Under the aegis of Mr. Sam Pitroda , this was started to provide thousands of students' access to the best online study material through its vision of connecting classrooms across India.They recently concluded their first public lecture series on the theme 'Democratizing Information, justice, equality and the rule of law' at Delhi University. What is being talked about ?
Ans: National Knowledge Commission
9.'Present Yourself' is the tagline of which company ?
Ans: Slideshare
10.According to wikipedia, this involves various aspects of farm management such as plowing land,planting, growing and harvesting corps, harvesting trees and bushes, and raising livestock. What ?
Ans:Farmville
11.Logo of ?

Ans:Google Drive
12.Who invented this , hint: It is the first CRT

13.Identify this person

Ans:Som Mittal
14.According to the american dialect , Which word in IT was coined the word of the year 2012 ?
Ans:Hashtag 
15.Identify the logo

Ans: Microsoft Pixelsense
16.Who wrote this book

Ans:Clayton Christensen
17.Identify the Social Networking Site
Hint:Acquired by Justin Timberlake recently

Ans:Myspace
18.This is the method of retrieving another users data,such as personal details and credit card info. What?
Ans:Phishing
19.Name the famous comic strip by Scott Adams which has now been digitized and is available for download

 Ans:Dilbert
20.When someone pointed out that the tiny buttons on company's device looked like a collection of small seeds. Also the fact that the phones were manufactured only in black.Thus what name what given to the phone ?
Ans:Blackberry

SOME OLD QUESTIONS

1.What is LEP moniter?

A.Light Emitting Plastic monitor

2.Who tolled that “'PLAYSTATION' is poison”

A.Hugo Shaves

3.Which company produces 'Kayak'?

A.Qualcom

4.What is 'i' in 'imac'?

A.Internet

5.How many gigabytes to a terabyte?

A.1024

6.Whatwas developed by Lary Wall as a replacement for AWK, a text processing language?

A.Perl

7.What two words from the company name intel?

A.INTegrated Electronics

8.Smartphones are software for mobile phones from which company?

A.Microsoft

9.Which global IT major owns iflex?

A.Oracle

10.From which country does the telecom giant Telstra originate?

A.Australia

11.Which world-famous word processing was first released by Micropro in 1978?

A.WordStar

12.Which is the email service that was advired by yahoo in 1997?

A.Rocketmail

13.'What are you doing right now' is the punchline of whom?

A.Twitter

14.What did Gerschke and Warnock start in 1982?

A.Adobe

15.Peter Thiel,Ken Howery and Luke Nosek founded which online payment company in 1998?

A.Paypal