A SET OF VERY USEFUL OLD QUESTIONS FOR TCS IT WIZ 2012

(many came in kolkata 2012)

Egosurfing, vanity searching, egosearching, egogoogling, autogoogling, self-googling, master-googling, google-bating
It is the practice of searching for one's own given name, surname, full name, pseudonym, or screen name on a popular search engine, to see what results appear.

Freemium
Freemium is a business model that works by offering a product or service free of charge (typically digital offerings such as software, content, games, web services or other) while charging a premium for advanced features, functionality, or related products and services.


Cybersquatting , domain squatting
It is the process of  is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.


Whitelist
Whiltelist is a term used to describe a list or register of entities that, for one reason or another, are being provided a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition.


Typosquatting, URL hijacking It is a form of cybersquatting which relies on mistakes such as typographical errors made by Internet users when inputting a website address into a web browser. Should a user accidentally enter an incorrect website address, they may be led to an alternative website owned by a cybersquatter.


Shelfware
It is
1.)  A piece of software that has never been used at all since its creation.
2.) A piece of software created for the sole purpose of being immediately shelved.
3.) Software purchased but not used.


Tethering
Tethering means sharing the Internet connection of an Internet-capable mobile phone with other devices. This sharing can be offered over a wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), or over

1.) X is a social cataloging website for books. Josh Hug serves as it's CEO & he is also it's co-founder. What is X?
Ans: Shelfari
2.) QUESTION ON FACEBBOK?

Ans: Facebook(The photo given left is of David Fincher,the director of The Social Network(The movie based on the founding of Facebook) and the photo given on right is of the book "The Accidental Billionaires"(The book based on the founding of Facebook ) and the movie "The Social Network" is based on this book.

1.) Identify the multi-national company from Korea? Came on India in 1995.

Ans: Samsung
2.) http://akebono.stanford.edu/X was it's first URL, where X is the company name itself. What is X?
Ans: YahoO

3. Started as a noodle company. Biggest producer of smartphones in the world.
Ans: Samsung
4.) The company got its name the mathematical figure which denotes the number 'one followed by a hundred
zeros'
Ans: Google
5.)  who is the mascot of yahoo mail?

Ans: The mascot is called Liam.

Special Question 02

1.) This is a process that allows iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch users to gain root access to the command line of the operating system thus removing any limitations imposed upon them by Apple.Once this process has been done, iPhone users are able to download many extensions and themes previously unavailable through the App Store via installers such as Cydia.
What is the process called?

A: Jailbreaking

2.) What do the google doodle indicate?

A: X-ray's 115th birthday

3.) Identify the port?

Known as lynx in texas instruments and i- link in sony?

A: Firewire ( or IEEE 1394 Interface)
4.) This is a process associated with submarine navigation . How do you know it in IT world

A: PING
5.) how do you know cente for development of telematics better

A: C-DOT

1.) Google expects this feature from Google to save users 2 to 5 seconds in every search, which they say will be collectively 11 million seconds per hour. What is this feature?
A: Google Instant

2.) "We're not trying to dumb down the internet for a mobile device. What we've done is bring up mobile devices to the level of desktop computers". Which is te device mentioned in the quotes?
A: BlackBerry Playbook ( quotes by Mike Lazaridis, the CEO of RIM)

3.)  "It's in keeping with our vision of a unified Google search experience to make popular, useful features part of the default experience, rather than maintain different versions of Google. As Autocomplete quality has improved, we felt it was appropriate to have it always on for all of our users." What this quotes refers to?
A: Google Instant

4.) Developed originally for the iPhone, it has since been shipped on the iPod Touch, iPad and Apple TV as well.  What's It?
A: IOS ( Iphone OS)

FINALS

1.) How do we experience Turing test in our daily life?
Ans: CAPTCHA
 2.) A questions : It was the description of the logo of Picasa & was asked to identify the logo which was described ( no picture was given ).
This logo was as combination of colors from lenses of different color ...( something like that)

@ TCS
1.)TCS recently opened an office at...? Peru
2.)TCS is to start a learning and development campus in which city of Kerala? Trivandrum
3.)Supervalu is a company from which country? US


Connect
1.) To connect facebook ( with symbol of US, pic of Mark Zuckerberg & a lady & video of Michael Jackson)
2.) Connect Airtel ( A video of Amir Khan, a motorola mobile,..)

1.) What is the significance of whale fail error message in  twitter?

ns: It signifies that the Twitter Server is down.
2.) Identify  the mascot of java

Ans: Duke

3.)  The original name of the project was black comb. Later become Project Vienna. How do you know it now?
Ans: Windows 7

4.) K spread, resolver,  IBM Symphony are associated with what specific type of application softwares?
Ans: Spread sheet.

5.) it was invented by John Shepherd-Barron and it was put into use by Barclays Bank in Enfield Town in North London, United Kingdom. What is it?
Ans: ATM ( Automatic Teller Machine)


6.) First created at IBM, it was 8 inches. Then at Wang Laboratories it was 5.25 inches. Finally at sony it bacame 3.5 inches. What is it? 
Ans: Floppy Disk

7.) It is available as an application on social networking platform essentially on the Web network - face book in mobile network- iphone. Mark Pincus calls this as next big revolution in community in this world?
Ans: FarmVille1.)

1.      What was created by naveen selvadurai and dennis Crowley?

Answer: Foursquare.com
2.) Identify the person .(hint: also known as nostradamous). He initiated the one laptop per child project.

Answer: Nicholas Negroponte
3.) what was created by Philippe khan?

Answer: first camera phone
4.  X is a video game series produced by Konami comprised primarily of run and gun-style shoots.This video game series debuted in 1987 as a coin-operated arcade game simply titled X,What is X?

Answer : Contra.)

ANS :- NCR1) How do you know “Grisoft” now ?
→ AVG Technologies
2) Microsoft : Xbox 360, Sony : PlayStation 3, Nintendo:_______ ?
→ Wii
3) Xbox 360, Playstation 3 & wii belongs to which generation ?
→ seventh generation ( 7th generation)
4) Whose tag line is “ideas for life” ?
→ Panasonic
5) Which is the search engine system for the Gopher Protocol, developed in 1992 by Steven Foster
and Fred Barrie at the university of Nevada, Reno ?
→ Veronica
6) Assassin's Creed Series & Far Cry Series are from _____?
→ UBISOFT
7) What is the unit of mouse movement ?
→ Mickey
8) Which programming language is known for it's turtle graphics ?
→ LOGO
9) He created the B Programming language. He is a distinguished engineer of Google. Who is he?
→ Ken Thompson
10) Whose motto is “ The supercomputing people ” ?
→ CDACHow do you know common business oriented language ?
→ COBOL
2) This company began it foray into laptops with the purchase of Texas Instrument's Mobile PC
division in 1997. Which is the company?
→ Acer
3) TIFR is a premier institution in India for higher education and research . It is located at
Mumbai. Expand TIFR
→ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
4) “ The best way to predict future is to discover it “ . These are the words of a famous
computerist. Who is he ?
→ Alan Kay
5) This supercomputer was the first one which rated above 1 TeraFLOPS. Which the
supercomputer ?
→ ASCI Red
6) This company was named by the fondness of it's founders for the hit television series The XFiles.
Nelson Gonzalez is its co-founder. Which is the company ?
→ Alienware.
7) There have been two explanations of it's project name. One is that it was named in respect for
one of the native American Tribe. This is greatly related & being used in the web. What is it ?
→ Apache
8) IMT-2000 is a family which contain standards such as 3G,GSM EDGE etc.. What is it's full
form?
→ International Mobile Telecommunication-2000
9) The first pre-commercial 3G network was launched by NTT DoCoMo in Japan. What was its
brand name ?
→ FOMA
10) Apple Inc was established in April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and X. X sold his
shares on company to Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak. Who is described here as X ?
→ Ronald Wayne.,

1) “THINK” is a motto related to a giant company. Which is the company ?
→ IBM
2) Which game console uses the Cell Broadband Engine ( CPU) ?
→ PlayStation 3
3) Atom is the brand name of which company ?
→ Intel
4) It was developed from telegraphic codes. Its first commercial use was as a sevenbit
teleprinter
code promoted by Bell Data Services. Its development formally begun in 1960. What is
described here?
→ ASCII
5) Who designed the Dyna book ?
→ Alan Kay
6) What is the sms of internet ?
→ Twitter
7) Which was the first spread sheet program available for personal computers ?
→ Visicalc
8) This famous video sharing site was developed by three former paypal employees. Which is it ?
→ Youtube.
9) This company's logo has three rings in it. It's Nasdaq code is COMS. Identify the company ?
→ 3COM
10) Whose tag line is “ leap ahead” ?
→ Intel1)Who is the chairman of Mahindra Satyam ?

→ Vineet Nayyar

2) This is a company fully owned by Tata Group. It is located in Pune, India. It is concentrated on

research and development in the filed of high performance computing. Which is it?

→ CRL ( Computational Research Laboratories.

3) You know Googleplex is the head quarters of Google. How do you know googolplex in

mathematics ?

→ (10^10)^100. That is 10 raised to 10 raised to 100. Or 10 raised to googol.ie 10 ^googol

4) What is the dimension of a SD card ?

→ 32 mm x 24 mm x 2.1 mm (length x Breadth x Height )

5) What is the dimension of Micro SD card ?

→ 15 mm x 11 mm

6) Which is the High Speed Wireless internet service from MTS ?
→ M Blaze

7) Which year is known as the Alan Turing Year ?
→ 2012

8) Smarter planet is the project of which company ?
→ IBM

9) This company started on 1938 in Korea. It’s name means Tristar or Three starts. Which is the company?
→ Samsung

10) Project Natal is a project related to a game console. Which is the game console ?
→ Xbox 360 ( by Microsoft) 1)Who is the chairman of Mahindra Satyam ?

→ Vineet Nayyar

2) This is a company fully owned by Tata Group. It is located in Pune, India. It is concentrated on

research and development in the filed of high performance computing. Which is it?

→ CRL ( Computational Research Laboratories.

3) You know Googleplex is the head quarters of Google. How do you know googolplex in

mathematics ?

→ (10^10)^100. That is 10 raised to 10 raised to 100. Or 10 raised to googol.ie 10 ^googol

4) What is the dimension of a SD card ?

→ 32 mm x 24 mm x 2.1 mm (length x Breadth x Height )

5) What is the dimension of Micro SD card ?

→ 15 mm x 11 mm

6) Which is the High Speed Wireless internet service from MTS ?
→ M Blaze

7) Which year is known as the Alan Turing Year ?
→ 2012

8) Smarter planet is the project of which company ?
→ IBM

9) This company started on 1938 in Korea. It’s name means Tristar or Three starts. Which is the company?
→ Samsung

10) Project Natal is a project related to a game console. Which is the game console ?
→ Xbox 360 ( by Microsoft)

Questions 10

1) We know many types of phobias. Then what is called the fear to computer ?
→ Logizomechanophobia.
2) A company brought islate.com. Which is the company ?
→ Apple
3) It is the first and largest body of computer professionals in India. It was started on 6 March
1965.Which is it ?
→ CSI ( Computer Society of India )
4) Which company brought the “classmate PC”, a low cost netbook ?
→ Intel
5) “Nexus One” is the smart phone from Google. But it is manufactured by another company.
Which is that company ?
→ HTC
6) What is CDMA stands for ?
→ Code Division Multiple Access
7) Who written the book - “ The Art of Computer Programming” ?
→ Donald Knuth
8) where did laser printer was developed ?
→ In Xerox
9) For gamers. What is NFS stands for ?
→ Need For Speed
10) What is DIVX stands for ?
→ Digital Video Express

tcs it wiz visual questions

1) AMD ( hints giver : Cool n Quiet, Better by Design & some picture)
2) IBM (hints :Kitty hawck IBM's super computer & other some details)
3) CD (hints : An audio was played, picture of James Russel & some other details)
4) Linux ( hints: someone's picture was given)
5) Oracle (hints : Unbreakale & some other details )
6) Motorola ( hints : picture of Sanjah Jha , and picture of a mobile similar to motorola's mobile etc)

In the swords round( buzzer round) :
1) Texas Instrument (clue given: a image of flag of Texas & picture of some instruments - so we get Texas Instrument)
2) Quick Heal (clue : a word starts with quick was given and picture of Heal . so we get quick heal)
3) John Chambers (a hint for john & a picture of chamber was given)
4) Jack willripper ( sorry i don't is this name correct as the & i didn't under stood it)

In scrach Pad @ TCS :
1) TCS took the state WAN (wide area Network) of :
> Andra Pradesh
2) The IPL team related to TCS ?
> Rajastan Royals
3) New delivey Center in North America ( not sure Noth , south or latin )?
> Mexico ( the answer told there was it)
4) This question I could not remember. but some hints i noted : TCS, SAP, Medical Field

Kerala State IT FEST 2009 prelim

1) Who provide the IT services such as Suleka, Sevana, Sanchitha, Sachithra etc
→ Kerala Government
2) Name the venue of “Conference on Free softeare” held on 2008 November 15, 16 ?
→ Cochin ( Cusat Campus )
3) Whose web browser id chrome /
→ Google
4) which is not a web browser ?
i) Apple Safari ii) Fire Fox
iii) Luna scape iv) Adobe Reader
→iv) Adobe reader
5) This was started by the effort of J.N.Tata ( Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata ) on may 27, 1909. This is
the place where simputer was developed.
→ Indian Institute of Science, Banglore
6) He was the member of director board of reconstructed Satyam. He was also the chairman of
NASSCOM. Who is he ?
→ Kiran Karnic
7) Who got the “The World is Open” award (2008)?
→ IT@SChool
8) What are Meera, Rachana, Angaly old etc ?
→ Malayalam Fonts (Unicode)
9) Write the three boolean operators used in searching the web ?
→ And, Or & Not
10) Puma is the code name of what ?
→ Mac OS (Mac OS X 10.1) or Macintosh
11) What was the invention of team lead by Alan Shugart ?
→ Floppy Disk
12) It is a project by kerala Revenue Department. It is used for submitting tax returns online. Name
it ?
→ Efiling
13) Expand VICTERS
→ VIrtual Classroom Technology on Edusat for Rural Schools.
14) What is the full form of L.G ?
→ Lucky Goldstar
15) Who developed famous free media player Winamp
?
→ Nullsoft
16) Select the pair of graphic/image file extensions ?
i) .exe/.jpg ii) .doc/.png
iii) .bmp/.exe iv) .png/.jpg
→ iv) .png/.jpg
17) Whose is kerala's IT minister ( 2009 )
→ Sri. Achuthananthan
18) What is a nibble ?
→ four bits
19) Which city is called Cybrabad ?
→ Hydrabad
20) Ebay
rooted in India by acquiring which Indian Ecommerce
Website ?
→ basi.com
21) The year in which CDIT
was started ?
→ 1988
22) Thomas Fredman's, th columnist of Newyork Tims, wrote his best seller book “The World is
Fas “ inspired by conversation with an Indian entrepreneur. Who is that entrepreneur ?
→ Nandan Nilekani
23) Who developed the Linux Kernel ?
→ Linus Torwalds
24) Tharang, Bfone, Callnow are the brand names of which Indian Public Sector ?
→ BSNL
25) This software rewarded the Guinness world record for most downloaded software on a single
day. Which is the software ?
→ Mozilla Firefox 3.0

TCS IT WIZ Kochi 2009 Final round 1

1)In Internet, what is one percentage rule ?
→ Only one percent of people contribute any content of the total people using internet
That is if you take a 100 people over the Internet, only one will create a content 9 will comment on it and the other 90 just view it.
2)Freax was the name decided to it.
Ie Freek + free + X . But this name was dismissed and renamed. What is the new name ?
→ Linux
3)In hand held devices( mobile ), the key with number 5 is dented . Why ?
→ To make the device( mobile ) blind friendly
4)It was an academic project. It was intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos across a campus network?
→ VLC
5)An Indian company decided to market blue-ray disks in association with Sony Inc. Which is the company ?
→ Moserbaer
6)what is Nomophobia ?
→ It is the fear of being out of mobile contact( ie when you lose mobile phones, runs out of battery or credit or have no network coverage )

Questions 09

1) 'ACER' is a robot developed by Mesa Robotics. Expand 'ACER' ?
→ Armored Combat Engineer Robot
2) BOSS is a( free software) Operating System developed in India. What is the full form of BOSS
?
→ Bharath Operating System Solutions
3) Who launched the Ebook
reader named “KINDLE” ?
→ Amazon
4) How do you know Common Object Request Broker Architecture ?
→ CORBA
5) How do you know this company '
PC's Limited'
→ Dell
6) How do you know Local Integrated Software Architecture ?
→ LISA ( Apple )
7) What is the service started by Apple Inc for all its iphoe, ipod touch, Mac & PC to keep sync ?
→ Mobile Me
8) This term was first coined by Ralph Vaerst. Its first published use is credited to Don Hoefler.
Which is th term ?
→ Silicon Valley ?
9) Whose laptop ranges are Aspire & Extensa ?
→ Acer
10) This was Asia's fastest Supercomputer when it was developed. It was developed by CRL with
the technnical assistance from HP. Which is the Supercomputer desccribed here ?
→ Eka

Questions 08

1)This term is used when you feel sheepish or regretful about something you tweeted. Which is
the term ?
→ Tweepish
2)This is a free email service. Its name is somehow derived from the word 'HTML'. Its now under
Microsoft. Name it ?
→ HoTMaiL
3) A mobile phone is blind friendly. How can you justify that ?
→ The key with the number 5 is dented.
4) How do you now Asynchronous Java Script and XML ?
→ AJAX
5) What is LTE in mobile technology ?
→ Long Term Evolution
6) photon+ and netconnect broadband+ give 3.1mbps of wireless Internet which technology is
behind this?
→ EVDO ( EVolution Data Optimised )
7) This company provide sms channel service in India. Name the company ?
→ Google ( labs)
8) whose tag line is “ Do no evil “ ?
→ google
9) Booklet 3G is a netbook from which company ?
→ NOKIA
10) what is Salinger syndrome. It s related to computer ?
→ It is slang for the tendency to believe that everything you read on the internet.

Tcs it wiz Kochi Prelims 2009

1) Joshua Blue is the project, which enhance artificial intelligence, of which company ?
→ IBM
2) Which is the first E-port in India ?
→ Kochi
3) We know that LED TV are available in markets today. What is the full form of LED ?
→ Light Emitting Diode
4) Saif Ali Ghan is the brand ambassador of which computer company ?
→ Lenovo
5) Which company's product is Athlon processor ?
→ AMD
6) Whose tag line is “Do The New “ ?
→ TATA DoCoMo
7) What is the full form of PERL ?
→ Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
8) Bing is the search engine of which company ?
→ Microsoft
9) E.go range of pcs are from which company ?
→ Wipro
10) .LK is the top level domain of which company ?
→ Sri lanka
11)What is the full form VAN. Is it Value Added Network or Virtual Access Network ?
→ Value Added Network
12)X- is a Human Interface Manager.( And he talked something about the naming of it ).
→ windows
13) In a binary tree, what is called the two nodes with same parent node?
→ Sibbling
14)Masaru Ibuka & Akio Morita belongs to which company?
→ Sony
15)Mark Zukerburg founded what ?
→ Face book
16)He showed picture of N. Chandrasekaran
17) He showed the logo of Silver Light
18) He showed the logo of NCR
19)He showed the screen shot of Transformers
20) He showed the picture of Twitter founders(group photo of Jack Dorsey, Evan William &Biz
Stone

 Questions 07

1)Who is famous in the name RMS, who is the important Free Software Movement ?
→ Richard Mathew Stallman.
2) Its codename was 'Project PX' when it was developed.Its was development started in 1943 and
finished on 1946 . What is this ?
→ ENIAC
3) Bit torrent clients are known as ?
→ swam
4) Expand DASP, which belongs to Acer ?
→ Disk Anti Shock Protection
5) He was famous as a guitarist and developed Dyna book. He had worked in Xerox. Who is he ?
→ Alan kay
6) chatting is very common now. What is the full form of CHAT ?
→ Conversational Hypertext Access Technolgy
7) What is TFT stands for ?
→ Thin Film Transistor
8) In mobile Technology. What is IMEI ?
→ International Mobile Equipment Identity
9) What is MNP in mobile technology ?
→ Mobile Number Portability
10) We know 8 bits form a byte. Byte stands for what ?
→ Binary Element String

Questions 06

1) Whose online nickname is 'Jimbo' ?
→ Jimmy Wales (Founder of wikipedia).
2) He was in Xerox when he invented Laser Printer. Who is he ?
→ Gary Starkweather
3) He called Internet as 'Information Super Highway'. He was vice president of America. He also
received Nobel Prize for peace. Who is described here ?
→ Al Gore.
4) He born in England. He is regarded as the father of computer science. Who is he ?
→ Alan Turing.
5) Expand SVTC. It is related to Electronic waste ?
→ Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition.
6) This company brought the first wireless hard disk. Name the company?
→ Imation.
7) This comapy is known for bringing first USB 3.0 thumb drive. Which is the company ?
→ Super talent.
8) T9 in mobile devices helps to increase the typing speed. What is T9 ?
→ Text in 9 keys.
9) CMM is a service mark owned by Carnegie Mellon University. What is CMM ?
→ Capability Maturity Model.
10) What is gTLD in relation with domain names ?
→ Generic Top Level Domain.

1) Who Developed the GNU/LINUX kernel ?
→ Linus Torvalds
2) Geocities was a free web hosting service and it was stopped . Whose service was this ?
→ YAHOO
3) In which code does SUN Inc is listed in the NASDAQ, America's famous stock exchange?
→ JAVA
4) Ymail and rocketmail are the email domains from which company ?
→ Yahoo
5) Expand ICANN
→ Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
6) Name the application Virtulisation Project of Microsoft and Sandisk ?
→ Start Key.
7)Karmic kola, Jaunty Jackpole, Hardy Heron are the code names of different versions of an Operating System. Which is the operating system ?
→ Ubuntu
8)“who do you know” is the slogan of which famous social networking website ?
→ Orkut
9) This is a small format of projector that can be used as a stand alone projector or as an integrated component in mobile devices, and uses the same technology that powers standard projectors. Name it ?
→ Pico Projector.
10) Mojopac is an application virtualisation software. Which company's product is this ?
→ Ringcube Technologies.

Questions 04

1) Which is the major element used in microprocessors ?
→ Silicon
2) Expand Wi-Fi ?
→ Wireless Fidility
3) Expand UNIVAC ?
→ Universal Automatic Computer
4) Expand ISIJU ?
→ Indian Statical Institute and Jadavpur University
5) which is the encyclopedia from Microsoft ?
→ Encarta
6) Who is the former of Free Software Foundation ?
Richard Stallman
7) The Blog with stolen content is called ?
→ Splog
8) What is Cyborg ?
→ Cyber Organism
9) What is the full form of BASIC ?
→ Beginner's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
10) Which is the Operating System Provided by SUN Inc ?
→ Solaris or OpenSolaris