TCS IT WIZ QUESTIONS

2014-07-28T08:35:00.001-07:00

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

2013-10-12T02:17:00.001-07:00

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)

2013-09-01T00:16:00.001-07:00

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?

2013-08-31T23:45:00.000-07:00

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

2013-08-28T13:54:00.001-07:00

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

2013-08-28T13:50:00.005-07:00

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

2013-08-21T11:33:00.000-07:00

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

2013-08-21T11:26:00.002-07:00

Special Quiz Questions........

1.Google's online payment processing system is called... ?

A.Google Checkout

2.If it's Flickr for Yahoo, what is it for HP?

A.Snapfish

3.If it's Flickr for Yahoo, what is it for HP?

A.GoToMeeting

4.Whose `Live' is to rival Intel's Viiv technology?

A.AMD

5.`Mine of Information'(MOI) and `The Information Mine' (TIM) were the names considered for... ?

A.'World Wide Web'

6.Which very popular site was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in February 2005?

A.You Tube

7.If it's iPod for Apple, then for whom is it iRiver?

A.South Korea's Reigncom

8.What is sometimes abbreviated as `<108,SYM,109>P'?

A.Microprocessor

9.Name the technology devised by AMD, originally for notebooks, to curb power consumption by slowing down the processor when workload is reduced.

A.Cool n' Quiet

10.Whose low-cost PC project is called `Personal Internet Communicator'?

A.AMD

11.If Apple has the Shuffle and Creative the Zen, who has Sansa?

A.Sandisk

12.Who launched the Z5 to rival the iPod Nano?

A.Samsung

13.Which cyber-major picked up Serious Magic, a privately held maker of video production software?

A.Adobe

14.What was called `God's Programming Language' in the glossary of `The OpenGL Programmers Guide'?

A.The programming language C.

15.What was created in 1999 as the "Ethicode Artificial Conscience Project"?

A.The Jatalla search engine.

2013-08-20T00:13:00.000-07:00

TCS IT WIZ AHMEDABAD PRELIMS

1.Department of electronics developed a web based system called PPS.Who launched it this year ?
Ans:Kapil Sibal
2.ETS (Educational Testing Services) the world's largest private non profit educational testing and assessment organization has recently launched the first mobile app for one of its flagship exams. Which exam is this that could get you admissions in the USand other English Speaking nations?
Ans:GRE
3.Which French IT MNC was in the news in 2011 due to the CEO's decision to eliminate internal emails across the organization? They were also in the news during the 2012 London Olympics.
Ans:Atos Origin
4."Just spent amazing time with Colbert?" Is he sane? " which former American president's tweet?
Ans:Bill Clinton
5.This is a type of internet bot that aims to vote automatically in online polls, often in a mailicious manner in order to impact the result of a poll. What are they called ?
Ans:Votebot
6.MobiCash Easy is mobile wallet offered by which major bank in India?
Ans:SBI
7.On ebay census of most online shoppings.Which city topped?
Ans:New Delhi
8. Identify

Ans:Segway
9.In November 2012, which company along with Alaska Airlines Flight Quest, launched an open data challenge to the world's best data gurus to delve into two months worth of Flight Stats, flight data, and come up with algorithms that could predict airplane arrival time more precisely
Ans:General Electric
10.It is named after former American NBA player Larry Bird. What is being spoken about ?
Ans:Twitter logo
11.What is the full form of DRM in Digital World
Ans:Digital Rights Management
12.Identify

Ans:Google Maps(Treasure Mode)
13.Still used to this day, it was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Milwaukee.What ?
Ans:Qwerty
14.It is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen. The word is portmanteau of picture and element. What is being spoken about ?
Ans: Pixel
15.What is the full form of ENIAC ?
Ans: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
16.Identify the logo

Ans:Uncyclopedia
17.it is defined as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating a function. It is applicable in both computer science and mathematics.What is being spoken about ?
Ans:Algorithm
18.What is being blanked here

Ans:Instagram
19.Full Form of SSD ?
Ans:Solid State Drive
20.Identify

Ans:IBM Smarter Planet

2013-08-17T01:47:00.002-07:00

IT QUIZ

1.Whichcompany was found on 1993 by Jen-Hsun Huang and Chris Malachowsky?

A.Nvidia

2.Expand OLED

A.Organic Light Emitting Diode

3.Project Gutenberg is from whom?

A.Michael S Hart

4.Expand QRIO

A."Quest for cuRIOsity”

5.This company was formerly known as Tandy Corporation.Identify the company?

A.Radioshack

6.This company was found on 1940 by Marty Bromely, Irving Bromberg, and James Humpert.Id

A.Sega

7.What is SGI

A.Silicon Graphics Inc.

8.This company was founded in New Delhi in 1983 by Mr.Deepak Puri.Id

A.Moserbaer

9.Expand NASDAQ

A. National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Systems

10.This company was founded in Tokyo,Japan (1917),a multinational corporation specializing in optics and imaging.Id

A.Nikon

11.Expand PDP

A.Plasma Display Panel

12.From where the name Pixar come?

A.from pixel and the co-founder's name, Alvy Ray Smith

13.What is the Full form of SVG?

A: Scalable Vecyor Graphics.

14.Which doyen of the Indian IT industry resigned from the company he built to start up "Happiest Minds India Ltd"?

A.Ashok Soota
15.Connectix Quickcam was the first of which type of digital cameras?
A.Webcam

2013-08-17T01:43:00.005-07:00

IT QUIZ

1.What is common to the games `Missile Command', `Sprint 2' and `Asteroid'?

A.All made by atari

2.Name the free OS, that which uses the Linux kernel and is named after its initiator, Ian Murdock and his wife Debra.

A.Debian

3.Adobe's planned high-end DVD authoring toolset is called... ?

A.Encore

4.Name the only Indian on Google's Board of Directors.

A.Ram Shriram.

5.With what word are the French replacing the word `e-mail'?

A.Courriel.

6.Expand UWB.

A.Ultra Wide Band

7.Which was the world's first spreadsheet?

A.VisiCalc.

8.Who makes the Optiplex brand of desktops?

A.Dell Inc

9.What did the first Google Doodle depict?

A.Burning Man symbol

10.If Apple has iPad, then who has ZiiO Pure Wireless Entertainment Tablets?

A.Creative

11.Who makes the Angry Birds game?

A.Rovio Mobile

12.Who uses the custom typeface Norad for branding their logo?

A.Android

It is the API for building software programs to run on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad from Apple Inc.

14.If it is iPad for Apple, for whom is it Adam?

A.NotionInk

15.If the upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 is codenamed ‘Office 14', what was ‘Office 13'?

A.There was no such codename because of superstitious reasons!

16.Which build-a-social-network service, co-founded by the legendary Marc Andreessen, has decided to stop its free, ad-supported service?

A.Ning

17.‘Menlo' is the codename for…?

A.Microsoft's touch-screen phone.

18.Name the rendering engines used in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

A.Gecko and Trident.

19.What is Asus' tablet called?

A.Eee Pad.

20.Facebook's new location-based platform is called…?

A.Facebook Places.

21.If its iPad for Apple, for whom will it be Optimus?

A.LG

22.If it is iPad for Apple, then for who it was JooJoo tablet?

A.Fusion Garage.

23.Expand IMAP.

A.Internet Message Access Protocol.

24.The layout engine for the Opera web browser is…?

A.Presto

25.What did Mark Gorton found?

A.Lime Wire.

2013-08-17T01:42:00.000-07:00

IT QUIZ

1.What was co-founded by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield?

A.Flickr

2.What is `Project Panama'?

A.Yahoo!'s new search marketing system.

3.What is `Brickipedia'?

A.It's a wiki for all things Lego.

4.Which search engine was founded by Dave Sifry?

A.Technorati, the blog search and ranking site.

5.Feisty Fawn' is the code name for... ?

A.Ubuntu Linux v7.04.

6.Google is re-branding Froogle as... ?

A.Google Product Search.

7.Which Microsoft product is abbreviated as MOSS?

A.Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

8.Pescadero, Oceano and Indio are codenames of earlier versions of which popular software?

A.Firefox browser.

9.Of the top five global PC makers, in terms of shipments, which is the only Japanese company in the list?

A.Toshiba

10.Which IT company’s tagline on its Web site reads ‘Win in the flat world’?

A.infosys

11.Vic Hayes is regarded as the ‘Father of….’?

A.Wi-Fi

12.Which programming language, named after a lady, was designed by Jean Ichbiah and then extended by S. Tucker Taft?

A.Ada

13.Which cyber giant is launching TechTicker, a online program for technology investors, from next month?

A.Yahoo

14.Which Japanese company makes ‘enon’, the personal assistant robot?

A.Fujitsu

15.Who recently launched SimpleDB, a new Web service for querying structured data?

A.Amazon

1.What was co-founded by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield?

A.Flickr

2.What is `Project Panama'?

A.Yahoo!'s new search marketing system.

3.What is `Brickipedia'?

A.It's a wiki for all things Lego.

4.Which search engine was founded by Dave Sifry?

A.Technorati, the blog search and ranking site.

5.Feisty Fawn' is the code name for... ?

A.Ubuntu Linux v7.04.

6.Google is re-branding Froogle as... ?

A.Google Product Search.

7.Which Microsoft product is abbreviated as MOSS?

A.Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

8.Pescadero, Oceano and Indio are codenames of earlier versions of which popular software?

A.Firefox browser.

9.Of the top five global PC makers, in terms of shipments, which is the only Japanese company in the list?

A.Toshiba

10.Which IT company’s tagline on its Web site reads ‘Win in the flat world’?

A.infosys

11.Vic Hayes is regarded as the ‘Father of….’?

A.Wi-Fi

12.Which programming language, named after a lady, was designed by Jean Ichbiah and then extended by S. Tucker Taft?

A.Ada

13.Which cyber giant is launching TechTicker, a online program for technology investors, from next month?

A.Yahoo

14.Which Japanese company makes ‘enon’, the personal assistant robot?

A.Fujitsu

15.Who recently launched SimpleDB, a new Web service for querying structured data?

A.Amazon

2013-08-17T01:39:00.000-07:00

IT QUIZ

1.Which famous hit PC game was created by Will Wright?

A.Sims.

2.Whose new email service is called `Managed Mail Protection'?

A.McAfee

3.Which telecom major is headquartered at Schaumberg, Illinois?

A.Motorola

4.Which cyber-legend founded the wireless technology company, Wheels of Zeus?

A.Steve Wozniak

5.Who makes the Olympus range of processors?

A.Fujistu

6.Who has registered the domain name gbrowser.com leading to the speculation of a browser on the anvil?

A.Google

7.Whose one time slogan/tagline was `Happy Hunting'?

A.eBay

8.Which e-tailer has introduced a feature called `Customer Images' that lets customers post photos alongside product reviews?

A.Amazon

9.Which popular game's tagline is `Your Life. Your Imagination'?

A.Linden Labs' `Secondlife'.

10.What is Mozilla Foundation's e-mail and newsgroup client called?

A.ThunderBird

2013-08-16T13:13:00.002-07:00

KERALA IT QUIZ 2013 QUESTIONS
1.What is 'Arrandale' ?
Ans:Intel Processor
2.Who wrote the book "Mattoru Dot Com Sandyayil"
Ans:Sethu
3.What is 'Cyber Squatting' ?
Ans:Cybersquatting 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.
4.In which category does 'Youku.com' belogs ?
Ans:Video site
5.What is the full formof EBT ?
Ans:Electronic Benefit Transfer
6.Expand EDGE
Ans:Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution
7.The International CES ?
Ans: is a major technology-related trade show held each January in the United States.Hosts preview of products and new product announcements
8.What is 'Siri' ?
Ans:Siri is an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator which works as an application for Apple's iOS.
9.What was created by 'Pyra Labs' and later sold to other company ?
Ans:Blogger
10.What is 'Passbook' according to iPhone ?
Ans:Passbook is an application in iOS that allows users to store coupons,boarding passes,event tickets,store cards,'generic' cards and other forms of Mobile Payment
11.DIASPORA is a nonprofit,user owned,distributed ___ ?
Ans:Social Network
12.C-DAC headquarters is in ?
Ans:Pune
13.Eka is a _ ?
Ans: Supercomputer
14.Computational Research Laboratory is a wholly owned subsidiary of _?
Ans:TATA Sons
15.Share-alike is related to what ?
Ans:Share-alike is a copyright licensing term
16.Expand FOSS ?
Ans:Free and Open Source Software
17.What is 'Jelly Bean' ?
Ans:Android Version
18.When is world computer literacy day celebrated ?
Ans: December 2
19.What is 'Yandex' ?
Ans:Search Engine
20.Who developed 'Libre Office' ?
Ans:The Document Foundation

2013-08-16T13:04:00.007-07:00

IT QUIZ

1.Expand MLAPI ?
Ans:MultiLingual Application Programming Interface
2.Identify this Gadget

Ans:Ubuntu Edge
3.Identify this person

Ans:Kyle Mcdonald(One Red Paper Clip)
4.Expand VGA
Ans:Video Graphic Array
5.Identify (C2F)

Ans: Smart Namo is an Android Phone named after Narendra Modi
6. X is often used as a synonym for IEEE 802.11 technology. What is X ?
Ans: Wi Fi
7.Identify

Ans:Elk Cloner (Virus)
8.Identify the logo

Ans:Joomla(CMS)
9.Who coined the term AJAX ?
Ans:Jesse James Garret
10.Identify the logo

Ans: Wink e-book reader

2013-08-16T12:57:00.004-07:00

IT QUIZ

1.Identify this gadget
2.Identify this person #recently died

3.Which are the founders of Whatsapp ?
Ans:Brian Acton and Jan Koum
4.identify this app

5.Identify the company from the tagline " Access . Content . Solutions ?
Ans:Tata Docomo
6. X is a company founded by Rob Campbell and Taylor Pohlman . X was acquired by Microsoft and the product of X is now knows as Powerpoint. What is X ?
Ans:Forethought Inc
7.identify this person

8.Who is known as the father of Phreaking ?
Ans: Joe Engressia
9.Identify this person

10.Identify this Symbol ?

Ans: Control (ISO Keyboard symbol )

Ans:ChromeCast

Ans:Ilya Segalovich (Yandex co-founder)

Ans:Wechat

Ans: Reed Hastings (Netflix)

Ans: Hakon Wium Lie(CSS)

2013-08-16T12:51:00.001-07:00

SPECIAL QUESTIONS 2

1. X was an experimental self-replicating program written by Bob Thomas at BBN in 1971. It was designed not to damage but to demonstrate a mobile application.It is generally accepted to be the first computer virus.

Ans:Creeper

2.X is a web browser developed by Y in Tokyo, Japan. It is unique in that it contains three rendering engines: Gecko,Webkit,and Trident.The user can switch between layout engines seamlessly.Identify X and Y

Ans:X : Lunascape , Y : Lunascape Corporation

3.Identify the game

Ans:Gagaville

4.Identify this person

Ans:Jack Smith (co-founder of Hotmail)
5.The X utility was authored by Mike Muuss in December 1983 as a tool to troubleshoot problems in an IP network.What's X ?
Ans:Ping
6.Identify this person

Ans:Alonzo Church (Influenced the creation of LISP)
7.Identify the robot

Ans:TOPIO (Tosy Ping Pong Playing Robot)
8.Who coined the term PDA ?
Ans:John Sculley
9.The idea of this comapny came to founder when he was forced to pay $40 in overdue fines after returning Apollo 13 well past its due date. What was founded?
Ans:Netflix
10.“Flyte” is the online music store set up by which company?
Ans:Flipkart

2013-08-16T12:46:00.006-07:00

1.Identify this logo

Ans:Wikiasari (Wiki's Search Engine)
2.'Durango' is the codename of ?
Ans:Xbox 720
3.Identify this computer ?

Ans:Osborne 1
4.X is considered to be the first computer virus for MS-DOS. It infects the boot sector of storage media formatted with the DOS File Allocation Table (FAT) file system. X was written by two brothers, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi, from Lahore, Pakistan. What is X ?
Ans:Brain
5. X was an American journalist, well known for using the term "Silicon Valley" for the first time in print. His friend Ralph Vaerst suggested the name "Silicon Valley" in a series of articles entitled "Silicon Valley, USA" in the weekly trade newspaper Electronic News starting on January 11, 1971.Who's X ?
Ans: Don C Hoefler
6.What is special about this robot ?

Ans:Kirobo (World's first talking robot)
7.Chris Holt of Macworld called the it "an addictive, clever, and challenging puzzler".Keith Andrew said X is "a nugget of puzzling purity dished out with relish aplenty".Jonathan Liu wrote that "going for the maximum number of stars certainly adds a lot of replay value to a fairly extensive game". What is X ?
Ans: Angry Birds
8.Identify this person

Ans:Chris DeWolfe (Founder of Myspace.com)
9.'Welcome to Possible' is the tagline of ?
Ans:Mindtree
10.This processer is made up of three parts:Pentium-M microprocesser,a chipset,and a Wi-Fi radio.The name is derived from blending the words “centre” and “neutrino”. Identify the processer?
Ans:Centrino

2013-08-16T12:42:00.004-07:00

IT QUIZ

1.Identify the logo

Ans:Vine(twitter)
2.X is a Japanese verb meaning "to hit the target" . It was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers. The company's products, such as Pong and the X 2600, helped define the electronic entertainment industry from the 1970s to the mid-1980s.What is X ?
Ans:Atari
3. X is a multiplayer Social network game created by Zynga.was the 2009 Webby Award People's Voice Winner in the Games category. X is available on several social networking sites and on the iPhone and Android phones.A sequel, X 2, was released in October 2011, and was shut down December 30, 2012. What's X ?
Ans:Mafia Wars
4.Identify the gadget and what's its significance ?

Ans:Mobira Senator ( First Nokia Mobile phone)
5.X written with Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold and journalist Peter Rinearson, was published in November 1995. It summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global information superhighway.What's X . and also who's the main author ?
Ans: The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
6.Identify this person

Ans:David Bradley(Three Finger Salute)
7.Whose slogan is "The front page of the Internet" ?
Ans:Reddit
8.Identify the game

Ans:Minecraft
9.X is is a question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users. The company was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010.X was co-founded by 2 former Facebook employees, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever. D'Angelo resigned from his position at Facebook in January 2010 to create X. What is X ?
Ans: Quora
10.What is the full form of IMPS ?
Ans:Interbank Mobile Payment Service

2013-08-15T11:28:00.004-07:00

IT QUIZ

1.X was a company specializing in hardware design, software, and services for mobile computing devices. Its most notable product was the T-Mobile Sidekick (also known as X Hiptop), which was the first smartphone to capture the attention of pop culture celebrities and teenagers.The company was originally started Andy Rubin, Joe Britt, and Matt Hershenson . X was acquired by Microsoft on 11 February 2008. What is X ?Ans:Danger Inc.2. Identify this logo
Ans: Ask.com
4.Expand EEPROM
Ans:Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
5.Identify this person

Ans:Snapchat
7.Identify this person

8."Neighbor's Envy , Owner's Pride" is the tagline of ?
Ans:Onida
9.Identify her(she co-founded ning along with Marc Andreessen)

Ans: Gina Bianchini

10.Hanzpad range of tablet's are from which company ?
Ans:Creative

Ans:Wikitude 3.X is a question answering-focused web search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design.What's X ?

Ans:Matthew Inman(oatmeal)6.X is a photo messaging application developed by Stanford University students. Using the app, users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. These sent photographs and videos are known as "Snaps".What is X ?

Ans:David Canfield Smith(coined the term Icon)

Ans:Gina Bianchini

2013-08-15T11:14:00.003-07:00

SPECIAL QUESTIONS

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?

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.) Identify the logo?

A: C-DOT

2013-08-15T11:10:00.001-07:00

PREVIOUS YEARS TCS IT WIZ QUESTIONS

PART-1

1.) Jesse James Garrett coined this term in 2005?
A: AJAX
2.) What would you call a list of contacts that the user deems are acceptable to receive e-mails from and should not be sent to the trash folder.?
A: e-mail Whitelist
3.) It was co-founded in mid 2004 by entreprenurs Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith, who wanted to build a “Teen Yahoo or next MTV”. What's it?
A: Tagged
4.) This logo was designed with Droid Font Family created by Ascender Corp. The typeface is Norad.The RGB color value in hexadecomal is A4C639.?
A: Android
5.) He is the architect of “High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991”?
A: Algore
6.) Nokia got Erik Spiekermann to design the font for their current logo. What is the font called?A: Nokia Sans

PART-2
Special thanks to Utkarsh Singh, helped for this post

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.) This is the old logo of?

Ans: Samsung
4.) The company got its name the mathematical figure which denotes the number 'one followed by a hundred
zeros'
Ans: Google
5.) Identify the mascot? And whose it is?

Ans: The mascot is called Liam. And it's of Yahoo Mail

2013-08-15T10:57:00.001-07:00

TCS IT WIZ QUESTIONS

1. James Ghosling is considered the father of which language?

A.Java

2.If the domain for India is .in then which country is .pk?

A.Pakistan

3.What is the name for a modulating and demodulating device?

A.MODEM

4. How do we know CTR and Co. a company that started in 1911 with the Tabulating machine?

A.IBM

5. Newton was the operating system used by whom for their PDA's?

A.Apple

6. Tux the penguin is the mascot for what?

A.Linux

7. How was the Bell Telephone company set up by Alexander Graham Bell known more famously today?

A.AT & T

8. Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart. What is it?

A.Captcha

9."Go" is a programming language developed by which company?

A.Google

10. Azure is a Cloud computing platform for whom?

A.Microsoft

11. Blyk is India's first youth-centered Interactive mobile service. Which telecom provider has launched this initiative?

A.Aircel

12. Curve, Bold, Torch, Storm are some of versions of which phone?

A.Blackberry

13. Which company was originally called galvin Manufacturing Company?

A.Motorola

14. Macbook air is a product from which company?

A.Apple

15. Which video portal has launched a new initiative called 'Box Office' wherein every month a Bollywood movie can be watched?

A.Youtube

16.Which young IT face was the Time Man of the year 2010?

A.Mark Zuckerburg

17. Which company in India has launched a new projector phone called PopCorn?

A.Spice

18. Which portal was the official partner of the ICC world cup 2011?

A.Yahoo!

19. edustrokes and careerstrokes,com are e-learning initiatives by which cricketer and current selector?

A.Kris Srikkanth

20. Firefox and Thunderbird are from whom?

A.Mozilla

2013-08-10T07:43:00.005-07:00

TCS IT WIZ STUDY MATERIAL
The following is a link to the study material by Srijit. B. Banerjee. Go through this scribd file as they might help you a lot for the preparations of TCS IT WIZ 2013.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/54195397/TCS-IT-Wiz-Study-Material

2013-08-10T07:24:00.004-07:00

TCS IT Wiz 2013 Bangalore Prelims

1.What did Alex Oloitiptip of Kenya have to do with TCS in Bangalore ?
Ans:He won the TCS 10K Marathon
2.Identify the logo

Ans:Sina Weibo
3.What does SMTP stands for ?
Ans: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
4.What is the full form of CERT ?
Ans: Computer Emergency Response Team
5.Identify this technology

Ans:RFID Credit Card
6.What was started by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little ?
Ans:WordPress
7.What was initiated with "Me At The Zoo" ?
Ans: Youtube (Me at the zoo is the first video uploaded on Youtube)
8.Whose April fool ad is this ?(Inflatable Laptop)

Ans:Toshiba
9.Who is this ?

Ans:Sundar Pichai
10.ICONIA B1 is the newest low cost tablet to be launched in the market. Which company has launched it ?
Ans:Acer
11.'10,000 startups', a program to look for innovative technology start ups across the country has been launched by which industry body?
Ans:Nasscom
12.In Internet culture, the X rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community.Identify X
Ans:1% rule
13.'Flip Ahead' is a feature which was launched on Internet Explorer. In which version did it released ?
Ans:Internet Explorer 10
14.What does JPEG stands for ?
Ans: Joint Photographic Experts Group
15.What is so special about the IBM Simon which was launched in the year 1992?
Ans:First Smart Phone
16.NMDC and IndusInd will replace SIEMENS and which other company in the 50-Share NIFTY benchmark with effect from April First.
Ans:Wipro
17. X is a website and mobile app that uses social media analytics to rank its users according to online social influence via the "x Score", which is a numerical value between 1 and 100. In determining the user score, x measures the size of a user's social media network and correlates the content created to measure how other users interact with that content. What is X ?
Ans:Klout
18.Twitter has recently launched its own video capture service, which lets users take and post 6 second video films and embed them into their tweets. Name the app ?
Ans: Vine
19.It refers to uniquely identifiable objects (things) and their virtual representations in an internet-like structure. The term was first used by British technology pioneer Kevin Ashton in 1999. What term ?
Ans: Internet Of Things
20.Identify this device(hint:default tone of iPhone)

Ans:Marimba Jom

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PREVIOUS YEARS TCS IT WIZ QUESTIONS

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TCS IT WIZ STUDY MATERIAL The following is a link to the study material by Srijit. B. Banerjee. Go through this scribd file as they might help you a lot for the preparations of TCS IT WIZ 2013. http://www.scribd.com/doc/54195397/TCS-IT-Wiz-Study-Material

TCS IT Wiz 2013 Bangalore Prelims

TCS IT WIZ STUDY MATERIAL
The following is a link to the study material by Srijit. B. Banerjee. Go through this scribd file as they might help you a lot for the preparations of TCS IT WIZ 2013.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/54195397/TCS-IT-Wiz-Study-Material