Wednesday, August 10, 2011

IT Quiz 6

What is common to a cursor, Dynamic RAM ( DRAM) , Floppy Disk and RISC architecture ?
a)[IBM invented many of the core technologies used in all forms of computing, including the first hard disk drive and the Winchester hard disk drive, the cursor (on computer screens), Dynamic RAM (DRAM), the relational database, Thin Film recording heads, RISC architecture, the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, and the floppy disk. The infamous Control-Alt-Delete keystroke (Bradly, 2001: "I invented it, but it was Bill that made it famous"), also invented at IBM, is still frequently used on PCs running Windows operating systems.]


Who is the famous brother in law of Gururaj Deshpande, the promoter of sycamore networks?
a)N R Narayana Murthy
Who is the chairman & CEO of i2 Technologies?
a)Founder-Chairman of i2 Technologies - Sanjiv Sidhu

Which Indian played a lead role in the development of the Pentium Chip for Intel and also the K6 chip for AMD?
a)Vinod Dham (he's from DCE)
What designation the founders of Yahoo have? Also, name the founders.
a)David Filo and Jerry Young designation is Chief Yahoo!

Cool was codename for what. It was from a major software company based in Washington State,US. a)Cool is C# by Microsoft

According to CNN, Internet, Cell phone, PC and Fiber Optics come at 1,2,3, and 4 in the Top 25 innovations in the technical world . Which innovation occupies the 5th position? a)e-mail

What was coined on June 12, 1995 in an e-mail sent by a 52-year old Massachusetts Programmer named David Eddy. He later said, "People were calling it CDC and Faddle. There were other contenders. It just came off my fingertips." What am I referring to?a)Y2K

IBM BCS bought which consulting major?
a)PriceWater Coopers PWC


At CEBIT-05 which company had it’s theme as “Heart of Technology”
a)INTEL

Which Indian businessman was part of the design team at Intel that designed the Intel
80486 microprocessor?
a)Rajeev Chandrasekhar of BPL

Which university did Bill Gates drop out before establishing Microsoft ?
a)Harvard

When Carly Fiorina joined HP, she started the campaign to renovate its image. What exactly did she do?
a)It was a video campaign showing the garage where Hewlett& Packard first made that oscillator, And then showing her in front of it


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