Sample Paper IT quiz
1) What is the term used to refer to one billon gigabytes? Exabyte
2) Robert Metcalfe’s first experimental network was called the Alto Aloha Network. In
1973, Metcalfe changed the name to what? Ethernet
3) Whose auto-biography is titled ‘Passages from the Life of a Philosopher’?
Charles Babbage
4) ‘Big Blue’ is the nickname for which IT giant? IBM
5) Which well-known programming language was developed in the 1970s by Dennis
Ritchie and Brian Kernighan? C
6) Which online major was created by Jeff Bezos? Amazon.com
7) What was developed by Larry Wall as a replacement for AWK, a text processing
language? Perl
8) What was invented by Peter Kramer & Lou Ottens at Philips? Compact Disc
9) Which gaming company was originally called Amazin’ Software? Electronic Arts
10) ‘Connect’ is the online music store set up by which company? Sony
11) Telstra is a telecommunications company based in which country? Australia
12) In the world of IT, the name of what is derived from the words ‘center’ and
‘neutrino’? Centrino
13) Who is known as the “father of the World Wide Web”? Tim Berners Lee
14) What one word is used to describe a web based seminar? Webinar
15) What word was coined to describe the process of outsourcing work to India?
Bangalored
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