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TCS IT Wiz 2013 UAE Prelims

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1.What in the world of computers was initially designed to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT and plasma computer monitors? Ans:Screen Saver 2.What do you call a person who spends a great deal of his time on computers ? Ans:Mouse Potato 3.What is this called? Ans:Blue Screen of Death 4.Which was the most used term on the internet in 2012? Ans:Hashtag ( # ) 5.Who are they ? Ans:MS Office Assistants  6.Identify her ? Ans:Virgina Rometty  7.Which company provided solutions for the New York Half marathon ? Ans:TCS 8.Who was the Times Person of the Year for the year 2006 ? Ans:You ( Reference to the millions of people contributing to the internet) 9.Identify the logo ? Ans:Dropbox 10.Which term is used to describe a computer security expert who uses hacking with ethical intentions like improving security of workstations ? Ans:White Hat Hacker 11.Identify Ans:Angry Birds - Star Wars

TCS IT Wiz 2013 Bangalore Prelims

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1.Whose Logo? 2. Expand SMTP. 3. How is Alex Oloitiptip, a citizen of Kenya related to TCS? 4. Name the technology encircled below.  5. Which content management system was started by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little? 6. Expand CERT. 7. The 'Flip' feature was introduced in which version of Internet Explorer? 8. Shown below is TubeTop an inflatable laptop. Whose April fool prank is this? 9. Identify him. 10. Which Taiwanese giant produces the 'Iconia' series of tablets? 11. Which Indian non-profit organization has started an initiative to back 10000 tech start-ups? 12. What in the world of technology marked its commencement with a video named 'Me at the Zoo'? 13. Which rule says that '90% of the participants of a community only view content, 9% of the participants edit content, and 1% of the participants actively create new content'? 14. Expand JPEG. 15. Introduced in 1992, IBM Simon was the first of its kind. What is being talked about? 16. NMDC and Ind

The Kenguru

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Kenguru is the first ever  electrically powered vehicle  designed especially for  wheelchair users who would  like to get about town without assistance, this could be exactly what you are looking for. You enter the Kenguru on an  automatically lowering ramp, which comes down as the back door opens at the press of the key.

TCS IT Wiz 2013 Ahmedabad Finals

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1st Round - Data Clouds 1. This revolutionized the computer gaming industry. Simplicity through technology was the key. What was this game?   Ans-Pong. 2. X is a folk of the Debian project's code-base. X was first released in October 2004. What is X? Ans-Ubuntu 3.The codename of this was 'emerald sea' and was named after a painting. What? Ans-Google+ 4. Known famously as the Blue Box. Who created it?   Ans-Steve Wozniak 5. His other big venture Blue Origin wants to develop space hotels and amusement parks for the people. Which Person? Ans-Jeff Bezos 6. What does this picture depict?   Ans- Christopher Latham Sholes making the QWERTY typewriter. 2nd Round - Big Data Visualization  1. The hints were- Image of Rory Read. The future is fusion. Advanced Micro Devices. Ans-AMD 2. The hints were- Inspiring Innovation. Persistent Perfection. Image of Jerry Shen.  Ans-Asus 3. The hints were- Imangi Studios. Image of an Old Temple. Image of creators of Temple Run. Ans-Cambodia(Pick B

Quiz Time 129

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1. X is  competition for finding a  Google search  query consisting of exactly two words , that returns exactly one hit. What is X ? 2.Connect     3. What is this?   4 .  O n February 2011,which IBM computer  defeated the two greatest Jeopardy champions ever,  Brad Rutter  and  Ken Jennings , by a significant margin ? 5. What is the name of supercomputer i n the novel  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy constructed     for the purpose of calculating the "answer to life, the universe and everything" ? BTW the answer is 42,took 7.5 million years to calculate !!! 6. Which widely popular term made its first appearance when   Ericsson  described its GS 88 "Penelope" ? 7. What is the  fictional, self-aware AI  system which features in the  Terminator  franchise ? 8. What is this type of graphic using characters called? 9. Which OS is being used in the widely awaited    Microsoft  Surface  tablet ? 10. Identify

Quiz Time 128

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1. X  is a Canadian  wireless telephone company  headquartered in Toronto.   It is Canada’s largest wireless carrier, with 9.376 million subscribers! Identify X? 2. It  is a  satellite navigation system  currently  being developed by the  Indian Space Research Organisation  (ISRO). It would eliminate dependency on GPS which is its American counterpart. Identify it. 3. Which robot has been depicted in this picture? 4. Which company manufactures the Nexus 4 smartphone produced by Google? 5. If HTC: HTC Sense then Motorola:______? 6. Identify this device. What is being done here? 7. Connect-    8. Expand HSPA. 9. Which popular media player cum media library application traces its origin from   ' SoundJam MP' , developed by  Bill Kincaid  and released by  Casady & Greene  in 1999? 10. X is  an  audio codec  developed by  Apple  for  loss-less data compression  of   music.It  has the extension '.m4a'. Identify it.

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Catechize-Finals Archive

The Catechize-The IT Quiz finals were held on 1st August at 9:30pm ISD along with the FINALISTS  Here are the archives of the quiz. Hope you liked.

TCS IT Wiz 2013 Ahmedabad Prelims

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1. The 'Electronics Project Proposal System(e-PPS)', co-developed by The Department of Electronics and Information Technology and C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) was launched by which renowned personality? Ans- Kapil Sibal 2.  Which company in November,2012 partnered with Alaska Airlines and Kaggle offered $500,000 to data scientists, professionals or enthusiasts  who can accurately predict when a flight will land and arrive at the airport by the study of  data on weather, flight plans, air-traffic control and past flight performances? Ans- General Electric 3. Which French multinational received huge attention due to the CEO’s proposal of ‘Zero e-mail policy’- A ban on e-mail all through the organization? Ans- ATOS (CEO-Thierry Bretton)    4. Identify the logo-   Ans- Uncyclopaedia 5. Expand SSD. Ans- Solid State Drive 6. Identify this widely used locomotive device-   Ans- Segway  7. Expand DRM. Ans- Digital Rights Management 8. What in the world of IT has