This document contains 20 multiple choice questions from a TCS IT WIZ 2010 Chennai Prelims competition. The questions cover topics in technology including operating systems, hardware standards, software companies and founders, programming languages, and consumer electronic devices.

1. TCS IT WIZ 2010 Chennai Prelims
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1. _______ 3.0 promotion group has announced the latest version of this hardware standard so as
to improve the speed of this specification. Fill in the blank
A: USB
2. The Co-founder of KaZaa finished a dual degree from Uppsala university. Name him?
A : Niklaus Zennstrom
3. How do we know the Shugart Company founded by Alan Shugart well?
A : Seagate
4. Identify this person?
A:Vinod Dham
5. Which Japanese company name‟s English translation refers to „leave luck to heaven‟?
A : Nintendo
6. The exact definition of this word is “edible part of a nut”. This is the layer which connects
the application software and hardware. Name this?
A : Kernel
7. This was earlier named Phoenix, later renamed to FireBird even then, due to trademark issues,
it was renamed to something else. What?
A : Firefox
8. What is this in Windows OS?

2. A : Blue Screen Death
9. This country has recently declared broadband access as one of the basic fundamental rights
apart from life and liberty. Which country?
A : Finland
10. The creator of X was paid a mere $45 for creating this. It later became a part of daily
writing.Scott Fahlman was the person who developed this later. What?
A : Simley / emoticon
11. iPhones and iPads cannot play flash videos. But they can play YouTube videos as they are
encoded in X compression technology.What is X here?
A : H.264
12. This website was shot to fame after it reported a newsbreak on the helicopter bombings by
the U.S. at Bhagdad. After this happened in early 2010, it started receiving huge visitiors. Which
website?
A : Wikileaks
13. The latest edition is called Froyo. The future iteration of this is named as Gingerbread. What
is this?
A : Android OS
14. This company is the first in India to provide private cloud services. It was also India‟s first
private ISP. Name this company?
A : Sify
15. This device is banned both in Korea and Israel. Recently, this ban was lifted and the seized
devices were returned. The NY Yankees stadium banned the use of the device inside the
stadium as it felt no one is concentrating on the games because of this. Name the device?
A : iPad
16. This language, when created was commonly referred to as the „write once, read many times‟
language so as to refer its cross‐platform nature. What language?
A : JAVA
17. Identify this e-book reader?

3. A:Nook
18. Akebono and Konishiki were two workstations at Stanford. These are named after
sumowrestlers due to the huge amount of data handled by them. What portal started its life in
these workstations?
A : Yahoo!
19. Identify this Famous Founders?
A:Robert Noyce and Gordon e moore [Intel Founders]
20.Identify this Videogame developed from Atari computers?

4. A:Pit Fall