Quiz on IT and Software

1. Which Operating system has the free and open source software? 2. What is the first release version of Windows? 3. How many people originally setup Infosys foundation and who are they? 4. Who is the original author of Java sotware? 5. Who is considered the father of computers and why? 6. Which is the largest semiconductor chip maker company? 7. What are termed as Netbooks? 8. Who are the founders of the search engine Google? 9. What is the abbreviation of YAHOO? 10. Who found basis of the Internet? Quiz Answers: 1. Linux Operation system 2. Windows V1.01 3. 7 and the founders are NR Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, S Gopalakrishnan, K Dinesh, N S Raghavan, SD Shibulal and Ashok Arora. 4. James Gosling 5. Charles Babbage because he invented the counting machine which stored the information on punched cards 6. Intel corporation 7. Laptops which are light-weight, energy efficient, economical and the ones that are suitable for wireless communication and Internet access are called Netbooks 8. Larry Page and Sergey Brin 9. Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle 10. Tim Berners-Lee

internet Quiz:
1. What is the expansion of the acronym FTP? 2. What is the name of the latest Microsoft search engine? 3. If you want to conduct a phrase search in Google, you should enclose the phrase in ___ 4. Which web sites URL starts with the text https://? 5. What is a main function of a modem? 6. What is the name of a file format of a video? 7. What is the name of the basic language used for creating web pages? 8. What is meant by a protocol with reference to the Internet? 9. One giga byte (GB) is equal to how many mega bytes (MB)? 10. To listen to voice / music in your computer, it should have a ______ 11. What is the name for the clickable word / phrase in a web page? 12. What if the formal name for a web address? 13. In which folder can you save e-mail messages that are not yet ready to be sent to its recipient(s)? 14. What should you do if you want to visit a web page again, but dont want to save it or remember its address? 15. Which icon you should click on your browser if you want to prevent a page from completely downloading to your computer? 16. In informal communication through chat, in forums, and by e-mail messages, some people use the word LOL. What does LOL mean? 17. In the Internet world, if you send / post messages using all capitalized letters / words, it amounts to _________ 18. Which is the most common way for a virus to enter your computer? 19. Which menu youve to click on your browser to get a list of all the web sites youve visited, say over a period of three days? 20. Say you want to send e-mail to two persons without the first person knowing that youve sent

the e-mail to the second person. How can you accomplish this? 21. Whats a search query in Google to find cake recipes but not chocolate cake recipes? 22. Phishing means someone through e-mail is illegally trying to get your personal and confidential information: TRUE or FALSE? 23. The word blog is derived from which two words? 24. How to send a file, which is larger than that allowed by an e-mail service provider, through e-mail attachment? 25. To create strong passwords, you should use ten or more characters which are a combination of letters, special characters, and numbers: TRUE or FALSE?

Quiz answers:
1. File Transfer Protocol 2. Bing 3. Quotes 4. Secure web sites 5. To convert analog signals into digital and vice versa 6. MPEG 7. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) 8. Standards of communication between two or more computers 9. 1024 10. Sound card 11. Hypertext 12. URL (Uniform Resource Locator) 13. Draft

14. Bookmark the page 15. Stop 16. Laughing out Loud 17. Shouting 18. E-mail attachments 19. History 20. Use the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) field 21. Cake recipes chocolate 22. TRUE 23. weB Log 24. By compressing / splitting the file 25. TRUE

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October 18, 2009

25 Multimedia quiz questions
1. With reference to multimedia elements, of the following, pick the odd-one out: graphics, animation, audio, video, and voice script. 2. JPEG is an acronym for __________ and is a file format for _________

3. What is another name for 2D animation? 4. What is the name of popular software used for creating 2D animation for use in web pages? 5. Which of the following is NOT a video file extension: MP4, AVI, QT, JPG, and MOV? 6. In animation, a keyframe is a frame in which the artwork differs from that of the previous frame: TRUE or FALSE? 7. MP3 is an extension of a _________ file 8. Which of the following two file formats has a smaller file size: WAV or MP3? 9. In a multimedia project, a storyboard details the text, graphics, audio, video, animation, interactivity, and other that should be used in each screen of the project: TRUE or FALSE? 10. DAT is an acronym for ____________ 11. If you do not want external noise to enter into the room where a voice-over recording for a multimedia project takes place, then that room should be __________ 12. What is the name of the programming / scripting language of Flash? 13. With an appropriate software and more than one GIF image, you can create a GIF animation: TRUE or FALSE? 14. Which HTML tag youve to use to insert a Flash movie in a web page? 15. If you want to enlarge / reduce an image size, which differs extensively from its original size without loss in its quality, that image should be in which format: vector or raster format? 16. A graphic image file name is tree.eps. This file is a bitmap image: TRUE or FALSE? 17. EPS is an acronym for _____________ 18. A multimedia developer wants to use a video clip in a project and he wants the clips file size to be as small as possible. Which video file format should he use: MP4 or AVI? 19. FPS stands for _____________ 20. A broadcast / NTSC video requires how many FPS for it to play smoothly?

21. Codec is any acronym for ____________. It can be hardware-based, software-based, or both: TRUE or FALSE? 22. Using Illustrator or CorelDraw you can create mainly what type of graphics: vector or raster? 23. What is the name of the function for integrating multimedia elements, programmatically and or without programming, using a software, to create a multimedia project? 24. What method of animation creates the in-between frames when you create the start and end points of the animation? 25. A most basic skill a person requires to pursue an animation career is ________ skills.

Answers to Multimedia quiz:

1. Voice script 2. Joint Photographic Experts Group; Graphic images 3. Cell animation 4. Flash 5. JPG 6. TRUE 7. Sound / music file 8. MP3 9. TRUE 10. Digital Audio Tape 11. Soundproof 12. ActionScript 13. TRUE 14. EMBED

15. Vector 16. FALSE 17. Encapsulated Post Script 18. MP4 19. Frames Per Second 20. 30 21. Coder-Decoder; TRUE 22. Vector 23. Authoring 24. Tweening 25. Drawing

2. 25 Software quiz questions 1. What are the two main types of software? 2. Windows XP is an example of what type of software? 3. ASP is acronym for ________ 4. What is the basic programming language used for creating web pages? 5. An operating system controls all the resources of a computer: TRUE or FALSE? 6. Word processor software allows you to create _________ to perform repetitive functions better and faster 7. Application software is developed using one or more of _________ 8. You have to use a _______ software to reduce the size of a file 9. What is the quickest way, in Windows XP, to find out the size of a file whose icon, say is on the Desktop?

10. What does the acronym RTOS stand for? 11. What is the name of the software that comes bundled with Windows XP that you can use to create un-formatted text documents? 12. A mobile phone has what type of operating system in it? 13. What is the general name of the software that helps you, among others, to develop financial models? 14. What is the name of the popular presentation software from Microsoft? 15. A presentation software facilitates to generate various types of graphs, including 3D bar graphs and pie charts: TRUE or FALSE? 16. Which menu option youve to select, as the first step, when you right-click on an empty space on the Desktop, in Windows XP, to change the screen resolution? 17. What does the acronym RDBMS stand for? 18. What is the name of the language that helps you build queries to extract information from databases? 19. What are the two keyboard shortcuts, in Windows XP, to copy all the files in a folder? 20. _________ software can prevent the virus attack on your computer 21. Pick the odd-one out: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Word, and Chrome 22. How to quickly create a table in Word without using the Table menu? 23. Through disk partition, its possible to use two operating systems on the same computer: TRUE or FALSE? 24. In a spreadsheet, the intersection of a row and a column is known as a _________ 25. If hardware can be compared to a pen, software can be compared to which of the following: eraser, sharpener, ink, pencil?

Answers to Computer Quiz:

1. Systems software and Application Software 2. Systems software

3. Active Server Pages 4. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) 5. TRUE 6. Macros 7. Programming Languages 8. Compression 9. By moving the mouse cursor over the icon 10. Real Time Operating System 11. Notepad 12. RTOS 13. Spreadsheet 14. PowerPoint 15. TRUE 16. Properties 17. Relational Database Management System 18. SQL (Structured Query Language) 19. Ctrl+A (to select all the files), Ctrl+C (to copy the files) 20. Antivirus 21. Word; all others are the names of web browsers 22. By clicking the Insert Table icon 23. TRUE 24. Cell 25. Ink