tcs it wiz 2010 chennai prelim

Here TECH4YOU is postingthe Chennai TCS IT WIZ prelim questions.

   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
  ANS : USB                                 
   2. The co founder of KaZaa finished a dual degree from Uppsala university. Name him.
  ANS : Niklaus Zennstrom
  3. How do we know the Shugart Company founded by Alan Shugart well?
    ANS : Seagate
 4. Which Japanese company name’s English translation refers to ‘leave luck to heaven’?
  ANS : Nintendo
 5. 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.
   ANS : Kernel
6. This was earlier named Phoenix, later renamed to FireBird even then, due to trademark issues, it  was renamed to something else. What?
ANS : firefox
7. This country has recently declared broadband access as one of the basic fundamental rights  apart from life and liberty. Which country?
ANS : Finland
8. 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?
 ANS : Simley / emoticon
9. iPhones and iPads cannot play flash videos. But they can play YouTube videos as they are  encoded in X compression technology. Find X.
ANS : H.264
 10. 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?
ANS : wikileaks


11. The latest edition is called Froyo. The future iteration of this is named as Gingerbread. What is    this?
 ANS : Android OS
12. This company is the first in India to provide private cloud services. It was also India’s first private  ISP. Name this company.
ANS : Sify
13. 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.
  ANS : iPad
14. 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?
  ANS : JAVA

15. 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?
 ANS : Yahoo!