Hi friends,
Here we are presenting the TCS IT WIZ 2011 Lucknow Prelim Questions.
We have our sincere thanks & wishes for the Winner of TCS IT WIZ 2011 Lucknow , PRANSHU AGARWAL, who provided us the question.
Q1)
The current incarnation of this famous website is the result of a
March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com.In Oct 2002 became a
wholly owned subsidiary of ebay. Which famous website is this?
Ans: Paypal Inc.
Q2)
Which company was founded in 1906 in Rochester , New York as The
Haloid Photographic Company,which originally manufactured photographic
paper and equipment.?
Ans:Xerox
Q3) World’s largest producer of guided
missiles .Established in 1922 the company reincorporated in 1928 &
adopted its present name in 1959. What?(hint: and adopted its name by
mixing an old French word with a greek meaning ‘ray of lights from the
gods’?
Ans:Raytheon
Q4) Identify this person?(hint: known as the inventor of computer mouse)
Ans: Douglas Engelbart
Q5) Which company started
as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928, with its first product
being a battery eliminator?. It adopted its current name in 1930.
Ans: Motorola
Q6)
Contrived acronym was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum,
Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford? Carnegie Mellon University
attempted to trademark the term, but the trademark application was
abandoned on 21 April 2008. It requires the user to type letters or
digits from a distorted image that appears on the screen.(picbrain said
don’t give ans like Turing Test be specific only the term)
Ans: CAPTCHA
Q7) The term IPTV first appeared in 1995 with the
founding of Precept Software by Judith Estrin and Bill Carrico. Precept
developed an Internet video product named something which is the future
of television.What am I describing?
Ans:IPTV(Internet Protocol Television)
Q8) )What is
defined as “Collection of duplicating original values stored elsewhere
or computed earlier where the original data is inexpensive to fetch
“?(pickbrain said its basically a type of memory)?
Ans:Cache memory
Q9)Identify the company from its logo?
Ans:Cisco
Q10)Verizon Wireless has released a
line of smartphones that go by a name which is a trademark of Lucasfilms
Ltd. It It was involved in a lawsuit with Google with a very popular
OS. Identify this series of smartphones?
Ans:Droid
Q11) Started in 1928, as AT&T's Western Electric
division , established a division for the specific purpose of installing
and servicing their loudspeakers and electronic products for motion
picture use. Called "E.R.P.I." (Electrical Research Products, Inc.), it
was purchased as part of a consent decree in 1936 by a group of E.R.P.I.
executives, including George Carrington, Sr. and Mike Conrow. They
changed the name to "All Technical Service Company". How do we know this
company today?(pickbrain said see the question carefully it contains
the answer itself)
Ans:Altac Lancing
Q12) Identify this creator of USB?
Ans:Ajay Bhatt
Q13) It is an easy to use Internet service that
organizes information on the internet into a series of structured
hierarchial menus . Its search engine is Veronica.(pickbrain said it was
used by Jerry Yang for inventing the Yahoo database)(options
given:archie/gopher/lycos)
Ans: Gopher
Q14) Originally developed by , John W. Backus in late
1953 submitted a proposal to his superiors at IBM to develop a more
practical alternative to assembly language for programming their IBM 704
mainframe computer. Which famous programming language which was
originally called “speedcoding”?
Ans:Fortran
Q15) Which technology czar has
committeed to put aside well over 10%of his wealth for philanthrophic
issues . His foundation’s education venture include SSN educational
Institute named after his father and is setting up Seven Vidyagyan
schools in UP for rural students?
Ans:Shiv Nadar
Q16)Identify this nobel laurette?
Ans:Jack Kilby
Q17) The Fujifilm FinePix Real X cameras can take
X-dimensional pictures using two lenses, and display them to the naked
eye in X format .What is X?.(asked by putting a dash instead of x)
Ans:3 Dimensional
Q18) Lindon Labs headquartered in California launched
in June 2003 . It was developed by Philip Rosedale, as a computer
hardware allowing people to immerse in a virtual world. In its earliest
form, the company struggled to produce a commercial version of the
hardware, known as "The Rig", which was realized in prototype form as a
clunky steel contraption with computer monitors worn on shoulders.What
is this famous in virtual world?
Ans:Second Life
Q19)What is the mascot of Java mascot called?
Ans:Duke the duck
Q20)Identify the logo?
Ans: Blu-Ray Disk
