Kochi Prelims (TCS IT Wiz 2011)

1.) In 1999, " The Old Man and the Sea " became the first film in the world to appear in what format?

A: IMAX

2.) What does the last two "e" of "IEEE" stands for?

A: Electronic Engineers ( IEEE=Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers.)

3.) In 1992, Bell South & a gigantic  company came up with Simon, the first ever smart phone in world. Which is the other company?

A: IBM

4.) Identify the person who is the co-founder, present CEO & President of Sandisk Corporation?

A: Sanjay Mehrotra

5.) "GO" is a hand held game console from whom?

A: Sony

6.) Microsoft realised very early that e books on the windows platform would be  a big thing. They created a free downloadable  software to help you browse the e-books on windows based devices. What is it called?

A: Reader

7.) What is the full form of PCB as in " PCB Boards"?

A: Printed Circuit Board

8.) Which inventor & mathematician is this?

A: Blaise Pascal

9.) DC Comics has tied up with which electronic giant to create their super hero universe, this is for the MMO games platforms, whose is their partner?

A: Sony

10.) Which technology giant run the campign " Life without Walls"?

A: Microsoft (for Windows)

11.) Which company came out with the 'Zune' range of media player?

A: Microsoft

12.) Which company is making this wrist watch 

A: Nike 

13.) It was a huge file sharing service, a P2P  which has to to stop services for leaking the song " I disappear" before the official release of the song. Which is the P2P service mentioned?

A: Napster

14.) Phaneesh Murthy is the chairman of which software company that recently took over Patni computers?

A:  iGATE

15.) Which was the first restaurant chain to start online services as a trial way back in 1999 at University of California?

A: Pizza hut

16.) Identify the logo?

A: Baidu

17.) It is a device used to forward data packets to the appropriate parts of a computer network. What is the device?

A: Router

18.) Which Hindi Daily today has partnered with Yahoo India & to promote the content in Hindi for Yahoo India.?

A: Jagran 

19.) Sony along with which other company develops Internet TV for Google. This company is better known for providing keyboards, mouse etc...?

A: Logitech

20.) Identify this person who is known as the father of logic?

 A: George Boole

TCS IT Wiz Kochi 2011

1.) What do you call half a byte? ( To audience)
A: Nibble
2.) It's a region of memory which is called a whole data location while data is being moved from one location to another location. What is it technically called?
A: Buffer
3.) Entities in the collection, are kept in order & he  principle operations  are usually , addition to this entity list it normally work in a FIFO ( First In First Out) structure?
A: Queue
4.) It is a better name by which the world knew the Intel x86  & the reason was it was made compatible with something else , hence this name?
A: WINTEL
5.) Xerox developed this between 1973 & 1975 in many way it redefines modern computing.?
A: ETHERNET
6.) It was started as a research project at Telnor Telecom?
A: Opera

TCS IT Wiz Chennai 2011

1.Blyk is the new mobile media for Indian youth. Which Indian telecom giant provides this service?

- Aircel.

2.Tagline “for those who do”?

- Lenovo.

3.The two-way pager was introduced in 1999 Munich It is an example of a convergent device. How do we know it today?

- Blackberry.
4. The Sixaxis Wireless Controller was the official gamepad for the Sony PlayStation 3 from launch until 2008. The word "Sixaxis" is a palindrome. Which gaming console uses it?

- Playstation 3

5.YouTube, launched a new channel which will be showing a new Bollywood blockbuster every month. It was first released for Bollywood movies and soon its going to be available for tamil movies. Which service?

- Boxoffice

6.The company was founded in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik as a family business. It started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892.

-Phillips

7.Started as Galvin manufacturing company?
-Motorola

TCS IT Wiz Calcutta 2011

1.Which portable drive company was founded by Dr. Eli Harari & Sanjay Mehrotra?
A.Sandisk

2.The new product of which Taiwanese major it company is Iconia?
A.Acer

3.The shorty awards are given for creation of best content on which website?
A.Twitter

4.What is "Nomophobia"
A. fear of being out of Mobile phone contact. The term, an abbreviation for "no-mobile-phone phobia"

5.Which major electronics company and maker of calculator chips was founded by   Alvin B. Phillips?
A.Western Digital




TCS IT WIZ 2011 Bhubaneswar questions collection
Here are the prelim questions of TCS IT WIZ 2011 edition at Bhubaneswar.
Thanks to  Ayush Sinha & Bikash Mishr.


 
1.) NIC is a premiere S & T institution of the Government of India, established in 1976, for providing e-Governing/e-Governance Solutions adopting best practices, integrated services and global solutions in Government Sector. What does NIC stand for?
A: National Informatics Center

2.) Metcalfe left Xerox in 1979 to form 3Com . He convinced 3 tech-giants to promote Ethernet as a standard . It was so called DIX. If “D” is for DEC and “X” is for Xerox, then what is it for “I”?
  A: Intel (Not IBM as mentioned in last year’s TCS IT Wiz book)

3.) What great innovation was done by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law William Dealey, that is now a historical achievement as of now?(Specific answer required)
A: Keyboard(Dvorak layout)

4.) John Walker founded this company with 12 other engineers in 1982, Which aims at providing brilliant 3D design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. What is the company?
A: Autodesk

5.) It is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals . It was jointly developed by William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen. What are we talking about?
A: Transistor

6.) In computing , X is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a larger program , often as a plug-in . What is X?(Options given Applet/Crash/Flog)
A: Applet

7.)  What is the name of the mascot of Yahoo!Mail?(Hint- Its a cryptic word somewhere in the question)
A: Liam

8.) Ludicorp, a  Vancouver -based company, launched in February 2004. It is a video and web hosting site.The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game .What?
A: Flickr

9.) In 1941, Jorge Luis Borges created a novel based on that style. It is the underlying concept which defined the World Wide Web?
A: Hypertext

10.) This company also called “Integrated Electronics” though initially founded in 1968 ran much popular in 1990s. What significant company are we talking of?
A:Intel


11.) A privately-held, online gaming portal, with browser games in India (services provided Globally), promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's subsidiary company Reliance Big Entertainment. Which is this famous gaming portal?
A: Zapak

12.) Which cricketer is the brand ambassador of the very popular for Optical and imaging products, Canon?
A: Sachin Tendulkar

13.) Acronym as PDF in general. What is the full form?
A: Portable document format

14.)  Edwardo Saverin, Dustin Muskovitz, Chris Hughes and one another boy found what significant site in the IT world?
A: Facebook