Friday 26 December 2008

Info Contest – 0812

This contest has four sections A, B, C & D having five questions each.

A. Identify the terms which are defined below.

A1. Describes a condition in which there are only two states

A2. The term used to describe the interconnected world or community of bloggers.

A3. Intermediate storage area, often used to compensate for the different speeds at which hardware units can handle data

A4. A common synonym for an integrated circuit, usually the one used for the main processor.

A5. Program which converts high-level source language instructions into executable machine code

B. Identify the company / product / magazine / service from the Tag Line.

B1. Keeping You Ahead

B2. Making it possible

B3. Consider IT Done

B4. Making Innovation Thrive

B5. The Business of Communications

C. Provide the Answer.

C1. Who is considered as the “Father of the Indian outsourcing industry”?

C2. Which Telco has recently launched India’s first third generation (3G) mobile services?

C3. Which IT personality has written the book “Imagining India: Ideas for the new century”

C4. The McColo network in US was notorious for what?

C5. BPIAI is the association of ------

D. Fill in the blanks / Provide the answer.

D1 Intel: Xeon = AMD: ------

D2. Google: Google Earth = ISRO: ------

D3. Adobe : Flash = Microsoft : ------

D4. 404 : Not Found = 302: ------

D5. Screen of Death : MS Windows OS = Green Screenm of Death : ------

ANSWERS
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Binary, Blogosphere, Buffer, Chip, Compiler
Sify, Tulip, Syntel, Dialogic,Voice & Data
Raman Roy, MTNL, Nandan Nilekani, Spam, BPO industries
Opetron, Bhuvan, Silverlight, Found, XboxCOnsole / TiVo – Digital Video Recorder