INFOTECH Quiz -- 008

Welcome to the 8th edition of INFOTECH Quiz.

There are ten statements with one of the two options provided in them be the right one. Select the appropriate answer from the two options.

1. According to the recent survey by MyHiringClub.com, the mid-career IT professional is best paid in USA / Switzerland
2. Pope / Modi is world`s 2nd most-popular leader on Twitter after Obama
3. The traffic police department of Bangalore / Delhi was the first to introduce the Blackberry based system, e-challan, for traffic violation.
4. Apple / Google is the world’s most valuable brand
5. Industrial Internet consortium was formed in 2014 by AT&T, IBM, Cisco, Intel and GE / HP
6. According to a recent survey by Vuclip Global Video Insights, the top application through which  most Indians share videos is Facebook / WhatsApp
7. Twitter is to ease its current character limit of 140 / 160 on direct messages. 
8. Rwanda / Singapore is being considered for testing the world’s first port for cargo drones to come up in 2016
9. Smartphone maker YU is the sub brand of Micromax / Karboon
10. Big Billion Day Sale is by Flipkart / Snapdeal

Four randomly selected lucky winners will receive cash prizes of Rs. 250/- each sponsored by Orbit Innovations. 

Two prizes out of four are reserved to those attend the presentation on “State of the art ALM – Overview of KOVAIR Tools” on 13th Nov 2015. 

Pl. see the Invite and register to attend the presentation. 

The quiz will be open till 11th Nov 2015 midnight.

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INFOTECH Quiz -- 007

Welcome to the 7th edition of INFOTECH Quiz.

There are ten statements with one of the two options provided in them be the right one. Select the appropriate answer from the two options.

1. In the recent change of the Google logo, the typeface is in Sans-Serif  / Times Roman
2. The website of Alphabet Inc., the newly formed holding company of Google is abc.com / abc.xyz
3. Bluemix is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) developed by IBM / HP
4. While TCS tops In the recent list of DQ Top 20 IT Companies, Infosys / CTS ranks no. 2
5. While the top four of the five Indian IT companies have spent about 645 crores in the FY 2014-15, on CSR initiatives, the topper is TCS / Infosys
6. A QR (quick-response) code is a two / three dimensional, barcode-like image  that, once scanned, directs to web pages for more information.
7. Tech veteran  John McAfee /  Larry Ellison to join 2016 US presidential race as independent     
8. Google launches online IT courses in India along with Udacity / Coursera
9. Lenovo recently launched it’s smartphone / digital camera  -- 'Vibe Shot'  in India
10. Dreamwriter / Dragonwriter is the Robot reporter from Chinese game giant Tencent.

Four randomly selected lucky winners will receive a copy of the book “Architecting Cloud SaaS Software” sponsored by Pearson. Two prizes out of the four are reserved to those attend the book launch and presentation on “Architecting Cloud SaaS Software” on 19th Oct 2015 being organised by CSI, IEEE CS, IEEE PCS, IITMAA & ACM India. Pl. see the Invite and register to attend the presentation. 

The quiz will be open till 16th Oct 2015 midnight.

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The following are the winners who had attended the programme and received a copy of the book released. 

Sakthivel P, Kartikeyan PR & Jerald Inico J

The winner of the book under the general category is:

Viajianand SK

INFOTECH Quiz -- 006

Welcome to the 6th edition of INFOTECH Quiz.

There are ten statements with one of the two options provided in them be the right one. Select the appropriate answer from the two options.

1. It is speculated that Mr. Sundar Pitchai was elevated as CEO of Google as he was getting an offer from LinkedIn / Twitter.
2. “power to empower” is the tagline of Make in India / Digital India
3. Airtel / BSNL was the first to introduce broadband services in India in the mid-1990s.
4. Karnataka / Kerala claims to have become India's first 'complete digital state'
5. National centre for Flexible Electronics was established in 2014 through a grant from DeitY under ESDM scheme of Electronics Policy 2012 of GoI at IIT Mumbai / Kanpur
6. Domain names are managed by ICANN / ISOC (Internet Society)
7. Govt. recently declared the list of 98 cities chosen for Smart Cities program in which Tamil Nadu / Uttar Pradesh tops the list.
8. Taj Mahal / Qutab Minar becomes the first historical monument to have its very own Twitter account.
9. Edge s a web browser developed by Samsung / Microsoft
10. Apple : Srii = Google : Google Now / Cortana

Four randomly selected lucky winners will receive cash prizes of Rs. 250/- each sponsored by Orbit Innovations. 

Two prizes out of four are reserved to those attend the presentation on “Make Analysis Enchanting: Visual Analytics” on 28th Sep 2015.  Pl. see the Invite and register to attend the presentation. 

The quiz will be open till 25th Sep 2015 midnight.

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Though four correct entries were eligible for the cash award of Rs. 250/= under the category of attendees of the pgm on 28th Sep 2015, as none attended the pgm, the two awards were not given.

The winners of cash award of Rs. 250/= under the general category are:

Dr. Muzamil Mushtaq & Ms. Sathyalakshmi S

Answers to INFOTECH Quiz - 004 to 010

Answers to INFOTECH Quiz - 004

1. Kolkata
2. Fictional Robots
3. HTC Dream
4. R
5. HDFC
6. Pepper
7. IBM
8. Drones
9. Airtel Zero
10. Deep Stereo

Answers to INFOTECH Quiz - 005

1. Wipro
2. Android
3. Ola
4. Nearbuy
5. Andhra Pradesh
6. Maharashtra
7. Bangladesh
8. Ha ha
9. Intel
10. Jibo

Answers to INFOTECH Quiz - 006

1. Twitter
2. Digital India
3. Airtel
4. Kerala
5. Kanpur
6. ICANN
7. Tamil Nadu
8. Taj Mahal
9. Microsoft
10. Cortana

Answers to INFOTECH Quiz - 007

1. Sans-Serif
2. abc.xyz
3. IBM /
4. CTS             
5. Infosys
6. Two
7. John McAfee
8. Udacity
9. Smartphone
10. Dreamwriter

INFOTECH QUIZ -- 005

Welcome to the 5th edition of INFOTECH Quiz.
There are ten statements with one of the two options provided in them be the right one. Select the appropriate answer from the two options.

1. The book “Bangalore Tiger” is all about Infosys / Wipro 
2. The bug, Stagefright can crash 95% of Android / Windows phones with a single text message 
3. With the recent investment of 630 Cr in Aug 2015 by falcon Edge, the valuation of Ola Cabs / Meru Cabs doubles to Rs 32000 crores. 
4. Groupon India, a part of GROUPON Inc. - the big daddy of deals on the internet will be called Nearbuy / Crazeal 
5. It is speculated that Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is likely to set up manufacturing base in Gujarat / Andhra Pradesh 
6. Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer to invest $5 billion in a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Maharashtra / Andhra Pradesh 
7. Recently in Aug 2015, 4th blogger was killed in Pakistan / Bangladesh by suspected militants 
8. He he / Ha ha is the most used happiness expression on Facebook according to a recent Facebook research on e-laughing. 
9. The recently opened new science and innovation museum at the Rashtrapati Bhavan (RB) will be managed by Intel / IBM till RB takes over. 
10. The Roboticist Cynthia Breazeal designed robot christened Jibo / Fabo is touted as the world’s first family robot 

Four randomly selected lucky winners will receive receive cash prizes of Rs. 250/- sponsored by Orbit Innovations. Two prizes out of for are reserved to those attend the presentation on “Imparting Essential IT Skills for Employment Using Lab Simulators” on 22nd Aug 2015. Pl. see the Invite and to register for attending the presentation.

The quiz will be open till 20th Aug 2015 midnight.

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The following are the winners  of cash award of Rs. 250/=

Shunmugachamy V & Karthikeyan P R

   

INFOTECH Quiz – 004

Welcome to the 4th edition of INFOTECH Quiz.

There are ten statements with one of the two options provided in them be the right one. Select the appropriate answer from the two options.

1. Bharti Airtel launches 4G services for the first time in the country, starting from Kolkata / New Delhi
2. The Alpha versions of Android OS were named after fictional robots / confectionery
3. Google Nexus / HTC Dream  was the first commercially released device to use the Linux-based Android operating system.
4. R / C is the programming language of choice for statisticians and anybody doing data analysis
5. ICICI / HDFC Bank has become the first bank in India to launch Watch Banking for Apple Watch
6. Pepper / Asimo is considered as the first robot to understand emotions
7. Intel / IBM have come out with a 7 nanometer chip, a breakthrough in chip manufacturing using silicon-germanium instead pure silicon
8. Facebook had experimented with drones / balloons to beam Internet down to billions of people around the world.
9. The scheme Airtel Zero / Free announced but not implemented by Airtel was considered to be anti Net Neutrality
10. Deep Stereo / View is the system based on Google’s machine-learning acumen that can be trained to generate new Street View images

TWO randomly selected lucky winners will receive a copy of the book Software Engineering / Software Project Management being launched on 16th Jul 2015 by Pearson under the auspice of CSI, IEEE CS & PMI. Pl. see the Invite to participate in the book launch programme and in the seminar on “Latest Trends in IT Industry : Agile, Cloud, Analytics and Internet of Things”

The quiz will be open till 15th Jul 2015 midnight.

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The following are the six (instead of two all those answered correctly) winners in INFOTECH Quiz -- 004. All were presented with a copy of the books released and of their choice.

1. Sundaram B
2. Revathi Kannan
3. Vijayakumar  M. Vaiyapuri
4. Sathya Praveen
5. Bhanu Kumar S
6. Srinivas Anand YRSN