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Quiz

V.V. Ramanan

Questions

1. Simple one to start with. What is Google’s open operating system for mobile phones called?

2. Which telecom major is the biggest stakeholder in Symbian Ltd?

3. In the context of security, what is ‘zoo’?

4. Nigel Clifford is the CEO of…..?

5. Who has Peter Dengate Thrush replaced as the Chairman of ICANN?

6. What was founded in July 1990 by Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore and John Perry Barlow?

7. The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) used in Nintendo’s Wii video game console is called…?

8. What in the context of Linux is ‘bash’?

9. Fill in the blank: The maximum packet length of IP, including the IP header, is _____ bytes.

10. What is ‘Wardriving’?

Answers

1. Android

2. Nokia

3. The collection of viruses and worms that exist only in virus and anti-virus labs.

4. Symbian Ltd.

5. The legendary ‘father of the Internet’ Vinton Cerf.

6. The Electronic Frontier Foundation.

7. Hollywood

8. Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is the free version of the Bourne shell distributed with Linux and GNU operating systems.

9. 65,535

10. Searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by a person in a moving vehicle while using a Wi-Fi-equipped computer.

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