1. Why is Apple Company named so?
Apple- for the favourite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked at
an apple orchard. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he
threatened to call his company Apple Computer if his colleagues didn't suggest a better
name by 5 p.m.
(Other version like Beatles and Alan Turing’s death has also been given points)
2.
Connect the three pictures
The pics are of Lord Byron, Anlaytical engine and Charles babbage.
Answer: Lady Ada Lovelace Byron who worked with Charles babbage on the
analytical engine and she also wrote the language ADA.
3. What is Vinod Dham’s claim to fame?
Pentium
4. What does html stand for?
Hyper text markup language
5. How did the Java language get its name?
The programming team at Sun had to look for a substitute name as there was already
another programming language called Oak. "Java" was selected from a list of
suggestions, primarily because the Java bean coffee was popular amongst the
programmers. (There is a lot of controversy and different versions on this particular
answer but we are going with this popular version)
6. What are the five levels of CMM?
Level 1 - Initial
Level 2 - Repeatable
Level 3 - Defined
Level 4 - Managed
Level 5 – Optimizing
7. Connect
The Chairman of Polaris group, Mr. Arun Jain, was arrested by the Indonesian police
over over a commercial dispute between his company and Artha Graha Bank in
Jakarta.
8. What is a Master boot record?
Short for Master Boot Record, MBR is the first sector of the computer hard disk drive
used to determine from which partition a computer will boot. The MBR tells the
computer where to find and how to load the operating system. It also tells the computer
how the hard drive is organized and provides information about the drive's partitions.
9. Identify the person
The one and only Richard Stallman the founder of the free software movement, the
GNU project, and the Free Software Foundation and a pain in Microsoft’s ass .
10. What are the following examples of?
First in first out
Robin Round
Last in First out
Shortest Job next
Shortest Remaining time
Scheduling algorithms used in operating systems