TCS IT WIZ 2011 Mumbai Edition was conducted in Indian Education Society, Manik Sabhagraha, Opp Lilavati Hospital, Bandra Reclamation, Mumbai on 27th November,2011. I thank "Sanyam",who stood fourth in stage finals for Sharing the Questions with us.
1. Intelliweb Mouse is by which company?
A. Microsoft
2. If you +1 on Google + then what is it on Facebook?
A.Like
3. Google's service that incorporates social networking, news & chat?
A. Google Wave
4.He is the founder of which Anti-Virus company?
A.McAfee
5. Microsoft's service that was earlier classified only for US military use & was known as 'Munitions'. Its known by a different name today.
A.MSN TV
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Delhi Edition was conducted in Dogra Hall, IIT, Delhi on 14th November,2011. I thank "Vishal Golcha" for Sharing the Questions with us.
1.What is a propriety software called that has a trial version?
A.Shareware
2.This P2P file sharing service ran into trouble after it circulated the song 'I Disappear' by Metallica,even before it was officially released .Which is that P2P file sharing service?
A.Napster
3.This was released by Sony,after it's success of Walkman.It's a portable TV .What was this product called?
A.Watchman
4.Which sound technology was used for the first time in 'Batman Returns'? You now usually see it on film posters a lot.
A.Dolby
5. This was created by Hasbro in 1967,which allows the user to create glowing designs?
A.Lite-Brite
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Lucknow Edition was conducted in Gadke Auditorium, Vipin Khand, Gomtinagar, Lucknow on 9th November,2011. I thank "Samridh Kudesia", Runner of Lucknow edition for Sharing the Questions with us.
1. It is a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. It is a region of a physical memory storage used to temporarily hold data while it is being moved from one place to another.
A.Cache
2.In 1928, AT&T's Western Electric established a division for the specific purpose of installing and servicing their loudspeakers and electronic products for motion picture use. Called "E.R.P.I." (Electrical Research Products, Inc.), it was purchased as part of a consent decree in 1936 by a group of E.R.P.I. executives, including George Carrington, Sr. and Mike Conrow. They changed the name to "All Technical Service Company". Identify the company.
A.Altec Lansing
3. Established in 1922, the company reincorporated in 1928 and adopted its present name in 1959.It is the world's largest producer of guided missiles. It’s name is formed by combining a word meaning “Light” and a Mythical God.
A.Raytheon
4. Identify this inventor ?(Hint: He developed the computer mouse.)
A.Douglas Engelbart
5. Started as the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation … ?
A.Motorola
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Kochi Edition was conducted in Gokulam Convention Center,Opp Kaloor Private Bus Stand,Kaloor on 7th October,2011. I thank my dearest friend "Nikhil Rao" and “TECH4YOU” for Sharing the Questions with us.
1.What was the film format first used for the film “the old man and the sea”?
A.IMAX
2.Expand the last 2 letters in the abbreviation IEEE?
A.Electronic Engineers
3.Simon,the world’s first smartphone is a collaboration between Bell South and Which IT giant?
A.IBM
4.Identify this person,who is related with the company Sandisk?
A.Sanjay Mehorotra [Co-Founder and CEO]
5.GO is a handheld game console from which company?
A.Sony
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Kolkata Edition was conducted in Kala Mandir, 48, Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata -17 on 13th September,2011. I thank "Dipyaman Chakrabarti" for Sharing the Questions with us.
1.’Optimus’ is the range of smart phones is associated with which Company?
A.LG
2.This Taiwanese Multinational Company has recently started making mobile phones named Liquid and Stream.Identify.
A.Acer
3.This person is the founder of which famous website?
A.Linkedin (Reid Hoffman)
4.Which portable drive company was founded by Dr. Eli Harari & Sanjay Mehotra?
A.Sandisk
5.This is a Common Error Message in the Internet. Recently a South Indian Movie was made with the Same tile. Identify this Error Message or Movie Title.
A.404
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Bhubaneswar Edition was conducted in PAL Heights, J/7, Jaydev Vihar Road, Bhubaneswar on 6th September,2011. I thank "Ayush Sinha" for Sharing the Questions with us.
Experience Anticipation
1.Unsolicited Bulk E-mails are also known as?
A.Spam
2. ______ is a direct manipulation user Interface
construction kit. This interface is built out of graphical objects which allow for a great degree of flexibility and dynamicism.
A.Morphic
3.Oak Tree..??
A.Java
4.It was a line of Laptop computers sold from 1999 to 2006. One of the three distinct designs of it was known as “Clamshell”. What?
A.iBook(Replaced by the Macbook in 2006)
5.It is all information processed by computer system, programs and data. The first theory of this was proposed by Alan Turing in his essay ‘On computable numbers..Entsheidungs….’. What?
A.Software
6. _____ is software that appears to perform a desirable function for the user prior to run or install, but
(perhaps in addition to the expected function) steals information or harms the system. It is a method of
concealing the user.
A.Trojan
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Bhubaneswar Edition was conducted in PAL Heights, J/7, Jaydev Vihar Road, Bhubaneswar on 6th September,2011. I thank "Susovan Mahapatra" and "Ayush Sinha" for Sharing the Questions with us.
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 Informatic center
2.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.com
3.This famous book depicts which great personality in the world of IT?
A.Alan Turing
4.Which cricketer is the brand ambassador of the very popular for Optical and imaging products, Canon?
A.Sachin Tendulakar
5.What is the underlying concept defining the structure of the World Wide Web and is the text displayed on a computer with references to other text that the reader can immediately access?
A. Hypertext
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Coimbatore Edition was conducted in Corporation Kalai Arangam, RS Puram, Coimbatore on 25th August,2011. I thank "Prabhakaran Manoharan",who stood third in this region and "Sriram Prasath" for Sharing the Questions with us.
1.Blyk is the new mobile media for Indian youth. Which Indian telecom giant provides this service?
A.Aircel
2.Tagline “for those who do”?
A.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?
A.Blackberry
4.A Mathematician known well for his work which is one of the fundamental basis of computer.
A.George Boole
5. The Maldives was the first country to open an embassy. It is a "Diplomacy Island", where visitors will be able to talk face-to-face with a computer-generated ambassador.
A.Second Life
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Pune Edition was conducted in Yashwantrao Chavan Natyagruha, Karve Nagary on 23rd August,2011. I thank "Tejas Deshpande" For Sharing the Questions with us.
1. Who was the CEO of Yahoo before Carol Bartz?
A:Jerry Yang
2. Which person was the the TIME person of the Year 2010?
A:Mark Zuckerberg
3. X was purchased by Amazon in 1998 . It orginally started as a hobby by film enthusiast Col Needham in early 1989. Identify X?
A:Internet Movie Database [IMDB]
4.Identify this Popular Magazine?
A:PC Magazine
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Chennai Edition was conducted in Music Academy, TTK Road on 18th August,2011. I thank "Aditthya R" and "Thiru Kumaran" For Sharing the Questions with us.
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Ahmedabad Edition was conducted in Siddganga Tagore Hall, Paldi, Ahmedabad on 12th August,2011. I thank my regular blog visitor "Manas Gupta",Champion of Ahmedabad edition, "Yashwardhan bagadia" and "Sakansh Mittal" for Sharing the Questions.The cutoff was 10 for the top 25 teams and was 13 for the top 6 teams.
1.It was known as DIX when created by Dell,Intel and Xerox and it is a very very important part of today's technology world.Identify.
A:Ethernet
2.He is an alumus of Uppsala university in sweden and was the co-founder of Kaaza.Identify.
A:Niklas Zennstrom
3.It was an Open Source Operating System created by Apple in 2000.Identify.
A:Darwin OS
4.The man who is behind the creation NASSCOM, was in news recently as he resigned from Mind Tree.
A:Ashok Soota
5.He is the inventor of Oak Programming language, who left Sun Microsystems to join Google.Idenitfy.
A:James Ghosling
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Hyderabad Edition was conducted in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Basheerbagh,Hyderabad on 29th July,2011. I thank "Syed Murtuza Hashmi",Champion of Hyderabad Edition For Sharing the Questions.
1. The Italians call it the snail, the Germans call it spider monkey, Dutch call it monkey tail and in Chinese it is called the little mouse. What am I talking about?
A: "@" Symbol
2. What is the present name of the Alexander Bell Telephone Company?
A: AT & T
3. The immediate predecessors of it were "Optimum Coding in the Frequency Domain" (OCF), and Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM). This format was made at the Fraunhofer Society. Which format?
A:Mp3 Format
4. In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded a firm, Syzygy Engineering. How do we better know this company now? (Clue: Famous company from the world of gaming)
A:Atari
5. What was started by these two young IIT graduates? (Name a website)
A:Flipkart.com
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Bangalore Edition was conducted in Chowdaiyah Memorial Hall, near Sankey tankon 27th July,2011. I thank "Naveen Kumar" For Sharing the Questions with us.
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Experience Anticipation
1.Microsoft started a project which was the First Wi-Fi Enabled Toilet.Identify?
A:iLoo
2.Alax Douglas graphics game, which was the 1st to run in the digital world.
A:Oxo
3.Search engine for web video, san francisco based company, operated by AOL.
A:Truvio
4.It is a Coding scheme, that represents indirect scripts and roman language.
A:ISCII
5.Specialized term, appear in the printed format, its electronic form comes in E-mail?
A:Ezine
6.Toshio lue used plant to create a bicycle lamp.
A:Sanyo
7.It is a stategy game , the player controls the game by using codes, controls the glominoid creatures made out of baked clay.
A:Gruntz
Experience Diversity
1.Identify this logo?
A:Friend feed
TCS IT WIZ 2011 Bangalore Edition was conducted in Chowdaiyah Memorial Hall, near Sankey tankon 27th July,2011. I thank "Balaji Subramanian" For Sharing the Questions.
1.SAGA 220 is India's fastest supercomputer with a speed of 220 Teraflops. Name the organisation that designed it?
A.ISRO
2.This spinoff of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone was started in 1991. Company name means 'everywhere' in the native language. Present in India in partnership with a major Indian company.
A.Docomo
3.This brand's name refers to an edible fruit in plants of the rose family. Was in the news due to a protracted dispute with Govt of India.
A.Blackberry
4.Identify this logo?
A.Radioshack
5.This game was inspired by Warcraft III: Frozen Throne, and DoTA in particular. Here too, the objective of the game was to fight the enemy force and destroy their base.
A.Heroes of Newerth
6.Identify?
A.Stephen Elop
TCS IT Wiz, India's biggest IT quiz for schools, started in 1999, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2008. The quiz, in the last decade, has become a benchmark in the inter-school quizzing circuit for the level of research, the intensity with which teams compete and the sheer numbers that it draws.
Here is the overall quiz format of TCS IT WIZ 2011.
Prelim: This would be a common set of 20 questions for all the teams at the venue. Questions would be in the form of oral, visual and audiovisual.
Final: The top six teams from the written prelim would qualify for final. Only the best team from each school will be called on stage in the event of multiple teams from the same school qualifying for the final.
Here i am sharing the PDF format of TCS IT Wiz 2010 Prelims Questions of all the Regions.
P.S:For some reasons i disabled Download feature in slideshare But,If you want the PDF file of TCS IT WIZ prelims questions,Please mail me at mail@ivittal.in by mentioning "TCS IT WIZ PRELIMS" in the Subject field.
TCS IT WIZ 2010 Mumbai Edition was conducted in : Indian Education Society,Bandra on 28th November,2010.I thank Harsh Khara for sharing the questions.
1.Identify this Person?
A.Carol bartz
2.Evan Williams is the founder of which great website?
A.Twitter
3.Identify?
A.Google Tricycle [it is used to capture images in streets to make maps]
4.This gaming portal has a special section for girls and it brought runescape to india?
A.Zapak
TCS IT WIZ 2010 Delhi Edition was conducted in Dogra Hall,IIT,Delhi on 27th November,2010.I thank Vishal Khanna and Karan for sharing the questions.
Round I:Cloud Computing (+10) – Visual Round
1.Identify-Apple's Social Network Logo
2.Identify-Playstation Move
3.Who Is Missing-Some Guy Called Clarry Flariona Or Something Like That
4.Identify The Person From The Clue(Hollerith Desk/Tabulating Machine)-Herman Hollireth
5.Missing Company From The Chart-Symbian(All Companies Use Symbian Os For Their Cell Phones)
6.Identify Logo-Microsoft Service Called Photosynth
7.A Device Which Will Project A Keyboard And A Screen And Can Be Used As A Computer(Like The Mozilla Seabird)
8.Flght Simulator
9.Old Logo Of Facebook
TCS IT WIZ 2010 Delhi Edition was conducted in Dogra Hall,IIT,Delhi on 27th November,2010.I thank Harsh Khara for sharing the questions.
1. Who was the 2010 Republic Nominee for governor of California associated with IT?
A.Whitman – ebay
2. What did Jyoti Basu and the C.M of West Bengal Sulak Ram did that it became first in India on 31 July,1995?
A.First phone call
3. Which company is CAD associated with and who’s the person who has shifted from it to yahoo?
A.Autodesk and Carol Bartz
4. Identify this person?
A.Vinton Cerf
A. Droid
1.Identify? [clue: Hungarian mathematician]
A.John von Neumann
2.Breaburn capital and File maker are subsidiaries of which company?
A.Apple
3.The name of what is derived from picture and element?
A. Pixel
4.The name of this company was taken from a greek mythological creature. The first few words were dropped to get a higher position in the alphabetical order?
A.Asus(pegasus)
5.Eric E Schimdt is the CEO of which company?
A.Google
Finally the wait is over!,I thank Prayash Mohapatra for sharing the questions.So,here goes the prelims of Bhubaneshwar region.
1.According to Oxford Dictionary,it is a digital recording of a internet radio station,What is being referred to?
A.Podcasting
2.Which Free refrence guide did Jimmy Whales Created?
A.Wikipedia
3.What is the Full Form of TFT?
A.Thin Filament Transistor
4.Identify this Company’s logo which made Mp3 players and it is a competitor to apple?
A.Creative
5.What do we call Microsoft Window + Intel CPU?
A.Wintel
1.Identify the logo?
A.Aadhar.
2.Alienware is the subsidiary of which IT giant?
A.Dell.
3.Which was the 1st bollywood movie to stream on Youtube while the film was released in theatre? ( HINT: It sounds like a position in football)
A.Striker.
4.Identify the personality?
A.Steve Jobs.
5.Expand AJAX?
A.Asynchronous Javascript XML.
1.The game “Game Room” was created by which major corporation?
A.Microsoft
2. After selling Skype, he went on to start Joost with his friend Friis. Now he along with Janus Friis manage “Atomico” company a venture capital. Name the person?
A. Niklas Zennström
3.Papyrus is E reader from which company ?
A.Samsung
4.Roy Bostock is the chairman of which major internet corporation?
A.Yahoo
5.It was used since the 18th century to denote happiness in letters. Later in its current state it was created by Scott Fahlman who was paid just $45 to create it. Identify
A.Emoticon
1. What begun in 1968 at the University of Hawaii under the leadership of Norman Abramson and others (including F. Kuo, N. Gaarder and N. Weldon) ?
A.ALOHANet
2. Which Famous Company was originally known as Moore-Noyce, but was later renamed as ?
A.Intel
3. Identify this?
A.Network Topologies.
4.. Expand IPTV
A.Internet Protocol television
5. Identify this person?
A. Jerry Rao [Former Mphasis CEO]
Round I:Cloud Computing (+10) – visual round
1.Identify this?
A:It is a Braille interpreter used by blind people to read electronic Braille.
2.How does it work?
A.It is a Dish Washer which works from wind power
3.Who makes this?
A.Microsoft
1. _______ 3.0 promotion group has announced the latest version of this hardware standard so as to improve the speed of this specification. Fill in the blank
A: USB
2. The Co-founder of KaZaa finished a dual degree from Uppsala university. Name him?
A : Niklaus Zennstrom
3. How do we know the Shugart Company founded by Alan Shugart well?
A : Seagate
4. Identify this person?
A:Vinod Dham
5. Which Japanese company name’s English translation refers to ‘leave luck to heaven’?
A : Nintendo
1.Which is the Operating System Used By Dell Streak Tablet Phone?
A:Android OS
2.Identify this Logo?
A:Apple Genius
3.Which Web Site tells that “Discover what's happening right now”?
A:Twitter
4.What is the current name of Jerry's and Davids Guide to Internet?
A:Yahoo
1.“DoubleClick “ is a subsidiary of a search giant which acquired it, for its ad services, in March 2008. Name its present parent company ?
A:Google
2.Identify this Device?
A:Amazon's Kindle Reader
2.Which Research and development organization was started in 1984 at Pune to develop supercomputers in India?
A:CDAC
3.WordMole is a game application originally found on which famous communication device?
A:Black Berry
4. Jack Dorsey in 2006 made the first attempt to start it. Later he went on to start a project called Odeo which became a company later. And finally he together with Evan Williams started this company in October 2006. Which company/website did they start?
A:Twitter
5.Whose idea is this?
A:Alan Turing
Identify this Person?
A:Andy Bechtolsheim
2.Identify this Head Quarters?
A:Bell Labs HQ. 3.Identify this person?
A.Ronald Wayne 
