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1.Which nation gets its top level domain from the words Confederation Helvetica?

A.Switzerland

2.Its name was homonymous with “pal” in Japanese. What from Sony?

A. AIBO

3.Invented by John Backus for IBM, in 1954. It began as a digital code interpreter for the IBM 701 and was originally named Speedcoding. Identify the language.

A.Fortran

4.The company's name was chosen in homage to the Library of Alexandria, drawing a parallel between the largest repository of knowledge in the ancient world to the potential of the Internet. What?

A.Alexa

5.What is the term used for a twitterer with a million or more followers?  
A.A twillionaire

The Board of IT Education Standards (BITES) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Asia’s largest IT company are organising the Second edition of the Engineering IT Quiz – “TCS TechBytes”.

The program is an initiative to help students understand technology better - in the process help them enhance their lateral thinking process and inculcate the spirit to compete and excel.The quiz would serve as an alternative platform to enhance awareness and confidence levels of the aspiring engineers while bringing them in sync with the current developments in the technology domain through an interactive and engaging quiz platform. “TCS TechBytes” strives to provide a better understanding of IT as technology today is an enabler in diverse fields – be it engineering, medicine, law, sports, science, movie, music, government, automobile and telecommunication. The quiz is open to engineering students of all streams and will be held across Karnataka. It will be hosted by noted Quizmaster ‘Pickbrain’ Giri Balasubramaniam of Greycaps, who also conducts TCS IT Wiz, Rural IT Quiz and Tata Crucible among others.

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 Rural IT Quiz 2011 District Level Quiz was conducted in all the districts of Karnataka on 7^th September,2011.I thank "Sandesh Nayak" from Poornaprajna PU College,Udupi for Sharing the Questions with us.

1. James Ghosling is considered the father of which language?

A.Java

2.If the domain for India is .in then which country is .pk?

A.Pakistan

3.What is the name for a modulating and demodulating device?

A.MODEM

4. How do we know CTR and Co. a company that started in 1911 with the Tabulating machine?

A.IBM

5. Newton was the operating system used by whom for their PDA's?

A.Apple

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 Rural IT Quiz 2011 Mysore Regionals was conducted on 13th October,2011. I thank "Sandesh Nayak" from Poornaprajna PU College,Udupi for Sharing the Questions with us. Students from Chamarajnagar, Mandya, Mysore, Kodagu, Hassan, Ramanagaram, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Chikmagalur Districts were participated in this regionals.

1.South Korea and Israel led the race for banning this gadget from entering their country. After two months of the ban, the countries lifted the ban and returned the confiscated gadgets. The Yankees Stadium in NewYork too banned this gadget in their stadium. Identify.

A.Apple iPad

2.Originally named Pheonix, Renamed as Firebird which again had trademark problems. How do we know it better today?

A.Mozilla Firefox

3.What is the name of popular e-book reader from Barnes and noble?

A.Nook

4.Identify this personality.

A.Vinod Dham

5.Alan Shugart started this company in 1970's. Which company?

A.Seagate

6.Defined by Oxford dictionary as a softer, usually edible part of a nut, seed or a fruit stone contained within its shell, we also know it as something that connects the application software to hardware of the computer. What?

A.Kernel

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

Rural IT Quiz is an initiative and encouraging step, to increase the awareness about Information Technology and the possibilities in the field,taken by Tata Consultancy services and Department of Information and Technology,Government of Karnataka.The winners will be awarded with cashprize along with exciting gadgets.The Rural IT Quiz, which had a successful run in Karnataka for over a decade, is being extended to Gujarat, Orissa, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and all the north eastern states.The regional rounds of the program will be held in all the states during August, September and October.

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 1^st 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 Tech Bytes 2011 Tumkur Regionals was conducted in Birla Auditorium,Tumkur on 7th April,2011. Students from Tumkur, Chikkaballapur, Kolar, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North & South were participated in this level.I thank Dhanyashree T S for sharing the questions.

1. Which term was coined by Andrew Fluegelman when he wanted to sell a communications program named PC-Talk that he had created but for which he did not wish to use traditional methods of distribution because of their cost? (Options given. software, hardware, freeware)

A. Freeware

2. Reid Hoffman created a professional network for people and is called what?

A. Linkedin

3. Identify this person? (Hint:American businessman best known for running for President of the United States)

(Options given. Larry Ellison, Ross Perot and one more can remember)

A. Ross Perot

4.It was established in April 1946 by Tadao Kashio, an engineer specializing in fabrication technology. In 1957, it released the world's first entirely electric compact calculator. Which company are we talking about?

A. Casio

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.

1.Founded in New York in 1996, it was acquired by Google Inc. in 1998. It develops and provides Internet ad serving services. Which company?
A.DOUBLECLICK 

2.What was started in 1984 for building indigenous supercomputers in India with headquarters in Pune. CDAC or CDOT?
A.Centre for Development of Advanced Computing 

3.Jack Dorsey created this in 2006 as a project within a now-defunct podcasting company called Odeo, which was run by entrepreneur Evan Williams. What in social networking is this?
A.TWITTER 

4.Satyanarayan Gangaram is considered to have been responsible for India’s Telecom revolution. How do we know him better?
A.SAM PITRODA 

5.What is the name given to a region of memory that is used to temporarily hold data while it is being moved from one place to another. Buffer of Cache?
A.BUFFER

The Board of IT Education Standards (BITES) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Asia’s largest IT company are organising the Second edition of the Engineering IT Quiz – “TCS TechBytes”.

The program is an initiative to help students understand technology better - in the process help them enhance their lateral thinking process and inculcate the spirit to compete and excel.The quiz would serve as an alternative platform to enhance awareness and confidence levels of the aspiring engineers while bringing them in sync with the current developments in the technology domain through an interactive and engaging quiz platform. “TCS TechBytes” strives to provide a better understanding of IT as technology today is an enabler in diverse fields – be it engineering, medicine, law, sports, science, movie, music, government, automobile and telecommunication.

The quiz is open to engineering students of all streams and will be held across Karnataka. It will be hosted by noted Quizmaster ‘Pickbrain’ Giri Balasubramaniam of Greycaps, who also conducts TCS IT Wiz, Rural IT Quiz and Tata Crucible among others.

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 28^th 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 27^th 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 27^th 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. Dreamcolor is a new LCD projector developed by HP and who?

A.Dreamworks

2. "The sphere of connectivity design" is the new logo of which company?

A.Xerox

3. Who is the CEO of Cisco?

A.John Chambers

4.  Name this company which had to change its earlier name due to infringement of rights on the name and adopted its name by mixing an old French word with a greek meaning ‘beam of lights from the gods’?

A.Raytheon

5. We have all heard of LAN, WAN etc now expand HAN?

A.Home Area Network

National Rural IT Quiz 2010 Tumkur Regionals was conducted in Birla Auditorium,Tumkur on 21^st October,2010.Students from Tumkur, Chikkaballapur, Kolar, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North & South,Haveri, Bellary, Davangere, Shimoga, Chitradurga Districts were participated in this level.I thank Suhas,Winner of Tumkur Regionals and Vivek for sharing the questions.

1.Who started the company named "Wheels Of Zeus",the person is the founder of an other famous company?
A.Steve woiznak

2.Acrobat is from?
A.Adobe

3.” The number of possible cross-connections in a network grow as the square of the
number of computers in the network increases”. Identify this law?
A.Metcalfe’s law

4.Identify this type of network?

A.Tree

5.Identify this person?

a)Howard Eskins   b)Charles Babbage

A.Howard Eskins