General Awareness: Technology And You Set 3
The quiz is about technology created on Aug-18-2011
- 1.Sometimes computers and cash registers in a foodmart are connected to a UPS system. What does UPS mean?
- A.
United Parcel Service
- B.
Uniform Product Support
- C.
Under Paneling Storage
- D.
Uninterruptable Power Supply
- 2.Who co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft?
- A.
Shawn Fanning
- B.
Ada Byron Lovelace
- C.
Sabeer Bhatia
- D.
Ray Tomlinson
- 3.'.TMP' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
- A.
Compressed Archive file
- B.
Image file
- C.
Temporary file
- D.
Audio file
- 4.In the UK, what type of installation requires a fireman's switch?
- A.
Neon Lighting
- B.
High Pressure Sodium Lighting
- C.
Water Features
- D.
Hotel Rooms
- 5.The electromagnetic coils on the neck of the picture tube or tubes which pull the electron beam from side to side and up and down are called a...?
- A.
Transformer
- B.
Yoke
- C.
Capacitor
- D.
Diode
- 6.In the United States the television broadcast standard is...?
- A.
PAL
- B.
NTSC
- C.
SECAM
- D.
RGB
- 7.In a color television set using a picture tube a high voltage is used to accelerate electron beams to light the screen. That voltage is about...?
- A.
500 volts
- B.
5 thousand volts
- C.
25 thousand volts
- D.
100 thousand volts
- 8.The transformer that develops the high voltage in a home television is commonly called a...?
- A.
Tesla coil
- B.
Flyback
- C.
Yoke
- D.
Van de Graaf
- 9.Which consists of two plates separated by a dielectric and can store a charge?
- A.
Inductor
- B.
Capacitor
- C.
Transistor
- D.
Relay
- 10.What do we call a collection of two or more computers that are located within a limited distance of each other and that are connected to each other directly or indirectly?
- A.
Inernet
- B.
Interanet
- C.
Local Area Network
- D.
Wide Area Network
- 11.'.JPG' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
- A.
System file
- B.
Animation/movie file
- C.
MS Encarta document
- D.
Image file
- 12.What does AM mean?
- A.
Angelo marconi
- B.
Anno median
- C.
Amplitude modulation
- D.
Amperes
- 13.In what year was the "@" chosen for its use in e-mail addresses?
- A.
1976
- B.
1972
- C.
1980
- D.
1984
- 14.'.TXT' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
- A.
Text File
- B.
Image file
- C.
Audio file
- D.
Adobe Acrobat file
- 15.What was the first ARPANET message?
- A.
"lo"
- B.
"hello world"
- C.
"mary had a little lamb"
- D.
"cyberspace, the final frontier"
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