TCS IT Wiz Bengaluru Prelims - 2016

      NOTE:   We do not have all the questions and have tried to compile as many as possible. 
      
1. X was founded by David Back and Greg Moran in February 2013 in Bangalore, India. X is a car  rental service

Ans.  Zoomcar

2. X is a self-contained, open hardware Linux-based handheld computer, first released in 2002. Developed in, and primarily distributed within India, the product was envisioned as a low-cost alternative to personal computers. It was developed by Dr Swam Manohar

Ans. Simputer

3.  Google doodle on whom?



Ans. Pandit Ravishankar

4.Larry Ewing created Tux for what?


Ans. Linux

5.Media players like I-Phones, I-Pods and other hand-held devices started going missing in the US and the sudden rise in robbery of such goods was given a particular term. What is this term?

Ans. I-Crimes

6.This is the Photograph of the first X created by Douglas Englebart?



Ans. Computer Mouse

7.  Old logo of what?(Of course the name blanked out)


Ans. Nokia

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9. The word from the world of Hike, which is equivalent of Poke on Facebook?

Ans. Nudge

10.Applying thought is associated with which company?
(Not really sure about this question)

Ans. Wipro

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Q Who Clicked the first ever selfie from space?
Ans Buzz Aldrin

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TCS IT Wiz Bhubaneshwar Prelims - 2016

1.Which city, after Mumbai would have the honor of having free Wifi at Railway stations, powered by Google?

Ans. Bhubaneswar

2.Which app was founded by Sean Rad in 2012, whose basic concept was swipe right for liking something, and swiping left to skip. Its one of the most used dating sites today.

Ans. Tinder

3.Previously known as Leshi Internet Information & Technology, it is engaged in myriad of businesses, spanning from Internet TV, video production and distribution, smart gadgets and large-screen applications to e-commerce, eco-agriculture and Internet-linked electric cars,

Ans. LeEco

4.Which company is being portrayed in the picture below :

                          

Ans. lyft

5.The first-generation Zune device was created by X in close cooperation with Toshiba, which took the design of the Gigabeat S and redeveloped it under the name Toshiba 1089 as registered with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) starting in 2006.

Ans.Microsoft

6.X was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., the company listed publicly in 1993. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) acquired X in 2006.

Ans. ATI

7.Buddy is a mobile app launched by which Nationalized Bank in India?

Ans. State Bank of India

8.A word quite commonly used by  services offered by Dropbox, Evernote, etc. where they give it to you free for a while and then charge a premium on the services.

Ans.  Freemium

9.Launched on October 1, 2003, its boards were originally used for posting pictures and discussing manga and anime, as the site was modeled on Japanese imageboards.

Ans.4Chan

10.Which project by Ninetendo was codenamed revoloution?

Ans. Wii

11.The Murty Classical Library of India, which publishes classics of Indian literature, was established through a $5.2 million gift from X?

Ans. Not Narayan Murty but his son Rohan Murty

12.Unified Payments Interface is an architecture and a set of standard APIs to facilitate the next generation online immediate payments. It has been created by which corporation?

Ans. National Payments Corporation of India

13.Identify this Project for a Browser, by Microsoft.

                                             

Ans. Spartan

14.Which game are we talking about?
                                                         

Ans. Donkey Kong

15. Which antivirus company has launched a browser called SafeZone?
Options given by quizmaster :- Kaspersky, Avast, Mcafee

Ans Avast

16.What symbol does this refer to?
                                         


Ans. Escape Key

17.It is a multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s logo consists of Three Horizontal Lines.It is also credited with the invention of bluetooth.


Ans. Ericsson

18. Which computer would you relate to this?

                                        

Ans Macintosh

19. “If this was jewelery, this is how you would protect it”
<Inserts Play station controller case picture>

Ans. PS

20.He has partnered up with a Dutch company, Spil games, to enter the mobile game scene. He is considered the father of modern video games.

Ans. Nolan Bushnell

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TCS IT Wiz Coimbatore Prelims 2016

Q.1 
First tweet by whom?

Ans. His highness, Rajnikath!

Q2. Kevin Gilbertson is credited with introducing what to us, useful to "compress" things.


Ans Tiny URL

Q3. Bangalore tiger is a book written by which company?
Ans Wipro

Q4. Originally created by a company named Lifescape. The name is a blend of  is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa. Google "its then owner" decided to discontinue it in 2015. What am I talking about?


Ans Picassa

Q5. He is Kevin Sullivan, the CEO of which company?


And. CTS

Q6. X is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works down the line.We all have heard the "chiral" version of this word. What is X?


Ans. Copyleft

Q7.Daniel Lewin Co-founded which company, famous in the world of IT?

Ans. Akamai

Q.8 Lyf series of Smartphones is a brand from which famous business Conglomerate?

Ans. Reliance

Q9.Which famous Multi-National Mass Media Company is the owner of the Tech-Blog Techcrunch?

And. AOL

Q 10.The term X was coined by Televoice International for introduction of the first US wide  service in 1980 which they offerred.  Although VMI trademarked the term, it eventually became a generic term used for referring to virtually all automated voice services employing a telephone.What is X?

Ans. Voice mail

Q11. How do we better known Alexander Telephone and Telegraph, among the very first in the world to provide telegraph services, founded by Alexander Graham bell himself?
Ans. AT&t

Q12.Old logo of which otherwise famous browser today?


Ans. UC Browser

Q13.X's first products and services included the OmniTRACS satellite locating and messaging service, used by long-haul trucking companies, developed from a product called Omninet owned by Parviz Nazarian and Neil Kadisha, and specialized integrated circuits for digital radio communications such as a Viterbi decoder and now it is one of the leading processor makers for smartphone companies.It was initially founded by Cornell and MIT alumnus and UC San Diego professor Irwin M. Jacobs, USC, MIT alumnus Andrew Viterbi, Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen and Franklin Antonio.

Ans. Qualcomm

Q14. Which company launchced a "Smart Belt" called welt?


Ans. Welt



Q15.





Ans. Accenture

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TCS IT Wiz Prelims, Hyderabad - 2016

1.Which hyderabad startup's name when translated to English means "our right"? <Some More Clues>

Ans. SaddHaq

2.The term was originally coined by Michael Mauldin.It's a software which generates an instant reply. It is designed to answer like a Human.

Ans. Chatterbot

3. Who wrote the book Business @ the speed of though?

Ans. Bill Gates

4. Formed originally to offer research and analysis to United States Armed forces,  this company literally gets its name from research and development?

And. RAND

5.The inventor , John Shepherd-Barron, had at first envisioned a six-digit numeric code, but his wife could only remember four digits, and that has became the most commonly used length in many places, although banks in Switzerland and many other countries require a six digit X. What am I talking about?

Ans. ATM Pin.

6. Id
. 

Hint: He is the founder of Naukri.com

Ans. Sanjeev Bhikchandani

7. Founder of which very big news app in India?


Ans. inshorts

8.Which country joined the internet in 1996 with three networks namely Raphael, Miched,  Gabriel?
Hint :  Focus on the name

And. Vatican City

9.Richard Wurman is credited with the Idea of what? This site is mainly credited with discussions on Hot Topics and "Ideas worth spreading" ?

Ans. TED

10.If  a startup valued at One Billion $ is called a unicorn, what is the name given to startups valued at over 10 Billion $?

And. Decacorn

11. One of the great creation legends of game design is that Toru Iwatani, while eating a pizza, looked down at the pie with a missing slice and used the outline as inspiration for  distinctive shape in the game. The story was furthered by Iwatani himself; when the game's  fever was at its height, he even posed with a half-eaten pizza for a publicity photograph. "In Japanese, the character for mouth [kuchi] is a square shape. It's not circular like the pizza, but I decided to round it out," he said. And thus, the game was born. Which game?

And. Pacman

12. Beth Comstack, Jason Kilar created which online service? It also derive The name  from two Mandarin Chinese word "calabash; bottle gourd" and of which The secondary meaning is "interactive recording". The founders saw both definitions as appropriate bookends and highly relevant to the mission of.

Ans. Hulu

13. Which controversial website publishes new leaks, secretive and confidential government information and has been held responsible for leaking of many of the secrets of Worldwide governments? It has been highly criticized by the US Government and many other governments worldwide. (Incomplete Question)

Ans. Wikileaks 


14. Who's first tweet?s
 
Ans. Pope Francis (The name wasn't displayed though)

15.


Hint : If you use apple, you definitely should know this one.

Ans. Hon Hai (Foxconn)

16. X was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating X was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U.S.

Hint : It uses the name of a vegetable

Ans: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/

17.This award is given to the best startups. Techcrunch sponsors it. Which awards?
 

Ans. Crunchies

18.This company was founded by two former employees from XEROX Parc as InterPress?We use a lot of their softwares for designing purposes.

Ans. Adobe

19. Which company?



Ans. Free Software Foundation

20. Logo of?

Ans : Apple Inc.

I have tried to compile questions as per the details given by Syed, the Winner of the Hyderabad Rounds and tried to make it as close as it was. Do write to us if you find any corrections. 

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Tech Questions

TCS IT Wiz Preparation
1.A lice-removal professional claims X are contributing to an increase in the spread of head lice among young people. Even a research conducted by a group of youngsters claimed that those involved with the activity of X had an increased number of head lice. What is X or what is the cause of sudden increase in head lice?

Ans. Selfies

2.Image of what?

Ans. Nike Fitness Band

3. Shortly after moving to San Francisco in October 2007, the founders of this site  created the initial concept for X & Breakfast during the Industrial Design Conference held by Industrial Designers Society of America. The original site offered short-term living quarters, breakfast and a unique business networking opportunity for attendees who were unable to book a hotel in the saturated market.

At the time, roommates and founders could not afford the rent for their loft in San Francisco. They made their living room into a bed and breakfast, accommodating three guests on air mattresses and providing homemade breakfast. What site are these room mates the founders of?

Ans. Ar bnb

4. Which personal assistant?

Ans. Cortana

5. Whose principle while following his bread and butter? He definitely has more than bread and butter now!

(Hint: The signature)

Ans. Whatsapp

6.What are these called?

                         

Ans. Zings

7. Unique symbol of?

                                                                

Ans. Matroska Multimedia Container or the MKV format

8. Ad for? 

                      

Ans. Samsung Galaxy S5 

9. Who is the chief adviser of Satya Nadella?

Ans. Bill Gates

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TCS IT Wiz preparation!

TCS IT Wiz preparation

Q1.He is one of the founders of a very famous company which has been recently been acquired .Who is he?

Q2.X was founded in 1925 by Sidney N X,selling radio parts kits in the days before complete manufactured radios were available. The company's office was located at 19 South Wells Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois.It currently sells headphones,microphones,mic systems etc.Identify X.

Q3.Sprays of ink globules are released which strike the surface in circular patterns creating the required print.This is a proprietary technology for printing. Name this technology and the company it's assosciated with.

Q4.Which famous person wanted to name the web after himself something like the information mine,so he could honour himself?

Q5.Marketed by sum lock,Comptometer was the first all electronic calculator.It was created by Dorr Felt.Out of what was it made?

Q6.X was a software created by Piriform.It is based on windows and can help a person recover files which have been permanently deleted by a user.Identify X.

Q7.What is FICON in the world of technology?(expand it)

Q8.X gets it's named after a place in Israel,the last line of defence for Egypt.It is a cloud security company from Menlo Park.Identify X.

Q9.A X is a device for connecting multiple Ethernet devices together and making them act as a single network segment. It has multiple input/output (I/O) ports, in which a signal introduced at the input of any port appears at the output of every port except the original incoming.Identify X.

Q10.Which department of ICANN looks at IP address allocation?

Answers

1.Joseph Galvin,motorola 

2.Shure inc.

3.Bubble ink technology,canon

4.Tim Berners lee

5.Macaroni box

6.Recuva

7.FIber CONnectivity

8.Adallom

9.Ethernet hub

10.IANA

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Techpedia:TCS IT Wiz preparation!

TCS IT Wiz preparation

Q1.What was launched on July 4th,in order to symbolise a persons freedom on ISP based clients?It later went on to become the most famous client for this service for a short period of time.

Q2.Eudora is an email client that was in great demand by companies like Microsoft and Apple inc.Which famous company is behind Eudora?

Q3.The primary author was Ton Roosendaal, who previously wrote a ray tracer called Traces for Commodore-Amiga computers in 1989. The name X was inspired by a song by Yello, from the album Baby.What am I talking about?

Q4.This is a service offered by which company?

Q5.Identify him

Q6.With what would you assosciate Rajendra S Pawar and Vijay K Thadani?

Q7.On2 Technologies was previously known as Duck corporation.It is famous for providing video codec softwares.Which famous company acquired it?

Q8.Which famous technology was first utilized in the summer of 1992 in the movie Batman returns?

Q9.X provides hardware sensor devices which help in finger based inputs analogous to a mouse.They also provide an App Store referred to as AirSpace.Which company am I talking about?

Q10.Which indian company acquired the start up easytobook?

Now check the number of correct answers, post it and compare with others!

Answers

1.Hotmail

2.Qualcomm

3.Blender

4.Grid engine by sun Microsystems

5.Satya nadella

6.NIIT

7.Google

8.Dolby digital

9.Leap Motion

10.MakeMyTrip

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Tech Quiz

Q1. Which game?

Ans. Snake

Q2.X was an Internet search engine founded in 2000 by Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis and his colleagues at Rutgers University in New Jersey. What is X?



Ans. Teoma

Q3. Connect!

Infinium Phantom

Apple Videopad

Apple Walt

Ans. Vaporware

Q4. Which now famous person took a certificate course in Ethical Hacking from Koeng Institute, New Delhi?




Ans. Edward Snowden

Q5. Logo of?

Ans. Limo Foundation


Q6.What is the claim to fame of 1FfmbHfnpaZjKFvyi1okTjJJusN455paPH ?

Ans. Richest address with bitcoins(seized)

Q7.Funda?

                                                 

Ans. Belle (the disney character), the famous chess playing computer

Q8.Figure showing what? 

                                                            

Ans. Amazon's one click Patent

Q9.What is this?

Ans. Apollo guidance Computer

Q10. Mantra from what? -
"X
I deserve it
I am good,
healthy &
successful"

X is the phrase that is the actual answer.

Ans. The " I am rich app" . An app which costed $999.99. Dont believe it? Check it yourself
Wikipedia

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TCS IT WIZ Preparation : in Photos

1.What is this ?

2.What is this depicting / Ad for ?

                               

3.What is this ? easy.

 4.What is this technology .

5. Id this techology . 

6. Which company's  phones ?

 7.Which company's product ? :P

 

8.  What exactly is this concept . Also name it .

9. Funda .

10.id the person in the pic . What technology is he using ?

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TCS IT Wiz PREPARATION!

TCS it wiz PREPARATION! 8H92697VR39M

Q1.Which site was founded by Kevin rose and his partner Jay adelson as a news aggressor?

Q2.Ad campaign by?

Q3.Identify

Q4.This is a quora default profile picture.Give funda behind its origin.

Q5.Identify

Q6.Name the device

Q7.What was designed by David Bradley and mel hallermen?

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