

October 8, 2005

Think your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this ITeaser and find out for sure:
1. A firewall is used to protect a computer from
a. fires and floods
b. a form of virus
c. a form of illegal intrusion to the system.
2. An RDBMS is a
a. Remote DBMS
b. Relational DBMS
c. Reliable DBMS.
3. Data Warehousing refers to
a. Storing data offline at a separate site
b. Backing up data regularly
c. uses tape as opposed to disk.
4. Which of the following is NOT a bus standard
a. EISA
b. VME
c. RS-232.
5. Unix was developed in the Bell Laboratories in
a. 1970
b. 1960
c. 1975.
6. Which is the first GUI OS introduced
a. Microsoft Windows
b. Mac’s WIMP on Rank Xerox
c. Unix ODT.
7. Which software enables a user to use a computer
a. Operating System
b. Presentation Software
c. Word Processing.
8. Defined in simple terms as a finite sequence of instructions that solves a problem
a. Algorithm
b. Program coding
c. Structural Program.
9. First mechanical calculator built by Pascal was
a. Pascaline
b. Pascal
c. None of above.
10. Fourth generation of computer technology was launched in
a. 1960
b. 1971
c. 1976
Answers: 1c; 2a; 3a; 4b; 5a; 6b; 7a; 8a; 9a; 10b.
— Hamad Alee
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