Chapter 12 Search Sleuth

What large internet search company eliminated the work at home option for their employees in 2013? Yahoo

What is the correct MLA style to cite a Tweet? Last name, First name (Username). “Tweet Message.” Date posted, Time Posted. Tweet

Microsoft employees celebrate their employment anniversaries by sharing which chocolate candy with coworkers? m&m’s

What is the name of Google’s search algorithm that determine what links are most relevant for a given query? Hummingbird

What was the original name of the programming language, Java? Oak

What was the computer in the 1983 film wargames where a hacker uses a backdoor to access a military super code that nearly starts WWIII? IMISAI 8080 microcomputer

Who is the author of the study, An Experiment in the development of Critical Thinking, published in 1941? Edward M GLaser

What is the name of the first computer virus that infected DEC PDP-10 computers in 1971? What message did it display? Creeper “I’m a creeper, catch me if you can!”

What is the name of the annual hacking conference held in Las Vegas? DEF CON

The hexadecimal number system uses 16 symbols to code machine language programs. What is the name of the Papuan language spoken in New Guinea that uses the quindecimal number system? Huli

Chapter 11 Search Sleuth

Three popular data models discussed in this chapter are relational, object oriented, and multidimensional. Name one other type. Flat model

Which US governmental agency was first associated with the expression garbage in, garbage out(GIGO) in April 1963? US ARMY

What there three common SQL wildcard characters? * ? [ ]

When did Microsoft release the first version of Access?1992

Records and sets are the fundamental constructs of which data model? Hierarchical Database model

According to Amazon Web services, which data model does the company offer for its database in the cloud? Relational

Which company trademarked the phase, database mining, for marketing its workstation? HNC

Which organization markets the PeopleSoft human resource management system? Oracle

What are the 3V that describe aspects of Big Data? Volume velocity and variety

At which conference was the term, artifact intelligence (AI), coined? In which year did this conference occur? Dartmouth college in 1956

Chapter 10 Search Sleuth

What IEEE document number establishes standards for local networks(WLAN)?802.11

In what year was the standard first released?1997

One defining trait of coax cable is characteristic impedance? 20 and 150 ohms

Which computer company used a token ring network in the 1980s and eventually was sold to HP in 1989? Apollo computer Inc.

The term datagram, is associated with what type of network? A wireless communication and self-contained source

What are the three frequency bands used for wireless LAN? 902MHz, 900MHz, 928MHz

According to the Bluetooth standard, how many devices does that network protocol support? 7

Which company developed the first commercial modem for computers? At&t

In what year was it sold? 1962

What was the modem data rate? 150 bits per scond

What device did Dennis c Haynes invent in 1977?  PC modem

What type of wireless network does not rely on routers or access points? Ad hoc network (WANET)

What is the origin of the Bluetooth name?  Bluetooth was borrowed from the 10th century, second King of Denmark, King Harald Bluetooth; who was famous for uniting Scandinavia just as we intended to unite the PC and cellular industries with a short-range wireless link.

Chapter 9 Search Sleuth

Which bird is the logo for Linux? Penguin called Tux

Who are the two individuals who published the requirements for virtualization in 1974? Popek and Goldberg

What company supplies the CUDA drivers for their graphic processing units? Nvidia

According to Bitdefender what percent of people use the same password for their email and social network accounts? 75%

What are common names for a UNIX administrator account? Guest,demo,demos

On which day of the week does Microsoft typically provide automatic updates? What is the nickname for this day?  The second Tuesday of each month/ Patch Tuesday

Which company did Andy Rubin, Cris White, nick sears and Rich Miner cofound? Android Inc.

What is the name of the operating system for Radio shack’s TRS-80 introduced in 1980? What was the data storage mechanism for this computer? BASIC in ROM/ Cassette storage

In Windows/DOS system, the command line interface to list files is dir. What is the equivalent for Unix and Linux?  ls -l

In what year was the first Chromebook available for sale in the United states?2011

Chapter 8 Search Sleuth

Which technology innovator appeared on Dancing with The Stars in 2009? Steve Woziak

In which city is the Storage Network Industry Association’s Technology Center located? Colorado Springs

What company introduced using a hard disk for accounting projects in 1956? IBM

Which country requires every citizen to carry a smart card for health insurance purposes? Astralia

Which nonprofit organization facilitates USB standards and testing? USB

What is the max length a USB cable can be before signal and voltage decline? 2.0 USB cable can be up to 25m and a 3.0 USB cable 16 ft 5 inches before it losses speed

Which musician releases a special edition of the album, The Fame Monster on a USB flash drive? Lady GaGa

Which flash memory storage manufacturer has a factory in china that is the size of five football fields yet only employs 400 workers at that facility? ScanDisk

Which symbol is the logo for ExpressCard technology?

Which company invented flash memory? Toshiba

Chapter 7 SS

Which automobile company developed a QR code measuring 1711 square feet? Audi

According to the Smart Card Alliance, what is the maximum distance at which a contactless smart card operates? 4 inches

Who are the current MIDI manufactures Association executive board members? And what companies do they represent? Athan Billias (Yamaha Corp of America)
Craig Anderton (Gibson Brands)
Phil Burk (Google)
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut (ROLI)
Tom White (MMA)

How is the term disability defined in the Americans with disabilities act? as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity. 

Which television network was first to broadcast a HD signal in 1997?  WRAL-HD Raleigh,NC

What product did HP develop in 2004 based on the efforts of engineer Daryl Anderson? LightScribe

Which country has imposed a max limit of 100 decibels produced on all poratable media players sold? EU

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Which countries have adopted the energy star program? Australia.

·         Canada.

·         European Union.

·         European Free Trade Association.

·         Japan.

·         New Zealand.

·         Switzerland.

·         Taiwan.

What is the function of a bay filter in a digital camera? A Bayer filter mosaic is a color filter array (CFA) for arranging RGB color filters on a square grid of photosensors.

When Tom Cranston Fred Longstaff and Kenton Taylor invent the trackball in 1952 which object did they use as the ball?  a metal bowling ball rolling on two rubber-coated wheels was ever built

Chapter 6

1.      Should a right-handed person wear an antistatic wristband on the left or right wrist? Left hand

2.      Who purposed the first lithium batteries, and at which company did he work during the 1970s? MS Whittingham, Exxon

3.      What term did the firm, NetCentric, attempt to trademark in 1997? Cloud computing

4.      What are the two moving parts in most liquid cooling systems? Impeller and a fan

5.      In which city is the Intel museum located?  Santa Clara, California

6.      What did Robert Noyce invent in 1959? How many patents were awarded to him? Monolithic integrated circuit structure. 15

7.      What is fabricated in a cleanroom? Fabrication cleanroom is to fabricate to the highest specification any components or vessels required for the sensitive electronics, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, medical device industries and other critical manufacturing environments

8.      How many HD movies can be stored in one zettabyte(ZB)? 36 million years of HD videos

9.      Which Sesame Street character did Qualcomm feature during it International CES keynote presentation Introducing Snapdragon processors? Big Bird

10.  Which company manufactured the processors used in the transformers thrill ride at universal studios, California? NVIDIA

1 reCAPTCHA is helping to digitize old editions of which newspaper and books?

The New York Times and Google books

2 Which U.S. president signed into law the Electronic Signatures in the Global and national commerce(ESIGN) Act, which legalizes and enforces digital signatures, in 2000?

Bill Clinton

3 What is the name of the teenage hacker group that allegedly stole passwords and data from phone companies in the early 1990s?

Legion Of Doom

4 According to Mcafee website, what are the three newest virus threats?

HTML/Neutrino.e	Trojan	N/A	Low	9/2/2016
HTML/Iframe.gen.w	Trojan	N/A	Low	9/2/2016
Exploit-SWF.bd	Trojan	N/A	Low	9/2/2016

5 The person behind “project Rivlota” carried out DDos attacks on the websites of Yahoo!, CNN, eBay, Dell, and Amazon in 2000. What was his internet alias?

Mafiaboy

6 The CERT Program is located in the software engineering institute at which university?

Carnegie Mellon University's main campus in Pittsburgh

7 Ancient Babylonians used which method to record secure business transactions?

The Babylonian’s would press fingers into clay to hold records of business transactions.

8 What animals is the most mascot for the business software Alliance’s Play it Cyber Safe campaign?

 A Ferret named Garret

9 What percent of Americans recognized energy star label when the first national awareness survey was conducted in 2010?

87% noticed it compared to the 47% in 2000.

10 The internet crime complaint center (IC3) is a partnership between which two organizations?

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)

1. who was sitting under an apple tree in Apple's original corporate logo? Issac Newton
2. in what year was the first phone using the android operating system sold in the united states? 2008 t-moblie g1
 3. which software developer appeared in the movie triumph of the nerds and aardvark-d 12 weeks with geeks? Daniel Singer "Dan" Bricklin
4. which united states president's speech did peter norvig turn into a light hearted powerpoint presentation? Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
 5. what is the difference between a serif and sans serif font? Serifs are semi-structural details or small decorative flourishes on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. An example would be the Times New Romanfont. Sans serif does not have these details or flourishes. An example would be the Arialfont.
6. In what year did the United States Department of Revenue first provide tax forms and booklets in Adobe PDF format on its Web site? Never!
 7. what company did bruce artwick form in 1977 and what game did it license to microsoft in 1982? SubLogic
8. which company coined the term word processor in the late 1960s? IBM
 9. microsoft included the disk volume organization optimizer in its early operating system to defrag which storage medium? defragment the 5¼-inch floppy disks
10. bernd fix ,stari st ,g data and uvk 2000 are names of which category of security tools? Antivirus software

Chapter 3 Search Sleuth 1.what are four 10-letter words composed of letters on a keyboard’s top row? PEPPERROOT, PEPPERWORT, PERPETUITY, PEWTERWORT, PIROUETTER, PREREQUIRE, PRETORTURE, PROPRIETOR, REPERTOIRE, REPETITORY, TETTERWORT 2.Which company is credited with developing the first phablet? AT&T EO 440, "the first true phablet" 3.Who wrote the official five-note Intel signature jingle? Walter Werzowa 4.What trait do Belle, and Deep Blue, Hydra, Gravity Pipe, MDGRAPE-3, and Deep rack share? They are supercomputers that are apart of top 500 computer share. 5. For which purpose was the Barcode Battler developed? It was a handheld game console that player could use to battle against one another. 6. In which shopping center was the first ATM installed in the US? When was it installed? On September 2, 1969, Chemical Bank installed the first cash machine in the US at its branch in Rockville Centre, New York. The first cash machines were designed to dispense a fixed amount of cash when a user inserted a specially coded card. 7.Which company has a self-service kiosks located in the Empire State Building in New York City and the Willis Tower in Chicago? RedBox 8. What is the name of the predictive text imput method that Martin King and Cliff Kushler developed? T9 9. JPL’s Frederic C. Billingsley used the word, pixel, to describe which images in 1965? to describe the picture elements of video images 10. Who created the first video game joystick in 1967? Ralph H. Baer

Chapter 2 Search Sleuth 1.Who were the original developers of Skpye, and how did they determine the name of their company? .Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Founders Software developer was Estonisnd Athi Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. Sky peer to peer was abbrivated to Skyper but domain names were used commonly so they dropped the r and SKYPE was born. 2.which was the first partial message transmitted on ARPANET “Lo” 3.what is the cost of membership for a country to join the w3c? In order to promote a diverse Membership that represents the interests of organizations around the world, W3C fees vary depending on the annual revenues, type, and location of headquarters of an organization. 4.in which city was the first public commercial internet cafe opened in the us? Wayne Gregori in San Francisco when he began SFnet Coffeehouse Network in 1991. Three Internet cafés subsequently opened in the East Village neighborhood of New York City: Internet Cafetm, opened by Arthur Perley, the @Cafe, and the Heroic Sandwich. In 1996, the Internet café Surf City opened in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. 5. what was the first registered domain name? Symbolics.com It was registered March 15, 1985, to Symbolics Inc., a computer systems company in Cambridge, Mass. It was registered March 15, 1985, to Symbolics Inc., a computer systems company in Cambridge, Mass. 6. what was the content of twitter founder jack dorsey's first tweet just setting up my twttr 7. which browser first used the current web feed icon shown in figure 2-9 on page 65 in this chapter? Internet Explorer 8. which U.S president issued the first directive making GPS technology freely available for civilian use? President Ronald Reagan U.S. Air Force 9. who is responsible for translating twitter text into more than 20 languages? An indispensable and vibrant community of thousands of translators work through our Translation Center to help make Twitter available to people throughout the world. 10.What was ebay’s original name and what was the first item offered for auction and what was the first item offered for auction? AuctionWeb, a broken lazer pointer for $14.83

Google Maps Lab Road Trip!

My First Post

This is my first post for COSC 1305. This is a test to see how it will look.