Computers
124 questionsCode your way through computer science! Challenge yourself with questions about programming languages, computer hardware, software development, algorithms, tech companies, and the fascinating world of computing.
Easy Questions
34If you were to code software in this language you'd only be able to type 0's and 1's.
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A. Binary
What does CPU stand for?
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B. Central Processing Unit
What does the "MP" stand for in MP3?
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B. Moving Picture
What does the computer software acronym JVM stand for?
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B. Java Virtual Machine
In any programming language, what is the most common way to iterate through an array?
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B. 'For' loops
HTML is what type of language?
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B. Markup Language
The programming language 'Swift' was created to replace what other programming language?
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C. Objective-C
Which programming language shares its name with an island in Indonesia?
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C. Java
The series of the Intel HD graphics generation succeeding that of the 5000 and 6000 series (Broadwell) is called:
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A. HD Graphics 500
Which company was established on April 1st, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne?
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A. Apple
The C programming language was created by this American computer scientist.
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B. Dennis Ritchie
According to the International System of Units, how many bytes are in a kilobyte of RAM?
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A. 1000
Which computer language would you associate Django framework with?
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D. Python
What amount of bits commonly equals one byte?
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D. 8
How long is an IPv6 address?
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A. 128 bits
How many values can a single byte represent?
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C. 256
What does LTS stand for in the software market?
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B. Long Term Support
What is the code name for the mobile operating system Android 7.0?
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D. Nougat
In computing, what does LAN stand for?
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C. Local Area Network
What language does Node.js use?
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C. JavaScript
In the programming language Java, which of these keywords would you put on a variable to make sure it doesn't get modified?
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A. Final
The numbering system with a radix of 16 is more commonly referred to as
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C. Hexidecimal
What does the Prt Sc button do?
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A. Captures what's on the screen and copies it to your clipboard
In "Hexadecimal", what color would be displayed from the color code? "#00FF00"?
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B. Green
On Twitter, what was the original character limit for a Tweet?
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C. 140
In computing, what does MIDI stand for?
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C. Musical Instrument Digital Interface
What is the most preferred image format used for logos in the Wikimedia database?
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D. .svg
What does GHz stand for?
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B. Gigahertz
Which computer hardware device provides an interface for all other connected devices to communicate?
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C. Motherboard
This mobile OS held the largest market share in 2012.
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C. iOS
In web design, what does CSS stand for?
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A. Cascading Style Sheet
When Gmail first launched, how much storage did it provide for your email?
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A. 1GB
What is the domain name for the country Tuvalu?
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D. .tv
How many kilobytes in one gigabyte (in decimal)?
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B. 1000000
Medium Questions
56Which operating system was released first?
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B. Mac OS
In HTML, which non-standard tag used to be be used to make elements scroll across the viewport?
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A. <marquee></marquee>
Which of the following languages is used as a scripting language in the Unity 3D game engine?
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A. C#
In CSS, which of these values CANNOT be used with the "position" property?
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B. center
Unix Time is defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed since when?
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B. Midnight, January 1, 1970
Which internet company began life as an online bookstore called 'Cadabra'?
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A. Amazon
What is the correct term for the metal object in between the CPU and the CPU fan within a computer system?
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B. Heat Sink
Nvidia's headquarters are based in which Silicon Valley city?
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D. Santa Clara
What is the number of keys on a standard Windows Keyboard?
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A. 104
In programming, what do you call functions with the same name but different implementations?
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C. Overloading
What was the name given to Android 4.3?
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B. Jelly Bean
While Apple was formed in California, in which western state was Microsoft founded?
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C. New Mexico
How many cores does the Intel i7-6950X have?
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A. 10
When was the programming language "C#" released?
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C. 2000
Whistler was the codename of this Microsoft Operating System.
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D. Windows XP
What is the main CPU is the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis?
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B. Motorola 68000
In programming, the ternary operator is mostly defined with what symbol(s)?
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B. ?:
Which of these people was NOT a founder of Apple Inc?
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A. Jonathan Ive
Which of these is the name for the failed key escrow device introduced by the National Security Agency in 1993?
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A. Clipper Chip
The name of technology company HP stands for what?
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B. Hewlett-Packard
What does the 'S' in the RSA encryption algorithm stand for?
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C. Shamir
Generally, which component of a computer draws the most power?
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D. Video Card
What does the acronym CDN stand for in terms of networking?
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C. Content Delivery Network
What does AD stand for in relation to Windows Operating Systems?
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B. Active Directory
.at is the top-level domain for what country?
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D. Austria
What does the term MIME stand for, in regards to computing?
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D. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
Which programming language was developed by Sun Microsystems in 1995?
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B. Java
How many bits make up the significand portion of a single precision floating point number?
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B. 23
Which of the following is a personal computer made by the Japanese company Fujitsu?
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A. FM-7
In the server hosting industry IaaS stands for...
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B. Infrastructure as a Service
What five letter word is the motto of the IBM Computer company?
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D. Think
What does the term GPU stand for?
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C. Graphics Processing Unit
What is known as "the brain" of the Computer?
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A. Central Processing Unit
Which coding language was the #1 programming language in terms of usage on GitHub in 2015?
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B. JavaScript
.rs is the top-level domain for what country?
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D. Serbia
What does "LCD" stand for?
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C. Liquid Crystal Display
Laserjet and inkjet printers are both examples of what type of printer?
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D. Non-impact printer
The teapot often seen in many 3D modeling applications is called what?
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D. Utah Teapot
On which day did the World Wide Web go online?
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B. December 20, 1990
What is the name of the default theme that is installed with Windows XP?
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B. Luna
On which computer hardware device is the BIOS chip located?
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D. Motherboard
The computer OEM manufacturer Clevo, known for its Sager notebook line, is based in which country?
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C. Taiwan
Which one of these is not an official development name for a Ubuntu release?
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A. Mystic Mansion
Which of these programming languages is a low-level language?
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A. Assembly
How many bytes are in a single Kibibyte?
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B. 1024
What was the first Android version specifically optimized for tablets?
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C. Honeycomb
When did the online streaming service "Mixer" launch?
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D. 2016
Moore's law originally stated that the number of transistors on a microprocessor chip would double every...
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D. Year
What was the first commerically available computer processor?
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B. Intel 4004
In computing terms, typically what does CLI stand for?
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A. Command Line Interface
All of the following programs are classified as raster graphics editors EXCEPT:
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C. Inkscape
In the programming language "Python", which of these statements would display the string "Hello World" correctly?
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C. print("Hello World")
Approximately how many Apple I personal computers were created?
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C. 200
How fast is USB 3.1 Gen 2 theoretically?
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B. 10 Gb/s
What did the name of the Tor Anonymity Network orignially stand for?
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B. The Onion Router
What does RAID stand for?
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D. Redundant Array of Independent Disks
Hard Questions
34What does the International System of Quantities refer 1024 bytes as?
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B. Kibibyte
Lenovo acquired IBM's personal computer division, including the ThinkPad line of laptops and tablets, in what year?
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C. 2005
The internet domain .fm is the country-code top-level domain for which Pacific Ocean island nation?
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C. Micronesia
The acronym "RIP" stands for which of these?
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C. Routing Information Protocol
What internet protocol was documented in RFC 1459?
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D. IRC
How many Hz does the video standard PAL support?
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B. 50
What major programming language does Unreal Engine 4 use?
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C. C++
What was the first company to use the term "Golden Master"?
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A. Apple
What is the name of the process that sends one qubit of information using two bits of classical information?
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C. Quantum Teleportation
Which of these was the name of a bug found in April 2014 in the publicly available OpenSSL cryptography library?
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B. Heartbleed
Who is the original author of the realtime physics engine called PhysX?
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C. NovodeX
According to DeMorgan's Theorem, the Boolean expression (AB)' is equivalent to:
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A. A' + B'
Which of the following computer components can be built using only NAND gates?
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A. ALU
What type of sound chip does the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) have?
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A. ADPCM Sampler
What is the codename of the eighth generation Intel Core micro-architecture launched in October 2017?
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B. Coffee Lake
What was the name of the first Bulgarian personal computer?
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A. IMKO-1
Which data structure does FILO apply to?
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C. Stack
Which RAID array type is associated with data mirroring?
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B. RAID 1
What was the name of the security vulnerability found in Bash in 2014?
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C. Shellshock
Dutch computer scientist Mark Overmars is known for creating which game development engine?
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B. Game Maker
What is the name given to layer 4 of the Open Systems Interconnection (ISO) model?
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D. Transport
Released in 2001, the first edition of Apple's Mac OS X operating system (version 10.0) was given what animal code name?
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A. Cheetah
What vulnerability ranked #1 on the OWASP Top 10 in 2013?
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C. Injection
The Harvard architecture for micro-controllers added which additional bus?
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D. Instruction
Which of these names was an actual codename for a cancelled Microsoft project?
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B. Neptune
Which of these is not a key value of Agile software development?
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A. Comprehensive documentation
Which of these is not a layer in the OSI model for data communications?
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B. Connection Layer
Which of these Cherry MX mechanical keyboard switches is both tactile and clicky?
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B. Cherry MX Blue
Who invented the "Spanning Tree Protocol"?
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C. Radia Perlman
Which kind of algorithm is Ron Rivest not famous for creating?
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C. Secret sharing scheme
America Online (AOL) started out as which of these online service providers?
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D. Quantum Link
Who is the founder of Palantir?
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D. Peter Thiel
Which of the following is the oldest of these computers by release date?
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C. TRS-80
What port does HTTP run on?
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D. 80