Hard Computers Questions

34 questions

Test your knowledge with 34 hard computers trivia questions. Each question includes multiple choice options and the correct answer.

Question 1hard

What does the International System of Quantities refer 1024 bytes as?

A.Kelobyte

B.Kibibyte

C.Kilobyte

D.Kylobyte

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

B. Kibibyte

Question 2hard

Lenovo acquired IBM's personal computer division, including the ThinkPad line of laptops and tablets, in what year?

A.1999

B.2002

C.2005

D.2008

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. 2005

Question 3hard

The internet domain .fm is the country-code top-level domain for which Pacific Ocean island nation?

A.Fiji

B.Marshall Islands

C.Micronesia

D.Tuvalu

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. Micronesia

Question 4hard

The acronym "RIP" stands for which of these?

A.Regular Interval Processes

B.Routine Inspection Protocol

C.Routing Information Protocol

D.Runtime Instance Processes

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. Routing Information Protocol

Question 5hard

What internet protocol was documented in RFC 1459?

A.FTP

B.HTTP

C.HTTPS

D.IRC

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

D. IRC

Question 6hard

How many Hz does the video standard PAL support?

A.25

B.50

C.59

D.60

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

B. 50

Question 7hard

What major programming language does Unreal Engine 4 use?

A.Assembly

B.C#

C.C++

D.ECMAScript

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. C++

Question 8hard

What was the first company to use the term "Golden Master"?

A.Apple

B.Google

C.IBM

D.Microsoft

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

A. Apple

Question 9hard

What is the name of the process that sends one qubit of information using two bits of classical information?

A.Quantum Entanglement

B.Quantum Programming

C.Quantum Teleportation

D.Super Dense Coding

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. Quantum Teleportation

Question 10hard

Which of these was the name of a bug found in April 2014 in the publicly available OpenSSL cryptography library?

A.Corrupted Blood

B.Heartbleed

C.Shellscript

D.Shellshock

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

B. Heartbleed

Question 11hard

Who is the original author of the realtime physics engine called PhysX?

A.Ageia

B.AMD

C.NovodeX

D.Nvidia

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. NovodeX

Question 12hard

According to DeMorgan's Theorem, the Boolean expression (AB)' is equivalent to:

A.A' + B'

B.A'B + B'A

C.A'B'

D.AB' + AB

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

A. A' + B'

Question 13hard

Which of the following computer components can be built using only NAND gates?

A.ALU

B.CPU

C.RAM

D.Register

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

A. ALU

Question 14hard

What type of sound chip does the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) have?

A.ADPCM Sampler

B.FM Synthesizer

C.PCM Sampler

D.Programmable Sound Generator (PSG)

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

A. ADPCM Sampler

Question 15hard

What is the codename of the eighth generation Intel Core micro-architecture launched in October 2017?

A.Broadwell

B.Coffee Lake

C.Sandy Bridge

D.Skylake

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

B. Coffee Lake

Question 16hard

What was the name of the first Bulgarian personal computer?

A.IMKO-1

B.IZOT 1030

C.Pravetz 82

D.Pravetz 8D

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

A. IMKO-1

Question 17hard

Which data structure does FILO apply to?

A.Heap

B.Queue

C.Stack

D.Tree

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. Stack

Question 18hard

Which RAID array type is associated with data mirroring?

A.RAID 0

B.RAID 1

C.RAID 10

D.RAID 5

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

B. RAID 1

Question 19hard

What was the name of the security vulnerability found in Bash in 2014?

A.Bashbug

B.Heartbleed

C.Shellshock

D.Stagefright

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. Shellshock

Question 20hard

Dutch computer scientist Mark Overmars is known for creating which game development engine?

A.Construct

B.Game Maker

C.Stencyl

D.Torque 2D

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

B. Game Maker

Question 21hard

What is the name given to layer 4 of the Open Systems Interconnection (ISO) model?

A.Data link

B.Network

C.Session

D.Transport

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

D. Transport

Question 22hard

Released in 2001, the first edition of Apple's Mac OS X operating system (version 10.0) was given what animal code name?

A.Cheetah

B.Leopard

C.Puma

D.Tiger

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

A. Cheetah

Question 23hard

What vulnerability ranked #1 on the OWASP Top 10 in 2013?

A.Broken Authentication

B.Cross-Site Scripting

C.Injection

D.Insecure Direct Object References

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. Injection

Question 24hard

The Harvard architecture for micro-controllers added which additional bus?

A.Address

B.Control

C.Data

D.Instruction

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

D. Instruction

Question 25hard

Which of these names was an actual codename for a cancelled Microsoft project?

A.Enceladus

B.Neptune

C.Pollux

D.Saturn

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

B. Neptune

Question 26hard

Which of these is not a key value of Agile software development?

A.Comprehensive documentation

B.Customer collaboration

C.Individuals and interactions

D.Responding to change

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

A. Comprehensive documentation

Question 27hard

Which of these is not a layer in the OSI model for data communications?

A.Application Layer

B.Connection Layer

C.Physical Layer

D.Transport Layer

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

B. Connection Layer

Question 28hard

Which of these Cherry MX mechanical keyboard switches is both tactile and clicky?

A.Cherry MX Black

B.Cherry MX Blue

C.Cherry MX Brown

D.Cherry MX Red

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

B. Cherry MX Blue

Question 29hard

Who invented the "Spanning Tree Protocol"?

A.Michael Roberts

B.Paul Vixie

C.Radia Perlman

D.Vint Cerf

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. Radia Perlman

Question 30hard

Which kind of algorithm is Ron Rivest not famous for creating?

A.Asymmetric encryption

B.Hashing algorithm

C.Secret sharing scheme

D.Stream cipher

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. Secret sharing scheme

Question 31hard

America Online (AOL) started out as which of these online service providers?

A.CompuServe

B.GEnie

C.Prodigy

D.Quantum Link

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

D. Quantum Link

Question 32hard

Who is the founder of Palantir?

A.Jack Dorsey

B.Marc Benioff

C.Mark Zuckerberg

D.Peter Thiel

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

D. Peter Thiel

Question 33hard

Which of the following is the oldest of these computers by release date?

A.Apple 3

B.Commodore 64

C.TRS-80

D.ZX Spectrum

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

C. TRS-80

Question 34hard

What port does HTTP run on?

A.23

B.443

C.53

D.80

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

D. 80

← Back to all Computers questions