Hard Computers Questions
34 questionsTest your knowledge with 34 hard computers trivia questions. Each question includes multiple choice options and the correct answer.
What does the International System of Quantities refer 1024 bytes as?
The correct answer is B. Kibibyte
Lenovo acquired IBM's personal computer division, including the ThinkPad line of laptops and tablets, in what year?
The correct answer is C. 2005
The internet domain .fm is the country-code top-level domain for which Pacific Ocean island nation?
The correct answer is C. Micronesia
The acronym "RIP" stands for which of these?
The correct answer is C. Routing Information Protocol
What internet protocol was documented in RFC 1459?
The correct answer is D. IRC
How many Hz does the video standard PAL support?
The correct answer is B. 50
What major programming language does Unreal Engine 4 use?
The correct answer is C. C++
What was the first company to use the term "Golden Master"?
The correct answer is A. Apple
What is the name of the process that sends one qubit of information using two bits of classical information?
The correct answer is C. Quantum Teleportation
Which of these was the name of a bug found in April 2014 in the publicly available OpenSSL cryptography library?
The correct answer is B. Heartbleed
Who is the original author of the realtime physics engine called PhysX?
The correct answer is C. NovodeX
According to DeMorgan's Theorem, the Boolean expression (AB)' is equivalent to:
The correct answer is A. A' + B'
Which of the following computer components can be built using only NAND gates?
The correct answer is A. ALU
What type of sound chip does the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) have?
The correct answer is A. ADPCM Sampler
What is the codename of the eighth generation Intel Core micro-architecture launched in October 2017?
The correct answer is B. Coffee Lake
What was the name of the first Bulgarian personal computer?
The correct answer is A. IMKO-1
Which data structure does FILO apply to?
The correct answer is C. Stack
Which RAID array type is associated with data mirroring?
The correct answer is B. RAID 1
What was the name of the security vulnerability found in Bash in 2014?
The correct answer is C. Shellshock
Dutch computer scientist Mark Overmars is known for creating which game development engine?
The correct answer is B. Game Maker
What is the name given to layer 4 of the Open Systems Interconnection (ISO) model?
The correct answer is 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?
The correct answer is A. Cheetah
What vulnerability ranked #1 on the OWASP Top 10 in 2013?
The correct answer is C. Injection
The Harvard architecture for micro-controllers added which additional bus?
The correct answer is D. Instruction
Which of these names was an actual codename for a cancelled Microsoft project?
The correct answer is B. Neptune
Which of these is not a key value of Agile software development?
The correct answer is A. Comprehensive documentation
Which of these is not a layer in the OSI model for data communications?
The correct answer is B. Connection Layer
Which of these Cherry MX mechanical keyboard switches is both tactile and clicky?
The correct answer is B. Cherry MX Blue
Who invented the "Spanning Tree Protocol"?
The correct answer is C. Radia Perlman
Which kind of algorithm is Ron Rivest not famous for creating?
The correct answer is C. Secret sharing scheme
America Online (AOL) started out as which of these online service providers?
The correct answer is D. Quantum Link
Who is the founder of Palantir?
The correct answer is D. Peter Thiel
Which of the following is the oldest of these computers by release date?
The correct answer is C. TRS-80
What port does HTTP run on?
The correct answer is D. 80