Tech CEOs
The C Languages (C, C++, C#, and Objective C)
Chronological Order
Hardware
Potpourri
100
CEO of Microsoft.
Who is Satya Nadella?
100
These two of the C languages do not include a boolean type in their official standard.
What are C and Objective C?
100
Java, C, C++.
What is C, C++, Java?
100
In a cache, SRAM is used because it is faster to access and update than DRAM (though it is larger and costlier to manufacture per bit). The S in SRAM stands for this.
What is static?
100
3 of the largest 4 countries by land area.
What is Russia, Canada, China or USA?
200
CEO of Dell. (last and first name)
Who is Michael Dell?
200
In C, this is the default return type assigned by the compiler to implicitly defined functions.
What is int?
200
Civil War, Vietnam War, Revolutionary War, WWII, Korean War
What is Revolutionary, Civil, WWII, Korean, Vietnam?
200
This block/section of the CPU has the responsibility of issuing signals to the other blocks, including the MMU, the ALU, and the IO busses, to complete an instruction.
What is the Control Unit?
200
Longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
300
CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors as well as the chairman of SolarCity.
Who is Elon Musk?
300
This C language is the only one to allow the Ampersand (&) operator as a modifier for function parameters. Answer:
What is C++?
300
iPod, iPad, iPhone.
What is iPod, iPhone, iPad?
300
Whenever you're sending data via a signal from some sender to some receiver, you can incur transmission errors. One strategy for detecting transmission errors is adding a "parity bit" to each data segment being transmitted. This fact / this piece of information, given by the value of the parity bit, allows the receiver to detect if an odd number of bits are in error in the segment.
What is the parity of the number of 1's in the segment? (i.e. if there's an odd number of 1s.)
300
City hosting 2016 Summer Olympics?
What is Rio?
400
Founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters Chain.
Who is Noah Bushnell?
400
In this C-Style language, there are no truly global variables, because all variables, and even type definitions, must at least exist within a given namespace, of which there can be many.
What is C#?
400
IBM, Intel, HP.
What is IBM, HP, Intel?
400
Made with just d flip-flops and AND gates, this component, shown above component, serves as the basis for many modern computer's timing circuitry. Hint: Fill in the blank: What is a 4 bit, synchronous, up _____. The blank is a type of component - i.e. "multiplexer" or "shift register." Double hint - it's one word.
What is a counter?
400
Host of Jeopardy!
Who is Alex Trebek?
500
The president and CEO of Nintendo. He is a Japanese businessman and programmer.
Who is Satoru Iwata?
500
Given the following C++ code: struct DoubleMock { DoubleMock(double v){_v = v;} double _v; }; double operator^(DoubleMock x, DoubleMock y) { return pow(x._v,y._v); } int main() { double v = DoubleMock(4.0) ^ 4.0; return 0; } ...this is the value of v.
What is 256?
500
Order that you must take the following CS courses at PSU: CMPSC 122, CMPSC 221, CMPSC 121, CMPSC 311
What is CMPSC 121, CMPSC 122, CMPSC 221, CMPSC 311?
500
In a network, switches are devices in which packets from different regions of the network inter- directed. The actual directing of packets between ports occurs via a "switching fabric." The above diagram shows this popular implementation of an NxN switching fabric, named after it's resemblance to the national tree of India.
What is a Banyan network. "Banyan" or allusions to a banyan will suffice?
500
PSU president.
Who is Eric J. Barron?
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