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100

In 2006, this cloud platform began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services - now commonly known as cloud computing.

What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

100

Our SVP - Chief Technology Officer, GE Corporate

Who is Habib Sarkis?

100

This capital city is one of the largest urban centers in the South Pacific islands. It is home to the University of the South Pacific, and its residents speak their native language along with Hindi and English.

What is Suva, Fiji?

100

This scenic entity is a searchable object in a database that is defined by a query.

What is a View?

100

The Company was formed in this year through a merger between Edison General Electric in Schenectady and Thomson-Houston Electric Company in Lynn, Massachusetts. 

What is 1892?

200

This canine reference was the original project code name for Microsoft Azure.

What is "Project Red Dog"?

200

Our link to HC, Sr Director - Technical Product Management @ GE Healthcare

Who is Justin Marth?

200

This capital city is surrounded by mountains and is one of the oldest metropolises in the western hemisphere. It is built on a former lake bed at an elevation of over 7,300 feet.

What is Mexico City, Mexico?

200

An international community that focuses on developing and standardizing the web. As a web developer, enforcing these standards ensures that web content is accessible in all browsers to reach all audiences, as well as optimizes the user experience.

What is W3C, or World Wide Consortium?

200

In 2016, GE was placed at this ranking among Fortune 500 companies.

What is 11th?

300

This family of AWS services, like AWS Lambda, come with automatic scaling, built-in high availability, and a pay-for-value billing model enabling infrastructure management tasks like capacity provisioning and patching that are handled by AWS, so you can focus on only writing code that serves your customers. 

What is 'Serverless'?

300

He used to be one of us, now he is Chief Architect, GE Corporate DT - Finance.

Who is Vinnie Lavallee?

300

This European capital is home to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

What is Brussels, Belgium?

300

This result set, also referred to as a cross-join, returns all the rows in all the tables listed in the query. Each row in the first table is paired with all the rows in the second table. This happens when there is no relationship defined between the two tables. 

What is a Cartesian Product?

300

The GE logo was introduced on lamps and electrical appliances in 1907. Two years later this name was adopted as the trademark for certain lamps produced by GE after the Persian God of Light.


What is 'Mazda'?

400

This Azure service is a collection of Microsoft-managed cloud services that connect, monitor, and control billions of assets.

What is Azure Internet of Things (IOT)?

400

Sr Manager, Technical Product Management, GE Aviation

Who is Tom Ruter?

400

In mythology, twins Remus and Romulus are twin brothers whose story tells the events that led to the founding of this capital city.

What is Rome?

400

A concept that is used to create web pages that can scale across multiple resolutions without any loss of information or screen tearing.

It automatically adjusts the structure of the web page based on the device it is viewed on to provide optimal viewing experience.

What is Responsive Web Design (RWD)?

400

The headquarters of GE at Schenectady, New York receives numerous letters from children before Christmas as they believe that it is only obvious that Santa Claus has this ZIP code.

What is 12345?

500

This AWS service utilizes MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational databases built for the cloud to ensure performance and availability of commercial-grade databases at 1/10th the cost.

What is Amazon Aurora?

500

He is Chief Information Officer - GE Gas Power.

Who is Bhaskar (no, not that one) Ramani.

500

This capital is often called the 'white city of the north' because many of its buildings are constructed of a local light colored granite. The city was ravaged by plague in 1710 and burnt to the ground in 1713 and again in 1808.

What is Helsinki, Finland?

500

A combination of fields which uniquely specify a row. This is a special kind of unique identifier, and it has implicit NOT NULL constraint.

What is a Primary Key?

500

Along with Thomas Alva Edison, he was Co-Founder and the Company's first President.

Who was Charles Coffin?

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