Hardware Acronyms
C++ / C
Unix Essentials
Java / OOP
Windows vs OSX
100
USB.
What is Universal Serial Bus?
100
5 of the container template classes in the C++ standard library.
What is Array, vector, deque, forward_list, list, stack, queue, priority_queue, set, multiset, map, multimap, unordered_set, unordered_multiset, unordered_map, unordered_multimap, bitset or valarray?
100
2 of the 5 creators of UNIX.
Who is Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Dougl McIlroy or Joe Ossanna?
100
This exposes software objects behavior.
What is a method?
100
PC is to BIOS as Mac is to ?
What is EFI? (Extensible Firmware Interface)
200
MIDI.
What is Musical Instrument Digital Interface?
200
In C++, what is the difference between a struct and a class?
What is members are public by default for a struct?
200
'cat filename' does this.
What is outputs the contents of the file 'filename' to standard I/O?
200
The term API stands for this.
What is Application Programming Interface?
200
Native support for this Mac equivalent of an ISO is not present in Windows.
What is DMG?
300
ASIC.
What is Application Specified Integrated Circuit?
300
Arrange of the following C operations by priority (order of evaluation) from first to last: division (%), conditional-or (||), logical equals (==), bitwise-or(|), dereference (*).
What is dereference (*), division (%), logical equals (==), bitwise-or(|), conditional-or (||)?
300
Owner of Bell Labs during UNIX development.
Who is AT&T?
300
Hiding internal data from the outside world, and accessing it only through publicly exposed methods.
What is data encapsulation?
300
This is a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Windows.
What is the Windows Registry?
400
NFC / RFID.
What is Near Field Communication Radio Frequency Identification?
400
What has more access permissions for a Base class's members - a friend of the Base class, or a subclass of the Base class, and its specific difference.
What is friend classes also have access to private members?
400
4 of the 5 base UNIX directories.
What is usr, etc, home, dev or tmp?
400
A collection of methods with no implementation.
What is an interface?
400
This terminal command on a Mac does what? "defaults write com.apple.screencapture type JPG" (Note the default format when answering)
What is changing the screencapture format type to JPG from PNG?
500
CMOS.
What is Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor?
500
Maximum number of parameters allowed for a function in standards-compliant C.
What is 127 parameters in one function definition?
500
Programming language(s) UNIX is written in.
What is C and Assembly?
500
A namespace that organizes classes and interfaces by functionality.
What is package?
500
What is the Macintosh keyboard shortcut “equivalent” of the Windows Task Manager found by simultaneously pressing “ctrl+shift+escape”?
What is "Command+Option+Escape" which brings up the activity monitor?
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