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100

Q: This role is responsible for creating "One Pagers"

A: What is Product Marketing Engineer

100

Q: TI field teams will check this first when customers complain about delinquent shipments.

A: What is CRD or backlog reports.

100

Q: The year that TI was founded.

A: When was 1930.

100

Q: The acronym is TAM

A: What is Total Available Market

100

Q: This person is the leader of Americas Sales & Applications

A: Who is Carl Cotter

200

Q: This tool is to help record project information, win/loss/pending pricing, and other project details

A: What is PPM

200

Q: This is a document from the customer that TI leverages to understand what is used in a project

A: What is a BOM?

200

Q: The year that TI started making calculators.

A: When was 1967.

200

Q: The acronym is DWIN

A: What is Design WIN

200

Q: This person leads all Analog Signal Chain (ASC) Business.

A: Who is Hagop Kozanian

300

Q: This tool is to help document pricing at your specific customer

A: What is PIT?

300

Q: These reports are used to track customer activity on TI.com and allow TI field teams to engage with customers with additional context on what they are trying to acheive.

A: Customer Activity Reports (Must know full acronymn)

300

Q: Noted as Jack Kilby's greatest achievement.

A: What was the invention of the integrated circuit.

300

Q: The acronym is PPM

A: What is Project Plan Module

300

Q: This person is the Administrative Assistant for the Americas Enterprise, Client & Ref Design Team.

A: Who is Kathleen Shade

400

Q: This tool is used to intensify focus to attach incumbent and most impactful competitor sockets

A: What is Warboard

400

Q: These customers have a TI sales team directly supporting them but only receive a small fraction of their overall bandwidth.

A: What is a Kmm?

400

DAILY DOUBLE

This company purchased TI's defense business in 1997 allowing TI to strengthen their focus on digital solutions.

A: Who is Raytheon

400

Q: The acronym is PKO

A: What is Project Kick-Off

400

Q: This person is the PLM for High Speed Signal Conditioning team

A: Who is Mike Wolfe

500

Q: These are the two views that a user can toggle between in the New Business Wins Dashboard per NBW year

A: What is Live and Frozen

500

Q: This group inside our customers is who we take BU meetings with to guide our roadmaps for the next 3+ years

A:  What is CTO/Senior Leadership.

500

Q: Geophysical Service Inc. (Foundation of Texas Instruments) focused originally on this type of service.

A: What is Seismic Exploration services to the petroleum industry.

500

Q: The acronym is PIT

A: What is Price Inquiry Tool

500

Q: This person is the power FAE for NVIDIA + SMC

A: Who is Anuj Bhargava

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