Acronyms
What does RAM stand for?
Random Access Memory
What company first introduced their Chromebook hardware in 2011? The product's low price point proved popular with teachers as a 2018 estimate indicated that over 60% of classroom mobile devices in the U.S. were Chromebooks
HTML and CSS are computer languages commonly used to create what?
websites
What computer operating system, launched in 1991 and known for its penguin mascot named Tux, is popular among developers?
Linux
Frequently involving a mobile device or email correspondence, what does the security term MFA refer to when dealing with computer-granted access?
Multi-factor authentication
What is the acronym of the portable document format developed by Adobe?
The European internet company Skype was purchased by eBay in 2005 for $2.5 billion, but only six years later the video chat company was purchased by what other tech firm for a new purchase price of $8.5 billion?
Microsoft
What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia?
Java
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the world’s first electronic digital computer, was built during the 1930s in what U.S. state?
Iowa
What term is used for the most basic level or core of an operating system, responsible for resource allocation, file management and security? In a different context, this word can also mean the seed and hard husk of a cereal.
Kernel
What does SSD stand for?
Solid State Drive
All of these famous tech companies started in a garage, except...
(A) Amazon (B) Apple
(C) eBay (D) Google
(E) Microsoft
eBay
A dude named Chip Morningstar received the first JSON message, a format derived from what core language?
JavaScript
In 2005, Linus Torvalds developed a version control software to track changes in files for the Linux kernel. What is the three-letter name of this software?
What “M” computer security company, founded by namesake John in 1987 before being acquired by Intel in 2011, is well known for its anti-virus software that is available to individual consumers?
MacAfee
What does the acronym USB represent?
Universal Serial Bus
Internet mogul Richard Barton founded the online travel companyExpedia, the employment search engine and company review website Glassdoor, and what internet-based real estate company?
Zillow
Unicode, the standard for character encoding used to represent multilingual text as binary, is the successor of what US encoding standard?
ASCII
Where did the name "Bluetooth" come from?
(A) A medieval Scandinavian king
(B) An electric eel with blue teeth
(C) A bear that loves blueberries
(D) A Native American chieftain
A medieval Scandinavian king
What is the two word term for the type of cybersecurity breach in which a user is convinced to disclose secrets due to an exploitation of trust and reliance on cognitive biases? In short, this is a type of attack focused on human gatekeepers of information rather than the computer system itself.
Social Engineering
What does URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
What 2008-founded internet company with a "fowl" name was founded as a privacy-focused alternative to Google's search engine and has a name only a few letters shy of a well-known children's game? As of 2020, the company has fundraised more than $10 million in venture capital.
DuckDuckGo
Before the name Java, the coding language was known by what arboreal name that also has a professor in the Pokemon universe?
Oak
While working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center during the 1970s, computer scientist Larry Tesler coined what three common computer commands first used to edit documents on a word processor he co-created called Gypsy?
Cut, copy, paste
As of January 2019, what company is the source of the largest data breach in known history? This former tech favorite admitted that up to three billion accounts had secure information compromised in 2013 by a suspected state-actor.
Yahoo