TCS IT Wiz 2014 Ahmedabad Prelims

Hi Friends here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2014 Ahmedabad Prelims Questions.We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Yash Sodha (participant of TCS IT Wiz 2014 Ahmedabad) who provided us the questions.

Cutoff : 15

1.Silvertouch technologies created something for the Gujarat government for  a Gujarat government initiative. What is it ?
Ans:Vibrant Gujarat
2.Ripple , Primecoin , Ethereum , dogecoin  are examples of ?
Ans:Cryptocurrency/Virtual Currency
3.Which company was started as Multitech corporation ?
Ans:Acer
4.It is a Linux open source operating system , it was released in October 2013. [hint: It starts with 'T']
Ans:Tizen
5.The iconic adoption of this keyboard combination has come from David Bradley, a designer of the Original IBM PC.It was chosen since it was nearly impossible to press this with one hand.What is the combination
Ans:Ctrl+Alt+Delete
6.It is the India's first virtual world , created by Godrej .What is it ? (Options : Khoj.com , Gojiyo.com , quickr.com)
Ans:Gojiyo.com
7.367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto. Which company was started here ?
Ans:HP
8.Its IPO was $2718281##. The amount was so huge that they had to use 'e' for that. It is known for its geekiness. Identify the company.
Ans:Google
9.It was started by Reggie Brown and Evan Spiegel as a project for one of Spiegel's classes at Stanford University, where Spiegel was a product design major. It was started under the name 'Picaboo' . What is it ?
Ans:Snapchat
10.TCS helped a temple overcome the problem of huge crowds. For which South-Indian temple did they do so ?
Ans:Thirumala / Thirupathy temple
11.Toru Iwatani created this at Namco . What is it ?
Ans:Pacman
12.Six employees from Delhi Cloth Mills left the company and created a compnay . Which is the company they created ?
Ans:HCL
13.Julie Uhrman founded the project in 2012.If was formerly known asn BOXER8 . What is it ?
Ans:Ouya
14.Its name comes from its Stock logo. Often called by media as Mr. Softee.Which company ?
Ans:Microsoft
15.It is a commercial smartphone-based music identification service.It is also the name of a Marvel Superhero . What is it ?
Ans:Shazam
16.About which company this book is written ?

Ans:Amazon
17.Where would you find this ?

Ans:Templerun
18.Identify her , she is the CEO of Xerox

Ans:Usrula Burns
19. It is a free language learning service .(some more info were given)

Ans:Duolingo
20.Which Indian media company released 'Alive' app ?

Ans: Times of India

TCS IT Wiz 2014 Hyderabad Prelims

Hi Friends here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2014 Hyderabad Prelims Questions.We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Lucky Kaul  (2nd Runner up of TCS IT Wiz 2014 Hyderabad) who provided us the questions.

Cutoff: 16

1.Who was the first chairman of TCS ?
Ans: J R D Tata
2.What is Universe of Blogs better known as ?
Ans:Blogosphere
3.Identify this logo

 Ans:Moodle
4.Expand Saas
Ans:Software as a Service
5.Who is regarded as the father of 'Pentium Chip' ?
Ans:Vinod Dham
6.Identify this person

Ans:Salman Khan(Khan Academy)
7.Which company's headquarters is located at '1 Hacker Way' ?
Ans:Facebook
8.What was Microsoft's first ever product had helped them get a lot of money?
Ans:MS DOS
9.Which social networking site was founded by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai ?
Ans: Foursquare
10..Which e-commerce website was launched through a provision in the 1999 Railway  Budget ?
Ans:IRCTC
11.US Dept of defense created a programming language after which pioneering lady in the same field in 1994. Who is she ?
Ans:Ada Lovelace 
12.Which British pioneer in the world of computing was ranked way ahead of Tim-Berners Lee who was at 99.[Hint:has an award and test named after him]
Ans:Alan Turing
13.Named 'Dragon' this spacecraft became the first ever commercial spacecraft to venture into the International Space Station .Which company would you associate 'Dragon' with? [hint:its a word and a letter]
Ans:SpaceX
14. Eugene,Natalya,Sachin Tendulkar & Jackie Chan . What is the connection ?
Ans:Kaspersky
15.Which is the most downloaded app on Google Play [Hint:Made by Google]
Ans:Gmail
16.Identify the person

Ans:Andy Grove
17.Identify the game [hint:the 'Super' game]

Ans:SuperMario 3D
18.Identify

Ans:World Wide Web Consortium
19.Who is being referred here?

Ans:Marissa Mayer
20.Who owns this entity now ?

Ans:Twitter

N.B : A special mention to Siddharth B Rao & Upamanyu Datta (Winners of TCS IT Wiz 2014 Hyderabad Winners) and Pranav Mihir K & Arjun S. Kallapur ( Runners up of 2014 Hyderabad)