Information Technology quiz

More questions about Information Technology

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1. 1 Easy

   Why did Tim Berners-Lee invent the World Wide Web?

   Answer: To help scientists share research and documents easily.

   Why: His boss Mike Sendall wrote 'Vague but exciting' on the March 1989 proposal; CERN put the web software in the public domain on 30 April 1993.

2. 2 Medium

   What does ICT add to IT?

   Answer: Communications

   Why: ICT widens IT to cover telephone lines, wireless links, radio, TV and satellite systems, not just computers and software.

3. 3 Hard

   Which protocol does Border Gateway Protocol use to exchange routing tables?

   Answer: TCP

   Why: Unlike OSPF, which rides directly on IP as protocol 89, BGP opens a TCP session on port 179 and lets TCP handle retransmission.

4. 4 Easy

   What OS with a penguin mascot powers many servers?

   Answer: Linux

   Why: Tux, the Linux penguin, was drawn by Larry Ewing in 1996 after Linus Torvalds was nipped by a little penguin at a Canberra zoo.

5. 5 Medium

   From which language did the word robot originate?

   Answer: Czech

   Why: Karel Čapek credited his brother Josef with the word: robota was the forced labour Czech serfs owed, and R.U.R. reached the stage in 1921.

6. 6 Hard

   Which protocol does the classic Unix traceroute send by default?

   Answer: UDP

   Why: While Windows tracert defaults to ICMP Echo Requests, Unix traceroute sends UDP datagrams to high-numbered ports.