Question: The sampling rate, (how many samples per second are stored) for a CD is...?
1) 48.4 kHz
2) 22,050 Hz
3) 44.1 kHz
4) 48 kHz
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Question: Compact discs, (according to the original CD specifications) hold how many minutes of music?
1) 74 mins
2) 56 mins
3) 60 mins
4) 90 mins
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Question: The base 10 (or decimal - our normal way of counting) number 65535 is represented in hexadecimal as...?
1) 0xFFFFF
2) 0xFFFF
3) 0xFFF
4) 0xFFFFFF
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Question: Where is the headquarters of Microsoft located?
1) Santa Clara, California
2) Tucson, Arizona
3) Richmond, Virginia
4) Redmond, Washington
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Question: In what year was the "@" chosen for its use in e-mail addresses?
1) 1976
2) 1972
3) 1980
4) 1984
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Question: What was the first ARPANET message?
1) "lo"
2) "hello world"
3) "mary had a little lamb"
4) "cyberspace, the final frontier"
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Question: Where is the headquarters of Intel located?
1) Redmond, Washington
2) Tucson, Arizona
3) Santa Clara, California
4) Richmond, Virginia
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Question: In which year was MIDI introduced?
1) 1987
2) 1983
3) 1973
4) 1977
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Question: '.BAK' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
1) Backup file
2) Audio file
3) Animation/movie file
4) MS Encarta document
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Question: '.MPG' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
1) WordPerfect Document file
2) MS Office document
3) Animation/movie file
4) Image file
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Question: '.INI' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
1) Image file
2) System file
3) Hypertext related file
4) Image Color Matching Profile file
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Question: '.BAT' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
1) Compressed Archive file
2) System file
3) Audio file
4) Backup file
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Question: '.JPG' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
1) System file
2) Animation/movie file
3) MS Encarta document
4) Image file
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Question: '.MOV' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
1) Image file
2) Animation/movie file
3) Audio file
4) MS Office document
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Question: '.TXT' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
1) Text File
2) Image file
3) Audio file
4) Adobe Acrobat file
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Question: '.TMP' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
1) Compressed Archive file
2) Image file
3) Temporary file
4) Audio file
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Question: Who created Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)?
1) Paul Zimmerman
2) Tim Berners-Lee
3) Marc Andreessen
4) Ken Thompson
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Question: Who co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft?
1) Shawn Fanning
2) Ada Byron Lovelace
3) Sabeer Bhatia
4) Ray Tomlinson
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Question: Who co-created the UNIX operating system in 1969 with Dennis Ritchie?
1) Bjarne Stroustrup
2) Steve Wozniak
3) Ken Thompson
4) Niklaus Wirth
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Question: Who is largely responsible for breaking the German Enigma codes, created a test that provided a foundation for artificial intelligence?
1) Alan Turing
2) Jeff Bezos
3) George Boole
4) Charles Babbage
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