General Computing Trivia

1. What has been shown to be the most secure type of password for devices and accounts?

From Quiz Managing Passwords

Answer: A very long list of random words combined with symbols

The longer and more complicated a password, the less likely it is to be hacked. Security advisors suggest using a very long list of random words strung together. The longer the password, the less likely it will be hacked. Remember that "#&5%@>$" is no more difficult than "pancake" for a computer program to decipher, and most hackers don't try to figure out passwords on their own. Instead, they use software to try to steal passwords.

From Quiz Computer and Internet Acronyms

Answer: Compact Disc Read Only Memory

CD-ROM is a type of optical disc that originated in 1982 in Japan. A computer can read from, but not write to, a CD-ROM disc. Most CD-ROMs have a maximum capacity in the 650MB to 900MB range.

From Quiz Computers Don't Byte!

Answer: Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) had spent some years working on another project which he had called the Difference Engine, a type of mechanical calculator, although this venture never came fully to fruition. Undeterred, he started work on designing what became known as the Analytical Engine, a machine which used punched cards to input data, and became the forerunner of early computers. Unfortunately, due to funding and other problems, he was never able to see the first computers built from his designs, but his early pioneering work in the field led to him being known as the 'Father of the Computer'. John Logie Baird was the inventor of the television, and Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Michael Faraday was skilled in many scientific fields, but is best remembered for his work with electromagnetism and electricity.

From Quiz Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

Answer: Ctrl-B

This shortcut will open the window to your favorites where you can organize and delete your favorites. Ctrl-D will add current site to your favorites.

From Quiz Deus Ex Machina!

Answer: 7

Base 2 is often referred to as the "binary number system." Computer hardware makes computations based on two states, off and on, or zero and one. Each column in a binary number is a power of 2. The rightmost digit is 1. The next rightmost digit is 2 and the third digit from the right is 4. Adding these numbers together gives us the result, 7.

From Quiz Click Here to Get a Computer Virus

Answer: Malware

Malware is a shortened form of "malicious software."

From Quiz Computer Trivia

Answer: Central Processing Unit

The CPU is a very important component of the computer. It acts as the brain of the computer and processes all of its information. The faster the CPU the faster it can process information. Some computers contain multiple CPU's, making them faster and capable of processing large amounts of information at one time. The speed of a CPU is measured in Hertz (Hz), today typically on a scale of Gigahertz (billions of Hertz). As computers become faster they will need more efficient CPUs that can handle large amounts of information at once.

From Quiz 'Back' to the Basics

Answer: Central Processing Unit

The central processing unit is the brains of the computer and affects the speed and performance of the computer. They vary greatly in price depending on what you are doing with your computer. Since I wasn't into gaming and didn't need a high performance CPU, I was able to get a reasonably priced CPU to operate my system.

From Quiz Can I Get An Upgrade?

Answer: Charles Babbage

It was never completed but would have weighed 15 tons. Not exactly a laptop!

From Quiz Emoticons - Before They Were Graphic

Answer: : - )

These are written with and without noses, mustaches, and/or sunglasses. The (:-( is very unhappy. The (((H))) is a big hug. The :-(=) is bucktoothed.

From Quiz Cryptology

Answer: Rot3

Caesar used a rotate-by-three cipher to communicate with his military. Each letter in a message is rotated left around the alphabet three places, so that D would become A, P would become M, and A would become X. This method was effective because most people in that age were illiterate, and those who were not had not yet devised cryptanalysis (methods for breaking codes).

From Quiz Are You A Computer Geek?

Answer: Neither: Walter Cronkite just sat on the information

UNIVAC put the odds at 100-to-1 that a landslide of voters had liked Ike for president. Walter Cronkite and other journalists sat on that story because they didn't believe the computer had gotten it right, and instead waited until more returns had come in, giving credence to the computer's prediction. Opinion polls put Adlai Stevenson, a Democrat, in the lead.

From Quiz Not So Familiar Computing Terms

Answer: scanner

It's an old term from printing presses--the flat plate with which paper is pressed against inked, raised-face type. The term is now used in reference to the flat window on which you place the item you want to scan.

From Quiz Computer Acronyms

Answer: Internet Control Message Protocol

ICMP Packets are used to send control messages including errors.

From Quiz Managing Passwords

Answer: "123456" and "password"

Despite warnings from cyber security experts, many people continue to choose these easy-to-hack passwords. If passwords are hacked, criminals can gain access to banks, social media accounts, business accounts, and steal identities.

From Quiz Computer and Internet Acronyms

Answer: COmmon Business Oriented Language

COBOL has been around in various forms since 1959, but was standardized in the late 1960s and became the most commonly used programming language on legacy mainframe computers. Grace Hopper is known as the mother of COBOL.

From Quiz Computers Don't Byte!

Answer: Archimedes

The BBC Micro, also built by Acorn Computers, was the computer released in 1981 to be used in schools for teaching computing skills in conjunction with the BBC's Computer Literacy Project. The Acorn Archimedes was released in 1987 and was the first home computer as such. In all, five different models of the Archimedes were released in 1987; the top-of-the-range model, the 440, cost an eye-watering recommended retail price of £2,299 on release, an extremely costly purchase, particularly in the 1980s! Subsequent Archimedes models included the popular Archimedes 3000 series which fortunately retailed at a more affordable price. They are no longer made but are still popular as retro computers.

From Quiz Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

Answer: Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn

If you have multiple tabs in an Excel worksheet, Ctrl-PgDn will jump to the next tab to the right, which Ctrl-PgUp will switch to the left.

From Quiz Deus Ex Machina!

Answer: algorithm

Basically, an algorithm is a detailed method for arriving at a solution for a given problem. There are many algorithms for accomplishing seemingly fundamental tasks, such as sorting numbers. Algorithms are often represented in what is known as pseudocode.

From Quiz 'Back' to the Basics

Answer: The computer case

Remember the old days when computers came in boxes that sat underneath the monitor? Towers came next and have remained popular. They can sit on the desk or underneath it. Cube or small-form-factor computer cases are also popular; they're smaller than towers but are roomy enough to hold the necessary components.

From Quiz Can I Get An Upgrade?

Answer: Alan Turing

Alan Turing played a significant role in designing machines to break the German enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II.

From Quiz Emoticons - Before They Were Graphic

Answer: : - (

The X-( is angry. The >:) is evil. The =O is shocked.

From Quiz The Science of Computer Technology

Answer: communications software

FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is a feature where a computer user uploads and downloads various files to and from websites. Here's where the communication part comes in. Communication is involved in uploading when a file goes on sites such as YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, etc. Communication-wise, downloading requires interaction between user and website to get web files (i.e. pictures, videos, and songs) onto a computer.

From Quiz Cryptology

Answer: The same operation both encodes and decodes

Rot13 is a simple way to encode data so that it is not legible unless somebody *wants* to read it, because you only need to write one function. Rotating by thirteen places in the standard 26-letter English alphabet will encode plaintext (un-encrypted text), and decode ciphertext (encrypted text). Whether it is unlucky is just superstition, and as for the other two choices... Somebody could probably break a Rot13 encoded message before you could finish writing it.

From Quiz Computer Potpourri II

Answer: Effect

Sometimes seen as MOSFET, this acronym stands for: Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor.

From Quiz The New Virus Threat

Answer: Polymorphic

Scanning for known viruses was relatively easy, as the scanners looked for certain byte patterns in executable files. Polymorphic viruses encode each replication with a different encryption routine making them near impossible to locate using this method. Antivirus companies had to get smarter and began to use algorithms to find the core viruses.

From Quiz Not So Familiar Computing Terms

Answer: text output

The variable spacing used between printed characters, such as how an 'i' tucks correctly next to a 'T', is kerning. Something printed with constant spacing between letters just doesn't look right, especially for high-quality materials like advertisements, or maybe your wedding invitations.

From Quiz The Stupid Computer User Super Quiz

Answer: a measurement that indicates the diagonal distance between like-colored phosphor dots on a display screen

Also called the phosphor pitch and measured in millimeters, the dot pitch is one of the principal characteristics that determines the quality of display monitors. The lower the number, the crisper the image. The dot pitch of color monitors for personal computers ranges from about 0.15 mm to 0.30 mm.

From Quiz Computer Acronyms

Answer: Secure Socket Layer

A protocol developed by Netscape to allow secure connections over the net.

From Quiz Computerized

Answer: 2GB

Due to the mathematical limitations of FAT16, without an overlay file or special driver is 2GB.

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