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Technology - General Quiz

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20 questions · Unlimited attempts · Free online practice

General technology knowledge covers the broad landscape of how digital systems, devices, and innovations shape modern life. It spans computing fundamentals, the history of technolo...

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All 20 questions in this Technology - General quiz
  1. What does 'WYSIWYG' stand for?

    • A. With You So It Will Go
    • B. When You Start It Will Grow
    • C. What You Send Is What You Give
    • D. What You See Is What You Get
  2. What is the main physical difference between a standard LED monitor and an OLED monitor?

    • A. LED monitors use gas, while OLED uses liquid
    • B. OLED monitors require a backlight, while LED pixels produce their own light
    • C. LED monitors require a backlight, while OLED pixels produce their own light
    • D. OLED monitors are only made of plastic
  3. What unit is used to measure the processing speed of the world's most powerful supercomputers?

    • A. Gigaherz (GHz)
    • B. Megabytes (MB)
    • C. FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second)
    • D. RPM (Rotations Per Minute)
  4. What is the full form of SaaS?

    • A. Service as a System
    • B. Storage as a Service
    • C. System as a Software
    • D. Software as a Service
  5. What is the name of the first digital camera?

    • A. Kodak
    • B. Sony
    • C. Nikon
    • D. Canon
  6. What is a primary benefit of using 'Dark Mode' on a device with an OLED or AMOLED screen?

    • A. It increases the internet speed
    • B. It saves battery life by turning off black pixels
    • C. It makes the device waterproof
    • D. It increases the maximum storage capacity
  7. What is the name of the first computer ever made?

    • A. Altair
    • B. ENIAC
    • C. IBM PC
    • D. Apple I
  8. The Graphical User Interface (GUI), including windows and icons, was famously pioneered at which research center before being adopted by Apple?

    • A. NASA
    • B. Xerox PARC
    • C. Bell Labs
    • D. MIT
  9. What is '4G'?

    • A. A weight
    • B. Four gigabytes
    • C. Four goals
    • D. Fourth generation cellular network
  10. What is the purpose of 'GitHub'?

    • A. To edit photos
    • B. To write emails
    • C. To host websites
    • D. Version control and collaboration
  11. Which engineer at Motorola is credited with making the first public handheld mobile phone call in 1973?

    • A. Alexander Graham Bell
    • B. Martin Cooper
    • C. Steve Jobs
    • D. Nikola Tesla
  12. What is the name of the first artificial satellite?

    • A. Sputnik 1
    • B. Telstar
    • C. Explorer 1
    • D. Vanguard 1
  13. What does a Virtual Private Network (VPN) primarily do to protect a user's internet traffic?

    • A. It makes the internet faster
    • B. It creates an encrypted tunnel and hides the user's IP address
    • C. It deletes the user's browsing history
    • D. It installs an antivirus on the router
  14. What stores data temporarily?

    • A. Hard Disk
    • B. RAM
    • C. SSD
    • D. ROM
  15. The wireless standard 'Bluetooth' is named after a 10th-century king from which region?

    • A. England
    • B. Scandinavia
    • C. Germany
    • D. Greece
  16. What is a 'Cold Wallet' in the context of cryptocurrency and digital assets?

    • A. A wallet stored in a freezer
    • B. An offline storage device used to keep private keys secure from online hackers
    • C. A wallet that has been deleted
    • D. A bank account for Bitcoin
  17. What does 'MAC' stand for in 'MAC Address'?

    • A. Main Access Code
    • B. Master Area Connection
    • C. Memory Allocation Core
    • D. Media Access Control
  18. What does 'TB' stand for?

    • A. Technical Byte
    • B. Total Byte
    • C. True Byte
    • D. TeraByte
  19. What does 'RAID' stand for in computer storage?

    • A. Read Access Input Data
    • B. Random Access Internal Device
    • C. Redundant Array of Independent Disks
    • D. Rapid Access Inbuilt Drive
  20. Who is considered the first computer programmer?

    • A. Charles Babbage
    • B. Alan Turing
    • C. Ada Lovelace
    • D. Grace Hopper