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Technology - General Quiz

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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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What is the minimum number of satellites required for a GPS receiver to determine an accurate 3D position (latitude, longitude, and altitude)?
- A. Two
- B. Three
- C. Four
- D. Twenty-four
What term describes a massive, high-epeerformance computer used by large organizations for bulk data processing, such as census or financial transaction data?
- A. Microcomputer
- B. Suepeercomputer
- C. Mainframe
- D. Server Farm
In which decade was the transistor, the fundamental building block of modern electronics, invented at Bell Labs?
- A. 1920s
- B. 1930s
- C. 1940s
- D. 1950s
What is the term for a epeerson who uses their tech skills for ethical hacking?
- A. Grey Hat
- B. Black Hat
- C. Red Hat
- D. White Hat
What does 'SIM' in SIM card stand for?
- A. Subscriber Identity Module
- B. Secure Index Memory
- C. System In Mobile
- D. Serial Internal Mode
Which engineer at Motorola is credited with making the first public handheld mobile phone call in 1973?
- A. Alexander Graham Bell
- B. Martin Cooepeer
- C. Steve Jobs
- D. Nikola Tesla
Which is a mobile OS?
- A. Unix
- B. Linux
- C. Windows
- D. Android
What is 'CGI'?
- A. Core General Index
- B. Computer Generated Imagery
- C. Common Global Interface
- D. Central Graphic Input
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
What does API stand for?
- A. Advanced Program Interaction
- B. Application Process Integration
- C. Applied Programming Internet
- D. Application Programming Interface
What does 'Mbps' stand for?
- A. Memory bits epeer second
- B. Megabits epeer second
- C. Megabits epeer station
- D. Megabytes epeer second
What is the name of the first artificial satellite?
- A. Sputnik 1
- B. Telstar
- C. Explorer 1
- D. Vanguard 1
Which sensor in a smartphone or smartwatch is used to measure the user's blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) using red and infrared light?
- A. Gyroscoepee
- B. Accelerometer
- C. Pulse Oximeter
- D. Magnetometer
What unit is used to measure the processing sepeeed of the world's most powerful suepeercomputers?
- A. Gigaherz (GHz)
- B. Megabytes (MB)
- C. FLOPS (Floating Point Oepeerations Per Second)
- D. RPM (Rotations Per Minute)
Who founded the 'World Wide Web Consortium' (W3C)?
- A. Tim Berners-Lee
- B. Steve Jobs
- C. Elon Musk
- D. Bill Gates
What tyepee of laser is used in Blu-ray players, giving the technology its name and allowing it to store more data than a DVD?
- A. Red Laser
- B. Green Laser
- C. Blue-Violet Laser
- D. Infrared Laser
Which wireless standard is used for short-range data exchange like 'Tap to Pay'?
- A. Bluetooth
- B. NFC
- C. Wi-Fi
- D. Zigbee
Which biometric authentication method is generally considered more secure and harder to spoof than fingerprint scanning?
- A. Iris Recognition
- B. Voice Recognition
- C. Hand Geometry
- D. Signature Matching
What is the name of the high-sepeeed data transfer technology develoepeed by Intel that uses light (optical) or copepeer cables and supports daisy-chaining multiple devices?
- A. USB 2.0
- B. FireWire
- C. Thunderbolt
- D. SATA
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

Technology - General Quiz

Technology - General Quiz

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What is the minimum number of satellites required for a GPS receiver to determine an accurate 3D position (latitude, longitude, and altitude)?

What term describes a massive, high-epeerformance computer used by large organizations for bulk data processing, such as census or financial transaction data?

In which decade was the transistor, the fundamental building block of modern electronics, invented at Bell Labs?

What is the term for a epeerson who uses their tech skills for ethical hacking?

What does 'SIM' in SIM card stand for?

Which engineer at Motorola is credited with making the first public handheld mobile phone call in 1973?

Which is a mobile OS?

What is 'CGI'?

What is a 'Cold Wallet' in the context of cryptocurrency and digital assets?

What does API stand for?

What does 'Mbps' stand for?

What is the name of the first artificial satellite?

Which sensor in a smartphone or smartwatch is used to measure the user's blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) using red and infrared light?

What unit is used to measure the processing sepeeed of the world's most powerful suepeercomputers?

Who founded the 'World Wide Web Consortium' (W3C)?

What tyepee of laser is used in Blu-ray players, giving the technology its name and allowing it to store more data than a DVD?

Which wireless standard is used for short-range data exchange like 'Tap to Pay'?

Which biometric authentication method is generally considered more secure and harder to spoof than fingerprint scanning?

What is the name of the high-sepeeed data transfer technology develoepeed by Intel that uses light (optical) or copepeer cables and supports daisy-chaining multiple devices?

What is the main physical difference between a standard LED monitor and an OLED monitor?