PRELIMINARY ROUND

1. A temporary storage area, attached to the CPU, for I/O operations, is a BUFFER. 2. The most widely used commercial programming computer language is COBOL. 3. Who wrote the book Computer Liberation and Dream Machine , the first book on personal computers? TED NELSON 4. Which company is nicknamed Big Blue ? IBM ____________________________________

5. Which was the first ever web server software? CERN httpd 6. Which company acquired Sun Microsystems on January 27, 2010? Oracle Corporation 7. It is defined as the period of time that a unique user interacts with a Web application. What we are talking about? Session 8. The memory address of the first element of an array is called base address. ______________________________________

9. Two main measures for the efficiency of an algorithm are Time and Space. 10. The operation of processing each element in the list is known as Traversal. 11. KPA Is Stands for Key Process Area. 12. Winchester drive is also called Hard Disk Drive. _________________________________________

13. The concentric circles on the platter of a hard disk are known as Tracks. 14. A LCD monitor is also known as a TFT (Thin Film Transistor) monitor. 15. What does the acronym bit stands for? Binary Digit 16. Inspire The Next is the punch line of which company? Hitachi