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Business and Tech Leaders

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Business and tech leaders covers prominent founders, chief executives, and economists who shaped global industries. This section features questions on leaders of major technology corporations and financial institutions. It is a highly scoring topic in general awareness.

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Business and Tech Leaders Questions

Multiple choice technology web technology
  1. Brian Kernighan

  2. Dennis Ritchie

  3. Bill Gates

  4. Linus Torvedas

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Brian Kernighan introduced the famous Hello World program in his tutorial for the B programming language in 1972, and later popularized it in the iconic 1978 book The C Programming Language co-authored with Dennis Ritchie. It has since become the universal starting point for learning a new programming language.

Multiple choice technology
  1. Bjarne Stroustrup

  2. Steve Wozniak

  3. Niklaus Wirth

  4. Ken Thompson

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Ken Thompson, alongside Dennis Ritchie, developed the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs in 1969. UNIX introduced fundamental concepts like the shell, hierarchical file system, and pipe mechanism that influenced all subsequent operating systems.

Multiple choice technology
  1. Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson

  2. David Filo & Jerry Yang

  3. Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn

  4. Steve Case & Jeff Bezos

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

David Filo and Jerry Yang founded Yahoo in 1994 while they were graduate students at Stanford University. The company began as 'Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web' - a directory of websites organized hierarchically.

Multiple choice technology
  1. Ken Thompson

  2. Bill Gates

  3. Tim Berners-Lee

  4. Doug Englebart

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN. He proposed the system of hypertext documents linked together, which became the foundation of the web we use today. Neither Ken Thompson (Unix co-creator), Bill Gates (Microsoft founder), nor Doug Engelbart (mouse pioneer) invented the web.

Multiple choice technology
  1. Larry Ellison

  2. Dennis Ritchie

  3. James Gosling

  4. David Filo

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Larry Ellison is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, which he started in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates. Oracle is famous for its database management systems and enterprise software. Dennis Ritchie (C language creator), James Gosling (Java creator), and David Filo (Yahoo co-founder) are not associated with Oracle.

Multiple choice technology security
  1. WHITFIELD DIFFE

  2. LEONARD ADLEMAN

  3. RON RIVEST

  4. BRUCE SCHIENER

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Blowfish is a symmetric-key block cipher designed by Bruce Schneier in 1993. It's known for its speed and effectiveness in encryption. Note that the correct spelling is 'Schneier', not 'Schiener' as shown in the option.

Multiple choice technology programming languages
  1. Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce

  2. Donald D. Chamberlin

  3. Raymond F. Boyce

  4. none

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

SQL (Structured Query Language) was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM in the early 1970s, based on Edgar Codd's relational model. Both researchers contributed to the initial design, so option A is correct.

Multiple choice technology databases
  1. Bill Inmon

  2. Dennis Ritchie

  3. shiva

  4. Tal mukha talma

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Bill Inmon is widely recognized as the father of data warehousing, having pioneered the concepts and architecture in the 1980s. He defined the enterprise data warehouse model and established fundamental principles like the normalized corporate data factory.

Multiple choice technology science & technology
  1. Marks piterberge

  2. Marks swan

  3. Marks Zukerberge

  4. Marks Twain

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

To answer this question, the user needs to know about the history of Facebook and its founder.

Option A, Marks Piterberge is incorrect, as this person does not exist and is not associated with the creation of Facebook.

Option B, Mark Swan is also incorrect. There is no known person by this name who founded Facebook.

Option C, Mark Zuckerberg is the correct answer. He is the founder of Facebook and is known for his role in creating the social media platform.

Option D, Mark Twain is an American author and humorist who lived in the 19th century. He is not associated with the creation of Facebook.

Therefore, the answer is: C. Mark Zuckerberg.

Multiple choice technology packaged enterprise solutions
  1. technical lead

  2. developer

  3. Functional consultant

  4. all

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

WRICEF objects require shared ownership across different phases. The functional consultant owns the design, the developer owns the code, and the technical lead oversees delivery, making all of them owners.

Multiple choice technology
  1. Bill Gates

  2. Mark Neil

  3. Mark Zuckerberg

  4. David

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 along with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University. Zuckerberg is widely recognized as the primary founder and CEO of Facebook.