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A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. None
Answer
B
2
A. 14%
B. 20%
C. 17%
D. 35%
Answer
A
14%
A. 88.2 million
B. 4.3 million
C. 879,000
D. 100 million
Answer
A
88.2 million
A. 65%
B. 100%
C. 10%
D. 87%
Answer
D
87%
A. 52.5%
B. 6.4%
C. 14.8%
D. 23.6%
Answer
C
14.8%
A. $165.4 billion
B. $202.3 billion
C. $1 billion
D. $5.6 billion
Answer
A
$165.4 billion
A. $100 million
B. $3.5 billion
C. $2.3 billion
D. $6 billion
Answer
D
$6 billion
A. 28%
B. 64%
C. 31%
D. 73%
Answer
B
64%
A. Petey
B. Orlando
C. Tux
D. Ping
Answer
C
Tux
A. 98-year-old British retiree
B. A 17-year-old Australian boy
C. A nine-year-old American computer prodigy
Answer
B
A 17-year-old boy in Australia exposed a security flaw on Twitter that was quickly exploited by hackers.
A. Blippy
B. Shopply
C. Swipely
Answer
B
Blippy and Swipely are social websites that offer people the chance to reveal their credit card purchases to the community automatically. Blippy displays prices with purchases, but Swipely displays purchases without prices.
A. 1 year
B. 10 years
C. 100 years
D. 1,000 years
Answer
A
In one year, the American Registry for Internet Numbers estimates we will run out of IP addresses, the 32-bit number that gives a maximum of just over 4 billion unique addresses. But don't worry—a new protocol is being tested to expand the number of IP addresses available by adding more digits.
A. Google started off as a graduate school project founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin collaborated on as students at Stanford University.
B. Auction giant eBay started off as place for the founder Pierre Omidyar's wife Pam to buy and sell Pez dispensers.
C. Amazon.com began as an online book seller named Cadabra.com.
D. Jerry Yang and David Filo started Yahoo.com as a guide to keep track of their interests on the Internet when they were Ph.D. candidates at Stanford University.
Answer
B
eBay's creation story was made up by the public relations department as a way to make the company's creation into a better story for the press. In truth, Pierre Omidyar started the auction site to create what he considered "the perfect market."
A. Inky
B. Blinky
C. Pinky
D. Clyde
E. Sue
Answer
E
Sue is not a Pac-Man ghost. But double click on "Insert Coin" in Google Pac-Man, and you can play a version with Ms. Pac-Man. In the Ms. Pac-Man version of the game, the orange ghost is named Sue, not Clyde.
A. coffee maker
B. curling iron
C. toothbrush
D. dishwasher
Answer
C
The toothbrush. Per a recent CNN report, an Internet-enabled toothbrush that would upload information about your brushing habits is predicted to hit the market within five years. Smile! Read CNN report.
A. HaHaHa
B. Guitar
C. Me at the zoo
D. Grocery Store Wars (2005)
Answer
C
The first YouTube video was entitled Me at the zoo and shows founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
A. Google co-founder Sergey Brin
B. Google co-founder Larry Page
C. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
D. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg
Answer
B
Larry Page built an inkjet printer out of Legos while earning a bachelor's degree in engineering with a concentration in computer engineering at the University of Michigan.
A. "just setting up my twttr"
B. "we'd like to start off in 140 characters or less. And we just did!"
C. "i tweet therefore i am"
D. "twttr test: short code 10958"
Answer
A
On March 21, 2006 Twitter creator Jack Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 p.m. PST: "just setting up my twttr."
A. 8
B. 9
C. 126,667
D. I don't believe in Santa.
Answer
A, B and C
Clement Moore's "Twas the Night Before Christmas" names 8 reindeer.
If it's foggy, you'll need to add Rudolph. So that's 9.
If you like math: Assume each of the world's 1.9 billion children each gets 2 lbs of gifts. And assume that a magic flying reindeer can pull 100 times the 300 lbs force of a normal reindeer. Then 126,667 reindeer are needed to pull Santa's very heavy sleigh.
Happy Holidays from the Gate.com Team!
A. 10 zeros
B. 100 zeros
C. 1,000 zeros
D. 1,000,000 zeros
Answer
B. 100 zeros A googol is the number 10 to the 100th power or the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
A. $800
B. $8,000
C. $80,000
D. $800,000
Answer
A. $800 Ronald Wayne, who created the logo, drew up the first contract, and wrote the Apple I manual, received $800 for his shares.
A. 1 billion
B. 3 billion
C. 5 billion
D. 8 billion
Answer
D. 8 billion As of July 2009, 8 billion songs had been downloaded from iTunes with downloads estimated to hit the 10 billion mark by year end.
A. Hello
B. Testing
C. Login
D. ARPANET
Answer
C. Login The "L" and the "o" transmitted without a problem, but then the system crashed. They successfully sent the full word, login, about an hour later.
A. MySpace
B. Facebook
C. LinkedIn
D. Hot or Not
Answer
B. Facebook The shuttered site was known as Facemash.
A. Potterybarn.com
B. Amazon.com
C. Qvc.com
D. Overstock.com
Answer
B. Amazon.com
A. 3 million minutes
B. 6 million minutes
C. 9 million minutes
D. 12 million minutes
Answer
C. 9 million minutes
More than 9 million minutes of video are uploaded each week. That's roughly the equivalent of 86,000 full-length feature films.
A. Basque
B. Bork bork bork!
C. Pirate
D. Sumo
E. Tajik
Answer
D. Sumo
In preferences, Google offers you 124 options for your interface language. While made-up languages Pirate, Elmer Fudd and Klingon are on this list, Sumo is not.
A. 500
B. 2,500
C. 7,500
D. 12,000
Answer
D. 12,000
More than 12,000 laptops are lost in U.S. airports each week according to a 2008 study of 106 airports in 49 states. Approximately 7% are lost in restaurants, 9% in restrooms, 23% at departure gates and a whopping 40% are left at security checkpoints.
Travel tip: Tape your name and mobile phone number to the outside of your laptop, so security can call you back to the screening area to pick up your machine.
Google began in 1996 as a research project by Larry Page who was soon joined by Sergey Brin—both Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Was the project's nickname:
A. GoTo
B. BackRub
C. SergeySays
D. Betelgeuse
Answer
B. BackRub
Page and Brin’s search engine was originally nicknamed "BackRub" because the system checked a website's back links to estimate the importance of the site.
A. Virtualization
B. Software as a service
C. Hardware as a service
D. Online data storage
E. All of the above
Answer
E. All of the above
Cloud computing is one of the latest trends in Internet development. Increasingly, companies are looking for ways to make technology more efficient and cost effective. Cloud computing addresses each of those goals by leveraging services over the Internet for scalable solutions and outsourced maintenance.
A. $114
B. $1,140
C. $11,400
D. $114,000
Answer
D. $114,000
When you consider the initial hardware/software expenses, licensing fees, backup requirements, staff and hosting fees, the first year of running Microsoft Exchange in house totals about $115,238. Additional years are likely to cost about $34,200.
A. The tool that allows marketers to download their podcasts to their website.
B. A website where podcasts play continually.
C. A subscription-based service that automatically downloads new podcasts to a subscriber's computer as soon as it's released.
Answer
C. A subscription-based service that automatically downloads new podcasts to a subscriber's computer as soon as it's released
A podcasting tool that makes it easy to upload audio files and create and manage feeds is included free in every Web hosting plan.
A. AdSense
B. AdClick
C. AdSearch
D. AdWords
Answer
B. AdWords
To launch a pay per click campaign on Google, you must sign up for an AdWords account. You get up to a $75 AdWords credit free when you order a Gate Web hosting plan.
A. There is no difference, they can be used interchangeably.
B. An intranet is restricted to specific users whereas the Internet refers to all the computer networks worldwide that are connected together.
C. The Internet is restricted to specific users whereas an intranet refers to all the computer networks worldwide that are connected together.
Answer
B. An intranet is restricted to specific users whereas the Internet refers to all the computer networks worldwide that are connected together.
It’s easy to set up a company intranet with Gate's hosted Microsoft SharePoint plans. SharePoint includes built-in Web parts that can be toggled on and off to give you the exact mix of functionality your company needs.
A. One minute
B. Five seconds
C. Half a second
Answer
C. Half a second
People quickly scan websites for information—rarely do they take the time to read every word.
Source: Nielsen Online, February 2008
A. Yes. Microsoft's operating system makes it impossible to launch content to a Windows-based server from a Mac.
B. No. You can post and update your website content from any computer with Web access no matter which operating system you choose for your Web hosting plan.
C. No. You can choose a Linux plan if you use a Windows computer, but you won't be able to access your site.
Answer
B. No. You can post and update your website content from any computer with Web access no matter which operating system you choose for your Web hosting plan.
In fact, unless you use a database or script on your website that can only run on a Windows server, a Linux plan will give you all the functionality you need and save you money.