SFD-Quiz_2011

1) It is a form of licensing and can be used to maintain copyright conditions for works such as computer software, documents and art. In general, copyright law is used by an author to prohibit others from reproducing, adapting, or distributing copies of the author's work. In contrast, an author may give every person who receives a copy of a work permission to reproduce, adapt or distribute it and require that any resulting copies or adaptations are also bound by the same licensing agreement. What form of licensing am i talking about?

Ans:CopyLeft


2) From the list of following companies which one was first to make its work available in open source license.

a) Apple
b) Bell Labs
c) Netscape
d) Mozilla

Ans: NetScape


3)In 1991,Linus Torvalds studied in the following university when he made the first kernel of linux operating system.

a)University of Standford
b)University of New south wales
c)University of Helsinki
d)University of Florida

Ans: Helsinki

4)Who is the author of Minix

Ans: Andrew S Taunenbaum


5) Name the type of the kernel do Linux has?

Ans: Monolithic Kernel

6) 'C' Language was invented by two gentlemen, name them.

Ans: Kerningham and Dennis Ritchie

7) It is a community-developed branch of the MySQL database, the impetus being the community maintenance of its free status under GPL, as opposed to any uncertainty of MySQL license status under its current ownership by Oracle.Name this community developed branch of mysql.

Ans:Maria DB

8) It is the  software program which uses the secure shell protocol to accept connections from remote computers, name this software program

Ans:Secure Shell or ssh.

9)Name the university from where Postgresql database was developed

Ans:University of Berkeley

10)What is the branch of study do the free software 'celestia' associated with?

Ans: Astronomy

11)What is the branch of study do the free software 'gnukhata' associated with?

Ans: Accounting

12)What is the purpose of the free software 'openemr' ?

Ans: Electronic Medical  Record

13)Name the Indian version of Linux developed and packaged by CDAC?

Ans: BOSS linux

14)Who is the author of original common gateway interface?

Ans: Rasmus Lerdorf

15)Who are the two people who re-wrote the parser written by Rasmus Lerdorf that eventually turned out to be PHP3

Ans: Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans of TechnionIIT.

16)  BDFL is a title given to a small number of open-source software-development leaders, typically project founders who retain the final say in disputes or arguments within the community. Expand the abbreviation of BDFL?.

Ans: Benevolent Dictator For Life

17) Who invented the git source code versioning system?

Ans: Linus Torvalds

18)Name the first mobile phone that to run andriod operating system?

Ans:HTC Dream.

19)Name the author who wrote the programming language "Python"

Ans:Guido van Rossum

20) Name the author who wrote the programming language "Perl"

Ans:Larry Wall

21) Who the author who wrote "The Cathedral and the bazaar"?

Ans:Eric S Raymond.

22) It is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. ? Name the app platform?

Ans:Phonegap


23)Who is called the father of Java programming Language

Ans: James Gosling


24)Who are the archietects between structured semantic network model which eventually evolved as semantic web or web 3.0?

Ans: M.Ross Quillian and Elizebeth F Loftus


25) In Semantic web , what is the term OWL expanded to

Ans: Web Ontology Language


26) Who invented Ruby Programming Language

Ans:Yukihiro Matsumoto popularly called as Matz

27) Who is the original author for jquery

Ans: John Resig


28)In 1998, A person introduced the term NoSQL to name his light weight open source relational database, Name this person

Ans: Carlo Strozzi

29) The word "SEO" in the web optimization helps in better page rank processes, expand this word "SEO"

Ans: Search Engine Optimisation

30) It is a declarative, XML-based language used for the transformation of XML documents. The original document is not changed; rather, a new document is created based on the content of an existing one. The new document may be serialized (output) by the processor in standard XML syntax or in another format, such as HTML or plain text.It is most often used to convert data between different XML schemas or to convert XML data into web pages or PDF documents.
Name the technology we are talking about?

Ans:XSLT or Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations


31) Who is the original author of the famous content Management system Drupal

Ans:Dries Buytaert


32) expand the term "IPL"  with respect Free and open source software

Ans: IBM Public License


33)It is a software implementation of a telephone private branch exchange (PBX); it was created in 1999 by Mark Spencer of Digium. Name the software system we are talking about

Ans:Asterisk


34)It is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications that enables attackers to inject client-side script into web pages viewed by other users. Name this security vulnerability

Ans:XSS attack (Cross Side Script attack)

35)It is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime.
It is also shown in the english movie 'Matrix'

Ans: Nmap or network mapper



36)It is a distributed storage system for the GNU/Linux platform. It consists of a kernel module, several userspace management applications and some shell scripts and is normally used on high availability (HA) clusters. It runs on a network, name the storage system we are talking about

Ans:DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device)


37) What do the open source software gnokii meant for?

Ans: Sending short message service  from a personal computer  via a mobile phone through sms center


38) Expand the abbreviation SMPP ?

Ans: Short Message Peer to Peer Protocol


39) What is the expansion of the term LTSP?

Ans: Linux Terminal Server Project

40) Expand the term 'LIRC'?

Ans: Linux Infra Red Communication