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2010 Geek IQ Test

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-do-you-know dept.

snydeq writes "Windows NT name size limits, network cabling and protocols, Linux printer daemon commands, AD&D character alignments — find out how much you know where it really counts by taking InfoWorld's 2010 Geek IQ Test."

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  1. Shitty site by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    2 pop-ups blocked on every page, slow load times, intrusive flash ads all over, 1 question per page to force more ad views.

    I didn't even get past question 6 before I closed it to come back here and complain.

  2. lpd by BitZtream · · Score: 5, Informative

    Was around long before Linux kids, its not the Linux printer daemon, its the line printer daemon.

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    1. Re:lpd by lakeland · · Score: 2, Informative

      Roughly correct, one of the status codes returned means it is on fire.

      This was a real issue, not an Easter egg. The old line printers were very fast and if they got jammed they got hot quickly and really did burst into flames, so if you get that error then you had better run into the printer room.

  3. Re:100%, and I didn't even take it. by rubycodez · · Score: 2, Informative

    no we won't, because it beats working an IT job.

  4. Karma Whoring Post by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Informative

    Question 1: What does "httpd" stand for?
    Correct Answer: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon

    Question 2: What is the primary use for the 224.0.1.24 IP address?
    Correct Answer: It's the WINS server group address, used for the dynamic configuration of replication for WINS servers and auto-discovery

    Question 3: How much RAM is supported in the 32-bit version of Windows Server 2008 R2?
    Correct Answer: None

    Question 4: The names Killing Horizon and Event Horizon are not related to:
    Correct Answer: Two sci-fi movies from the '90s

    Question 5: Which one of these will let you quickly look at the open ports on a machine?
    Correct Answer: NETSTAT

    Question 6: When the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) protocol was popular, which of these was considered one of its primary advantages?
    Correct Answer: Multiple tokens
    Your Answer: Multiple tokens

    Question 7: What does "GUID" stand for?
    Correct Answer: Globally Unique Identifier
    Your Answer: Globally Unique Identifier
    I'm fairly proud of inventing "Group Unnamed Information Delivery" -- it sounds very authentic, though "Great Underwear Is Divine" is nearest a universal truth.

    Question 8: A 10Base2 Ethernet network used what kind of cabling?
    Correct Answer: Thinnet coaxial
    Your Answer: Twisted pair
    If some kid straight out of college is standing behind you asking, "What the hell is 10Base2?!" feel free to pretend you don't know the answer and choose HDMI. Old folks need to stick together.

    Question 9: "Aero," the GUI introduced with Windows Vista, stands for which of the following?
    Correct Answer: Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open

    Question 10: Which of these commands will install Windows 2000 Server?
    Correct Answer: A and B

    Question 11: Which of the following network protocols requires a terminator?
    Correct Answer: 10Base5

    Question 12: An example of diametrically opposed alignments in AD&D would be:
    Correct Answer: CE vs. LG
    Your Answer: CE vs. LG
    Paladins vs. anti-Paladins or maybe just snarky journalists. Don't feel bad if you didn’t get this -- it just means you were having sex in high school.

    Question 13: On a Windows NT network, what is the maximum name size for a client computer?
    Correct Answer: 15
    Your Answer: 15

    Question 14: To restart the printer daemon for a Linux printer, you’ll use the command:
    Correct Answer: Restart [printer name]

    Question 15: What is an Active Directory forest?
    Correct Answer: A group of domains that share a common schema

    Question 16: To which politician do we attribute the quote: "The Internet is a great way to get on the Net"?
    Correct Answer: Bob Dole

    Question 17: The Tombstone-Lifetime Attribute represents which of the following:
    Correct Answer: The number of days before a deleted objected is removed from directory services
    Your Answer: The number of days before a deleted objected is removed from directory services

    Question 18: What early example of an Internet viral video phenom was used in the "Ally McBeal" TV series in 1998?
    Correct Answer: The Dancing Baby
    Your Answer: The Dancing Baby

    Question 19: A MIB contains status information for which protocol?
    Correct Answer: SNMP

    Question 20: Which of the following has the best chance to protect your users' identities?
    Correct Answer: Spyware detector

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    1. Re:Karma Whoring Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Question 3: How much RAM is supported in the 32-bit version of Windows Server 2008 R2?
      Correct Answer: Geeks don't use Windows.

      Question 5: Which one of these will let you quickly look at the open ports on a machine?
      Correct Answer: What's wrong with lsof, it's so much more funky!

      Question 9: "Aero," the GUI introduced with Windows Vista, stands for which of the following?
      Correct Answer: Geeks don't use GUIs either.

      Question 10: Which of these commands will install Windows 2000 Server?
      Correct Answer: None if I'm in charge.

      Question 13: On a Windows NT network, what is the maximum name size for a client computer?
      Correct Answer: Far too small.

      Question 14: To restart the printer daemon for a Linux printer, you’ll use the command:
      Correct Answer: upscmd johnie@node3 shutdown.return # you can't tell me how to restart my daemons

      Question 15: What is an Active Directory forest?
      Correct Answer: Something related to pubic hair forest, but different, I think.

      Question 18: What early example of an Internet viral video phenom was used in the "Ally McBeal" TV series in 1998?
      Correct Answer: What is "TV"?

      Question 20: Which of the following has the best chance to protect your users' identities?
      Correct Answer: Don't let the users touch the computers, duh. If I'm forced to let them, I just do iptables -P OUTPUT DROP.

    2. Re:Karma Whoring Post by GumphMaster · · Score: 2, Informative

      Question 11. A network protocol that requires a terminator? A protocol is a set of rules governing data interchange not an electrical circuit.

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    3. Re:Karma Whoring Post by robbak · · Score: 4, Informative

      No, lsof. It lists open file handles, and any nework port that is open is also a file handle. With some grep and sed hackery, you'll have a simple list.

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  5. Re:Geek Trivia != IQ Assessment by Astatine · · Score: 3, Informative

    I bet this test has just as much real world meaning as Mensa's IQ test though...

  6. Re:100%, and I didn't even take it. by rubycodez · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about just short list with notable I.T. contributions?:

    Dr. Martin Dean, holds 3 of the 9 IBM PC patents

    Kenneth Dunkley - inventor of 3D viewing glasses and holographic displays

    Dr. Philip Emeagwali - Gordon Bell prize for computation, in 1989 invented fastest (at the time) supercomputer wiht 65K processing nodes

    Dr. Shirley Jackson, a theoretical physicist and inventor at Bell labs who made the improvements that resulted in the usable versions of the fax, undersea fiber optic systems, touch tone phone, solar cell, caller id and call waiting.

    Valerie Thomas - head of NASA's Landsat development team, inventor of data imaging systems

       

  7. Thank you. by sconeu · · Score: 3, Informative

    I unblocked each site listed in NoScript, one at a time, and still couldn't get the quiz.

    I wasn't going to fuck with my ABP filters just to see a stupid quiz.

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  8. Re:IQ tests... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    A platonic female friend who does this for you is known as a "chum", for obvious reasons.

  9. Re:G**k - Like N****r to me by The+Wild+Norseman · · Score: 2, Informative

    A person of your advanced age and wisdom, such as myself, should already know that oftentimes we take words which were originally intended to denigrate, hurt, insult and belittle and turn them into a quasi-badge of honor, of membership, of belonging to a group of people who are, on average, extremely intelligent, professional, and frankly make those peoples' little world go round.

    I actually get more praise these days from acknowledging and reveling in my geekness and my nerditude than I ever get in derision.

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  10. Re:G**k - Like N****r to me by icebraining · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's called reappropriation.

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  11. Question 11 by Marrow · · Score: 2, Informative

    10base2 requires terminators at each end of the coax. 50ohm I believe.