Tech Trivia
What type of system does the CRUD cycle refer to?
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Secret Word of the Day
In general, this refers to something you can see through but in business accounting it means open or not obscured. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
3BL is an expansion of a business concept to include social and environmental results as well as financial results. What does 3BL stand for?
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Tech Trivia
What year was the first version of Windows released?
a. 1985
b. 1990
c. 1995
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Secret Word of the Day
Bill Gates and Paul Allen started out by writing a program for this, the first commercially available PC to attract a substantial user base. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
Gates and Allen adapted BASIC, a mainframe programming language, for the new computer. What does BASIC stand for?
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Tech Trivia
What Web-based service allows business subscribers to run application programs in the Amazon.com computing environment?
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Secret Word of the Day
This is a stormy marketing term for an enterprise computing architecture that’s protected by a firewall. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
HaaS, in a grid computing context, is a pay-as-you-go model for accessing a provider’s infrastructure and CPU power. What does HaaS stand for?
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Tech Trivia
What does a cloud represent in flow charts?
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Secret Word of the Day
Tom Davis, one of the founders of CGI, invented this jargon-based game that’s played surreptitiously during meetings. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
A VPN provides users with secure access over the Internet. What does VPN stand for?
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Tech Trivia
In IT, this term is applied to both the process and the outcome of thinking out and specifying the overall structure, logical components, and the logical interrelationships of a computer, its operating system, a network, or other conception. What’s the secret word?
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Secret Word of the Day
What “clean” protocol allows a program running in one kind of operating system to communicate with a progam in the same or another kind of an operating system using XML and the World Wide Web?
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IT Acronym Challenge
SCA is a group of specifications intended for the development of applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA). What does SCA stand for?
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Tech Trivia
Who coined the term “Web 2.0?”
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Secret Word of the Day
This is the act of taking a function traditionally performed by an employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people using information technology. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge
After 3 years of three years of study, NIST concluded that the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 was due to fire, not debris damage or some conspiracy demolition team. What does NIST stand for?
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