A Simple Web Quiz

by Veera on July 7, 2009

in Web

Try this simple web quiz. I hope most of the questions are easy to answer. Anyway, I’ll be publishing the answer soon.

A Simple Web Quiz

1. What is the name of the popular technique used by many websites/blogs in order to stop the automated access (or spam) to the web services?
2. Who invented XMLHttpRequest object (the basis for the AJAX communication), but not benefited from it (at least not as much as the other competitor)?
3. say true/false: Acid test is performed on browsers in order to measure the amount of frustration they cause to the end user.
4. web -1 is ‘Connection not available’; Web 1 is ‘Static pages’ ; Web 2 is ‘Dynamic pages (user genrated)’ ; Web 3 is going to be what ?
5. Name the indian startup (product name or company name ) which is emerging as an alternative to Google web office suite.
6. What advantage does the HTTPS provide over the HTTP?
7. Name the process which involves optimizing the websites for getting a better rank in search engines.
8. Which technology enables you to use a single identity across the internet? (For example, you can use your Google account to login to no-where-exists.com, if no-where-exists.com supports the above technology)
9. How does Google earn a lot of money (name the product) !? (what’s a web quiz, if it is not invloving a question about Google! :-D )
10. Name the term which is used to refer the people who fund the startups?

Please leave your answers in comments.

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raminder July 8, 2009 at 1:38 PM

1) Captacha
2) Sun -applets ??
3) false (its abt how accutarely browser parse the contents)
4)
5) Zoho ??
6) secure connection
7) SEO
8) SSO (federation b/t two domains)
9) adWord
10) VC – venture captalists

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Veera July 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM

except the two, all other answers are correct. Great! :)

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raminder July 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM

Ok. Is answer for (2) is microsoft?? I believe this object initally used in javascript for browsers? What abt answer of (4)??

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Veera July 9, 2009 at 12:53 PM

Yes. You are correct again. It’s Microsoft.

For 4 the answer is ‘Semantic web’.

I’ll be updating all the answer in the post.

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Aravind July 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM

Veera,
The quiz is really cool. Keep posting these kind of stuff regularly. You really have fans :-)
- Aravind.

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Veera July 11, 2009 at 9:23 PM

Thanks Aravind for your kind words! I’ll definitely continue this series.

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Kumarasamy July 11, 2009 at 12:14 AM

AdventNet is an Indian Start-up company and Zoho acquired it i suppose.

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Veera July 11, 2009 at 9:21 PM

Oh, is it !? I thought Zoho was developed by AdventNet.

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DannyB July 15, 2009 at 10:36 PM

1. captcha
2. Microsoft (the other guy being Google)
3. Not strictly true, but facetiously true
4. ?? didn’t know ??
5. ?? didn’t know ??
6. Everyone will say encryption, but it also provides authentication of at least one of the endpoints via certificates. (That is, I KNOW that I REALLY am talking to amazon.com.)
7. SEO
8. Open ID
9. AdWords
10. Vulture Capitalists (although some people say Venture Capitalists)

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