Test your tech knowledge

[skylane]

Without googling or using any other reference try to answer these basic tech questions. We use technology but do we understand them.

1. What does a 32-bit CPU mean? What about 64-bit?

2. What is the relationship between BIOS, OS, CPU, memory, and storage?

3. How does the internet work?

4. What is a computer? Is a simple digital calculator a computer? Why or why not?

5. Can there by an analog computer? Why or why not?

Answer one or all. Remember no use of references.

[Nineshadow]

Yup, got them all.

[Flight1sim]

Easy

[Oshino Shinobu]

"How does the internet work?". That's an EXTREMELY broad question. 

[PC owner with questions]

1.32 bit CPU means how much ram you can have (minimum:2) and certain things you can download.64bit means you need to have at least 4GB of ram and so on and so forth, I think.

2.?

3.?

4.?

5.?

 

I've only been into teck for 2-3 years now, I've never thought about it that way.

[MatthewEnderle]

"How does the internet work?". That's an EXTREMELY broad question. 

not really... it's just a network that complies to certain protocols that gains access to addressing.

[Volbet]

1. It means that the CPU uses a 32-bit wide interface to communicate with the rest of the components.

The CPU handles the main calculation done by the PC. The BIOS is the initializing firmware, that makes sure that the PC knows it's a PC. Assuming RAM, it's used for fast access to files. Storage is used to store yoru porn collection.

Series of tubes.

Everything that can do a automated calculation is a computer.

Analog computers used to be a thing. How do you think punchout cards worked?

[rmac52]

"How does the internet work?". That's an EXTREMELY broad question. 

I took it as more a general understanding of the topic.  To a lot of people the internet is this magic thing that exists and you only need to plug an Ethernet cable or hook up to wifi to get it.

Another good question is; What is WiFi.  despite being a relatively simple technology most people don't understand what it is or how it works.

[Guest]

I only got 4.... number 4.

[QueenDemetria]

"How does the internet work?" - It doesn't

[skylane]

Although most of these questions seem easy I would say most people would get them wrong.
If you've taken CS50 as an undergrad I expect you would be able to answer them

[MatthewEnderle]

Without googling or using any other reference try to answer these basic tech questions. We use technology but do we understand them.

1. What does a 32-bit CPU mean? What about 64-bit?

2. What is the relationship between BIOS, OS, CPU, memory, and storage?

3. How does the internet work?

4. What is a computer? Is a simple digital calculator a computer? Why or why not?

5. Can there by an analog computer? Why or why not?

Answer one or all. Remember no use of references.

1. 32 bit is the advancement over 2-16 bit operations. It essentially is the amount of information that be processed by the cpu. 64bit is just a higher caliber essentially.

2. Bios is the Basic Input Output System. It assigns and routes hardware ids to the proper locations such as the cpu. OS is the application that is ran off the ram, from the storage medium, and is the platform or engine that the software uses to communicate with the hardware.

3. see above

4. A computer by definition is something that computes something. So yes a Digital calculator is a computer.

5. One word, Abacus

[Jade]

If you've taken CS50 as an undergrad I expect you would be able to answer them

That's not basic then. Nice try, though.

 

not really... it's just a network that complies to certain protocols that gains access to addressing.

No. That's stupid broad. Does he mean how does $data get from $pointA->$pointB? Does he mean how do we connect to servers running certain protocols? Does he mean how do we connect to something? (re: DNS lookup, loading over $protocol, so on..), or???

[ProdigyzMined]

If you've taken CS50 as an undergrad I expect you would be able to answer them

Undergrad? I'm going to be a Sophomore in high school and i know most of those

[MatthewEnderle]

I took it as more a general understanding of the topic.  To a lot of people the internet is this magic thing that exists and you only need to plug an Ethernet cable or hook up to wifi to get it.

Another good question is; What is WiFi.  despite being a relatively simple technology most people don't understand what it is or how it works.

Well wifi works more commonly with a full duplex TR/RX radio. One transmits the packets that are processed to the protocol used and the other one receives and re assembles it. There is collision detection as well.

 

http://tools.ietf.org/html/

[Altecice]

You need to rephrase question 3... that's a very broad question.

[Bsmith]

If you've taken CS50 as an undergrad I expect you would be able to answer them

 

yeah.... there might be quite a few people around with computer science as study(or any other IT related) but remember that studies and their names are diffrent for each country.

[MatthewEnderle]

That's not basic then. Nice try, though.

 

No. That's stupid broad. Does he mean how does $data get from $pointA->$pointB? Does he mean how do we connect to servers running certain protocols? Does he mean how do we connect to something? (re: DNS lookup, loading over $protocol, so on..), or???

Oh... I guess I misread that.

[Oshino Shinobu]

not really... it's just a network that complies to certain protocols that gains access to addressing.

Very well. Then explain the protocols, QoS, how things are connected, servers, how exchanges work, various addressing schemes, IP allocation, IEEE standards. 

 

It's much, much more complicated and vast than that. To explain how it works, you'd need to explain external routing protocols, DNS, various servers, such as HTML and FTP, as well as the low down backbone that makes up the infrastructure, what data packets are, what headers are, what they do, OSI model etc etc etc

[MatthewEnderle]

Very well. Then explain the protocols, QoS, how things are connected, servers, how exchanges work, various addressing schemes, IP allocation, IEEE standards. 

 

It's much, much more complicated and vast than that. To explain how it works, you'd need to explain external routing protocols, DNS, various servers, such as HTML and FTP, as well as the low down backbone that makes up the infrastructure, what data packets are, what headers are, what they do, OSI model etc etc etc

NO!!! Don't make my go back to the seven levels of the OSI model... Please do not throw sausage pizza away. The airforce has acronyms for everything... physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, and application

[Mightyinvader]

Hardly any networking questions

[DildorTheDecent]

 

1. The CPU handles the main calculation done by the PC. The BIOS is the initializing firmware, that makes sure that the PC knows it's a PC. Assuming RAM, it's used for fast access to files. Storage is used to store yoru porn collection.

Can i make my PC believe that it is a watermelon?

[babbaj]

5. Can there by an analog computer? Why or why not?

is mechanical considered analog?

[Volbet]

Can i make my PC believe that it is a watermelon?

Since a watermelon can't do any calculations, then just brick the BIOS, and you will be all set.

[DildorTheDecent]

Since a watermelon can't do any calculation, then just brick the BIOS, and you will be all set.

sweet.