Monday, June 10, 2002		Compuquiz

Compuquiz — 87

1. Name the software suite from HP for managing applications, device availability, network conditions and status, system performance, service and program maintenance, and storage resources.

2. Name the line of HP UNIX-based servers that use HP's 8600 processor with PA-RISC architecture and runs HP-UX.

3. Which is a high-end 64-bit PA-8600 processor-based UNIX HP server designed for e-commerce customers using very large databases? It can be split into several partitions, each with its own operating system.

4. Name the operating system for the HP 9000 series of HP business servers.

5. Name the microprocessor based on 64-bit architecture known as IA-64.

6. What do we call the open software platform, based on XML and designed by HP, that is designed to facilitate the delivery of e-services over the Internet?

7. Name the 64-bit microprocessor instruction set, defined and designed by HP and Intel. It provides up to 128 general and floating point unit registers and uses speculative loading, predication, and explicit parallelism to accomplish computing tasks.

8. Which process is implemented in Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC)-based processors and their compilers? It increases performance by eschewing branch prediction, where a wrong guess by the processor brings a performance penalty.

9. Which 64-bit processor architecture developed at Intel is based on Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing?

10. Which program helps a network administrator view and manage the conditions in a computer network? It is part of the OpenView suite of enterprise system management applications. It "discovers" the devices that are in the network and shows their relative location and their status.

1. Internet Protocol

2. Winsock

3. Firewall

4. DHCP

5. Transport layer

6. FTP

7. UDP

8. MBone

9. Stack

10.Packet

1. Amit Jindal, Panchkula

2. Param Sandhu, Nakodar

3. Gursharan Kaur, Chandigarh

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