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Network World, 03/26/01
OK
smarty-pants, challenge yourself with this collection of questions
about some of the most interesting happenings, technologies, companies
and personalities of the past 15 years in the network industry. The
answers appear upside down at left.
Check your answers below.
1. Which company did network security company VeriSign spin off from
in 1995?
- (A) IBM
- (B) Nortel Networks
- (C) RSA
- (D) Trusted Information Systems
2. Which software firm was incorporated in 1995 by Bill Coleman, Ed
Scott and Alfred Chuang?
- (A) BEA Systems
- (B) Caldera
- (C) Pointcast
- (D) Red Hat
3. WorldCom beat out British Telecom in a bidding war for MCI in 1998.
Which other company, with a bid of $28 billion, lost out?
- (A) AT&T
- (B) France Telecom
- (C) GTE
- (D) SBC Communications
4. What’s the name of the penguin mascot for Linux?
- (A) Fred
- (B) Opus
- (C) Penny
- (D) Tux
5. What was the name of the user group formed by Art Beckman, then
of Pacific Gas & Electric, in 1990?
- (A) Network Applications Consortium
- (B) Tele-Communications Association, Inc.
- (C) Netscape Users Group
- (D) Bay Area Denial-of-Service Association
6. What was the name of the company Eric Benhamou co-founded and was
later merged with 3Com?
- (A) Bridge
- (B) CrossComm
- (C) Proteon
- (D) Xylan
7. Which company sold multiplexer maker Timeplex to Ascom in 1991?
- (A) AT&T
- (B) Newbridge Networks
- (C) Rolm
- (D) Unisys
8. Carriers Sprint and Qwest Communications were spawned by the same
railroad company. Which one?
- (A) Baltimore
- (B) CSX
- (C) Southern Pacific
- (D) Union Pacific
9. Which product was the victim of the "RedButton Bug"?
- (A) NetWare
- (B) Windows NT
- (C) Netscape browser
- (D) OS/2
10. Who played Bill Gates in the TV movie "Pirates of Silicon
Valley"?
- (A) Matthew Broderick
- (B) John Cusack
- (C) Anthony Michael Hall
- (D) Robert Downey, Jr.
11. Who followed Ken Olsen as Digital’s CEO in 1992?
- (A) Craig Barrett
- (B) Bill Hawe
- (C) B.J. Johnson
- (D) Robert Palmer
12. What’s the area code for Research Triangle Park in North Carolina?
- (A) 818
- (B) 919
- (C) 402
- (D) 413
13. Which network company used to call attention to itself at trade
shows by using a booth shaped like a giant train?
- (A) Extreme Networks
- (B) Foundry Networks
- (C) Network Engines
- (D) Packet Engines
14. What was the original name of high-speed routing and switching
company Foundry Networks?
- (A) Johnson Networks
- (B) Centillion
- (C) HiperSpeed Networks
- (D) StarRidge Networks
15. When did Cisco ship its first product?
- (A) 1986
- (B) 1987
- (C) 1988
- (D) 1990
ANSWERS:
All 15 correct: You should be editing Network World.
10-14 correct: Go ahead, buy yourself that new Palm. You deserve
it.
5-10 correct: No tchotchkes for you at your next trade show.
Less than 5 correct: How’d you get your job?
1. C; 2. A; 3. C; 4. D; 5. A; 6. A; 7. D; 8. C; 9. B; 10. C; 11. D;
12. B; 13. D; 14. D; 15. A
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