Year 2000 problem - Quiz
A) Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) B) National Identification Updates C) International Monitoring Boards D) Y2K Task Forces
A) Public ridicule or panic B) Economic recession fears C) Antitrust violations or liability D) Technical software malfunctions
A) Uganda and Japan B) Netherlands and Romania C) Norway and Finland D) United Kingdom and Canada
A) Three digits B) No indication of year C) Two digits D) Four digits
A) Year 1950 problem B) Year 1800 problem C) Year 1990 problem D) Year 1900 problem
A) Replacing the hyphen with the letter B B) Adding 500 to the individual number range C) Replacing the hyphen with the letter A D) Changing the first digit to a 5
A) A plus sign (+) B) A percent sign (%) C) A hyphen (-) D) The letter A
A) Added the letter A to the sequence B) Multiplied the numbers by two C) Changed range from 1–500 to 501–1000 D) Changed range from 0–499 to 500–999
A) Romania B) Finland C) Norway D) Uganda
A) 6 B) 2 C) 5 D) 1
A) 6 B) 2 C) 1 D) 5
A) 6 B) 1 C) 5 D) 2
A) 6 B) 2 C) 5 D) 1
A) Y2K Information Sharing and Analysis Center B) Y2K Task Force C) National ID Reform Committee D) International Assessment Group
A) World Bank International Y2K Cooperation Centre B) United Nations Task Force C) Norwegian Ministry of Finance D) Dutch Government ISACs
A) Somewhat informative B) Highly informative C) Emergency status only D) Not informative
A) 100 B) 20 C) 50 D) 107
A) Australia B) Uganda C) United Kingdom D) Germany
A) To receive financial aid B) To change national ID numbers C) To maintain public confidence D) To prevent antitrust violations
A) The first Y2K-related lawsuit. B) The bankruptcy of the grocer. C) A permanent shutdown of the credit card company. D) A global recall of all 1997 credit cards.
A) The return value for years differed between versions. B) Browsers stopped supporting older date formats. C) JavaScript was not designed for date calculations. D) The language lacked support for four-digit years.
A) Because the colon is the character after '9' in ASCII. B) To distinguish the new millennium from the old one. C) Due to a forced update that introduced a typo. D) Because it could not store a 20 in the year field.
A) It automatically assumes all years are in the 21st century. B) It ignores the year field entirely. C) It treats them as two-digit values. D) It uses a custom date format not based on years.
A) Peter de Jager B) Bill Clinton C) David Eddy D) Spencer Bolles
A) Ross Anderson B) Bill Clinton C) John Hamre D) Peter de Jager
A) Computers in Crisis B) The Year 2000 Computing Crisis C) The Millennium Bug Report D) Doomsday 2000
A) They relied solely on manual labor B) They were saved by international aid C) Those countries suffered the most severe damage D) Problems were minimal even there
A) 12 June 1995 B) 18 January 1985 C) 1 May 1999 D) 15 March 1997
A) The problem would lead to total economic collapse B) Most worries were popular hysteria C) All computers would require manual updates D) Only specialized software was at risk
A) El Niño B) The Cold War C) The Great Depression D) A computer virus
A) Microsoft B) Intel C) IBM D) Oracle
A) IBM 360 B) Altair 8800 C) IBM 1401 D) ENIAC
A) Alan Turing B) Bob Bemer C) Erik Naggum D) Bill Gates
A) 1965 B) 1958 C) 1980 D) 1972
A) BASIC date function B) COBOL picture clause C) FORTRAN format statement D) RPG variable definition
A) Retail industry B) Healthcare industry C) Brokerage industry D) Automotive industry
A) Over $50 million B) Over $100 million C) Over $5 million D) Over $20 million
A) Bob Bemer B) Vint Cerf C) Erik Naggum D) Tim Berners-Lee
A) Y2K50 B) Y2K25 C) Y2K38 D) Y2K10
A) 80 columns B) 100 columns C) 128 columns D) 64 columns
A) Early 1970s B) Late 1960s C) Early 1980s D) Mid-1990s
A) A 32-bit field B) A system memory error C) A 16-bit field D) A 12-bit field
A) Decsystem 10 B) Windows 95 C) Unix D) MS-DOS
A) 9999 B) 999 C) 1999 D) 0000
A) CICS B) Excel C) SAP D) Oracle
A) Start-of-file code B) System reboot code C) End-of-file code D) Error message code
A) Database administrators B) Computer operators C) Software developers D) Hardware engineers
A) User passwords B) System backups C) Unknown dates D) Encrypted files
A) 1800 B) 1600 C) 1700 D) 1900
A) 2000 B) 2100 C) 2010 D) 2022
A) 0x16 B) 0x10 C) 0x0A D) 0x01
A) 0x16 B) 0x0A C) 0x01 D) 0x10
A) Windows Mobile B) Microsoft Exchange Server C) PlayStation 3 D) Citibank Digipass
A) 2022010100 B) 2147483647 C) 2147483648 D) 2201010001
A) Internet Explorer B) Exchange Server C) PlayStation 3 D) Windows Mobile
A) Nintendo Wii B) PlayStation 2 C) Xbox 360 D) PlayStation 3
A) The limitation of BIOS memory B) 32-bit signed integer Unix time limitation C) Two-digit year formatting D) Database compression algorithms
A) Date expansion B) Date compression C) Date windowing D) Date re-partitioning
A) Y2000RTC B) Millennium Bug Kit C) TSR Interceptor D) Bridge program
A) The station accidentally sent bills to residents for 1900 B) A technician accidentally crashed the operational system during testing C) The cooling system failed due to a date error D) Radiation monitoring equipment failed at midnight
A) Shika Power Plant B) Osaka Media Port C) Tokyo Telecommunications D) NTT Docomo
A) All 35 traffic lights in the city failed B) The lights began flashing at midnight C) 8 traffic lights stopped working D) The lights turned permanently red
A) 6000 B) 1000 C) 2000 D) 4000
A) Tokyo Narita Airport B) Montreal International Airport C) Reagan National Airport D) Omaha International Airport
A) Public records B) Paper records C) A backup computer system D) Manual calculators
A) Norwegian State Bank B) Nordbanken C) Bank of Japan D) First National Bank
A) 43 B) 100 C) 29 D) 16
A) 2000 B) 1999 C) 1900 D) 1901
A) Family Mart B) Wawa C) 7-Eleven D) Circle K
A) 16,000 B) 4,000 C) 3,000 D) 23,000
A) 2120–2199 B) 1820–1899 C) 2020–2099 D) 1920–1999
A) Novitus 2020 B) WWE 2K20 C) Deep Impact D) Transmillennium
A) Parking meters B) NASA spacecraft C) Novitus point of sale units D) iPhone
A) 24 Sussex Drive B) The Parliament Buildings C) The Prime Minister's Office D) A military base in Ottawa
A) Ordered the grounding of all flights B) Issued a public apology C) Closed all ticket offices D) Piloted transmillennium flights
A) Overflows B) Power outages C) Cyber attacks D) Hardware failure
A) Novitus B) NASA C) WWE D) Apple
A) Al Gore B) Bill Clinton C) Janet Reno D) John Koskinen
A) NSA B) FBI C) CIA D) FEMA
A) China B) Russian Federation C) United Kingdom D) Germany
A) Department of Justice B) National Science Foundation C) Department of Commerce D) The White House
A) National Science Foundation B) Wayback Machine C) Department of Defense D) FCC
A) Setting limits on potential liabilities B) Mandating software upgrades C) Nationalizing technology companies D) Forcing companies to pay fines
A) Satellite radio B) Physical mail C) The internet D) Shortwave radio
A) White House B) Department of Commerce C) Department of Defense D) Department of Justice
A) December 1998 B) March 1999 C) January 1999 D) March 2000
A) World Bank headquarters B) Washington, D.C. C) United Nations D) Geneva
A) Washington, D.C. B) New York City C) Brussels D) London
A) John Smith B) The World Bank president C) Bruce W. McConnell D) The UN Secretary General
A) The Millennium Clock Society B) The Future Tech Institute C) The Global Timekeeping Association D) The Long Now Foundation
A) Bill Gates B) Steve Jobs C) Gary North D) Tim Berners-Lee
A) Christian prophecy B) A computer hardware defect C) The failure of the global banking system D) A political conspiracy
A) Mike Oehler B) Barry Smith C) Jerry Falwell D) Kenneth W. Royce
A) $561 billion B) $308 billion C) $134 billion D) $251 billion
A) $308 billion B) $13 billion C) $134 billion D) $300 billion
A) $576 billion B) $251 billion C) $300 billion D) $561 billion
A) Supporting view B) Technical view C) Financial view D) Skeptical view
A) The bug did not exist B) Systems were turned off C) Companies ignored the problem D) The project was completed successfully
A) The 2000 stock market crash B) A massive power grid failure C) The global banking collapse D) 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks
A) $134 billion B) $308 billion C) $300 billion D) $13 billion |
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