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