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What's Next: What's Your IT IQ?

How smart (or dumb) are you when it comes to technology? Take our quiz and find out.

By: David H. Freedman

Published April 2006

1. You receive an e-mail from a company directing you to click on a link in the e-mail. It's okay to click on it as long as:

  you know the sender
  you recognize the Web address in the link
  both A and B
  you have grown oddly fond of viruses, worms, spyware, and Internet fraud

2. Red Hat is:

  a supplier of Linux for businesses
  a former malicious hacker turned security consultant
  the name of the next version of Windows
  a popular microbrewery in Seattle

3. In a search of the phrase John OR Mary (without quotation marks) Google will turn up only those webpages containing:

  both John and Mary
  John, Mary, and or
  either the word John or the word Mary
  details of your porno search history, sent straight to the White House

4. If a potentially large customer tells you she likes to do business electronically and asks about your company's computing platform, you can instantly spit out:

  the names of your network software, ISP, basic website development platform, database management software, accounting software, and all of your other software applications
  three of the items in A
  one or two of the items in A
  your Red Hat beer

5. You back up the important data on your computer to a storage device other than your hard disk:

  at least once a day
  at least once a week
  once a month, or less
  No need, I have memorized all my important data

6. An MPEG file usually contains:

  audio
  video
  a photograph
  mumblety-pegs

7. You meet with your top tech person to discuss matters of strategic importance to the company at least:

  once a week
  once a month
  once a year
  Why would I want to talk strategy with a junior high school kid?

8. Slashdot and Digg are:

  software for mining customer data
  technology news websites
  Linux commands
  the lead characters on CSI: Silicon Valley

9. Your tech pro tells you the network is running out of disk storage space and advises springing for a drive that holds a terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, of data--enough to hold 40 million Word documents. He tells you the price, and you reply you are not sure you want to spend the:

  $800
  $8,000
  $80,000
  $8 terabillion

 

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