Design Department Weekly Technical Quiz

Issue Number 71 (4th to 8th July 2011)

Questions for This Week

Answer of the Last Weeks Questions

Thought of the Week

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines

the quality of our lives --- By Anthony Robbins

Q.141) A reinforced concrete column contains longitudinal steel equal to 1 percent of net cross-sectional area of

the column. Assume modular ratio as 10, the loads carried (using the elastic theory) by the longitudinal steel and

the net area of concrete, are Ps and Pc respectively. The ratio Ps/Pc expressed as percent is

a) 0.1 b) 1 c) 1.1 d) 10

Q.142) Which disease derives its name from the Greek word for crab?

a) Cystitis b) Cancer c) T. B. d) Poliomyelitis

Q.139) The soil transported by running water is called ANS: Aluuvial Soil

a) Aeolian soil b) Marine soil c) Aluuvial soil d) Lacustrine soil

Q.140) The coldest place on the earth is ANS: Vostok Antartica

a) Vostok Antartica b) Verkoyansk in Siberia c) North Ice, Greenland d) Sarmiento, Argentina

***Last Months Winners***

1)Mr. Mandar Karnik 2) Mr. Vinay Kumar 3) Mr. Najmuddin Saify 4) Mr.Sandeep Parale 5) Mr. Ashish Harle

Guess what is this?

Not able to guess turn to page no.3

Sir, our quoted rates are not profitable,

but the contract specifications are so airy-

fairy, there is plenty of scope for extra

claims which would be in our favour.

Hence, we should accept this job sir.

Continued from page no.2 ..

It's a hard disk drive back in 1956... with 5 MB of storage. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first

'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a 'whopping' 5 MB of data.

If you learned computer programming in the 1970's, you dealt with what today are called mainframe computers, such as the

IBM 7090 (shown above), IBM 360, or IBM 370.

Computer Humor

In Computer Heaven:

The management is from Intel,

The design and construction is done

by Apple,

The marketing is done by Microsoft,

IBM provides the support,

Gateway determines the pricing.

In Computer Hell: The management is from Apple, Microsoft does design and construction, IBM handles the marketing, The support is from Gateway, Intel sets the price.

A guy is standing on the corner of the

street smoking one cigarette after another.

A lay walking by notices him and says

Hey, dont you know that those things

can kill you? I mean, didnt you see the

giant warning on the box?!

Thats OK says the guy, puffing casually

Im a computer programmer

So? Whats that got to do with anything?

We dont care about warnings. We only

care about errors.