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- quiet period - A quiet period is a measure of time during which corporate insiders are restricted from disclosing information relative to the performance or prospective performance of a company before that information is made public.
- quintessence - Dark energy, also called quintessence, is a mysterious energy or force that has been postulated by astronomers and cosmologists to explain recent observations suggesting that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate of speed.
- Quiz: 10 hot green terms to keep you (and the planet) cool - A quiz on green technology: This term describes surfing search engine results using an inverted palette, with white text on a black body, saving monitor wattage in the process.
- Quiz: A taste for tech? - A quiz about food-related tech terms: Does this prominent producer of hardware and software keep the doctor away?.
- Quiz: Are you Facebook-savvy? - Boasting over half-a-billion members, Facebook has grown to be the top social networking website on the internet.
- Quiz: Artificial Intelligence - The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Quiz: Authentication Methods - There are quite a few ways to authenticate users who want access to your organization's network resources.
- Quiz: Believe it or Not: Do you speak Geek? - An April Fools tech quiz: The first computer ever designed, called the Difference Engine, was powered by a wind-up crank on the side.
- Quiz: Business Intelligence - A business intelligence tech quiz: What is an approach to selling goods and services in which a prospect explicitly agrees in advance to receive marketing information.
- Quiz: Business Process Management - Vocabulary quiz on business process management terminology.
- Quiz: Cell phone tech - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Common Vulnerabilities - A quiz about security vulnerabilities: An intruder might install this on a networked computer to collect user ids and passwords from other machines on the network.
- Quiz: Compliance - A quiz about compliance: What's the job title of the corporate official in charge of overseeing and managing compliance issues?.
- Quiz: Computer Nostalgia 2.0 - A computer history quiz: In 1982, young Richard Skrenta secured his place in computer history by creating a program called Elk Cloner.
- Quiz: Customers and Call Centers - How to take the quiz: - After reading the question, click on the answer that you think iscorrect to go to the whatis.
- Quiz: Database Basics - After reading the question, click on the answer that you think is correct.
- Quiz: Database II - A quiz about databases: At this level of normalization, each column in a table that is not a determiner of the contents of another column, must itself be a function of the other columns in the table.
- Quiz: Do you eat Geek? - A tech quiz with a food-oriented theme: If you're a geek eating Mexican, you might be confused about asking for a mole sauce.
- Quiz: Do you speak Geek during the holidays? - A quiz featuring IT terms related to the holidays: If Saint Nick ate them all in one night, he might need extra RP (reindeer power) to get that sleigh airborne! On the Internet, it's a small text file a Web server sends to your browser.
- Quiz: Do you speak Geek with the Simpsons? - In honor of the Simpsons movie hitting megaplexes (and likely BitTorrent clients) worldwide, we've put together yet another technology quiz for the readers of WhatIs.
- Quiz: Do you speak Geek, Greek, or Elvish? - A tech quiz with a ancient Greece/Lord of the Rings theme: Which of the following conveys malicious or harmful code concealed within harmless programming? (Hint: It was used by the Greeks, as told in the Aeneid.
- Quiz: Do you speak project management? - A project management quiz: Developed by the U.
- Quiz: DSL - DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) is a technology for bringing high-bandwidth information to homes and small businesses over ordinary copper telephone lines.
- Quiz: E-business trends and technologies - A quiz about e-business: This Web site feature involves tailoring pages to individual users' characteristics or preferences.
- Quiz: E-mail Marketing and the Spam Problem - A quiz about email marketing and spam: What is a technique used by legitimate marketers to customize offerings for specific customers.
- Quiz: Ego-Booster - A tech terminology quiz: This is an unspaced sequence of characters used to determine that a computer user requesting access to a computer system is really that particular user.
- Quiz: Ethernet - A quiz about Ethernet: What happens if two devices on the same Ethernet network determine the network is free, but attempt to transmit data at exactly the same time?.
- Quiz: Eureka! - IT's all about the light bulb moments.
- Quiz: Firewalls - A quiz about firewalls: A server that acts as this kind of node often also acts as a proxy server and a firewall server.
- Quiz: For Latin Lovers - A tech trivia quiz featuring Latin-derived terms: What does quid pro quo mean?.
- Quiz: Getting Your Message Across the Network - A quiz about data transmission: Suppose you want to send an e-mail note to someone on the Internet.
- Quiz: Greening the cube farm - A quiz about environmentally-friendly computing practices: What innovative technology powers laptops from the One Laptop Per Child foundation?.
- Quiz: Halloween IV: Can you shriek Geek? - Halloween-themed tech quiz: Ugh! This scourge of the Internet gets its name from a Latin word meaning slimy liquid or poison.
- Quiz: health IT - Think you know a bit about health care IT? Try our quiz!.
- Quiz: Help Desk Basics - A quiz about help desks: What basic Internet program lets you verify that a particular Internet address exists and can accept requests?.
- Quiz: How do you pronounce IT in Geek? - A quiz about the correct pronunciation of common IT terms: While data has at least two alternate meanings, in computer science it's information that has been translated into a form that is more convenient to move or process.
- Quiz: HP - A quiz about Hewlett-Packard technologies: What is a software suite from HP for managing applications, device availability, network conditions and status, system performance, service and program maintenance, and storage resources.
- Quiz: IM lingo 4U - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Improve your memory! - A quiz about computer storage: If you loaded your pickup truck full of books, how much data would it hold -- 650 megabytes, a half-terabyte or a gigabyte?.
- Quiz: In the Spammer's Lair - A quiz about spammer techniques: What is a program that automatically trolls the Internet for email addresses.
- Quiz: Integrated threat management - A quiz about integrated threat management.
- Quiz: Intrusion prevention fundamentals - A quiz about intrusion prevention: What describes any attack strategy where the attacker purposely makes it confusing and difficult for interested parties to figure out who initiated the attack.
- Quiz: IT lives! - A quiz about inventors and innovators in information technology: This hugely successful organization began life in 1996 as an application called 'Backrub.
- Quiz: IT Potpourri - IT trivia quiz: According to recent reports, Microsoft and Intel are conspiring on a device that will crush a popular handheld device with a fruity name.
- Quiz: IT's About Taxes - A quiz about taxes and technology: This organization lobbies in Congress on behalf of information technology companies and users in matters related to tax laws and enforcement, along with the protection of copyrights, patents and privacy in communication.
- Quiz: IT's about time! - A quiz about time: Our current calendar system was instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, back in 1582.
- Quiz: IT's Greek to me! - A quiz about tech terms derived from Greek: If you think your computer has a mean streak, you're exhibiting this, the tendency to think of non-humans as having human characteristics.
- Quiz: Laptops - A quiz about laptop computers: This technology is used in the liquid crystal displays of notebook and laptop computers to provide a more responsive image at a wider range of viewing angle.
- Quiz: Linux Basics - A quiz about Linux terms: What company hopes to attract Windows expatriots by promoting an easy way for the average desktop user to migrate to Linux?.
- Quiz: Looney Tunes - A tech trivia quiz with a Looney-Toons theme: What starring character's first name is also a term for pesky coding errors?.
- Quiz: Mainframe Acronym-o-phobia - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Mobile Device Security -- Who else can hear me now? - Mobile device security and compliance regulations can be as hard to pin down as a strong connection for your smartphone.
- Quiz: More fun with open source - Test yourself.
- Quiz: multifactor authentication - How well do you understand multifactor authentication and the authentication factors that support it? Take our quiz to find out.
- Quiz: Name my claim to fame! - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Nano, nano! - Good things come in small packages -- really, really small packages.
- Quiz: Nasties in the news - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Negotiating -- Do you speak business? - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Netiquette - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Networking Hardware - Test yourself.
- Quiz: OMG! Another IM Lingo Challenge 4U - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Online threats to privacy - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Open and shut! - A quiz about open source, proprietary, free software and all the various permutations thereof.
- Quiz: Operating Systems - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Peripherals - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Presence Technology - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Printers and printing - A WhatIs.com quiz about printing history and technology.
- Quiz: Processing Power - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Protocols - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Recycling electronic equipment - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Romancing the Geek - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Ruling Your IT Universe - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Securing Your Network - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Security Attacks - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Security Basics - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Servers - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Short & Sweet! - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Spam, Spam and More Spam - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Star Trek Tech - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Star Wars Tech, Then and Now - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Storage Smarts - Test yourself.
- Quiz: TCP/IP - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Test your regulatory compliance smarts - Test yourself.
- Quiz: The robots are coming! - Sure -- NOW they vacuum and scrub the floor -- but what happens when they wise up? The following could be required information when the robots take over.
- Quiz: Top 10 consumer threats - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Top tech picks for 2006 - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Troubleshooting - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Unleashing the Power of the Database - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Virtual virtuosity - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Virtualization News - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Web server security - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Web Services - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Web Site Performance - Test yourself.
- Quiz: What the Dickens! - Test yourself.
- Quiz: What's the Big Idea? - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Winter Blues - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Wireless - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Wireless LANs - Wireless LAN quiz testing key terms related to WLANs and wireless technologies, such as 802.
- Quiz: Wireless Standards and Protocols - Test yourself.
- Quiz: Workstations - Test yourself.