Test your computer Knowledge

Dude111

PCiQ is a supposedly serious and high quality test that asks you questions about computers,software and hardware. Then it determines your Iq in terms of Computer knowledge. Its actually the most interesting test I have ever taken and I would suggest that anyone here interested and knowledgable in computers to take it.

There are 3 sets of tests: The mini question one,the standard 25 question one,and the Full 50 question one.

Some questions are:

A firewire is A/an:
What is a search engine?
Versions of Intel's Pentium 4 CPUs can be fitted into all of the following sockets except:
RAID is a/an:
Which would have the largest file size?

Test:

www.pciqtest.com

I took the FULL TEST and got 52% (Some of the stuff i didnt know what it was )

chin_grin

72% on the full test! That's................ok...........ish.

fionny

Passed a bit of time I got 80% in the full test.

Captain Commie

Just flew through the full test, 49/50, maybe i should work in I.T.

oops, i already do

RoyalMarine

images for the questions dont load in firefox

PogMoThoin

Think I got the USA related questions all wrong

Mr. Presentable

80% for me on Standard test

Laisurg

Got 40% i passed anyway ^.^

RoyalMarine

86%

some of them were a bit too vague to answer tbh.

clintondaly

68

cookie1977

80%

Ye I'd agree with some being a little vague

Jagera

82 - happy enough.

sink

Full test and got 78. 11 wrong, damn.

krusty_10

84% - expected as much so happy with that.

MiCr0

loved this question

In chatrooms and email messages, the symbol is used to
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secretly signal that one's parent is close by (because of closed PARENThesis)

coylemj

What has computer knowledge got to do with IQ?

You might as well ask questions about differentials and alternators (in a car in case you don't recognise the terms) and claim that advanced knowledge of cars is an indicator of a high IQ.

fionny

coylemj wrote: »

What has computer knowledge got to do with IQ?

You might as well ask questions about differentials and alternators (in a car in case you don't recognise the terms) and claim that advanced knowledge of cars is an indicator of a high IQ.

Jeez lighten up fella, the term iq is used loosely to expand to your knowledge of computers not your intelligence... there seems to be someone who gets ratty about everything.

ED E

chin_grin wrote: »

72% on the full test! That's................ok...........ish.

Same.


Had a question on fines for illegal downloads in the US, was deffo gonna get that one:rolleyes: Yeah, several were too vague.

the watchman

Is there anyway I can do the test with Firefox,no pics loading at the moment.

Cuddlesworth

Some of the questions are way too specific, like "what is the minimum fine for downloading a song in the US". Like I give a ****.

bonzodog2

86% on the full test :-)

dlofnep

92%.

I'm weak when it comes to hardware.

lmimmfn

I did the quick test and got 2 wrong( 80% ), one of which was along the lines of:
Most email programs puts new email messages in
1. Draft folder
2. Sent folder
3. Inbox
4. None of the above.

HOWEVER, email messages does not indicate the source, recieved emails obviously go into inbox, saved emails go into drafts etc.

Also "programs puts" is a typo in the quiz , oh and theres a question on a connector and no connector is shown lol.

Either way, its not great

hearny

88% in full test, Im pulling the US questions put me off too card, some vague ones too like a KMV (should have been KVM) switch I put None of the above.

I should be ashamed of myself though I work with computers for the last 10 years.

was bored so I kept at it

92% in Standard and

100% in Mini

Razzuh

74, happy enough. Some of the questions seemed a little outdated.

mach1982

78% on Full test would got high if i could see in pictures of the cable question , had to guess.

stevenmu

96% on full. Can't see where it shows you which questions you got wrong though.

76% in the standard.

Although 3 questions you had to look at a picture which didnt display.

mordeith

70 % on full test

henryporter

mach1982 wrote: »

78% on Full test would got high if i could see in pictures of the cable question , had to guess.

Ha 80% - must have guessed better than you

Snickers Man

90 % on quick test. Think questions are poorly worded for a quiz. Many of the answer options are ambiguous.

Fun though.

mlumley

I got 58% on the full test

syklops

Cant see pictures in neither FF nor Konqueror. Got to about question number 14 when there was a picture question which i couldnt see.

Some of the questions were very vague. Like:

What is FTP used for?
a. transfer files over the internet
b. Building websites.

IMO it should be both.

kippy

84% on the full test.
Agree, some of the questions are very vague and unclear - reminded me a bit of a microsoft exam.

Cuddlesworth

syklops wrote: »

IMO it should be both.

No, it shouldn't.

fionny

syklops wrote: »

What is FTP used for?
a. transfer files over the internet
b. Building websites.

IMO it should be both.

How does FTP Build websites? FTP = File Transfer Protocol and the only relation to websites is as a method of moving the files to the server.

syklops

fionny wrote: »

How does FTP Build websites? FTP = File Transfer Protocol and the only relation to websites is as a method of moving the files to the server.

If you dont have ssh access to the server then you ftp up the html documents to the web server. Any website I ever created no FTP, no website.

fionny

syklops wrote: »

If you dont have ssh access to the server then you ftp up the html documents to the web server. Any website I ever created no FTP, no website.

But it does not build a website it moves the files. Therefore it could not possibly be the answer... nothing vague there. The answer was clearly "transfer files over the internet"

DoesNotCompute

72% on the standard test
90% on the full test.

Hrmmm.

syklops

fionny wrote: »

But it does not build a website it moves the files. Therefore it could not possibly be the answer... nothing vague there. The answer was clearly "transfer files over the internet"

Is that not a bit like saying brick layers dont build houses they just move bricks about?

Will you concede that it is a confusing question?

stevenmu

Not confusing IMO. For e.g. a keyboard is used to enter letters, not to build websites. It's hard to buld a website without a keyboard, but that doesn't mean it's what it's for.

FTP = File Transfer Protocol. It's sole purpose is to transfer files. If you choose to use those files to build a website that's entirely up to you and nothing to do with FTP.

syklops

stevenmu wrote: »

Not confusing IMO. For e.g. a keyboard is used to enter letters, not to build websites. It's hard to buld a website without a keyboard, but that doesn't mean it's what it's for.

FTP = File Transfer Protocol. It's sole purpose is to transfer files. If you choose to use those files to build a website that's entirely up to you and nothing to do with FTP.

Well arent you fu*king brilliant.

fionny

syklops wrote: »

Is that not a bit like saying brick layers dont build houses they just move bricks about?

Will you concede that it is a confusing question?

No I wont its not confusing.... its simple! See Stevenmu's analogy as that explains it well I think.

syklops

fionny wrote: »

No I wont its not confusing.... its simple! See Stevenmu's analogy as that explains it well I think.

Obviously im the idiot then.

fionny

syklops wrote: »

Obviously im the idiot then.

Your words not mine... buhbye.

Capt'n Midnight

RoyalMarine wrote: »

86%

some of them were a bit too vague to answer tbh.

Ditto

Especially when you can't see the pictures

Dude111

RoyalMarine wrote:

images for the questions dont load in firefox

syklops wrote:

Cant see pictures in neither FF nor Konqueror.

Yeah they didnt show for me with IE6 either

Teyla Emmagan

God I'm exhausted.

I gave up on Question 32, that was just way too hard..

Naikon

48/50 on the full one. Some were too vague. Load of arse imo.