| 1. |
Android is licensed under which open source licensing license? |
| A. | gnu’s gpl |
| B. | apache/mit |
| C. | oss |
| D. | sourceforge |
| Answer» B. apache/mit | |
| 2. |
Although most people’s first thought when they think of Android is Google, Android is not actually owned by Google. Who owns the Android platform? |
| A. | oracle technology |
| B. | dalvik |
| C. | open handset alliance |
| D. | the above statement is and android is owned by google |
| Answer» C. open handset alliance | |
| 3. |
As an Android programmer, what version of Android should you use as your minimum development target? |
| A. | versions 1.6 or 2.0 |
| B. | versions 1.0 or 1.1 |
| C. | versions 1.2 or 1.3 |
| D. | versions 2.3 or 3.0 |
| Answer» A. versions 1.6 or 2.0 | |
| 4. |
What was Google’s main business motivation for supporting Android? |
| A. | to level the playing field for mobile devices |
| B. | to directly compete with the iphone |
| C. | to corner the mobile device application market for licensing purposes |
| D. | to allow them to advertise more |
| Answer» D. to allow them to advertise more | |
| 5. |
What was the first phone released that ran the Android OS? |
| A. | google gphone |
| B. | t-mobile g1 |
| C. | motorola droid |
| D. | htc hero |
| Answer» B. t-mobile g1 | |
| 6. |
From a phone manufacturer’s point of view, what makes Android so great? |
| A. | aside from some specific drivers, it provides everything to make a phone work |
| B. | it makes the hardware work better |
| C. | it allows them to compete with apple’s iphone |
| D. | it allows users to create apps, generating revenue for the companies |
| Answer» A. aside from some specific drivers, it provides everything to make a phone work | |
| 7. |
What is a funny fact about the start of Android? |
| A. | it was orginaly going to be called ufo |
| B. | the first version of android was released without an actual phone on the market |
| C. | androids main purpose was to unlock your car door when you left the keys inside of it. |
| D. | was going to be a closed source application to make more money for its company. |
| Answer» B. the first version of android was released without an actual phone on the market | |
| 8. |
What year was the Open Handset Alliance announced? |
| A. | 2005 |
| B. | 2006 |
| C. | 2007 |
| D. | 2008 |
| Answer» C. 2007 | |
| 9. |
A device with Android installed is needed to develop apps for Android. |
| A. | true |
| B. | false |
| Answer» B. false | |
| 10. |
Android tries hard to ______________ low-level components, such as the software stack, with interfaces so that vendor-specific code can be managed easily. |
| A. | confound |
| B. | absract |
| C. | modularize |
| D. | compound |
| Answer» B. absract | |
| 11. |
Google licensed some proprietary apps. |
| A. | true |
| B. | false |
| Answer» A. true | |
| 12. |
When did Google purchase Android? |
| A. | 2007 |
| B. | 2005 |
| C. | 2008 |
| D. | 2010 |
| Answer» B. 2005 | |
| 13. |
Android releases since 1.5 have been given nicknames derived how? |
| A. | adjective and strange animal |
| B. | food |
| C. | something that starts w/ ‘a’ -> something that starts w/ ‘b’… |
| D. | american states |
| Answer» B. food | |
| 14. |
Which one is not a nickname of a version of Andriod? |
| A. | cupcake |
| B. | gingerbread |
| C. | honeycomb |
| D. | muffin |
| Answer» D. muffin | |
| 15. |
Android doesn’t make any assumptions about a device’s screen size, resolution, or chipset.: |
| A. | true |
| B. | false |
| Answer» A. true | |
| 16. |
Why are the so few users left with versions 1.0 and 1.1? |
| A. | the first phones were released with version 1.5 |
| B. | 1.0 and 1.1 had security holes that forced carriers to recall phones using them |
| C. | 1.0 and 1.1 are just number designations for the version apple’s iphone is running |
| D. | everyone with 1.0 and 1.1 were upgraded to 1.5 over the air automatically |
| Answer» D. everyone with 1.0 and 1.1 were upgraded to 1.5 over the air automatically | |
| 17. |
Which Android version had the greatest share of the market as of January 2011? |
| A. | 1.1 |
| B. | 1.5 |
| C. | 2.3 |
| D. | 3.4 |
| Answer» B. 1.5 | |
| 18. |
Which piece of code used in Android is not open source? |
| A. | keypad driver |
| B. | wifi? driver |
| C. | audio driver |
| D. | power management |
| Answer» B. wifi? driver | |
| 19. |
Android is built upon the Java Micro Edition (J2ME) version of Java. |
| A. | true |
| B. | false |
| Answer» B. false | |
| 20. |
Which among these are NOT a part of Android’s native libraries? |
| A. | webkit |
| B. | dalvik |
| C. | opengl |
| D. | sqlite |
| Answer» B. dalvik | |
| 21. |
Android is based on Linux for the following reason. |
| A. | security |
| B. | portability |
| C. | networking |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» D. all of these | |
| 22. |
What operating system is used as the base of the Android stack? |
| A. | linux |
| B. | windows |
| C. | java |
| D. | xml |
| Answer» A. linux | |
| 23. |
What year was development on the Dalvik virtual machine started? |
| A. | 2003 |
| B. | 2005 |
| C. | 2007 |
| D. | 2006 |
| Answer» B. 2005 | |
| 24. |
What is a key difference with the distribution of apps for Android based devices than other mobile device platform applications? |
| A. | applications are distributed by apple app store only |
| B. | applications are distributed by multiple vendors with different policies on applications. |
| C. | applications are distributed by multiple vendors with the exact same policies on applications. |
| D. | applications are distributed by the android market only. |
| Answer» B. applications are distributed by multiple vendors with different policies on applications. | |
| 25. |
When developing for the Android OS, Java byte code is compiled into what? |
| A. | java source code |
| B. | dalvik application code |
| C. | dalvik byte code |
| D. | c source code |
| Answer» C. dalvik byte code | |