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Android Set 1

This document contains 25 multiple choice questions about Android. It covers topics like the open source license Android uses, who owns the Android platform, the minimum Android version for development, Google's business motivation for supporting Android, the first Android phone released, advantages of Android for phone manufacturers, and key technical aspects like the Dalvik virtual machine and app distribution model.

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Android Set 1

This document contains 25 multiple choice questions about Android. It covers topics like the open source license Android uses, who owns the Android platform, the minimum Android version for development, Google's business motivation for supporting Android, the first Android phone released, advantages of Android for phone manufacturers, and key technical aspects like the Dalvik virtual machine and app distribution model.

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Android MCQs [set-1]

1. Android is licensed under which open source licensing license?


A. gnu’s gpl
B. apache/mit
C. oss
D. sourceforge
Answer: B

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
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C. open handset alliance
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D. the above statement is and android is owned by google
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3. As an Android programmer, what version of Android should you use as your
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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

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

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

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

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

8. What year was the Open Handset Alliance announced?


A. 2005
B. 2006
C. 2007
D. 2008
Answer: C

9. A device with Android installed is needed to develop apps for Android.


A. true
B. false
Answer: B

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

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11. Google licensed some proprietary apps.
A. true
B. false
Answer: A

12. When did Google purchase Android?


A. 2007
B. 2005
C. 2008
D. 2010
Answer: B

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

14. Which one is not a nickname of a version of Andriod?


A. cupcake
B. gingerbread
C. honeycomb
D. muffin
Answer: D

15. Android doesn’t make any assumptions about a device’s screen size, resolution,
or chipset.:
A. true
B. false
Answer: A

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

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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

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

19. Android is built upon the Java Micro Edition (J2ME) version of Java.
A. true
B. false
Answer: B

20. Which among these are NOT a part of Android’s native libraries?
A. webkit
B. dalvik
C. opengl
D. sqlite
Answer: B

21. Android is based on Linux for the following reason.


A. security
B. portability
C. networking
D. all of these
Answer: D

22. What operating system is used as the base of the Android stack?
A. linux
B. windows

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C. java
D. xml
Answer: A

23. What year was development on the Dalvik virtual machine started?
A. 2003
B. 2005
C. 2007
D. 2006
Answer: B

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

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

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