Q 01/05

Which technology company created the Go language, unveiling it as an open-source project in November 2009?

A) Microsoft

B) Mozilla

C) Google

D) Apple

Answer · why

C) Google

Google began designing the language in 2007 to make programmers more productive on multicore machines and very large codebases. Version 1.0 followed i...

Q 02/05

Which animal, first drawn by Renée French for a radio station T-shirt, became the mascot of the Go language?

A) Gopher

B) Beaver

C) Otter

D) Badger

Answer · why

A) Gopher

The Go Gopher first promoted the New Jersey radio station WFMU, long before the language existed. The same drawing later served as a Bell Labs mail av...

Q 03/05

Which DevOps tool, started in France by Solomon Hykes and released in 2013, is written in Go?

A) Vagrant

B) Docker

C) Jenkins

D) Ansible

Answer · why

B) Docker

Docker began as an internal project at the hosting firm dotCloud, which later renamed itself after the tool. A year after launch it swapped the Linux ...

Q 04/05

Which container orchestration system, written in Go, takes its name from the Ancient Greek word for a helmsman?

A) OpenShift

B) Cloud Foundry

C) Apache Mesos

D) Kubernetes

Answer · why

D) Kubernetes

Kubernetes shares its Greek root with the words cybernetics and governor. Its logo is a ship's wheel with seven spokes, a nod to the codename Project ...

Q 05/05

Go's designers were motivated by a shared dislike of which language, then used for huge programs at their workplace?

A) Java

B) Python

C) C++

D) Perl

Answer · why

C) C++

C++ builds of one huge program were taking Rob Pike about 45 minutes each. The decision to create something new was made before one of those builds ha...