Q 01/05

To which city did Oracle announce in December 2020 that it was moving its headquarters out of Silicon Valley?

A) Phoenix, Arizona

B) Austin, Texas

C) Seattle, Washington

D) Denver, Colorado

Answer · why

B) Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas: Oracle said a more flexible policy on where staff work let it change its headquarters, joining a pandemic-era run of technology compani...

Q 02/05

In which year was Oracle co-founded in Santa Clara, California?

A) 1969

B) 1977

C) 1984

D) 1991

Answer · why

B) 1977

Bob Miner, Ed Oates and Larry Ellison started the company on June 16, 1977.

Q 03/05

Software Development Laboratories later renamed itself Oracle after what?

A) Its founder's yacht

B) Its main product

C) Its first office street

D) Its biggest investor

Answer · why

B) Its main product

Its main product: the firm, by then called Relational Software, took the name of its flagship Oracle database in the early 1980s to tie itself more cl...

Q 04/05

Oracle takes its name from the codename of a database project for which US government agency?

A) The IRS

B) NASA

C) The FBI

D) The CIA

Answer · why

D) The CIA

The CIA paid for a database project codenamed Oracle that Larry Ellison and his co-founders had worked on, and they reused the name for their own prod...

Q 05/05

Oracle's founders reportedly judged Larry Ellison the weakest programmer among them, so which job did he take?

A) Office manager

B) Hardware buyer

C) Accountant

D) Salesman

Answer · why

D) Salesman

Salesman: Ellison ran sales and marketing while his co-founders wrote the code, and he built demonstration databases himself to show customers what th...