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Stump 360 Previous Year Questions.md

Stump 360 questions from previous years, 2020 edition

Non-technical (mostly)

  • Three words were product code names for both Apple and Microsoft Products. Name any of them.
  • What was the first version of Mac OS X that Apple offered for free?
  • At which event (including year) did Tim Cook utter his famous “I don’t care about the bloody ROI!“? What was he referring to?
  • In official advertisements and photos, what time is displayed on all iPhones, iPads, and iMacs? And why?
  • Which is not an Apple prototype name?
    • Tommy
    • Sneezy
    • DynaBook
    • Baby Mac
    • Jonathan
  • Roughly how many Unicode code points are there? a. 1,000 b. 100,000 c. 1,000,000 d. 1,000,000,000
  • When was the first Swift commit made (date and time)? And who was the author of that commit?
  • What’s the most recently added Accelerate library?
  • When was SearchKit introduced?
  • Which new API for 2019 was broken for more than two weeks when Apple released beta 6 (and later 7) of iOS 13 without releasing the corresponding SDKs via Xcode 11?
  • What’s the fastest-growing product in Apple’s history, from just after launch to its peak?
  • Which developer tool had this icon? (Icon missing)
  • Name a class name in an Apple framework that is plural.
  • Which public Framework contains the most curse words?

Technical

  • What Combine property wrapper was deprecated in Xcode 11 beta 5?
  • What phone was the first to allow GPU accelerated programming?
  • Which property of a CATransform3D affects the perspective?
  • In the case of a Core Data threading violation, an exception will be thrown from what rather Klingon-esque method name?
  • In iOS 13, how can an app determine a users App Store country code?
  • How should one provide the metal linker flag to compile a Core Image Metal kernel in Xcode, and how does the flag differ to the compiler flag?
  • What SwiftUI modifier replaced PresentationLink?
  • What iOS (and Mac) framework class and method has this type signature? @:@@@@@@@@@i@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@cc
  • What's the difference between the Metal implementations of a custom colour and general kernels in Core Image?
  • When does StoreKit signal a deferred purchase has been abandoned?
  • On iOS, how can a user or developer ask CoreSpotlight to reindex?
  • What TIFF variant will display correctly using Preview on a Mac, but potentially only partially display on iOS?
  • What stringsdict feature isn’t fully supported by Xcode’s localization import and export functionality?
  • A legacy app stored a struct on an iPhone 7, containing 3 ints, a long, a double and a bool. How much bigger is the struct after enabling arm64 support?
  • From Mac OS X 10.2 to Mac OS X 10.2.4, a number of "good" PICT files stopped working with tools that used the standard graphics processing framework. Apple restored support for these files in 10.2.5. What was the failure?
  • Say you have a program that over-releases NSNumber and crashes. What can you do without changing any code to fix that?
  • Which iOS 12 authorization option allows you to send notifications to a user without requesting permission?
  • What identifier do you use to customize your app's grouped notification stacks?
  • When lldb imports a python file, what is the name of the function that lldb invokes?

Ancient Apple History

  • What was the official name of the first bound copy of Inside Macintosh?
  • Back when iMacs were fun, they came in named colours. What were Apple's names for the colors?
  • What was Xcode v.1 called?
    • Project Builder
    • Xcode
    • Code Warrior
  • What was the hardware freebie that Apple gave us developers in WWDC 2003?
  • The Apple Newton MessagePad just marked its 25th Anniversary. Can you name every model that ran Newton OS that Apple ever shipped?
  • There were two different handwriting recognition engines for the Newton. The original, which was widely mocked, and then the one that shipped with 2.0, that is still considered by some to be better than anything on the market, even now. What were the names of the two engines?
  • What was the name of the cross platform framework created by Metrowerks for building classic Mac OS apps (and later Carbon and Cocoa apps on Mac OS X)?
  • What font was the phone book edition of Inside Macintosh printed in?
  • Which Mac clone maker used a cartoon with the tagline, "Let's kick Intel's Ass!"?
  • What’s the first black computer manufactured by Apple?
  • What was the code name Macintosh going to be released as?
    • Apple X
    • Lisa II
    • Bicycle
  • What was the title of the first WWDC session where James Dempsey performed a song?
  • The original Macintosh would chime 4, 5, or 6 times when there was a hardware error. What did 6 chimes signify?
  • What would you have to create if you wanted to extend Hypercard with a C function?
  • What Javascript event shares its name with a similar one from HyperCard?
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