The Millennium Bug

Questions and Answers

by Arasnath Kimis and Jeyakody Kesavan


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Question 1
 What is the Year 2000 problem?

    A. It is the issue of some hardware being unable to handle the change of year from 1999 to 2000.

    B. It is the issue of some softwares possibly mishandling dates after the year 2000.

    C. It is the issue of some software and hardware mishandling dates as the year progresses from 1999 to 2000

    D. It is the issue of some softwares and hardwares mishandling dates as we approach the end of this millennium and through the very early part of the coming millennium
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Question 2
 Which of the following statements are true?

i. the Millennium problem is due to way that most systems store dates

ii. the Millennium problem wouldn't have occurred if the year was changing from 1899 to 1900

iii. the problem wouldn't occur if we used a Julian date system instead of our present Gregorian calendar

    A. i
    B. i, ii
    C. i, ii, iii
    D. i, iii

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Question 3
 Why did we store the dates in the fashion that that we did?

i. to save memory space

ii. to save typing typing the same century values

iii. programmers did not expect their programs to be used for more than a decade

    A. i
    B. ii and iii
    C. i and iii
    D. All of the above


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Question 4
 Which of the following is a method of solving the problem?


i. rewrite the code making it 2000-compliant

ii. use the program which will automatically solve the entire problem

iii. update or buy a newer version of the software

iv. buy new computers before the end of the millennium so that they`ll be 2000-compatible

v. hire consulants to take care of the problem

vi. hide all computers in the closet before the century rollover and take them out after New Year's Day

vii. give up modern living and become an ascetic hermit in Nepal

    A. i, ii, iii, iv, v
    B. ii, iii, iv
    C. i, iii, v
    D. i, iii, v, vii

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Question 5
 How long do we have to solve the problem?

    A. 1 year
    B. 1 and half years
    C. 2 years
    D. 3 years


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Question 6
 Why is rewriting the code to become 2000-compliant so difficult and costly?


i. most of the source code is probably covered with coffee and not to be found

ii. its terribly tedious and nobody wants to do it

iii. we don`t have that many COBOL programmers still alive

iv. programmers want wages which are becoming unaffordable

    A. i, ii, iii
    B. ii, iii
    C. i, ii, iv
    D. All of the above
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Question 7
 Which of the following operating systems will fail at the century rollover?

i. DOS 6.0

ii. MacOS

iii. UNIX

iv. Windows 3.X

v. Win95
    A. i, ii, iv
    B. i, ii, iii, iv
    C. All of the above
    D. None of the above
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Question 8
 Who is responsible for solving the millennium problem in an organisation?

i. executive management

ii. information systems management

iii. the vendor

iv. the maintenance contractor

v. Beavis and Butthead
    A. iv
    B. iii, iv
    C. ii, iii, iv
    D. everybody and except for MTV cartoon characters

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Question 9
 Why has this problem not been solved earlier?

i. it was only discovered in the late 80's in the Bells Labs, California

ii. people weren`t interested in a potential problem which will cost millions to solve and thus procrastinated

iii. Many were unaware of the problem due to a lack of news and information

    A. i
    B. ii, iii
    C. i, iii
    D. All of the above
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Question 10
 How much will it cost approximately to solve this problem on a worldwide basis (in sterling)?
    A. 400 billion
    B. 10 billion
    C. 400 million
    D. 50 million
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Question 11
 Can we solve the Year 2000 problem?
    A.Yes
    B.Yes
    C.Yes
    D.Yes
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References
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