GK Quiz 10

1)      Which country has been awarded the rights to host the 2012 Asia Cup Cricket?

a)      Bangladesh

b)      India

c)      Sri lanka

d)     China

2)      Who is appointed as Director General of Civil Aviation?

a)      E. K. Bharat Bhushan

b)      Amar Pratp Singh

c)      U.K. Sinha

d)     Anand Sinha

3)      Which Indian Sportsperson has signed a 26-crore deal with world's 3rd largest and India's largest spirit maker UB group?

a)      Mahendra Singh Dhoni

b)      Sachin Tendulkar  

c)      Harbajan Singh

d)     Virender Sehwag

4)      Who has been appointed as an Advisor to Prime Minister on Skill Development ?

a)         S Ramadorai

b)         Kapil Sibal

c)         Arun Shourie

d)        Rajiv Puri

5)      who has appointed as the SEBI's next Chairman ?

a)      E. K. Bharat Bhushan

b)      Amar Pratp Singh

c)      U.K. Sinha

d)     Anand Sinha

6)      Who has taken charge as the fourth deputy governor at the Reserve Bank.

a)      Anand Sinha

b)      Smt Usha Thorat

c)      Subir Gokarn

7)      Who is Karnataka Governor which on 21/1/2011 sanctioned the prosecution of Chief Minister Yeddyurappa on charges of corruption.

a)      HR Bharadwaj

b)      Shivraj Patil

8)       If a Bank is opened in (SEZ) Special Economic Zones in India, then it comes under which among the following ?

a)      International Banking

b)      Null & Void Banking

c)      Offshore Banking

d)     Trusted banking

9)      What is INS Deepak?
a) Supersonic Missile
b) Fleet Tanker
c) Radar system
d) Nuclear missile carrier

10)  Who is the Author of the book “The Bhutto Murder Trail”?
a) Mufti Mhmd Sayeed
b) Gen Parvez Musharraf
c) Amir Mird) None of the Above

11)  Who has taken over the charge of CMD of OBC bank?
a) Vikram Johar
b) Nagesh Pydahc) S K Shah
d) Vinay Modi

12)  Govt. has decided to stop circulation of 25 paisa coin  ?

a)      1 June 2011

b)      10 June 2011

c)      20 June 2011

d)     30 June 2011

13)  According to RBI Banks should adopt Base Rate till ?

a)      30 may 2011

b)     30 June 2011

c)      30 July 2011

d)     30 August  2011

14)  Which European country has officially adopted Euro as their currency recently?
a) Estonia
b) Latvia
c) Italy
d) Spain

15)  Stealth fighter plane was first developed by USA, which is the second country which succeeded in doing so?
a) Russia
b) China
c) Japan
d) India

Computer Knowledge(Quiz 2)

1. The basic input/output system (BIOS) is stored in:

A)  Ram

B)  Rom

C)  The CPU

D)  The Hard Drive

Answer: B

2. Ensuring that the essential peripheral devices are attached and operational is the ____________ process.

A)     configuration

B)     CMOS

C)     POST

D)     ROM

Answer: C

3. The memory resident portion of the operating system is called the:

A) Registry.

B)  API.

C)  CMOS.

D)  kernel

Answer: D

4. Which of the following does NOT occur during the power-on self-test (POST)?

A)     The Scandisk utility begins to run.

B)     The video card and video memory are tested.

C)     The BIOS identification process occurs.

D)     Memory chips are checked to ensure they are working properly.

Answer: A

5. All of the following are TRUE regarding virtual memory EXCEPT:

A)    Any amount of RAM can be allocated to virtual memory.

B)    The setting for the amount of hard drive space to allocate to virtual memory can be manually changed.

C)    This temporary storage is called the swap file (or page file).

D)    Virtual memory is physical space on the hard drive.

Answer: A

6. The operating system allows users to organize the computer’s contents in a hierarchical structure of directories that include all of the following EXCEPT:

A)    Files.

B)    Folders.

C)    Drives.

D)    Systems.

Answer: D

7. All of the following statements concerning windows are true EXCEPT:

A)    Windows are an example of a command-driven environment.

B)    Windows can be resized and repositioned on the desktop.

C)    More than one window can be open at a time.

D)    Toolbars and scrollbars are features of windows.

Answer: A

8. All of the following statements concerning files are true EXCEPT:

A)    A file is a collection of related pieces of information stored together for easy reference.

B)    Files can be generated from an application.

C)    Files are stored in RAM.

D)    Files should be organized in folders.

Answer: C

9. Using Windows Explorer, a plus (+) sign in front of a folder indicates:

A)    An open folder.

B)    The folder contains subfolders.

C)    A text file.

D)    A graphics file.

Answer: B

10. In Windows XP, if you want to see the file size and modified dates of all files in a folder, the best viewing option is the __________ view.

A)    List

B)    Thumbnails

C)    Details

D)    Icon

Answer: C

11. Programs from the same developer , sold bundled together , that provide better integration and share common features , toolbars and menus are known as ....

A)    Software suites

B)    integrated software packages

C)    software processing packages

D)    personal information managers

E)     none of these

ANS (A)

12. A data warehouse is which of the following ?

A)    Can be updated by the end users

B)    Contains numerous naming conventions and formats

C)    Organized around important subject areas

D)    Contains only current data

E)     None of these

ANS (C)

13. ______________ servers store and manages files for network users.

A)    Authentication

B)    Main

C)    Web

D)    File

E)     None of these

ANS (D)

14. All of the following are examples of real security and privacy risks Except _____

A)    hackers

B)    spam

C)    viruses

D)    identify theft

E)     None of these

ANS (B)

15. ___________ terminals (formerly known as cash registers) are often connected to complex inventory and sales computer systems .

A)    Data

B)    Sales

C)    Query

D)    (Point-of-sale (POS)

E)     None of these

ANS (B)

16. The OSI model is divided into _______ processes called layers.

A)    five

B)    six

C)    seven

D)    eight

E)     None of these

ANS (C)

17. System software is the set of programs that enables your computer's hardware devices and ______ software to work together.

A)    management

B)    processing

C)    utility

D)    application

E)     None of these

ANS (D)

18. ________ are specially designed computer chips reside inside other devices, such as your car or your electronic thermostat.

(A) Servers

(B)  Embedded computers

(C)  Robotic computers

(D) Mainframes

(E)  None of these

ANS (B)

19. The following are all computing devices , except.........

A)    notebook computers

B)    cellular telephones

C)    digital scanners

D)    personal digital assistants

E)     None of these

ANS (C)

20. in a ring topology , the the computer in possession of the ______ can trasmit data

A)    packet

B)    data

C)    access method

D)    token

E)     None of these

ANS (D)

21. This part of operating system manages the essential peripherals, such as the keyboard,screen , disk drives, and parallel and serial ports ____

A)    basic input/output system

B)    secondary input/output system

C)    peripheral input/output system

D)    marginal input/output system

E)     None of these

ANS (A)

22. ________ Viruses are often transmitted by a floppy disk left in the floppy drive

A)    Trojan horse

B)    Boot sector

C)    Script

D)    Logic bomb

E)     None of these

ANS (B)

23. ________ controls the way in which the computer system functions and provides a means by which users can interact with the computer

A)    The platform

B)    Application software

C)    Operating system

D)    The motherboard

E)     None of these

ANS (C)

24. Servers are computers that provide resources to other computers connected to a

___________

A)    mainframe

B)    network

C)    supercomputer

D)    client

E)     None of these

ANS (B)

25. A goal of data mining includes which of the following?

A)    To explain some observed event or condition

B)    To confirm that data exists

C)    To analyze data for expected relationships

D)    To create a new data warehouse

E)     None of these

ANS (A)