General Knowledge

Ques. : 1 India signed five agreements recently with Tanzania. The currency of Tanzania is
1) Tanzanian pound
2) Tanzanian franc
3) Tanzanian shilling
4) Naira
5) Central African CFA franc
Answer:- 3) Tanzanian shilling

Ques. : 2 __________ has lapped up Lafarge India’s 11 million tonne cement business for $1.4 billion (Rs 9478 cr) enterprise value.
1) Nirma
2) ACC Limited
3) Ambuja Cement
4) Birla Corporation
5) Binani Cement
Answer:- 1) Nirma

Ques. : 3 Which of the following firms has introduced Android Skilling Program for India to train two million developers over the next three years?
1) Samsung
2) Xiaomi
3) Google
4) Huawei
5) Lenovo
Answer:- 3) Google

Ques. : 4 India signed seven pacts with which country recently after talks between PM Narendra Modi and President Uhuru Kenyatta?
1) Cameroon
2) Kenya
3) Tanzania
4) South Africa
5) Chad
Answer:- 2) Kenya

Ques. : 5 Who among the following is the present governor of Uttar Pradesh? He sent a special report to President Pranab Mukherjee on the recent violence in Mathura.
1) Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir
2) Draupadi Murmu
3) Keshari Nath Tripathi
4) Ram Naik
5) Ram Nath Kovind
Answer:- 4) Ram Naik

Ques. : 6 The “Watson” is a question answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language. It is developed by
1) Google
2) Apple
3) Microsoft
4) IBM
5) Samsung
Answer:- 4) IBM

Ques. : 7 The Finance Ministry has imposed definitive anti-dumping duty on purified terephthalic acid (PTA) imports from
1) Malaysia
2) Indonesia
3) China
4) Iran
5) All the above
Answer:- 5) All the above

Ques. : 8 Amal Dutta, who passed away recently, was the former India player and first professional full-time coach of
1) Cricket
2) Badminton
3) Hockey
4) Tennis
5) Football
Answer:- 5) Football

Ques. : 9 Which of the following pairs won the mixed doubles title of 2016 Wimbledon?
1) Robert Farah and Anna-Lena Gronefeld
2) Nicholas Monroe and Gabriela Dabrowski
3) Liam Broady and Naomi Broady
4) Dmitry Tursunov and Andrea Petkovic
5) Henri Kontinen and Heather Watson Answer:- 5) Henri Kontinen and Heather Watson

Ques. : 10 The Union Cabinet recently approved an MoU between India and Mauritius in the field of rural development and poverty alleviation. The capital city of Mauritius is
1) Porto-Novo
2) Port Louis
3) Bridgetown
4) Manama
5) Yerevan
Answer:- 2) Port Louis

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
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Ques. : 1 To what temporary area can you store text and other data, and later paste them to another location?
1) The clipboard
2) ROM
3) CD-ROM
4) The hard disk
5) None of these
Answer:- 1 : The clipboard

Ques. : 2 Press __________ to move the insertion point to the address box, or to highlight the URL in the address box.
1) Alt+D
2) Alt+A
3) Shift+Tab
4) Tab+Ctrl
5) Ctrl+S
Answer:- 1 : Alt+D

Ques. : 3 Computer systems are comprised of
1) hardware, programs, information, people and networks
2) hardware, software, procedures, networks and people
3) hardware, programs, information, people and procedures
4) hardware, programs, processors, procedures, network and people
5) hardware, programs, processors, procedures and people
Answer:- 2 : hardware, software, procedures, networks and people

Ques. : 4 A collection of unprocessed items is
1) information
2) data
3) memory
4) reports
5) None of these
Answer:- 2 : data

Ques. : 5 The portion of the CPU that coordinates the activities of all the other computer components is the
1) motherboard
2) coordination board
3) control unit
4) arithmetic and logical unit
5) None of these
Answer:- 3 : control unit

General Knowledge

Ques. : 1 Who won the men’s singles title of the 2016 Wimbledon tennis tournament?
1) Milos Raonic
2) Andy Murray
3) Stan Wawrinka
4) Roger Federer
5) Novak Djokovic
Answer:- 2) Andy Murray

Ques. : 2 Aditya Puri, who has been ranked the best banking chief executive officer (CEO) in Asia by the investor community, is the present CMD of
1) ICICI Bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) Federal Bank
5) IDFC Bank
Answer:- 2) HDFC Bank

Ques. : 3 The US and which of the following countries has agreed to deploy air missile defence system THAAD?
1) Japan
2) South Korea
3) Sweden
4) Turkey
5) Canada
Answer:- 2) South Korea

Ques. : 4 The second unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is now operational. The power plant is situated in
1) Karnataka
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Kerala
4) Maharashtra
5) Gujarat
Answer:- 2) Tamil Nadu

Ques. : 5 Which of the following teams lifted the Euro 2016 football championships in Paris?
1) France
2) Turkey
3) Italy
4) Portugal
5) Spain
Answer:- 4) Portugal

Ques. : 6 Who among the following won the 2016 British Grand Prix Formula One championship?
1) Kimi Raikkonen
2) Daniel Ricardo
3) Nico Rosberg
4) Max Verstappen
5) Lewis Hamilton
Answer:- 5) Lewis Hamilton

Ques. : 7 Tathagata Roy was sworn in as the acting Governor of Arunachal Pradesh recently. He is the present governor of
1) Tripura
2) Sikkim
3) West Bengal
4) Assam
5) Manipur
Answer:- 1) Tripura

Ques. : 8 Which of the following pairs won the women’s doubles title of 2016 Wimbledon tennis tournament?
1) Timea Babos and Yaroslava Shvedova
2) Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
3) Serena Williams and Venus Williams
4) Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina
5) None of these
Answer:- 3) Serena Williams and Venus Williams

Ques. : 9 Which of the following pairs won the men’s doubles title of 2016 Wimbledon tennis tournament?
1) Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin
2) Jamie Murray and John Peers
3) Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut
4) Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau
5) None of these
Answer:- 3) Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut

Ques. : 10 Under the Interest Subvention Scheme approved by the govt for the year 2016-17, farmers will get short term crop loan payable within one year up to Rs 3 lakh at
1) 8 pcpa
2) 6 pcpa
3) 4 pcpa
4) 2 pcpa
5) 0 pcpa
Answer:- 3) 4 pcpa

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
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Ques. : 1 You can start Microsoft Word by using __________ button.
1) New
2) Srart
3) Program
4) Control Panel
5) None of these
Answer:- 3 : Program

Ques. : 2 Any data or instructions sent to the computer is termed as
1) storage
2) output
3) input
4) information
5) None of these
Answer:- 3 : input

Ques. : 3 Which of the following you could do remove a paragraph from a report you had written?
1) Delete and edit
2) Highlight and delete
3) Cut and paste
4) Undo and typing
5) None of these
Answer:- 2 : Highlight and delete

Ques. : 4 All of the following storage media have Read and Write capabilities except
1) flash memory cards
2) CD-ROMs
3) hard disc drives
4) floppy disks
5) None of these
Answer:- 2 : CD-ROMs

Ques. : 5 If a user needs information instantly available to the CPU, it should be stored
1) on a CD
2) in secondary storage
3) in the CPU
4) in RAM
5) None of these
Answer:- 4 : in RAM

General Knowledge

Ques. : 1 Who among the following has won the prestigious Caine Prize for his short story, Memories We Lost?
1) Bongani Kona (Zimbabwe)
2) Tope Folarin (Nigeria)
3) Lesley Nneka Arimah (Nigeria)
4) Abdul Adan (Somalia/Kenya)
5) Lidudumalingani (South Africa)
Answer:- 5) Lidudumalingani (South Africa)

Ques. : 2 Which of the following countries has topped the global list of countries in terms of their readiness for transition to a digitised economy and society?
1) Brazil
2) Sweden
3) China
4) Russia
5) Singapore
Answer:- 5) Singapore

Ques. : 3 Which of the following countries recently inducted its largest indigenously-built transport aircraft Y-20?
1) China
2) South Africa
3) Brazil
4) Japan
5) Russia
Answer:- 1) China

Ques. : 4 The Woodpecker Environment and Wildlife Film Festival was held recently in
1) Chandigarh
2) Shimla
3) New Delhi
4) Bengaluru
5) Hyderabad
Answer:- 2) Shimla

Ques. : 5 The govt has constituted a Committee to examine the desirability and feasibility of having a ‘new financial year’ headed by
1) Rajiv Kumar
2) PV Rajaraman
3) KM Chandrasekhar
4) Shankar Acharya
5) Rajiv Takru
Answer:- 4) Shankar Acharya

Ques. : 6 India has slipped two places to what position on the global list of countries in terms of their readiness for transition to a digitised economy and society?
1) 41st
2) 59th
3) 91st
4) 101st
5) 114th
Answer:- 3) 91st

Ques. : 7 Who among the following is the new Union Law & Justice as well as Electronics & Information Technology Minister?
1) M Venkaiah Naidu
2) DV Sadananda Gowda
3) Ananthkumar
4) Ravi Shankar Prasad
5) Smriti Zubin Irani
Answer:- 4) Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ques. : 8 PM Narendra Modi reached Maputo as a part of his four nation tour of the African continent recently. Maputo is the capital city of
1) Kenya
2) Tanzania
3) South Africa
4) Mozambique
5) Nigeria
Answer:- 4) Mozambique

Ques. : 9 The Union Cabinet has approved setting up a Major port at Enayam near Colachel in the state of
1) Andhra Pradesh
2) Odisha
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Kerala
5) Gujarat
Answer:- 3) Tamil Nadu

Ques. : 10 The nation paid tribute to Babu Jagjivan Ram on his death anniversary on 6 Jul. Which of the following is correct about him? He was
1) the former Deputy PM
2) a Dalit leader
3) the defence minister of India during the India-Pakistan war of 1971
4) All the above
5) None of these
Answer:- 4) All the above

general knowledge

Ques. : 1 Filipe Nyusi is the present President of which of the following countries?
1) Mozambique
2) Nigeria
3) Kenya
4) Tanzania
5) South Africa
Answer:- 1) Mozambique

Ques. : 2 _______ recently launched “Mingle”, a social media banking platform for Facebook and Twitter users.
1) HDFC Bank
2) ICICI Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) State Bank of India
5) Federal Bank
Answer:- 4) State Bank of India

Ques. : 3 The govt will carry out a drive to clean ten iconic places in the country as part of a pilot project under the Swachh Bharat mission. Which of the following is NOT among these places?
1) Jagannath temple (Orissa)
2) Ajmer Sharif (Rajasthan)
3) Golden Temple (Punjab)
4) Taj Mahal (Uttar Pradesh)
5) None of these
Answer:- 5) None of these

Ques. : 4 India has been placed at 91st position in the 2016 Networked Readiness Index (NRI) which is released by the
1) IMF
2) World Bank
3) Federal Reserve
4) WTO
5) World Economic Forum
Answer:- 5) World Economic Forum

Ques. : 5 India recently set up an apparel training centre in which of the following countries to support its textiles industry?
1) Cameroon
2) Ghana
3) Burkina Faso
4) Nigeria
5) Liberia
Answer:- 4) Nigeria

Ques. : 6 The second phase of Haritha Haram programme was launched recently by which of the following state govts to plant 46 crore plants improving the green belt?
1) Andhra Pradesh
2) Telangana
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Odisha
5) Jharkhand
Answer:- 2) Telangana

Ques. : 7 The IMF has announced a $5.34-bn program for which country to help strengthen its finances, hit by the crash in oil prices and the fight against the Islamic State group?
1) Libya
2) Syria
3) Iraq
4) Yemen
5) Bangladesh
Answer:- 3) Iraq

Ques. : 8 The Nasscom has unveiled India’s first centre of excellence focused on IoT. Here, the term IoT stands for
1) Intranet of Things
2) Internet of Things
3) Invention of Things
4) Internet of Thoughts
5) None of these
Answer:- 2) Internet of Things

Ques. : 9 Name the Indian gymnast who was recently named a ‘Gymnaste de Classe Mondaile’ (World class gymnast) by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
1) Vandita Nilesh Raval
2) Pranati Nayak
3) Dipa Karmakar
4) Priti Das
5) Meenakshi
Answer:- 3) Dipa Karmakar

Ques. : 10 Which of the following has become the first state of the country to impose a “fat tax” on junk food?
1) Punjab
2) Haryana
3) Karnataka
4) Kerala
5) Maharashtra
Answer:- 4) Kerala

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
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Ques. : 1 Every device on the Internet has a unique ________ address that identifies it in the same way that a street address identifies the location of a house.
1) DH
2) DA
3) IP
4) IA
5) None of these
Answer:- 3 : IP

Ques. : 2 A set of inter-related components that collect, process, store and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organisation best defines
1) communication technology
2) a network
3) an information system
4) hardware
5) None of these
Answer:- 3 : an information system

Ques. : 3 This type of hardware consists of devices that translate data into a form the computer can process
1) application
2) input
3) system
4) All of these
5) None of these
Answer:- 2 : input

Ques. : 4 Which key is used in combination with another key to perform a specific task?
1) function
2) arrow
3) space bar
4) control
5) None of these
Answer:- 4 : control

Ques. : 5 Software for organising storage and retrieval of information is a(n)
1) operating system
2) database algorithm
3) database package
4) data warehouse
5) None of these
Answer:- 4 : data warehouse

Ques. : 1 Majuli has become the first river island district of the country which is situated in the river
1) Ganga
2) Lohit
3) Danshiri
4) Burhidihing
5) Brahmaputra
Answer:- 5) Brahmaputra

Ques. : 2 The indigenously-built Varunastra was successfully inducted in the Indian Navy recently. It is a(n)
1) anti-ship missile
2) anti-submarine torpedo
3) anti-aircraft gun
4) helicopter-launched missile
5) None of these
Answer:- 2) anti-submarine torpedo

Ques. : 3 Which state govt has signed an MOU with a three-nation consortium to set up a gas-based fertilizer project at Krishnapatanam with an investment of Rs 10,183 cr?
1) Tamil Nadu
2) Karnataka
3) Andhra Pradesh
4) Telangana
5) Kerala
Answer:- 3) Andhra Pradesh

Ques. : 4 Who among the following is the present Union Minister for Steel and Mines?
1) Narendra Singh Tomar
2) Jual Oram
3) Chaudhary Birender Singh
4) Anant Geete
5) Ananth Kumar
Answer:- 1) Narendra Singh Tomar

Ques. : 5 Name the private sector lender which has launched a 10,000 sq ft innovation lab at Bengaluru for start ups, which will host a three-month accelerator programme.
1) HDFC Bank
2) ICICI Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) IDFC Bank
5) Kotak Mahindra Bank
Answer:- 3) Axis Bank

Ques. : 6 The second BRICS Youth Summit will be held in which of the following cities from Jul 1-3 with the theme ‘Youth as bridge for Intra-BRICS Exchanges’?
1) Guwahati
2) Kolkata
3) Ranchi
4) Bhopal
5) Lucknow
Answer:- 1) Guwahati

Ques. : 7 The National Statistics Day is observed on
1) 12 Jun
2) 18 Jun
3) 29 Jun
4) 30 Jun
5) 1 Jul
Answer:- 3) 29 Jun

Ques. : 8 Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as the 16th President of which of the following countries recently?
1) Thailand
2) Cambodia
3) Vietnam
4) Indonesia
5) Philippines
Answer:- 5) Philippines

Ques. : 9 Who among the following was recently appointed as Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)?
1) Balvinder Singh
2) Nand Kishore
3) Ashwini Attri
4) Sunil Kumar Bahri
5) H Pradeep Rao
Answer:- 2) Nand Kishore

Ques. : 10 Four Indian-Americans have been honoured with prestigious Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award 2016. Who among the following is NOT one of them?
1) Hari Sreenivasan
2) Bharati Mukherjee
3) Vikram Malhotra
4) Satya Nadella
5) Sunder Pichai
Answer:- 4) Satya Nadella

11.	Different components on the motherboard of a PC processor unit are linked together by sets of parallel electrical conducting lines. What are these lines called?
	A. Conductors B. Buses C. Connectors D. Connectively E. None of the above Answer: Option B

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12.	The terminal device that functions as a cash register, computer terminal, and OCR reader is the:
	A. Data collection terminal B. OCR register terminal C. Video display terminal D. POS terminal E. None of the above

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13.	The general range of speed in revolutions per minute (rpm) at which floppy disks rotate is
	A. 2400-4700 B. 390-600 C. 150-250 D. 300-600 E. None of the above

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14.	Which of the following typically uses a keyboard for input?
	A. desktop terminal B. point-of-sale terminal C. financial transaction terminal D. executive workstation E. All of the above

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15.	The first microprocessor built by the Intel Corpn. was called
	A. 8008 B. 8080 C. 4004 D. 8800 E. None of the above