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General Knowledge(GK) (or) General Awareness

Welcome to the General Knowledge Section of Free Time Learning. As we are aware General Knowledge (GK) is a very important area in all the competitive exams held in the country. Nowadays, a good knowledge of general awareness is very important in clearing any competitive and government recruitment examinations.

These General Knowledge Question are very important and usefull to UPSC, IAS/PCS, UPPSC, IBPS, SBI, RBI, SSC, CGL, Railway, APPSC, TSPSC, KPSC, TNPSC, TPSC, UPPSC, MPSC, RPSC, BPSC, MPPSC, UKPSC, MPSC, and other competitive exams.

1 .
The personnel which deal with the computer and its management put together is known as
A)
Software
B)
Hardware
C)
Firm ware
D)
Human ware

Correct Answer :   Human ware

Humanware is hardware and software that emphasizes user capability and empowerment and the design of the user interface. The process of building humanware generally consists of these steps:
1. Define users (age, mindset, environmental context, previous product experience and expectations, and so forth) and what they really want to do.
2. Identify tasks they will need to do or capabilities they will want
3. Specify usability objectives (if possible, these should be measurable, such as how long to do something or how many mouse clicks to get to a specified task point) for each task or capability.
4. Build a prototype of the user interface (it can be a paper or simulated prototype if time is short)
5. Test and verify or correct the prototype
6. Provide the prototype and usability objectives to the program designers and coders.

Source : https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/humanware

Published On : June 18, 2021
2 .
Which selection below best describes the term data processing?
A)
The collection of information or data
B)
The storage of information or data
C)
The manipulation of information or data
D)
The distribution of information or data

Correct Answer :   The manipulation of information or data

Published On : June 18, 2021
3 .
The output quality of a printer is measured by
A)
Dots per inch
B)
Dots per line
C)
Dots printed per unit time
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Dots per inch

DPI is used to describe the resolution number of dots per inch in a digital print and the printing resolution of a hard copy print dot gain; the increase in the size of the halftone dots during printing. This is caused by the spreading of ink on the surface of the media.

Published On : June 18, 2021
4 .
A device that transmits messages in verbal form is
A)
Magnetic tape
B)
Audio response unit
C)
Card punch
D)
Audit trail

Correct Answer :   Audio response unit

Published On : June 18, 2021
5 .
A step-by-step procedure used to solve a problem is called
A)
Operating system
B)
Algorithm
C)
Application program
D)
All of the above

Correct Answer :   Algorithm

A step-by-step procedure used to solve a problem is called Algorithm. An algorithm (pronounced AL-go-rith-um) is a procedure or formula for solving a problem, based on conductiong a sequence of specified actions.

Published On : June 18, 2021
6 .
Which is a swapping device is used to hold the images of pages in main memory.
A)
Plex
B)
Card punch
C)
Optical mark reader
D)
Paging drum

Correct Answer :   Paging drum

Paging drum One form of swapping device used to hold the images of pages no longer held in main memory in a paging virtual management system.

Published On : June 18, 2021
7 .
What is the acronym for Single In-Line Memory Module?
A)
SM
B)
SMM
C)
SIMM
D)
SILMM

Correct Answer :   SIMM

A SIMM (single in-line memory module) is a type of memory module containing random-access memory used in computers from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.

Published On : June 18, 2021
8 .
Which was the world's first minicomputer and when was it introduced?
A)
PDP-1, 1958
B)
1MB System/36, 1960
C)
PDP-11 1961
D)
VAX 11/780, 1962

Correct Answer :   PDP-1, 1958

The PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) is the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1959. It is famous for being the computer most important in the creation of hacker culture at MIT, BBN and elsewhere. The PDP-1 is the original hardware for playing history's first game on a minicomputer, Steve Russell's Spacewar.

Published On : June 18, 2021
9 .
One of a class of storage devices that can access storage locations in any order is
A)
DTE
B)
DDE
C)
DDC
D)
DASD

Correct Answer :   DASD

A direct-Access storage device (DASD) is a secondary storage device in which "each physical record has a discrete location and a unique address". IBM coined the term DASD as a shorthand describing disks, magnetic drums, and data cells.

Published On : June 18, 2021
10 .
The magnetic disks and drums are like recirculating shift registers because
A)
they have about the same storage capacity
B)
stored data is available for reading over and over again in the same order.
C)
their storage is non volatile
D)
their access times are about the same

Correct Answer :   stored data is available for reading over and over again in the same order.

Published On : June 18, 2021