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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 .
An adder in which the bits of the operands are added one after another is
A)
Serial adder
B)
Full-adder
C)
Half-adder
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Serial adder

The serial binary adder or bit-serial adder is a digital circuit that performs binary addition bit by bit.

Published On : June 17, 2021
2 .
A medium for transferring data between two locations is called
A)
Bus
B)
Modem
C)
Network
D)
Communication channel

Correct Answer :   Communication channel

A medium for transferring data between two locations is called Communication channel.

Published On : June 17, 2021
3 .
Which language is used in the areas of pattern recognition, artificial intelligence & for simulation of games.
A)
APL
B)
CORAL
C)
LISP
D)
FORTH

Correct Answer :   LISP

Lisp is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

Published On : June 17, 2021
4 .
Conversion of an octal number 20₈ to its binary number is
A)
10000â‚‚
B)
10110â‚‚
C)
10111â‚‚
D)
11110â‚‚

Correct Answer :   10000â‚‚

Published On : June 17, 2021
5 .
The first mechanical calculating machine was made by
A)
Charles Babbage
B)
Blaise Pascal
C)
Gottfried Leibnitz
D)
William Oughtred

Correct Answer :   Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascaline, also called Arithmetic Machine, the first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used. The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644.

Published On : June 17, 2021
6 .
Which output device is used for translating information from a computer into pictorial form on paper.
A)
Touch panel
B)
Card punch
C)
Mouse
D)
Plotter

Correct Answer :   Plotter

The plotter is a computer printer for printing vector graphics. In the past, plotters were used in applications such as computer-aided design, though they have generally been replaced with wide-format conventional printers. A plotter gives a hard copy of the output. It draws pictures on a paper using a pen.

Published On : June 17, 2021
7 .
A program that is employed in the development, repair or enhancement of other programs is known as
A)
Software tool
B)
Applications program
C)
Utility program
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Software tool

A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that software developers use to create, repair, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other programs and applications.

Published On : June 17, 2021
8 .
Which is a machine-oriented high-level language for the GEC 4080 series machines.
A)
SNOBOL
B)
Babbage
C)
Logo
D)
ALGOL

Correct Answer :   Babbage

Programming languages available included Babbage (a high-level assembly language). The GEC 4000 was a series of 16/32-bit minicomputers produced by GEC Computers Ltd. of the UK during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.

Published On : June 17, 2021
9 .
ASCII stands for
A)
American security code for information interchange
B)
American Scientific code for information interchange
C)
American Standard Code For Information Interchange
D)
All purpose scientific code for information interchange

Correct Answer :   American Standard Code For Information Interchange

ASCII, abbreviation of American Standard Code For Information Interchange, a standard data-transmission code that is used by smaller and less-powerful computers to represent both textual data (letters, numbers, and punctuation marks) and noninput-device commands (control characters). Like other coding systems, it converts information into standardized digital formats that allow computers to communicate with each other and to efficiently process and store data.
 
The ASCII code was originally developed for teletypewriters but eventually found wide application in personal computers. The standard ASCII code uses seven-digit binary numbers; i.e., numbers consisting of various sequences of 0’s and 1’s. The code can represent 128 different characters, since there are 128 different possible combinations of seven 0’s and 1’s. The binary sequence 1010000, for example, represents an uppercase “P,” while the sequence 1110000 represents a lowercase “p.”

Published On : June 17, 2021
10 .
A general purpose single-user microcomputer designed to be operated by one person at a time is
A)
PC
B)
KIPS
C)
Special-purpose computer
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   PC

PC is short for personal computer or IBM PC. The first personal computer produced by IBM was called the PC, and increasingly the term PC came to mean IBM or IBM-compatible personal computers, to the exclusion of other types of personal computers, such as Macintoshes.

Published On : June 17, 2021