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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 .
Storage media such as CD read and wirte information using
A)
magnetic dots
B)
magnetic strips
C)
Both (a) & (b)
D)
a laser beam of red light

Correct Answer :   a laser beam of red light

The CD drive shines a laser at the surface of the CD and can detect the reflective areas and the bumps by the amount of laser light they reflect. The drive converts the reflections into 1s and 0s to read digital data from the disc.

Published On : June 17, 2021
2 .
What is the main folder on a storage device
A)
Root directory
B)
Main directory
C)
Device driver
D)
Interface

Correct Answer :   Root directory

The root directory is the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy. 

Published On : June 17, 2021
3 .
Which of the following statements is / are true ?
A)
ROM are faster than RAM
B)
Cache memories are bigger than RAM
C)
Cache memories are smaller than RAM
D)
Information in ROM can be written by users

Correct Answer :   Cache memories are smaller than RAM

Published On : June 17, 2021
4 .
Floppy disks are organised as
A)
heads and folders
B)
files
C)
images
D)
tracks and sectors

Correct Answer :   tracks and sectors

In Floppy Disks, information is organized in tracks. Each track is subdivided into sectors and each sector into bytes. The smaller 3.5″ Floppy Disks use 80 tracks per side, 18 sectors per track, and 512 bytes per sector, yielding a capacity of 1.44 MB.

Published On : June 17, 2021
5 .
What part of the computer provides only temporary storage of files ?
A)
ROM memory
B)
RAM memory
C)
Mother board
D)
Hard drive

Correct Answer :   RAM memory

Temporary memory in a computer refers to the volatile memory that is stored by a random access memory (RAM) chip. As the name 'temporary' suggests, the memory does not store data for long. When the computer is shut down before saving the data, the data will be lost.

Published On : June 17, 2021
6 .
A permanent memory which holds data and instruction for start-up the computer and does not erase data after the power is off.
A)
CPU
B)
RAM
C)
ROM
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   ROM

Published On : June 17, 2021
7 .
A removable magnetic disc that holds information
A)
Floppy disk
B)
Hard drive
C)
Monitor
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Floppy disk

A removable magnetic disc that holds information Floppy disk.

Published On : June 17, 2021
8 .
A joystick is primarily used to / for
A)
draw pictures
B)
computer gaming
C)
print text
D)
control sound on the screen

Correct Answer :   computer gaming

Joysticks are primarily used for computer gaming. ... These are input devices that are connected to a computer to manage game controls such as moving front, behind and sideways, shooting or other gaming tasks.

Published On : June 17, 2021
9 .
Which is not an item of hardware ?
A)
A keyboard
B)
A mouse
C)
Both (a) & (b)
D)
An MP3 file

Correct Answer :   An MP3 file

Published On : June 17, 2021
10 .
Soft copy refers to______
A)
screen output
B)
music sounds
C)
digitizing
D)
printed output

Correct Answer :   screen output

A soft copy is a digital reproduction of a physical document. For example, if you scanned a tax form into your computer, you would be creating a soft copy of it. The most common method of displaying a soft copy uses a computer monitor or another display, such as a smartphone screen.

Published On : June 17, 2021