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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 .
Which of the following is an example of storage devices ?
A)
Magnetic disks
B)
Tapes
C)
DVDs
D)
All of the above

Correct Answer :   All of the above

Hard Drives, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives, floppy disk drives, and tape drives are all examples of storage devices. ... It can read data from the storage medium but you can NOT change the data or save any new data on it. A CD-ROM is an example of this. Many music CD's that you buy are this way.
 
A magnetic disk is a storage device that uses a magnetization process to write, rewrite and access data. It is covered with a magnetic coating and stores data in the form of tracks, spots and sectors. Hard disks, zip disks and floppy disks are common examples of magnetic disks.
 
Some other examples of secondary storage technologies are flash memory (e.g. USB flash drives or keys), floppy disks, magnetic tape, paper tape, punched cards, standalone RAM disks, and Iomega Zip drives.
 
Examples are Hard drives, USB flash drives, DC-RW, and DVD-RAM drives. ... A storage device that uses laser beams to read the information stored on the reflective surface of a disc. Popular types of optical storage devices are CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives.

Published On : June 17, 2021
2 .
Mouse technique used for access in properties of any object is
A)
Left clicking
B)
Right clicking
C)
Dragging
D)
Dropping

Correct Answer :   Right clicking

Published On : June 17, 2021
3 .
To go to the beginning of a text line, Press
A)
Enter
B)
Page up
C)
Page down
D)
Home

Correct Answer :   Home

To move to the beginning of a line of text, press the Home key.

Published On : June 17, 2021
4 .
Spacebar is used for
A)
moving next line
B)
deleting space
C)
giving space
D)
All of the above

Correct Answer :   giving space

The wide key at the bottom of a computer keyboard or typewriter that is used to make a giving space from letter to letter or characters.

Published On : June 17, 2021
5 .
The ......... key will launch the Start button.
A)
Shift
B)
Esc
C)
Ctrl
D)
Window

Correct Answer :   Window

The Windows logo key (also known as Windows key, start key, logo key, flag key, super key, command key or flag) is a keyboard key which was originally introduced on the Microsoft Natural keyboard in 1994. This key became a standard key on PC keyboards. Tapping this key invokes the operating system's start menu

Published On : June 17, 2021
6 .
A device that makes copies and reproduces text and images is called
A)
scanner
B)
printer
C)
memory
D)
CPU

Correct Answer :   scanner

Published On : June 17, 2021
7 .
Laser printers belong to
A)
band printer
B)
page printer
C)
dot matrix printer
D)
line printer

Correct Answer :   page printer

There are several page printing technologies, for example: Laser printers, in which a laser beam draws the page image on charged drum which collects charged toner and transfers the image to paper. LED printers, which use Light-emitting diodes instead of a laser beam, but are otherwise very similar to laser printers.

Published On : June 17, 2021
8 .
A barcode reader is and example of
A)
storage device
B)
processing device
C)
output device
D)
input device

Correct Answer :   input device

A BCR (barcode reader) or scanner, also known as a POS (point of sale) scanner is a hardware input device capable of reading a barcode using a laser. It can also load the details of the product or log information about that product into a database. An example of a barcode reader is a supermarket barcode scanner that reads and logs the price of a product. The picture is an example of a barcode reader from HP.
 
Today, many smartphones with the proper apps are also capable of scanning and reading barcodes.

Published On : June 17, 2021
9 .
A group of bits that tells the computer to perform a specific operation is known as
A)
accumulator
B)
micro-operation
C)
instruction code
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   instruction code

A group of bits that tell the computer to perform a specific operation is known as Instruction code.

Published On : June 17, 2021
10 .
........... is when the more power-hungry components, such as the monitor and the hard drive, are put in idle.
A)
Power down
B)
Hibernation
C)
Standby mode
D)
The shutdown procedure

Correct Answer :   Standby mode

Published On : June 17, 2021