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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 system unit
A)
Is the container that houses electronic components
B)
Is a combination of hardware and software
C)
Controls and manipulates data
D)
Coordinates input and output devices

Correct Answer :   Is the container that houses electronic components

A system unit is the part of a computer that houses the primary devices that perform operations and produce results for complex calculations. It includes the motherboard, CPU, RAM and other components, as well as the case in which these devices are housed.

Published On : June 17, 2021
2 .
Who invent the first microprocessor ?
A)
Terence Percival
B)
Heorku
C)
Ted Hoff
D)
Vint cefg

Correct Answer :   Ted Hoff

Created in January 1971 by a team of logic architects and silicon engineers—Federico Faggin, Marcian (Ted) Hoff, Stanley Mazor, and Masatoshi Shima—for Japanese calculator manufacturer Busicom, the centerpiece of the four-chip set was the 4004, initially described as a 4-bit microprogrammable CPU.

Published On : June 17, 2021
3 .
_______is the process of carrying out commands.
A)
Decoding
B)
Fetching
C)
Storing
D)
Executing

Correct Answer :   Executing

Published On : June 17, 2021
4 .
The address of I/O device or memory is carried by the
A)
data bus
B)
address bus
C)
expansion bus
D)
system bus

Correct Answer :   address bus

The memory and registers of the I/O devices are mapped to (associated with) address values. So when an address is accessed by the CPU, it may refer to a portion of physical RAM, or it can instead refer to memory of the I/O device.

Published On : June 17, 2021
5 .
CPU retrieves its data and instructions from
A)
main memory
B)
secondary memory
C)
auxiliary memory
D)
All of the above

Correct Answer :   main memory

Primary storage, also known as main storage or memory, is the area in a computer in which data is stored for quick access by the computer's processor. The terms random access memory (RAM) and memory are often as synonyms for primary or main storage.

Published On : June 17, 2021
6 .
When machine instructions are being executed by a computer, the instruction phase followed by the execution phase is referred to as
A)
program cycle
B)
instruction cycle
C)
machine instruction
D)
machine cycle

Correct Answer :   instruction cycle

Published On : June 17, 2021
7 .
The Central Processing Unit (CPU) in a computer consists of
A)
control, unit, primary storage and secondary storage
B)
input, output and processing
C)
control unit, arithmetic logic unit, memory unit
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   control unit, arithmetic logic unit, memory unit

Published On : June 17, 2021
8 .
Internal memory in a CPU is nothing but
A)
bus
B)
microprocessor
C)
a set of ALU
D)
a set of registers

Correct Answer :   a set of registers

Published On : June 17, 2021
9 .
On the motherboard, the connection points for chips are referred to as
A)
sockets
B)
slots
C)
ports
D)
lines

Correct Answer :   sockets

Published On : June 17, 2021
10 .
The third generation computers were made with
A)
Integrated Circuits
B)
Transistors
C)
Bio
D)
Vacuum Tubes

Correct Answer :   Integrated Circuits

The computers of third generation used Integrated Circuits (ICs) in place of transistors. A single IC has many transistors, resistors, and capacitors along with the associated circuitry. The IC was invented by Jack Kilby.

Published On : June 17, 2021