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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 .
Money transfer through mobile is called
A)
IFS
B)
ATM
C)
IFSC
D)
IMPS

Correct Answer :   IMPS

Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) is an instant interbank electronic fund transfer service through mobile phones. The customer should have sufficient account balance to initiate a fund transfer through this method. Unlike NEFT and RTGS, the service is available 24×7 throughout the year including bank holidays.

Published On : June 17, 2021
2 .
WIMAX stands for
A)
Wired Interoperability for Microwave Access
B)
Worldwide Infrastructure for Microwave Access
C)
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
D)
Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access

Correct Answer :   Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WIMAX stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access. It is a family of wireless communication standards based on the IEEE 802.16 set of standards, which provide multiple physical layer (PHY) and Media Access Control (MAC) options.WiMAX is sometimes referred to as “Wi-Fi on steroids” and can be used for broadband connections, hotspots, etc.

Published On : June 17, 2021
3 .
Which mechanism is used by the computer virus ‘worm’ to duplicate itself?
A)
Spawn
B)
Swarm
C)
Swap
D)
Increment

Correct Answer :   Spawn

After a virus worm enters computer system, the operating system (OS) creates single thread for the worm’s execution. Next, the worm spawns or creates another process that is an exact duplicate of the original process. In other words, the worm makes an exact duplicate of itself within the computer’s memory. The worm continues to duplicate itself each time the OS manages the worm’s process till it paralyzes the OS completely and forces it to shut down.

Published On : June 17, 2021
4 .
Computers use the language to process data.
A)
Kilobyte
B)
Binary
C)
Processing
D)
Representation

Correct Answer :   Binary

All the data in a computer system consists of binary information. 'Binary' means there are only 2 possible values: 0 and 1.
 
Computer software translates the information you actually give on it such as decimal numbers, text, photos, sound, and video to the binary information.

Published On : June 17, 2021
5 .
Backup means
A)
Accessing data on tape
B)
Filtering old data from the new data
C)
Adding more components to your network
D)
Protecting data by copying it from the original source to a different destination

Correct Answer :   Protecting data by copying it from the original source to a different destination

Protecting data by copying it from the original source to a different destination is called as Backup. When an original data is lossed, to restore the information by copying the data from the source to other destination is called as Backup or Data backup.

Published On : June 17, 2021
6 .
IP addresses are converted to
A)
A hexadecimal string
B)
Alphanumeric string
C)
A binary string
D)
A domain name

Correct Answer :   A domain name

IP addresses are converted to a domain name by DNS - Domain Name System.

Published On : June 17, 2021
7 .
Which of the given below is not a hardware?
A)
Monitor
B)
Printer
C)
Assembler
D)
All of the above

Correct Answer :   Assembler

Published On : June 17, 2021
8 .
Code coverage is used as a measure of what?
A)
Time Spent Testing
B)
Trends analysis
C)
Test Effectiveness
D)
Defects

Correct Answer :   Test Effectiveness

Code coverage is a measure used to describe the degree to which the source code of a program is executed when a particular test suite runs.

Published On : June 17, 2021
9 .
Which IRQ does the system timer commonly use?
A)
IRQ 0
B)
IRQ 1
C)
IRQ 3
D)
IRQ 4

Correct Answer :   IRQ 0

IRQ-0 is the system timer commonly use in all computers. In a computer, IRQ is an interrupt request which acts as a hardware signal sent to the processor that temporarily stops a running program and allows a special program, an interrupt handler, to run instead.

Published On : June 17, 2021
10 .
Cybercards are most useful for
A)
Keeping a personal diary
B)
Tracking Internet-based research
C)
Creating new inventions
D)
Writing to-do lists

Correct Answer :   tracking Internet-based research

Published On : June 17, 2021