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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 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
2 .
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
3 .
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
4 .
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
5 .
Zip files use what type of compression?
A)
Lossless
B)
Lossy
C)
Both (a) & (b)
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Lossless

ZIP file is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. Lossless is a fairly popular data compression method that is used in a number of different applications. Files can become corrupted when they are transferred over the internet in an uncompressed format. It enables devices to transmit or store the same amount of data in fewer bits.

Published On : June 17, 2021
6 .
DSL is an example of what type of internet access?
A)
Network
B)
Wireless
C)
Slow
D)
Broadband

Correct Answer :   Broadband

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is a broadband connection. It is an internet access with several high-speed transmission technology.

Published On : June 17, 2021
7 .
Where is the RAM located in a computer?
A)
Processor
B)
Monitor
C)
Mother board
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Mother board

RAM is located in The central processing unit (CPU), also called a processor, is located inside the computer case on the motherboard.

Published On : June 17, 2021
8 .
Which language is used to create macros in excel?
A)
Visual Basic
B)
C++
C)
JAVA Script
D)
Visual C+

Correct Answer :   Visual Basic

The language that is used to create macros in excel is Visual Basic for Applications. It is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6.

Published On : June 17, 2021
9 .
India’s fastest and first multi – petaflops supercomputer named Pratyush was unveiled at
A)
Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore
B)
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
C)
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
D)
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi

Correct Answer :   Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune

Pratyush and Mihir are the supercomputers established at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF), Noida respectively. As of January 2018, Pratyush and Mihir are the fastest supercomputer in India with a maximum speed of 6.8 PetaFlops at a total cost of INR 438.9 Crore. The system was inaugurated by Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for science and technology, on 8 January 2018.The word 'Pratyush' (Hindi: प्रत्युष) defines the rising sun.
 
 
Pratyush and Mihir are two High Performance Computing (HPC) units. They are located at two government institutes, one being 4.0 PetaFlops unit at IITM, Pune and another 2.8 PetaFlops unit at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida. They provide a combined output of 6.8 PetaFlops

Published On : June 17, 2021
10 .
Netscape Navigator is a
A)
web browser
B)
processor
C)
programming language
D)
graphical user interface

Correct Answer :   web browser

Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser, and the original browser of the Netscape line, from versions 1 to 4.08, and 9.x. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corp and was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s, but by around 2003 its use had almost disappeared.

Published On : June 17, 2021