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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 among the following is not an Object Oriented Programming Language?
A)
PASCAL
B)
Java
C)
C++
D)
Python

Correct Answer :   PASCAL

Pascal is an imperative and procedural programminglanguage designed in 1968/1969 and published in 1970by Nicklaus Wirth as a small and efficient languageintended to encourage good programming practicesusing structured programming and data structuring

Published On : June 17, 2021
2 .
Which of the following operating systems is produced by IBM?
A)
DOS
B)
OS-2
C)
UNIX
D)
Windows

Correct Answer :   OS-2

OS-2 operating systems is produced by IBM. It also created it's own version of DOS called PC-DOS.

Published On : June 17, 2021
3 .
A compact disc is a data storage of the type
A)
Optical
B)
Eclectric
C)
Magnetic
D)
Mechanical

Correct Answer :   Optical

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982. The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings (CD-DA) but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM).

Published On : June 17, 2021
4 .
Which key is used to move to next line in a Ms-Word document?
A)
Escape key
B)
Shift key
C)
Return key
D)
Enter key

Correct Answer :   Enter key

Published On : June 17, 2021
5 .
Which of the following is not an example of a Word Processor?
A)
Microsoft Word
B)
Google Docs
C)
Microsoft Excel
D)
IBM Lotus Symphony

Correct Answer :   Microsoft Excel

Published On : June 17, 2021
6 .
__________ involves traversing the entire file system, marking everything that can be accessed.
A)
Garbage Collection
B)
Index pointer
C)
Stack pointer
D)
File system

Correct Answer :   Garbage Collection

Garbage collection involves traversing the entire file system, marking everything that can be accessed.

Published On : June 17, 2021
7 .
Computers cannot work without
A)
Mouse
B)
CPU
C)
Internet
D)
Scanner

Correct Answer :   CPU

Published On : June 17, 2021
8 .
Who invented the E-Mail?
A)
Vinton Cerf
B)
VA Shiva Ayyadurai
C)
James Gosling
D)
Tim Berners-Lee

Correct Answer :   VA Shiva Ayyadurai

V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, an Indian-born American scientist and entrepreneur, developed a computer program in 1978, which replicated the features of the interoffice, inter-organizational paper mail system. He named his program “EMAIL”. It was the world’s first full-scale electronic emulation of mail system consisting of: Inbox, Outbox, Folders, the Memo, Attachments, etc.The US Copyright Office issued a Certificate of Registration to him on the program in 1982.

Published On : June 17, 2021
9 .
Cache memory acts between
A)
CPU and ROM
B)
RAM and ROM
C)
CPU and Hard disk
D)
CPU and RAM

Correct Answer :   CPU and RAM

Cache memory is a very high speed semiconductor memory which can speed up the processor or CPU. It acts as a buffer between the CPU and main memory (RAM). It is used to hold those parts of data and program which are most frequently used by CPU. The parts of data and programs are transferred from disk to cache memory by operating system, from where CPU can access them.

Published On : June 17, 2021
10 .
Constantly running system program processes are known as
A)
Processes
B)
Daemons
C)
Process Block
D)
Process Control Block

Correct Answer :   Daemons

In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user. Systems often start daemons at boot time and serve the function of responding to network requests, hardware activity, or other programs by performing some task.

Published On : June 17, 2021