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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 attribute ___________ specifies (in pixels) the distance between two adjacent cells.
A)
Cellspacing
B)
Cellpadding
C)
Width
D)
Height

Correct Answer :   Cellspacing

Published On : June 16, 2021
2 .
The passenger reservation system of the Indian Railways is designed by
A)
TCS
B)
CMS
C)
CRIS
D)
Google

Correct Answer :   CRIS

A nationwide online passenger reservation and ticketing system, developed and maintained by CRIS(Centre for Railway Information Systems
), was developed in C and Fortran on a Digital OpenVMS operating system using RTR (Reliable Transaction Router) as middleware.

Published On : June 16, 2021
3 .
The operating system UNIX is the trademark of
A)
Apple
B)
Microsoft
C)
Motorola
D)
Bell Laboratories

Correct Answer :   Bell Laboratories

The original Unix operating system was developed at AT&T's Bell Labs research center in 1969. In the 1970s and 1980s, AT&T licensed Unix to third-party vendors, leading to the development of several Unix variants, including Berkeley Unix, HP-UX, AIX, and Microsoft's Xenix. In 1993, AT&T sold the rights to the Unix operating system to Novell, Inc., which a few years later sold the Unix trademark to the consortium that eventually became The Open Group.
 
Unix (officially UNIX) is a registered trademark of The Open Group  that refers to a family of computer operating systems and tools conforming to The Open Group Base Specification, Issue 7  (also known as POSIX.1-2008 or IEEE Std 1003.1 - 2008).

Published On : June 16, 2021
4 .
In Microsoft Word, _______ allows us to move selected paragraphs to the left.
A)
Increase Indent
B)
Decrease Indent
C)
Single Indent
D)
Double Indent

Correct Answer :   Decrease Indent

Published On : June 16, 2021
5 .
Who is considered to be The Father of Artificial Intelligence?
A)
Allen Newell
B)
George Boole
C)
Alan Turing
D)
John McCarthy

Correct Answer :   John McCarthy

John McCarthy, father of artificial intelligence, in 2006, five years before his death. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The future father of artificial intelligence tried to study while also working as a carpenter, fisherman and inventor (he devised a hydraulic orange-squeezer, among other things) to help his family.

Published On : June 16, 2021
6 .
Information on a computer is stored as
A)
digital data
B)
hybrid data
C)
modem data
D)
analog data

Correct Answer :   digital data

Published On : June 16, 2021
7 .
Select the smallest memory size ?
A)
Peta Byte
B)
Terabyte
C)
Kilobyte
D)
Gigabyte

Correct Answer :   Kilobyte

1. Byte
2. Kilo Byte
3. Mega Byte
4. Giga Byte
5. Tera Byte
6. Peta Byte
7. Exa Byte
8. Zetta Byte
9. Yotta Byte

Published On : June 16, 2021
8 .
Compilers and Interpreters are themselves ?
A)
Programs
B)
Mnemonics
C)
Codes
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Programs

Compilers and interpreters are themselves Programs.
 
In computer science, an interpreter is a computer program that directly executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming or scripting language, without requiring them previously to have been compiled into a machine language program.
 
Difference Between Interpreter and Compiler. We generally write a computer program using a high-level language. ... Hence, a compiler or an interpreter is a program that converts program written in high-level language into machine code understood by the computer.
 
An interpreter is a computer program which executes a statement directly. ... Compiler scans the entire program once and then converts it into machine language which can then be executed by computer's Page on processor.in short compiler translates the entire program in one go and then executes it.
 

Published On : June 16, 2021
9 .
What is the number of bit patterns provided by a 7 bit code?
A)
64
B)
128
C)
256
D)
512

Correct Answer :   128

Number of bit patterns provided by a 7 bit code 2^7=128. It is based on Binary Number System (0 or 1). 

Published On : June 16, 2021
10 .
In present-day computing, which code is used and is accepted worldwide?
A)
ISCII
B)
ASCII
C)
EBCDIC
D)
Hollerith Code

Correct Answer :   ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is the predominant character set encoding of present-day computers. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.

Published On : June 16, 2021