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 .
Where are silicon chips manufactured in India?
A)
U P
B)
Punjab
C)
Chandigarh
D)
Tamil Nadu

Correct Answer :   Chandigarh

India has two fabs — SITAR, a unit of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Bengaluru and a semiconductor laboratory in Chandigarh, which build silicon chips for strategic purposes like defence and space and not for commercial use.

Published On : June 18, 2021
2 .
The processing capability of a microcomputer can be enhanced with the help of
A)
expansion cards
B)
secondary memory
C)
buffer memory
D)
addition processor

Correct Answer :   expansion cards

In computing, the expansion card, expansion board, adapter card or accessory card is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an electrical connector, or expansion slot, on a computer motherboard, backplane or riser card to add functionality to a computer system via the expansion bus.

Published On : June 18, 2021
3 .
Program execution time would be minimum if the programs are written in
A)
High level language
B)
Assembly language
C)
Machine Language
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Machine Language

Published On : June 18, 2021
4 .
Computer scientists are exploring the possibility of culturing bacteria to create living chips which have digital electronic properties. What are these chips called?
A)
natural chips
B)
neural chips
C)
bacterial chips
D)
biochips

Correct Answer :   biochips

A biochip is much like a computer chip but instead of performing a multitude of mathematical operations per second, it performs biological reactions such as decoding genes and finding contaminations in a few seconds.

Published On : June 18, 2021
5 .
The data processing job expected to further decrease in the 1996s is that of
A)
Programmer
B)
Keypuncher
C)
Computer operator
D)
Data entry clerk

Correct Answer :   Keypuncher

Published On : June 18, 2021
6 .
Which of the following terms could be used to describe the concurrent processing of computer programs, via CRTs, on one computer system?
A)
Interactive processing
B)
Online processing
C)
Time-sharing
D)
All the above processing

Correct Answer :   All the above processing

Interactive processing is the simplest way to work on a system. You log in, run commands which execute immediately, and log off when you've finished. You can use either the command line or a graphical environment. Interactive jobs run directly on the limited number of login nodes (servers) on each cluster.

Published On : June 18, 2021
7 .
When the time to establish link is large and the size of data is small, the preferred mode of data transfer is
A)
Packet switching
B)
Circuit switching
C)
Time division multiplexing
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Packet switching

Published On : June 18, 2021
8 .
Which of the following bus types are used by the Apple Macintosh computer?
A)
MCA
B)
EISA
C)
NuBus
D)
PCI Bus

Correct Answer :   NuBus

NuBus is a 32-bit parallel computer bus, originally developed at MIT and standardized in 1987 as a part of the NuMachine workstation project. The first complete implementation of the NuBus was done by Western Digital for their NuMachine, and for the Lisp Machines Inc.

Published On : June 18, 2021
9 .
What is meant by computer literacy?
A)
Ability to assemble computers
B)
Ability to write computer programs
C)
Knowing computer related vocabulary
D)
Knowing what a computer can and cannot do

Correct Answer :   Knowing what a computer can and cannot do

The knowledge and ability to use computers efficiently. Computer literacy can also refer to the comfort level someone has with using computer programs and other applications that are associated with computers. Another valuable component of computer literacy is knowing how computers work and operate.

Published On : June 18, 2021
10 .
Which of the following is used to check for errors in RAM chips?
A)
Parity chip
B)
ROM chip
C)
EPROM chip
D)
Microprocessor chip

Correct Answer :   Parity chip

The parity chip is used for error checking, to make sure that the other chips aren't making any errors.

Published On : June 18, 2021
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