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 .

A generalised software package produced to meet the bugs of a variety of data processing users is known as

System software

Utility programs

Application package

Operating system

Correct Answer : Application package

Published On : June 18, 2021

2 .

To set a register or counter to the all-zero-state is

Remote

Release

Rerun

Reset

Correct Answer : Reset

Published On : June 18, 2021

3 .

What is the name of the display feature that highlights areas of the screen which require operator attention?

Touch screen

Pixel

Reverse video

Cursor

Correct Answer : Reverse video

Reverse video is the name of the display feature that highlights the screen which requires operator attention.

Published On : June 18, 2021

4 .

A vertically aligned set of tracks on a disk pack is known as

Cylinder

Surface

Panel

Cluster

Correct Answer : Cylinder

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5 .

What is the number of bit patterns provided by a 7-bit code?

256

128

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 18, 2021

6 .

The code that should be adequate for present and anticipated data processing both for machine and human use is

Uniqueness

Operability

Conciseness

All of the above

Correct Answer : Operability

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7 .

IBM-PC is an example of

Special purpose

Machine-in-built

A main frame

Micro computer

Correct Answer : Micro computer

IBM-PC is an example of Micro computer. The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division in Boca Raton, Florida. IBM PC compatible computers are computers similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, able to use the same software and expansion cards. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones.

Published On : June 18, 2021

8 .

Hard disks are formatted in the same manner as floppy disks. However, before a hard disk can be formatted, it must first be_____

sectioned

deleted

partitioned

write protected

Correct Answer : partitioned

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9 .

Which type of computers use the 8 bit code called EBCDIC?

Mainframe computers

Microcomputers

Minicomputers

Supercomputers

Correct Answer : Mainframe computers

Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing.

Published On : June 18, 2021

10 .

A one-bit signal that indicates the start of data transmission by an asynchronous device is

Start bit

Parity bit

Status bit

Zero bit

Correct Answer : Start bit

A one-bit signal that indicates the start of data transmission by an asynchronous device is Start bit

Parallel devices have a wider data bus than serial devices and can therefore transfer data in words of one or more bytes at a time. As a result, there is a speedup in parallel transmission bit rate over serial transmission bit rate.

In telecommunication and data transmission, serial communication is the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus. This is in contrast to parallel communication, where several bits are sent as a whole, on a link with several parallel channels.

Data transmission refers to the process of transferring data between two or more digital devices. Data is transmitted from one device to another in analog or digital format. Basically, data transmission enables devices or components within devices to speak to each other.

Published On : June 18, 2021