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 Winchester disk is a
A)
Disk Stack
B)
Flexible disk
C)
Removable disk
D)
All of the above

Correct Answer :   Disk Stack

A Winchester disk is a Disk Stack. Another term for hard disk drive. The term Winchester comes from an early type of disk drive developed by IBM that had 30MB of fixed storage and 30MB of removable storage; so its inventors called it a Winchester in honor of its 30/30 rifle.

Published On : June 18, 2021
2 .
A sizeable geographical area with communication based on the telephone system is though as
A)
Local area network
B)
Wide area network
C)
Modulator-Demodulator
D)
All of the above

Correct Answer :   Wide area network

A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network or computer network that extends over a large geographical distance/place. Wide area networks are often established with leased telecommunication circuits.

Published On : June 18, 2021
3 .
Which of the following terms applies to communication between separate computer systems?
A)
Power supply
B)
Applications software
C)
Connectivity
D)
Computer literacy

Correct Answer :   Connectivity

Published On : June 17, 2021
4 .
What is required when more than one person uses a central computer at the same time?
A)
Terminal
B)
Mouse
C)
Light pen
D)
Digitizer

Correct Answer :   Terminal

With the help of terminal more than one personal uses a central computer at the same time.

Published On : June 17, 2021
5 .
The original ASCII code used _____ bits of each byte, reserving that last bit for error checking.
A)
5 bits
B)
6 bits
C)
7 bits
D)
8 bits

Correct Answer :   7 bits

The basic ASCII set uses 7 bits for each character, giving it a total of 128 unique symbols. The extended ASCII character set uses 8 bits, which gives it an additional 128 characters. The extra characters represent characters from foreign languages and special symbols for drawing pictures.

Published On : June 17, 2021
6 .
Condensing output data to exhibit specific information is
A)
Merging
B)
Calculating
C)
Recording
D)
Summarising

Correct Answer :   Summarising

Published On : June 17, 2021
7 .
A packet switching network that was sponsored by the Commission of the EEC and became operational in 1979 is
A)
LAN
B)
Euronet
C)
Star network
D)
Broadband network

Correct Answer :   Euronet

Published On : June 17, 2021
8 .
What is the term which represents the use of links between information of all sorts whether text, graphics, video oi audio-based?
A)
HyperCard
B)
Wildcard
C)
Hypermedia
D)
Hypertext

Correct Answer :   Hypermedia

Hypermedia is an extension to what is known as hypertext, or the ability to open new Web pages by clicking text links on a Web browser. Hypermedia extends upon this by allowing the user to click images, movies, graphics and other media apart from text to create a nonlinear network of information.

Published On : June 17, 2021
9 .
A machine associated with card-based data processing is
A)
Codomain
B)
Collator
C)
Cartridge
D)
Digitizer

Correct Answer :   Collator

Published On : June 17, 2021
10 .
An adder in which the bits of the operands are added one after another is
A)
Serial adder
B)
Full-adder
C)
Half-adder
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Serial adder

The serial binary adder or bit-serial adder is a digital circuit that performs binary addition bit by bit.

Published On : June 17, 2021
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