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 microprocessor is the brain of the computer and is also called a

macrochip

microchip

macroprocessor

None of the above

Correct Answer : microchip

A microchip (sometimes just called a "chip") is a unit of packaged computer circuitry (usually called an integrated circuit) made for program logic (logic or microprocessor chips) and for computer memory (memory or RAM chips).

Since the chip is the core for the microprocessor to perform main functions, microprocessor is also called "Miccrochip".

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2 .

The load instruction is mostly used to designate a transfer from memory to a processor register known as

program counter

instruction register

memory address register

accumulator

Correct Answer : accumulator

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3 .

Which is not an integral part of computer ?

CPU

UPS

Mouse

Monitor

Correct Answer : UPS

UPS is not an integral part of computer. It is use for uninterrupted power supply.

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4 .

Another name for a logic chip is

PROM

RAM

Microprocessor

Memory

Correct Answer : Microprocessor

A microprocessor, sometimes called a logic chip, is a computer processor on a microchip.

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5 .

The system unit

Is the container that houses electronic components

Is a combination of hardware and software

Controls and manipulates data

Coordinates input and output devices

Correct Answer : Is the container that houses electronic components

A system unit is the part of a computer that houses the primary devices that perform operations and produce results for complex calculations. It includes the motherboard, CPU, RAM and other components, as well as the case in which these devices are housed.

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6 .

Who invent the first microprocessor ?

Terence Percival

Heorku

Ted Hoff

Vint cefg

Correct Answer : Ted Hoff

Created in January 1971 by a team of logic architects and silicon engineers—Federico Faggin, Marcian (Ted) Hoff, Stanley Mazor, and Masatoshi Shima—for Japanese calculator manufacturer Busicom, the centerpiece of the four-chip set was the 4004, initially described as a 4-bit microprogrammable CPU.

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7 .

_______is the process of carrying out commands.

Decoding

Fetching

Storing

Executing

Correct Answer : Executing

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8 .

The address of I/O device or memory is carried by the

data bus

address bus

expansion bus

system bus

Correct Answer : address bus

The memory and registers of the I/O devices are mapped to (associated with) address values. So when an address is accessed by the CPU, it may refer to a portion of physical RAM, or it can instead refer to memory of the I/O device.

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9 .

CPU retrieves its data and instructions from

main memory

secondary memory

auxiliary memory

All of the above

Correct Answer : main memory

Primary storage, also known as main storage or memory, is the area in a computer in which data is stored for quick access by the computer's processor. The terms random access memory (RAM) and memory are often as synonyms for primary or main storage.

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10 .

When machine instructions are being executed by a computer, the instruction phase followed by the execution phase is referred to as

program cycle

instruction cycle

machine instruction

machine cycle

Correct Answer : instruction cycle

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