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.

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1 .

The Central Processing Unit (CPU) in a computer consists of

control, unit, primary storage and secondary storage

input, output and processing

control unit, arithmetic logic unit, memory unit

None of the above

Correct Answer : control unit, arithmetic logic unit, memory unit

Published On : June 17, 2021

2 .

Internal memory in a CPU is nothing but

bus

microprocessor

a set of ALU

a set of registers

Correct Answer : a set of registers

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3 .

On the motherboard, the connection points for chips are referred to as

sockets

slots

ports

lines

Correct Answer : sockets

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4 .

The third generation computers were made with

Integrated Circuits

Transistors

Bio

Vacuum Tubes

Correct Answer : Integrated Circuits

The computers of third generation used Integrated Circuits (ICs) in place of transistors. A single IC has many transistors, resistors, and capacitors along with the associated circuitry. The IC was invented by Jack Kilby.

Published On : June 17, 2021

5 .

Which of the following uses a handheld operating system ?

Laptop

PDA

Super Computer

Personal Computer

Correct Answer : PDA

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6 .

The Analytical Engine developed during first generation of computers used ..... as a memory unit

cards

RAM

counter wheels

floppies

Correct Answer : counter wheels

During first generation of computers analytical engine were introduced. These first generation of computers use counter wheels as memory unit to store data. analytical engine was invented by Charles Babbage in 1833. It was first mechanical computer. Analytical engine incorporated an arithmetic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops and integrated memory , making it first design for general purpose computer

Published On : June 17, 2021

7 .

Which of the following is the smallest and fastest computer imitating brain working ?

Param-10000

Supercomputer

IBM chips

Quantum computer

Correct Answer : Quantum computer

A quantum Turing machine is a theoretical model of such a computer, and is also known as the universal quantum computer. The field of quantum computing was initiated by the work of Paul Benioff and Yuri Manin in 1980, Richard Feynman in 1982, and David Deutsch in 1985.

Published On : June 17, 2021

8 .

First generation computers used ............ languages.

machine

assembly

Both (a) & (b)

high level

Correct Answer : machine

Machine language is programming language were used in first generation computers.

A first generation (programming) language (1GL) is a grouping of programming languages that are machine level languages used to program first-generation computers. ... Modern tools such as native-code compilers are used to produce machine level from a higher-level language.

Assembly languages are specific to computer and CPU. The term is used in the distinction between Machine Languages (1GL) and higher-level programming languages (3GL, 4GL, etc.)

Published On : June 17, 2021

9 .

Which type of computer could be found in a digital watch ?

Super computer

Notebook computer

Embedded computer

Mainframe

Correct Answer : Embedded computer

Published On : June 17, 2021

10 .

PARAM was develop by

BARC