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 .

What type of information system would be recognized by digital circuits?

Hexadecimal system

Binary system

Both hexadecimal and binary system

None of the above

Correct Answer : Binary system

Digital circuits, represent signals by discrete bands of analog levels, rather than by a continuous range. Because the fundamental information element of digital circuits has two states, it is most naturally represented by a number system where each individual digit has two states: binary.

Published On : June 16, 2021

2 .

Which command is not used to switch off the computer?

Shut Down

Hibernate

Turn off

Log off

Correct Answer : Hibernate

Shut Down, Turn off and Log off are commands used to switch off the computer.

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3 .

Booting the System means

running an application program called “Booting”.

physically kicking the computer

dismissing the computer

loading the operating system

Correct Answer : loading the operating system

In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer. It can be initiated by hardware such as a button press, or by a software command. After it is switched on, a computer's central processing unit (CPU) has no software in its main memory, so some process must load software into memory before it can be executed. This may be done by hardware or firmware in the CPU, or by a separate processor in the computer system.

In addition to loading an operating system or stand-alone utility, the boot process can also load a storage dump program for diagnosing problems in an operating system.

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4 .

McAfee is a

Programming language

Computer device

Anti-virus software

Output device

Correct Answer : Anti-virus software

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5 .

is not a storage device.

iPod

Pen drives

Flash Disks

Linux

Correct Answer : Linux

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6 .

Books in electronic formats are called

e-books

e-library

e-learning

i-books

Correct Answer : e-books

Books in electronic formats are called as "ebooks", "eBooks", "Ebooks", "e-Books", "e-journals", "e-editions", or "digital books". A device that is designed specifically for reading e-books is called an "e-reader", "ebook device", or "eReader".

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7 .

Debugging is the process of

Changing the design structure of a program

Checking errors in a software program

Rolling out a software program

Modifying a software program

Correct Answer : Checking errors in a software program

Debugging is the process of detecting and removing of existing and potential errors (also called as ‘bugs’) in a software code that can cause it to behave unexpectedly or crash. To prevent incorrect operation of a software or system, debugging is used to find and resolve bugs or defects. When various subsystems or modules are tightly coupled, debugging becomes harder as any change in one module may cause more bugs to appear in another. Sometimes it takes more time to debug a program than to code it.

Description : To debug a program, user has to start with a problem, isolate the source code of the problem, and then fix it.

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8 .

Which is the official language for Android development?

Ada

FORTRON

COBOL

Java

Correct Answer : Java

Java. Firstly Java was the official language for Android App Development (but now it was replaced by Kotlin) and consequently, it is the most used language as well. Many of the apps in the Play Store are built with Java, and it is also the most supported language by Google.

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9 .

Speed of second generation computers was in ------ second.

milli

pico

nano

micro

Correct Answer : micro

Second generation computers were made to process information faster than the first computers. The first generation computers had a speed of 5mbps while the second generation computers had a speed of 10mbps (Oderog, A., 2010). From this it can be observed that second generation computers were twice as fast as the first generation computers with respect to processing of information and also carrying out of operations.

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10 .

The process of communicating with a file from a terminal is

Heuristic

Interactive

Interrogation

All of the above

Correct Answer : Interrogation

The process of communicating with a file from a terminal is Interrogation.

Computer Assisted Interrogation (CAINT) is a system of computer programs for use in man-machine communications. Its principal function is to enable a computer to elicit information from a man by interrogating him-asking him a program of questions where the program follows a logical course depending both on information available before the interrogation started and on that gained during the interrogation. The information acquired is intended to be put to immediate practical use, in updating a data base, generating reports, or driving other interrogations.

Published On : June 16, 2021