Practice Set 2

1. Which film won the best film award in the 58th National Film Award announced on May 19, 2011 ?

 (A) Fana

 (B) Adaminte Makan Abu

 (C) Lage Raho Munna Bhai

 (D) Omkara

Answer: Adaminte Makan Abu

 2. 83rd Oscar Award declared in February 2011 for the best feature film went to the film—

 (A) American Beauty

 (B) The King’s Speech

 (C) Lagaan

 (D) Elizabeth

Answer: The King’s Speech

 3. Which one of the following is not a recipient of Padma Vibhushan awardees for the year 2011 ?

 (A) Vijay Kelkar

 (B) Satyadev Dubey

 (C) Azim Premji

 (D) Montek Singh Ahluwalia

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 4. The Ramon Magsaysay Award 2011 has been conferred to—

 (A) Harish Hande

 (B) Nileema Mishra

 (C) Koul Panha

 (D) All of these

Answer: Koul Panha

 5. The 37th G-8 Summit was held between 26-27 May, 2011 at—

 (A) Toyako

 (B) Heiligendamm

 (C) Deauville

 (D) St. Petersburg

Answer: Deauville

 6. International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected India’s GDP growth rate for 2010-11 at—

 (A) 7•5%

 (B) 9•5%

 (C) 7•0%

 (D) 6•5%

Answer: 9•5%

 7. The person who headed U. N. Weapons Inspectors in Iraq was—

 (A) Hans Blix

 (B) Aron Sorkin

 (C) Huge Jackson

 (D) Martin Sheen

Answer: Hans Blix

 8. Who won the Miss Universe 2010 ?

 (A) Shandi Finnessey

 (B) Alba Reyes

 (C) Natalie Glebova

 (D) Jinena Navarrete

Answer: Jinena Navarrete

 9. In a historic judgement the Supreme Court asked the government to link all the rivers by—

 (A) 2005

 (B) 2010

 (C) 2012

 (D) 2015

Answer: 2012

 10. Who was appointed the first Chief Information Commissioner following the coming into force of the Right to Information Act, 2005 ?

 (A) Dalvir Chandra Bhandari

 (B) G. Madhavan

 (C) Vajahat Habibullah

 (D) None of these

Answer: Vajahat Habibullah

11. Who among the following was the Indian flag bearer at the 28th Olympic Games held at Athens, Greece in August 2004 ?

 (A) Jaspal Rana

 (B) Anjali Bhagwat

 (C) Anju B. George

 (D) Mahesh Bhupati

Answer: Anju B. George

 12. On which of the following grounds did Sachin Tendulkar play his 100th test ?

 (A) Mumbai

 (B) Kandy

 (C) Oval

 (D) Capetown

Answer: Oval

  13. Which of the following airports has been declared risky for landing by the Civil Aviation ministry ?

 (A) Lucknow Airport

 (B) Chandigarh Airport

 (C) Patna Airport

 (D) Ranchi Airport

Answer: Patna Airport

 14. Which country along with India has begun its first ever joint co-ordinated patrols in the Andaman Sea to check poaching, smuggling and drug trafficking in the region ?

 (A) USA

 (B) Sri Lanka

 (C) Indonesia

 (D) Korea

Answer: Indonesia

 15. Who among the following was the opponent of Petra Kvitova in the Wimbledon Tennis Women’s Singles final 2011 ?

 (A) Maria Sharapova

 (B) Martina Navratilova

 (C) Monica Seles

 (D) Anna Kournikova

Answer: Maria Sharapova

 16. Which of the following states is planning to set up India’s first Agri Export Zone (AEZ) for Soyabean ?

 (A) Maharashtra

 (B) Madhya Pradesh

 (C) Rajasthan

 (D) Uttar Pradesh

Answer: Madhya Pradesh

 17. The centre is planning to set up the National Institute of Animal Welfare in the state of—

 (A) Rajasthan

 (B) Haryana

 (C) Himachal Pradesh

 (D) Punjab

Answer: Haryana

 18. Britain’s Virgin Atlantic has ended codeshare agreement with—

 (A) Indian Airlines

 (B) Air India

 (C) Canadian Airlines

 (D) PIA

Answer: Air India

 19. Which of the following Universities will hold the ‘ISRO Chair’ for the research related to the area of space science ?

 (A) Delhi University

 (B) J.L.N. University

 (C) Pune University

 (D) Vishwa Bharati University

Answer: Pune University

 20. Who has been appointed as Chairman of ICC?

 (A) Suresh Kalmadi

 (B) Sunil Gavaskar

 (C) Lalit Modi

 (D) Sharad Pawar

Answer: Sharad Pawar

21. The person who writes and tests computer programs is called a—

 (A) programmer

 (B) computer scientist

 (C) software engineer

 (D) project developer

 (E) None of these

Answer: programmer

 22. A set of instructions telling the computer what to do is called—

 (A) mentor

 (B) instructor

 (C) compiler

 (D) program

 (E) None of these

Answer: program

 23. What menu is selected to print ?

 (A) Edit

 (B) Special

 (C) File

 (D) Tools

 (E) None of these

Answer: File

 24. What is backup ?

 (A) Adding more components to your network

 (B) Protecting data by copying it from the original source to a different destination

 (C) Filtering old data from the new data

 (D) Accessing data on tape

 (E) None of these

Answer: (B)

 25. The term bit is short for—

 (A) Megabyte

 (B) Binary language

 (C) Binary digit

 (D) Binary number

 (E) None of these

Answer: Binary digit

  26. A saved document is referred to as a—

 (A) file

 (B) word

 (C) folder

 (D) project

 (E) None of these

Answer: file

 27. Specialized programs that assist users in locating information on the Web are called—

 (A) Information engines

 (B) Search engines

 (C) Web browsers

 (D) Resource locators

 (E) None of these

Answer: Search engines

 28. An application program has which one of the following functions ?

 (A) It specifies the information processing procedures required by a particular information processing job

 (B) It controls the input/output and storage functions of the computer system

 (C) It provides various support services for the computer system

 (D) It supervises the operations of the CPU

 (E) None of these

Answer: (A)

 29. In page preview mode—

 (A) You can see all pages of your document

 (B) You can only see the page you are currently working

 (C) You can only see pages that do not contain graphics

 (D) You can only see the title page of your document

 (E) None of these

Answer: You can see all pages of your document

 30. An operating system that can do multitasking means that—

 (A) The operating system can divide up work between several CPUs

 (B) Several programs can be operated concurrently

 (C) Multiple people can use the computer concurrently

 (D) All of the above

 (E) None of these

Answer: Several programs can be operated concurrently

 31. The quickest and easiest way in Word, to locate a particular word or phrase in a document is to use the ……… command.

 (A) Replace

 (B) Find

 (C) Lookup

 (D) Search

 (E) None of these

Answer: Find

 32. What is the default file extension for all Word documents ?

 (A) WRD

 (B) TXT

 (C) DOC

 (D) FIL

 (E) None of these

Answer: DOC

 33. With a CD you can—

 (A) Read

 (B) Write

 (C) Read and Write

 (D) Either Read or Write

 (E) None of these

Answer: Read and Write

 34. A collection of interrelated records is called a—

 (A) Utility file

 (B) Management information system

 (C) Database

 (D) Spreadsheet

 (E) None of these

Answer: Database

 35. To move to the beginning of a line of text, press the ……… key.

 (A) PageUp

 (B) A

 (C) Home

 (D) Enter

 (E) None of these

Answer: Home

 36. The term ‘user interface’ refers to—

 (A) What the user sees on the screen and how they can interact with it

 (B) How the operating system responds to user commands

 (C) the means by which the user interacts with the peripheral devices on the computer

 (D) The monitor that is available for the computer

 (E) None of these

Answer: What the user sees on the screen and how they can interact with it

 37. The background of any Word document—

 (A) Is always white colour

 (B) Is the colour you preset under the Options menu

 (C) Is always the same for the entire document

 (D) Can have any colour you choose

 (E) None of these

Answer: Can have any colour you choose

 38. Reusable optical storage will typically have the acronym—

 (A) CD

 (B) DVD

 (C) ROM

 (D) RW

 (E) None of these

Answer: RW

 39. For creating a document, you use ……… command at File Menu.

 (A) Open

 (B) Close

 (C) New

 (D) Save

 (E) None of these

Answer: New

 40. The contents of ……… are lost when the computer turns off.

 (A) storage

 (B) input

 (C) output

 (D) memory

 (E) None of these

Answer: memory