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Saturday 15 September 2012

Practice set-00B

1. Destination India&conference on commerce and trade was
organised at:

(a) Zurich (b) Bangalore (c) Singapore (d) Tokyo

2. According to a survey by Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry
which of the following countries tops the list on labour productivity:

(a) India (b) Luxembourg (c) Belgium (d) France

3. India s first Asset Reconstruction Company s road map was prepared by

( a) SBI (b) IDBI (c) ICICI (d) HDFC

4. Which of the following country is the new member of International Coffee
Organisation?

(a) India (b) Sri Lanka (c) Kenya (d) Vietnam

5. Who among the following headed the Indo-UK Round Table conference held at
London to strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries?

(a) Swaraj Paul (b) Jaswant Singh (c) K.C. Pant (d) Yashwant Sinha

6. Diva a specially ! ! designed women s international credit
card has been launched by:

(a) Federal Bank (b) Standard Chartered Bank

(d) Dubai Stock Exchange

8. Indiva is the multipurpose vehicle, launched by____at the
international motorshow in Geneva.

(a) TELCO (b) BAJAJ and SIL (c) LML (d) HONDA

9. Match the following Company/organisation Chief Executive Officer

I. General Electricals A. Harvey Pitt

II. Star Alliance B. S. Devarajah

III.Securities and C. Jeff Immelt Exchange Commission

IV.Manufacturer s Association D. Cheong Choong Kong

of Information Technology

Code: I II III IV
(a) A B C D

(b) B A C D

(d) D C A B

10. Nokia Corporation, the leading mobile phone makers is a___based company.

(a) USA (b) Japan (c) Philippines (d) Finland! !

11. ICENET is the network connecting the offices of the:

(a) Central Board of Excise and Customs (b) State Bank of India

(c) Human Resource Ministry (d) External Affairs Ministry

12. Geographical Information System Software known as Gram Chitra
was unveiled by:

(a) C-DAC (b) Media Labs Asia (c) Satyam Infoway (d) Honda

13. The Kofi Annan Institute for IT Excellence, has been set by India at____:

(a) Kenya (b) Guatemala (c) Ghana (d) Durban

14. India s first Defence Intelligence Agency became operational in___2002.

(a) June (b) March (c) April (d) May

15. The first hydel project in Andaman and Nicobar islands has been
commissioned by:

(a) NHPC (b) Dabhol Power Corporation (c) BHEL (d) NTPC

16. First Indian Laboratory (and India to be the 26th country) to be
accredited by the College of American Pathology is:

(a) Cipla lab (b) Speciality Ranbaxy Ltd

(c) Zydu! ! s Cadila Ltd (d) Sun Pharma lab

17. Smart Kid Insurance policy has been launched for students by:

(a) Tata-AIG (b) SBI-Cardif (c) ICICI Prudential (d) LICI

18. Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of Central
Electricity Authority:

(a) J.L. Bajaj (b) H.L. Bajaj (c) Y.N. Prasad (d) J.L. Raina

19. Chilka Development Authority, the first organisation in the Asian
subcontinent to receive Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award for the year 2002 is
in:

(a) Kerala (b) Orissa (c) Assam (d) Uttaranchal

20. The chief architect of Ganga Action Plan, an environmentalist and
recipient of various awards died recently. Name him.

(a) Md. Bazzi (b) Arshad-uz-Zaman

(c) Dr T.N. Khoshro (d) George Soros

21. CBE-2002 a NATO exercise by Canada, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, UK and US
was launched in____, for NATO peace programme.

(a) Georgia (b) Angola (c) Durban (d) Ireland

22. 2002 MN is the name of:

(a) Supercomputer (b) Asteroid

23. Orange Prize is given in the field of:

(a) literature (b) sports (c) medicine (d) acting

24. In the global tea production, India accounts for____per cent of tea
production.

(a) 27 (b) 26.7 (c) 24.3 (d) 27.7

25. USA has signed a legislation to protect the country from biological
terrorist attack worth:

(a) $ 4.6 billion (b) $ 6 billion

(c) $ 7 billion (d) $ 8 billion

26. World day to combat desertification and drought is observed on:

(a) June 17 (b) June 20 (c) April 17 (d) July 20

27. Name the robot spacecraft, launched by NASA to observe frozen core of
comets.

(a) Contour (b) Odyssey (c) Dumar (d) Columbia

28. Blue Ocean, the World s most powerful Supercomputer, is specifically
designed for:

(a) NASA (b) US Naval Oceanographic office

(c) US Federal Reserve Bank (d) US Intelligence Agency

29. To review the disclosure and investor protection guidelines, a committee
was constituted by SEBI under:

(a) T.N. Chaturvedi (b) A.K. Basu

(c) N.J. Reddy (d) Y.H. Malegam

30. First State to introduce a life insurance scheme covering 1.2 crore
students and three lakh teachers is:

(a) Karnataka (b) Madhya Pradesh

(c) Maharashtra (d) Rajasthan

31. Hrithik Roshan has turned down an offer to act in the Warner Brother s
film,____due to unavailability of dates.

(a) Escape from Taliban (b) Hamlet

the land of Gandhi

32. The Shade of Swordsâ€ is a book written by:

(a) M.J. Akbar (b) Manil Suri (c) Urmila Lanba! ! (d) Vasant Potdar

33. India s first Jan Shatabdi Express between Mumbai-Goa was commenced on:

(a) April 16, 2002 (b) April 20, 2002

(c) June 20, 2002 (d) June 16, 2002

34. Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of IIM
Ahmedabad:

(a) Y.C. Deveshwar (b) N.R. Narayana Murthy

(c) Sanjiv Gupta (d) M. Damodaran

35. Automobile Industry s man of the year 2002 is:

(a) Carlos Ghoshn (Japan) (b) Dr Mark Faber

(c) Dr Doom (d) Lious Haochuang

36. Who among the following has been named as the White Lightning in the
cricket?

(a) Adam Parore (New Zealand)

(b) Allan Donald (South Africa)

(d) Dion Nash (New Zealand)

37. Which Indian cricketer has bagged a deal with ESPN?

(a) Md Kaif (b) Yuvraj(c) Sachin Tendulkar (d) Anil Kumble

38. Who among the following is the official sponsors of the Indian team at
the Asian Games to be held ! ! in Busan, South Korea?

(a) Phillips (b) Sahara (c) LG (d) Samsung

39. 24 Brand Mantras is a book written by:

(a) Bimal Chowdhary (b) Shiv Khera(c) Arindam R. Chowdhary (d) Jagdeep Kapoor

40. Ist developing country in the world to make use of fire optics technology
is:

(a) China (b) Japan (c) India (d) Vietnam

41. Defence Research and Development Organisation was formed in the year:

(a) 1980 (b) 1958 (c) 1956 (d) 1975

42. Who among the following has been appointed as the President of the
flagship channel Zee TV:

(a) Apurva Purohit (b) Pritish Nandi(c) Jitendra K. Singh (d) Raghu Rai

43. India s first commercially manufactured sports car is:

(a) Reeva (b) Indigo (c) Sedan (d) Fibro

44. How many new railway zones have been notified by the Railway Ministry in
July 2002:

(a) 10 (b) 8 (c) 14 (d) 5

45. Name the quarterly magazine, launched by The Time Grou! ! p.

(a) Bindia (b) b-drive(c) businessdrive.com (d) none of these

46. According to Economic Intelligence Unit, maximum amount of FDI is
received by:

(a) India (b) China

(c) Repti (d) Ottowom

48. Transport Research and Injury Prevention Programme was awarded the
Stockholm award and is unveiled by:

(a) IIT, Kanpur (b) IIT, Delhi

(c) IIT, Kharagpur (d) IIT, Chennai

49. Alvaro Silva Calderon was appointed as the Secretary General of:

(a) OPEC (b) FIEO

ANSWERS

1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (d) 5. (c) 6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (a) 9. (c) 10. (d)

11. (a) 12. (b) 13. (c) 14. (c) 15. (a) 16. (b) 17. (a) 18. (b) 19. (b) 20. (c)

21. (a) 22. (b) 23. (a) 24. (d) 25. (a) 26. (a) 27. (a) 28. (b) 29. (d) 30. (a)

31. (b) 32. (a) 33. (a) 34. (b) 35. (a) 36. (b) 37. (c) 38. (d) 39. (d) 40. (c)

41. (c) 42. (a) 43. (a) 44. (d) 45. (b) 46. (c) 47. (a) 48. (b) 49. (a) 50. (c)

Practice set-00A

1. Which of the following is the largest producer of raw silk?

(1) Assam (2) Karnataka (3) Andhra Pradesh (4) Jammu & Kashmir

Ans:-2

2. The Gandhara School of Sculpture was a blend of:

(1) Indian and Greek styles (2) Indian and Persian styles

(3) Purely Indian in origin (4) Indian and South East Asian style.

Ans:-1

3. Which one of the following languages is used in Tripura?

(I) Hindi (2) Mizo (3) Khasi (4) Bengali

Ans:-4

4. How many schedules are there in the Constitution of India?

(1) Eight (2)Ten

(3) Twelve (4) Fourteen

Ans:-2

5. In which year was the Capital of Assam shifted to Dispur from Shillong ?

(1) 1974 (2)1978

(3) 1985 (4) 1960

Ans:-1

6. Identify the man-made element:

(1) Carbon (2) Gold

(3) Californium (4) Calcium

Ans:-3

7. A man- borrows Rs. 200 at 5% compound interest. At the end of each year he pays back Rs. 50. At the end of 4 years he owes:

(1) Rs. 27.59 (2) Rs. 28.10.

(3) Rs. 27.81 (4) Rs. 28.14.

Ans:-1

8. The three temples, the Shivadol, the Vishnudol and the Devldol are situated at which place of Assam?

(1) Silghat (2) Sibsagar (3)Sadiya (4)Sarthebari

Ans:-2

9. Which of the following has the jurisdiction to hear about Fundamental Rights ?

(1) Supreme Court (2) High court

(3) Subordinate Court

(4) None of these

Ans:-1

10. Solar eclipse, occurs when

(1) Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth.

(2) The Sun comes between the Earth and moon.

(3) The Earth comes between the Sun and moon,

(4) None of these.

Ans:-1

11. What was the main occupation of the early Aryans in Rig Vedic period?

(1 ) Sculpture

(2) Animal husbandry

(3) Agriculture (4) Trade

Ans:-2

12. Which of the following is correctly matched?

(1) Goitre is caused due to deficiency. of— Vitamin D.

(2) Diabetes Is caused due to deficiency of — insulin

(3) Rickets is caused due to deficiency of – Vitamin A

(4) Night blindness is caused due to deficiency of— Iodine

Ans:-3

13. Six coins of gold and silver of equal weights are melted and new coins are cast. The ratio of gold and silver in one of the coins is 2: 1, in another two coins 3 : 5 and 7:5 In the remaining corns. What will be the ratio between gold and silver respectively in the new coins?’

(1) l2:11 (2)1:1 (3) 19: 17 (4) 42 : 25

Ans:-3

14. Which of the following does not contain carbohydrate?

(1) Potato (2) Maize (3) Banana (4) Pea

Ans:-4

15, Where is Namdafa Wild life Sanctuary located which is full of flora, fauna and avian with surprising dangers?

(1) Meghalaya (2) Mizoram (3) Nagaland

(4) Arunachal Pradesh

Ans:-4

16. The largest river island in the world. Majuli is located, in which of the following districts of Assam?

(1) Jorht (2) Dibrugarh

(3) Dhemaji (4) Tinsukia

Ans:-1

17. A person cannot see an object placed at a distance’ of less than

25 cm. The person suffers from.

(1) Astigmatism

(2) Myopia

(3) Longsighted ness

(4) None of these

Ans:-3

18. In photosynthesis light

(1) Is converted into kinetic energy

(2) Is converted into chemical energy

(3) Does not react with CO2 add water directly

(4) Acts as a catalyst -.

Ans:-2

19. Gandhiji gave the call “Do or Die” during

(1) Non-Cooperation Movement

(2) Civil Disobedience Movement

(3) Quit India Movement

(4) Industrial Satyagraha

Ans:-3

20. A black body emits

(1) Radiations of all wavelengths.

(2) No radiation.

(3) Radiation of one wavelength.

(4) Radiation of long wavelength .

Ans:-2

21. The depth of seals measured in:

(1) Feet (2) fathom (3) nautical (4) mile

Ans:-2

22. Erie silk is produced by Philosemia Resina silk worm.The worm is cultured in the plant of:

(1) castor (2)oak

(3) papaya (4) silk cotton.

Ans:-1

23. Which of the following rights is a political right?

(1)the right to be elected

(2) The right to life

(3) The right to have education

(4) The right to form association

Ans:-1

24. Which of the following two places are connected by the road in India, which is constructed on the highest altitude in the world?

(1) Leh and Manali (2) Jammu and Srinagar (3) Sikkim and Darjeeling (4) Srinagar and Leh

Ans:-1

25. Which part of the camera is equivalent to the retina of human eye?

(1) Lens, (2) Film

(3) Aperture (4) Shutter

Ans:-2

26. The largest island of the Asian Continent is:

(1) Indonesia (2) Borneo

(3) Sri Lanka (4) Myanmar

Ans:-3

27. When one ascends in the atmosphere the air becomes—-gradually.

(1) Rarer (2) dense

(3) Hot (4) obvious’

Ans:-1

28. During respiration carbohydrate is disintegrated into:

(1) Glycogen

(2) Carbon dioxide and water

(3) Oxygen and Carbon dioxide

(4) Glucose

Ans:-1

29. When the door of refrigerator is opened in a closed room, then:

(1) Room turns to be cooler

(2) The temperature of room falls

(3) The temperature of room is not affected

(4) The room becomes hotter gradually

Ans:-4

30. Who is called the First Citizen of India?

(1) President of India

(2) Prime Minister of India

(3) Mahatma Gandhi (4) Dr. BR Ambedkar

Ans:-1

31. Panini was a famous scholar of:

(1) Language and grammar

(2) Ayurveda

(3) Astronomy (4) Biology

Ans:-1

32. Which of the following is not a mineral?

(1) Slate (2) Limestone

(3) Coal (4) Calcite

Ans:-4

33.The state -of rising prices due to an enhancement in the quantity of money in circulation, termed as:

(1) Inflation

(2) Deflation -

(3) Demonetization

(4) Devaluation

Ans:-1

34. Name the minerals that are essential for hone and teeth formation in human:

(1) Calcium-and Phosphorus (2) Magnesium and Potassium

(3) Sodium and Iron (4) Iodine and Sulphur

Ans:-1

35. Ripe mangoes contains:

(1) Vitamin A (2) Vitamin B (3) Vitamin C (4) Vitamin E

Ans:-3

36. In which one of the following places, the boiling point of water is the highest?

(1) Dead Sea (2) Mt. Everest

(3) Nile Delta (4) Sunder ban Delta

Ans:-2

37. The primary colours used in a colour TV are: -

(I) Green, Yellow, Violet

(2) Violet, Red, Orange

(3) Blue, Green, Red

(4) Blue, Green, Violet

Ans:-3

38. Which one of the following is not a Fundamental Right guaranteed by the Indian Constitution?

(1) Freedom to manage religious- affairs.

(2) Free and compulsory education up to primary stage.

(3) Prohibition of employment of children in factories.

(4) freedom to propagate religion.

Ans:-2

39. The chief merit of a federal government is that It:

(1) Ensures a strong government at the centre

(2) Integrates national unity with regional autonomy

(3) Keeps a check on the multiparty Systems

(4) Is very less expensive

Ans:-2

40. The First Assamese to become the President of India was-:

(1) Satyeda Anowara Talmur.

(2) Gopinath Bordoloi .

(3) Fakaruddln Ali Ahmed.

(4) Syed Abdul Malik .

Ans:-3

41. Match List – I with List — II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

List—I List—II

a. Amjad Ali Khan 1. Flute

b.Ali Hussain 2. Sarod

c.Hari Prasad Chaurasia 3. Tabla

d. Alla Rakha 4. Shehnai

Codes

a b c d

(1) 2 1 3 4

(2) 4 2 1 3

(3) 2 4 1 3

(4) 1 2 3. 4

Ans:-3

42. A dentist’s mirror is a:

(1) Cylindrical mirror (2) plane mirror

(3) Convex mirror (4) concave mirror

Ans:-4

Saturday 8 September 2012

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

(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

(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

(D) Montek Singh Ahluwalia

See Answer:

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

(A) Harish Hande

(B) Nileema Mishra

(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

(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%

(D) 6•5%

Answer: 9•5%

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

(A) Hans Blix

(B) Aron Sorkin

(D) Martin Sheen

Answer: Hans Blix

8. Who won the Miss Universe 2010 ?

(A) Shandi Finnessey

(B) Alba Reyes

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(D) Punjab

Answer: Haryana

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

(A) Indian Airlines

(B) Air India

(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

(D) Vishwa Bharati University

Answer: Pune University

20. Who has been appointed as Chairman of ICC?

(A) Suresh Kalmadi

(B) Sunil Gavaskar

(D) Sharad Pawar

Answer: Sharad Pawar

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

(A) programmer

(B) computer scientist

(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

(D) program

(E) None of these

Answer: program

23. What menu is selected to print ?

(A) Edit

(B) Special

(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

(D) Accessing data on tape

(E) None of these

Answer: (B)

25. The term bit is short for—

(A) Megabyte

(B) Binary language

(D) Binary number

(E) None of these

Answer: Binary digit

26. A saved document is referred to as a—

(A) file

(B) word

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(D) Search

(E) None of these

Answer: Find

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

(A) WRD

(B) TXT

(D) FIL

(E) None of these

Answer: DOC

33. With a CD you can—

(A) Read

(B) 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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(D) RW

(E) None of these

Answer: RW

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

(A) Open

(B) Close

(D) Save

(E) None of these

Answer: New

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

(A) storage

(B) input

(D) memory

(E) None of these

Answer: memory