Important Static Awareness Questions for SBI PO/ NIACL AO /BOB PO 2017

Just a few days are left for SBI PO and NIACL Assistant Examination. It is time to pace up your preparation for SBI PO Prelims and NIACL Assistant Prelims 2017. These Static questions will also help you in preparing for BOB PO and NICL AO 2017 recruitment examination.

Q1. Who is the governor of Uttar Pradesh? 
(a) Keshari Nath Tripathi
(b) Acharya Dev Vrat
(c) Ram Naik
(d) V.P. Singh Badnore
(e) Tathagata Roy

Q2. Who is current Social Justice and Empowerment Minister in Narendra Modi government? 
(a) Dr. Harsh Vardhan
(b) Kalraj Mishra
(c) Jual Oram
(d) Prakash Javadekar
(e) Thawar Chand Gehlot

Q3. Capital of Jamaica is? 
(a) Tehran
(b) Niamey 
(c) Kingston
(d) Manama
(e) Astana

Q4. Nokrek National Park is situated in which of the following Indian state? 
(a) Meghalaya
(b) Kerala
(c) West Bengal
(d) Assam
(e) Uttar Pradesh

Q5. International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is observed on which of the following date? 
(a) June 10
(b) April 22
(c) May 10
(d) June 4
(e) August 23

Q6. Which of the following country is not a member of BRICS? 
(a) Britain
(b) China
(c) India
(d) Russia
(e) South Africa

Q7. Pinki Jangra is related to which of the following sports?
(a) Tennis
(b) Chess
(c) Shooting
(d) Boxing
(e) Archery

Q8. Who is present President of Algeria?
(a) Ilham Aliyev
(b) John Howard
(c) Abdelaziz Bouteflika
(d) Freundel Stuart
(e) Serzh Sargsyan

Q9. Girna Dam is in which of the following state? 
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Kerala
(d) Maharashtra
(e) Karnataka

Q10. Headquarter of Indian Space Research Organisation is in which of the following city? 
(a) Mumbai
(b) New Delhi
(c) Bangalore
(d) Dehradun
(e) Chennai

Q11. What is the Currency of Tajikistan? 
(a) Maluti
(b) Somoni
(c) Hryvna
(d) Nakfa
(e) Lilangeni

Q12. Betla National Park is situated in which of the following Indian state? 
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Assam
(c) Gujarat
(d) West Bengal
(e) Jharkhand

Q13. Dhalo is the folk dance of which of the following state?
(a) Odisha
(b) Andhra Pradesh
(c) Chhattisgarh
(d) Gujarat
(e) Goa

Q14. Rihand dam is in which of the following state? 
(a) Karnataka
(b) West Bengal
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Maharashtra
(e) Uttarakhand

Q15. Who is the Chief Minister of Karnataka? 
(a) Shivraj Singh Chouhan
(b) Vijaybhai R. Rupani
(c) Okram Ibobi Singh
(d) Laxmikant Parsekar
(e) Siddaramaiah

ANSWERS

S1. Ans.(c)

Sol. Ram Naik is a veteran Indian politician from the BJP, presently the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. Ram Naik was a member of the 13th Lok Sabha and was Minister of Oil and Natural Gas in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet (1999-2004). 

S2. Ans.(e)

Sol. Thawar Chand Gehlot is an Indian politician who serves in the Narendra Modi government as a Cabinet minister in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. He is a Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh. He represented the Shajapur constituency of Madhya Pradesh in the 11th, 12th, 13th & 14th Lok Sabhas (1996-2009).

S3. Ans.(c)

Sol. Jamaica, a Caribbean island nation, has a lush topography of mountains, rainforests and reef-lined beaches. Kingston is the capital of the island of Jamaica, lying on its southeast coast. In the city center, the Bob Marley Museum is housed in the reggae singer’s former home. Currency of Jamaica is Jamaican dollar.

S4. Ans.(a)

Sol. The Nokrek National Park is located in the state of Meghalaya and is one of the few Biosphere reserves in India. The park comprises of a hilly terrain covered with a lush green forest cover. The park is also famous for its tropical and citrus fruits. Nokrek National Park is famous for its population of the Red Panda.

S5. Ans.(d)

Sol. The United Nations' (UN) International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is observed on June 4 each year. The purpose of the day is to acknowledge the pain suffered by children throughout the world who are the victims of physical, mental and emotional abuse. This day affirms the UN's commitment to protect the rights of children.

S6.  Ans.(a)

Sol. BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Originally the first four were grouped as "BRIC", before the induction of South Africa in 2010. The BRICS members are all leading developing or newly industrialized countries

S7. Ans.(d)

Sol. Pinki Rani is an Indian woman boxer from Haryana. She won a bronze medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Games and a gold medal at the President's Cup International Boxing in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, in 2015. She won gold medals at the 2011 National Games of India and the 2012 and 2014 national championships in the flyweight (51 kg) division.

                                                                                               

S8. Ans.(c)

Sol. Abdelaziz Bouteflika is an Algerian politician who has been the fifth President of Algeria since 1999. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1963 to 1979. As President, he presided over the end of the bloody Algerian Civil War in 2002.

S9. Ans.(d)

Sol. Girna Dam, is an earthfill dam on Girna river near Malegaon, Nashik district in state of Maharashtra in India.

S10. Ans.(c)

Sol. The Indian Space Research Organisation, is the space agency of the Indian government headquartered in the city of Bangalore. Its vision is to "harness space technology for national development", while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration. 

S11. Ans.(b)

Sol. The somoni is the currency of Tajikistan. It is subdivided into 100 diram. The currency is named after the father of the Tajik nation, Ismail Samani. Capital of Tajikistan is Dushanbe.

S12. Ans.(e)

Sol. Betla National Park is a national park located in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of the Palamu district of the Indian state of Jharkhand, in India. The park boasts a wide variety of wild life. The Betla National Park was established as India’s first tiger reserve. The park is covered with a canopy of tropical and mixed deciduous forests and temperate alpine forests in the upper reaches. Tiger, Leopard, Pangolin, Jackal, Brown bear, Hyena and mongoose etc. can be spotted here.

S13. Ans.(e)

Sol. On cold winter nights, womenfolk from Goan villages gather on the sacred ground called maand to celebrate the exclusive women’s dance called the dhalo. The silvery sheen splashed by the full moon bounces off the leaves of the ancient banyan tree that stands like a guardian, protecting the dhalo maand (sacred ground) beneath.

S14. Ans.(c)

Sol. Rihand Dam is a concrete gravity dam located at Pipri in Sonbhadra District in Uttar Pradesh, India. Its reservoir area is on the border of Madhya pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. This reservoir is known as Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar. It is on the Rihand River which is the tributary of the Son River. 

S15. Ans.(e)

Sol. Siddaramaiah is an Indian politician who has been the 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka since 2013. Currently a leader of the Indian National Congress party, Siddaramaiah was a member of various Janata Parivar factions for several years. Earlier, as a Janata Dal (Secular) leader, he was Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka on two occasions.

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Computer Awareness for SBI PO / NIACL AO / BOB PO 2017

Computer Awareness is an important section in bank recruitment's Mains Examination. Just a few days are left for SBI PO and NIACL Assistant Examination. It is time to pace up your preparation with Computer Questions for SBI PO Prelims and NIACL Assistant Mains 2017. These questions will also help you in preparing for NICL AO 2017 recruitment examination.

Q1. What does DMA stands for?  

(a) Distinct Memory Access 

(b) Direct Memory Access 

(c) Direct Module Access 

(d) Direct Memory Allocation 

(e) None of these 

Q2. To which of the following categories do operating systems and debuggers belong? 

(a) System software 

(b) Application software 

(c) Utilities 

(d) Programming Language

(e) All of these

Q3. Which of the following techniques can be used to store a large number of files in a small amount of storage space?  

(a) File adjustment 

(b) File copying 

(c) File compatibility 

(d) File compression 

(e) None of these 

Q4. What is a spooler? 

(a) Type of printer 

(b) Peripheral device 

(c) Program 

(d) Output device  

(e) None of these 

Q5. What is the diagnostic testing sequence of a computer called that determines if all input and output devices are properly working?  

(a) rebooting 

(b) POST

(c) scanning 

(d) defragmentation 

(e) BSoD

Q6. Which of the following components represent the parts of a Central Processing Unit(CPU)?  

(a) Input, output and processing 

(b) Control unit, primary storage and secondary storage 

(c) Control unit, arithmetic logic unit and primary storage 

(d) Control unit, output device and primary storage 

(e) None of these 

Q7. Which action can a user perform using an output device?

(a) input data 

(b) store data

(c) scan data 

(d) view or print data

(e) None of these 

Q8. Which among the following statement is closely related to secondary storage? 

(a) It is non-volatile and its content remains after power is switched off

(b) It does not use magnetic media

(c) It consists of four main types of devices

(d) It does not store information for later retrieval

(e) It's main purpose is to make interconnections of networks

Q9. Which one of the following statements is not true for data Buffer?

(a) A data buffer is a region of a physical memory storage used to temporarily store data

(b) A buffer often adjusts timing by implementing a queue (or FIFO) algorithm in memory

(c) A majority of buffers are implemented in software, which typically use the ROM to store temporary data 

(d) Buffers are often used in conjunction with I/O to hardware, such as disk drives, sending or receiving data to or from a network

(e) None of the above

Q10. Which among the following is software application commonly used to prepare a presentation/slide show?

(a) Adobe

(b) Power Point

(c) Outlook Express 

(d) Internet Explorer

(e) Windows Explorer

Q11. A CD player can access data/information using which method?

(a) Sequential access

(b) Random access

(c) Multivariate access

(d) All of these

(e) None of these

Q12. Each box in a spreadsheet is called a ________.

(a) Cell 

(b) Block

(c) Field 

(d) Table

(e) Empty space

Q13. ________key is the example of Toggle key.

(a) Alt 

(b) Shift

(c) Control 

(d) Escape

(e) Caps Lock

Q14. Which among the following is a type of device that is used for identifying people by their unique characteristics?

(a) biometric device 

(b) Web camera 

(c) joystick 

(d) scanner 

(e) None of these 

Q15. Which of the following statements is true in the context of Watermark?  

(a) A watermark can only be applied to a single page in a document 

(b) A watermark is not visible to viewers in a hard copy 

(c) A watermark is a ghost text 

(d) The colour of a watermark cannot be changed 

(e) None of these 

Solution

S1. Ans.(b)

Sol. Direct Memory Access (DMA) enables selective hardware to directly fetch memory of the computer system i.e. RAM. 

S2. Ans.(a)

Sol. System software is developed to serve as a bridge between the hardware and the user, as the software directly communicates with the hardware. Operating systems and debuggers are two best examples of system software.  

S3. Ans.(d)

Sol. File compression is the technique used to store the large file in a small storage space. It compresses to content of the file in such a way that there is no harm done on the file content and quality. 

S4. Ans.(c)

Sol. Spooler is a program in computing that is used to line up print jobs by storing them in the buffer for a short time and allows the printer to print at the time when it is use.  

S5. Ans.(b)

Sol. POST is a diagnostic testing sequence of a computer that is run before the actual booting to ensure that the computer hardware is functioning well. It stands for ‘Power-On Self-Test’. 

S6. Ans.(c)

Sol. Control unit, arithmetic-logic unit and primary storage are the parts of the CPU. The storage unit deals with the allocation of memory to the processed data, the Control Unit (CU) controls the flow and processing of the data and the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) carries out of the arithmetic operations of calculations of the computer system.  

S7. Ans. (d)

Sol. Output devices can be used to view/ print data. Output devices provide processed output by the system to the user.

S8. Ans. (a)

Sol. Secondary storage is non-volatile.

S9. Ans. (c)

Sol. Majority of buffers use the faster RAM to store temporary data, not the ROM, due to the much faster access time compared with hard disk drives. 

S10. Ans. (b)

Sol. PowerPoint is used to make presentations/slide shows.

S11. Ans. (d)

Sol. All are memory access mechanism which a CD Player can use.

S12. Ans. (a)

Sol. Each box in a spreadsheet is called a cell.

S13. Ans. (e)

Sol. A toggle key is a key that is used to turn a function on or off, or to switch between two functions.

S14. Ans.(a)

Sol. A biometric device is a type of device that records the unique characteristics such as finger prints because it is impossible to have two different persons with the same fingers prints.  

S15. Ans.(c)

Sol. A watermark is a ghost text that is set behind the content of a page.  

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Important Static Awareness Questions for SBI PO/ NIACL AO /BOB PO 2017

Just a few days are left for SBI PO and NIACL Assistant Examination. It is time to pace up your preparation for SBI PO Prelims and NIACL Assistant Prelims 2017. These Static questions will also help you in preparing for BOB PO and NICL AO 2017 recruitment examination.

Q1. Hornbill Festival is celebrated in which among the following states of India?
(a) Manipur
(b) Nagaland
(c) Mizoram
(d) Meghalaya
(e) Arunanchal Pradesh

Q2. Who among the following is a winner of the Indira Gandhi Award for National integration?
(a) Bharti Kher
(b) Malini Subramaniam
(c) Ramendra Bahuguna
(d) Shankha Ghosh
(e) Balraj Puri

Q3. Who is the author of Business speed of Thought?
(a) Dick Francis
(b) John Gray
(c) Bill Gates
(d) David Baldacci
(e) None of the above

Q4. Chakan Gaan-Ngai, a post-harvest festival is celebrated in ___________.
(a) Manipur
(b) Sikkim
(c) Meghalaya
(d) Arunachal Pradesh
(e) Nagaland

Q5. Which company invented the transistor radio?  
(a) Sony
(b) Grundig
(c) Panasonic
(d) Telstra
(e) Texas Instruments

Q6. Godwin Austen is a/an  
(a) Inventor of Telescope
(b) Geologist
(c) Glacier
(d) Pass
(e) Scientist

Q7. The author of the book “The Gin Drinkers” is
(a) Arundhati Roy
(b) Anita Desai
(c) Sagarika Ghose
(d) Shoba De
(e) Khushwant Singh

Q8. What is the name of the famous folk drama of Bhils? 
(a) Gavari
(b) Swang
(c) Tamasha
(d) Rammat
(e) None of these

Q9. Which one of the following plans is also known as ‘Gadgil Yojana’?
(a) Third Five Year Plan
(b) Fourth Five Year Plan
(c) Fifth Five Year Plan
(d) Sixth Five Year Plan
(e) None of these

Q10. Where is the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Located?  
(a) New Delhi
(b) Hyderabad
(c) Mumbai
(d) Ahmedabad
(e) Banglore

Q11. The panchatantra was written during the
(a) Later Vedic period
(b) Mughal period
(c) Maurya period
(d) Post Gupta period
(e) Sultanate Period

Q12. Who coined the name of optical fibre?  
(a) Samuel Cohen
(b) Narinder Kapany
(c) Percy L. Spencer
(d) T.H. Maimah
(e) Arthur Leonard Schawlow.

Q13. Which among the following institutions is not related to United Nations?
(a) Universal Postal Union (UPU)
(b) International Finance Commission (IFC)
(c) World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
(d) International Confederation of Free Trade Union (ICFTU)
(e) World Bank Group (WBG)

Q14. National Science Day is celebrated every year on  
(a) February 20
(b) February 25
(c) April 5
(d) February 28
(e) April 25

Q15. The author of the famous Indian book of astrology ‘Panchasiddhantika’ is - 
(a) Varamihir
(b) Bhaskar
(c) Aryabhatta
(d) Brahma Gupta
(e) Bhagvan Das Mittal

ANSWERS

S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Hornbill festival is a celebration held every year in the first week of December, in Nagaland, North-east India. It is also called as the 'Festival of Festivals'.

S2. Ans.(e)
Sol. The Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration is a prestigious award accorded by the Indian National Congress, after former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi. Balraj Puri was an Indian Political commentator and human rights activist.

S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. Business @ the Speed of Thought is a book written by Bill Gates and Collins Hemingway in 1999. It discusses how business and technology are integrated, and explains how digital infrastructures and information networks can help someone get an edge on the competition.

S4. Ans.(a)
Sol. Celebration of the biggest post-harvest festival of the Zeliangrong community, Chakan Gaan-Ngai, also popularly known as Gaan-Ngai was kick-started in Manipur recently with different organizations celebrating the festival in their own manner with traditional gaiety and religious fervour. The State Level celebration of the festival was organized by State Level Gaan Ngai-2013 Committee at Langol Tarung village with Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh as Chief Guest.

S5. Ans.(e)
Sol. Two companies working together, Texas Instruments of Dallas, Texas and Industrial Development Engineering Associates (I.D.E.A.) of Indianapolis, Indiana, were behind the unveiling of the Regency TR-1, the world's first commercially produced transistor radio.

S6.  Ans.(c)
Sol. The Godwin-Austen Glacier is close to K2 in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan. Its confluence with the Baltoro Glacier is called Concordia and is one of the most favorite spots for trekking in the area since it provides excellent views of four of the five eight-thousanders in the region.

S7. Ans.(c)
Sol. Sagarika Ghose's book is about the irrelevant Indians - the English speaking privileged few who have controlled post-Independence India - giving ground to a new Indian order. She explores modern day India through the eyes of several characters, the "gin drinkers" of the book's title. Uma is the Oxford graduate returned to Delhi with the customary English beau in tow.
                                                                                             
S8. Ans.(a)
Sol. After the monsoons, in the months of September and October the forty-days-festival “GAVARI” is celebrated by Bhil tribe in Udaipur. The Bhils are the original inhabitants and tribal of Mewar- Vagad area of southern Rajasthan.

S9. Ans.(a)
Sol. The Third Five-year Plan stressed agriculture and improvement in the production of wheat, but the brief Sino-Indian War of 1962 exposed weaknesses in the economy and shifted the focus towards the defence industry and the Indian Army.

S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) is an autonomous public business school established in 1963 by the Government of India to help professionalize the country's foreign trade management and increase exports by developing human resources; generating, analysing and disseminating data; and conducting research. IIFT Delhi Centre is located in the Qutab Institutional Area in close vicinity of Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India and is spread over 6 acres of land.

S11. Ans.(d)
Sol. The Panchatantra is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in verse and prose, arranged within a frame story.

S12. Ans.(b)
Sol. In 1952, UK based physicist Narinder Singh Kapany invented the first actual fiber optical cable based on John Tyndall’s experiments three decades earlier. Thirteen years later in 1965 two British research scientists, Charles Kao and George Hockman working with Standard Telephones and Cables discovered that attenuation of fiber optics was caused by impurities in manufacturing.

S13. Ans.(d)
Sol. The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. The headquarters of the United Nations is in Manhattan, New York City.

S14. Ans.(d)
Sol. National Science Day is celebrated all over India with great enthusiasm on 28th of February every year in order to commemorate the invention of the Raman Effect in India by the Indian physicist, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman on the same day in the year 1928. For his great success in the field of science in India, Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was awarded and honored with the Nobel Prize in the Physics in the year 1930.

S15. Ans.(a)
Sol. Varahamihira, also called Varaha or Mihira, Indian philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, author of the Pancha-siddhantika , a compendium of Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and Indian astronomy.

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Computer Awareness for SBI PO / NIACL AO / BOB PO 2017

Computer Awareness is an important section in bank recruitment's Mains Examination. Just a few days are left for SBI PO and NIACL Assistant Examination. It is time to pace up your preparation with Computer Questions for SBI PO Prelims and NIACL Assistant Mains 2017. These questions will also help you in preparing for NICL AO 2017 recruitment examination.

Q1. Functions of keys F1, F2 and F3 are _____________ respectively.

(a) activating menu bar, search and renaming selected icon

(b) search, reboot and activating menu bar

(c) activating help, renaming selected icon and search

(d) reboot, activating help and refresh

(e) activating help, reboot, renaming selected icon

Q2. Which of the following describe router functions?

(a) Packet switching

(b) Packet filtering

(c) Internetwork communication

(d) Path selection

(e) All of the above

Q3. Which among the following computer network usually spans a city or a large campus?

(a) LAN

(b) DAN

(c) MAN

(d) WAN

(e) None of these

Q4. Name the input device from the given options, that cannot be used to work in MS Office?

(a) Scanner 

(b) Mouse 

(c) Keyboard 

(d) Joy stick 

(e) All of the above 

Q5. Which type of virus is generally scripted into common application programs like Excel and Word to infect the other documents and spreads to the other parts when the application is running?

(a) Macro Viruses

(b) File infector virus

(c) Resident Viruses

(d) Boot virus

(e) Worms

Q6. To ‘maximize’ a window means to :

(a) Fill it to capacity 

(b) Expand it to fit the desktop 

(c) Put only like files inside 

(d) Drag it to the Recycle Bin 

(e) None of the above 

Q7. Which of the following types of menu shows the further sub-choices?  

(a) Reverse 

(b) Template 

(c) Scrolled 

(d) Rapped 

(e) Pull-down

Q8. Which physical layer devices can be used to enlarge the area covered by a single LAN segment?

1. Switch

2. NIC

3. Hub

4. Repeater

5. RJ45 transceiver

(a) 1 only

(b) 1 and 3

(c) 3 and 4

(d) 5 only

(e) None of these

Q9.Trackball is an example of a/an:

(a) Programming device  

(b) Pointing device

(c) Output device 

(d) Software device 

(e) Printing device 

Q10.A micro-computer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer with a microprocessor. Which is the first micro-computer?  

(a) Z2

(b) Titan-1

(c) MARK-B

(d) Altair 

(e) None of these 

Q11. Which of the following is the short cut key combination that can be used to type in bold in MS Excel? 

(a) Ctrl + Down Arrow Key 

(b) Ctrl + 2 

(c) Ctrl + 3 

(d) Ctrl + 4 

(e) Shift+Alt

Q12.Which of the following supports 32-bit processor?

(a) Windows 2000 

(b) Windows 7

(c) Windows 8.1

(d) All of the above

(e) None of these 

Q13.Which among the following is the largest unit of storage?

(a) Byte 

(b) Bit

(c) Bug

(d) Nibble 

(e) Petabyte

Q14.Which among the following is a language directly understood by CPU? 

(a) Machine 

(b) C

(c) C++

(d) Java

(e) HTML

Q15. What should be used if a company wants to include its company name and logo at the bottom of every page of a brochure?

(a) Header

(b) Macro

(c) Footer

(d) Footnote

(e) None of the above

Solutions

S1. Ans. (c)

Sol. Functions of keys F1, F2 and F3 are activating help, renaming selected icon and search respectively.

S2. Ans. (e)

Sol.  All of the given options are router functions.

S3. Ans. (c)

Sol. MAN is an abbreviation for Metropolitan Area Network and is a computer network that usually spans a city or a large campus.

S4. Ans. (d)

Sol. Joystick is used for gaming purpose and MS Word is a text editing application.

S5. Ans. (a)

Sol. A macro virus is a computer virus that "infects" a Microsoft Word or similar application and causes a sequence of actions to be performed automatically when the application is started or something else triggers it.

S6. Ans.(b)

Sol. ‘maximize’ a window means expanding it to fit the desktop.

S7. Ans.(e)

Sol. Pull down menu shows further sub-choices.

S8. Ans. (c)

Sol. A repeater operates at the physical layer. Its job is to regenerate the signal over the same network before the signal becomes too weak or corrupted so as to extend the length to which the signal can be transmitted over the same network.  A hub is basically a multiport repeater. A hub connects multiple wires coming from different branches, for example, the connector in star topology which connects different stations.

S9. Ans.(b)

Sol. Trackball is an example of a pointing device (mouse).

S10. Ans.(d)

Sol. The Altair is widely recognized as the spark that ignited the microcomputer revolution as the first commercially successful personal computer.

S11. Ans.(b)

Sol. Ctrl + 2 is the shortcut key that can be used to type text in bold in Excel.

S12. Ans.(d)

Sol. All of the given options support 32-bit processor

S13. Ans.(e)

Sol. Petabyte among the given options is the largest unit of storage, Nibble= 4Bits, Byte= 8Bits. 1 Petabyte = 1024 Terabyte

S14. Ans.(a)

Sol. CPU doesn’t understand the C++ language (or any high level programming language). All the High level language statements must be translated into machine code before they can be executed.

S15. Ans.(c)

Sol. Headers and footers are pieces of text, or graphics, which appear at the top and bottom of a page. If a company wants to include its company name and logo at the bottom of every page of a brochure then it will use the Footer.

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Important Static Awareness Questions for SBI PO/ NIACL AO /BOB PO 2017

Just a few days are left for SBI PO and NIACL Assistant Examination. It is time to pace up your preparation for SBI PO Prelims and NIACL Assistant Prelims 2017. These Static questions will also help you in preparing for BOB PO and NICL AO 2017 recruitment examination.

Q1. Zojila pass connects:  
(a) Nepal and Tibet
(b) Leh and Kargil
(c) Leh and Srinagar
(d) Kashmir and Tibet
(e) Nepal and Bhutan

Q2. Who is the author of the internationally acclaimed book. “The Mystery of Capital”?
(a) Julian Rathbone
(b) Divid Aaker
(c) Hernando de Soto
(d) Masaaki Sato
(e) Robert Pseri

Q3. The first Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to:
(a) Stiglitz
(b) Paul A Samuelson
(c) Amartya Sen
(d) Jan Tinbergan and Ragnar Frisch
(e) Sveriges Riksbank

Q4. The first talkie film in India was  
(a) Raja Harishchandra
(b) Alam Ara
(c) Chandidas
(d) Jhansi Ki Rani
(e) Kisan Kanya

Q5. What is the main function of Central Statistical Organisation (CSO)?  
(a) Determination of money supply
(b) Collection of estimates of national income
(c) Collection of detail data regarding employment
(d) Price determination
(e) None of these

Q6. Who developed the first working laser?  
(a) Sir Frank Whittle
(b) Fred Morrisson
(c) T.H. Maiman
(d) Dr. Charles H. Jones
(e) Arthur Schawlow

Q7. March 8th is observed as 
(a) World Environment day
(b) Heritage day
(c) International Women’s day
(d) Youth day
(e) AIDS day

Q8. Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Shree are given on the eve of
(a) Republic Day
(b) Independence Day
(c) Gandhi Jayanti
(d) Pravasi Bhartiya Divas
(e) New year

Q9. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) came into existence with:
(a) Berlin Conference
(b) London Conference
(c) Brettonwoods Conference
(d) Rome Conference
(e) None of the above

Q10. Who invented the video-tape?  
(a) Richard James
(b) Charles Ginsberg
(c) P.T. Farnsworth
(d) Georges De Mestral
(e) Alex Maxey

Q11. The World Day to Combat Desertification is observed every year on:  
(a) 4th May
(b) 19th July
(c) 14th August
(d) 3rd October
(e) 17th June

Q12. India Army’s Operation ‘Saiyam’ was related to:  
(a) Kashmir
(b) Indo-China Border in the Central Region
(c) North-East
(d) Indo-Pak Border in Punjab and Rajasthan
(e) Nathu la pass

Q13. The UN Secretary-General holds office for a period of 
(a) 3 years
(b) 4 years
(c) 5 years
(d) 6 years
(e) 7 years

Q14. The adoption of High Yielding Variety Programme in Indian Agriculture started in
(a) 1968
(b) 1967
(c) 1966
(d) 1965
(e) 1969

Q15. The World Environment Day observed on  
(a) 15th June
(b) 5th June
(c) 10th October
(d) 8th March
(e) 25th June

ANSWERS

S1. Ans.(c)

Sol. Zoji La is a high mountain pass in Jammu and Kashmir, India, located on the Indian National Highway 1D between Srinagar and Leh in the western section of the Himalayan mountain range.

S2. Ans.(c)

Sol. Hernando de Soto Polar is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights. He is the president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), located in Lima, Peru.

S3. Ans.(d)

Sol. The first prize in economics was awarded in 1969 to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes".

S4. Ans.(b)

Sol. Ardeshir Irani released Alam Ara which was the first Indian talkie film, on 14 March 1931. Irani later produced the first south Indian talkie film Kalidas directed by H. M. Reddy released on 31 October 1931. Jumai Shasthi was the first Bengali talkie.

S5. Ans.(b)

Sol. The Central Statistics Organisation is responsible for co-ordination of statistical activities in the country, and evolving and maintaining statistical standards. Its activities include National Income Accounting; conduct of Annual Survey of Industries, Economic Censuses and its follow up surveys, compilation of Index of Industrial Production, as well as Consumer Price Indices for Urban Non-Manual Employees, Human Development Statistics, Gender Statistics, imparting training in Official Statistics, Five Year Plan work relating to Development of Statistics in the States and Union Territories; dissemination of statistical information, work relating to trade, energy, construction, and environment statistics, revision of National Industrial Classification, etc.

S6.  Ans.(c)

Sol. Theodore Maiman developed the first working laser at Hughes Research Lab in 1960, and his paper describing the operation of the first laser was published in Nature three months later.

S7. Ans.(c)

Sol. In the West, International Women's Day was first observed as a popular event after 1977 when the United Nations General Assembly invited member states to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for women's rights and world peace.

                                                                                               

S8. Ans.(a)

Sol. Any civilian who has shown great achievements in their field of professional work are considered eligible for this award. Various decorations which come under civilian awards of India – Bharat Ratna, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. These awards have a degree of reputation and honour.

S9. Ans.(c)

Sol. IMF formed in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference primarily by the ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes, it came into formal existence in 1945 with 29 member countries and the goal of reconstructing the international payment system.

S10. Ans.(b)

Sol. Charles Ginsburg led the research team at Ampex Corporation in developing one of the first practical videotape recorders or VTRs in 1951.

S11. Ans.(e)

Sol. In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 17 the "World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought" to promote public awareness of the issue, and the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa.

S12. Ans.(d)

Sol. 'Operation Saiyam' - a unique Army operation to defuse about 20,000 unexploded bombs weighing about 50 tonnes that had arrived in waste steel scrap at the dry port of Dhandari Kalan (Ludhiana), thereby preventing any possible disaster in the civil areas in and around Ludhiana.

S13. Ans.(c)

Sol. The Secretary-General is customarily appointed for a five-year term, although the length of the term is discretionary. Trygve Lie's second appointment was for three years, and U Thant's first two terms were short terms that added up to five years. The Secretary-General customarily runs unopposed for a second term if he wishes to continue serving, and he is reappointed unless vetoed by a permanent member. 

S14. Ans.(c)

Sol. The High Yielding Variety Programme (HYVP) was launched in the Kharif of 1966-67 with an objective to attain self-sufficiency in food by 1970-71. The core philosophy of the programme was to increase the productivity of food grains by adopting latest varieties of inputs of crops. Introduction of new high yielding varieties of improved seeds and enhanced application of the fertilizers and extended use of pesticides were its main features.

S15. Ans.(b)

Sol. World Environment Day (WED) is observed every year on 5 June to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Computer Awareness for SBI PO 2017

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Welcome to the world of Computer Awareness. With SBI PO Prelims 2017 round the corner, it should be your priority to cover every aspect of Computer on daily basis so that you can do well in SBI PO Mains exam. These are helpful not only for SBI PO Mains exam but other competition exams like SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, NIACL Assistant, IPPB PO, etc.

Q1.A _________ typically connects personal computers within a very limited geographical area, usually within a single building.

(a) LAN 

(b) FAN

(c) TAN 

(d) WAN

(e) VPN

Q2. Pressing Windows logo key + E will open which of the following?

(a) My Computer

(b) My document

(c) Recycle Bin

(d) Control Panel

(e) Windows Media Player

Q3. To delete the selected item permanently, press __________.

(a) Alt + Delete

(b) Shift + D

(c) Shift + Delete

(d) Alt + D

(e) None of these

Q4. Commands at the top of a screen such as File-Edit, Format and Tools to operate and change things are incorporated in __________________.

(a) Menu bar

(b) Tool bar

(c) User friendly

(d) Word processor

(e) None of these

Q5. Auxiliary memory is also called _______________.

(a) Primary memory 

(b) Third memory

(c) Extra memory

(d) Secondary memory

(e) None of the above

Q6. The startup routine runs, when machine boots up is known as _____________.

(a) POST

(b) BOOT up 

(c) Operating Routine

(d) I/O operation

(e) BSOD

Q7. Which among the following is the shortcut key combination to copy formatting from text?

(a) Alt + Shift + C

(b) Tab + Shift + C

(c) Ctrl + Shift + C

(d) F1 + Shift + C

(e) None of these

Q8. The key F12 opens a ________.

(a) SaveAs dialog box

(b) Open dialog box

(c) Save dialog box

(d) Close dialog box

(e) None of these

Q9. The operation of combining two cells into a single cell in Excel is referred to as ________.

(a) join cells

(b) merge cells

(c) merge table

(d) join table

(e) tuple

Q10. What is a bootstrap?

(a) A memory device

(b) A device to support the computer

(c) An error correction technique

(d) A small initialization program to start up a computer 

(e) None of the above

Q11. Hybrid computer used the combined feature of _________ and _________ machine. 

(a) analogue, digital

(b) super, sub

(c) client, server

(d) warehouse, mining

(e) RAM, ROM

Q12. What is Linux? 

(a) Input Device 

(b) Operating system 

(c) Storage Device 

(d) Output Device 

(e) Processor 

Q13. Which of the following is the default page setup orientation for notes pages, outlines and handouts?

(a) Hyphenation

(b) Landscape 

(c) Portrait

(d) Footer

(e) Header

Q14. Which among the following was the first graphical web browser?

(a) Mosaic 

(b) WAIS

(c) CERN

(d) Gopher

(e) None of the above

Q15. Which icon represents an e-mail message that has not been read?

(a) Question Mark

(b) Red envelope

(c) Highlighted envelope

(d) Flashing letter

(e) Closed envelope

Solution

S1. Ans (a)

Sol.  A local-area network (LAN) is a computer network that spans a relatively small area. Most often, a LAN is confined to a single room, building or group of buildings

S2. Ans. (a)

Sol. Pressing Windows logo key + E will open My Computer.

S3. Ans. (c)

Sol. Shift + Delete will delete the selected item permanently.

S4. Ans. (a)

Sol. Those commands, options are available in menu bar.

S5. Ans. (d) 

Sol.  Auxiliary memory is also called secondary memory.

S6. Ans. (b) 

Sol.  The startup routine runs, when machine boots up is BOOT up.

S7. Ans. (c) 

Sol. Ctrl + Shift + C is used to copy text formatting.

S8. Ans. (a) 

Sol. The key F12 opens a SaveAs dialog box.

S9. Ans. (b) 

Sol. The operation of combining two cells into a single cell in Excel is referred to as merge cells.

S10. Ans.(d)

Sol. A bootstrap is the process of starting up a computer. It also refers to the program that initializes the operating system (OS) during start-up.

S11. Ans.(a)

Sol. Hybrid computers are computers that exhibit features of analog computers and digital computers. The digital component normally serves as the controller and provides logical and numerical operations, while the analog component often serves as a solver of differential equations and other mathematically complex equations. 

S12. Ans.(b)

Sol. Linux is a Unix-like and mostly POSIX-compliant computer operating system (OS) assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution.

S13. Ans.(b)

Sol. Page orientation is the way in which a rectangular page is oriented for normal viewing. By default, PowerPoint slide layouts appear in landscape orientation. 

S14. Ans.(a)

Sol. The explosion in popularity of the Web was triggered by NCSA Mosaic, a graphical browser which eventually ran on several popular office and home computers. This was the first web browser aiming to bring multimedia content to non-technical users, and therefore included images and text on the same page, unlike previous browser designs, its founder was Marc Andreessen.

S15. Ans.(e)

Sol.  Closed envelope icon represents an e-mail message that has not been read.

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