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Part 1 - Question No. 1 to 50

1. Full form of GUI is :

Solution Graphical user interface

Detail In computing, a graphical user interface (GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a type of

user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands

Source Various sites and books

2. Which one of the following are magnetic devices

Solution (3) Both (1) Tapes and (2) Hard Disks

Detail


3. The Rajasthan canal takes water from

Solution Sutlej

Detail The Indira Gandhi Canal is one of the biggest canal projects in India. It starts from the

Harike Barrage at Sultanpur, a few kilometers below the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas rivers in Punjab state. It runs south-southwest in Punjab and Haryana but mainly in Rajasthan for a total of 650 kilometers and ends near at Ramgarh, near Jaisalmer, in Rajasthan.


4. Keoladeo National Park is situated in

Solution Keoladeo National Park

Detail The Keoladeo National Park or Keoladeo Ghana National Park formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India is a famous avifauna sanctuary that sees (or saw) thousands of rare and highly endangered birds such as the Siberian Carane come here mostly during the winter season.


5. Which of the following states is largest in area

Solution Rajasthan

Detail Rajasthan is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert (Thar Desert), which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with Pakistan. The state is bordered by Pakistan to the west, Gujarat to the southwest, Madhya Pradesh to the southeast, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to the northeast and Punjab to the north. Rajasthan covers an area of 132,150 sq mi or 342,239 km². The proportion of the state's total area to the total area of the country is 10.41 per cent


6. International Women's day is celebrated on

Solution March 8

Detail International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day,

is marked on March 8 every year. The first national Women's Day was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America.


7. "Jai Jawan Jai Kishan" slogan was given by

Solution Lal Bhadur Shastri

Detail Jai Jawan Jai Kisan was a slogan given to India by the Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1965. It means hail the soldier and hail the farmer. Soon after Shastri took over the prime ministership of India after Nehru's death India was attacked by Pakistan . At the same time there was scarcity of foodgrains in country. Shastri gave the slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan to enthuse the soldiers to defend India and simultaneously cheering farmers to do their best to increase the production of food-grains to reduce dependence on import .It became a very popular slogan








8. Insulin controls the metabolism of

Solution Most appropriate answer is (2) Fats and second one is (1) Sugar

Detail Insulin is a hormone central to regulating carbohydrate and fat metabolism in the body. Insulin causes cells in the liver, muscle, and fat tissue to take up glucose from the blood, storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle.

Carbohydrate term is most common in biochemistry, where it is a synonym of saccharide. Carbohydrates, are commonly referred to as sugars. The word saccharide comes from the Greek word σάκχαρον (sákkharon), meaning "sugar". While the scientific nomenclature of carbohydrates is complex, the names of the monosaccharides and disaccharides very often end in the suffix -ose. For example, blood sugar is the monosaccharide glucose, table sugar is the disaccharide sucrose, and milk sugar is the disaccharide lactose


9. The capital of Chhattisgarh is :

Solution Raipur

Detail Raipur is the capital city of the state of Chhattisgarh, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of Raipur District. It was formerly a part of Madhya Pradesh before the state of Chhattisgarh was formed on November 1, 2000.


10. Baghadad is the capital of which country?

Solution Iraq

Detail Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. It is the largest city in Iraq and the second largest city in the Arab World (after Cairo, Egypt), and the second largest city in Western Asia (after Tehran, Iran).


11. What is the sum total of all angles of a right angled triangle?

Solution 180 degrees

Detail A right triangle (American English) or right-angled triangle (British English) is a triangle in which one angle is a right angle (that is, a 90 degree angle). The relation between the

sides and angles of a right triangle is the basis for trigonometry.

The measures of the interior angles of a triangle in Euclidean space always add up to 180 degrees.

Source Various sites and mathematics books

12. In which country is Wimbledon tennis tournament held?

Solution England

Detail The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All

England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors being the Australian Open, French Open and US Open. Wimbledon is the only Major still played on grass, the game's original surface, which gave the game of lawn tennis its name. The tournament takes place over two weeks in late June and early July, culminating with the Ladies' and Gentlemen's Singles Final, scheduled respectively for the second Saturday and Sunday. Each year, five major events are contested, as well as four junior events and three invitational events.


13. if L stands for +, M stands for -,N stands for *, P stands for /, then 15 N 10 L 30 P 6 M 8 =

Solution 147

Detail As our problem ((15*10)+(30/6))-8

Source Books & Self







14. If 20-10 means2, 8/4 means 32, 6*2 means 8, then 100-10*4/6 equals

Solution 34

Detail As our problem (100/10)+(4*6)

Source Books & Self

15. Five persons - A, B, C, D and E are sitting in a row. Who is sitting in the middle if : (i) B is between E and C (ii) B is to the right of C (iii) D is between A and E

Solution E

Detail Combining the above three statement, we get the order as : C, B, E, D, A. Clearly, E is sitting in the middle.

Source Books, various websites and self examination

16. What is the number of squares in the following figure?

Solution 14

Detail Inner = 9, Inner with combination of 4 squares = 4, Outer most (combination of all 9 squares) = 1 , Total = 14


17. A is 3 years older to B and 3 years younger to C, B and D are twins. How many years older is C to D ?

Solution 6

Detail Since B and D are twins, so B = D.

Now, A = B + 3 and A = C - 3.

Thus, B + 3 = C - 3 D + 3 = C-3 C - D = 6.


18. Find the number which when added to itself 13 times gives 112

Solution 8

Detail Let the number be x. Then, x + 13x = 112 14x = 112 x = 8.


19. (A) Rahul at present is 25 years younger to his mother.

(B) Rahul's brother, who was born in 1964, is 35 years younger to his mother.

In which year was Rahul born ?

Solution Both A and B are sufficient

Detail From both I and II, we find that Rahul is (35 - 25) = 10 years older than his brother, who

was born in 1964. So, Rahul was born in 1954.


20. (A) One-fourth of the weight of each pole is 5 kg.

(B) The total weight of three poles is 20 kilograms more than the total weight of two poles.

What will be the total weight of 10 poles, each of the same weight ?

Solution Either A or B is sufficient

Detail From A, we conclude that weight of each pole = (4x5) kg = 20 kg.

So, total weight of 10 poles = (20 x 10) kg = 200 kg.

From B, we conclude that:

Weight of each pole = (weight of 3 poles) - (weight of 2 poles) = 20 kg.

So, total weight of 10 poles = (20 x 10) kg = 200 kg.








21. (A) The company sold 8000 units of product A each costing Rs. 25.

(B) This company has no other product line

How much was the total sale of the company ?

Solution Both A and B are sufficient

Detail From A, total sale of product A = Rs. (8000 x 25) = Rs. 200000.

From B, we know that the company deals only in product A.

This implies that sale of product A is the total sale of the company, which is Rs. 200000.


22. What is the number of triangles in the above figure?

Solution 14

Detail Single uncrossed Triangle = 6, Double crossed Triangle = 4, Triple crossed Triangle = 3, Four crossed Triangle = 1, (image attached)


23. What number should come next in the series : 2, 1, (1/2), (1/4), ......

Solution 1/8

Detail This is a simple division series; each number is one-half of the previous number.

In other terms to say, the number is divided by 2 successively to get the next result.

4/2 = 2

2/2 = 1

1/2 = 1/2

(1/2)/2 = 1/4

(1/4)/2 = 1/8 and so on.


24. What number should next in the series : 7, 10, 8, 11, 9, 12, .....

Solution 10

Detail This is a simple alternating addition and subtraction series. In the first pattern, 3 is added; in the second, 2 is subtracted.


25. Statement : No women teacher can play. Some women teachers are athletes.

Conclusions :

(A) Male athletes can play.

(B) Some athletes can play.

Solution Neither (A) nor (B) follows

Detail Since one premise is negative, the conclusion must be negative. So, neither conclusion follows.


26. Marathon : race : : hibernation : ...........

Solution Sleep

Detail A marathon is a long race and hibernation is a lengthy period of sleep. The answer is not

choice a or b because even though a bear and winter are related to hibernation, neither completes the analogy. (Choice c) is incorrect because sleep and dream are not synonymous.


27. 3G is :

Solution A generation of standards for mobile phone

Detail 3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) specifications by the International Telecommunication Union.








28. Latest processor from intel is :

Solution Core i5

Detail Latest processors are : Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Extreme , Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core i7 Extreme Edition


29. Full form of UPS is :

Solution Uninterruptible Power Supply

Detail An uninterruptible power supply, also uninterruptible power source, UPS or battery/flywheel backup, is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when the input power source, typically the utility mains, fails


30. RAM in present day computers is available in size of :

Solution GB

Detail


31. Operator overloading in (C++) is

Solution Some dispute in (1) and (4)

Detail No exact answer found from authentic source


32. In C++, a destructor takes

Solution

Detail Destructors are usually used to deallocate memory and do other cleanup for a class object and its class members when the object is destroyed. A destructor is called for a class object when that object passes out of scope or is explicitly deleted. A destructor takes no arguments and has no return type. Its address cannot be taken. Destructors cannot be declared const, volatile, const volatile or static. A destructor can be declared virtual or pure virtual.


33. In C++, a function contained within a class is called

Solution A member function

Detail


34. Fields in a class of a C++ program are by default

Solution Private

Detail


35. In 'C' language

Solution (A), (B) and (C) are correct

Detail In C language (A) Array stores data of the same type, (B) Array can be a part of a structure and (C) Array of structure is allowed.


36. In context of object oriented programming in visual basic, controls are

Solution Objects

Detail Objects are central to Visual Basic programming: Forms and controls are objects. Databases are objects








37. the location of the form on desktop (OOP in Visual Basic) during execution is

determined by the

Solution Form layout window

Detail The Form Layout window is just below the Properties window on the right side of the screen. It enables you to see just where a form will appear on the screen at runtime by visually positioning forms on the screen. The Form Layout window enables you to set the runtime position of one or more forms onscreen.


38. IDE is

Solution Integrated Development Environment

Detail An integrated development environment (IDE) (also known as integrated design

environment, integrated debugging environment or interactive development environment) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development


39. Java is platform independent because

Solution

Detail Although Java programs are cross-platform or platform independent, the code of the Java Virtual Machines (JVM) that execute these programs is not. Every supported

operating platform has its own JVM


40. Which of the following features is available in JAVA ?

Solution Both of (1) Applets (2) Swings

Detail Swing is the primary Java GUI widget toolkit. It is part of Sun Microsystems' Java Foundation Classes (JFC) — an API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Java programs.

A Java applet is an applet delivered to users in the form of Java bytecode. Java applets can run in a Web browser using a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), or in Sun's AppletViewer, a stand-alone tool for testing applets


41. Java differs from C++ because

Solution (A), (B), (C) are correct

Detail (A) Java does not support operator overloading (Java does not support user-defined

operator overloading), (B) Java does not use pointers (C) Java does not support global variables


42. Blu ray disc is

Solution An optical device

Detail Blu-ray Disc (official abbreviation BD) is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format.


43. How are HTM forms and X forms related?

Solution X Forms are new generation of HTML forms

Detail XForms is an XML format for the specification of a data processing model for XML data and user interface(s) for the XML data, such as web forms. XForms was designed to be the next generation of HTML / XHTML forms, but is generic enough that it can also be used in a standalone manner or with presentation languages other than XHTML to describe a user interface and a set of common data manipulation tasks.








44. When did X Forms 1.0 become W3e recommendation?

Solution since October 2003

Detail XForms 1.0 (Third Edition) was published on 29 October 2007. The original XForms specification was made an official W3C Recommendation on 14 October 2003, while XForms 1.1, which introduced a number of improvements, reached the same status on 20 October 2009.


45. Which one is correct ?

Solution XForms is both device and platform independent

Detail XForms is the forms standard in XHTML 2.0. The platform and device independent XForms enables the separation of data and logic from presentation.


46. Using Windows API, you can extend testing abilities and add usability and flexibility to your

Solution Both (1) tests and (2) function libraries

Detail The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces (APIs) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was formerly called the Win32 API. It extends testing abilities and add usability and flexibility to Tests and Function libraries.


47. In multiple document interface (MDI)

Solution All windows reside under a single parent window (except model window)

Detail Graphical Computer Applications with a multiple document interface (MDI) are those

whose windows reside under a single parent window (usually except for modal windows), as opposed to all windows being separate from each other (single document interface).


48. Disadvantage of MDI includes

Solution No exact answer found from authentic source

Detail

Source

49. DLL in windows is

Solution Dynamic-link library

Detail Dynamic-link library (also written without the hyphen), or DLL, is Microsoft's implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems. These libraries usually have the file extension DLL, OCX (for libraries containing ActiveX controls), or DRV (for legacy system drivers)


50. DLL is :

Solution A collection of small programs which can be called upon when needed by a program in execution

Detail DLLs are essentially the same as EXEs, the choice of which to produce as part of the linking process is for clarity, since it is possible to export functions and data from either. It is not possible to directly execute a DLL, since it requires an EXE for the operating system to load it through an entry point, hence the existence of utilities of rundll which provide the entry point and minimal framework for DLLs that contain enough functionality to execute without much support.


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