General Awareness 2010

1. The Union ministry of information & broadcasting has constituted a committee to review existing television rating point system (TRP) in India. Who is the head of the committee?

a)Rajiv Mehrotra b)Neeraja Choudhary c)D S Mathur d)Amit Mitra e)none

2. With which country India has signed an agreement for Rs 10,500 crore official development assistance (ODA)?

a)US b)France c)Japan d)UK e)Germany

3. According to the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), India is the ____ most eco-friendly nation with the best pollution control measures and natural resource management?

a)88^th b)123^rd c)134^th d)143^rd e)none

4. Who won the Saraswati Samman 2009 award?

a)Naiyer Masud b)Lakshmi Nandan Bora c)Jagannath Prasad Das d)Surjit Paatar e)none

5. Girija Prasad Koirala has passed away. He was the former ______________?

a)President of Nepal

b)President of Bangladesh

c)Prime Minister of England

d)Prime Minister of Bangladesh

e)none(Prime Minister of Nepal)

6. Which state in India is the largest producer of cotton?

a)Maharashtra b)Haryana c)Gujarat d)Andhra Pradesh e)none

7. What is the slogan of Census 2011?

a)Our Country, Our Future

b)Our Census, Our Future

c)Our Country, Our Census

d)Our Country, Our Population

e)none

8. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has recently passed away. Who is he?

a)Former President of India

b)Former Vice President of India

c)Former Prime Minister of India

d)Both a & b

e)none

9. The Fourteenth G-15 summit was held in _________?

a)Cuba b)Indonesia c)Egypt d)Iran e)Srilanka

10. In which party, popular South Indian actress Khushboo joined politics in may 2010?

a)Congress b)DMK c)MDMK d)AIADMK e)none

11. Government is planning to provide education loans at _____ percent interest rate to help students from weaker sections of society to pursue higher studies?

a)1% b)2% c)3% d)4% e)none

12. Deandra Dottin scored the first century in a 2010 woman's Twenty20 World Cup held in West Indies. He plays for which country?

a)West Indies b)England c)South Africa d)New Zea land e)none

13. World Press Freedom day is observed on?

a)April 3^rd b)May 3^rd c)June 3^rd d)July 3^rd e)none

14. Which state in India to launch country’s first mobile lok adalat to reach specifically rural poor to settle litigation at their doorstep without any cost to them?

a)Kerala b)Gujarat c)Tamilnadu d)Maharashtra e)Andhra Pradesh

15. Which Indian state had become the first state in the entire Asian sub-continent to pay for the procurement of plastic waste?

a)Andhra Pradesh b)Uttar Pradesh c)Himachal Pradesh d)Arunachal Pradesh e)none

16. According to a list compiled by the Forbes magazine, which Indian city has been named among the world's top ten billionaire cities?

a)Delhi b)Bangalore c)Pune d)Mumbai e)none

17. Which of the following has become India's First state to be declared as "Smoke Free State" on World No Tobacco day?

a)Uttaranchal b)Kerala c)Gujarat d)Assam e)Sikkim

18. Who among the following is India’s highest individual taxpayer?

a)Asim Ghosh b)Mukhesh Ambani c)Analjit Singh d)Indrani Patnaik e)none

19. How many teams are participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup?

a)8 b)12 c)16 d)24 e)32

20. India announced a target of constructing _____km of road per day in the country in order to fill in the road infrastructure deficit.

a)20km b)30km c)15km d)10km e)none

Current Affairs.

Current Affairs.

· Defending champions India and South Korea were declared joint winners of the Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey tournament as the summit clash between the two teams was called off due to rain.

· State-owned SAIL is mulling over setting up a steel project, at an estimated cost of Rs 60,000 crore, in Jharkhand.

· India's top industrialist and Chairman of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata has received the 2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian Award for his outstanding global leadership, vision and professional excellence.

· The UPA government has received seven points out of ten for its performance from India Inc from a majority of the 500 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), surveyed by industry chamber Assocham.

· Dr Ratan Kumar Sinha, closely associated with the design and development of India's first thorium-based Advanced Heavy Water Reactor, will be the new Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC). Sinha will take over from Dr S Banerjee, who had been holding the post of BARC director and Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).

· Aravane Rezai defeated Venus Williams to win Madrid title 2010.

· Reliance Industries said it has entered into an agreement with Russia's leading petrochemical firm, SIBUR to form a joint venture in India to produce butyl rubber.

· The government will consider a proposal for setting up the country's first financial services sector special economic zone (SEZ). Diversified corporate entity GMR Group has submitted a proposal to the Center for setting up this international financial services-focused SEZ in Hyderabad.

· India and Russia will hold a joint military drill nicknamed Indra-2010 with the involvement of more than 150 Russian servicemen from the motorized mountain infantry brigade.

· Haryana will soon have a large scale bio gas plant and bottling facility for use in cooking, transport and fertilizers.

· Chief Minister Narendra Modi claimed that Gujarat has merged as the number one state in agriculture growth in the country. According to him, two factors have helped the state in agriculture sector, irrigation through check dams and canals, and use of technology in the farm sector.

· Australian schoolgirl sailor Jessica Watson sailed into history, becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop and without help.

· In a bid to ward off fresh UN sanctions being pushed by the US, Iran announced it would ship 1,200 kgs of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey in a nuclear fuel swap deal. Under the new deal, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, Iran will ship 1,200 kg of uranium enriched to low levels to Turkey to trade it for fuel rods containing uranium enriched to higher levels.

· Defense Minister A.K. Antony left for Oman on a two-day visit to reinforce India's bilateral security ties in the Gulf region where other major powers, including China, have deepened their strategic military cooperation.

· National Dinosaur Fossil Park would be set up in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh where more than 100 dinosaur eggs, estimated to be more than 6.5 crore (65 million) years old.

· Rima Fakih who belongs to Michigan, was crowned the new Miss USA 2010.

· UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Christiana Figures of Costa Rica to be the next head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

· The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved immediate disbursement of USD 1.3 billion of financial assistance to Pakistan, as it noted that the country's vulnerability remains high.

· Filmmaker Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury's National-award-winning film 'Antaheen' has been selected as the only Indian entry for competition in 13th Shanghai International Film Festival.

· Underworld don and India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai bombings, figures third on the Forbes' Most Wanted list which has been topped by Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden. The list, carried in the latest edition of the Forbes magazine, also has Mexico's most powerful drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman in no.2.

LIC officer GK Paper - 2010

LIC officer GK Paper - 2010

1. Which one of the following is not an insurance provider in India?

:NSDL

2. Whcih one of the following is not a policy provided by LIC?

A)Mahalife Gold Plan

3. The regulatory body for Insurance in India is?

:-IRDA

4. The author of the book “The White Tiger”?

:-Arvind Adigga

5. Who has won the man booker prize?

:-Alice Munro

6. Where was the SAARC summit held in 2010?

:Bhutan

7. The Indian tennis player who was a part of a team who won a category in Australian Open 2010?
:-Leander Paes

8. LIC is going on paperless from 2011, what does it mean?

:-All activities will be carried out in electronic form.

9. Which is the only Public sector Life insurance provider in India?

:-LIC

10. Who won the Indira Gandi Peace Prize in 2009?

:-Prime Minister of Bangladesh

11. Which one of the following is a term related to cricket?

:-Silly Point

12. Which one of the following is not related to finance or banking?

:-Amnesty

13. The national award given in the field of sports?

:-Arjun Award.

14. Who among the following is not a winner of PadmSree Award?

:-Lalit Modi

15. Who among the following is not a winner of National Film Awards?

:-Shilpa Shetty.

16. What is the meaning if maturity date in policies by LIC?

:-The date on which the contract between the company and the person insured is going to expire.

17. What is the meaning of insurance?

:-Mutal payment contract to cover a particular risk.

18. Rs.16,500 crores has been provide to banks under Union budget 2010-11 for?

:-To strengthen their capital base

19. The term ULIP(recently in news) is associated with?

:-Insurance companies

20. The financial body which frames Monetary and Financial policy in India?

:-RBI

GENERAL AWARENESS

1. SLR – Statutory Liquid Ratio.
2. Project Tiger is launched by – GOI.
3. Pronab Sen – Chief Statistician of India.
4. Term not associated with Football – Love.
5. Movie not related to A R Rehman – Fashion.

6. Name of the third base at Antarctica – Bharti.

7. Dada Saheb Phalke Award Winner – V K Murthy.
8. V K Singh is appointed as – Chief of Indian Army.
9. Lin Dan is related to which sport – Badminton.
10. World Water Day is observed on – March 22nd.
11. European Footballer of the Year 2009 – Lione Messi.
12. Kawasaki is related to the products of – Motor cycles.
13. Which organization put global taxes on all banks – IMF.
14. Which of the following is a health care scheme – ASHA.
15. Benchmark prime lending rate is changed as – Base Rate.
16. How many crores are allocated for PSB’s – 16,500 crores.
17. Who is not a winner of Padma Shri – Abhishek Bachchan.
18. Who won the Nobel Prize 2010 in Literature – Herta Muller.
19. P M Manmohan Singh left Bhutan to attend – SAARC Summit.
20. GOI has started 2nd Green revolution in – North Eastern States.
21. Which Indian Bank has highest number of foreign branches – SBI.
22. Scheme under Ministry of Food and Civil Suppliers – Mid Day Meal.
23. What is Per capita income on the current prices in India – Rs 37000.
24. Winner of 58th Mens National Volleyball Championship – Tamilnadu.
25. Which country won the Under-19 Cricket World Cup – Australia.
26. Which of the following is not a chemical fertilizer – Sodium Sulphate.
27. Who is the author of the book Many Lives Many Masters – Brian Weiss.
28. Private Banks won higher profits in 4th quarter bcoz – banks have No NPA’s.
29. Tata Power to produce heat of energy of the earth – Geo Thermal Energy.
30. Which of the following is not abbreviated in Water Shed Programmes – VHND.
31. Which of the following reasons Uranium is not exported to India from Australia – Bcoz did not signed the NPT and CTBT signatories.
32. Type of inflation if middle class persons earn more money in India – Demand Pull Inflation.
33. To which of the following programmes 100 crores are granted to meet the specific needs of women farmers – Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana.
34. RBI hiked 0.25% of CRR, what is the next step taken by banks – To keep a portion of amount with RBI which does not gain any interest.
35. Rs 1,200 crore are allocated for drought mitigation in which of the following – Bundelkhand Region.
36. Which of the following is a fundamental right to every child in India – Right to Education.
37. Which of the following award is given by Government – Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.
38. Banks charge taxes form the services of – Issuing DD’s, Pay order’s and E-transfer of Money.
39. Some banks have reported slightly higher NPA’s than in normal, what will reason for this – Loans given by banks had become bad loans.
40. Strategy that will focus on involving the civil society in responsible parenthood strategy under Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh – Prerna.
41. SEBI has asked all FIIs to divulge the structure of their offshore entities, why did SEBI did that – to restrict overseas fund-flows into equity markets.
42. RBI says Rupee Over valued, what it means? – The rupee has lost only against the dollar but appreciated against other currencies.
43. Agriculture and its related activities contributes how much percentage to GDP – 17%.
44. How many paise does GOI earn in one rupee by taxes – 23 p corporation tax+9p income tax++ 6p service tax=48p

COMPUTER AWARENESS 2010-11

1. For the purposes of defining data needs, a responsibility area is

a) Marketing b) Personnel c) Administration d) Finance e) None

2. The problem statement should include all of the following except:

a) Input. b) Output. c) Processing d) Storage e) None

3. Hot mail, a free web-based email service operated by which company

a) Apple b) Rediff c) Microsoft d) Yahoo e) Google

4. A collection of 4 binary digits is known as

a) Half Bit b)1/2 KB c) Byte d) Nibble e) None

5. How many types of arithmetic operations does the ALU of all computers perform?

a) 2 b) 4 c) 6 d) 8 e) 5

6. Which of the following is not a part of the CPU?

a) Arithmetic and Logic Unit

b) Storage Unit

c) Program Unit

d) Control Unit

e) None

7. Which of the following is not a unit of measurement in computer systems?

a)DPI b)PPI c)API d)Bd e)MB

8. In Windows XP, which shortcut is used to cycle through opened items in task bar?

a) Ctrl + Tab

b) Alt + Tab

c) Ctrl + Esc

d) Alt + Esc

e) None

9. A digital computer compute the value of expression 2 * 5 - 2 >2 inside

a) RAM b) CPU Chip c) Hard Disk d) Floppy Disk e) MS-Excel

10. To produce a high-quality graphics (hard copy) in color, you would want to use a

a)Virtual Printer b)Laser Printer c)Ink-jet Printer d)Plotter e)RGB Monitor

11. Which of the following is fastest memory ?

a) DDR RAM b) DDR2 RAM c) DDR3 RAM d) Swap Memory e) Buffer Memory

12. Which protocol is used by operating system to generate error message like

‘Host Unreachable’ over a TCP/IP network?

a) HTTP/1.1 b) ICMP c) PPP d) ICGM e) TCP/IP

13. What does SNMP stands for?

a) Simple Network Mail Protocol

b) Single Network Mail Protocol

c) Single Network Message Protocol

d) Simple Network Management Protocol

e) None

14. On a school computer, Tina learned how to copy programs. A classmate asked her to copy a program for his home use. Her most ethical response would be which of the following?

a) I'll copy it, but you have to promise not to tell anyone.

b) I don't know how to copy disks.

c) I can't copy it because it will break copyright laws.

d) I'll copy it for you, but you can't copy it for anyone else.

e) None

15. Which of the following is not true?

a)LOGO stands for Live On Google’s Orkut

b)BIOS is a system software

c)GRUB is a Linux bootloader

d)Ruby is a web scripting language

e) LILO is a Linux boot loader

16. What is the function of Drop Cap?

a) It does not allow capital letters to be used in the documents.

b) It makes first letter of each word capital letter in the documents

c) It lets you begin a paragraph with a large dropped initial capital letter.

d) It automatically starts all paragraphs and sentences with capital letters.

e) None

17. What is Mail-Merge?

a) a web based e-mail service with no spam

b) a name of Yahoo! MINDSET search feature

c) a new virus-hoax which can delete data from mail-inbox

d) a feature of MS-Word used to create multiple documents like letters,

mailing labels, name tags etc.

e) None

18. In MS-Excel 2003, the default workbook sheet contain maximum………

a) 65535 Rows b) 65536 Rows e) 1048576 Rows e) 65537 Rows c) None

19. In MS-Word, a menu item in dim color (gray) indicate that the menu is ?

a) Toggle Menu

b) Unavailable for current context

c) Not much required menu

d) Over Used Menu

e) None

20. Hot-Key is a

a) Fire Wire port

b) Alternate Key

c) Keyboard Shortcut

d) Primary Key

e) None

Note: Submitted by Satish kumar.