Kerala PSC OPEPC ASSITANT 2010

1. Where did Budda born .......

(A) Lumbini (B) Kusinagara (C) Pavapuri (D) Magadha

1. The decimal equivalent of binary number 110 is

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 110 (D) 6

2. The video game console 'X box' is a product of ?

(A) Microsoft (B) Sony (C) Intel (D) Sega

4. What does ICANN stand for?

(A) International centre for Agro Nutrients and Nourishment (B) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (C) Indian Council for Algorithm, Numbers and Notions (D) International Council for Approved, Names and Numbers,

5. "Lisbon Treaty" is the treaty accepted /adopted by the members of which of the following organisations recently?

(A) NATO (B) European Union (C) SAARC (D) NSG

6. Who is called the "Grand Old Man of India"?

(A) Mahatma Gandhi (B) Gokhale (C) Dadabhai Naoroji (D) Tilak

7. Which chemical compound is commonly known as 'washing soda'?

(A) Sodium Carbonate (B) Copper Sulphate (C) Calcium Carbonate (D) None of these

8. Who became the first India to present a Golden Globe Award?

(A) A.R. Rahman (B) Sharukh Khan (C) Resul Pookutty (D) Akshay Kumar

9. The age of tree can be determined by?

(A) Measuring its heighjt (B) Measuring its diameter (C) Analysing its sap (D) Counting the annua! growth rings of its stem

10. Which one of the following is essentially a solodance?

(A) Kuchipudi (B) Mohi in iyattam (C) Manipuri (D) Kathak

11. Who is the author of the book, The Man Who Divided India?

(A) Arun Shourie (B) Dominique Lapierre (C) Raffq Zakaria (D) Salman Rushdie

12. Which European country is known as the 'Land of a thousand lakes'?'

(A) Finland (B) England (C) Switzerland (D) Sweden

13. Who is the author who created the character 'Sherlock Homes"?

(A) Dr. Joseph Bell (B) Wendell Scherer (C) Agatha Christie (D) Sir Arthur conan Doyle

14. The first non-congres Prime Minister of India was ?

(A) Lai Bahdur Shastri (B) Deve Gowda (C) Morarji Desai (D) V.P- Singh

15. When there is one buyer and many sellers in a market-what is this situation called?

(A) Monopoly (B) Oligopoly (C) Monopsony (D) Monotony

16. "The World's local bank" is the tag line of which bank?

(A) ABN Amro (B) Standard Chartered Bank (C) Hong Kong and Shangai Banking Corporation (D) City Bank

17. Who was the first Indian Governor - General of India?

(A) Lord Mountbatte;n (B) Rajagopalachari (C) Rajendra Prasad (D) None of these

18. What does a Phillumenist collect?

(A) Old Coins (B) Flags of various nations (C) Match box labels (D) Empty cigarette boxes

19. Which of the following is not a leap year?

(A) 2100 (B) 2000 (C) 2152 (D) None of these

20. Who was the first woman chief Minister in India ?

(A) Nandini Satpati (B) Shasikala Kodokar (C) Vijay Laxmi Pandit (D) Sucheta Kripalani

21. Where is the Head Quarters of International Labour Organisation located?

(A) Rome (B) Vienna (C) Geneva (D) Berne

22. Who was the chief guest at India's 60th Republic Day celebrations on 26th January, 2009?

(A) Nursulthan Nazarbeyev (B) Nicholas Sarkozi (C) Zilur Rahman (D) Dmitry Medvedev

23. What do the letters XP stands for in the product Microsoft XP?

(A) Experience (B) Extended Performance (C) Enhanced product (D) Entry level product

24. Which city will host the 2012 Olympic Games?

(A) Chicago (B) Paris (C) Athens (D) London

25. Who captained the Pakistan side which won the ICC World Twenty 20 champion ship 2009?

(A) Shoaib Malik (B) Shahid Afridi (C) Inzaman Ul Haq (D) Younis khan

26. Who won the Kendra Sahitya Academy Award in 2008 for the collection of es-says-'Madhuram Ninte Jeevitham' in Malayalam?

(A) Madhavikutty (B) K.P. Appan (C) M.T. Vasudevan Nair (D) M.P. Veerendrakumar

27. Human Rights Day is celebrated on ?

(A) October 24 (B) May l (C) December 10 (D) July 22

28. Who won India's first ever .individual Olympic gold medal ?

(A) Milkha Singh (B) Abhinav Bindra (C) Leander Paes (D) Jaspal Rana

29. What is the name of the instrument used to measure blood pressure?

(A) Sphygmomanometer (B) Hygrometer (C) Hydrometer (D) Endoscope

30. The Oscar winning film I Slumdog Millionaire' was written by ?

(A) Danny Boyle (B) Chris Dickens (C) Anthony Dod Mantle (D) Simon Beaufoy

31. My aunt or my uncle................by train today.

(A) are arriving (B) is arriving (C) were arriving (D) was arriving

32. I have got to................the watch I bought yesterday as it is not working.

(A) put back (B) take back (C) give back (D) pay back

33. ...........wins the lottery will become a millionaire.

(A) Who (B) Whom (C) Whoever (D) Whomever

34. He went to the meeting inspite of

(A) fell ill (B) feel ill (C) feeling ill (D) to feel ill

35. I forgot to send them a map. However

(A) cancelled the trip (B) they still got there (C) they got lost (D) I forgot to phone them

36. The treaty was ratified by all the member states. ---------

(A) anulled (B) unsettled (C) set aside (D) destroyed

37. Everybody was astonished when he used such a profane language -------

(A) pure (B) sacred (C) high (D) profound

38. She was surprise by his amiability ----------

(A) prudence (B) petulance (C) pessimistic (D) sincerity

39. The Ex-Prime Minister exchanged reminiscenes with his former aides

(A) thoughts (B) comments (C) anecdotes (D) recollections

40. The party secretary was in a candid mood, the words sharp, the personality portraits merciless.

(A) bitter (B) cruel (C) frank (D) lively

41. Find the missing term in the series 100,102,105,110,117,?

(A) 126 (B) 127 (C) 128 (D) 129

42. If' /' 'stands for 'multiplication,'+' stands for division, 'X' stands for subtractiol and '-' stands for 'addition', which one of the following equations is correct?

(A) 18 6 x 7+5-2=20 (B) 18 x 6+7 5-2=14 (C) 18 186-7+5x2=20 (D) 18+67x5-2=18

43. Seismology is related to Earthquakes in the same way as Histology is related to

(A) History (B) Tissues (C) Hormones (D) Fossils

44. Find the next term in the alphanumeric series : J2K, B3N, L4M, DSP, N60,

(A) E7R (B) F7Q (C) F7R (D) F7P

45. Choose the word which is least like the other words in the group,

(A) Virgo (B) Libra (C) Pisces (D) Orion

46. If PIPING is coded as PIPGNl and NEARER as AERNER, then STRONGER coded as:

(A) RTSONREG (B) RSTOREGN (C) ORSTREGN (D) ORTSREGN

47. In a certain language 'erp tan sib' means drinking is harmful 'gou rod tan' meansl 'avoid harmful habit' and 'rod sib ley' means 'please avoid drinking' which of tha following means 'habit' in that la

(A) sib (B) rod (C) tan (D) gou

48. Choose the missing term out of the alternatives : ADVENTURE, DVENTURE, DVENTUR, VENTUR,

(A) DVENT (B) VENTU (C) ENTUR (D) EVNTU

49. Statements are given followed by same conclusions. Decide which of the conclusions logically follows. Disregard commonly known facts : (a) Statements : Some buckets are drinks. All drinks are cups. C

(A) Only III and IV follow (B) Only II and IV follow (C) Only II and III follow (D) Only 1 and II follow

50. Pointing to a lady in a photograph, Josna said, "Her son's father is the son-in-law of my mother". How is Josna related to the lady?

(A) Mother (B) Aunt (C) Sister (D) Cousin

51. The generation in which the major innovation in microprocessor :

(A) First (B) Second (C) Third (D) Fourth

52. Which one of the following is a secondary storage device.

(A) RAM (B) ROM (C) Hard disk (D) EEPROM

53. Hard disk and floppy disk are :

(A) Direct acess devices (B) Sequential acess devices (C) Slower than magnetic tape (D) None of these

54. Which one of the following is a part of CPU.

(A) Printer (B) Keyboard (C) Mouse (D) ALU

55. The software used for translating high level language to machine language :

(A) Compiler (B) Assembler (C) Operating system (D) Translator

56. Running a program using more than one CPU is called

(A) Multiuser (B) Multiprocessing (C) Multitasking (D) Multithreading

57. One of the following is not an external command of MSDOS :

(A) CHKDSK (B) FORMAT (C) PATH (D) FDISK

58. You can press this key to delete one character to left.

(A) Delete key (B) Left arrow key (C) Back space key (D) Space bar key

59. Which of the following software is most suitable for marking balance sheet of a company ?

(A) DBMS (B) Spread sheet (C) Word Processor (D) High level language

60. In a computer center the network used to connect all computers together is :

(A) LAN (B) WAN (C) MAN (D) None of these

61. Pictorial representation of a data processing procedure :

(A) Array (B) Table (C) Algorithm (D) Flowchart

62. The people who are responsible for keeping the log books and doing other paper works related to Input Out put devices connected to the computer and handle these devices :

(A) Programmer (B) System analyst (C) Computer operator (D) Computer maintenance personnel

63. Which of the following is equal to 1 MB?

(A) 1000 KB (B) 256 KB (C) 2048 KB (D) 1024KB .

64. Data item whose value may change during the execution of the program:

(A) Variable (B) Constant (C) Stack (D) Database

65. Set of protocols developed to provide transmission and addressing for internet:

(A) TCP/IP (B) FTP (C) HTTP (D) SMTP

66. A commonly used data format for exchanging information between computers or programs:

(A) ANSI (B) ASCII (C) EBCDIC (D) BCD

67. Each instruction of program in memory will be executed by CPU through :

(A) decode-fetch-execute sequence (B) fetch-execute-decode sequence (C) execute-store-decode sequence (D) fetch-decode-execute sequence

68. Which of the following is not an application software?

(A) Spread sheet (B) Word processing (C) Linux (D) None of the above

69. In windows a temporary storage area used to hold information that is being transferred from one program (document) to another is :

(A) Clipboard (B) Buffer (C) Memory (D) Swap

70. What is the feature available in word processing package to automatically insert names addresses and other text into designated locations in series of letters?

(A) Word wrap (B) Block move (C) Mail merge (D) Page layout

71. In UN IX the command used to remove file is

(A) erase (B) delete (C) rm (D) dm

72. What is the expansion of ISDN?

(A) Indian Standard Digital Network (B) Integrated Services Digital Net-work (C) Intelligent Services Digital Network (D) Integrated Services Data Network

73. In any hierarchy of data organisation, the smallest entry to be processed as a single unit is called:

(A) Data file (B) Data record (C) Data base (D) Data fieId

74. Bus is used for carrying digital signals and it is a collection of:

(A) Wires (B) Gates (C) Flipflops (D) Transistors

75. One of the following gate is known as invertor:

(A) NOT (B) OR (C) NAND (D) AND

76. Hard copy can be prepared by :

(A) Line printer (B) Plotter (C) Type writer terminal (D) All of these

77. Combination of four bite is known as

(A) Half bite (B) Nibble (C) Data (D) None of these

78. Term associated with the comparison of processing speeds of different computer systems is

(A) Kbps (B) Cps (C) MIPS (D) Mhz

79. Parity bit is added for the purpose

(A) Coding (B) Indexing (C) Error detection (D) Controlling

80. The Ex-Prime Minister exchanged reminiscenes with his former aides,

(A) thoughts (B) comments (C) anecdotes (D) recollections

81. What is meant by dedicated computer?

(A) Which is used by one person only (B) Which uses one kind of software (C) Which is assigned with one and only one task (D) Which is meant for application software only.

82. What type of computer programming is used for railway ticket reservation system

(A) Multiprogramming (B) Real time programming (C) Time sharing (D) Batch processing

83. A data file which is used for reference purposes by an application program is

(A) Field (B) Master file (C) Transaction file (D) All the above

84. The only language understood by a digital computer is .

(A) Assembly language (B) high level language (C) Low level language (D) Binary language

85. Computer virus can multiply and spread from one computer to another by means of

(A) Infected disk (B) Links to a network (C) Down loaded programs from internet (D) All of these

86. The high level language best suited for business application is

(A) BASIC (B) COBOL (C) FORTRAIN (D) C+ +

87. Visual display terminal hardware with built in microprocessors that are used programmable is called

(A) Smart terminals (B) Intelligent terminal (C) Dump terminal (D) None of these

88. The decimal equivalent of binary number 110 is

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 110 (D) 6

89. Double precision variable can occupy

(A) 2 bytes (B) 4 bytes (C) 8 bytes (D) 10 bytes

90. A pixel is

(A) A computer program that draws a picture (B) The smallest resolvable part of a picture (C) A picture stored in secondary memorial (D) None of these

91. What is the term which represents the use of links between information of all sorts whether text, graphics, video or audio based?

(A) Daisy wheel printer (B) Laser printer (C) Injet printer (D) Chain printer

92. The large planet is :

(A) Earth (B) Pluto (C) Jupiter (D) Saturn

93. Set of commands used to extract data from a database meeting certain specified criteria is called

(A) Assembly languages (B) Query language (C) High level language (D) Machine language

94. All the instructions and procedures neede to start up a computer to the point it can load operating system are stored in semiconductor chips. In IBM compatible PCs this chip is called

(A) RAM BIOS (B) ROM BIOS (C) POST (D) CACHE

95. What happens when you print a worksheet range that is wider than the printer page width?

(A) It prints only those columns that fit on the page (B) It automatically print the worksheet in condensed mole. (C) It prints each worksheet page in two or more pages on printer (D) All of these

96. In a flow chart the symbol used to make calculation is

(A) Parallelogram (B) Rectangle (C) Circle (D) Rhombus

97. The software used to look for and retrieve material on the internet, particularly the web

(A) Telnet (B) Search engine (C) Browser (D) None of these

98. The simultaneous transmission of data to a number of stations

(A) Broadcast (B) Bandwidth (C) Aloha (D) Analog transmission

99. The technique used for transferring large amount of data to and from a memory in a short time

(A) DMAA (B) Interrupt driven 1/10 (C) Programmed 1/0 (D) None of these

100. The operating system manages

(A) Memory (B) Processor (C) Disk and 1/0 devices (D) All of the above