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1. What is the population of India ?

• 98 crores
• More than 2 billion
• More than 1 billion
• Less than 96 crores
• 96 crores

2. Thermostat is an instrument used to-----------

• measure flow of current
• measure intensity of voltage
• regulate temperature
• regulate velocity of sound
• None of these

3. Wimbledon Trophy is associated with-----------

• Football 
• Cricket
• Hockey 
• Basketball
• Lawn Tennis

4. GNP stands for--------

• Gross National Product
• Group Net Product
• Grand Nuclear Process
• Group Networking Process
• None of these

5. ‘Acoustics’ is the science of the study of-------

• Light
• Sound
• Electricity
• Magnetism
• None of these

6. Noise pollution is measured in the unit called-------

• micron
• nautical miles
• ohms
• ampere
• decibel

7. ‘Heavy Water’ is used in which of the following types of industries ?

• Sugar
• Nuclear Power
• Textile
• Coal
• None of these

8. Who amongst the following is the author of the book ‘Indomitable Spirit’?

• Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
• Dr. Manmohan Singh
• Justice K. G. Balakrishna
• Mr. Natwar Singh
• None of these

9. Which of the following is not the name of popular IT/Software Company ?

• Wipro
• Mastek
• Toyota
• IBM
• Infosys

10. ‘Yen’ is the currency of------

• South Korea
• China
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• None of these

11. Baichung Bhutia whose name was in news is a well known------

• Music Director of Indian films
• English author of Indian origin
• Journalist
• Politician
• Sports Personality

12. ‘Richter Scale’ is used to measure which of the following ?

• Intensity of Tsunami Waves
• Intensity of Earthquake
• Density of salt in Sea water
• Flow of electric current
• None of these

13. Which of the following best explains ‘e-governance’?

• Improving the functioning of government
• Teaching government employees the basics of computing
• Delivery of public services through internet
• Framing of cyber-laws of chatting on internet
• Convergence of e-mail and video-conferencing

14. CAS is associated with which of the following ?

• Legal System Reforms
• Piped gas line
• Cable T.V.
• Mobile phone regulation
• None of these

15. Tata Steel recently acquired the Corus, a steel giant situated in-------

• South Africa
• Ukraine
• Australia
• Italy
• Britain

16. Which of the following is the abbreviated name of the Organization/Agency working in the field of Space Research ?

• ISBN
• ISRO
• INTELSET
• INTACH
• None of these

17. ‘Handshaking’ in Networking parlance means

• connecting computers to a hub
• distributed Networks
• having same operating system on different computers
• sending e-mail
• None of these

18. VAT stands for

• Value And Tax
• Value Added Tax
• Virtual Action Tasks
• Virtual Assessment Technique
• None of these

19. Alzheimer’s disease is the ailment of which of the following organs /parts of the human body ?

• Kidney
• Heart
• Liver
• Stomach
• Brain

20. Global warming is a matter of concern amongst the nations these days. Which of the following countries is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the World ?

• U.S.A.
• China
• India
• Britain
• None of these

21. Which of the following books has been written by Bill Gates ?

• Microsoft Secrets
• The Road Ahead
• The Elephant Paradigm
• e-commerce
• None of these

22. Which of the following is the name of the social network service run by the Google on the internet ?

• Online Space
• Orkut
• Net-Space
• Wikipedia
• None of these

23. Which of the following states is a relatively new addition ?

• Goa
• Delhi
• Uttarakhand
• Himachal Pradesh
• Bihar

24. DOT stands for---------

• Disc Operating Therapy
• Department of Telephones
• Directorate of Technology
• Damage on Time
• None of these

25. Which of the following States/ parts of India is completely land locked having no contact with sea ?

• Karnataka
• Orissa
• Maharashtra
• North-East
• None of these

26. TRAI regulates the functioning of which of the following services ?

• Telecom 
• Trade
• Port 
• Transport
• None of these

27. At present for the ATMs in India, the most commonly used net-work communication mode is-------

• Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT)
• General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
• Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
• Dial-in Connection
• None of these

28. Which of the following is not a foreign bank operating in India ?

• DBS Bank Ltd.
• Sonali Bank
• J. P. Morgan Chase Bank
• Shinhan Bank
• All are Foreign Banks

29. Who is the author of the book ‘Future Shock’ ?

• Alvin Toffler
• Tom Peters
• Napoleon Hill
• Kenneth Blanchard
• None of these

30. Apex fares are---------

• more than the normal fare
• less than the normal fare
• offered only to corporate clients
• applicable to late night flights only
• applicable to international flights only

31. Who amongst the following is the Director of the film ‘Water’ which was in news ?

1. Vidhu Vinod Chopra
2. Mrinal Sen
3. Gulzar
4. Mahesh Bhatt
5. None of these

32. The 10th plan period is upto------

• 2007 
• 2008
• 2009 
• 2010
• None of these

33. OPEC is a group of countries which are--------

• exporting oil
• producting cotton
• rich and developed
• developing and poor
• nuclear powers

34. Intel Company mainly produces--------

• Hard disks
• VCDs
• Monitors
• Software
• None of these

35. Who amongst the following is the M.D./Chairman of one of the major Steel Companies ?

• Shri L. N. Mittal
• Shri K. K. Birla
• Shri Vijaypat Singhania
• Shri Mukesh Ambani
• Shri Anil Agarwal

36. Who is the President of Nasscom?

• Kiran Karnik
• Narayana Murthy
• Pramod Desai
• Devang Mehta
• None of these

37. Which of the following awards is not given for excellence in the field of literature ?

• Booker Prize
• Nobel Prize
• Pulitzer Price
• Arjun Award
• Bharatiya Gnanpith Award

38. ‘Singur’ which was in news is a place in-------

• Orissa
• West Bengal
• Jharkhand
• Bihar
• Maharashtra

39. Who amongst the following is the author of the book series named as ‘Harry Potter’ ?

• J. K. Rowling
• Lindsay Lohan
• Julia Roberts
• Sandra Bullock
• None of these

40. Which of the following Satellites recently dedicated to nation helps Direct to Home Television Service in India ?

• Matsat
• Edusat
• Insat–4B
• Insat–IB
• None of these

41. Many a times we read some news items about the ‘West Bank’. ‘West Bank’ is situated at the western side of the river--------

• Mississippi
• Amazon
• Nile
• Jordan
• None of these

42. Which of the following phenomenon is considered responsible for ‘Global Warming’ ?

• Greenhouse Gas Effect
• Fox Fire
• Dry Farming
• Radioactivity
• None of these

43. Which of the following instruments is not issued by a bank ?

• Demand Draft
• Pay Order
• Debit Card
• Credit Card
• National Saving Certificate

44. Name of Jyoti Randhawa is associated with which of the following games ?

• Golf
• Badminton
• Hockey
• Chess
• None of these

45. Which of the following Software Companies recently launched its education portal ‘Unlimited Potential’ in India ?

• Microsoft 
• Infosys
• Wipro 
• TCS
• None of these

46. Polly Umrigar who died was a well known----------

• Cricketer
• Tennis Player
• Golfer
• Chess Player
• Hockey Player

47. In India Census is done after a gap of every-------

• Five years
• Seven years
• Eight years
• Ten years
• Fifteen years

48. Prof. Muhammad Yunus the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2006 is the exponent of which of the following concepts in the field of banking ?

• Core Banking
• Micro Credit
• Retail Banking
• Real Time Gross Settlement
• Internet Banking

49. Who amongst the following was India’s official candidate for the post of UNO’s Secretary General ?

• Mr. Shyam Saran
• Dr. C. Rangarajan
• Mr. Shashi Tharoor
• Mr. Vijay Nambiar
• None of these

50. Mr. Gordon Brown has taken over as the Prime Minister of---------

• Italy
• Canada
• France
• South Africa
• Britain

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IBPS Computer & Professional Knowledge Model Questions

IBPS Specialist Officers Examination

Computer & Professional Knowledge Solved Questions

1.    This machine can replace the mainframes very soon

• Application servers    
• Workstations
• Pentium 
• Power PC

2.    What is the architecture that is used in PS/2 range of IBM computers ?

• ISA
• EISA
• MCA
• Local Bus

3.    MCA means

• Main Computer Architecture
• Micro Channel Architecture 
• Micro Chip Architecture
• Micro Computer Architecture

4.    Compared to CISC processors, RISC processors contain

• more registers and smaller instruction set  
• larger instruction set and less registers
• less registers and smaller instruction set
• more transistor elements

5.    What is an application server ?

• Network node that stores applications
• Software that  allows interchange application
• Multitasking operating system
• Network server currently available for use with large client-server systems.

6.    Choose the one which is coprocessor :

• 80287
• Graphic Accelerator
• Video Graphics Array
• Network adapter 

7.    Choose the one which is not necessary for a multimedia PC :

• Video Card
• Scanner
• CD-ROM
• All the above 

8.    80386 SX processor from Intel has

• 16 bit address bus and 32 bit data bus
• 16 bit address bus and 16 bit data bus
• 16 bit address bus and 64 bit data bus
• 8 bit data bus and 16 bit address bus 

9.    DIP switches are used to store system setup information in

• PC/AT 286
• PC/XT
• PC/AT 386
• Pentium

10.   Power PC is the latest in the PC market. it is 

• a less power consumption PC
• a microprocessor with Intel and Motorola compatible
• the latest model microprocessor from Intel
• a PC which can work both on Intel based (DOS and Unix) and Apple operating systems.

11.  What is data highway ?

• A road New York
• A network of on-line database
• A network into which subscriber machines can plug-in and communicate between one another
• An integrated network of communica-tion supporting data transfer, TV, cable, Telephone, Video Conferencing, Video on Demand and other communication services in one.

12.  Choose the company that does not use Motorola chips in their computers :

• APPLE
• HEWLETT-PACKED
• ATARI
• COMPAQ  

13.   Till recently all processors produced were complex instruction set computing (CISC) processors. The important reason for this was :

• memory was costly and access times were large 
• all problems required complex instructions
• software technology was not advances to do without complex instructions
• RISC processor technology was not available

14.  When RISC processors are used, this is true :

• compilers are complex 
• large number of processor instructions are used
• programs are more complicated than in CISC processors
• RISC cannot be used in high performance machines like graphic workstations and network servers.

15.  Choose the one which is not a property of RISC processor

• implements only instructions most used by programmers 
• timing constraints are eased since circuitry is simplified
• complex operations are implemented by software
• All of the above are properties     

16.   Choose the company which manufactures the multimedia accessory cards for :

• IBM
• Creative labs 
• Combaq
• Dell

17.   Frame Grabber cards are basically used for :

• capturing single frames from a video output 
• showing video in a window inside Windows
• used to download a single screen//frame from computer to a video
• capturing single screens in the computer while any display is on the screen.

18.   Video capture can be done presently with a Video card, using the following program :

• Video for Windows
• Windows Media Player
• CI Manager
• Microsoft Reader

19.   The following programs in Windows is used for recording sound using a sound card :

• Media Player
• Sounder
• Multimedia Extensions
• Recorder

20.    In any windows program, the video clips recorded as AVI files can be directly played using the following features :

• GUI functions
• Kernel functions
• MCI functions
• Video functions

21.    The register which keeps track of the execution of a program and which contains the memory address of the instruction currently being executed is known as

• Index register
• Memory address register
• Program counter
• Instruction register

22.  The register which holds the address of the location to or from which data are to be transferred is known as

• index register
• instruction register
• memory address register 
• memory data register 

23.   If some device requires urgent service, normal execution or programs may sometimes by preempted using.

• an interrupt signal
• a request to memory modules
• DMA
• All of the above 

24.  The register which contains the data to be written into or readout of the addressed location is known as

• index register 
• memory address register
• memory data register
• program counter 

25.   A single bus structure is primarily found in

• Main frames
• Super computers
• High performance machines
• Mini and micro computers

26.   In which of the following terminals the screen is regarded as an array of pixels, where each pixel is either on or off.

• Character map terminal
• bit map terminal
• RS-232 terminal
• All of the above

27.   On of the main feature that distinguish microprocessors from micro-computers is

• Words are usually larger in micro-processor
• Words are shorter in micro-processors
• Microprocessors does not contain I/O devices
• Computer are not fully integrated

28.   Microprocessor can be used to make

• Computers
• Digital Systems
• Calculators
• All the above

29.   In a generic microprocessor, instruction cycle time is

• shorter than machine cycle time
• larger than machine cycle time    
• exactly double the machine cycle time
• exactly the same as the machine cycle time.

30.    What tape of control pins are needed in a microprocessor to regulate traffic on the bus, in order to prevent two devices from trying to use it at the same time.

• Bus control
• Interrupts
• Bus arbitration
• Status

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