SOLVED PAPER OF ASSISTANT GRADE-II IN KERALA FOREST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD, EXAM HELD ON 15/10/2009
1. Who captained the Pakistan side which won the ICC world Twenty 20 Championship 2009?
Younis Khan
2. Who won the Kendra Sahitya Academy award in 2008 for the collection of essays ‘Madhuram Ninte Jeevitham’ in Malayalam?
K.P.Appan
3. Human Rights Day is celebrated on :
December 10
4. Who won India’s first ever individual Olympic gold medal?
Abhinav bindra
5. What is the name of the instrument used to measure relative humidity?
Hygro meter
6. The Oscar winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” was written by :
Simon Beaufoy
7. Who is the author who created the character “Sherlock Holmes”?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. The first Non-congress Prime Minister of India was :
Morarji Desai
9. When there is a market dominated by a small number of sellers-what is this situation called?
Oligopoly
10. “High Performance Delivered” is the tag line of which company?
Accenture
11. Who was the first Indian Governor General of India?
C.Rajagopalachari
12. What does a Numismatist collect?
Coins
13. Which chemical compound is commonly known as “Quicklime”?
Calcium Oxide
14. Who became the first Indian to present a Golden Globe Award?
Shahrukh Khan
15. The age of a tree can be determined by :
Counting the annual growth rings of its stem.
16. Which one of the following is essentially a solo dance?
(a) Kuchipudi (b)Kathak (c)Mohiniattam (d)Manipuri
Ans:Mohiniattom
17. Who is the author of the novel “Alchemist”?
Paulo Coelho
18. Which European country is known as the “Land of the Midnight Sun”?
Norway
19. Where did Budha die?
Kusinagara
20. The video game console “Wii” is a product of ?
Nintendo
21. J.D.Power is a name associated with:
An automobile customer survey organization
22. What does ICANN stand for?
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
23. “Lisbon Treaty” is the treaty accepted/adopted by the members of which of the following organizations recently?
(a)NATO (b) SAARC (c) NSC (d) European Union
Ans: European Union
24. Who is called the “Frontier Gandhi”?
Khan Abdul Ghaffer Khan
25. Which of the following is not a leap year?
(a)2152 (b)2000 (c)2100 (d)None of these.
Ans: 2100
26. Who was the first woman Chief Minister in India?
Sucheta Kripalani
27. Where is the Headquarters of Amnesty International located?
London
28. Who was the chief guest at the India’s 60th Republic Day celebrations on 26th January, 2009?
Nurusultan Nazarbeyev
29. What do the letters XP stand for in the product Microsoft XP?
Experience
30. Which country will host the 2010 FIFA World Cup?
Brazil
Choose appropriate word or expression to complete the following sentences:
31. I promised to --------- her daughter next week when she is at work.
(a) Take off (b)look for (c)look after (d)take after
Ans: Look after
32. The union and management have been ------------- ever since management proposed issuing new contracts.
(a) At loggerheads (b)at cross-purposes(c)get in touch(d)fighting a losing battle
Ans: At loggerheads
33. The box of books ----------- yesterday
(a) were opened (b)was opened (c) had opened (d)had been opened
Ans: was opened
34. ----------- do you think will win the award?
(a)Who (b)Whom (c)Whoever (d)Whomever
Ans: Who
35. A car and a bike ----- my means of transportation.
(a) had (b)will (c)are (d) is
Ans: is
36. The drug will have pernicious effect on your health.
(a) quick (b)sturdy (c)beneficial (d) prolonged
Ans: beneficial
37. Some people questioned the veracity of her story.
(a) morality (b)propriety (c) truthfulness (d)falsity
Ans: falsity
Select one word that is closest in meaning to the bold word in the sentence:
38. Business had been liquidating inventories at the rate of five billion dollars a year:
Ans: converting into cash
39. Directory Clouzot producers at the movie’s climax, just about the most gruesome scene ever shown on film.
Ans: horrifying
40. There is a significant statistical difference in the incidence of rheumatic fever in people with different blood types:
Ans: range of occurrence
41. Find the missing number 567,668,769………
870
42. In the series 4,12,36,….. What will be the 5th term?
324
43. Four boys are sitting on a bench to be photographed. Ram is to the left of Ravi. Reghu is to the right of Ravi. Rajan is between Ravi and Reghu. Who would be second from the left in the photograph ?
Rajan
44. ‘A’ can do a piece of work in 20 days. ‘B’ can do the same work in 30 days. If A and B do the work jointly, in how many days can they complete the work?
12 days
45. The mean of 80 numbers is 82.4. Later three numbers 16, 20, 11 were excluded from the list. What is the mean of the remaining numbers?
85
46. A barrel containing Kerosene is 80% full. If the barrel contains 120 litre of Kerosene, after draining out 25% of the quantity, find the capacity of the barrel?
200 litre
47. If ABCDE is represented as PQRST if PQRST is represented as VWXYZ, then what is the representation for ASTER?
VYZZX
48. Find the missing term.
ABX, DEU, GHR,…….
JKO
49. Each student in a class of 40, studies at least one of the subjects Geography, Physics and Biology. 16 study Geography, 22 Physics and 26 Biology, 5 study Geography and Physics, 14 Biology and Physics and 2 Geography, Physics and Biology. Find the number of students who study Geography, Physics but not Biology?
5
50. In a railway compartment 8 seats are vacant. In how many ways can 3 passengers sit on them?
336
51. A byte is made up of:
Eight binary digits
52. Radix in a hexadecimal system is:
Sixteen
53. Computer memory consist of:
(a)ROM (b)RAM (c)DRAM (d)All of the above
Ans: All of the above
54. A high speed memory used for temporary storage:
(a)Bus (b)RAM (c)Register (d)All of the above
Ans:Register
55. One Kilobyte represents:
1024 bytes
56. Maximum locations that can be addressed with 8 bits is:
256
57. Which display standard has highest resolution?
(a)VGA (b) EGA (c) SVGA (d) CGA
Ans:SVGA
58. EPROM is a:
Random access memory
59. CACHE is a part of :
Memory Unit
60. A compiler is a :
Program which translates high level language to machine language.
61. Which one is portable?
(a)Machine Language
(b)Assembly Language
(c) High Level Language
(d) None of the above
Ans: High level language
62. Example for an Operating system is :
(a)FORTRAN (b)COBOL (c)BASIC (d)Linux
Ans:Linux
63. Microsoft Excel is a :
Spreadsheet Package
64. Which one is an open source operating system?
(a)FORTRAN (b) UNIX (c) Windows (d) Linux
Ans:Linux
65. Laser printer technology is based on :
Creating static electrical image of the document.
66. Data is read from a CD using a :
Laser beam
67. The software that is used to generate an executable file from object files is known as :
Linker
68. Which of the following is used for data transmission through telephone lines?
(a)Router (b)Gateway (c)MODEM (d)Bridge
Ans: MODEM
69. Which of the following software is used for Desk Top Publishing?
(a)Auto Cad (b) Page Maker (c) Notepad (d)FoxPro
Ans: Page Maker
70. A micro processor has a unique:
Machine Language
71. The errors that can be pointed out by a compiler are :
Syntax errors
72. Which of the following is correct?
(a) A ROM is a random access memory
(b) Address space of a micro processor is determined by its data bus.
(c) Flash memory is volatile
(d) All of the above.
Ans: A ROM is a random access memory
73. In a “C’ program which function is executed first?
Main( )
74. The third layer in the ISO/OSI network architecture is the:
Network Layer
75. In simplex mode, data transmission is :
Unidirectional
76. In a computer network resource sharing is controlled by :
Servers
77. Which one of the following is a data input function in ‘C’ language?
(a)printf()
(b)scanf()
(c) malloc()
(d)None of the above
Ans: Scanf()
78. The name of an array in C language implies:
Address of the first element.
79. Indicate the false statement:
(a)Flow chart is a graphical representation of an algorithm.
(b)SRAM is faster than DRAM
(c)Interpreter is faster than compiler
(d) C is a case sensitive language
Ans: Interpreter is faster than compiler
80. Minimum number of arguments to be passed to a function:
0
81. The size of a character variable is :
1 byte
82. Primary objective of a real time computer system is :
Fast response
83. In the OSI -7 layer model a router device works at the :
Network Layer
84. An operating system that supports multi-user environment:
(a)Linux (b)Unix (c)Windows NT (d)All of the above
Ans: All of the above
85. A device that connects two LANs.
Bridge
86. A node on a computer network can be a:
(a)Server (b)Printer (c)workstation (d)Any of the above
Ans: Any of the above
87. In an office network which resources are shared?
(a) Data (b) Hardware (c)Software (d)All of the above.
Ans: All of the above
88. A topology in which all nodes are connected in a single cable is known as :
Bus
89. Computer programs those copies itself repeatedly in memory or on a network is known as :
Worm
90. Internet transmission usually use:
TCP/IP
91. Decimal equivalent to hexa decimal number 10 is :
16
92. Virtual memory techniques make use of a part of the :
Secondary memory
93. A term used to compare processing speed of different computers is :
MIPS
94. Range of signed numbers that can be stored in an 8 bit register is :
-128 to 127
95. HTTP stand for :
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
96. MODEM is a :
A device for modulation and demodulation
97. Which of the following is an object oriented language?
(a)FORTRAN (b) COBOL (c) PASCAL (c)C++
Ans: C++
98. Which of the following is not a web browser?
(a)Internet Explorer
(b)Google
(c)Netscape
(d)Mozilla
Ans: google
99. What is the key board shortcut for pasting an object?
Ctrl + v
100. Error in a computer program are called:
Bugs.
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