CARITOR Placement Paper - General Awareness Questions

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1. NASA's Kepler mission discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. These planets are called ___ and ___.
   

   (a) Kepler-20e; Kepler-20f (Ans)

   (b) Kepler-20a; Kepler-20b

   (c) Kepler-20c; Kepler-20d

   (d) Kepler-20m; Kepler-20n

2. 16. Name the gene found by the neuroscientists, which could help in creating and altering memory.
   

   (a) Mpas4

   (b) Npas4 (Ans)

   (c) Npas3

   (d) Mpas2

3. 17. As per the report compiled by British-based firm Maplecroft, which one of the following countries is the top greenhouse gas emitter?
   

   (a) India

   (b) USA

   (c) China (Ans)

   (d) Japan

4. 18. Scientists produced artificial human semen to help infertile men.
   Consider the following statements:
   

   (i) The scientists grew the sperm by enveloping the germ cells in a special compound called agar jelly.

   (ii) The artificial human semen could help infertile men father their own children.

   Choose the right option:

   (a) Both (i) and (ii) are correct (Ans)

   (b) Only (i) is correct

   (c) Only (ii) is correct

   (d) Neither (i) nor (ii) is correct

5. 19. India registered a __ per cent increase in tiger population in 2010, according to a report, "Status of Tigers, Co-Predators and Prey in India-2010," released on 28 July 2011.
   

   (a) 20

   (b) 30 (Ans)

   (c) 15

   (d) 12

6. 20. A Japanese supercomputer, K Computer built by Fujitsu Co., grabbed the title of the world's best-performing machine, thereby returning Japan to the top of the computer arms race for the first time in seven years. Which is the other name by which K Computer is known?
   

   (a) Earth Simulator

   (b) Riken (Ans)

   (c) Jaguar

   (d) Tianhe-1A

7. 21. In UNIX, which command is used to change the protection mode of files starting with the string 'emp' and ending with 1, 2, or 3?
   

   (A) Chmod u+x emp[1-3] (Ans)

   (B) Chmod 777 emp*

   (C) Chmod u+r ??? emp

   (D) Chmod 222 emp ?

   (E) None of these

8. 22. The variables which can be accessed by all modules in a C program are known as:
   

   (A) Local variables

   (B) Internal variables

   (C) External variables

   (D) Global variables (Ans)

   (E) None of these

9. 23. Which computer memory is used for storing programs and data currently being processed by the CPU?
   

   (A) Mass memory

   (B) Internal memory (Ans)

   (C) Non-volatile memory

   (D) PROM

   (E) None of these

10. 24. A record that follows a group of related records and contains data relevant to those records is called as:
    

    (A) Trailer record (Ans)

    (B) Traffic record

    (C) Transaction record

    (D) Transducer

    (E) None of these