Daily GK Update 26th August 2017

1. Nungthaang Tampak- North East's First 100% Computer Literate Village

i. Manipur's Nungthaang Tampak village has emerged as the '100 percent computer literate' not only in the state but in the entire North East. The computer course was organized by Mangal Rural as a part of the Digital India program.

ii. Nungthang Tampak has become India's second 100 percent computer literate village. Kerala's Chamravattom village is the country's first 100 percent computer literate village.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• N Biren Singh is the present CM of Manipur.
• Dr. Najma Heptulla is the present Governor of Manipur.

2. E-waste Disposal from Schools Kicks Starts in Kerala

i. E-waste removal from Kerala schools has begun with about 12,500 kg being disposed statewide on a single day under a programme aiming to clear accumulated junk, reportedly estimated at over one crore kg.

ii. It is aimed at disposing e-Waste such as desktop computers, CRT monitors, laptops, disk drives, printers, UPS, camera, speaker system, television, network components and generators from 10,000 odd schools and educational offices in the state.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Pinarayi Vijayan is the Present CM of Kerala.
• Palaniswamy Sathasivam is the Present Governor of Kerala.

3. Jammu and Kashmir Government to Set Up First Eco-Pak

i. The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to build an Eco-Park on over 34 acres of land reclaimed from encroachers in the state's Rajouri district.

ii. The park is a first-of-its-kind project in the region. It will have a botanical garden, a cactus garden, a cafeteria and other amenities.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed is the present CM of Jammu and Kashmir.
• N. N. Vohra is the Present Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.

4. CA Institute Signs MoU with ICA Nepal

i. The CA Institute of India has signed an MoU with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal (ICAN). Nilesh Vikamsey, President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and Prakash Jung Thapa, President--ICAN exchanged the MoU.

ii. The MoU seeks to establish mutual co-operation for the advancement of accounting knowledge, professional and intellectual development, advancing the interests of their respective members and positively contributing to the development of the accounting profession in Nepal and India. 

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Bidhya Devi Bhandari is the present President of Nepal.
• Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal.

5. Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik Launches Rooftop Solar Program

i. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the grid-connected rooftop solar project through net-metering system. He also launched the web portal of the rooftop solar programme– www.rtsodisha.gov.in.

ii. Under the program, it can install solar plants on their rooftops and consume the generated solar power during the day time. The investment on a rooftop solar system is about Rs 70,000 per kw. The state government will provide 30 percent subsidy to the consumers.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• S C Jamir is the Present Governor of Odisha.

6. In a First, Nepal launches Climate-Smart Snow Leopard Plan

i. In a first, Nepal launched its climate-smart snow leopard landscape management plan, leading the way in safeguarding this endangered species, also found in India, and its habitat.

ii. This is the first climate-smart landscape management plan for snow leopard conservation in the world. The plan aims to safeguard the endangered species of snow leopard and its habitat.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Leopard is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
• Sher Bahadur Deuba is the present PM of Nepal.

7. RBI Appoints Committee to Link Home Loan Rates to Repo Rate

i. Reserve Bank of India appointed committee on Household Finance has suggested that banks link their home loan rates to the RBI's repo rate, the rate at which it lends to banks.

ii. In the past three years the central bank has reduced the policy rate by 200 basis points, but the weighted average lending rates have fallen by 145 basis points.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• RBI Headquarters in Mumbai.
• The 24th Governor of RBI is Dr. Urjit Patel.

8. Coast Guard Training Ship Varuna Decommissioned

i. The Indian Coast Guard Ship Varuna, which was part of the First Training Squadron of the Navy, was decommissioned with full armed forces honors at a ceremony. The ship had an illustrious service spanning about 30 years.

ii. ICGS Varuna was the fourth of in its class of offshore patrol vessels built by the Mumbai-based Mazagon Dock. The ship had numerous operational achievements to its credit, including a record number of apprehension of smugglers with gold worth crores of rupees during the late 1980s.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• ICGS Varuna has now been replaced by ICGS Sarathi in the First Training Squadron of the Indian Navy.

9. Commerce Ministry Sets Up Task Force on Artificial Intelligence

i. Commerce and industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman has constituted a task force on artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure “India’s economic transformation”. The task force will be headed by V. Kamakoti, a professor in the department of computer science and engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

ii. The committee will focus on a wide spectrum of areas including agriculture and transportation. The panel will comprise 18 experts, academics, researchers and industry leaders and will explore possibilities to leverage AI for development across various fields.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Artificial intelligence is intelligence exhibited by machines, rather than humans or other animals.

10. England to Host 2018 ITTF Team World Cup

i. England has been awarded the right to host the 2018 Table Tennis Team World Cup, which will be held in London. The event will take place at the Copper Box Arena in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from 22-25 February 2018.

ii. It will be the first major table tennis-only event to be held in London since Wembley hosted the 1954 World Championships. A total of 12 men's and 12 women's teams will compete at the event.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Thomas Weikert is the president of ITTF.

Study notes on "Clouds and its types"

Study notes on "Clouds and its types" (part 1)

CLOUD

A cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water and/or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body.

In general, clouds form when rising air is cooled to its dew point (the temperature at which

the air becomes saturated). Water vapour normally begins to condense on condensation

nuclei such as dust, ice, and salt in order to form clouds. If sufficient condensation particles are

not present, the air will become supersaturated and the formation of cloud or fog will be inhibited The cloud formation is generally due to adiabatic cooling.

Sources of water vapour 

The main sources from which water vapour is added to the air are: 

• wind convergence over water or moist ground into areas of upward motion, 
• precipitation, 
• daytime heating leading to evaporation of water from the surface of oceans, 
• water bodies or wet land and
• transpiration from plants Significance of clouds

Clouds are very significant because:

•  They cause all forms of precipitation.
•  They play a major role in the heat budget of the earth.
•  They reflect, absorb some part of incoming solar radiation as well as some part of long-wave terrestrial radiation reradiated by the earth

Types of CLOUDS:

1. Cirrus clouds: These clouds form above 20,000 feet (6,000 meters) and since the temperatures are extremely low at such high elevations, these clouds are primarily composed of ice crystals. High-level cloud are typically thin and white in appearance, but can appear in a magnificent array of colours when the sun is low on the horizon.

2. Cirro-cumulus: These clouds appear as small, rounded white puffs. The small ripples in the cirrocumulus sometimes resemble the scales of a fish. A sky with cirrocumulus clouds is sometimes referred to as a "mackerel sky."

3. Cirro-stratus: These clouds are thin, sheetlike high clouds that often cover the entire sky. They are so thin that the sun and the moon can be seen through them.

TO BE CONTINUED

Study Notes on El Niño and La Nina

El Niño 

El Nino happens when weakening trade winds (which sometimes even reverse direction) allow the warmer water from the western Pacific to flow toward the east. This flattens out the sea level, builds up warm surface water off the coast of South America, and increases the temperature of the water in the eastern Pacific.An El Nino condition results from weakened trade winds in the western Pacific Ocean near Indonesia, allowing piled-up warm water to flow toward South America.Since fish can no longer access this rich food source, many of them die off. That is why, these conditions are called "El Nino", or "the Christ Child", which is what Peruvian fisherman call the particularly bad fishing period around December. More importantly, the different water temperatures tend to change the weather of the region.

La Nina

If, on the other hand, the surface trade winds strengthen and with it the east-west slopes and along with it the east-west oceanic temperature gradients the resulting weather pattern leads to an anti-El Niño, that is often referred to as La Niña. Such events are characterized by a high positive Southern Oscillation Index (i.e. an increased westward pressure gradient over the  equatorial Pacific), stronger surface trade winds over the central Pacific, and cooler SSTs in the eastern equatorial Pacific. Such a weather pattern, on the other hand, is associated with increased cyclone activity in the western Pacific, off shore of eastern Australia, the Phillipines, and the western Atlantic region.

Quant Quiz

1.What least number must be subtracted from 5731625, to get a number exactly divisible by 3546?

(a) 1189

(b) 1829

(c) 1289

(d) 1982

2.Find the least number of 5 digits which is exactly divisible by 456. 

(a) 10456

(b) 10424

(c) 10032

(d) 10023

3.Find the number which is nearest to 68624 and exactly divisible by 587. 

(a) 68679

(b) 69156

(c) 68569

(d) 68689

4.Find the number nearest to 144759 and exactly divisible by 927.

(a) 144906 

(b) 144612 

(c) 144169

(d) 144621

5.Find the greatest number of 5-digits, which is exactly divisible by 547. 

(a) 99456 

(b) 99554 

(c) 10545

(d) 99545

6.What least number must be added to 954131, to get a number exactly divisible by 548? 

(a) 63 

(b) 563

(c) 485

(d) 611

7.What least number be subtracted from 6501 to get a number exactly divisible by 135?

(a) 21

(b) 12

(c) 35

(d) 53

8.What least number be added to 5200 to get a number exactly divisible by 180. 

(a) 160 

(b) 60

(c) 20

(d) 180

9.Find the number which is nearest to 6555 and exactly divisible by 21. 

(a) 6558

(b) 6576 

(c) 6552 

(d) 6534 

10.Find the number which is nearest to 8845 and exactly divisible by 80. 

(a) 8890

(b) 8810

(c) 8800

(d) 8880

Answers: 
1.c
2.c
3.a
4.b
5.b
6.c
7.a
8.c
9.c
10.d

QUIZ-26

Q1. NASA has launched the latest in a series of satellites aimed at ensuring astronauts at the International Space Station can communicate with Earth. In which year NASA was established?

(a) 1945

(b) 1979

(c) 1951

(d) 1958

(e) 1969

S1. Ans.(d)

Sol. NASA launched the latest in a series of satellites aimed at ensuring astronauts at the International Space Station can communicate with Earth. The $408 million Boeing-made Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-M) soared into space atop an Atlas V rocket that launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA was established in 1958.

Q2. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the country grew by 37 percent to USD _________ during the first quarter (April-June) of the current fiscal. 

(a) USD 56.1 billion

(b) USD 10.4 billion

(c) USD 43.2 billion

(d) USD 34.3 billion

(e) USD 25.6 billion

S2. Ans.(b)
Sol. Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country grew by 37 percent to USD 10.4 billion during the first quarter of the current fiscal. According to the figures of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), India had received USD 7.59 billion FDI during April-June 2016-17.

Q3. The board of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has given 'in-principle' approval to acquire government's 51 (point) 11 percent stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL). Registered Office & Corporate Headquarters of HPCL is in- 

(a) Nagpur

(b) New Delhi

(c) Kolkata

(d) Chennai

(e) Mumbai

S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. The board of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp, ONGC, has given 'in-principle' approval to acquire government's 51 (point) 11 percent stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd. The government had approved the sale of its 51.11 percent stake in oil refiner HPCL to India's largest oil producer ONGC. The deal will be completed within a year. Registered Office & Corporate Headquarters of HPCL is in Mumbai.

Q4. A digital police portal under the CCTNS project, which aims to create a national database of crimes and criminals has launched by Home Minister Rajnath Singh. What is the meaning of "T" in CCTNS?

(a) Tracking

(b) Trafficking

(c) Travelling

(d) Terminating

(e) Transporting

S4. Ans.(a)
Sol. A digital police portal under the CCTNS project, which aims to create a national database of crimes and criminals has launched by Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The digital police portal will provide the citizen, facility for online complaint registration and request for antecedent verification. CCTNS stands for Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems Project or the crime and criminal tracking network system.

Q5. Keeping up its tradition of naming its Android upgrades with delectable desserts, _________ has launched its version 8.0 of the operating system as Android Oreo.

(a) Infosys

(b) Yahoo

(c) Google

(d) Dell

(e) Apple

S5. Ans.(c)
Sol. Keeping up its tradition of naming its Android upgrades with delectable desserts, Google has launched its version 8.0 of the operating system as Android Oreo. The Oreo boasts of a two times faster boot speed, autofill option, and a longer battery life. The new update comes with a Picture-in-Picture feature that allows the user to see two apps simultaneously.

Q6. Which of the following company will invest about Rs 52,000 crore in expanding Paradip refinery in Odisha and setting up petrochemical complex after the Odisha State Government agreed to restore part of tax incentives?

(a) Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)

(b) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC)

(c) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)

(d) Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)

(e) Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL)

S6. Ans.(a)
Sol. State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) will invest about Rs 52,000 crore in expanding Paradip refinery in Odisha and setting up petrochemical complex after the Odisha State Government agreed to restore part of tax incentives. Odisha Government has agreed to restore part of tax incentives and has agreed to give Rs 700 crore per annum of an interest-free loan for 15 years to make up for the withdrawn incentive.

Q7. Name the person, who has sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister (CM) of Tamil Nadu recently?

(a) C Vidyasagar Rao

(b) O Panneerselvam

(c) Edappadi K Palanisamy

(d) V K Sasikala

(e) None of the given options is true

S7. Ans.(b)
Sol. O Panneerselvam has on 21 August 2017 sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister (CM) of Tamil Nadu, following the much-speculated merger of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) factions.

Q8. NABARD has sanctioned a loan assistance of nearly _______________ to the Rajasthan government for the creation of rural infrastructure in the state under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF). 

(a) Rs 2,300 crore

(b) Rs 5,350 crore

(c) Rs 1,350 crore

(d) Rs 4,730 crore

(e) Rs 3,210 crore

S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. The National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned a loan assistance of Rs 1,349.55 crore to the Rajasthan government for the creation of rural infrastructure in the state under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF).

Q9. Name the player, who becomes the second Indian woman footballer to win the Arjuna Award?

(a) Margaret Devi

(b) Sangita Basfore

(c) Panthoi Chanu

(d) Oinam Bembem Devi

(e) Sasmita Malik

S9. Ans.(d)
Sol. Oinam Bembem Devi, the flag bearer of Indian women's football for over the past two decades was named the winner of the prestigious Arjuna Award. Bembem becomes the second Indian woman footballer to win the award, the first being Shanti Mullick in 1983.

Q10. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has constituted a 40-member 'review committee’ for the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2017. IFFI 2017 is scheduled to be held in-

(a) New Delhi

(b) Nagpur

(c) Hyderabad

(d) Mumbai

(e) Goa

S10. Ans.(e)
Sol. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry on 21 August 2017 constituted a 40-member 'review committee’ for the International Film Festival of India 2017, which is going to be held in Goa. While filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has been chosen as the convenor of the committee. International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is scheduled to be held in Goa from 20–28 November 2017.

QUIZ-26

Q1. Who has clinched her maiden Wimbledon title?
Answer: Garbine Muguruza

Q2. The government has launched a GST training programme to skill around two lakh youths in six months to handle tax compliance issues like invoice making. The people would be trained under-
Answer: PMKVY

Q3. UNICEF appointed Indian- origin Canadian YouTube star _________ as its newest Global Goodwill Ambassador at a special event in New Delhi.
Answer: Lilly Singh

Q4. Name the person, who has been cleared for appointment as the Attorney General for India following the decision of Mukul Rohatgi to step down as the top law officer?
Answer: K K Venugopal

Q5. Matunga station has now become the first such ladies special station. Matunga station is located in _______ Suburban Railway network.
Answer: Mumbai

Q6. The 18th edition of the International Indian Film Academy Awards was held recently in _____________.
Answer: New York

Q7. Roger Federer has recently won the Wimbledon title after defeating _____________.
Answer: Marin Cilic

Q8. The Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee (PHSC) has recently endorsed Justice ______________ for the post of Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
Answer: Gopal Prasad Parajuli

Q9. Name the Indian Squash player who has recently won Victorian Open squash, a PSA Tour event, Austraila.
Answer: Harinder Pal Sandhu

Q10. Name the Indian Cueist who has recently won the first National Masters snooker tournament title in Chennai.
Answer: I H Manudev

Q11. Dal Lake has hosted first ever 'Cultrue of Cruise'- a weeekly cultural programme organised by the _____________ government aimed to bring artists from various fields on one stage. 
Answer: Jammu and Kashmir

Q12. Who has won the Wimbledon mixed doubles final 2017?
Answer: Jamie Murray and Martina Hingis

Q13. Nelson Mandela International Day (or Mandela Day) is an annual international day in honour of Nelson Mandela, celebrated each year on-
Answer: 18th July

Q14. The book titled "Future of Indian Universities: Comparative and International Perspectives" at Rashtrapati Bhavan has released recently. This book released by-? 
Answer: Amartya Sen

Q15. Which Indian cities will host global business meet in November 2017?
Answer: Kolkata

QUIZ-26

Q1. Which state has become the first state in the country to fix minimum educational qualification for contesting cooperative body polls?

Answer: Rajasthan

Q2. The first country to host the Theatre Olympics was _________.

Answer: Greece

Q3. Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has recently launched an ambitious flagship program titled LIFE. What does 'I' stands for in LIFE?

Answer: Intervention

Q4. Which lender has recently waived charges for fund transfer of up to Rs 1,000 through its IMPS (Immediate Payment Service) to promote small transactions?

Answer: SBI

Q5. YES Bank, along with YES Global Institute has recently launched ‘YES GST’ program for ________________.

Answer: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Q6. BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) have entered into a partnership to explore collaboration opportunities for solar rooftop. The Chairman of TERI is ______________.

Answer: Ashok Chawla

Q7. Which tech-giant has recently acquired Bangalore-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm Halli Labs?

Answer: Google

Q8. Tata Sons has recently appointed ___________ as the conglomerate's Chief Digital Officer.

Answer: Aarthi Subramanian

Q9. In a first move, India has granted USD 500000 to which of the following country to fight against terrorism groups?

Answer: Philippines

Q10. Kishore Sansi has been recently conferred the ‘Personality of the Year’ award by Skoch Consultancy Services. He is Managing Director and CEO of ____________.

Answer: Vijaya Bank

Q11. Raipur’s Airport was ranked first in Customer Satisfaction among 49 airports in the country. What is the name of Raipur Airport?

Answer: Swami Vivekananda Airport

Q12. Name the javelin throw player who has recently won gold in World Para Athletics Championships 2017 in London.

Answer: Sundar Singh Gurjar

Q13. Indian Railways launched an integrated mobile application to cater to various passenger requirements over and above ticket booking. The app is called as _____________.

Answer: Rail Saarthi

Q14. Mukesh Kumar Jain has been recently appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of _______________.

Answer: Oriental Bank of Commerce

Q15. What is the ranking of India on a global index that assesses the performance of countries towards achieving the ambitious sustainable development goals (SDGs)?

Answer: 116

COMPUTERS

Q1. Which of the following is an example of application software? 
(a) Microsoft Windows
(b) Linux
(c) Mac OSX
(d) MS Word 2007
(e) None of these

S1. Ans. (d)
Sol. MS Word 2007 is application software.

Q2. Mozilla Firefox is a: 
(a) Spreadsheet
(b) Word processing software
(c) Web browser
(d) Programming software
(e) None of these

S2. Ans. (c)
Sol.  Mozilla Firefox is a web browser.

Q3. _____ is usually recorded and played, displayed, or accessed by information content processing devices, which as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of live performance. 
(a) Virus
(b) BIOS software
(c) Multimedia
(d) C++
(e) LAN

S3. Ans. (c)
Sol. Multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (Video), animation, audio, and any other media where every type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally.

Q4. Which of the following appropriately relates with starting up an operating system?  
(a) Starting
(b) Entering
(c) Formatting
(d) Booting
(e) None of these

S4. Ans. (d)
Sol. Booting is a start up sequence that starts the operating system of a computer when it is turned on. A boot sequence is the initial set of operations that the computer performs when it is switched on. Every computer has a boot sequence.

Q5. In MS-DOS 6.22, which part identifies that product uniquely?
(a) MS
(b) DOS
(c) Ms - DOS
(d) 6.22
(e) None of these

S5. Ans. (d)
Sol. MS-DOS 6.22; 6.22 is the version number which identifies it uniquely.

Q6. DOS stands for _____. 
(a) Disk Orientation system
(b) Disk Operating Signal
(c) Disk Operating System
(d) Disk Orientaional Signal
(e) None of these

S6. Ans. (c)
Sol. DOS stands for Disk Operating System

Q7. Android is a mobile operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.  Which among the following was the first Android Operating System?
(a) Cupcake
(b) Alpha
(c) Gingerbread
(d) Doughnut
(e) Oreo

S7. Ans.(b)
Sol. Alpha was android version 1.0 released on 23rd September 2008. Android is continually developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), and has seen a number of updates to its base operating system since the initial release. The latest version on Android is Oreo – version 8.0

Q8. Which among the following key combination can be used to search in Windows Explorer?
(a) Ctrl+F
(b) Ctrl+S
(c) Ctrl+G
(d) Alt+S
(e) None of the above

S8. Ans.(a)
Sol. Ctrl+F is the short cut key combination that can be used to search in Windows Explorer.

Q9. A router is a networking device that forwards data packets and is connected to two or more data lines from different networks. Which among the following was the earliest device which had almost the same functionality as that of a router? 
(a) Interface Delay Device
(b) Interface Traffic Manager
(c) Interface Routing Processor
(d) Interface Message Processor
(e) Interface Data Manager

S9. Ans.(d)
Sol. The very first device that had fundamentally the same functionality as a router does today was the Interface Message Processor (IMP); IMPs were the devices that made up the ARPANET, the first TCP/IP network.

Q10. A vacuum tube (also called a VT, electron tube or, in the UK, a valve) is a device sometimes used to amplify electronic signals.  Vacuum Tubes were used in which generation of Computers?
(a) 1st Generation
(b) 2nd Generation
(c) 3rd Generation
(d) 4th Generation
(e) 5th Generation

S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. First Generation computers are characterized by the use of vacuum tubes. These vacuum tubes were used for calculation as well as storage and control. Later, magnetic tapes and magnetic drums were implemented as storage media. The first vacuum tube computer, ENIAC, was developed by US army ordinance to calculate ballistic firing tables in WWII. It had about 17 000 vacuum tubes.

Q11. What converts high-level languages into machine language?  
(a) Complier
(b) Assembler
(c) Operating System
(d) CPU
(e) Browser

S11. Ans.(a)
Sol. A complier is used to translate a program written in a high-level language to a machine language by compiling the entire program in one go.

Q12. Which of the following electronic devices processes data, converting it into information? 
(a) Computer
(b) Memory
(c) Case
(d) Stylus
(e) None of these

S12. Ans.(a)
Sol. A computer is an electronic device that accepts and stores data input, processes the data input, and returns as information.

Q13. Twisted pair wire is commonly used in which of the following? 
(a) Telephone networks
(b) Cable TV networks
(c) Computer networks
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above

S13. Ans.(a)
Sol. Twisted pair wires are used in telephone networks and for digital data transmission over short distances up to 1 km.

Q14. In network topology, all devices on a network are connected to a single continuous cable called:
(a) Star
(b) Ring
(c) Bus
(d) Tree
(e) Mesh

S14. Ans.(c)
Sol. The bus topology is also known as linear topology. This type of topology was used in traditional data communication networks. In this topology, a host located at one end of the bus (or the central node) communicates with all the other nodes attached along its length.
 
Q15. A term for retrieving software or other files on your computer from a computer network or Internet.
(a) Upload
(b) Download
(c) Sharing
(d) Mailing
(e) Editing

S15. Ans.(b)

Sol. Download refers to the process of obtaining software or other files on your computer from a computer network or the Internet.