Insurance - General Awareness Questions - 1

Insurance – General Awareness Questions - 1

1.           -------bits equal one byte
(a)    Eight      (Ans)
(b)    Two
(c)    One thousand
(d)    One million

2.           ------- controls the way in which the computer, responsible for processing data
(a)    The platform
(b)    The operating system      (Ans)
(c)    Application software
(d)    The motherboard

3.       The ---- also called the "brains" of the computer, is responsible for processing data
(a)    Motherboard
(b)    Memory
(c)    RAM
(d)    Central processing Unit (CPU)      (Ans)

4.       The operation system is the most common type of -----software
(a)    Communication
(b)    Application
(c)    System       (Ans)
(d)    Word –processing

5.       When you quickly press and re-lease the left mouse button, twice, you are -------
(a)    Primary - Clicking
(b)    Pointing
(c)    Double -clicking      (Ans)
(d)    Secondary – clicking

6.       The horizontal and vertical lines on a worksheet are called ------
(a)    Cells
(b)    Sheets
(c)    black lines
(d)    gridlines      (Ans)

7.       To delete an incorrect character in a document, -------- to erase to the right of the insertion point
(a)    Press the left mouse key  
(b)    double-click the right mouse key
(c)    press the BACKSPACE key
(d)    press the delete key      (Ans)

8.       The 'Hollerith' code is used with :
(a)    Magnetic tape
(b)    Punched card      (Ans)
(c)    Floppy disk
(d)    Paper tape

9.       Volatile memory means:
(a)    Fixed memory
(b)    Can make changes
(c)    Content will lose if power fails      (Ans)
(d)    Cannot be erased

10.    A 'T State' means:
(a)    Portion of operation in a cycle      (Ans)
(b)   Total time to execute an instruction
(c)    Time to complete one machine cycle
(d)    Operations performed for an instruction

11.   Diamond is harder than graphite because
(a)    its tetrahedral structure
(b)    Difference in layers of atoms
(c)    Difference of crystalline structure      (Ans)
(d)    Being dried in the sun

12.   A foreign particle that stimulates the formation of antibodies is called a/an
(a)    Receptor
(b)    Histone
(c)    Antibiotic
(d)    Antigen      (Ans)

13.   The function of the tongue in snakes is to ---- the food.
(a)    Detect
(b)    Smell      (Ans)
(c)    Catch
(d)    Taste

14.   An enzyme that work in an acidic medium is
(a)    Maltose
(b)    Trypsin
(c)    Pepsin      (Ans)
(d)    ptyalin

15.   How many pairs of salivate glands does the human body have?
(a)    8
(b)    6
(c)    5
(d)    3      (Ans)

16.   Wilson's disease is caused by an excess in the human body of
(a)    Cobalt
(b)    Copper      (Ans)
(c)     Iron
(d)    Sodium

17.   The specific test for the detection of tuberculosis is the -----test.
(a)    Kahn's
(b)    Widal's
(c)    Robert's
(d)   Monteux’s      (Ans)

18.   Mirage is an optical illusion caused by
(a)    Reflection
(b)    Refraction
(c)    Total internal reflection      (Ans)
(d)    Scattering

19.   Which of the following regulates the amount of light entering the eye by adjusting the size of the pupil?
(a)    Ciliary muscles
(b)    Retina
(c)    Iris      (Ans)
(d)    none of these

20.    In a dry cell, the depolarizer is
(a)    MnO₂          (Ans)
(b)   NH₄CL
(c)    ZnCL₂
(d)    none of these