Kerala PSC| Solved Paper - Junior Assistant in Kerala State Industrial Enterprises Ltd. | Date of Exam: 17.01.2009

1. India has the world’s largest deposits of : Mica

2. The first Indian state to introduce the Panchayth Raj System : Rajasthan

3. The tenure of Rajya Sabha Member is : 6 Years

4. Who has won the Global Diversity Award November 2005 : Aiswarya Rai

5. International Literacy Day is observed on : September 8

6. The centenary of Olympic Games was celebrated at : Atlanta

7. When was ISRO setup : 1969

8. Which Maharaja of Travancore was an eminent composer of Carnatic Music :Swathi Thirunal

9. The basic regulatory authority for mutual fund and stock markets : Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

10. Which seashore in Kerala is famous for deposit of mineral sand : Chavara

11. Which one of the following is a great circle : The Equator

12. The Odakkuzhal Award is given in the memory of : G.Sankarakurup

13. The first Indian woman to get Nobel Prize : Mother Teresa

14. Which of the following is the river valley civilization : Mesopotamian

15. The exact difference between Greenwich and Indian Standard time is : Five and a half hours

16. Pallava dynasty was established in 300 A.D. The capital city of Pallavas was : Kanchi

17. The Netaji subhash National Institute of Sports is located at : Patiala

18. The total length of Konkan Railway is : 760 Km

19. The Chairman of the Planning Commission is : Prime Minister

20. The practice of keeping more than one crop in a field is called : Mixed cropping

21. The type of rear view mirror in a car is : Convex

22. Credit of starting space research in India goes to : Vikram Sarabhai

23. The highest percentage in the atmosphere is of : Nitrogen

24. The medicine used to fight against Plague : Streptomycin

25. Which among the following is an astronomical unit of distance : Light Year

26. Television stations cannot transmit their regional programme to far off places because : They are not reflected by the ionosphere as radio waves.

27. Which is the name of the instrument used for measuring the blood pressure : Sphygmomanometer

28. Which of the following is an egg laying mammal : Platypus

29. A ligament connects : Bone and bone

30. Halley’s comet appears once in : 76 Years

31. Sheep herding is most common in : Steppe grasslands

32. Samuel. L. Clemens was popularly known as : Mark Twain

33. The two predominant gases that constitute the sun as fire ball are : Hydrogen and Helium

34. The two best paintings ‘Mono Lisa’ and ‘The Last Supper’ were painted by : Leonardo da Vinci

35. Open Sky policy means : Permission of foreign airlines.

36. ‘Kolla Varsham’ began in : A.D.825

37. When was the practice of “Sati” abolished in India : 1829

38. What is the study of coins is called : Numismatics

39. The words “Sathymeva Jayate” is taken from : Mundaka Upanishad

40. Which of the following cities has the modest temperature throughout the year : Bangalore

41. Under whose advice the president of India declares emergency under article 352 : The Prime Minister

42. The longest highway in India is from Varanasi to Kanyakumari . Which is that : N.H.7

43. The highest Indian Peak is: : Godwin Austin

44. What does UNESCO deal with : International Educational, Scientific and Cultural matters

45. Which organization is popularly called the “World Bank" :International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

46. Temporary tax levied to obtain revenue is called : Cess

47. Bordeaux Mixture, one of the best known fungicides is a mixture of : Copper Sulphate and Lime

48. Which is concerned with the study of ancient skeletal remains : Anthropological Survey of India

49. Kundara Proclamation in 1809 was made by : Veluthampi Dalawa

50. First Governor of Kerala was : B.Ramakrishnan Rao

51. The “Hollerith” Code is used with : Punched Card

52. Volatile memory means : Content will lose if power fails

53. A “T” State means : Portion of operation in a cycle

54. Memory interleaving means : Concurrency of operation of several independent memories

55. Which of the following flip-flop has only one input : D flip-flop

56. Computer’s processing speed is measured in : MIPS( Millions of Instructions Per Second)

57. Cache memory will be available : In between processor and RAM

58. Kernal is the program which interact with : User Programs and Computer hardware

59. The function of the DOS commands DIR/OD/S is : List all files in the directory including sub directories in date wise

60. GUI stands for : Graphical User Interface.

61. Alt+F4 is the short cut key used in windows for: Terminate the current application

62. Which type of Operating System reads and react in terms of actual time : Real time system

63. Which of the following contains a list of files in UNIX : Directory file

64. In Unix ‘grep’ command is used for: Search a word in a file

65. Which of the following is a DOS based word processing package : Word star

66. Which is the short cut key for search a word in a document is: Ctrl + F

67. In a word document, grammatical errors are marked with : Green Line

68. To select multiple words but not continuous in a document the key combination used is : Ctrl + mouse button

69. “Line space” in a word document means : Vertical spacing of lines

70. Auto text features : Generate the text just by typing a few letters

71. When the text in a document exceeds the length of a page, word insert : Soft Page Break

72. The feature available in MS Word to type data in row and column form : Tables

73. A Template is : A collection of formatting options

74. Which of the following feature of word processor has a document and a data source : Mail merge

75. A book mark is : A location in a table for quick reference

76. The short cut key used to make all caps : Ctrl + Shift +A

77. When dates are placed in a main document in a mail merge operation, data are placed in the symbols : Double angular Bracket

78. A hierarchical listing of heading within a document is called : Outline View

79. Which tool is used to copy the formatting from one place to another : Format Painter

80. Which of the following lists the term and topics of a document : Index

81. Duplex printing means : Printing in both sides of a page

82. A file with ‘.dot’ extension is associated with : Template

83. In Lotus 1-2-3, 1-2-3 indicates : Spreadsheets database and graphs

84. When a new Excel worksheet is opened, generally the number of worksheets available will be : 3

85. A ‘range’ in MS Excel means : Set of Cells

86. If a word in cell A1 is “kerala” and when type ‘k’ in the cell A2, MS Excel will display ‘kerala’ because of the feature : Auto complete

87. In which of the number format, the number is represented in exponential notation : Scientific

88. A line drawn around a cell or group of cell is : Border

89. Orientation in printing means : Direction of print in the paper.

90. Excel functions can be grouped into : 10 categories

91. The cell reference address $E$1 is: Absolute Mode

92. Which of the following chart requires only one data range : Pie Chart

93. Which of the following number format code will display insignificant digits also : 0

94. Which of the following feature of Excel selects record with a specified condition : Filter

95. What feature of Excel is used to type in error free values for an application : Data Validation

96. What is the short cut key for selecting format cells dialog box : Ctrl + 1

97. Which of the following error message will style with three options: Yes, No & Cancel : Warning

98. A series of worksheet rows that contain related data is : List

99. Which option of Alignment, in Format cell dialog, make the data type in cell, divides into more than one row : Wrap Text

100. Which of the following date format is used to display day names as Sunday, Monday…etc : dddd