681. Which of the following is the largest source of water pollution in major rivers of India?

Environment • Water Pollution • JULY 2016

682. Sustainable development goals have specific targets to be achieved by

Environment • Policy • JULY 2016

683. Assertion (A) : Conserving our soil resources is critical to human survival. Reason (R) : Soil is home to many micro-organisms and contains minerals.

Environment • Conservation • JULY 2016

684. World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) objective has been to reduce the number of deaths due to hydrometeorological disasters over the decade 2010-2019 by (with reference to the decade 1994-2003)

Environment • Disaster Mgmt • JULY 2016

685. The National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) has been declared unconstitutional by

Governance • Judiciary • JULY 2016

686. Which of the following statements about the Indian political system is/are correct ? (a) The President is both Head of the State and Head of the Government. (b) Parliament is Supreme. (c) The Supreme Court is the guardian of the Constitution. (d) The Directive Principles of State Policy are justiciable.

Governance • Indian Polity • JULY 2016

687. Which of the following are the fundamental duties ? (a) To respect the National Flag. (b) To protect and improve the natural environment. (c) For a parent to provide opportunities for education to his/her child. (d) To protect monuments and places of national importance.

Governance • Constitution • JULY 2016

688. Which of the following statements are correct in respect of Niti Aayog ? (a) It is a constitutional body. (b) It is a statutory body. (c) It is neither a constitutional body nor a statutory body. (d) It is a think-tank.

Governance • Institutions • JULY 2016

689. Assertion (A) : The purpose of higher education is to promote critical and creative thinking abilities among students. Reason (R) : These abilities ensure job placements.

Higher Education • Aims • JULY 2016

690. Which of the following core values among the institutions of higher education are promoted by the NAAC ? (a) Contributing to national development. (b) Fostering global competencies among the students. (c) Inculcating a value system among students and teachers. (d) Promoting the optimum utilization of the infrastructure.

Higher Education • Accreditation • JULY 2016

691. The statement “the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware” refers to

ICT • ICT Definition • JULY 2016

692. If the binary equivalent of the decimal number 48 is 110000, then the binary equivalent of the decimal number 51 is given by

ICT • Number Systems • JULY 2016

693. The process of copying files to a CD-ROM is known as

ICT • Storage • JULY 2016

694. An unsolicited e-mail message sent to many recipients at once is a

ICT • Cyber Security • JULY 2016

695. _________ is a type of memory circuitry that holds the computer’s start-up routine.

ICT • Memory • JULY 2016

696. An ASCII is a character-encoding scheme that is employed by personal computers in order to represent various characters, numbers and control keys that the computer user selects on the keyboard. ASCII is an acronym for

ICT • Encoding • JULY 2016

697. In certain code, SELECTION is coded as QCJCARGML. The code of AMERICANS will be

Reasoning • Coding-Decoding • JULY 2016

698. In the series 3, 11, 23, 39, 59, .......... The next term will be

Reasoning • Number Series • JULY 2016

699. Indian government’s target of producing power from biomass by the year 2022, is

Renewable Energy • • JULY 2016

700. A researcher intends to explore the effect of possible factors for the organization of effective mid-day meal interventions. Which research method will be most appropriate for this study ?

Research Aptitude • Methods • JULY 2016