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NASA discovers new life-supporting earth-like planet outside solar system!

[solved] ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR TECHNICAL INTERVIEW | APTITUDE TESTS | COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS | VIVA VOCE | QUIZ

1. The third generation mobile phones satisfy which specifications 
    of the International Telecommunication union?

2. What does the circle around a transistor indicate?

3. Which BJT transistor configuration is also known as 'Emitter Follower'?


4. To which category does the single side band modulation(SSB) technique fall? 
  Digital or analog?


5. What sort of an interfacing is provided by Intel 8259 to Intel 8085 microprocessor?

6. In network theory, what are the branches of a co-TREE 
     made out of the graph of a circuit called?


7. What is the laplace transform of an impulse signal?


8. What is the fundamental difference between Laplace transform and Z-transform?


9. What is the knee voltage of Schottky diodes?


10. What does IMEI number of a mobile phone stand for?


ANSWERS



1. International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) 
2. Indicates that the transistor is a discrete component. 
3. Common Collector
4. Analog
5. Programmable Interrupt Controller
6. Links
7. 1
8. Laplace transform is for continuous signals and Z-transform is for digital signals.
9. 0.2 V
10. International Mobile Equipment Identity number

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ FEBRUARY 2011 THIRD EDITION | AIR INDIA | ARAB UNREST | INTERNET | INDIA |

1. What is the name of the first humanoid robot to be taken off to
    the International Space Station(ISS) along with the Discovery space shuttle
    which is poised for final launch? 

2. 'Matters of Discretion' is the autobiography of which former prime minister of India?

3. Which day is celebrated as the international 'Mother tongue day'?

4. Which microblogging website, equivalent to twitter, in China became the focus of 
    China's vast censorship apparatus in order to prevent even the minute 
    probability of anti-governmantal discussions?

5. What is the name of the president of Uganda who won another term
    despite the allegations from opposition that the elections were fraudulent? 

6. Which party of West Bengal is strongly demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland?
    Their demand was turned down by the Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

7. What is the name of the president of Libya who threatened retribution 
    against Libyans involved in the revolt through his furious address on state TV? 

8. Which country developes cold feet owing to the likelihood of unrest 
    after calls for a "Jasmine Revolution" circulated on the Internet saying that the people has 
    "a common aspiration for stability and development"?

9. Give the name of the Malkangiri district collector who was abducted by Maoists
   and was freed after 8 days?

10. We know that Indian Airlines was merged with Air India 4 years ago.
     Now, India's flag carrier is all set to have a single code for its domestic 
     international flights from February 27. What is that single code? 

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY QUIZ | BIOLOGY | IT | PHYSICS | MEDICINE

1. When somebody says that Adolf Hitler and Woody Allen were claustrophobic you should believe them.
   Dan Brown's Robert Langdon is also a claustrophobiac. But what the hell is this claustrophobia?

2. You might have heard of s-spectrum controversy. s-band refers to a range of frequencies in the microwave region. Which range of frequencies is denoted by s-band?

3. Eduardo Saverin is the co-founder of which web-based network?

4. The family name Spheniscidae includes which beautiful species?

5. What is the name of the new book written by the famous metaphysicist Stephen Hawking?

6. Which German geophysicist proposed the theory of continental drift that
     explains how the disintegration of land mass occured from the initial pangea?

7. In 1971 which famous invention was made by James Fergason?

8. Which two scientists are credited with the invention of ethernet?

9. Which disease is medically known as Lateral epicondylitis?
     [clue: He is the only man to score double ton in ODI's]

10. What is the meaning of the congenital defect named DEXTROCARDIA?
     [You won't hear heart beats of a dextrocardiac person if you don't understand its meaning]

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ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR TECHNICAL INTERVIEW | APTITUDE TESTS | COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS | VIVA VOCE | QUIZ

1. What is the frequency at which bluetooth operates?
2. Give an example for a 1 port microwave network.

3. What is the basic difference between an active and passive device?

4. What is the multiple access and duplexing scheme used in GSM?


5.Is diode an active device or passive device?

6. If we tie up J and K ports of the JK flip flop, it will act like a______ flip flop.

7.In microprocessor terminology what does SIM stand for?


8. What all factors the resistance depends on?

9.Where is the energy stored in a capacitor?

10. What is the significance of 8 in 8-bit processor?

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ DECEMBER SECOND EDITION

 1.Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics. Which path breaking invention led to this honour?

                                

2.    Which language unknown to the external world so far was discovered by ‘Enduring Voices’ of National Geographic channel?

3.    Who won the Nobel Prize for literature this year to become the first Latin American to win the former after 1990?

                        

                                                                                        

4.    The Forbes magazine conducted a survey to find out the list of influential women in the world. According to them, the most influential lady of this year is………….?

5.    The BASIC group of large developing nations is striving hard to win the crucial support of AOSIS on the climate change debate. What does AOSIS stand for?

6.    Who won this year’s ‘Finance Minister of the year for Asia’ award given by ‘Emerging Markets’, the daily newspaper of record for the world bank and IMF?

7.    A new collection of Nelson Mandela’s private papers that reveals his agony and pang at missing his family while in prison and his wariness at being idolized has been published. Name the book.

               

                          

8.    The prayers from every nook and corner of the world converged into the San Jose mine and eventually the world rejoiced on the escape of all miners who were entrapped in the Chilean mine. The 71 cm diameter escape shaft was completed from a tent city. What is the name of that place?

                                 

9.    Which country would carry out a landmark field trial by releasing GM (genetically modified) mosquitoes designed to combat dengue fever by the end of the year?

10. People of which country held ceremonies to cap its capital _______ ‘s millennium celebrations? King Ly Thai moved the capital to _________ in 1010 A.D and called it Thang Long (‘Soaring Dragon’), symbolysing the desire for independence after a millennium of Chinese domination?

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ DECEMBER 2010 FIRST EDITION

1. Which Guinness world record was handed over from Ken Chaplin of Canada to the Pakistani soldier Muhammad Yousuf Jamil with a single day effort? 
    
2. What is common to Guadalupe Fur Seal, the bridled nail tail wallaby and the Banyan tree rat?
   
   
3. What is special about the number 782474317884? The clue you can take before clicking the answer link is that this number belongs to ‘Ranjana Sonawne’.
   
   
4. Google’s instant search technology helps netizen know the best possible search results. Which string should prefix the first term to prevent Google from guessing the search results?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. After 60 years of litigation an interim verdict has come for the Ayodhya title suit case. Which general of the Mughal emperor Zahir-ud-Din Babar built the mosque in Ayodhya and in which year? 
    
6. The Nepal government appointed Khagendra Thapamagar, a seventeen year old Guinness world record winner as the goodwill ambassador to promote tourism in the country. What is the peculiarity of the record? 
    
7. Name the lady, the once brilliant scientist dubbed ‘Lady Qaeda’ by the US tabloids, guilty of the attempted murder of US military officers in Afghanistan in 2008? She got 80 year jail term.
   
   
8. Which commonwealth country has introduced Wi-Fi facility for its entire area?
   
   
9. How did Louise Pattern’s latest novel ‘Good as gold’ attract the media?
   
   
10. Which is the first Indian newspaper to introduce a “speaking advertisement”?

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ JULY 2010 ROUND UP

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2010

Best director => Mathieu Amalric(French) movie- “on tour”
Best actor => Javier Bardem(Spain) movie- “Biutiful”
Best actress => Juliette Binoche(French) movie- “Certified copy”

Readers' Quiz

1. In the Cannes film festival 2010 which Thai director was awarded the Palme d’or top prize?

2.Scientist recently decoded genes that can control ageing. What is the name given to them?

3.Who is the youngest to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, without help?

4.Who is the first Indian to circumnavigate globe solo?

5.NASA is set to fly a plasma powered superfast rocket to save an asteroid. It is named as VASIMR. Expand it.

6. New largest unit of data storage has been found out by scientists. What is its terminology?

___________________________________

Answers

1.Apichatpong Weerasethakui

for the movie

“Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives”

2.Methuselah

3.Jessica Watson, born in Australia, almost 17 years old

4.A naval officer called Cdr. Dilip Donde.

5.Variable Specific Impulse Magneto-plasma Rocket.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY QUIZ

1. The place Copenhagen appeared recently in Headlines for the summit regarding Global Warming. Which element is named after that place?
ans: Hafnium

2. STM and AFM are the recently developed new generation instruments utilized for advanced laboratory experimentations. What do STM and AFM stand for?
ans: Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Atomic Force Microscope

3. Which product of coal has the largest quantity of carbon in it?
ans: Anthracite

4. Which chemical is the major ingredient of Superglue?
ans:Alphacyano Acrolene

5.P300 waves are used in what sort of fingerprinting method?
ans:Brain Fingerprinting

6.The death caused by the absence of oxygen in the respiratory organs is called?
ans: asphyxiation

READERS QUESTION
7. You might have watched the movies of the Simran, a gorgeous figure in the South Indian Film Industry. What you have to comment down is the expansion of SIMRAN.

8.Which is the fastest missile ship in the world?
ans: INS Prahar

9.Which part of a cell produces protein?
ans:Ribosome

10.Which two scientists are credited with the invention of microprocessor?
ans: Federico Faggin and Ted Hoff
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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ NOVEMBER 2009--try to solve the STARRED QUESTIONS

1.Which cricketer holds the record of “the highest score by any ODI captain against Australia”?
Ans: M S Dhoni

2. Who produced the documentary movie ‘Inconvenient Truth’?
ans: Al Gore

3. The book ‘Towards a Socialist Order’ was written by which Indian prime minister? Ans: Jawaharlal Nehru

4.Who won the first Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Ans: U Thant-
He is the first General Secretary of United Nations Organization fron Asia

*5. This famous person was born on November 12. He took charge as the leader of BNHS when the British left India. Name him and what does BNHS stand for?

*6. In 1999, at Budapest the world science congress was organized. The idea of World Science day took its birth there. Which day in November is honoured with this idea?

7. This famous freedom fighter was born on November 11. He was the first Educational Minister of Independent India. Who is he?
Ans: Moulana Abdul Kalam Azad

8. The national football team goalkeeper of Germany committed suicide by leaping onto a train. Name that person.
Ans: Robert Enke

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PLANETS OF SOLAR SYSTEM

1. What is the ordinal status of Earth among the biggest planets of our SOLAR SYSTEM?
ans: 5

2.On the surface of which planets the rocks are found?
ans: Earth,Mercury,Venus,Mars

3.Which is known as the 'twin planet' of earth?
ans: Venus

4.Which is known as the 'blue planet'?
ans: Earth

5.Which is the hottest planet?
ans: Venus

6.Why the temperature is high on the surface of Venus?
ans: Large quantity of carbon dioxide is found on its surface.

7.Which is known as the 'red planet'?
ans:Mars

8.Which planet has the largest number of moons?
ans: Jupitor