Confidential Assistant GR II, LD Typist, Typist GR II
Confidential Assistant GR II, LD Typist, Typist GR II
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Maximum : 100 marks
Time : 1 hour and 30 minutes
1. Which of the following is a branch of science that deals with the population structure such as
birth and death rates, migration and population density?
(A) Anthropology (B) Geography
(C) Demography (D) Ethnography
2. Who is known as ‘Mayyazhi Gandhi’?
(A) Dr. Palpu (B) I.K. Kumaran
(C) K. Kelappan (D) V.P. Menon
3. Which five year plan in India is known as ‘Gadgil Yojana’?
(A) Fifth five year plan (B) Second five year plan
(C) Fourth five year plan (D) Third five year plan
4. Who is the present Human Resource Development Minister of India?
(A) Nirmala Sitharaman (B) Bhupender Yadav
(C) Prakash Jawadekar (D) None of the above
5. Who formulated the ‘Drain theory’?
(A) V.K. Krishnamenon (B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Bal Gangadara Tilak (D) C.R. Das
6. Who is the present census commissioner of India?
(A) Sri. J.H. Hutton (B) Sri. Vijay S. Verma
(C) Sri. Manmohan Singh (D) Sri. Mrithunjay Kumar Narayan
7. In which year Kerala startup mission started its operation?
(A) 2006 (B) 2007
(C) 2004 (D) 2005
8. Who was the president of the Indian National Congress in the Amaravathi conference?
(A) A.O. Hume (B) K. Kelappan
(C) C. Sankaran Nair (D) Subash Chandra Bose
9. Who was the first Martyr of freedom struggle in South India?
(A) T. Prakasam (B) Vanchi Iyer
(C) V.O. Chidambaram (D) Kattabhomman
10. Who was the founder of ‘Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham’?
(A) Sree Narayana Guru (B) Pandit K.P. Karuppan
(C) Kumaragurudevan (D) Ayyankali
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11. The maximum number of bits sufficient to represent an octal number in the binary format is :
(A) 4 (B) 3
(C) 7 (D) 8
12. A computer program that acts as a bridge between the hardware and the user is known as :
(A) System software (B) Application software
(C) Operating system (D) Driver
13. Random Access Memory (RAM) that stores data bits in its memory as long as power is
supplied is known as
(A) SRAM (B) DRAM
(C) Both (A) and (B) (D) None of the above
14. –––––––––– technology is widely used in the banking industry for processing cheques.
(A) OMR (B) OCR
(C) MICR (D) All of the above
19. –––––––––– devices are used to read PIN codes in postal services and reading of passenger
tickets.
(A) OMR (B) OCR
(C) Scanner (D) Digitiser
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21. What can be used to insert an image behind the content of the page in a word document?
(A) Watermark (B) Background Text
(C) Effects (D) Text Wrapping
23. Which feature aligns text to both the left and right margins by adding extra space between
words as necessary?
(A) Align text right (B) Justify
(C) Align text left (D) Indent
26. The intersection point of a horizontal row and a vertical column in a worksheet is called :
(A) Box (B) Square
(C) Grid (D) Cell
27. Which function in MS EXCEL is used to count the number of cells that meet a criterion?
(A) COUNT (B) IF
(C) COUNTIF (D) SUM
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29. The visual effects that occur when you move from one slide to the next during a presentation is :
30. In MS Power Point, Which shortcut key can be used to start the presentation?
(A) Abstraction
(B) Polymorphism
(C) Encapsulation
(D) Inheritance
34. Which of the following statement is/are correct about member functions in a C++ class?
(ii) A member function with the same name as its class is called a constructor
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35. Which of the following statements are TRUE about the .NET CLR?
(i) It can pass data between each other without regard to the programming language in
which each component is written
(ii) The portion of the CLR that performs the tasks of loading, running and managing .NET
applications is called the virtual environment system (VES).
(iii) The code run by the VES is called managed code.
(A) (i) and (iii) only (B) (i) and (ii) only
(C) (ii) and (iii) only (D) (iii) only
36. .NET applications written in the high level programming language are compiled into a
language-agnostic :
(A) JIT (B) FCL
(C) DLL (D) CIL
38. Which of the following statement is/are NOT correct about the access modifier in Visual
Basic .NET?
(i) Protected access modifier applies to class members only.
(ii) Public access modifier defines a type that is accessible only from within its own class or
from a derived class.
(A) (i) and (ii) only (B) (i) only
(C) (ii) only (D) None
39. Which of the following statements about primary keys in a Relational Database Management
System is true?
(A) A primary key must always be numeric
(B) A primary key can contain NULL values
(C) A primary key can contain multiple columns
(D) A primary key is used only for joining multiple tables
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40. What does the term ‘record’ refer to in SQL?
41. What happens to the table structure when you use ‘DROP TABLE’ command in SQL?
42. In SQL, which ‘LIKE’ pattern matches any sequence of zero or more characters?
(A) – (B) ^
(C) ! (D) %
43. Which SQL aggregate function returns the total number of unique values in a column?
44. Which SQL join returns only the rows where there is a match in both tables based on the join
condition?
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51. Which one of the following is not belong to the tensions of the Typewriter?
(i) Carriage Tension
(ii) Ribbon Tension
(iii) Rack Tension
(iv) Key Tension
(A) (i) only (B) (ii) only
(C) (iv) only (D) (iii) only
52. What is the line space used while typing “Commercial Work”?
(i) Triple
(ii) 1.5
(iii) Double
(iv) Single
(A) (ii) only (B) (i) only
(C) (iv) only (D) (iii) only
53. On which part of the typewriter do the Rigid Dog and Loose Dog act?
(i) Escapement Wheel
(ii) Pinion Wheel
(iii) Thumb Wheel
(iv) None of the above
(A) (i) only (B) (iv) only
(C) (iii) only (D) (ii) only
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54. Where we will type the word ‘URGENT’. On a cover?
57. For typing the Symbol & in Typewriter press Shift Key and
(i) 5
(ii) 6
(iii) 7
(iv) 8
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58. Demi Official letters are concluded by?
(i) 1
(ii) 2
(iii) 3
(iv) 4
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62. Fill in the blank selecting the correct form of “be” from those given below.
(A) When they built these houses? (B) When were these houses built?
(C) When these houses were build? (D) When did they built these houses?
(A) Hardly had he stood up than the chairman asked him to sit down.
(B) Hardly he had stood up than the chairman asked him to sit down.
(C) Hardly did he stood up when the chairman asked him to sit down.
(D) Hardly had he stood up when the chairman asked him to sit down.
66. Use the one word substitute for the underlined phrasal verb.
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69. Identify the group consisting of the words with the correct spelling.
(A) (i) souvenir
(ii) twelth
(iii) versatility
(iv) stupefy
(B) (i) souvenir
(ii) twelfth
(iii) versitility
(iv) stupify
(C) (i) souvenir
(ii) twelfth
(iii) versatility
(iv) stupefy
(D) (i) souvenir
(ii) twelth
(iii) versatality
(iv) stupefy
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91. The cost price of a bag is Rs. 240 and gain is 20%. Find the selling price :
92. A sum of money becomes its double in 20 years. Find the annual rate of simple interest :
(C) 5% (D) 4%
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93. If A : B = 7 : 9 and B : C = 5 : 7 , then A : C =
94. The speed of a train is 35.5 m/s. What is the distance covered by it in 40 minutes?
1 1 1 1
1 − 1 − 1 − ... 1 −
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1 1
(A) (B)
10 25
1 1
(C) (D)
45 50
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96. Pointing to a man Deepika said, ‘‘His son is the brother of my daughter’s mother’’ :
(A) 1 (B) 2
(C) 3 (D) 4
100. What is the smallest angle between the minute hand and the hour hand if the clock shows
time 12:40?
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