Expected GK Questions for DRDO CEPTAM-08 Exam 17 July 2016

Hi Aspirants, Defence Research and Development Organisation is going to conduct its CEPTAM 08 exam on 17 July 2016 for selection of Senior Technical Assistant ‘B’, Technician, Admin & Allied. General Awareness is an important topic and in this post we are sharing with you some expected GK Questions. All the Best.

1. The chemical name of Baking soda is

(a) Sodium hydroxide

(b) Sodium acetate

(c) Sodium bicarbonate

(d) Sodium carbonate

2. Which of the following command deletes the data in the entire table and makes the delete permanent in the database?

(a) Truncate

(b) Rollback

(c) Commit

(d) Delete

3. Which one of the following gases has colour?

(a) Oxygen

(b) Nitrogen

(c) Chlorine

(d) Hydrogen

4. The point on the Earth surface directly above the origin of an earthquake is know as

(a) Medi Centre

(b) Prime Centre

(c) Epicentre

(d) Hypo Centre

5. State with highest percentage of forests is

(a) Uttar Pradesh

(b) Mizoram

(c) Arunachal Pradesh

(d) Assam

6. May 8 is observed as

(a) World Red Cross Day

(b) Commonwealth Day

(c) World Telecommunication Day

(d) World Standard Day

7. Which famous scientist was the first to look at the night sky through a telescope?

(a) Galileo

(b) Copernicus

(c) Michael Faraday

(d) Newton

8. The number of days for a year in Mercury is

(a) 56

(b) 88

(c) 300

(d) 36

9. Sodium chloride or table salt occurs in nature as the mineral

(a) Sphalerite

(b) Halite

(c) Tale

(d) Sylvite

10. CENVAT is related to

(a) Service Tax

(b) Custom Duty

(c) Excise Duty

(d) Sales Tax

Answer Key

1) Ans. (c) Sodium bicarbonate

2) Ans. (a) Truncate

3) Ans. (c) Chlorine

4) Ans. (c) Epicentre

5) Ans. (b) Mizoram

6) Ans. (a) World Red Cross Day

7) Ans. (a) Galileo

8) Ans. (b) 88

9) Ans. (b) Halite

10) Ans. (c) Excise Duty

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