Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 26 NOVEMBER 2018

Q1. Consider the following statements about ocean physiology :

1) The photic zone is the upper 200 meters of the ocean and it's here that most primary producers, and things that eat them, live.
2) The deepest known area of the Earth’s oceans is known as the Mariana Trench. It’s deepest point measures 11km.
3) The continental shelves contains plains, long mountains ranges called ocean ridges, isolated mountains called seamounts, and ocean trenches which are the deepest parts of the oceans.

Which of the above statements are true ?

a) 1 & 2only
b) 2 & 3only
c) 1 & 3only
d) all of the above

Q2. Consider the following pairs of minerals of India and their geographical locations :

1) Iron Ore and clay : Karnataka & goa
2) Uranium, Petroleum : Rajasthan,Gujarat along Aravalli range
3) Bauxite and Ferrous minerals : South western belt,Goa region

Which of the above pairs are correctly matched ?

a) 1 & 2only
b) 2 & 3only
c) 1 & 3only
d) all of the above

Q3. Consider the following statements regarding Board for financial supervision (BFS) :

1) The Board for Financial Supervision (BFS) was constituted in November 1994 to supervise the money market institutions in the country.
2) The Board exercises the powers of supervision and inspection under the RBI Act, 1934 and the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 in relation to the different sectors of the financial system.
3) The BFS was initially given the mandate for supervision of commercial banks, Financial Institutions and NBFCs. Later, urban cooperative banks and primary dealers were also brought under the purview of the BFS.

a) 1 & 2only
b) 2 & 3only
c) 1 & 3only
d) all of the above

Q4. Which of the following statements with respect to cloud computing market in India are true ?

1) In India, IT giants are now building solutions on the cloud rather than on physical infrastructure due to increased flexibility, scalability and speed.
2) The Indian cloud computing market, currently at $2.2 billion, is expected to grow to $4 billion by 2020 with an annual growth rate of more than 30 per cent.
3) The rapid growth of cloud-native services and increasing acceptance of cloud-based environments as secure coupled with a need to save costs are driving companies away from traditional data centres (DCs) to cloud environments.

a) 1 & 2only
b) 2 & 3only
c) 1 & 3only
d) all of the above

Q5. Which of the following is the longest National Highway in India :

a) NH 27 (north-south east-west corridor )
b) NH 44 ( North-South corridor)
c) NH 47 (Bamanbore-Nagpur)
d) NH 1 ( Delhi-Attari)
 

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ANSWER:

1(a), 2(a), 3(d), 4(d), 5(b)