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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
The AGNI Missile of India could be specified as |
| A. | Short Range Missile |
| B. | ICBM |
| C. | Medium Range Missile |
| D. | Air to Surface Missile |
| Answer» C. Medium Range Missile | |
| 2. |
Which of the following is not taken as the instrument of National Security? |
| A. | Intelligence Services |
| B. | National Security Guard |
| C. | Para Military Forces |
| D. | Central Vigilance Commission |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
Which one of the following oceans was known as the British Lake? |
| A. | Atlantic Ocean |
| B. | Arctic Ocean |
| C. | Indian Ocean |
| D. | Pacific Ocean |
| Answer» D. Pacific Ocean | |
| 4. |
Helsinki Conference (1975) also provided a new concept of peace making known as |
| A. | Collective Security |
| B. | South-North Co-operation |
| C. | Confidence Building Measures |
| D. | Nuclear Peace Initiative |
| Answer» D. Nuclear Peace Initiative | |
| 5. |
'Ichogil Canal' is a man-made waterways located at |
| A. | India-Bangladesh Border |
| B. | India-China Border |
| C. | India-Pakistan Border |
| D. | India-Nepal Border |
| Answer» D. India-Nepal Border | |
| 6. |
Match the following battles theatre (Table I) with a particular war (Table II) and choose the appropriate code.Table - I (a) Tawang (b) Drass (c) Khem Karan (d) Baramula Table - II(i) 1965 war(ii) 1962 war(iii) 1948 war(iv) 1999 Kargil warCodes: (a) (b) (c) (d) |
| A. | (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) |
| B. | (ii) (iv) (i) (iii) |
| C. | (i) (iii) (iv) (ii) |
| D. | (iv) (ii) (i) (iii) |
| Answer» C. (i) (iii) (iv) (ii) | |
| 7. |
Car Nicobar Island is located in |
| A. | Lakshadweep |
| B. | Andaman |
| C. | Palk Strait |
| D. | Strait of Malacca |
| Answer» C. Palk Strait | |
| 8. |
The basic cause of break-up of Soviet Union was |
| A. | Socio-cultural aspects |
| B. | Economy |
| C. | Ethnic issues |
| D. | Pastoral moves |
| Answer» C. Ethnic issues | |
| 9. |
Sino-Pak Nexus is pertaining to |
| A. | Rann of Kutch |
| B. | Chumbi Valley |
| C. | Karakoram Highway |
| D. | Wagha Border |
| Answer» D. Wagha Border | |
| 10. |
Which one of former Soviet Union independent State is a fragmented State? |
| A. | Belarus |
| B. | Armenia |
| C. | Azerbaijan |
| D. | Georgia |
| Answer» D. Georgia | |
| 11. |
Where is 'Diego Garcia located? |
| A. | Arctic Ocean |
| B. | Pacific Ocean |
| C. | Indian Ocean |
| D. | Atlantic Ocean |
| Answer» D. Atlantic Ocean | |
| 12. |
Which of the following is not the organ of UNO? |
| A. | Security Council |
| B. | International Court of Justice |
| C. | General Assembly |
| D. | Regional Security |
| Answer» E. | |
| 13. |
Which of the following country is not a member of Commonwealth Nation? |
| A. | India |
| B. | Australia |
| C. | Nepal |
| D. | Sri Lanka |
| Answer» D. Sri Lanka | |
| 14. |
Which of the following country is not a member of ASEAN Group? |
| A. | Malaysia |
| B. | North Korea |
| C. | Indonesia |
| D. | Singapore |
| Answer» C. Indonesia | |
| 15. |
Which of the following is pertinent to China's nuclear-weapon test site? |
| A. | Yarkand |
| B. | Khotan |
| C. | Kashgar |
| D. | Lop Nor |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
'String of Pearl' is concept of Naval Encirclement propounded by _____. |
| A. | Australia |
| B. | China |
| C. | Japan |
| D. | USA |
| Answer» C. Japan | |
| 17. |
Tashkent Agreement between India and Pakistan was signed in the year |
| A. | 1948 |
| B. | 1962 |
| C. | 1966 |
| D. | 1971 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
Aksai Chin Road links |
| A. | Rangiya-Tawang |
| B. | Manali-Leh |
| C. | Tibet-Xin Xiang |
| D. | Leh-Nubra |
| Answer» D. Leh-Nubra | |
| 19. |
Identify the top four countries with highest military expenditure in recent time. |
| A. | USA, China, France, UK |
| B. | USA, Russia, Japan, Germany |
| C. | USA, France, Germany, Japan |
| D. | USA, Japan, Russia, UK |
| Answer» B. USA, Russia, Japan, Germany | |
| 20. |
Match the following Personalities (Table I) with their weapons with which they are associated (Table II) and choose the appropriate code.Table - I (a) Abdul Kalam (b) Raja Ramanna (c) Guderian (d) Douhet Table - II(i) Air Craft(ii) Messile(iii) Nuclear Bomb(iv) TankCodes: (a) (b) (c) (d) |
| A. | (ii) (i) (iv) (iii) |
| B. | (iii) (i) (ii) (iv) |
| C. | (ii) (iii) (iv) (i) |
| D. | (iv) (ii) (i) (iii) |
| Answer» D. (iv) (ii) (i) (iii) | |
| 21. |
Which of the following is not a principle of war? |
| A. | Concentration |
| B. | Surprise |
| C. | Logistics |
| D. | Mobility |
| Answer» D. Mobility | |
| 22. |
Which of the following security force is deployed on Sino-Indian border? |
| A. | Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) |
| B. | Border Security Force (BSF) |
| C. | Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) |
| D. | Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB) |
| Answer» D. Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB) | |
| 23. |
'Parcel Island', dispute is between which of the following countries? |
| A. | South Korea - North Korea |
| B. | China - Japan |
| C. | China - Philippines |
| D. | Malaysia - Indonesia |
| Answer» C. China - Philippines | |
| 24. |
Assertion A: NGOs are primary actors at the grass root level in mobilizing individuals to act.Reason R: NGOs played a key role at Rio Conference of 1992 on environment and development.Codes: |
| A. | A is true, but R is false. |
| B. | A and R both are false. |
| C. | A and R both are true, but R is not the proper explanation of A. |
| D. | A is false, but R is true. |
| Answer» D. A is false, but R is true. | |
| 25. |
Which one of the following organization originated from GATT? |
| A. | O.E.C.D. |
| B. | N.I.E.O. |
| C. | W.T.O. |
| D. | U.N.C.T.A.D. |
| Answer» D. U.N.C.T.A.D. | |
| 26. |
Incident 26/11 denotes the terrorist attack on |
| A. | Indian Parliament |
| B. | Mumbai attack |
| C. | U.S. Embassy at Nairobi |
| D. | World Trade Centre-New York. |
| Answer» C. U.S. Embassy at Nairobi | |
| 27. |
Kautilya's Arthashastra is often compared to |
| A. | Machiavelli's 'The Prince' |
| B. | Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nation' |
| C. | Leo Tolstoy' War and Peace' |
| D. | The Indian Constitution |
| Answer» B. Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nation' | |
| 28. |
Choose the appropriate code for the Assertion A and Reason R as given below:Assertion A: The national security perception of a nation-state is the product of interaction of security awareness and suggestive nature of its citizen and information gathering mechanism of the government.Reason R: The common citizen of India, by and large, lack security awareness and think that it is the responsibility of the government to look after the process of national security.Codes: |
| A. | Both A and R are logical and (A) is the reason of R. |
| B. | Both A and R are illogical and (A) is the reason of R. |
| C. | A is logical, but R is illogical u0026 (A) is not the reason of R. |
| D. | A is illogical, but R is logical u0026 (A) is the reason of R. |
| Answer» B. Both A and R are illogical and (A) is the reason of R. | |
| 29. |
'Durand Line' is a border demarcation between |
| A. | India-Afghanistan |
| B. | Pakistan-Afghanistan |
| C. | China-Russia |
| D. | China-Pakistan |
| Answer» C. China-Russia | |
| 30. |
During World War II the important event that took place on 7thDecember, 1941 was when |
| A. | Germany invaded Russia. |
| B. | Britain and France declared war on Germany. |
| C. | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. |
| D. | A second front was launched by the Allied Powers. |
| Answer» D. A second front was launched by the Allied Powers. | |
| 31. |
Which one of the following is not the means of Coercive settlement of disputes? |
| A. | Blockade |
| B. | Arbitration |
| C. | Arms Embargo |
| D. | Sanctions |
| Answer» C. Arms Embargo | |
| 32. |
Treaty of Westphalia mainly deals with |
| A. | Plural State |
| B. | Principle of Sovereignty |
| C. | Principle of Equality |
| D. | Democratic State |
| Answer» C. Principle of Equality | |
| 33. |
The United Nations' Organisation (UNO) declared the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace in |
| A. | 1981 |
| B. | 1971 |
| C. | 1961 |
| D. | 1972 |
| Answer» C. 1961 | |
| 34. |
Match the following missiles with their respective countries.(a) Shaheen (b) Patriot (c) Prithvi (d) Dong Feng I IndiaII PakistanIII ChinaIV USA (a) (b) (c) (d) |
| A. | III II IV I |
| B. | II IV I III |
| C. | I III IV II |
| D. | IV I III II |
| Answer» C. I III IV II | |
| 35. |
Match the following:(a) Iraqi invasion in 1990 (b) Civil War in Bosnia and Kosovo (c) Glasnost and Perestroika (d) Terrorist acts against US I Al QaedaII RussiaIII KuwaitIV Disintegrated Yugoslavia (a) (b) (c) (d) |
| A. | IV III II I |
| B. | II III I IV |
| C. | IV III I II |
| D. | III IV II I |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
Which one of the following is not the Pakistani nuclear missile? |
| A. | Jericho |
| B. | Shaheen |
| C. | Ghauri |
| D. | Ra-ad |
| Answer» B. Shaheen | |
| 37. |
Assertion A: The Nation-State is the foundation for national self-determination.Reason R: Nations are spread among several States. |
| A. | Both A and R are true and R is the logical conclusion of A. |
| B. | A is true, but R is false. |
| C. | A is false, but R is true. |
| D. | Both A and R are false. |
| Answer» B. A is true, but R is false. | |
| 38. |
India's Satellite Launching Centre is located at |
| A. | Trivandrum |
| B. | Kavaratti |
| C. | Sriharikota |
| D. | Chandipur |
| Answer» D. Chandipur | |
| 39. |
Assertion A: As per realist theory, State exists in an anarchic international system, characterised by the absence of an authoritative hierarchy.Reason R: States in international system can rely only on themselves. |
| A. | Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation. |
| B. | Both A and R are false. |
| C. | A is true, but R is false. |
| D. | Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
Clausewitz is associated with which of the following statements? |
| A. | War is desirable but periodically. |
| B. | War stems from economic necessity. |
| C. | War is a continuation of policy by other means. |
| D. | War indicates the direction of the politics. |
| Answer» D. War indicates the direction of the politics. | |
| 41. |
Let the page fault service time be 10 millisecond (ms) in a computer with average memory access time being 20 nanosecond (ns). If one page fault is generated for every 106 memory accesses, what is the effective access time for memory? |
| A. | 21 ns |
| B. | 23 ns |
| C. | 30 ns |
| D. | 35 ns |
| Answer» D. 35 ns | |
| 42. |
Assuming that the disk head is located initially at 32, find the number of disk moves required with FCFS if the disk queue of I/O block requests are 98, 37, 14, 124, 65, 67: |
| A. | 310 |
| B. | 324 |
| C. | 320 |
| D. | 321 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
A virtual memory based memory management algorithm partially swaps out a process. This is an example of |
| A. | Short term scheduling |
| B. | Long term scheduling |
| C. | Medium term scheduling |
| D. | Mutual exclusion |
| Answer» D. Mutual exclusion | |
| 44. |
When a mobile telephone physically moves from one to another cell, the base station transfers ownership to the cell getting strongest signal. This process is known as _______. |
| A. | Handoff |
| B. | Mobile switching |
| C. | Mobile routing |
| D. | Cell switching |
| Answer» B. Mobile switching | |
| 45. |
A set of processors P1, P2….… Pk can execute in parallel if Bernstein's conditions are satisfied on a pairwise basis; that isP1 || P2 || P3 || ….. || Pk if and only if: |
| A. | Pi || Pj for all i ? j |
| B. | Pi || Pj for all i = j+1 |
| C. | Pi || Pj for all i u003c j |
| D. | Pi || Pj for all i u003e j |
| Answer» B. Pi || Pj for all i = j+1 | |
| 46. |
A Boolean operator s is defined asfollows :1 s 1 = 1, 1 s 0 = 0, 0 s 1 = 0 and 0 s 0 = 1What will be the truth value of the expression (x s y) s z = x s (y s z)? |
| A. | Always false |
| B. | Always true |
| C. | Sometimes true |
| D. | True when x, y, z are all true |
| Answer» C. Sometimes true | |
| 47. |
Which one of the following is decimal value of a signed binary number 1101010, if it is in 2's complement form? |
| A. | - 42 |
| B. | - 22 |
| C. | - 21 |
| D. | - 106 |
| Answer» C. - 21 | |
| 48. |
Which of the following shall be a compound proposition involving the propositions p, q and r, that is true when exactly two of the p, q and r are true and is false otherwise? |
| A. | (p ? q ?? r) ? ( p ? q ? r) ? (? p ? q ? r) |
| B. | (p ? q ? r) ? ( p ? q ? r) ? (? q ?? p?? r) |
| C. | (p ? q ?? r) ? ( p ?? q ? r) ? (? p ? q ? r) |
| D. | (p ? r ? q) ? ( p ? q ? r) ? (? p ? q ? r) |
| Answer» D. (p ? r ? q) ? ( p ? q ? r) ? (? p ? q ? r) | |
| 49. |
How many edges must be removed to produce the spanning forest of a graph with N vertices, M edges and C connected components? |
| A. | M+N-C |
| B. | M-N-C |
| C. | M-N+C |
| D. | M+N+C |
| Answer» D. M+N+C | |
| 50. |
Which of the following connected simple graph has exactly one spanning tree? |
| A. | Complete graph |
| B. | Hamiltonian graph |
| C. | Euler graph |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. | |