Kerala PSC Confidential Assistant Gr. II- Various Govt. owned Companies/Corporations (104/2016) Mock Test

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The duration of the exam is 75 minutes.

CONFIDENTIAL ASSISTANT 104/2016

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1. Which of the following gives the percentage of carbondioxide present in the atmosphere?

A) 5%

B) 0.03%

C) 0.3%

D) 0.06%

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2. The person who is said to be the 'Iron man' of India is:

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Kelappan

C) Bhagat Singh

D) Sardar Vallabhai Patel

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3. Where is Vetterinary College in Kerala situated?

A) Thiruvananthapuram

B) Mannuthi

C) Kakkanad

D) Chittur

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4. The partition of Bengal was carried out under the rule of:

A) Lord Dalhausi

B) Lord Curson

C) Lord Ripon

D) Lord Minto

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5. Which state in India touches the boundaries of the largest number of other states?

A) Bihar

B) Madhya Pradesh

C) Uttar Pradesh

D) Karnataka

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6. The longest river in India:

A) Sindhu

B) Ganga

C) Narmada

D) Brahmaputra

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7. The world famous mineral region in India :

A) North East frontier

B) Shillong Plateau

C) Deccan Plateau

D) Chotanagpur Plateau

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8. Quit India movement wan in the year:

A) 1932

B) 1941

C) 1924

D) 1942

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9. Jawahar Rozgar Yojana was started by:

A) Indira Gandhi

B) V.P. Singh

C) A.B. Vajpai

D) Rajiv Gandhi

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10. Idukki Dam is built in the river:

A) Kabani

B) Periyar

C) Bharathappuzha

D) Chaliyar

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11. Swami Vagbhatananda was born on 27th April 1885 at:

A) Budhanoor

B) Patyam

C) Kollangode

D) Chavara

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12. 'Vayalvaram Veedu' is related to:

A) Ayyankali

B) Vallathol Narayana Menone

C) Dr. Palpu

D) Sree Narayana Guru

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13. The date of Temple entry proclamation in Travancore:

A) 12 November 1928

B) 12 November 1942

C) 12 November 1966

D) 12 November 1936

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14. Who is called the father of literacy in Kerala?

A) Pandit Karuppan

B) Kuriakose Alias Chavara

C) Kumranasan

D) Chattampi Swami

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15. Who is known as the 'Political Father' of Ezhava's?

A) Sree Naruyana Guru

B) Kumara Guru

C) Dr. Palpu

D) Kumaranasan

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16. Who is also known as Muthukutti Swami?

A) Vaikunda Swami

B) Chattambi Swami

C) Narayana Guru Swami

D) Vagbhadananda Swami

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17. Who organised Savarna Jatha in Vaikom Satyagraha?

A) K. Kelappan

B) Chattambi Swamilkal

C) A.K. Gopalan

D) Mannath Padmanabhan

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18. Who was the author of the book 'Advidapanjaram'?

A) Kunjan Pillai

B) Vakkom Moulavi

C) V.T. Bhattathirippad

D) Thaikkad Ayya Guru

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19. The First systematically organized agitation in Kerala against orthodoxy to secure the rights
of depressed classes:

A) Guruvayoor Satyagraha

B) None of these

C) Vaikom Satyagraha

D) Mapila Lahala

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20. Who was called the "Lincoln" of Kerala for uplifting the socio-economically and educationally
backward communities?

A) Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi

B) Pandit Karuppan

C) Sahodaran Ayynppan

D) Velayudha Panikkar

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21. J.C. Daniyal award won in 2015:

A) I.V. Sasi

B) Ranjith

C) Hariharan

D) M.T. Vasudevan Nair

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22. Who won the prestigious man "Booker International Prize' for 2015?

A) Hodabarakat

B) Amitbave Ghoh

C) Laszlowkrasznahorki

D) Mincouto

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23. The country with world's largest natural gas reserve is :

A) Russia

B) America

C) Kuwait

D) Soudi Arabia

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24. Nobel Prize for Economics 2015:

A) Oliver Smith

B) Sretlana Alexiovich

C) Angusdeaton

D) Martin J. Ivans

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25. Chief Election Commissioner of India:

A) Sambath

B) Dr. Nasim Zaidi

C) Shri Sushil Chandra

D) M.M. Quraishi

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26. The first Municipality in India to become a full Wifi Zone:

A) Kochi

B) Mumbai

C) Bangalore

D) Malappuram

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27. Chairman of 14th Finance Commission:

A) Dr. A. Surya Prakash

B) Dr. Sekhar Basu

C) Dr. M.S. Swaminadhan

D) Dr. Y.V. Reddy

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28. Which is biggest soil museum in world?

A) Central soil analytical laboratory, Nagpoor

B) Central soil analytical laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram

C) Central soil analytical laboratory. Eranakulam

D) Central soil analytical laboratory, Chennai

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29. He is ___ European.

A) a

B) none of these

C) an

D) the

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30. Find out the word with correct spelling:

A) Vacum

B) Vaceum

C) Vacuum

D) Vacuam

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31. Sita ____ the letter yesterday.

A) had written

B) writes

C) wrote

D) has written

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32. Rahul said, 'I am angry'.

Change into reported speech:

A) Rahul said that I am angry

B) Rahul said that I was angry

C) Rahul said that he was angry

D) Rahul said that he is angry

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33. Poorna sung a song.

Change into passive:

A) A song has sung by Poorna

B) A song is sung by Poorna

C) A song was sung by Poorna

D) A song is being sung by Poorna

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34. Suresh was born___ 1961.

A) in

B) of

C) on

D) at

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35. Bread and butter __ good for breakfast.

A) is

B) are

C) were

D) none of these

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36. The synonym of quiver:

A) clever

B) shiver

C) polite

D) fast

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37. The antonym of attract:

A) repel

B) rare

C) gentle

D) real

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38. This is the place ____ I live.

Fill in the blank with suitable relative pronoun:

A) Where

B) What

C) Who

D) When

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39. When l reached the office, the manager :

A) went

B) has gone

C) had gone

D) will go

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40. Find the odd one out:

A) murmur

B) martyr

C) whisper

D) mutter

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41. The princess has a beautiful white ____ (horse).

Fill in the blank with the feminine form of the word given in bracket:

A) mare

B) horsess

C) bitch

D) vixen

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42. 'Ornithology' is the study of:

A) mountains

B) rivers

C) birds

D) plants

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43. One who repairs shoes:

A) cobbler

B) carpenter

C) blacksmith

D) goldsmith

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44. The offspring of a lion:

A) pony

B) cub

C) calf

D) kitten

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45. Find out the word in plural form:

A) fungus

B) furniture

C) goose

D) criterion

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46. She taught English, ___?

Add proper question tag :

A) does she

B) didn't she

C) did she

D) doesn't she

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47. If you drove fast, you ____ there in time.

A) reached

B) would reach

C) would have reached

D) will reach

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48. Find out the phrasal verb which means 'Postpone' :

A) put off

B) put on

C) put up

D) put out

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49. Which one of the following is not available in the Change Case Window of the MS Word?

A) Toggle Case

B) Title case

C) Sentence case

D) Word case

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50. Which of the following is the correct step for inserting a column in a table in MS Word 2003?

A) Insert ➡️Columns to the left

B) Table➡️Column to the left➡️ Insert

C) Table➡️Insert➡️ Columns to the left

D) Insert➡️Table➡️ Columns to the left

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51. What is the short cut key for Find?

A) Ctrl + G

B) Ctrl + A

C) Ctrl + F

D) Ctrl + H

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52. The ability to combine name and addresses with standard document is called:

A) Document formatting

B) Mail merge

C) Database management

D) Form letters

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53. One of the following side we cannot put gutter margin:

A) Bottom

B) Left

C) None of the above

D) Top

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54. What will happen when we press 'Ctrl + Right Arrow'?

A) Moves the cursor end of the document

B) Moves the cursor one word right

C) Moves the cursor end of the line

D) Moves the cursor one paragraph down

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55. Short cut key "Ctrl + N' is used for:

A) Save Document

B) Open Document

C) Close Document

D) New Document

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56. Which of the following will not cut the selected text from a document?

A) Pressing Ctrl + C

B) Pressing Ctrl + X

C) Clicking the Cut button on the standard tool bar

D) Selecting Edit➡️ Cut from the Menu

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57. How do you select an entire row?

A) Hold down the Ctrl Key as you click anywhere in the row

B) Edit Select row

C) Click the row number

D) Hold down the shift kay as you click anywhere in the row

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58. 'View Show' command in MS Powerpoint is available in which menu?

A) Slide show

B) Format

C) Insert

D) View

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59. Short cut key for New Slide:

A) Ctrl + M

B) None of these

C) Ctrl + O

D) Ctrl + N

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60. Which one of the following is not an application software?

A) PageMaker

B) Win WordXP

C) Photoshop

D) Windows NT

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61. The ___ program compresses large file into a smaller file.

A) WinShrink

B) WinZip

C) WinStyle

D) None of these

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62. Which one of the following is not an Operating System?

A) ORACLE

B) DOS

C) LANUX

D) WINDOWS

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63. Location on a disk where files are stored in known as:

A) Version

B) Folder

C) Pod

D) Non of these

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64. What is the full form of HTML?

A) Hyphenation Text Marking Language

B) Hyper Text Markup Language

C) Hyper Text Marking language

D) Hyphenation Text Markup language

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65. What is a search Engine?

A) A website that searches anything

B) A machinery engine that search data

C) A program that searches Engines

D) A hardware component

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66. What does the .com domain represents?

A) Commercial domain

B) Network

C) None of the above

D) Educational Domain

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67. Internet Explorer is an example of:

A) A File Manager

B) An Internet

C) A Browser

D) An icon

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68. You can use the drag and drop method to:

A) Move cell contents

B) Copy cell contents

C) Add cell contents

D) (Copy cell contents) and (Move cell contents)

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69. What will happen when you copy a formula?

A) Excel doesn't adjust relative cell references

B) Excel adjusts absolute cell references

C) Excel erases the original copy of the formula

D) Excel edits cell references in the newly copied formula

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70. What is the use of "MIN" function in Excel?

A) To find Maximum value in n range of cells

B) To insert Minute in a cell

C) To Find Minimum value in a range of cells

D) To insert Minute and Seconds in a cell

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71. 'Header and Footer' command can be taken from which menu?

A) Format

B) Insert

C) Table

D) View

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72. How many Tab setting options are available in Tabs Window?

A) 3

B) 2

C) 4

D) 5

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73. 'Ctrl + V' is used for:

A) Cutting

B) Copying

C) Viewing

D) Pasting

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74. There are ____ types of ribbon movements in a typewriter.

A) 4

B) 2

C) 1

D) 3

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75. Variable line spacer is used:

A) To erase the matter

B) To stop the cylinder in a correct place

C) None of these

D) To change the ribbon indicator

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76. What is the shape of the segment?

A) Long bar shape

B) Semi-circular shape

C) Circular shape

D) Flat drum shape

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77. Each type bar is having _____ characters.

A) 2

B) None of the above

C) 1

D) 3

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78. Heart of the Typewriting Machine is:

A) Ribbon

B) Cylinder

C) Key board

D) Main Spring

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79. Thumb wheels are provided for ___ the cylinder.

A) Connecting main spring to

B) Stopping

C) Ejecting

D) Rotating

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80. Print will get while pressing:

A) Back spacer key

B) Shift lock key

C) Character keys

D) Shift keys

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81. In offices ____ are typing with double line space.

A) Letters

B) Notes

C) Orders

D) None of these

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82. Another name of main spring tension is:

A) Carriage tension

B) None of these

C) Key tension

D) Shift tension

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83. Home keys of Malayalam typewriter are provided in:

A) First raw

B) Fourth raw

C) Third raw

D) Second raw

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84. Which is the following is not a type of duplicator?

A) Rotary

B) Flat frame

C) Manifest

D) Automatic

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85. What is the value of the "L" letter in numbers?

A) 90

B) 100

C) 5

D) 50

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86. How many types of stencil papers are generally used?

A) None of these

B) 3

C) 2

D) 4

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87. How much left and right margin will leave for a Govt. Official Letter?

A) 10 and 5

B) 10 and 10

C) 15 and 5

D) 16 and 10

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88. Typing without looking into the keyboard is called:

A) Block style

B) Sight method

C) Touch method

D) Indent style

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89. The solution named "Developine" is used:

A) To wash the stencil sheet

B) For correction words in stencil

C) To get impression on the stencil after typing

D) For alternative of correction fluid

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90. Which word will use before an official designation while typing the address?

A) Kumari.

B) Mr.

C) The

D) Sri.

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91. Which one of the following of a typewriter is not an oiling part?

A) Carriage rack

B) Springs

C) Cylinder ratchet

D) Way Rod

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92. The two keys ; and I are known as ______ keys in English typewriter.

A) Home keys

B) Master keys

C) Dead keys

D) Guide keys

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93. Where we will type "Registered" on a cover?

A) Top Middle

B) Top right side

C) Bottom left side

D) Top left side

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94. Govt. Official (Secretariat) letter begins with:

A) Name of Department

B) Name of Govt.

C) From

D) Letter Number

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95. The abbreviation 'E& OE' is most commonly used in:

A) Statement

B) D.O. Letter

C) Display

D) Invoice

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96. In Govt. Order, G.O(P) stands for:

A) None of these

B) Govt. Order Provisional

C) Govt. Order Print

D) Govt. Order Public

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97. Which correction sign is not used to "next paragraph" in manuscripts?

A) //

B) LP

C) NP

D) Para

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98. If the To address is begins with Messrs, The salutation will be:

A) Dear Sir

B) Dear madam

C) Dear Sirs

D) Dear friend

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