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RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

Static General Knowledge makes up the rest of the General Awareness section in RRB NTPC, and the notices name its topics: General Science and Life Science up to Class 10, History of India and the freedom struggle, Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India and the world, Indian Polity and Governance, Indian Economy, Art and Culture, Indian Literature, Monuments and Places, Flora and Fauna, Famous Personalities, the UN and other world organisations, environmental issues, Transport Systems in India, Important Government and Public Sector Organisations, Common Abbreviations, and Basics of Computers and Computer Applications. RRB frames these as short factual questions: the unit of a physical quantity, the year of a battle, the article of the Constitution, the river a city stands on, the full form of an abbreviation, the headquarters of an organisation. GK24's GK notes on this page cover each topic in English and Hindi, arranged the way the syllabus lists them, with the facts RRB tends to ask placed first. Work through one topic at a time, note the lists (national parks, dances, articles, schedules, awards), and pair each topic with its quiz on GK24 to check what has stayed with you.

RRB NTPC GK Questions with Answers

Q6162.Environment & EcologyMedium

Under the schedules as restructured in 2022, specified plants are protected under which schedule of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972?

  1. A.Schedule I
  2. B.Schedule II
  3. C.Schedule III
  4. D.Schedule IV
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Correct answer: C. Schedule III

In the restructured Act the plant schedule moved from the old Schedule VI to the new Schedule III, and it still protects a short list of species such as the blue vanda, the pitcher plant and other threatened orchids and cycads, whose uprooting and trade are controlled.

Q6163.Environment & EcologyMedium

After the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022, how many schedules does the Act contain?

  1. A.Three
  2. B.Four
  3. C.Five
  4. D.Six
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Correct answer: B. Four

The amendment of 2022 rationalised the schedules of the parent Act: Schedule I now lists animals given the highest protection, Schedule II lists animals with a lesser degree of protection, Schedule III lists specified plants and Schedule IV lists specimens figuring in the appendices of the Convention on International Trade…

Q6164.Environment & EcologyEasy

The Wild Life (Protection) Act, which banned hunting and gave legal status to national parks and sanctuaries in India, was enacted in which year?

  1. A.1972
  2. B.1980
  3. C.1986
  4. D.1991
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Correct answer: A. 1972

The Wild Life (Protection) Act received the assent of the President on 9 September 1972 and remains the principal wildlife law of the country, covering hunting, protected areas, trade in animal articles and the schedules of protected species.

Q6166.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which of the following is NOT one of the five essential characteristics of cloud computing described by the National Institute of Standards and Technology?

  1. A.On-demand self-service
  2. B.Resource pooling
  3. C.Rapid elasticity
  4. D.Permanent offline operation
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Correct answer: D. Permanent offline operation

The cloud is reached over a network, so working permanently offline is the opposite of what the model offers; the dependence on connectivity is in fact listed among the limitations of cloud computing.

Q6167.Computer AwarenessMedium

In the name of the Amazon cloud service S3, the letter S stands three times for:

  1. A.Secure Socket Service
  2. B.Simple Storage Service
  3. C.Server Side Storage
  4. D.Shared System Software
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Correct answer: B. Simple Storage Service

Amazon S3 was launched in 2006 and was among the first large public cloud offerings. It stores data as objects inside containers called buckets rather than as files in folders, and it is used by websites and applications across the world to hold images, backups and logs.

Q6169.Computer AwarenessMedium

A cloud in which an organisation keeps its sensitive data on its own private infrastructure while using a public cloud for ordinary workloads is called a:

  1. A.Public cloud
  2. B.Private cloud
  3. C.Hybrid cloud
  4. D.Community cloud
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Correct answer: C. Hybrid cloud

A hybrid cloud joins a private deployment with a public one so that confidential records stay inside the organisation while ordinary or seasonal workloads run on rented public resources, and data can move between the two.

Q6170.Computer AwarenessHard

MeghRaj, in the context of Indian e-governance, refers to:

  1. A.The GI Cloud initiative of the Government of India
  2. B.A satellite launched for weather forecasting
  3. C.A mobile payment application of the banks
  4. D.An antivirus programme for government offices
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Correct answer: A. The GI Cloud initiative of the Government of India

MeghRaj is the brand name of the Government of India Cloud, under which the National Informatics Centre runs the National Cloud so that ministries and state departments can host applications and data without buying separate servers for every project.

Q6171.Computer AwarenessMedium

DigiLocker, the cloud based document wallet of the Government of India, was launched in which year?

  1. A.2009
  2. B.2012
  3. C.2015
  4. D.2019
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Correct answer: C. 2015

DigiLocker was launched in 2015 as part of the Digital India programme of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, and it gives every citizen a cloud account linked to Aadhaar in which boards, universities and transport departments place verified certificates that are accepted on a par with the original…

Q6173.Computer AwarenessEasy

In cloud computing, what is the full form of SaaS?

  1. A.Storage as a Server
  2. B.Software as a Service
  3. C.System and Application Software
  4. D.Secure Access and Storage
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Correct answer: B. Software as a Service

In this model the provider runs finished software on its own servers and the user simply opens it in a browser, as with Gmail, Google Docs, Microsoft 365 or Salesforce, paying by subscription instead of buying a licence and installing it.

Q6178.Art & CultureMedium

The architect Laurie Baker, known for low-cost and climate-responsive brick architecture, worked mainly in which Indian state?

  1. A.Gujarat
  2. B.Kerala
  3. C.Rajasthan
  4. D.West Bengal
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Correct answer: B. Kerala

Baker, born in Britain and later an Indian citizen, settled in Kerala and built houses, hospitals and institutions there using exposed local brick, filler slabs and perforated jaali walls that reduced cost and kept interiors cool without machinery.

Q6179.Art & CultureHard

The Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur and the Kanchanjunga Apartments in Mumbai were designed by which architect?

  1. A.B. V. Doshi
  2. B.Charles Correa
  3. C.Habib Rahman
  4. D.Le Corbusier
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Correct answer: B. Charles Correa

Correa built the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur on a plan drawn from the nine squares of the traditional mandala, and the Kanchanjunga Apartments in Mumbai as a tower of interlocking flats with deep terraces for shade; he also designed Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal and the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya at…