SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Scoping is the stage at which the Expert Appraisal Committee, or the state committee for a Category B1 project, determines the Terms of Reference: the detailed list of issues, study area, seasons of data and specific concerns that the assessment must address.

Screening comes first and decides whether a Category B project needs a full assessment, making it B1, or does not, making it B2.

Under the notification of 2006, a Category A project is appraised by the Expert Appraisal Committee constituted at the centre, and the ministry grants or refuses the prior environmental clearance on that committee's recommendation.

The EIA Notification of 2006 replaced the earlier notification of 1994 and reorganised the whole clearance process, chiefly by dividing projects into Category A, appraised and cleared at the central level, and Category B, appraised and cleared at the state level, and by laying down the four stages of screening…

Section 3 of that Act gives the central government power to take all measures it thinks necessary to protect and improve the quality of the environment, and the EIA Notifications of 1994 and 2006 were both issued under it.

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, which came into force in 1970, required every agency of the American federal government to prepare a statement of the environmental effects of any major action it proposed, and that requirement is taken as the beginning of environmental impact assessment as a legal…

The BNC connector is the bayonet-fitting plug that is pushed on and given a quarter turn to lock, and it terminates a coaxial cable, the cable with a central copper conductor, an insulating layer, a braided metal shield and an outer jacket.

The RJ-11 is the small modular connector at the end of a telephone cord, with four or six positions and usually two or four contacts, and it was also used to join a dial-up or ADSL modem to the telephone line.

Fibre carries data as pulses of light travelling through a glass or plastic core by total internal reflection, and since no electric current flows in it, an external electromagnetic field cannot induce noise in the signal.

The correct answer is B, 480 megabits per second, the speed known as high speed in the USB 2.0 specification.

LPT stands for line print terminal, the name by which the operating system knew the parallel port, which used a twenty-five-pin DB-25 connector on the computer and a thirty-six-pin Centronics connector at the printer end.

A computer with PS/2 ports has two six-pin mini-DIN sockets that are identical in shape, so they are distinguished by colour: purple for the keyboard and green for the mouse.

Unshielded twisted pair cable has no metal foil or braid around its pairs, so it resists electromagnetic interference less well than shielded twisted pair, not better; the only protection it has is the twisting of each pair, which cancels much of the noise picked up by the two wires.

The High-Definition Multimedia Interface carries high-definition digital video and multi-channel digital audio in the same cable, which is why one HDMI lead is enough to join a computer to a television or a projector.

The Video Graphics Array connector is a D-shaped plug with fifteen pins in three rows of five, usually coloured blue, and it carries an analogue video signal only, so a separate cable is needed for sound.

The standard first appeared in 1996 and was meant to replace the many different ports of an older computer with one socket for every kind of peripheral.

The RJ-45 connector is properly called 8P8C, meaning eight positions and eight contacts, and it is crimped on to the four twisted pairs of a network cable, one contact for each of the eight wires.

Article 100(3) of the Constitution lays down that the quorum to constitute a sitting of either House shall be one-tenth of the total number of members of that House, and the presiding officer is counted in that one-tenth.

A policy cut motion asks that the amount of the demand be reduced to one rupee, which amounts to a complete rejection of the policy underlying the demand, and the member who moves it may propose an alternative policy.

The calling attention motion is an Indian innovation in parliamentary procedure and has been in use since 1954. A member calls the attention of a minister to a matter of urgent public importance and the minister makes a statement on it, after which members may seek clarifications.