SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

A ship carrying cotton bales and explosives caught fire in the Bombay docks on 14 April 1944; the firefighters who went aboard to douse the blaze were killed when the cargo detonated, and Fire Service Day and the week that follows commemorate them.

The week that follows, from 4 to 10 March, is used in factories, mines, ports and construction sites for safety pledges, drills, inspections and competitions, with a different theme each year.

The week is observed to strengthen national integration and communal harmony, with each day given a theme such as minorities welfare, linguistic harmony and women's day, and it closes on 25 November with Communal Harmony Flag Day.

The Central Vigilance Commission arranges the week around that date, and it opens with an integrity pledge taken in government offices and public sector undertakings; the same day is also observed as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas, the national unity day.

The two dates were chosen for two events: on 4 October 1957 the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was placed in orbit, and on 10 October 1967 the Outer Space Treaty came into force.

Van Mahotsav was begun in 1950 on the initiative of K. M. Munshi, then the union minister for agriculture and food, and July was chosen because the monsoon has set in over most of the country by then and a sapling planted in wet ground has the best chance of…

Wildlife Week is observed in national parks, sanctuaries, zoos and schools across India with exhibitions, walks and competitions, and it is coordinated by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

The week is coordinated worldwide by the World Health Organization and UNICEF and argues for feeding a baby only mother's milk for the first six months, and for beginning that feeding within an hour of birth.

National Nutrition Week is observed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development through anganwadis, schools and health centres to spread the message of balanced diet, and the whole of September is separately kept as a nutrition month.

It is the helpline on which a victim of online financial fraud should call at once, because a report made within the first hours lets banks and payment operators freeze the money before it is withdrawn; complaints can also be filed on the national cybercrime reporting portal.

Anyone may hold the public key and use it to encrypt a message, but only the holder of the matching private key can decrypt it, so no secret has to be exchanged in advance; RSA is the standard example, and the same pair used the other way round produces a…

The name counts the days the software maker has had to fix the flaw, and that number is zero: the attacker knows of a weakness that the vendor has not discovered or not yet repaired, so no update protects the user and even a fully patched system is exposed.

CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, and it is the distorted text, image grid or check box that a site shows before accepting a form, so that automated programs cannot register accounts, book tickets in bulk or guess passwords by the thousand.

The correct answer is B, CERT-In, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, which works under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and is the national agency for collecting, analysing and issuing alerts on cyber incidents and for coordinating the response to them.

It locks the files by encrypting them and shows a demand for money, usually in a crypto currency, in exchange for the key; the WannaCry outbreak of 2017 struck hospitals, factories and offices in many countries and is the example examiners quote.

A worm carries its own code, finds other machines through the network and copies itself to them without any help from the user, which is why worms can spread across the world in hours.

The triad names the three goals of information security: confidentiality, that only authorised people can read the data; integrity, that the data is complete and unaltered from the moment it was created or sent; and availability, that the system works when an authorised user needs it.

The correct answer is D, all of the above, because cyber security is not one activity but a programme that covers all three.

A botnet is built by infecting many connected devices, each of which becomes a zombie obeying a single controller; the network so assembled is then rented out or used for spam, fraud or a flood of traffic.

A firewall sits between a trusted internal network and the untrusted world outside, inspects the traffic crossing it and permits only what its rules allow, dropping the rest; it may be a hardware appliance, a software program or both together.