UPSC CAPF Previous Year GK Questions

A carbon border adjustment exists to stop carbon-intensive activity from moving out of a strict jurisdiction, not to help it move, and its aim is to make climate policy work better.

In the binary system every step up the ladder of memory units is a factor of 2 raised to 10, that is 1024, so one gigabyte holds 1024 megabytes.

Inside a long, narrow solenoid the field lines run straight and parallel and are evenly spaced, which is the picture of a uniform field.

When a wire is stretched its volume stays the same, so the length must grow in the same ratio as the cross-sectional area shrinks.

Cache memory is small and very fast, but it is the most expensive memory per byte after the CPU registers, so statement 2 is wrong.

In parallel the equivalent resistance is always smaller than the smallest single resistor, so here it falls below 1 Ω. For resistors in parallel, 1/R = 1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3 = 1/1 + 1/2 + 1/3 = 11/6, so R = 6/11 Ω, about 0.55 Ω. Each extra parallel…

Dhaka, famous for its fine muslin, lost its trade and population after the mid-eighteenth century as the East India Company's rule and cheap British cloth destroyed its textile industry.

A bus is the shared set of electrical lines on the motherboard that carries data, addresses and control signals between the CPU, memory and input-output devices.

SONAR sends out pulses of high-frequency sound, above 20 kHz, which travel well through water and bounce back from objects.

Lithuania is a Baltic state to the north of Belarus, and Belarus lies between it and Ukraine, so the two never touch.

NLP is the branch of artificial intelligence that lets computers understand, interpret and produce human language. Artificial intelligence covers systems that perform tasks normally needing human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning and understanding speech or text.

The investment multiplier equals 1 ÷ (1 − MPC), so the smaller the share of extra income people spend, the smaller the multiplier.

Tax Inspectors Without Borders is a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Released by IBM in 1957, Fortran is the oldest of the four and is often called the first widely used high-level programming language.

When calcium carbide reacts with water it gives acetylene (ethyne) gas and calcium hydroxide, not hydrogen. The reaction CaC₂ + 2H₂O → C₂H₂ + Ca(OH)₂ is the old method of making acetylene, once burnt in miners' lamps and still used for welding and for ripening fruit illegally.

The quantity demanded falls by 50% while the price rises by 50%, and 50 divided by 50 gives a price elasticity of 1.

All four are high-performance computing systems built or installed in India for research, weather forecasting and artificial intelligence. PARAM Siddhi-AI was built by C-DAC under the National Supercomputing Mission and is installed at C-DAC, Pune.

Both beams carry conventional current in the same direction, north to south, and parallel currents in the same direction attract each other.

Petroleum ether is a solvent and petroleum jelly is spread on metal surfaces as a protective coating, while the uses given for petroleum wax and white spirit have been swapped around.

Narrow money, M1, is currency held by the public plus net demand deposits with commercial banks, the most liquid forms of money.