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Q80. What does Shading do in MS Word?

[SSC CGL Tier-II 2022 cycle, held 2 March 2023]

1. Colour outside selected text
2. Change background behind selected text
3. Change text glyph colour
4. Enable a pop-up effect

Answer: B. Change background behind selected text

Explanation: Shading adds a background fill to selected text or paragraph areas. It differs from Font Color, which changes the letters themselves, and from text effects unrelated to background colouring.

Q79. What data-transfer activity sends information from a customer’s computer to a server?

[SSC CGL Tier-II 2022 cycle, held 2 March 2023]

1. Browsing
2. Uploading
3. Forwarding
4. Downloading

Answer: B. Uploading

Explanation: Uploading transfers a file or data from a local device towards a remote service. Downloading moves data in the opposite direction, while browsing and forwarding are broader activities rather than the directional transfer requested.

Q78. Outlook, Gmail and Yandex can all be examples of what?

[SSC CGL Tier-II 2022 cycle, held 2 March 2023]

1. Only Outlook and Yandex are email services
2. Only Yandex is an email service
3. Email-service providers
4. Only Outlook is an email service

Answer: C. Email-service providers

Explanation: All three names refer to widely used email products or providers. Their user interfaces and ownership differ, but all enable electronic message transmission, so excluding any one of them is mistaken.

Q77. Which type of cookies may track users across unrelated websites?

[SSC CGL Tier-II 2022 cycle, held 2 March 2023]

1. Persistent first-party cookies only
2. Third-party cookies
3. Zombie cookies only
4. Session cookies only

Answer: B. Third-party cookies

Explanation: Third-party cookies can be set by services embedded on multiple websites, enabling cross-site tracking if permitted by browser privacy controls. Persistence describes lifetime, while zombie behaviour concerns recreation after deletion.

Q76. What malware is commonly disguised as an ordinary legitimate application?

[SSC CGL Tier-II 2022 cycle, held 2 March 2023]

1. Trojan
2. Ransomware
3. Rootkit
4. Keylogger

Answer: A. Trojan

Explanation: A Trojan misrepresents itself as trusted or desirable software to persuade a user to run it. Ransomware describes an extortion objective, while keylogging describes a specific data-capture behaviour.

Q75. Which claim about Trojan malware is false?

[SSC CGL Tier-II 2022 cycle, held 2 March 2023]

1. It may appear legitimate
2. Some create backdoors
3. It always self-replicates to infect other files
4. Users may spread it by executing attachments

Answer: C. It always self-replicates to infect other files

Explanation: Self-replication is characteristic of viruses and worms, not an inherent requirement of a Trojan. Trojan malware may install through deceptive attachments or downloads and may provide backdoor access.

Q74. At which institution was an early digital computer first installed in India?

[Rajasthan CET Senior Secondary, 11 February 2023, Shift 2]

1. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
2. Institute of Social Science, Agra
3. Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
4. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Answer: D. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Explanation: The Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata installed the HEC-2M computer in 1955, an important early milestone in Indian digital computing. The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research independently developed an early Indian-built computer in subsequent years, contributing to national computing capability.

Q73. Which listed Chhattisgarh initiatives formed part of the National e-Governance Plan:
(i) State Wide Area Network,
(ii) Citizen Contact Centre,
(iii) capacity building,
(iv) Agrisnet and PDS?

[CGPSC Prelims General Studies 2023]

1. Only (i) and (iii)
2. Only (i), (iii) and (iv)
3. Only (i), (ii) and (iv)
4. All four

Answer: D. All four

Explanation: The National e-Governance Plan supported connectivity, public-service delivery and administrative digital capacity. In Chhattisgarh, the listed initiatives cover networking, citizen help services, training and sector-specific agriculture and public-distribution systems; accordingly, all four belong to the stated programme.

Q72. What is the numerical label of the first row in Excel?

[IBPS RRB PO/Clerk 2023 — Adda247 memory-based compilation; exact sitting not specified]

1. A
2. 0
3. 1
4. 01
5. None

Answer: C. 1

Explanation: Microsoft Excel labels columns alphabetically and rows numerically starting at 1. Consequently, the first cell at the upper-left corner has the combined reference A1, indicating column A and row 1.

Q71. Where can repeating page numbers and titles be inserted in Word?

[IBPS RRB PO/Clerk 2023 — Adda247 memory-based compilation; exact sitting not specified]

1. Header and Footer
2. Margins and Borders
3. Paragraph and Alignment
4. Font and Style
5. Table and Chart

Answer: A. Header and Footer

Explanation: Word headers and footers are repeating areas at the top and bottom of document pages. They can contain fields for page numbers, dates and running titles without being part of the principal body text.