246: How can the height of a person who is six feet tall be expressed (approximately) in nanometres?
(a) 183 x 106 nanometres
(b) 183 x 107 nanometres
(c) 234 x 106 nanometres
(d) 234 x 107 nanometres
247: Which among the following do/does not belong/belongs to the GSM family of wireless technologies ?
(a) DSL
(b) LTE
(c) EDGE
(d) Both EDGE and LTE
Explanation:
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM. EDGE is considered a 3G radio technology and is part of ITU's 3G definition. EDGE was deployed on GSM networks beginning in 2003.
3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), is the latest standard in the mobile network technology tree that previously realized the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HS*PA network technologies.
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL originally stood for digital subscriber loop. In telecommunications marketing, the term Digital Subscriber Line is widely understood to mean Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the most commonly installed technical variety of DSL. DSL service is delivered simultaneously with regular telephone on the same telephone line. This is possible because DSL uses a higher frequency. These frequency bands are subsequently separated by filering.
248: Param Padma, which was in the news recently, is:
(a) A new Civilian Award instituted by the Government of India
(b) The name of a supercomputer developed by India
(c) The name given to a proposed network of canals linking northern and southern rivers of India
(d) A software programme to facilitate e-governance in Madhya Pradesh
Explanation:
In December 2002, "Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune succeeded in developing India'a most powerful super computer 'Param Padma' which can perform 'one trillion operations/sec, which is at present functioning at C-DAC's 'Tera Scale Facility' at Bangalore.
249: The economic and monetary union of 15 European Countries is proposed to be made by 1999. But the currencies of two countries, Franc, have already the same value and circulate freely in both the countries. The countries are
(a) France and Switzerland
(b) Switzerland and Luxembourg
(c) Luxembourg and Belgium
(d) France and Belgium
Explanation:
Luxemburg and Belgium are the two countries where 'Franc' is the currency having same value and is in free circulation.
250: Thillana is a format of
(a) Kathak
(b) Kuchipudi
(c) Odissi
(d) Bharatnatyam