Test of the Day for IBPS RRB Mains 2017

Q1. With which of the following country, India has signed two MoUs in the field of Railways in August 2017?

Q2. International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition is celebrated on ....?

Q3. Shora is the parliament of _______?

Q4. Durand Cup is associated with the game of..?

Q5. Markets regulator SEBI barred Orion Capital as well as Orion Broking and their partners from the securities markets for 10 years. Who is the present Chairman of SEBI?

Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions. 
There are eight family members, viz A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table, facing the center but not necessarily in the same order. The following information is known about them.
(a) F, the wife of D, is sitting third to the right of C.
(b) A is the son of H. A is sitting second to the left of D. D is an immediate neighbour of neither F nor C. No male is an immediate neighbour of D.
(c) G sits second to the left of D’s son. Only two persons sit between H and A’s brother. Neither C nor D is the brother of A.
(d) D’s son and the wife of D’s son are immediate neighbours of each other.
(e) F is the mother of H and is an immediate neighbour of neither B nor G.
(f) G is the sister of E.

 Q6. Who is sister in law of H?

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Q7. Who among following sits third to left of C?

Q8. Who among following sits exactly between F and B?

Q9. Who among following is wife of B?

Q10. Who among following sits third to right of daughter of F?

Q11. Three vessels whose capacities are in ratio 5 : 3 : 2 are completely filled with milk mixed with water. The ratio of milk to water in the mixture of vessels are as 3 : 2, 2 : 1 and 3 : 1 respectively. Find the percentage of water in the new mixture obtained when one-third of first, half of second and two-third of the third vessel is taken out and mixed together ? 

  

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Q12. The wheat sold by a grocer contained 10% low quality wheat. What quantity of good quantity wheat should be added to 150 kg of wheat so that the percentage of low quality wheat becomes 5% ?

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Q13. Two pipes can fill a cistern in 14 and 16 hours respectively. The pipes are opened simultaneously and it is found that due to leakage in the bottom of the cistern, it takes 32 minutes extra for the cistern to be filled up. When the cistern is full, in what time will the leak empty it ?

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Q14. The ratio between the speed of a train and a car is 18 : 3 respectively. Also, a bus covered a distance of 480 kms in 12 hours. The speed of the bus is five–ninths the speed of the train. How much distance will the car cover in 5 hours ?

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Q15. Train-A crosses a pole in 25 seconds and another Train-B crosses as pole in 1 minute and 15 seconds. The Length of the train-A is half the length of the train-B. What is the respective ratio between the speed of the train-A and the train-B ?

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Directions (16-20): Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which a sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. 

 Q16. A legal personality is usually defined as a subject vested with rights and duties. ________________. Strangely, though, the same rationale has failed in courts in its application to animals because of the imaginary distinction between the multitude of species, and their inability to carry on legal duties.

Q17. The federal court in the Naruto case has merely mirrored the premise that animals can only be objects or properties, __________________. Ironically, the imperative of granting legal recognition through legal personality reveals both the obscurity and absurdity of extending identities to animals. Even if the courts were to accept limited personhood, we are still left with the reality that the process of recognition is confined to our communities and legal structures. The notion of autonomy and agency of animals will continue to fail. However, the case has pushed us to think over uncharted territories of human/non-human subjectivity in law.

Q18. “It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” These words of British economist John Maynard Keynes best sum up the wave of reforms in the domain of tax administration in India in the last few years. _____________ the taxpayer still seems to be wanting for greater certainty and fairness in the levy, assessment, and collection of taxes. This is where an internationally recognized concept such as taxpayer rights holds well even in the Indian context.

Q19. Blockchain is the backbone technology on which bitcoins run. _____ Blockchain removes the need for using a trusted third party such as a bank to make a transaction by directly connecting the customers and suppliers. Each transaction is recorded to the ledger after verification by the network participants, mainly a chain of computers, called nodes. Blockchain today may be compared to what the Internet was in the early 1990s. While we have witnessed how the ‘Internet of Information’ has changed our society over the past two decades, we are now entering a phase where blockchain may do the same by ushering in a new paradigm comprising ‘Internet of Trust’ and ‘Internet of , as per a Deloitte and Assocham study.

Q20. The Central government has development strategies in the form of campaigns like ‘Make in India’ and ‘Startup India’. The recent introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), which is the most significant overhaul of the taxation system in India ever, also aims to achieve a unified market across the nation for the first time. The intent of the government is clear. It wants to transform India into a manufacturing, investment and research and development hub and consequentially, there would also be an increase in revenue generation. __________________________________ , thus leading to a higher tax yield. But one may ask, isn’t the level of trust already there? Well, not entirely.

Q21. The ability of an operating system to run more than one application at a time is called _________.

Q22. Which one of the following(s) is/are/ real time operating system?

Q23. Which among the following is the reboot where the power to the system is physically turned off and back on again, causing an initial boot of the machine?

Q24. Which of the following statements is true for three-tier architecture?

Q25. Which of the following elements are used in an e-mail to express emotions of feelings clearly?