Have a Look Friend As on your Asking here I m Providing Sample Questions of Year DRDO CEPTAM Exam of General Awareness Section :

1. The chemical name of Baking soda is
(a) Sodium hydroxide
(b) Sodium acetate
(c) Sodium bicarbonate
(d) Sodium carbonate

2. Which of the following command deletes the data in the entire table and makes the delete permanent in the database?
(a) Truncate
(b) Rollback
(c) Commit
(d) Delete



3. Which one of the following gases has colour?
(a) Oxygen
(b) Nitrogen
(c) Chlorine
(d) Hydrogen

4. The point on the Earth surface directly above the origin of an earthquake is know as
(a) Medi Centre
(b) Prime Centre
(c) Epicentre
(d) Hypo Centre

5. State with highest percentage of forests is
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Mizoram
(c) Arunachal Pradesh
(d) Assam

6. May 8 is observed as
(a) World Red Cross Day
(b) Commonwealth Day
(c) World Telecommunication Day
(d) World Standard Day

7. Which famous scientist was the first to look at the night sky through a telescope?
(a) Galileo
(b) Copernicus
(c) Michael Faraday
(d) Newton

8. The number of days for a year in Mercury is
(a) 56
(b) 88
(c) 300
(d) 36

9. Sodium chloride or table salt occurs in nature as the mineral
(a) Sphalerite
(b) Halite
(c) Tale
(d) Sylvite

10. CENVAT is related to
(a) Service Tax
(b) Custom Duty
(c) Excise Duty
(d) Sales Tax


11. The Sir Creek lies in the:
(1) Ranna of Kutch
(2) Palk straits
(3) Andamans
(4) British Isles
Ans:-1


12. The character ‘Gulliver’ was created by
(1) Jonathan Swift
(2) John Gulliver
(3) William Shakespeare
(4) P.G. Wodehouse

Ans:-1

13. Of the States going to polls in 2006, which has the highest number of voters?
(l) Kerala
(2)Assam
(3) Tamil Nadu
(4) West Bengal
Ans:-4


14. Which of the .following Indian birds is facing extinction due to environmental pollution?
(1) Chicken
(2) Parrot
(3) Vulture
(4) Duck
Ans:-3


15. Quit India Movement was launched due to:
(1) Involvement of India in Second World War by England.
(2) Failure of Cripps Mission
(3 arrest of Congress leaders
(4) Improper implementation of 1935 Act
Ans:-2

16. Which Indian language referred to as ‘Italian of the East”?
(1) Urdu
(2) Tamil
(3) Telugu
(4) Oriya
Ans:-3


17. If the Postal Index Number (PIN) begins with ‘6’ then the post office is probably situated In the State of
(1) Maharashtra
(2) Kerala
(3) Karnataka
(4 Andhra Pradesh
Ans:-2


18. Kunwar Singh led Sepoy Muting against British in:
(1)Gaya
(2)Ara
(3) Buxar
(4) Patna
Ans:-2


19. How many districts were included under Employment Guarantee
Act in the first phase?
(1)240
(2)260
(3) 220
(4) 200
Ans:-4


20. Which of the following forms of carbon can be used as lubricant in heavy machines? (1)Diamond
(2) Dry carbon
(3) Carbon powder
(4) Graphite
Ans:-4


21. Rail and telegraph services were started during the reign of:
(1) Lord Canning
(2) Lord Rippon
(3) Lord Dalhousie
(4) Lord Minto
Ans:-3

22. Which of the following crops increases nitrogen fixation in soil?
(1) Wheat
(2) Beans
(3) Tobacco
(4) Cotton
Ans:-2


23. Which part of the Union. Territory of Pondicherry is physically situated in Andhra Pradesh?
(1) Karaikal
(2) Mahe
(3) Yanam
(4) Divi
Ans:-3



24. Name the British historian who was jailed by an Austrian Court for denying horrors of holocaust during Nazi rule:
(1) Christian Fleck
(2) Christopher Reed
(3) Don McKinnon
(4) David Irving
Ans:-2

25. Which of the following places is not associated with ship manufacturing?
(1) Mumbai
(2) Vishakhapatnam
(3) Kochi
(4) Alang
Ans:-1

26. Kannauj was the capital of which king in ancient time?
(I) Harshavardhana.
(2) Chandragupta I
(3) Pulkeshin II
(4) Samudragupta
Ans:-1


27. In which of the following Iraqi cities is situated the famous’ Al Askari. place of worship of Shias?
(1) Basra
(2) Baghdad
(3)Karbala
(4)Samara
Ans:-3



28 In which of the following Indian cities there is possibility of maximum temperature during summer?
(1) Chennai
(2) Nagpur
(3) Hyderabad
(4) Puri
Ans:-2

29.The statue of Bahubali in Shravanbelgola was carved during the reign of:
(1) Chalukya
(2) Chola
(3) Ganga
(4) Rashtrakuta
Ans:3


30. Which of the following diseases is not transmitted by mosquito?
(1) Malaria
(2) Filaria
(3) Dengue Fever
(4) Sleeping sickness
Ans:-2