APPSC Group 2 Previous Questions

1. The thickening of wall of artery is called—
(A) Aneurysm
(B) Arteriosclerosis
(C) Arthritis
(D) Both (A) and (C)

2. Lining of human intestine is—
(A) Ciliated
(B) Keratinized
(C) Brush border
(D) All the above

3. Which blood group has both 'a' and 'b' antibodies ?

Frequently asked questions in Group-2

1. Which of these is young folded mountain?
(A) The Himalayas
(B) The Vindhyas
(C) The Nilgiris
(D) The Western Ghats
Ans : (A)

2. Ankaleshwar is famous for—
(A) Gold mining
(B) Petrochemical Industry
(C) Manufacturing Industry
(D) Wheat producton
Ans :

What are the features of Indus Valley towns ?

The Indus Valley Civilization had its beginnings in Chalcolithic Age and had its maturity phase in Bronze Age. Indus Valley Civilization was discovered in the Harappa excavations of 1921 when Sir. John Marshall was the head of Archeological Survey

Science and Technology study material for APPSC Exams

What are the components of Communication Satellites ? Add a note on the uses of communication satellites.

Communication Satellites  are geostationary satellites orbiting the earth at 36ooo km above the equator. They provide four basic services -  Telecommunication, TV broadcasting, Radio broadcasting and Weather forecasting. They provide value added services like Data relay, Early warning system, Search

APPSC Group-1 Paper 3 study material

Introduction to Indian Economy

It is a popular belief that Economics only deals with money. What we are going to learn in the next few days is that – the popular belief is false. Economics is about making choices in the presence of scarcity. Take a small example, you have 10,000 rupees in your hand

Indian Polity study material for APPSC Group-1

Accounts of the Government of India

Government accounts are kept in the following three parts:-

1. CONSOLIDATED FUND OF INDIA:

All revenues received by Government by way of taxation like income-tax, central excise, custom, land revenue (tax revenues) and other receipts flowing to Government in connection with the Government businesses like receipts from Railways, Posts, Transport etc. (non-tax revenues) are credited into the Consolidated Fund. Similarly, all loans raised by Government by issue of Public notifications, treasury bills

Paper-1 Study Material for APPSC Group-1

General Essay on Dowry

Dowry is that which is paid to the groom and his family by the bride’s family at the time of marriage, which includes payment in cash, jewellery, goods, immovable property etc. The concept of dowry is aid to have been specific to North India region-wise

APPSC Group-1 Indian History Study Material

What are the Salient features of Indus Valley Civilization ?

The Indus Valley Civilization had its beginnings in Chalcolithic Age and had its maturity phase in Bronze Age. Indus Valley Civilization was discovered in the Harappa excavations of 1921 when Sir. John Marshall was the head of Archeological Survey of India.

Drainage System

Indus Valley Civilization flourished in an area of 1.3 million sq.km, extending from

A.P History study material for APPSC Group-1

Economy of the Satavahanas

At its zenith, the Satavahana empire extended from the Bay of Bengal in the east to the Arabian Sea in the west and embraced the entire region between the Narmada in the north to the Krishna in the south.

Satavahana Coins

Although agriculture was the main occupation of the people, the State economy appears to have depended more on industry and trade. The officers were probably

Group-1 mains Paper-4 study material

INSAT System of Satellites

INSAT System was a joint venture between Department of Space and various user agencies like Department of Telecommunications, Doordarshan, AIR, Indian Metereological Department.

INSAT System is the only system with multipurpose functions like mass communications, telecommunications and metereological

General Essay on Advertisements for Group-1 mains

Advertisements

Advertisements have become a part and parcel of our lives. Try going anywhere in the world you can not escape from advertisements. Consumers are bombarded with more than 1500 commercial messages every day.



Advertising, in a way, represents the contemporary society. The content of an advertisement, the its illustrations and its

Society of the Satavahanas

Society of the Satavahanas

Extent of Satavahana Kingdoom

 

The society during the Satavahana period retained much of its earlier flexibility and the contact with the North accelerated the process of acculturation. At it’s zenith, the Satavahana empire extended from Bay of Bengal in the east to the Arabian Sea in

Science and Technology material for APPSC Exams

Q) Write a brief note on any 5 of the infrastructure establishments of the Department of Space.

Answer :

The Space programme is administered under the Development of Space (DOS), Government of India. The major establishments of DOS are:

1. ISRO:

Head quarters located at Bangalore

It looks after planning, execution and management of space

Indian History for APPSC Exams

Indian History Timeline

Indus Valley Civilization (2500 BC to 1750 BC)

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Vedic Civilization (1750 BC to 600 BC)

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Mahajanapadas

Unemployment in India

Unemployment in India

There are more than 6 crore well educated youth in India who are unemployed. There has been a drastic increase in the literacy rate in India over the past few decades, unfortunately leading to a massive increase in the unemployment rate. Employment growth in the Organized sector, both public and private combined, registered a decline by -0.32 percent

A.P History for APPSC Exams

Political History of the Satavahanas

The vague, disputed and uncorroborated doubtful evidences form the basis for the history of the Satavahanas. The Jain sources mention Satavahana as the first king in the family. The Kathasaritsagara also contains a story about Satavahana. The Kondapur coins bear the legend 'Sadvahana'. On scriptal grounds this Satavahana is placed close to (either before or

Infosys Campus Interviews Previous Questions

1. Father's age is three years more than three times the son's age.  After three years, father's age will be ten years more than twice the son's age.  What is the father's present age.

Ans: 33 years.                

2. Find the values of each of the alphabets.

N O O N
S O O N
+ M O O N
----------
J U N E

Ans:

SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide Exam(310-065) Class-8

Other (Nonaccess) Class Modifiers

You can modify a class declaration using the keyword final, abstract, or strictfp. These modifiers are in addition to whatever access control is on the class, so you could, for example, declare a class as both public and final. But you can't always mix nonaccess modifiers. You're free to use strictfp in combination with final, for example, but you must never, ever, ever mark a class as both final

Why is allowing this redundancy a bad practice that one should avoid whenever possible?

Q) Consider an E-R diagram in which the same entity set appears several times. Why is allowing this redundancy a bad practice that one should avoid whenever possible?

Answer: By using one entity set many times we are missing relationships in the model.

Android Installation

Android Installation

1. Options

You have different options to install the Android development tools. The simplest way is to download a full packaged pre-configured Eclipse.

For other options please see Android installation

2. Standalone ADT installation

Google provides a pre-packaged and configured Eclipse based

SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide Exam(310-065) Class-7

Declare Classes (Exam Objective 1.1)

1.1 Develop code that declares classes (including abstract and all forms of nested classes), interfaces, and enums, and includes the appropriate use of package and import statements (including static imports).

When you write code in Java, you're writing classes or interfaces. Within those classes, as you know, are variables and methods (plus a few other things). How you declare your classes, methods, and variables dramatically affects your

Define the concept of aggregation. Give two examples of where this concept is useful.

Q) Define the concept of aggregation. Give two examples of where this concept is useful.

Answer: Aggregation is an abstraction through which relationships are treated as higher-level entities. Thus the relationship between entities A and B is treated as if it were an entity C. Some examples of this are:

a. Employees work for projects. An employee working for a particular project uses various

Android Development Tutorial (Based on Android 4.1) class-6

Using Resources

1. Reference to resources in code

The Resources class allows to access individual resources. An instance of Resources can get access via the getResources() method of the Context class.

The Resources class is also used by other Android classes, for example the following code shows

SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide Exam(310-065) Class-6

Identifiers & JavaBeans (Objectives 1 & 2)

1) Develop code that declares, initializes, and uses primitives, arrays, enums, and objects as static, instance, and local variables. Also, use legal identifiers for variable names.

2) Develop code that declares both static and non-static methods, and—if appropriate— use method names that adhere to the JavaBeans naming standards. Also develop code that declares and uses a variable-length argument list.

Remember that when we list one or more Certification Objectives in the tutorial, as we just did, it means that the following section covers at least some part of that objective. Some objectives will be covered

Explain the difference between a weak and a strong entity set.

Q) Explain the difference between a weak and a strong entity set.

Answer :

A strong entity set has a primary key. All tuples in the set are distinguishable by that key. A weak entity set has no primary key unless attributes of the strong entity set on which it depends are included. Tuples in a weak entity set are partitioned according to their relationship with

Android Development Tutorial (Based on Android 4.1) class-5

Resources

1. Resources

Android supports that resources, like images and certain XML configuration files, can be keep separate from the source code.

These resources must be defined in the res directory in a special folder dependent on their purpose. You can also append additional qualifiers to the folder name to indicate

SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide Exam(310-065) Class-5

Declarations and Access Control

We assume that because you're planning on becoming certified, you already know the basics of Java. If you're completely new to the language, this chapter—and the rest of the tutorial—will be confusing; so be sure you know at least the basics of the language before diving into this tutorial. That said, we're starting with a brief, high-level refresher to put you back in the

E-R diagram for favourite sports team statistics

Q) Design an E-R diagramfor keeping track of the exploits of your favourite sports team. You should store the matches played, the scores in eachmatch, the players in each match and individual player statistics for each match. Summary statistics should be modeled as

SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide Exam(310-065) Class-4

Test-Taking Techniques

Without a plan of attack, candidates can become overwhelmed by the exam or become side-tracked and run out of time. For the most part, if you are comfortable with the material, the allotted time is more than enough to complete the exam. The trick is to keep the time from slipping away during

Android Development Tutorial (Based on Android 4.1) class-4

Android Application Architecture

1. AndroidManifest.xml

The components and settings of an Android application are described in the AndroidManifest.xml file. For example all Activities and Services of the application must be declared in

E-R diagram for marks database

Consider a database used to record the marks that students get in different exams of different course offerings.

a) Construct an E-R diagram that models exams as entities, and uses a ternary relationship, for the above database.

Answer :

SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide Exam(310-065) Class-3

Tips on Taking the Exam

There are 72 questions on the 310-065 (Java 6) exam. You will need to get at least 47 of them correct to pass—around 65%. You are given over three hours to complete the exam. This information is subject to change. Always check with Sun before taking the exam, at www.suned.sun.com.

You are allowed to answer questions in any order, and you can go

Android Development Tutorial (Based on Android 4.1) class-3

Android Development Tools

1. Android SDK

The Android Software Development Kit (SDK) contains the necessary tools to create, compile and package Android application. Most of these tools are command line based.

The Android SDK also provides an Android device emulator, so that Android applications can be tested without a real Android phone. You can create Android virtual devices (AVD) via

SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide Exam(310-065) Class-2

Taking the Programmer's Exam

In a perfect world, you would be assessed for your true knowledge of a subject, not simply how you respond to a series of test questions. But life isn't perfect, and it just isn't practical to evaluate everyone's knowledge on a one-to-one basis.

For the majority of its certifications, Sun evaluates candidates using a computer based testing service operated by Sylvan Prometric. This

Android Development Tutorial (Based on Android 4.1) class-2

Other Android components

Android has several more components which can be used in your Android application.

Intents

Intents are asynchronous messages which allow the application to request functionality from other components of the Android system, e.g. from Services or Activities. An application can call a component directly (explicit Intent) or ask the Android system to evaluate registered components based on the Intent data (implicit Intents ). For example the application could implement sharing of data via an

SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide Exam(310-065)

In This Tutorial

This Tutorial is organized to optimize your learning of the topics covered by the SCJP Java 6 exam. Whenever possible, we've organized the chapters to parallel the Sun objectives, but sometimes we'll mix up objectives or partially repeat them in order to present topics in an order better suited to learning

Android Development Tutorial (Based on Android 4.1) class-1

1. What is Android?

Android Operation System:

Android is an operating system based on Linux with a Java programming interface.

The Android Software Development Kit (Android SDK) provides all necessary tools to develop Android applications. This includes a compiler, debugger and a device emulator, as well as its own virtual

Floating point representation

The floating point representation of a number has two parts. The first part represents a signed, fixed point number called the mantissa. The second point designates the position of the decimal point and is called as the exponent. The fixed mantissa may be a

E-R diagram for a university

A university registrar’s office maintains data about the following entities:

(a) courses, including number, title, credits, syllabus, and prerequisites;

(b) course offerings, including course number, year, semester, section number, instructor(s), timings, and

Binary Multiplication & Binary Division

Binary Multiplication

Binary multiplication is performed in same way as decimal numbers. A simplistic way to perform multiplication is by repeated addition. The multiplication rules for binary digits is as follows

Explain the distinctions among the terms primary key, candidate key, and superkey.

Answer: A superkey is a set of one or more attributes that, taken collectively, allows us to identify uniquely an entity in the entity set. A superkey may contain extraneous attributes. If K is a superkey, then so is any superset of K. A superkey for which no proper subset is also a superkey is called a candidate