Important Questions and Answer of KVS & NVS and other Librarian Exam - 1

Important Questions: Library and Information Science

1. National Referal Centre for Science and Technology was functioning at

(A) OCLC 

(B) National Science Library 

(C) Library of Congress 

(D) National Library of Medicine

Answer: B

2. 'Key word in Title' was revised under the name of 'Keyword in context (KWIC)' by

(A) Berwick Sayers 

(B) E.C. Richardson

(C) Hans P. Luhn 

(D) D.J. Foskett 

Answer: C

3. World Cat' is maintained by

(A) Library of Congress 

(B) OCLC 

(C) ALA

(D) Thomson Reuters 

Answer: B

4. POPSI indexing system was developed by

(A) S.R. Ranganathan 

(B) A. Neelameghan

(G) Bhattacharya 

(D) D. Austin 

Answer: C

5. Which one of the following is not an elementary category in POPSI?

(A) Entity 

(B) Action

(C) Time 

(D) Discipline 

Answer: C

6. Relational indexing was devised by

(A) C.A. Cutter 

(B) M. Taube

(C) J.E.L. Farradane 

(D) Derek Austin 

Answer: C

7. Who has designed "Difference Engine"?

(A) Blaise Pascal 

(B) Charles Babbage 

(C) John Brown 

(D) John Napier 

Answer: B

8. ENIAC stands for

(A) Electronic Numeric Interval and Calculator

(B) Electrical Numerical Integration and Calculate

(C) Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator 

(D) Electronic Number Integration and Calculation 

Answer: C

9. What is the heart of micro computer?

(A) Micro Processor .

(B) CPU

(C) ALU 

(D) RAM

Answer: B

10. The concept of artificial intelligence is related with

(A) First Generation Computers

(B) Second Generation Computers

(C) Fourth Generation Computers

(D) Fifth Generation Computers 

Answer: D

11. Arrange the following in the order of Computer generations:

(i) Integrated circuit

(ii) Transistor

(iii) Vaccum tube

(iv) Chip

(A) (iv), (ii), (iii), (i) 

(B) (ill), (ii), (i), (iv) 

(C) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) 

(D) (iii), (iv), (ii), (i)

Answer: B

12. Which one of the following types of memory is volatile?

(A) ROM 

(B) PROM

(C) EPROM 

(D) RAM 

Answer: D

13. Which one of the following is correctly matched?

(A) Fax - Optical storage

(B) CD-ROM - Image transmission

(C) Floppy Disc - Magnetic storage 

(D) Circuit - Software

Answer: C

14. The computer that process both analog and digitalis called

(A) Analog Computer 

(B) Hybrid Computer 

(C) Digital Computer 

(D) Mainframe Computer

Answer: B

15. Who has outlined examples of E-Books?

(A) McCarty - 1997 

(B) William J. Mitchell - 1995

(C) Mitchell - 1996 

(D) Craw Ford - 1995

Answer: A