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1. What is utilization rate? Utilization rate is the percentage of time a person spends doing billable work. The utilization rate is not the billing rate. Billable hours are the number of working hours you can charge to your client, while the utilization rate is the percentage of total working hours that can be billed.

2. Which are the neighbouring states of West Bengal? It is bordered by the countries of Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, and the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, and Assam.

3. What is the population of Kolkata? As of 2011, the city had 4.5 million residents.

4. What is trading? The action or activity of buying and selling goods and services.

5. Who is current CEO of Microsoft? Satya Nadella

6. What is the logo of Microsoft? Windows logo which have been used to represent Microsoft's four major products: Windows (blue), Office (red), Xbox (green), and Bing (yellow).

7. What is the highest selling product of Microsoft? Windows

8. Are Operating systems of Microsoft licensed product? Yes

9. Is Microsoft office package a licensed product? Yes

10. What do you mean by Gnatt Chart?A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart, first developed by Karol Adamiecki in 1896, and independently by Henry Gantt in the 1910s, that illustrates a project schedule. Gantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project.

11. What do you mean by EOQ?

Economic order quantity (EOQ) is the order quantity that minimizes total inventory holding costs and ordering costs. It is one of the oldest classical production scheduling models. The framework used to determine this order quantity is also known as Wilson EOQ Model orWilson Formula. It is the number of units that a company should add to inventory with each order to minimize the total costs of inventory—such as holding costs, order costs, and shortage costs.

12. Which company is Walmart associated with in India?Easyday

13. What is the total size of Retail industry in India?

14. In which part in India do you find major presence of Walmart stores? Northern part of India

15. What are Interim Budget and Union Budget ? What are the corresponding dates? Union Budget announced on the last date of February,  is the annual budget of the Republic of India. During an election year, it is impractical for the ruling government to pass an annual Budget. So it passes an interim Budget, also referred to as a Vote of Account, or VOA.

16. Name 5 non Indian steel companies? ArcelorMittal(Luxembourg), Baosteel(China), Posco(South Korea), Nippon Steel(Japan), JFE Holdings(Japan).

17. What is the full form of IRDA? Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority.

18. What is the work of SEBI ?Name the chief of SEBI. What is the difference between IRDA and SEBI?The Preamble of the Securities and Exchange Board of India describes the basic functions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India as "...to protect the interests of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and to regulate the securities market and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto".SEBI has to be responsive to the needs of three groups, which constitute the market:

the issuers of securities the investors the market intermediaries.

SEBI has three functions rolled into one body: quasi-legislative, quasi-judicial and quasi-executive. It drafts regulations in its legislative capacity, it conducts investigation and enforcement action in its executive function and it passes rulings and orders in its judicial capacity. Though this makes it very powerful, there is an appeal process to create accountability.The chief of SEBI is Upendra Kumar Sinha.

19. Have you heard of West Indies? Name the group of islands and the capital of West Indies.Three major physiographic divisions constitute the West Indies: the Greater Antilles, comprising the islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico; the Lesser Antilles, including the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, and Grenada; and the isolated island groups of the North American continental shelf—The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands—and those of the South American shelf, including Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba,

Curaçao, and Bonaire.The capital is capital in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

20. Tell us about American Civil War.The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states as of January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, known as the "Confederacy" or the "South". They grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by a foreign country. The states that remained loyal and did not declare secession were known as the "Union" or the "North". The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories.After four years of combat that left over 600,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed and slavery was abolished. Then began the Reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves.

21. Tell me the sponsors of FIFA World Cup 2014.The sponsors of the 2014 World Cup are divided into three categories: FIFA Partners, FIFA World Cup Sponsors and National Supporters.FIFA partners-Adidas, Coca-Cola, Emirates, Hyundia-Kia, Sony, VisaFIFA World Cup sponsors - Anheuser-Busch InBev, Castrol, Continental, McDonald's, Johnson & Johnson

National supporters- Apex-Brasil, Garoto, Centauro, Banco Itaú, Liberty Seguros, Wiseup.

22. Which month the interim budget was presented? Presented by Finance Minister, P.Chidambaram on 17 February 2014.

23. Which month the union budget was presented?Presented by Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley on 10 July 2014

24. Why can't we club them together (railway budget and union budget) ?During the British Rule in India, the Railway Budget and the General Budget were presented together. It was in the year 1924 that both the budgets were separated. They were separated as the Indian Railways started turning into a Huge National Network Organization to itself so it required a separate budget, which could deal with Expenditure on Infrastructure and Coming up Fiscal Years & also on Operating Revenue, Passenger and Freight Tariffs & also Investment on Infrastructure. According to the Separation Convention on the recommendations of the Acworth Committee 1924, the Railway Budget is presented to the Parliament by the Union Minister for Railways, two days before the General Budget, usually around 26th February

25. What is relationshop between steel industry and union budget?There were no major announcements for the steel industry in the Budget 2013-14 as well as the interim budget 2014-2015 due to which the overall impact on the steel sector was neutral. Steel industry is a capital intensive industry which is majorly dependent on banks for its capex finance as well as working capital finances. Thus, due to continuous slowdown in demand, rising operating cost and decreasing operating margins, the companies across the industry faced huge pressure on their

credit profile which led to tightening of liquidity from the banks. Thus, many of companies in the Steel Products industry were downgraded by credit rating agencies during the past one year.

26. Have you heard about Raja Ram Mohan Roy?Raja Ram Mohan Roy (22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was a founder (with Dwarkanath Tagore and other Bengali Brahmins) of the Brahmo Samaj movement in 1828 which engendered the Brahmo Samaj, an influential Indian socio-religious reform movement. His influence was apparent in the fields of politics, public administration and education as well as religion. He is best known for his efforts to abolish the practice of sati, the Hindu funeral practice in which the widow was compelled to sacrifice herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. It was he who first introduced the word "Hinduism" into the English language in 1816. For his diverse contributions to society, Raja Ram Mohan Roy is regarded as one of the most important figures in the Bengal Renaissance. His efforts to protect Hinduism and Indian rights by participating in British government earned him the title "The Father of the Indian Renaissance".

27. Which society did he create? Brahmo Samaj

28. What is the function of the BrahmoSamaj?The Brahmo Samaj literally denotes community (Sanskrit: samaj) of men who worship Brahman the highest reality.[6] In reality Brahmo Samaj does not discriminate between caste, creed or religion and is an assembly of all sorts and descriptions of people without distinction, meeting publicly for the sober, orderly, religious and devout adoration of "the (nameless) unsearchable Eternal, Immutable Being who is the Author and Preserver of the Universe.

29. Oldest shopping mall in Kolkata?22 Camac Street

30. Name a few prominent dumping grounds in Kolkata?Dhapa is a locality on the eastern fringes of Kolkata, India. The area consists of landfill sites where the solid wastes of the city of Kolkata are dumped. "Garbage farming" is encouraged in the landfill sites. More than 40 per cent of the green vegetables in the Kolkata markets come from these lands. There are four sectors in Dhapa for dumping garbage that are filled with 2,500 tonnes of waste per day.

31. What is the full form of the EM Bypass? Eastern Metropolitan Bypass.

32. Tell me something about Rabindranath Tagore?Rabindranath Tagore[1] (May 7, 1861-August 7, 1941) was a Bengali poet of India. His name is written as Rabindranath Thakur in Indian languages. He was also a philosopher and an artist. He wrote many stories, novels and dramas, as well as composing music and many songs. His writings greatly influenced Bengali culture during the late 19th century and early 20th century. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Asian to win this prize. He was popularly known as Gurudev. His real name was Robindranath Thakur.

33. What is labour productivity? How is it measured?A measurement of economic growth of a country. Labor productivity measures the amount of goods and services produced by one hour of labor. More specifically, labor productivity measures the amount of real GDP produced by an hour of labor. Growing labor productivity depends on three main factors: investment and saving in physical capital, new technology and human capital.

34. What do you understand by elasticity in economics? In economics, elasticity is the measurement of how responsive an economic variable is to a change in another. An elastic variable (or elasticity value greater than 1) is one which responds more than proportionally to changes in other variables. In contrast, an inelastic variable (or elasticity value less than 1) is one which changes less than proportionally in response to changes in other variables.

35. How much of the GDP comes from IT/ITes? The share of the Indian IT industry in the country's GDP increased from 4.8% in 2005–06 to 7% in 2008.

36. How much of it comes from agriculture? Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 17% of the GDP and employed 51% of the total workforce in 2012.

37. 80:20 law? Is it applicable to the GDP at large? A rule of thumb that states that 80% of outcomes can be attributed to 20% of the causes for a given event. In business, the 80-20 rule is used to help managers identify problems and determine which operating factors are most important and should receive the most attention based on an efficient use of resources. Resources should be allocated to addressing the input factors have the most effect on a company's final results.

38. What is the other name for the 80:20 law? Also known as the "Pareto principle", the "principle of factor sparsity" and the "law of the vital few."

39. What is the difference between Global, Multinational, and trans-national?Each term is distinct and has a specific meaning which define the scope and degree of interaction with their operations outside of their “home” country.

Multinational companies have investment in other countries, but do not have coordinated product offerings in each country. More focused on adapting their products and service to each individual local market.Global companies have invested and are present in many countries. They market their products through the use of the same coordinated image/brand in all markets. Generally one corporate office that is responsible for global strategy. Emphasis on volume, cost management and efficiency.Transnational companies are much more complex organizations. They have invested in foreign operations, have a central corporate facility but give decision-making, R&D and marketing powers to each individual foreign market.

40. What is the full form of CMMI? Capability Maturity Model Integration.

41. How frequently is the Olympics held? 4 years

42. Describe the Olympic flag?The official flag of Olympics has a white base with five colored rings on it interlocking each other. The five colors of the Olympic flag are yellow, green, red, black and blue. The colors on the flag of Olympic games represents the five main fractions of the world, Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. 

43. Is India a regular participant in the Olympics?Yes

44. What is the academic background of Derek O’Brien? He went to St. Xavier's Collegiate School in the city and St. Columba's School in Delhi, India. After two years at Scottish Church College, Kolkata, he began his professional career as a journalist for Sportsworld magazine, but soon shifted to advertising where he worked at Ogilvy for eight years.

45. Name an Australian player who was the coach of India.Greg Chappel (Cricket coach)

46. In which position did Sreesanth play?  Right-arm fast-medium-pace bowler.

47. What is middleware? Middleware is the software that connects software components or enterprise applications. Middleware is the software layer that lies between the operating system and the applications on each side of a distributed computer network.

48. Name institutes which are not banks but provide financial services? Non-bank financial companies (NBFCs) are financial institutions that provide banking services without meeting the legal definition of a bank, i.e. one that does not hold a banking license. These institutions typically are restricted from taking deposits from the public depending on the jurisdiction. Nonetheless, operations of these institutions are often still covered under a country's banking regulations.

49. What do you understand by a sick industry? Industrial sickness is defined in India as "an industrial company (being a company registered for not less than five years) which has, at the end of any financial year, accumulated losses equal to, or exceeding, its entire net worth and has also suffered cash losses in such financial year and the financial year immediately preceding such financial year".

50. Is the sugarcane industry of Bihar a sick industry? Yes

51. How Indian government is working to retain the status of India as an IT superpower?Indian government has established Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) in this direction. From 15th August, 2000, the Information Technology Act has been implemented. E-commerce and other services have been given legal back-force by this act. Yet, projects of establishing info-cities are under implementation in Hyderabad, other such projects are under consideration. Government can make policies to provide economical benefits to investors in this field. Necessary infrastructure can be provided. Administrative and legal procedural complexities, should be reduced and limitations and regulations should be liberalized.

52. Who decides repo-rate? Reserve Bank of India

53. How does RBI decide repo-rate? The discount rate at which a central bank repurchases government securities from the commercial banks, depending on the level of money supply it decides to maintain in the country's monetary system. To temporarily expand the money supply, the central bank decreases repo rates (so that banks can swap their holdings of government securities for cash). To contract the money supply it increases the repo rates. Alternatively, the central bank decides on a desired level of money supply and lets the market determine the appropriate repo rate. Repo is short for repossession. Basic difference between a stock and a share.

54. Business news papers are pink in colour. Why? In the earlier times its cheap to produce colored paper as compare to the white paper. to distinguished it from the other papers, also now there is use or recycled paper in the making of business paper it looks alike to pink color and also to link it to the historical background of business paper, today even pink or alike to pink business paper is come into the market.

55. What is an IPO? The first sale of stock by a private company to the public. IPOs are often issued by smaller, younger companies seeking the capital to expand, but can also be done by large privately owned companies looking to become publicly traded.In an IPO, the issuer obtains the assistance of an underwriting firm, which helps it determine what type of security to issue (common or preferred), the best offering price and the time to bring it to market.

56. Who directed “The Wolf of Wall Street” ? Martin Scorsese

57. What is the name of the hero in the movie? Leonardo DiCaprio

58. Have you heard of NASSCOM. What is the full form of NASSCOM? National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is a trade association of Indian Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry.[1] Established in 1988, NASSCOM is a non-profit organisation.

59. Who is the head of NASSCOM? Mr. R Chandrasekaran

60. Who is Phanish Murthy? Phanish Murthy is an Indian technology businessman. He was made director of Infosys Ltd in 2000, before being fired from the company in 2002. Subsequently, he became the Chief Executive Officer of iGATE Corporation in 2003, after the company acquired his start-up Quintant. Murthy later became President in 2006 and was re-elected in 2010. The board of iGate sacked its President and CEO Murthy in May 2013, following an investigation into a relationship that he had with a subordinate employee and a claim of sexual harassment.

61. Have you heard of SMSE? Systems Management Server Enterprise.

62. What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is a recently evolved computing terminology or metaphor based on utility and consumption of computing resources. Cloud computing involves deploying groups of remote servers and software networks that allow centralized data storage and online access to computer services or resources.

63. What do you mean by EQ?  Emotional intelligence

64. Who built RamSetu? The geological process that gave rise to this structure has been attributed in one study to crustal downwarping, block faulting, and mantle plume activity while another theory attributes it to continuous sand deposition and the natural process of sedimentation leading to the formation of a chain of barrier islands related to rising sea levels. Another theory affirms that the origin and linearity of Adam's Bridge may be due to the old shoreline – implying that the two landmasses of India and Sri Lanka were once connected – from which shoreline coral reefs evolved.

65. What is clay modelling? Clay modeling (or clay model making) for automobile prototypes was first introduced in the 1930s by automobile designer Harley Earl, head of the General Motors styling studio (known initially as the Art and Color Section, and later as the Design and Styling Department).Industrial plasticine, or "clay", which is used for this purpose, is a malleable material that can be easily shaped, thus enabling designers to create models to visualize a product. Clay modeling was soon adopted throughout the industry and remains in use today.

66. Hub of manufacturing company (country) ? China

67. What is the difference between a leader & manager? Creating value vs Counting value, Circles of influence vs Circles of power, Leading people vs Managing work.

68. Do you know about the recent terror attack in Sydney? On 15–16 December 2014, a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café located at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia. Police treated the event as a terrorist attack, and negotiated with Monis throughout the day.

69. How many persons were killed in the attack? Who took the responsibility? 2 were killed and 4 injured. A lone gunman, Man Haron Monis was responsible.

70. Name a few Tax savings instruments you know of? PPF, LIC

71. Do you know what are bonds? A bond is an instrument of indebtedness of the bond issuer to the holders. It is a debt security, under which the issuer owes the holders a debt and, depending on the terms of the bond, is obliged to pay them interest (the coupon) and/or to repay the principal at a later date, termed the maturity date.[1] Interest is usually payable at fixed intervals (semiannual, annual, sometimes monthly). Very often the bond is negotiable, i.e. the ownership of the instrument can be transferred in the secondary market. This means that once the transfer agents at the bank medallion stamp the bond, it is highly liquid on the second market.

72. Which agency issues bonds? Bonds are issued by public authorities, credit institutions, companies and supranational institutions in the primary markets.

73. What are the most important features of Govt. bonds? Government bonds are usually issued in an auction. In some cases both members of the public and banks may bid for bonds. In other cases only market makers may bid for bonds. The overall rate of return on the bond depends on both the terms of the bond and the price paid. The terms of the bond, such as the coupon, are fixed in advance and the price is determined by the market.

74. What is monetary policy? Monetary policy is one of the ways that the U.S. government attempts to control the economy. If the money supply grows too fast, the rate of inflation will increase; if the growth of the money supply is slowed too much, then economic growth may also slow.

75. What is the responsibility of RBI? Regulator of Financial System, Issuer of Monetary Policy, Issuer of Currency, Controller and Supervisor of Banking Systems.

76. What is a board of director? A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization.

77. What do you understand by the term monetary policy of India?Monetary policy is the process by which monetary authority of a country, generally a central bank controls the supply of money in the economy by its control over interest rates in order to maintain price stability and achieve high economic growth.[1] In India, the central monetary authority is the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). is so designed as to maintain the price stability in the economy.

78. What is the main difference between import and export? Export is the term used to selling of products or service from any other country while import is the activity of buying the same from other countries.

79. Why should government of India control import and export? To facilitate sustained growth in exports of the country so as to achieve larger percentage share in the global merchandise trade. To provide domestic consumers with good quality goods and services at internationally competitive prices as well as creating a level playing field for the domestic producers. To stimulate sustained economic growth by providing access to essential raw materials, intermediates, components, consumables and capital goods required for augmenting production and providing services. To enhance the technological strength and efficiency of Indian agriculture, industry and services, thereby improving their competitiveness to meet the requirements of the global markets. To generate new employment opportunities and to encourage the attainment of internationally accepted standards of quality.

80. What is trademark? A trademark, trade mark, or trade-markis a recognizable sign, design or expression which identifies products or services of a particular source from those of others.The trademark owner can be an individual, business organization, or any legal entity. A trademark may be located on a package, a label, a voucher or on the product itself. For the sake of corporate identity trademarks are also being displayed on company buildings.

81. What is the difference between trademark and copyright? The purpose of a copyright is to protect works of authorship as fixed in a tangible form of expression. Thus, copyright covers: a) works of art (2 or 3 dimensional), b) photos, pictures, graphic designs, drawings and other forms of images; c) songs, music and sound recordings of all kinds; d) books, manuscripts, publications and other written works; and e) plays, movies, shows, and other performance arts.The purpose of a trademark is to protect words, phrases and logos used in federally regulated commerce to identify the source of goods and/or services.

82. What is sustainability development? Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

83. Tell me the name of fields in which Nobel prize is awarded. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in the fields of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and economics.

84. Who is the latest from India to be awarded Nobel Prize? What is the name of his organization? Kailash Satyarthi. He founded the GoodWeave International, formerly known as Rugmark,

85. Bachpan Bachao Andolon- is it the name of the organization or the struggle? Name of a mission Kailash Satyarthi started.

86. Are you aware of seismic zone? A seismic zone is a region in which the rate of seismic activity remains fairly consistent. This may mean that seismic activity is incredibly rare, or that it is extremely common. Some people often use the term “seismic zone” to talk about an area with an increased risk of seismic activity, while others prefer to talk about “seismic hazard zones” when discussing areas where seismic activity is more frequent.

87. What is hurricane? A hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone or severe tropical storm that forms in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

88. How does hurricane get their names? Using names for these storms makes it much easier for meteorologists, researchers, emergency response workers, ship captains and citizens to communicate about specific hurricanes and be clearly understood. For that reason the World Meteorological Organization develops a list of names that are assigned in alphabetical order to tropical storms as the are discovered in each hurricane season. Names can be repeated after an interval of six years, but the names of especially severe storms are permanently retired from use.

89. What is the intellectual property right? Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.

90. Did you pay tax to State Government or Central Government? Central

91. What is the capital of Gujarat? Gandhinagar

92. What is the difference between credit card and debit card? Debit cards are like digitized versions of checkbooks; they are linked to your bank account (usually a checking account), and money is debited (withdrawn) from the account as soon as the transaction occurs. Credit cards are different; they offer a line of credit (i.e., a loan) that is interest-free if the monthly credit card bill is paid on time. Instead of being connected to a personal bank account, a credit card is connected to the bank or financial institution that issued the card. So when you use a credit card, the issuer pays the merchant and you go into debt to the card issuer.

93. Tell me something about Iraq War.The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began with the 2003 invasion of Iraq led by the United States. The invasion toppled the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict, however, continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. The United States officially withdrew from the country in 2011, but the insurgency and various dimensions of the civil armed conflict continue.

94. What is structure settlement? In simple terms, a structured settlement is a powerful financial tool created exclusively for injured people. You choose a structured settlement instead of taking one lump-sum payment when you receive money from a personal injury lawsuit.

95. Difference between cost centre and profit centre? A cost center is a subunit of a company that is responsible only for its costs. Example of cost centers are the production departments and the service departments within a factory and administrative departments such as IT and accounting. A profit

center is a subunit of a company that is responsible for revenues and costs. Often a division of a company is a profit center because it has control over its revenues, costs, and the resulting profits.

96. Is Assurance a vertical or business unit? Vertical

97. What is Open Source? In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a universal access via a free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone.

98. Which part of India produces cardamom and cinnamon? Kerela

99. Who is the father of internet? Vint Cerf

100. Lord Shiva is known for a specific form of dance, what is it? Tandava

101. What are Lord Shiva's name apart from Nilkantha. There are 1008 diff names.

102. Tell me 4 dhamas of India. Badrinath, Dwarka, Jagannath Puri, Rameshwaram.

103. Where is kumbh mela held ?Allahabad

104. Literacy rates of WB, UP, Kerala? Kerela – 93.91, UP – 69.72, WB – 77.08

105. Which state has the highest literacy rate? Kerela

106. What is Rabi & Kharif crop? Rabi crops or Rabi refers to agricultural crops sown in winter and harvested in the spring. Kharif crops or monsoon crops are domesticated plants cultivated and harvested during the rainy (monsoon) season in the South Asia, which lasts between April and October depending on the area.

107. What is TDMA? Time division multiple access (TDMA) is a channel access method for shared medium networks. It allows several users to share the same frequency channel by dividing the signal into different time slots. The users transmit in rapid succession, one after the other, each using its own time slot.

108. What is CDMA? How it is diferent from TDMA?Code division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. CDMA is an example of multiple access, which is where several transmitters can send information simultaneously over a single communication channel. This allows several users to share a band of frequencies (see bandwidth). To permit this without undue interference between the users, CDMA employs spread-spectrum technology and a special coding scheme (where each transmitter is assigned a code).

109. What is the full form of GSM? Global System for Mobile Communications.

110. Which companies are using CDMA? AT&T and T-Mobile

111. How is a psychiatrist different from psychologist? A psychiatrist has a degree in medicine and a psychologist has a doctoral-level degree in psychology. Psychiatrists are physicians that have specific training in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illnesses. In order to become a psychiatrist, students first earn an undergraduate degree before they attend medical school and receive an M.D. After finishing their medical training, they also complete an additional four years of residency training in mental health. Some also receive additional training in a specific area of interest such as geriatric psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, addictions, and other areas. A second important distinction between the two careers is that psychiatrists can prescribe medications, while in most states psychologists cannot.

112. Have you heard of Sigmund Freud? Father of psychoanalysis.

113. Who is the founder of makemytrip.com? Deep Kalra

114. What is the Market share of Tata Steel? 8.8% in 2011

115. Which is the largest steel plant in India? Tata steel (TISCO)

116. What is the proposed site for Arcelor's Mittal's Steel plant? Karnataka

117. What is the name of the place where Indo-Pak ceasefire started? LOC or Line of Control

118. Who is the father of Benazir Bhutto?

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

119. How many people died in 26/11?164 people and wounding at least 308.

120. Which city is famous for PETHA? Agra

121. Who is Vinayak Sen? What is he known for? Binayak Sen is an Indian paediatrician, public health specialist and activist. He is the national Vice-President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties.

122. Have you heard of G-20 Nations? Is India a part of it? Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States—along with the European Union (EU).

123. Tell us something about G-8 nations. The Group of Eight (G8) refers to the group of eight highly industrialized nations—France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, Canada, and Russia—that hold an annual meeting to foster consensus on global issues like economic growth and crisis management, global security, energy.

124. What is monopoly? Give an example. A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity (this contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly which consists of a few entities dominating an industry).Microsoft has been the defendant in multiple anti-trust suits on strategy embrace, extend and extinguish. They settled anti-trust litigation in the U.S. in 2001. In 2004 Microsoft was fined 493 million euros by the European Commission[93] which was

upheld for the most part by the Court of First Instance of the European Communities in 2007. The fine was US$1.35 billion in 2008 for noncompliance with the 2004 rule.

125. Who is the equivalent of India’s finance minister in the US? United States Secretary of the Treasury.

126. What is the full form of OECD? Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

127. Which year did Bihar and Jharkhand split?15 Nov 2000

128. Who is the present CM of Telangana and where is its Capital? Hyderabad , K Chandrasekhar Rao

129. Have you heard of CRD? Central Registration Depository, a database of financial firms and individuals maintained by the United States Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

130. Tell something about Sir Alex Ferguson. Ferguson managed East Stirlingshire and St. Mirren before a highly successful period as manager of Aberdeen. After briefly managing Scotland following the death of Jock Stein, he was appointed manager of Manchester United in November 1986. Ferguson is the longest serving manager of Manchester United, overtaking Sir Matt Busby's record on 19 December 2010, eventually completing more than 26-and-a-half years as the club's manager. He has won many awards and holds many records including winning Manager of the Year most times in British football history. In 2008, he became the third British manager to win the European Cup on more than one occasion. He was knighted in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours list, for his services to the game.On 8 May 2013, Ferguson announced

his retirement as manager of Manchester United. During his 26 years at the club, he won 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League and two UEFA Champions League titles.

131. Where is the Kolkata Stock Exchange present? Lyons Range, Kolkata, India,

132. What kind of tax agreement that India with Malaysia ? India and Malaysia on Wednesday signed a double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) with a view to boosting bilateral trade and facilitating exchange of tax information.The main objective of the agreement is to avoid the incidence of double taxation on income by determining the taxing rights between the countries.The pact also provides for granting reduction in withholding tax rates on certain incomes such as dividend, interest, royalty and fee for technical services on a reciprocal basis.

133. What is the difference between FII and FDI? Both FDI and FII is related to investment in a foreign country. FDI or Foreign Direct Investment is an investment that a parent company makes in a foreign country. On the contrary, FII or Foreign Institutional Investor is an investment made by an investor in the markets of a foreign nation. In FII, the companies only need to get registered in the stock exchange to make investments. But FDI is quite different from it as they invest in a foreign nation.

134. Name the first Indian company listed in Nasdaq ? How come it is Infosys and not TCS? Infosys Technologies

135. What is the number of bones and teeth in the human body? 206 bones/32 teeth

136. Tell me the largest organ in human body ? Skin

137. How BMI is calculated? BMI = mass(kg)/height^2(m)