IAS General Studies (M) – Science & Technology (70 Marks)
QUESTIONS TREND & PATTERN ANALYSIS
2008
1. Answer any one of the following in about 250 words: 30
a) In what way ‘ Medical Biotechnology ‘ & ‘Bioengineering’ are useful for technological development of India?
b) What do you know about Indian National Satellite Systems? Describe its important features.
2. Answer any two of the following (answer for each question should be in about 150 words):15x3=45
a) Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)
b) Spintronics
c)Wifi
d) Components of Robot
3. Answer all the five (in about 20 words each): 2x5=10
a) Copy right and Trademark
b) TIFAC
c) Aspartame
d) Gene Doping
e) Sappan
2007
1. Answer any one of the following in about 250 words: 30
(a). Explain the phenomenon of ozone depletion, its cause and effects . What efforts are needed to reduce it.
(b)What do you understanding by the term ‘biodiversity’? Examine the cause and consequence of degeneration of biodiversity?
2. Answer any two of the following (answer for each question should be in about 150 words):15x2=30
(a) What are the alternative fuels available for the transport sector? Discuss their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages in their utilization.
(b) Explain the objectives and the current achievements of human genome project.
(c) Discuss the missile technology initiatives undertaken by India.
3. Answer all the five (in about 20 words each): 2x5=10
(a) What is firewall?
(b) What is mal ware?
(c) What do the following stand for?
(i) MPEG (ii) ISP (iii) HTML (iv) ASCII
(d) What is Root kit?
(e) What is computer architecture?
2006
1. Write any one of the following (in about 250 words each): 30
(a) Justify with necessary logic “ Biological clean up methods can be cheaper than conventional
physical and chemical pollution treatments”
(b) Explain how Nano science and Nanotechnology have revolutionized modern technology.
2. Answer any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 15x2=30
(a) What do you understand by optical computing? Why is optical computing envisaged to have
much better performance than that of electronic Computing?
(b) Write a note on Bio-refinery versus Fossil fuels.
(c) What are normal osmosis and reverse osmosis? Why has reverse osmosis become popular in
India today ?
3. Answer all the five, (in about 20 words each) : 2x5=10
(a) What do you understand by a search engine in computer?
(b) Expand the following
(i) CAD (ii) CAM (iii) CIM
(c) Explain what Thin Film Memory is in computers
(d) Write a short note on Artificial Intelligence.
(e) Who are called Hackers in computer world ?
2005
1. Answer anyone of the following in about 250 words: 30
(a) Describe the sources of ionizing and non-ionizing radiations and their effects on the biotic
components of the atmosphere.
(b) What is digital convergence? Examine its implications for modern society.
2. Answer any two of the following (answer to each question should be in about 150 words):2 x 15 = 30
(a) Why do environmentalists regard asbestos and polythene as pollutants?
(b) What is the therapeutic cloning? Describe briefly the method and its potential applications.
(c) Why is hydrogen being acclaimed as the fuel of the future?
3. Answer the following (in about 20 words each):5 x 2 =10
(a) What is an exabyte?
(b) What is VIRUS?
(c) What do the following stand for?
(i) XML (ii) MASER (iii) SECAM (iv) TIPS
(d) What is avatar?
(e) What is Wikipedia?
2004
1. Answer any ONE of the following (Answer should be in about 250 words) : 30
(a) Discuss in detail "Alternative Energy Sources".
(b) "Global Warming" -- Discuss.
2. Answer any TWO of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words): 15x2 = 30
(a) What is ‘Superconductivity’? Give its uses and applications.
(b) What is Biotechnology? Discuss the important applications of Biotechnology.
(c) Describe the importance of "Laser" in war and peace.
3. Answer the following (in about 20 words each): 2 x 5 = 10
(a) What do you understand by E-governance?
(b) What is a URL?
(c) What do the following stand for?
(i) CD-ROM' (ii) USB (iii) ITES (iv) FORTRAN
(d) What do you understand by MP3 ?
(e) What are cyber crimes? How are these protected?
2003
1. Answer any one of the following (about 250 words) 30
a) What do you understand by depletion of ozone layer and why is it considered harmful? Name ozone depleting substances and process. What international ramifications took place to protect the ozone layer and what was the target agreed upon?
b). What is interactive television? What special advantages and derived by using VOD services? What are the components of a typical VOD system? Which feature film was generated first entirely on computers and in which year?
2. Answer any two of the following (about 150 words) 15X2=30
a) What does the Solar system consist of ? Discuss the motion of most of the bodies forming the solar system.
b) In which year and by which countries were International Space Station (IIS) launched?
How many countries are participating in this program? What are the unique studies being made in the station which could not be made so accurately on the earth?
c) Discuss the elements of ‘frozen semen technology’. What are ‘embryo transfer’, ‘transgenic
animals’, ‘DNA recombinant technique’?
3. Answer the following (about 20 words): 2X5=10
a) What is ‘Sympathetic Haptics’?
b) What are special feature of ‘Linux’?
c) What is an operating system? List the basic services provided by an operating system.
d) What is an ‘Internet Worm’? Explain DDOS.
e) What do the following stand for:
i) POSIX ii) EPROM iii) MODEM iv) COBOL
2002
1. Answer any one of the following (about 250 words): 30
(a) Plastic hazards – Discuss.
(b) Discuss in detail “The internet telephony as an alternative”.
2. Answer any two of the following (150 words) 15x2=30
(a) What are the fundamental constants and their use in measurement system?
(b) Discuss about ‘Environment’, its components and its awareness.
(c) What is Human Cloning? Is it dangerous or beneficial? Discuss.
3. Answer the following (about 20 words) : 2x5=10
(a) What is digital camera?
(b) What is firewall in computer language?
(c) What is multimedia?
(d) What do the following stand for?
(i) HTML (ii) FTP
(iii) MFLOPS (iv) PLANIT
(e) What is Piracy?
2001
1. Answer any one of the following (about 250 words): 30
(a) What is a cryogenic engine ? Discuss the significance in India Space Programme.
(b) What are stem cells ? Why have they been in news recently ? Discuss .
2. Answer any two of the following (150 words) 15x2=30
(a) What is fiber optics? What advantages does it offer in telecommunications ? Elaborate .
(b) What is vermin composing ? Discuss its importance in the Indian Context.
(c) What does the Montreal Protocol deal with ? Discuss its role in protecting Earth’s environment.
3. Answer the following (about 20 words) : 2x5=10
(a) What is “ Hanshake “ in computer Language.
(b) What is “ Ethernet “ and what is it used for.
(c) What is “digital signature” and what is it used for.
(d) What do the following stand for?
(i) DRAM (ii) JPEG
(iii) ASCII (iv) IMAP
(e) What is a WAP- enabled phone?
2000
1. Answer any one of the following. (Answer should be in about 250 words) 30
(a) What is the significance of the geostationary orbit? What would happen if it becomes too
crowded?
(b) Why is the HIV considered so dangerous? Why has the spread of the virus proved so difficult to contain, especially in the poorer countries of the world?
2. Answer any two of the following: (about 150 words): 15 x 2 = 30
(a)How are transgenic plants different from hybrid plants and what is their relevance in modern agriculture? Elaborate.
(b) What are greenhouse gases ? What impact do they have on the Earth's climate and with what consequences ? Elaborate.
(c) What is water harvesting? Describe its relevance in the Indian context.
3. Answer the following: (Answer to each question should be in about 20 words) 2 x 5 = 10
(a) What does the 'clock speed' of a computer signify?
(b) What do the following stand for?
(i) http (ii) CPU (iii) ROM (vi) BIOS
(c) What is a modem and what is it used for ?
(d) What is spamming ?
(e) How does a computer virus destroy data ?
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