Question Paper from: SBI PO PRE 2018

(a) India’s IT sector must make Digital India programme its pivot for India-focused opportunities, whose solutions could be profitably deployed in a large number of developing countries.

(b) With around 16 lakh graduates entering the job market every year amid slow job creation due to global protectionism and automation threats, the urgent issue for the Indian government is to redesign its job creation strategy.

(c) As former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan once said, it’s time for the government and Indian industry to focus on “Make for India”, rather than the export-driven “Make in India”.

(a) This particular worldwide security threat, which hasn’t yet run its course, was dismantled by a UK security expert who activated an address that the “kill switch” in the ransomware was compelled to search for.

(b) ranging from the UK National Health Service to a French carmaker with an alliance plant in Chennai, the German railways, the Andhra Pradesh police and entire Russian systems.

(c) A massive brought computers to a halt on Friday and Saturday, the malware affecting over one lakh computers and systems in nearly 150 nations worldwide,

(d) Such ransomware attacks are commonplace, with an estimated 600 million attacks likely recorded in 2016 alone.

(a) This sector employs 42.5 lakh Indians directly and has created over twice as many jobs indirectly in other fields.

(b) Automation would then replace entry-level jobs, denying jobs to college-leavers, and lead to the retrenchment of mid-level professionals who couldn’t remain relevant via constant reskilling.

(c) The landscape of the $150-billion IT sector, one of India’s largest job-providers, is changing fast, owing to technological advances in automation and robotics.

(d) But it is gradually moving away from the linear growth model, with rise in revenue matching net employee addition, to a non-linear one where income growth is independent of additional hiring.

(a) Now a distinguished observer of the universe and a proponent of underlying laws that govern it, Stephen Hawking has pointed out in a BBC programme that human beings need to colonize a planet soon and they must start in the next 100 years if the species is to be kept alive.

(b) Science fiction has traditionally used its imagination to show earthlings in a struggle with beings from another planet.

(c) Only recently in movies has the tide been turned towards making an attempt to colonize other planets, mainly Mars.

(d) This is because humanity is in danger of extinction because of climate change, overpopulation, chemical, and nuclear wars.