Question Paper from: SBI PO PRE 2018

(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.

(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) All jobs that don’t require exceptional thought processes and those that could be accomplished by analyzing data with a simple algorithm could be replaced.

(b) A study by Oxford University suggested that 100 professions or occupations are at risk of being eliminated by automation in the future.

(c) It is a matter of concern as with growing population, the demand for jobs is also on rise.

(d) People whose jobs require them to come up with solutions on a case- by-case basis can rest assured that their jobs will not be replaced.

(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.