UPSC CAPF AC (Assistant Commandants) Exam 07 Aug 2022 Paper 1 (General Studies and Intelligence) (Answer Key)

UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) Conducted the UPSC CAPF AC (Central Armed Police Forces Assistant Commandant) 2022, this paper held on 07 August 2022. UPSC CAPF AC (Central Armed Police Forces Assistant Commandant) 2022 Question Paper General Ability and Intelligence With Answer Key available here.  

Exam – UPSC CAPF (AC) Exam 2022
Subject – Paper  I (General Ability and Intelligence)
Exam Date – 07^th August, 2022
BOOKLET SERIES – A

UPSC CAPF (AC) 2022 Exam Paper
Paper – I (General Ability and Intelligence)
(Answer Key)

1. Which one of the following is the difference of the sum of cubes of first ten natural numbers and the sum of squares of first ten natural numbers?
(a) 2400
(b) 2640
(c) 2880
(d) 2000

2. A person buys an item from a shop for which the shopkeeper offers a discount of 10% on the marked price. The person pays using an e-wallet which gives 10% cash back. Which one of the following 19 is the value of effective discount?
(a) 20%
(b) 18%
(c) 19%
(d) 21%

3. A solid spherical ball made of iron is melted and two new balls are made whose diameters are in the ratio of 1:2. The ratio of the volume of the smaller new ball to the original ball is
(a) 1 : 3
(b) 1 : 5
(c) 2 : 9
(d) 1 : 9

4. Suppose a bank gives an interest of 10% per annum compounded annually for a fixed deposit for a period of two years. What should be the simple interest rate per annum if the maturity amount after two years is to remain the same?
(a) 10%
(b) 10.5%
(c) 11%
(d) 12%

5. A runner’s average speed reduces by 25% every hour. If he runs 16 km in the first hour and he runs for 3 hours, then what is his overall average speed?
(a) 12 km/hr
(b) 12.33 km/hr
(c) 10.33 km/hr
(d) 13 km/hr

6. Trough and ridge are
(a) elongated area of low pressure and of high pressure respectively
(b) elongated areas of low pressure
(c) elongated areas of high pressure
(d) elongated area of high pressure and of low pressure respectively

7. The boundary layer of the forest at which the energy exchange occurs and some insolation is returned directly to space is
(a) forest floor
(b) forest soil
(c) forest canopy
(d) forest litter

8. The organisms that prefer high salt concentration habitats refer to as
(a) alkaliphiles
(b) calcifuges
(c) halophiles
(d) nitrophiles

9. Which one of the following is not an operating system?
(a) MS-Windows
(b) Linux
(c) Ubuntu
(d) MS-Excel

10. Which one of the following protocols is not an application layer of the TCP/IP model?
(a) FTP
(b) HTTP
(c) DNS
(d) IP

11. Which one of the following is a semi-conductor device that is used to increase the power of the incoming signals by preserving the shape of the original signal?
(a) Register
(b) Transistor
(c) Flip-flop
(d) Diode

12. Which of the following combinations correctly represents the genetic materials in prokaryotes and eukaryotes respectively?
(a) Nucleoid and Chromatin
(b) Chromatin and Nucleoid
(c) Nucleoid and Nucleolus
(d) Nucleolus and Chromatin

13. Lysosomes are sacs of the cell filled with digestive enzymes. These digestive enzymes are synthesized by
(a) Golgi bodies
(b) smooth endoplasmic reticulum
(c) rough endoplasmic reticulum
(d) lysosome itself

14. Which of the following best represents the cells of a meristem of plant?
(a) Dense cytoplasm, thin cell wall, large vacuoles nuclei and absence of
(b) Dense cytoplasm, thin cell wall, large nuclei and large vacuoles
(c) Dense cytoplasm, thin cell wall, nuclei and absence of Telmall vacuoles
(d) Dense cytoplasm, thick cell wall, small nuclei and large vacuoles

15. Which one of the following animals has a four-chambered heart?
(a) King cobra
(b) Turtle
(c) Chameleonar
(d) Crocodile

16. One way characters of incorporating desired characters into crop varieties is hybridization. In this process, there is crossing between genetically dissimila plants. Which one of the following crossings will not refer to hybridization?
(a) Intervarietal
(b) Interspecific
(c) Intergenic
(d) Intragenic

17. Depending on plant nutrients the requirements, are classified as micronutrients and macronutrients. Which one of the following is an example of a macronutrient?
(a) Manganese
(b) Copper
(c) Magnesium
(d) Chlorine

18. Buds produced in the notches along the leaf margin of Bryophyllum fall on soil and develop into new plants. This is an example of which one of the following types of reproduction?
(a) Vegetative propagation
(b) Budding
(c) Spore formation
(d) Regeneration

19. Phloem tissues are mostly responsible for transport of
(a) water
(b) oxygen
(c) minerals
(d) food

20. Two objects, x and y, have equal mass and are moving with speeds u and 3u respectively. Their kinetic energies are related as
(a) k_x = k_y
(b) 2k_x = k_y
(c) 9k_x = k_y
(d) 3k_x = k_y