UPSC EPFO (AO/EO) Exam Paper 05 Sep 2021 (Answer Key)

81. Match List I with List II and select the correct| answer using the code given below the lists:

List I (Term)	List II (Explanation)
A. Closure	1. Permanent closing down of a place of employment
B. Workmen	2. Any person employed in any industry to do skilled, unskilled or manual work
C. Strike	3. Temporary closing down of workplace by the management
D. Lockout	4. Cessation of work by employees

Code:
. A B C D
(a) 1 2 4 3
(b) 3 4 2 1
(c) 1 4 2 3
(d) 3 2 4 1

82. Who is an ‘Adolescent as per the Factories Act, 1948 ?
(a) Who has completed 15 years of age but is less than 18 years
(b) Who is less than 18 years
(c) Who has completed 14 years of age but is less than 18 years
(d) Who has completed 16 years of age but is less than 18 years

83. What is a controlled industry ?
(a) Any industry the control of which by the Union has been declared by any Central Act to be expedient in the public interest
(b) Any industry the control of which by the State has been declared by any State Act to be expedient in the public interest
(c) Any industry the control of which by the Municipal bodies has been declared by any Municipal Rules to be expedient in the public interest
(d) Any industry the control of which by the State has been declared by any Central Act to be expedient in the public interest

84. What is the minimum number of members required for registration of a Trade Union ?
(a) 2 members
(b) 3 members
(c) 7 members
(d) 10 members

85. Which of the following disputes is/are considered as trade dispute(s) under the provision of the Trade Union Act, 1926 ?
Any dispute of any person connected with
1. Employment
2. Non-Employment
3. Conditions of Labour
Select the correct answer using the code given below :
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 1 and 3 only

86. Which one of the following is not a language translator ?
(a) Assembler
(b) Linker
(c) Interpreter
(d) Compiler

87. Which one of the following statements is correct?
A device driver of output devices
(a) interprets input provided by users into computer usable form.
(b) interprets computer output into user understandable form.
(c) translates user inputs into output device.
(d) facilitates user to communicate with output device.

88. Which one of the following registers is used to keep track of the next instruction to be executed ?
(a) Memory address register
(b) Memory buffer register
(c) Program counter
(d) Memory data register

89. Which one of the following is not an audio file format ?
(a) MIDI
(b) WAV
(c) SWF
(d) MPEG

90. Which one of the following denotes a sequential electronic circuit that is used to store 1-bit of information ?
(a) Register
(b) Transistor
(c) Flip-flop
(d) Capacitor

91. Which one of the following does ‘Nirguna Bhakti’ refer to ?
(a) Shaivite form of worship
(b) Vaishnavite form of worship
(c) Incarnation worship
(d) Abstract form of God worship

92. What did Ain-i-Akbari seek to promote within the frontiers of the Mughal State ?
(a) Social disharmony influenced by the whims of the nobility
(b) Cessation of the provincial units from central rule
(c) Social harmony with the support of a strong ruling class
(d) Establishment of a rule of rural republics by overthrowing the Mughal suzerainty

93. Gandhiji’s Salt March to Dandi was started from which one of the following places ?
(a) Kochrab Ashram
(b) Sabarmati Ashram
(c) Ahmedabad Textile Mill
(d) Ahmedabad Jail

94. Who among the following was not a member of the Socialist group in the Congress Party ?
(a) Jayaprakash Narayan
(b) Rajendra Prasad
(c) N.G. Ranga
(d) Narendra Dev

95. Which one of the following was not recommended in Macaulay’s 1835 Minute on Education ?
(a) Teaching in English medium
(b) ‘Liberal’ literary training
(c) Teaching of Western texts alone at higher levels of education
(d) Teaching of both Western and Oriental texts at higher levels of education

96. Which one of the following States will be directly connected with Assam by the proposed bridge between Dhubri and Phulbari over river Brahmaputra?
(a) Arunachal Pradesh
(b) Meghalaya
(c) West Bengal
(d) Mizoram

97. Which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. India is a signatory to the Ramsar Convention.
2. The Ramsar Convention is about wetland conservation.
3. At present there are 76 Ramsar Sites in India.
Select the correct answer using the code given below :
(a) 2 and 3 only
(b) 1, 2 and 3
(c) 1 only
(d) 1 and 2 only

98. Which one of the following is not an objective under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)?
(a) Providing subsidies to use fertilizer, high yielding varieties (HYV) and pesticides
(b) To achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at the field level
(c) To expand cultivable area under assured irrigation
(d) Improving on-farm water use efficiency

99. In which one of the following places, was Asia’s first Export Processing Zone (EPZ) set up in 1965 ?
(a) Ahmedabad
(b) Kandla
(c) Mumbai
(d) Jaipur

100. Which one of the following is the name of the scheme introduced as a well-targeted system of service delivery to LPG customers ?
(a) SAHAJ
(b) PAHAL
(c) UDAY Y
(d) UDAN