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Teaching and Research

Description: This test includes questions from Teaching and Research section of paper 1 of UGC NET.
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Which of these is a project to provide E-learning through online web and video courses?

  1. AICTE

  2. YouTube

  3. NPTEL

  4. VSAT

  5. Wiki


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

NPTEL provides E-learning through online web and video courses in engineering, science and humanities streams.

Which of these is a web application?

  1. Windows

  2. Android

  3. Web browser

  4. Wiki

  5. HTML5


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

A wiki is a web application which allows people to add, modify or delete content in collaboration with others.

Which of these relies on sharing computing resources?

  1. Google Search

  2. Facebook

  3. Cloud computing

  4. URL

  5. ARPANET


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Cloud computing is a type of computing that relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications.

Which of these refers to the string of characters used to identify the name of a web resource?

  1. Cookie

  2. World Wide Web

  3. DNS

  4. URI

  5. IP address


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

In computing, a uniform resource identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify the name of a web resource.

Which of these is not an electronic version of traditional media?

  1. PDF

  2. Online magazine

  3. CD-ROM

  4. Electronic book

  5. Enhanced publications


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Enhanced publications are a form of electronic publishing for the dissemination and sharing of research outcomes, whose first formal definition can be traced back to 2009. As many forms of digital publications, they typically feature a unique identifier (possibly a persistent identifier) and descriptive metadata information.

Which of these is an organisation that performs research and advocacy?

  1. Collective intelligence

  2. Digital collaboration

  3. Dispersed knowledge

  4. Mass collaboration

  5. Think tank


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

A think tank (or policy institute, research institute, etc.) is an organisation that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology and culture.

Which of these refers to the human capacity of thinking?

  1. Synergy

  2. Cognition

  3. Empirical

  4. Rational

  5. Physiology


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The term cognition is used in several loosely related ways to refer to a faculty for the human-like processing of information, applying knowledge and changing preferences.

Which of these is a web server?

  1. Apache Tomcat

  2. Apache Ant

  3. Java

  4. IcedTea-Web

  5. Linux kernel


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Apache Tomcat (or simply Tomcat, formerly also Jakarta Tomcat) is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).

Which of these refers to a self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer?

  1. ActiveX

  2. Virtual reality

  3. Java applet

  4. Virtual machine

  5. Virtual memory


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

A virtual machine is a software based, fictive computer. Virtual machines may be based on specifications of a hypothetical computer or emulate the computer architecture and functions of a real world computer.

Which grammatical category determines which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable or contrastive information?

  1. Valency

  2. Modality

  3. Focus

  4. Evidentiality

  5. Definiteness


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Focus is a grammatical category that determines which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable or contrastive information. Focus is related to information structure.

What is the term used for words which serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence?

  1. Lexical verbs

  2. Poison words

  3. Stop words

  4. Function words

  5. Content words


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Function words (or grammatical words or synsemantic words or structure-class words) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker.

Which of these is a Higher Education Satellite Channel of MHRD?

  1. eGyanKosh

  2. Eklavya Technology Channel

  3. Vyas channel

  4. EDUSAT

  5. Gyan Vani


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

CEC has established and is running an exclusive 24 X 7 CEC-UGC Higher Education Satellite Channel of MHRD called Vyas channel. The 24 X 7 transmission is based on educational content produced on various undergraduate subjects to supplement the classroom teaching.

Which of these refers to the eye-related non-verbal communication?

  1. Paralanguage

  2. Oculesics

  3. Haptics

  4. Chronemics

  5. Semiotics


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Oculesics, a subcategory of kinesics, is the study of eye movement, eye behaviour, gaze and eye-related non-verbal communication.

Which of these forms of communication is extremely private and restricted?

  1. Interpersonal communication

  2. Intrapersonal communication

  3. Grapevine communication

  4. Small group communication

  5. Public communication


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Intrapersonal communication is extremely private and restricted to ourselves. It includes the silent conversations we have with ourselves, wherein we juggle roles between the sender and receiver who are processing our thoughts and actions. This process of communication, when analysed, can either be conveyed verbally to someone or stay confined as thoughts.

In downward communication, which method may be used to prevent distortion of the actual information?

  1. Gossip

  2. Intrapersonal communication

  3. Horizontal communication

  4. Feedbacks

  5. Rhetoric


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Downward communication approach is used by the top level management to communicate to the lower levels. This is used to implement policies, guidelines, etc. In this type of organisational communication, distortion of the actual information occurs. This could be made effective by feedbacks.

What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the mind and its processes called?

  1. Cognitive science

  2. Neuroscience

  3. Artificial intelligence

  4. Natural language processing

  5. Machine translation


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the mind and its processes.

Which of these refers to the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language, producing conviction?

  1. Public speaking

  2. Eloquence

  3. Debate

  4. Dialectic

  5. Doublethink


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Eloquence (from Latin eloquentia) is fluent, forcible, elegant or persuasive speaking. It is primarily the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. The term is also used for writing in a fluent style.

Which of these is often used in sugar refining?

  1. Cresol

  2. Resin

  3. Coal tar

  4. Potash

  5. Bone char


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Bone char is often used in sugar refining as a decolourising and deashing agent.

Which of these is the field of study dedicated to understanding how people communicate?

  1. Pragmatics

  2. Anthroposemiotics

  3. Mass communication

  4. Semiotics

  5. Confabulation


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Human communication, or anthroposemiotics, is the field dedicated to understanding how people communicate.

Which of these is often referred to as theory of knowledge?

  1. Empiricism

  2. Foundationalism

  3. Evidentialism

  4. Agnotology

  5. Epistemology


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge and is also referred to as theory of knowledge.

Which of these is not included in UGC's mandates?

  1. Promoting and coordinating school education.

  2. Monitoring developments in the field of collegiate and university education and disbursing grants to the universities and colleges.

  3. Determining and maintaining standards of teaching, examination and research in universities.

  4. Serving as a vital link between the Union and state governments and institutions of higher learning.

  5. Advising the Central and State governments on the measures necessary for improvement of university education.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Promoting and coordinating university education is one of the mandate of UGC.

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