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Locomotive Attendant

Section 1 – Technical

1. If you divide Rs.3486 among A, B and C in the ratio of 35:28:20, what would be the share of B?

A) Rs.1470
B) Rs.1176
C) Rs.840
D) Rs.420

2. On detecting a thief driving at 15 m/sec on a highway, the police car started at an acceleration of
2 m/sec², while the thief started at 1 m/sec². What will be the final outcome?

A) The police cannot nab the thief

B) The police can nab the thief after 15 seconds
C) The police can nab the thief after 20 seconds
D) The police can nab the thief after 30 seconds

3. Which one of the following Railway Officials is responsible for the repair of a failed signal, if the
signal maintainer fails to do so?

A) Assistant Station Master

B) Station Master
C) Station Superintendent
D) Junior Engineer (Signal)

4. Which among the following options represents the below figure?

A) Speed Limit for the Goods Trains

B) Speed Limit for the Local Trains
C) Speed Limit for the Express Trains
D) Speed Limit for All Trains

5. In order to validate the working rules in a particular railway station, at most how many
corrections are permissible in a span of three years of working?

A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four

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6. Which among the following options represents the given diagrams?

A) Disc Signal for Shunting used for the upper quadrant at the MACL category
B) Disc Signal for Shunting used for the lower quadrant at the MACL category
C) Disc Signal for Shunting used for the upper quadrant at the UCL category
D) Disc Signal for Shunting used for the lower quadrant at the UCL category

7. In which one of the following cases, the shunting speed is about 2 km/hr?

A) Shunting of the vacant passenger compartment with the engine

B) Shunting of the passenger compartment with another train
C) Shunting of a group of two or more BOX or BOB’s wagons
D) Shunting of the goods train wagon with any passenger train

8. Which one of the following conditions must be fulfilled for securing the vehicle in a satisfactory
manner?

A) A Loco Pilot may leave the vehicle unmanned to meet his personal needs
B) A Loco Pilot and its guard have to declare to the station master about the secure condition of the
vehicle before leaving the yard
C) A Loco Pilot solely has to declare to the station master about the secure condition of the vehicle
before leaving the yard
D) A Loco Pilot has to face the punishment, if the train is stalled at any block station due to accident
or any other unforeseen events

9. In which one of the following places should the Generator be placed in a train?

A) Near the Guard

B) At the middle of the train
C) Adjacent to the engine
D) Any position

10. The NMG code is generally used to mean

A) Narrow Gauge Wagons

B) Nominal Merit of Goods Carrier
C) Single-decker Essential Goods Carriers
D) Single-Decker Automobile Carriers

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Section 2 – Aptitude

11. As per the Ministry of Defense, Government of India, which of the following organisations
observed the year 2018 as ‘Year of Disabled Soldiers in Line of Duty’?

A) CRPF
B) Indian Army
C) Indian Air Force
D) Indian Navy

12. Which among the following is a book written by Mahatma Gandhi in which he declares that "The
force of love and pity is infinitely greater than the force of arms"?

A) The Discovery of India

B) The Mind and Its Control
C) Hind Swaraj
D) Glimpses of World History

13. The least common multiple of 2/3 & 4/5 is

A) 4
B) 8
C) 16
D) 64

14. A can do a piece of work in 32 days and B can do it in 40 days. B worked on it for 10 days. In
how many days A alone can finish the remaining work?

A) 15 days
B) 18 days
C) 24 days
D) 28 days

15. Identify the synonym for the word - asset

A) location
B) advantage
C) hindrance
D) group

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Locomotive Operator

Section 1 – Technical

1. The ratio of the two sides of a rectangle is 3:4. If the smaller side is increased by 5 m, its area
would be 5200 sq. m. What would be the perimeter of this rectangle?

A) 280 m
B) 260 m
C) 220 m
D) Data Insufficient

2. Which one of the following facts are CORRECT about the weight of a body?

A) The Weight of a body is always positive irrespective of the situation

B) The Weight of a body is always fixed irrespective of its position
C) The Weight of a body may become zero in some special cases
D) The Weight of a body may be negative in some special cases

3. All locomotives must be equipped with horns and bells. How many different types of sounds do
these horns require to produce?

A) One
B) Three
C) Four
D) Two

4. In a Loco Engine, diesel is injected to burn the same. At which state is diesel assumed to be
injected in the Loco Engines for its satisfactory operations?

A) At constant volume
B) At constant pressure
C) At constant temperature
D) At any condition, irrespective of pressure and temperature

5. The power of any Loco Engine depends on three important factors. What are these three
important factors that determine the power of an engine?

A) Temperature, Mean Effective Pressure and Compression Ratio

B) Mean Effective Pressure, Swept Volume and Number of Strokes per second
C) Mean Effective Pressure, Number of Strokes per second and Bore Size of the Engine
D) Mean Effective Pressure, Number of Strokes per second and Stroke length of the Piston

6. Fuel Relief Valve is also an important component in the Fuel Feeding System of any Loco engine.
Which one of the following purposes is being served by the Fuel Feeding Pump?

A) By passing the excess air mixed with the fuel

B) By transferring the requisite amount of fuel in the engine
C) By passing the excess oil back to the fuel tank
D) By passing the fuel to the fuel pump at a desired relieving pressure

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7. High temperature cooling technology considers that the temperature difference between the

A) Engine and the cooling medium should be minimum

B) Engine and the cooling medium should be maximum
C) Cooling medium and the ambient should be minimum
D) Cooling medium and the ambient should be maximum

8. Battery is the main part of the electrical system of a Loco engine. Which one of the following
types of batteries is most widely used for the Loco engines?

A) Zinc-Air Battery
B) Lead-Acid Battery
C) Nickel-Iron Battery
D) Nickel-Cadmium Battery

9. Which one of the following parameters causes Knocking during the operation of the Loco engine?

A) Low Pressure Wave being set up in the Engine Cylinder during Power Stroke
B) High Pressure Wave being set up in the Engine Cylinder during Compression Stroke
C) Low Pressure Wave being set up in the Engine Cylinder during Compression Stroke
D) High Pressure Wave being set up in the Engine Cylinder during Power Stroke

10. A Loco engine transmission system should fulfill some important requirements. Which one of the
following requirements should be fulfilled in a Loco engine?

A) It must transmit the power from the engine to the clutches

B) It must connect the axles with the engine permanently
C) It must incorporate a right mechanism to move the locomotive in a specific direction
D) It must provide a high torque multiplication in the beginning, which should gradually fall as the
vehicle picks up speed and vice-versa

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Section 2 – Aptitude

11. Which Indian airport is set to become the first in Asia to introduce face recognition as a boarding
pass for passengers at the airport from 2019?

A) Cochin International Airport

B) Indira Gandhi International Airport
C) Kempegowda International Airport
D) Chennai International Airport

12. The Chilika lake is located in which of the following states of India?

A) Gujarat
B) Odisha
C) Karnataka
D) Bihar

13. X is the sister of Y and daughter of L. L is the brother of S and husband of W. P is the father of S
who, is the daughter of K. Who is the grandfather of Y?

A) X
B) S
C) P
D) K

14. Arjun goes to a place at a speed of 51 km/hr and returns at a speed of 5 km/hr. If he takes 56
hrs in all, then what is the distance to reach that place?

A) 255 km
B) 364 km
C) 421 km
D) 510 km

15. Identify the Antonym for the word - ameliorate

A) aggravate
B) vitiate
C) rehabilitate
D) remediate

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Office Assistant

Section 1 – Technical

1. Very often answering calls from customers involves documenting the call. Documentation involves
all the following EXCEPT

A) Recording of the call

B) Scribing the contents of the call
C) Allowing the team leader to listen in during the call
D) Storing of the call-in digital format

2. The term 'yellow pages' in the telephone directory provides which of the following type of
information?

A) Commercial subscribers
B) Domestic subscribers
C) Bill defaulters
D) New subscribers

3. Maxwell Consultancy has a well-structured and effective filing system. This system is termed as
alphabetical encyclopedia filing system. This system is best suited for firms with

A) Small number of files and information

B) Large number of files and information
C) Public access to information
D) Access to public information

4. Present day organizations maintain files of letters, invoices and other correspondence along with
details of relevant web pages. Which of the following indexing system is used to maintain web page
data?

A) Geographical indexing
B) Genealogical indexing
C) Metadata indexers
D) Subject gateways

5. Record disposition is a very important stage in record management which involves retaining a
record permanently or

A) Retaining temporarily
B) Destroying it
C) Moving to digital format
D) Making changes in its structure

6. Which among the following can be termed as a roadmap for an organization?

A) Mission statement
B) Vision
C) Turnaround strategy
D) Process documentation

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7. Which of the following options is based on the actual position of the sun overhead?

A) Prime Meridian time (PMT)

B) Local Apparent time (LAT)
C) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
D) Central European Time (CET)

8. Care must be taken while positioning office equipment. Placing copiers in direct line of a heating
source would result in

A) wrong reading
B) overheating of the machine
C) invisible readings
D) long life of the machine

9. You are the administrative assistant of a large marketing office. You were on your way to the
cafeteria and you noticed that a large plank is about to detach from the roof and fall down any time.
This is a potential hazardous situation. As an employee who is aware of safety precautions to be
adopted, which of the following would be the first step you will take to remove the hazard?

A) You should take steps to remove the plank before it causes any injury
B) You should create a sign indicating danger
C) You should hit the panic button as it is a potentially hazardous situation
D) You should inform the appropriate authority or your immediate superior about the hazard

10. The term ‘gate greetings’ is used in the context of

A) Greeting important and very important guests

B) Visits by large number of people to the front desk
C) Handling unwanted visitors
D) Acknowledging the visitor’s response

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Section 2 – Aptitude

11. Which of the following companies in July 2018 has opened the world's largest mobile factory in
India?

A) Apple
B) Samsung
C) Sony
D) Motorola

12. In this question, out of the four figures, three are similar in a certain manner. However, one
figure is NOT like the other three. Select the figure which is different from the rest.

A)

B)

C)

D)

13. NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project aims to test its technique for atmospheric
entry on which planet?

A) Earth
B) Mercury
C) Jupiter
D) Mars

14. The HCF and LCM of the numbers 96 and 404 are

A) 4 and 9696 respectively

B) 96 and 96 respectively
C) 404 and 4 respectively
D) 101 and 9696 respectively

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15. Choose the correct article to complete the sentence:

He drives his car at 60 kilometers _____ hour.

A) a
B) an
C) the
D) No article required

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Store Assistant

Section 1 – Technical

1. Which of the following options is used to move data from one place to another in a document?

A) Copy & Paste

B) Cut & Paste
C) Bold
D) Move

2. In Excel, most of the repetitive tasks can be automated by using

A) Sort and Filter

B) Charts
C) Macros
D) Pivot Tables

3. Assume that there is a presentation with 45 slides. A new presentation requires to be created
from this existing file, using only slide numbers 1-16, 38 and 39, which of the following is the fastest
process to achieve this?

A) Inserting slides from files

B) Inserting slides from outline
C) Inserting slides from clipart
D) Copying slides from existing presentation and pasting it in the new presentation

4. Which of the following activities organizes the availability of items to the customers at all times?

A) Inventory control
B) Supplier
C) Outsource
D) Packing

5. Which of these processes help to report progress and to keep the customer feeling involved in the
purchase and service?

A) Forecast
B) Ordering
C) Dispatch info
D) Customer feedback

6. Which of the following includes the purchased parts and direct materials, that goes into the end
product?

A) Raw Material
B) Service
C) Customer
D) Maintenance repair

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7. What's the name of the order type used in "Zero" inventory pull system with short effective lead
time?

A) Unit cost
B) FIFO
C) Avg price
D) Just in time

8. A consumer chooses a neighborhood retailer rather than visiting a retailer who could be offering a
better price, this is called

A) Preferred category
B) Routine category
C) Destination category
D) Convenience category

9. Movement of goods and methods of transport from one part of the chain to another is called

A) Ownership flow
B) Physical flow
C) Service flow
D) Payment flow

10. Which one of the following covers the expenses incurred to create and process an order to a
supplier?

A) Ordering cost
B) Carrying cost
C) Manufacturing cost
D) Purchasing cost

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Section 2 – Aptitude

11. Mining activities in 84 stone and marble quarries located inside and within a 1 km radius of
which Tiger Reserve has been banned by the National Green Tribunal in December 2018?

A) Ranthambore Tiger Reserve

B) Bandipur Tiger Reserve
C) Sariska Tiger Reserve
D) Sunderban Tiger Reserve

12. In a human heart, when there is contraction in the right ventricle, where would the blood move
towards?

A) Left ventricle
B) Aorta
C) Pulmonary arteries
D) Lungs

13. In a certain code, ORDINARY is coded as ROIDANYR, then what will be the code for
PERFECTION?

A) QFSGFDUJPO
B) EPFRCEITNO
C) QFSGUDOPJ
D) EPFRECNTO

14. At an election, a candidate secures 41% votes but is defeated by another candidate by 2340
votes. If there are two candidates only, then the total number of votes are

A) 10000
B) 11000
C) 12000
D) 13000

15. Identify the synonym for the word - imminent

A) important
B) expedient
C) impending
D) unlikely

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