1. The Artemis program will result in: 5.

The number of active astronauts that NASA has are

The first man on the moon 48

The first woman on the moon 350

People on the moon Enough for the missions planned

School kids on the moon Insufficient for the missions planned

Accepted Answers: Accepted Answers:
The first woman on the moon 48
People on the moon Insufficient for the missions planned

2. Media invited to watch the training is: 6. NASA moon missions are planned for

Only US Media 2021

Only International Media 2022

Both US as well as International Media 2023

Only television broadcasters 2024

Accepted Answers: Accepted Answers:
Both US as well as International Media 2024
7. The media is being invited to watch
3. Applicants for the next class of astronauts should be:
The astronauts in space
US citizens
Astronauts on earth
Indian citizens
Astronauts in a lab
STEM degree holders
Astronauts in a rocket
Fresh graduates
Accepted Answers:
Accepted Answers: Astronauts on earth
US citizens Astronauts in a lab
STEM degree holders
8. Spacewalk training occurs in

4. Due to the distances and complexities involved, Anti-gravity lab

NASA will
Zero buoyancy laboratory

Send people to moon first and then later to mars Neutral buoyancy laboratory

Send people to mars first and the later to the Centrifugally accelerated laboratory
moon
Accepted Answers:
Send people to orbit and then to the moon Neutral buoyancy laboratory

Send people to moon and then to orbit 9. Media is invited to

Accepted Answers:
Also undergo spacewalk training
Send people to moon first and then later to mars
Send people to orbit and then to the moon Use simulators

Try robotics training

Create simulators
Accepted Answers:
Use simulators
Try robotics training

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10. The application process for the Astronaut selection
process as on the date of the press release International Standard Serial Number

Universal Decimal Classification

Is past its deadline
Digital Object Identifier number
Is yet to open
Accepted Answers:
Is not indicated Digital Object Identifier number

Will not be happening 15. Which of the following indices convey the
reputation of an author with regard to publication of
Accepted Answers: articles?
Is yet to open
h-index

11. Which of the following is generally acceptable while h5-index

publishing an article in a journal?
Journal impact factor

Replicating relevant figures from another article SJR ranking

Replicating own published text from another Accepted Answers:

article h-index

Replicating relevant equations from another 16. Which of the following strategies of search fetches
article you the latest article based on a particular research
topic?
Replicating relevant tables from own published
articles Keyword search
Accepted Answers:
Citation based search
Replicating relevant equations from another article
12. Which of the following is always true for an open Back reference based search
access journal?
Affiliation based search

Such journals are not peer reviewed Accepted Answers:

Citation based search
Articles in such a journal are freely available for
17. Which of the following is NOT an free / open source
download
for scholarly articles?
Such journals charge for publication of an article
arxiv.org
Such journals are of dubious reputation
researchgate.net
Accepted Answers:
Articles in such a journal are freely available for sciencedirect.com
download
semanticscholar.org
13. Which of the following is the most reliable source to
identify original research in a particular topic? Accepted Answers:
sciencedirect.com
Articles in archival peer reviewed journals 18. What kind of tools are the following: Mendeley,
Zotero, EndNote and RefWorks ?
Reviews in encyclopedia

Compilations in handbooks Word processing tools for scientific articles

Abstracting services Search engines for scholarly articles
Accepted Answers: File management tools
Articles in archival peer reviewed journals
Citation management tools
14. Which of the following can be used to redirect the
browser to the web page associated with the article? Accepted Answers:
Citation management tools
International Standard Book Number

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19. Which of the following is NOT a recommended At any instant in time, there exists only one possible
practice to identify publications that need to be listed known outcome.
under references of an article?
23. Identify the correct statement(s) among the
following.
Relevant publications actually referred to

Latest publications by the editor of the journal Temperature of atmosphere 10 m. above ground
can be treated as random.
Original publications in the topic of the article
Measurement of body temperature is
Own publications referred in the article for further deterministic.
details
For a given data from a random process, there
Accepted Answers: exists at least one observation less than the mean
Latest publications by the editor of the journal of observations in that data set.
20. Which of the following is NOT a necessary feature The population mean of a random variable is also
to be considered while listing the bibliogaphic details of necessarily random.
a reference?
Accepted Answers:
Temperature of atmosphere 10 m. above ground can
Bibliographic details are in the format prescribed
be treated as random.
by the journal
For a given data from a random process, there exists at
The reference is cited in the article least one observation less than the mean of
observations in that data set.
Referred article is freely available on the internet
24. An estimator is said to be most efficient when
Bibliographic details have redundacy to help
locate the reference The parameters can be estimated in the least
possible time.
Accepted Answers:
Referred article is freely available on the internet The estimator provides accurate estimates with
21. Which of the following statements is true? the smallest number of observations.

Standard error in the parameter estimates is

Deterministic phenomena produce outcomes that lowest when compared to that of all other estimators.
can be predicted accurately.
It estimates parameters accurately even in
Random processes occur randomly. presence of outliers.

A process can produce a mix of deterministic and Accepted Answers:

stochastic effects. Standard error in the parameter estimates is lowest
when compared to that of all other estimators.
Signals that are random can never take negative
values. 25. Identify the correct statement(s) among the
following.
Accepted Answers:
Deterministic phenomena produce outcomes that can
Sample and ensemble averages are identical
be predicted accurately.
when the data obtained contains all possible outcomes.
A process can produce a mix of deterministic and
stochastic effects. A statistic and estimator are both mathematical
22. What is / are the feature(s) of a deterministic functions of the observed data.
signal?
An estimate can have a large bias but low
variability and vice versa.
It is always periodic.
Accuracy is guaranteed when the estimation error
Repeated experiments under controlled and vanishes by averaging across all possible data sets of
identical conditions produce same values. fixed sample size.

At any instant in time, there exists only one Accepted Answers:

possible known outcome. Sample and ensemble averages are identical when the
data obtained contains all possible outcomes.
Initial value is zero. A statistic and estimator are both mathematical
functions of the observed data.
Accepted Answers: An estimate can have a large bias but low variability
Repeated experiments under controlled and identical and vice versa.
conditions produce same values.

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Accuracy is guaranteed when the estimation error 29. Identify the incorrect statement(s) among the
vanishes by averaging across all possible data sets of following:
fixed sample size.
26. Identify the correct statement among the following: Estimating the mean of a signal is based on the
same procedure regardless of whether the signal
is determinstic or stochastic.
Visualization of data is useful because it gives us
an idea of any anomalies and trends in the data. Sample mean is the only means of estimating the
mean of a stochastic signal.
Robust methods of estimation are meant to handle
large amounts of missing values in the data set. Expectation of a random variable and its sample
−4 average are identical.
Estimates of parameters less than 10 can be
neglected in any estimation exercise. Transforming the data into another domain can be
useful in visualizing the features of data.
Correlation between the pairs of variables in all
four data sets given by Anscombe are identical. Accepted Answers:
Estimating the mean of a signal is based on the same
Accepted Answers: procedure regardless of whether the signal is
Visualization of data is useful because it gives us an determinstic or stochastic.
idea of any anomalies and trends in the data. Sample mean is the only means of estimating the
Correlation between the pairs of variables in all four mean of a stochastic signal.
data sets given by Anscombe are identical. Expectation of a random variable and its sample
average are identical.
27. Which of the following is true concerning variance
of a parameter estimate? 30. Which of the following is true concerning a
parameter estimate?
It is how the estimate varies from one method to
another. It can be quite often equal to the true value.
Smaller values of parameter estimates have lower When averaged across a thousand data sets, the
variance. estimate can have lower error than that from a single
record.
Precision of an estimate is inversely proportional
to its variance. The maximum value is obtained when the sample
size is very large.
Accurate estimators result in the lowest variability
estimates. The most efficient estimate is not necessarily the
most accurate.
Accepted Answers:
Precision of an estimate is inversely proportional to its Accepted Answers:
variance. When averaged across a thousand data sets, the
estimate can have lower error than that from a single
28. Which of the following is true in data-driven
record.
analysis?
The most efficient estimate is not necessarily the most
accurate.
Estimating mean of a random variable is an
example of predictive analysis. 31. The title of a paper is „Battery design and its
impact‟. This title
Exploratory analysis always deals with exploring
which variable to measure. Identifies the area of research clearly
Performing hypothesis test of zero correlation is Indicates what is unique about the research
an example of confirmatory analysis.
Does not identify the area of the research clearly
Prescriptive analytics involves prescribing a
particular method of data analysis. Does not indicate what is unique about the
research
Accepted Answers:
Performing hypothesis test of zero correlation is an Accepted Answers:
example of confirmatory analysis. Does not identify the area of the research clearly
Does not indicate what is unique about the research

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32. “The furnace demonstrated low heating rate and 37. In an article, the image of a car engine must
uniform temperature. This is good for making cookies”
Use of the word „this‟ in the previous sentence is:
Show the level of detail required for the
discussion in the article
Ambiguous
Have a marker bar indicating scale
Unambiguous
Be in colour and not in black and white
Arrogant
Be in black and white and not in colour
Illegal
Accepted Answers:
Accepted Answers: Show the level of detail required for the discussion in
Ambiguous the article
Have a marker bar indicating scale
33. In images
38. The length of sentences in an article should be
such that:
High magnification implies high resolution

High magnification does not necessarily imply high Readers don‟t have to read it twice to understand
resolution
Reader must read it twice to understand
Low magnification implies high resolution
Readers must not forget how it started by the time
High resolution implies low magnification the readers reach the end of the sentence
Accepted Answers: Readers must forget how it started by the time the
High magnification does not necessarily imply high readers reach the end of the sentence
resolution
Accepted Answers:
34. Abstract of a scientific document is aimed at Readers don’t have to read it twice to understand
Readers must not forget how it started by the time the
General public readers reach the end of the sentence

An audience that has not yet read the paper 39. The length of a document

An audience that has read the paper Indicates how much you know
Enabling a short overview of the work Indicates how little you know
Accepted Answers:
Does not indicate anything about your knowledge
An audience that has not yet read the paper
Enabling a short overview of the work Does not indicate anything about the reader‟s
35. Tables are preferred over graphs knowledge
Accepted Answers:
Always Does not indicate anything about your knowledge
Does not indicate anything about the reader’s
Never knowledge

Only when exact values need to be indicated 40. Strategies one can use in the middle of a document
include
Only when trends in data need to be indicated
Accepted Answers: Chronological strategy
Only when exact values need to be indicated
Spatial strategy
36. A reasonable pace for presentation is
Following a variable
1 slide every 10 minutes Suspense strategy
1 slide a minute Accepted Answers:
Chronological strategy
5 slides a minute Spatial strategy
Following a variable
10 slides a minute
Accepted Answers:
1 slide a minute
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41. Creativity can be seen in 45. Creative people are

Theatre More likely to follow societal restrictions

Story books Less likely to follow societal restrictions

Paintings More likely to think within the limits of previous

work in the area
Engineering
More likely to come up with a surprisingly new
Accepted Answers: solution to a problem
Theatre
Story books Accepted Answers:
Paintings Less likely to follow societal restrictions
Engineering More likely to come up with a surprisingly new solution
to a problem
42. A bachelor‟s degree typically means
46. A PhD usually makes you
You are specialist in one research area
A specialist in one narrow area
There is greater width in the topics you have
learned, but less depth A person who conducts experiments fast

You know more and more of less and less A person who has a wide knowledge in a wide
range of topics
You gain broad knowledge in an area
A person who makes excellent sketches
Accepted Answers:
There is greater width in the topics you have learned, Accepted Answers:
but less depth A specialist in one narrow area
You gain broad knowledge in an area
47. Good research
43. The measure of a successful researcher is that the
work of the researcher should be
Will definitely result in awards

Recognized by peers at an international level Will usually stand the test of time

Typically published in peer reviewed Journals Will never be superseded in that area

Mentioned in the campus magazine of the college Can be independently repeated by other
researchers
Must be discussed in the Department meeting of
the researcher‟s department Accepted Answers:
Will usually stand the test of time
Accepted Answers: Can be independently repeated by other researchers
Recognized by peers at an international level
Typically published in peer reviewed Journals 48. While testing patients with a new medicine against
a virus,
44. According to Malcolm Gladwell, based on work by
Herbert Simon, the key to success in any field is to
It is important to do the test without their
work in that field for
knowledge so that the results are reliable

1000 hours Informed consent has to be obtained before the

trial
2000 hours
The data of the patients can always be freely
5000 hours shared since they are members of the public.

10,000 hours Privacy of the patient must be protected

Accepted Answers: Accepted Answers:
10,000 hours Informed consent has to be obtained before the trial
Privacy of the patient must be protected

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 53. What is the full form of TRIPS?
49. While submitting a paper with four authors for
publication Tariff Related Aspects of Intellectual Properties

Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property

It is sufficient if only the first author knows about Science
it, since it will be a pleasant surprise to the other
authors The Registration of Intellectual Property

It is sufficient if a simple majority of the authors Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
know and agree about the publication submission Rights

It is necessary that all four authors know about Accepted Answers:

the submission and agree with it. Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

It will be disqualified because one must not 54. The Nike swoosh mark and Audi rings are
publish papers with four authors protected by _____

Accepted Answers:
Trade Marks
It is necessary that all four authors know about the
submission and agree with it. Trade dress
50. To become a good researcher, one must usually
Patents

Have good communication skills Geographical Indications

Have mastery over specific techniques Accepted Answers:

Trade Marks
Have a line of investigation
55. Which of the following is NOT a remedy for
Be aware of recent advances in the field infringement of Intellectual Property?

Accepted Answers:
Accounts for profits
Have good communication skills
Have mastery over specific techniques Damages
Have a line of investigation
Be aware of recent advances in the field Injunction
51. Patent law provides the owner of the patent the Specific performance
right to ______
Accepted Answers:
Specific performance
Use only
56. Which of the following IP rights need not be
Make, sell, use, offer for sale or export necessarily registered to seek protection?
Make, use, sell offer for sale or import
Copyrights
Only to make and offer for sale
Patents
Accepted Answers:
Make, use, sell offer for sale or import Designs
52. In India, a computer programme‟s codes can be Geographical Indications
protected by way of _____
Accepted Answers:
Copyrights
Patents
57. Zabivaka, the Football World Cup 2018 mascot can
Copyrights be protected under ______
Trade Marks
Trade Marks
Trade Secrets
Patents
Accepted Answers:
Copyrights Trade Secret

Geographical Indications
Accepted Answers:
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Trade Marks 2
f=1/(B−A)
58. Sandeep invents a new process for recording
music, he will most likely apply for ____ Accepted Answers:
f=1/(B−A)
Copyrights 63. In a normal distribution, the parameters are μ=5
and σ=2. This means that
Trade Marks

Patents the ratio of mean to standard deviation of the

distribution is 2.5
Trade Secret
Accepted Answers: the variance of the distribution is 4
Patents the area under the normal probability distribution
59. What is the term of a Patent in India? from x=2 to x=5 is the same as the area from x=5 to
x=8

20 years ALL of the above

25 years Accepted Answers:

ALL of the above
10 years
64. For the data given below, the trimmed mean is
15 years calculated by discarding 10% of the lowest data and
10% of the largest data.
Accepted Answers: The 10% is based on the total number of
20 years data points before trimming. The trimmed mean value
is
60. Which of the following statements is false?
24.46 25.61 26.25 26.42 26.66 27.15
IP rights can be protected by maintaining secrecy 27.31 27.54 27.7 27.94
27.98 28.04 28.28 28.49 28.50
IP rights can be protected by assignment 28.87 29.11 29.13 29.5 30.88
IP rights can be protected by using a
confidentiality clause 27.793

IP rights can be protected by registration 27.838

Accepted Answers: 27.960

IP rights can be protected by assignment
28.041
61. pH of a solution is defined as a random
variable (X). It is Accepted Answers:
27.838

continuous
2
f(X=7)=0.5 65. The sample variance S with n entities is

discrete An unbiased estimator of the population

2
f(X=7)=0 variance σ
Accepted Answers: A biased estimator of the population variance
continuous
f(X=7)=0 Based on n-1 independent deviations from the
mean
62. A continuous random variable is said to have 2
an uniform probability distribution f in the Generally equal to the population variance σ
interval [A,B] if Accepted Answers:
2
An unbiased estimator of the population variance σ
f=B−A Based on n-1 independent deviations from the mean

f=1/(B−A)
f=1

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66. If there are 5 independent standard normal compositions are tested to find the effect on the
2 2 2 weldability. For each composition, 3 repeats are
variables i.e. Z1 ,Z2 ,…,Z5 , then the sum of these
performed. Pick the correct statement(s).
will correspond to a

The total number of runs is 15

standard normal distribution with mean value of 5
The total number of degrees of freedom is 14
F-distribution with 5 degrees of freedom in both
numerator and denominator The degrees of freedom due to error is 10
Chi-square distribution with 4 degrees of freedom The number of degrees of freedom due to
treatment is 4
Chi-square distribution with 5 degrees of freedom
Accepted Answers:
Accepted Answers: The total number of runs is 15
Chi-square distribution with 5 degrees of freedom The total number of degrees of freedom is 14
67. In industries, unless there is heavy competition, the The degrees of freedom due to error is 10
managers would like to keep the existing process The number of degrees of freedom due to treatment is
/operation going, as the profits are coming. If a new 4
process/operation is suggested by a fresh recruit, the 70. In Analysis of variance, the following is/are
manager‟s null hypothesis will be
applicable in a 2323 factorial design experiment

implement the new idea as it is going to be better

There are three binary i.e. two factor interaction
than the existing one
terms
existing process is good and process modification
The mean square error is based on the
will not bring about a substantial improvement, so
unrepeated four corner points of the factorial design
maintain status quo
The F-value is determined based on the ratio of
to reject the new idea outright without even
mean square factors to mean square error
testing it
The denominator degrees of freedom used in the
to fire the fresh recruit
F-test is equal to that for pure error
Accepted Answers:
Accepted Answers:
existing process is good and process modification will
There are three binary i.e. two factor interaction terms
not bring about a substantial improvement, so maintain
The F-value is determined based on the ratio of mean
status quo
square factors to mean square error
68. A river is suspected of pollution by a nearby The denominator degrees of freedom used in the F-test
chemical plant. Studies on the water samples revealed is equal to that for pure error
that the mean concentration is 10 ppm more than the
71. The primary competition for the A380 is
stipulated limit. The plant will be found guilty if

Boeing 737
If the null hypothesis is rejected
Boeing 747
If the null hypothesis is accepted
Airbus A320
If the p-value from the hypothesis testing using a
suitable probability distribution and parameters is Airbus A300
very low (<0.001)
Accepted Answers:
If the occurrence of 10 ppm in excess is highly Boeing 747
improbable to be attributed to acceptable variation
from the true mean value
Accepted Answers: 72. The production status of the A380 is as follows:
If the null hypothesis is rejected
If the p-value from the hypothesis testing using a It has not yet been produced, it is only in
suitable probability distribution and parameters is very experimental stage of development
low (<0.001)
If the occurrence of 10 ppm in excess is highly A few tens of A380s have been built
improbable to be attributed to acceptable variation from
the true mean value A few hundreds of A380 have been built
69. The weldability of a metal beam depends on the A few thousands of A 380 have been built
composition of manganese in it. Five different

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Accepted Answers: 77. Recommended takeoff and landing separation for
A few hundreds of A380 have been built A380, were initially
73. In terms of the money spent on developing A380
Same as that for 747
Profits from the aircraft have made up for the Higher than those for 747
development cost
Lower than that for 747
No money has been spent on developing A380
since it is based parts from other aircraft Set at zero

Billions of dollars have been spent developing the Accepted Answers:

aircraft Higher than those for 747

The money spent on developing the aircraft is 78. The A380 design was optimized for
unlikely to be recovered from its sales
Hub and spoke system
Accepted Answers:
Billions of dollars have been spent developing the Point to point system
aircraft
The money spent on developing the aircraft is unlikely Pedal and handle bar system
to be recovered from its sales
A few large flights between main airports followed
74. The typical seating capacity of A380 is by many small flights to other destinations from there
Accepted Answers:
Less than 100
Hub and spoke system
Between 100 and 300 A few large flights between main airports followed by
many small flights to other destinations from there
Between 500 and 800
79. The materials used for building significant fractions
Between 800 and 1000 of the A380 are

Accepted Answers:
Aluminum alloys
Between 500 and 800
75. The typical seating arrangement of A380 is Composities

Steel
Single deck across the full length of the aircraft
Wood
Single deck in the front half and double deck in
the rear half Accepted Answers:
Aluminum alloys
Double deck in the front half and single deck in Composities
the rear half
80. In terms of interior, the A380, when compared to
Double deck across the full length of the aircraft older aircraft has:

Accepted Answers:
Lower noise
Double deck across the full length of the aircraft
76. The A 380 development and build is Higher pressure

Lower pressure
A joint US – European Union operation
Higher noise
Predominantly a US operation
Accepted Answers:
Predominantly a European Union operation Lower noise
Higher pressure
Primarily Chinese
Accepted Answers:
Predominantly a European Union operation

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