General Abbreviations — Part 1 MCQs with Explanations

ATM means Automated Teller Machine.

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty is the full form of CTBT.

EVM stands for Electronic Voting Machine.

NABARD stands for National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development.

IPCC stands for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications is the full form of SWIFT.

FIMMDA stands for Fixed Income Money Markets & Derivatives Association.

FCI, the nodal central agency of Government of India, along with other State Agencies undertakes procurement of wheat and paddy under price support scheme.

BCG, or Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, is a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) disease.

GIS stands for Geographical Information Systems.

FERA was repealed in 1998 by the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and replaced by the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), which liberalised foreign exchange controls and restrictions on foreign investment.

ISRO is the abbreviation for Indian Space Research Organisation.

JDBC stands for Java Database Connectivity.

JIMEX 2018 relates to Japan-India Maritime Exercise.

LAN stands for Local Area Network.

MODVAT is related to Excise Tax.

MRTS stands for Mass Rapid Transit System.

National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation is known as NACMF.

OTEC stands for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion.

RAF is the abbreviated form of Rapid Action Force.

RMSA means Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan.

SAGAR stands for Security And Growth for All in the Region.

SIDBI stands for Small Industries Development Bank of India.

The abbreviation LHC stands for Large Hadron Collider.

The term GIGO is related to accuracy.

The term PC means Personal Computer.

TRIMS stands for Trade-Related Investment Measures.

National Democratic Alliance is the full form of NDA.

Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry is the full form of ASSOCHAM.

The full form of BSF is Border Security Force.

Trade Related Investment Measures is the right expansion of TRIMs.

"Value Added Service Providers" (VASP) means a persons or entities that provide improved or enhanced versions of standard and basic core network services provided over telecommunication networks that include voice calls and all forms of data transmission including fax, short message services SMSs and Multi- media services (MMSs) normally accessed at extra costs than the basic services.

A binary digit (bit) is the minimum unit of binary information stored in a computer system. A bit can have only two states, on or off, which are commonly represented as ones and zeros. The combination of ones and zeros determines which information is entered into and processed by the computer.

A communications satellite (COMSAT) is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth.

A Crime Investigation Department (CID) is a branch of the State Police Services of India responsible for the investigation of crime, based on the Criminal Investigation Departments of British police forces.

A Localized Service Area (LSA) is a network defined group of cells, in which specific access conditions apply. This may correspond to an area in which the Core Network offers specific services. A LSA may be defined within a PLMN or globally. Therefore, a LSA may offer a non-contiguous radio coverage.

A SIM card, also known as subscriber identity module or subscriber identification module (SIM), is an integrated circuit running a card operating system (COS) that is intended to securely store the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number and its related key, which are used to identify and authenticate subscribers on mobile telephony devices (such as mobile phones and computers). It is also possible to store contact information on many SIM cards. SIM cards are always used on GSM phones; for CDMA phones, they are needed only for LTE-capable handsets. SIM cards can also be used in satellite phones, smart watches, computers, or cameras.

A very important person or personage (VIP or V.I.P.) is a person who is accorded special privileges due to their high social status, influence or importance.

A virtual path identifier (VPI) is a data communication identifier that uniquely identifies a network path for an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell packet to reach its destination node.

Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) is a standard physical interface for connecting storage devices within a computer. ATA allows hard disks and CD-ROMs to be internally connected to the motherboard and perform basic input/output functions.