Read Bangladesh Development Bank Officer 2014 Exam
1. If 9 examiners can examine a certain number of answer books in 12 days, working 5 hours a day; for how many hours a day would 4 examiners have to work in order to examine twice the number of answer book in 30 days?
(a) 3
(b) 8
(c) 9
(d) 10
Ans. c
2. The sum of two numbers is 22. Five time one number is equal to 6 times the other. The bigger is of the two number is:
(a) 12
(b) 15
(c) 16
(d) 10
Ans. a
3. In a client/server model, a client program -
(a) Asks for information
(b) Provides information and files
(c) Distributes data files to other computers
(d) None of these
Ans. a
4. What is meant by ‘Abu Garib’?
(a) A Jail
(b) A famous Philosopher
(c) A Museum
(d) A great Muslim scientist
Ans. a
5. Present name of ‘Bardhaman House’ is
(a) Bango Bhaban
(b) Bangla Academy
(c) Shishu Academy
(d) Shilpokola Academy
Ans. c
6. Where in ‘Halda Vally’ located?
(a) Rangamati
(b) Chittagong
(c) Eandarban
(d) Khagrachhari
Ans. d
7. Each character on the keyboard of computer has an ASCII value which stands for
(a) American Standard Code for Information interchanges
(b) American Stock Code for Information Interchange
(c) American Standard Code for Information Interfere
(d) None of these
Ans. a
8. What is the name of the river Meghna at the place of its orgin?
(a) Borak
(b) Surma
(c) Lusai
(d) Kushiara
Ans. c
9. The submarine cable project is under the supervision of which ministry?
(a) Finance
(b) Postal & Telecommunication
(c) Science & ICT
(d) Foreign
Ans. b
10. The average of five consecutive odd numbers is 61. What is the difference the highest and lowest number?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 8
(d) None of these
Ans. c
11. The last address of I address represents
(a) Unicast address
(b) Broadcast address
(c) Network address
(d) None of these
Ans. b
12. Which constituency Rushnara Ali represents in the British Parliament?
(a) Bethenal Green Bo
(b) Birmingham Lady Wood
(c) Leeds
(d) None
Ans. a
13. When did the first convocation of the University of Dhaka take place?
(a) 1923
(b) 1924
(c) 1925
(d) None of these
Ans. a
14. If a person walks at 14km/hr instead of 10 km/hr, he would have walked 20 km more. The actual distance travelled by him is:
(a) 50 km
(b) 56 km
(c) 70 km
(d) 80 km
Ans. a
15. Which one is the largest library of the world?
(a) Library of Congress
(b) The British Library
(c) National Library of India
(d) Woodburn Library
Ans. a
16. What is the use of Forms in HTML?
(a) To display contents email
(b) To display animation effect
(c) to collect user’s input
(d) None of these
Ans. a
17. Which country of the world does not have its capital?
(a) Nauru
(b) Monaco
(c) Tue Vallue
(d) The Marshal Islam
Ans. d
18. Which organization defines the Web Standards?
(a) Microsoft Corporation
(b) IBM Corporation
(c) World Wide Web consortium
(d) None of these
Ans. c
19. When a computer is first turned on or restarted, a special type of absolute loader is executed, called -
(a) compile and go loader
(b) Boot loader
(c) bootstrap loader
(d) None of these
Ans. b
20. In which continent is Mauritius situated?
(a) Africa
(b) Australia
(c) Asia
(d) North America
Ans. a
21. What will be the difference between simple and compound interest at 10% per annum on a sum of TK. 1000 after 4 years?
(a) TK. 31
(b) TK. 32.10
(c) TK. 40.40
(d) TK. 64.10
Ans. d
22. x varies inversely as square of y. Given that y = 2 for x = 1. The value of x for y = 6 will be equal to:
(a) 3
(b) 9
(c) 1 5
(d) 1 9
Ans. d
23. Q is as much younger than R as he is older than T. If the sum of the ages of R and T is 50 years, what is definitely the difference between R and Q’s age?
(a) 1 year
(b) 25 year
(c) 2 year
(d) Data inadequate
Ans. d
24. Which one of the following represent the binary equivalent of the decimal number 23?
(a) 01011
(b) 10111
(c) 10011
(d) None of these
Ans. b
25. If 5% more gained by selling an article for Tk. 350 than by selling it for Tk. 340, the cost of the article is:
(a) Tk. 50
(b) Tk. 160
(c) Tk. 200
(d) Tk. 225
Ans. c
26. The least perfect square, which is divisible by each 21, 36 and 66 is:
(a) 213444
(b) 214344
(c) 214434
(d) 231444
Ans. a
27. A boy multiplied 423 by a number and obtained 65589 as his answer. If both the five in the answer are wrong and call all other figures are correct, the correct answer is:
(a) 60489
(b) 62189
(c) 61189
(d) 62389
Ans. a
28. The sum of the two numbers is 12 and their product is 35. What is the sum of the reciprocals of these numbers?
(a) 12 35
(b) 1 35
(c) 35 8
(d) 7 32
Ans. a
29. Who is the first female student of University of Dhaka?
(a) Lila Nag
(b) Sulata Ghosh
(c) Ila Mitra
(d) None of them
Ans. a
30. Each IP packet must contain
(a) Only Source address
(b) Only Destination address
(c) Source and Destination Address
(d) None of these
Ans. c
31. _____ provides a connection oriented reliable service for sending messages
(a) TCP
(b) IP
(c) UDP
(d) None of these
Ans. a
32. The primary job of the operating system of a computer is to
(a) Manage resource
(b) Provide utilities
(c) Provide commutation interface
(d) None of these
Ans. a
33. At an election involving two candidates, 68 votes were declared invalid. The winning candidate secure 52% and win by 98 votes. The total numbers of votes polled is:
(a) 2382
(b) 2450
(c) 2518
(d) None of these
Ans. c
34. Which of the following is used to transfer files?
(a) HTTP
(b) HTML
(c) FTP
(d) None of these
Ans. b
35. What does Router do in Network?
(a) Forwards a packet to all outgoing links
(b) Forwards a packet to the next free outgoing link
(c) Determines on which outgoing link a packet is to be forwarded
(d) None of these
Ans. a
36. The least number of five digits which is exactly divisible by 12, 15 and 18 is -
(a) 10010
(b) 10015
(c) 10020
(d) 10080
Ans. d
Choose the one that best expresses the meaning of the given idiom/phrase:
37. I have come to know of your hole-and-corner methods of dealing with people.
(a) suspicious
(b) secret
(c) servile
(d) strict
Ans. b
38. He was in a brown study and did not seem to catch my point.
(a) in his study room
(b) absorbed in reading
(c) absent-minded
(d) in a state of shock
Ans. b
39. They are sure to steal a march upon their competitors.
(a) outshine
(b) defy
(c) challenge
(d) resist
Ans. a
In each group one word is misspelt. Find the misspelt word:
40. .
(a) amateur
(b) antagonism
(c) anticipted
(d) bureaucracy
Ans. c
41. .
(a) fragrous
(b) monopoly
(c) rational
(d) demolish
Ans. a
42. .
(a) ferment
(b) introvert
(c) inveigle
(d) all correct
Ans. d
43. .
(a) delirious
(b) delusive
(c) hefty
(d) dienious
Ans. d
Select from the alternative, the word that conveys the same meaning as the word given in the capital letters:
44. It was a SCURRILOUS attack on him.
(a) serious
(b) unjustified
(c) insulting
(d) justified
Ans. c
45. We have sanctioned his leave on COMPASSIONATE group.
(a) as an exception
(b) legal
(c) merciful
(d) deserving
Ans. c
46. He was ENGROSSED in day’s office routine.
(a) involved
(b) tired
(c) fully occupied
(d) lost
Ans. c
Select the word or phrase that is most closely opposite in meaning to the capitalized.
47. EXTANT
(a) existing
(b) dynamic
(c) fashionable
(d) lost
Ans. d
48. GARRULOUS
(a) talkative
(b) frank
(c) enlightening
(d) taciturn
Ans. d
49. HYPERBOLE
(a) exaggeration
(b) understatement
(c) distortion
(d) impression
Ans. b