Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is 30 October 1974.

• Rajasthan State Mines & Minerals Ltd. was established on 30 October 1974.

Key Points

• The prime objective of RSMML is to achieve cost-effective technological innovations in the mining of minerals and to diversify into mineral-based downstream projects
• The major activities of the company have been divided into four parts called Strategic Business Units & Profit Centres (SBU & PC) under the direct control of the corporate office situated at Udaipur. 
• The four SBU & PC are as follow
  • SBU & PC Rock phosphate, Udaipur
  • SBU & PC Gypsum, Bikaner
  • SBU & PC Limestone, Jodhpur
  • SBU & PC Lignite, Jaipur

Important functions of a database administrator are:

• Schema definition schema and physical organization modification granting of authorization for data access
• Monitoring jobs running on the database and ensuring that performance is not degraded by very expensive tasks submitted by some users.
• Routine maintenance includes activities like periodic ensuring that backup and enough freedisk space is available for normal operations and upgrading disk space as required.

The correct answer is Palash.

• Palash tree is called the Flame of the Forest in Rajasthan.

Key Points

• Flame of the Forest, also known as Palash Tree is a very beautiful Indian tree with bright crimson orange-colored flowers.
  • Flame of the Forest/Palash Tree is such a tree when it is in its fullest beauty, it can change the view of the entire forest in a very graceful way.
  • From the month of January to March, the tree stands in all its glory with a lot of orange and vermilion flowers that cover the entire crown.
  • Palash trees are distinct as they have more flowers than leaves. This is the state flower of Madhya Pradesh as well as Jharkhand. 
  • Flame of the Forest/ Palash Tree is a medium-sized tree of around 6-12m in height.

Important Points

• Mahua:
  • ​Mahua flowers have many medicinal properties and are also used to make pickles, jams, and now ice creams as well.
• Khejri:
  • ​Khejri is one of the most common tree species found in India (in the dry regions of Rajasthan, Delhi, Gujarat, Punjab, and Madhya Pradesh), Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan.
  • It plays a vital role in preserving the ecosystem of arid and semi-arid areas, mainly in the Thar Desert.​

The correct answer is World Wide Web.

Key Points

• Web service is a standardized medium to propagate communication between the client and server applications on the WWW (World Wide Web). 
  • A web service is a software system that supports interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.
  • It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically, Web Service Definition Language, or WSDL).
  • Web services fulfil a specific task or a set of tasks.
  • The nature of the interface hides the implementation details of the service so that it can be used independently of the hardware or software platform on which it is implemented and independently of the programming language in which it is written.

Additional Information

• A protocol is a set of rules or procedures for transmitting data between electronic devices, such as computers.
• The protocol that is used for transferring both text and binary files over the Internet is File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a protocol for transmitting hypermedia documents, such as HTML.
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a secure version of the HTTP protocol that uses encryption and authentication.

• A CASE tool is a generic term used to denote any form of automated support for software engineering, in a more restrictive sense a CASE tool can mean any tool used to automate some activity associated with software development
• Some of the CASE tools assist in phase-related tasks such as specification, structured analysis, design, coding, testing, etc. and others to non-phase activities such as project management and configuration management
• The primary objectives of using any CASE tool are:

1. To increase productivity.
2. To help produce better quality software at a lower cost.