Question : In India, which of the following is not an objective of the National Manufacturing Policy?

Option 1: To increase the sectoral share of manufacturing in GDP to at least 25% by 2022.

Option 2: To double the exports of manufacturing goods by 2022.

Option 3: To increase the rate of job creation to create 100 million additional jobs by 2022.

Option 4: To enhance global competitiveness, domestic value addition, technological depth, and environmental sustainability of growth.

Question :  In the following passage, some blanks are given and against each blank five alternative words are suggested. Choose the correct alternative to complete the passage in a meaningful way.

Meanwhile in technical ________________ (1) the “Cloud” may be called as the combination of computing resources over a network, popularly, “Cloud” has come to mark and encompass the complete range of sructures that make online activity possible, from facebook to netflix to Google Drive. Like a fluffly ________________ (2) moving across a wide and clear blue sky, not forming a particular shape or form, the Cloud of the digital is elusive, its internal working seems complex to the public, an example of what MIT cybernetician Norbert Weiner once called a “black box.” But like the clouds above us, however shapelss or ________________ (3) they may seem to be, are in fact made of matter, the Cloud of the digital is also perpetually material.

To get at the matter of the Cloud we must ________________ (4) the coils of coaxial cables, fiber optic tubes, cellular towers, air conditioners, power distribution units, transformers, water pipes, computer servers, and more.  We must be aware of its  material flow of electricity, water, air, heat, metals, minerals, and all the earth elements that ________________ (5) our digital lives. By this we can say that cloud is not only material but is also an ecologicak force. As it continues to ________________ (6), its impact on the environment is also increasing, even as entire workforce from engineers to technicians, and executives behind its formation aspire to balance profitability with sustainability.

Nowhere is this ________________ (7) more visible than in the walls of the infrastructures where the content of the Cloud lives: the factory-libraries where data is stored and computational power is pooled to keep our cloud applications ________________ (8).

Q. Choose the correct alternative for blank 7

Option 1: Nettle
 

Option 2: Surreptitious

Option 3: Dilemma
 

Option 4: Assaying

Question :  In the following passage, some blanks are given and against each blank five alternative words are suggested. Choose the correct alternative to complete the passage in a meaningful way.

Meanwhile in technical ________________ (1) the “Cloud” may be called as the combination of computing resources over a network, popularly, “Cloud” has come to mark and encompass the complete range of sructures that make online activity possible, from facebook to netflix to Google Drive. Like a fluffly ________________ (2) moving across a wide and clear blue sky, not forming a particular shape or form, the Cloud of the digital is elusive, its internal working seems complex to the public, an example of what MIT cybernetician Norbert Weiner once called a “black box.” But like the clouds above us, however shapelss or ________________ (3) they may seem to be, are in fact made of matter, the Cloud of the digital is also perpetually material.

To get at the matter of the Cloud we must ________________ (4) the coils of coaxial cables, fiber optic tubes, cellular towers, air conditioners, power distribution units, transformers, water pipes, computer servers, and more.  We must be aware of its  material flow of electricity, water, air, heat, metals, minerals, and all the earth elements that ________________ (5) our digital lives. By this we can say that cloud is not only material but is also an ecologicak force. As it continues to ________________ (6), its impact on the environment is also increasing, even as entire workforce from engineers to technicians, and executives behind its formation aspire to balance profitability with sustainability.

Nowhere is this ________________ (7) more visible than in the walls of the infrastructures where the content of the Cloud lives: the factory-libraries where data is stored and computational power is pooled to keep our cloud applications ________________ (8).

Q. Choose the correct alternative for blank 8

Option 1:  Afloat
 

Option 2: Wrangle
 

Option 3: Interdict

Option 4: Obviate