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CDS JOURNEY AFCAT 1 2025 AFCAT GS 500 MCQ 1. On which of the following dates was (c)​Sukhoi Su-30MKI the Indian Airforce established? (d)​MiG-21 (a)​8 October 1930 (b)​1 July 1933 7. How...

CDS JOURNEY AFCAT 1 2025 AFCAT GS 500 MCQ 1. On which of the following dates was (c)​Sukhoi Su-30MKI the Indian Airforce established? (d)​MiG-21 (a)​8 October 1930 (b)​1 July 1933 7. How many of the given pairs is/are EY (c)​8 October 1932 incorrect. (d)​15 July 1950 (i) Northern Air Command - Udhampur (ii) Western Air Command - New Delhi 2. Which Indian Airforce Officer (iii) Central Air Command - Allahabad became the first Indian astronaut to go (iv) Maintenance Command - Shimla to space? (a)​2 and 3 (b)​1 and 4 N (a)​Kalpana Chawla (b)​Rakesh Sharma (c)​1,2 and 3 (c)​Vikram Sarabhai (d)​Only 1 (d)​Shubhanshu Shuklua R 3. What is the name of the Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) currently operated by India? 8. Which of the following is a surface-to-air missile system used by the Indian Air Force? (a)​Brahmos U (a)​Phalcons (b)​Akash (b)​Embraer EMB-145 (c)​Prithvi (c)​Lockheed EC-121 (d)​Nag O (d)​E-2 Hawkeye 9. Who is the First Woman Air Marshal 4. The Indian Air Force's MiG-21 Bison to be Awarded Padma Shri? is primarily used as: (a)​Nivedita Singh (b)​Padma Bandopadhyay SJ (a)​Transport Aircraft (b)​Trainer Aircraft (c)​Deepika Misra (c)​Helicopter (d)​Anjana Bhaduria (d)​Fighter Aircraft 10. What was the code name of the 5. The Indian Air Force's aerobatic first Nuclear test of India? D team is known as: (a)​Guiding Angel (a)​Surya Kiran (b)​Shakti (b)​Red Arrows (c)​Smiling Buddha (c)​Thunderbirds (d)​Dishta C (d)​Blue Angels 11. Spectsnaz is the special 6. The primary trainer aircraft used by commando unit of which of the the Indian Air Force is: following countries? (a)​Mig 27 (a)​India (b)​HAL HTT-40 (b)​USA  CDS JOURNEY AFCAT 1 2025 (c)​Germany (c)​3 only (d)​Russia (d)​None of the above 12. Who among the following has been 16. Consider the following statements referred to as “JUMBO” in the Indian about the Siachen Glacier conflict: Airforce? 1. It is located in the eastern (a)​Wg Cdr KK Majumdar Karakoram range. EY (b)​Air Cmde Mehar Singh 2. The Indian Army launched (c)​Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Operation Meghdoot in 1984 to secure Sekhon the glacier. (d)​Air Chief Marshal Pratap 3. Siachen is the highest battlefield in Chandra Lal the world. 13. In which of the following places is Which of the above statements is/are N the Indian Naval Academy located? correct? (a)​Dundigal, Hyderabad (a)​2 and 3 only (b)​Kochi, Kerala (b)​1 and 2 only R (c)​Ezhmila, Kerala (d)​Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (c)​1 and 3 only (d)​1,2 and 3 17. Which Indian operation was U 14. Who among the following was the launched to airlift Indian troops to Sri first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra? Lanka in 1987? (a)​Major Somanth Sharma (a)​Operation Cactus (b)​Captain Vikram Batra (b)​Operation Ganga O (c)​Captain Gurbachan Singh (c)​Operation Pawan Salaria (d)​Operation Trident (d)​Company Havildar Major Piru SJ Singh 18. Consider the following statements about the INS Vikrant: 15. Consider the following statements 1. It is India’s first indigenously built about India’s nuclear doctrine: aircraft carrier. 1. India follows a "No First Use" policy 2. It was commissioned into the Indian regarding nuclear weapons. Navy in 2022. D 2. The Strategic Forces Command 3. It is not a nuclear-powered carrier. (SFC) is responsible for managing Which of the above statements is/are India’s nuclear arsenal. correct? 3. India conducted its first successful (a)​1 and 3 only C nuclear test in 1998 under Operation (b)​3 only Smiling Buddha. (c)​1,2 and 3 Which of the above statements is/are (d)​None of the above incorrect? (a)​1,2 and 3 19. The INS Arihant is: (b)​1 and 2 (a)​A destroyer  CDS JOURNEY AFCAT 1 2025 (b)​A frigate 24. The Indian Navy’s Operation (c)​A stealth ship Samudra Setu was launched for: (d)​ A nuclear-powered ballistic (a)​Anti-piracy missions missile submarine (b)​Counter- Terrorism (c)​Repatriation of Indian citizens 20. The first indigenously built during COVID-19 submarine of India is: (d)​Both 1 and 2 EY (a)​INS Chakra (b)​INS Vikram 25. The airlift during the Kargil War (c)​INS Shalki was known as: (d)​INS Kalvari (a)​Operation Vijay (b)​Operation Cactus 21. The _____ has supplied the (c)​Operation Safed Sagar Apache helicopter which is an attack (d)​Operation Meghdoot N helicopter. (a)​France 26. The headquarters of the Southern (b)​Germany Naval Command is located in: R (c)​Israel (d)​USA 22. Match List I and List II: (a)​Visakhapatnam (b)​Kochi (c)​Mumbai (d)​Chennai U 27. Which of the following statements is correct regarding the equivalent ranks in the Indian Armed Forces? O (a)​Major in the Army is equivalent to Lieutenant Commander in the Choose the correct answer from the Navy and Squadron Leader in SJ options given below: the Air Force. (a)​A - III, B - II, C - IV, D - I (b)​Lieutenant in the Army is (b)​A - II, B - III, C - I, D - IV equivalent to Captain in the (c)​A - IV, B - II, C - III, D - I Navy and Flying Officer in the (d)​A - I, B - III, C - II, D - IV Air Force. (c)​Colonel in the Army is D 23. “Operation Sard Hawa” related to equivalent to Commander in the which of the following? Navy and Group Captain in the (a)​Operation conducted by BSF Air Force. (b)​Evacuation plan from (d)​Brigadier in the Army is C Afghanistan equivalent to Vice Admiral in the (c)​Counter-insurgency campaign Navy and Air Vice Marshal in (d)​Military Exercise between India the Air Force. and Srilanka  CDS JOURNEY AFCAT 1 2025 28. Which of the following commando 33. Which Indian organization is force and its parent agency/ force is leading the development of hypersonic wrongly matched? missile technology? (a)​MARCOS - Indian Coast Guard (a)​ISRO (b)​Garuda Commando Force - (b)​DRDO Indian Airforce (c)​HAL (c)​Para SF - Indian Army (d)​BHEL EY (d)​None of the above 34. INS Nirdeshak, which has been 29. Exercise Desert Knight is a recently commissioned, belongs to trilateral air combat exercise between which class of survey ships? India and which two other countries? (a)​Sandhayak-class (a)​UAE and Egypt (b)​Makar-class (b)​Egypt and UAE (c)​Sukanya-class N (c)​France and UAE (d)​Talwar Class (d)​France and Egypt 35. Which Indian company launched R 30. DRDL stands for - (a)​Defence Research and Documentation Laboratory (b)​Defence Research and the Fast Patrol Vessels Amulya and Akshay for the Indian Coast Guard? (a)​Goa Shipyard Limited (b)​Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders U Development Laboratory Limited (c)​Department of Research and (c)​Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Development Laboratory Engineers (d)​Department of Research and (d)​Hindustan Shipyard Limited O Documentation Laboratory 36. The rank of Captain in the Indian 31. What is the name of India’s Navy is equivalent to which rank in the SJ first-ever tri-services defence space Indian Air Force? exercise conducted by the Defence (a)​Wing Commander Space Agency? (b)​Group Captain (a)​Antariksha Abhyas 2024 (c)​Squadron Leader (b)​Antariksha Raksha 2024 (d)​Air Commodore (c)​Space Shield 2024 D (d)​Astra Abhyas 2024 37. What is the primary objective of the VLF (Very Low Frequency) 32. “Hezbollahis the militant group of communication station established by which of the following countries? the Indian Navy? C (a)​Lebanon (a)​To enhance maritime security in (b)​Israel the Arabian Sea (c)​Palestine (b)​To strengthen communication (d)​Yemen capabilities for naval operations (c)​To monitor seismic activity in the Bay of Bengal  CDS JOURNEY AFCAT 1 2025 (d)​To facilitate space exploration (a)​Tejas missions from the Indian coast (b)​Mirage 2000 (c)​Sukhoi 30 MKI 38. What is the theme of Indian Navy (d)​Jaguar Day 2024? (a)​Strength and Power through 43. Which among the following is not Innovation and Indigenisation under the Defence Ministry? EY (b)​Operational Efficiency, (a)​Department of Defence Readiness, and Mission Intelligence Accomplishment in the Maritime (b)​Department of Ex-servicemen Domain Welfare (c)​Swarnim Vijay Varsh (c)​Department of Defence (d)​None of the above Production (d)​Defence Research and N 39. Which exercise is conducted Development Organization between the special forces of India and Kyrgyzstan? 44. Which one of the following is the R (a)​Yudh Abhyas (b)​Khanjar (c)​Sada Tanseq (d)​Nomadic Elephant motto of NCC? (a)​Unity and Discipline (b)​Unity and Integrity (c)​Unity and Command U (d)​Unity and Service 40. In which of the following places was the 1st edition of Joint Table Top 45. INS Tushil , which has been in news recently is a - O Exercise, CINBAX, between the Indian Army and the Cambodian Army (a)​Diesel Electric Submarine conducted? (b)​Stealth guided missile frigate (a)​Chaubatia, Uttarakhand (c)​Survey vessel SJ (b)​Mahajan Field Firing Ranges, (d)​None of the above Rajasthan: (c)​Jodhpur Military Station 46. Recently, DRDO conducted (d)​Foreign Training Node, Pune successful Field Evaluation Trials of the Nag Mk 2 missile. Nag is a- 41. The Indian Army has installed a (a)​Surface-to Surface missile D statue of Maratha warrior Chhatrapati (b)​Surface-to-Air missile Shivaji on the bank of which Lake? (c)​Rocket Launcher (a)​Kyagar Lake (d)​Anti-tank Fire and Forget Guided (b)​Chagar Tso Missile C (c)​Tso Moriri (d)​Pangong Tso 47. Which year has been termed as the ‘Year of Reforms’ by the Ministry of 42. Which of the following is a Defence to modernize the Armed long-range, multi-role Air Superiority Forces? Aircraft in the Indian Air Force?  CDS JOURNEY AFCAT 1 2025 (a)​2024 (a)​Vietnam (b)​2025 (b)​Mozambique (c)​2026 (c)​Brunei (d)​2030 (d)​Gabon 48. Which type of missile is Army 53. What is the name of the seventh Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow EY which was in the news recently? Water Craft (ASW SWC) launched for (a)​Intercontinental ballistic missile the Indian Navy? (b)​Anti-ship cruise missile (a)​Arjun (c)​Surface-to-surface artillery (b)​Abhay weapon system (c)​Vikshit (d)​Surface-to- Air missile (d)​Pracheen N 49. India recently launched its fourth 54. What is the name of India’s first nuclear-powered ballistic missile pollution control vessel recently submarine (SSBN) at which place? launched by the Indian Coast Guard? R (a)​Goa (b)​Mumbai (c)​Visakhapatnam (d)​Chennai (a)​Sagar Yantra (b)​Samudra Pratap (c)​Viksit Bharat (d)​Samudra Raksha U 50. Recently, where was the Indian Air 55. Which country’s space agency Force (IAF) C-295 Full Motion recently launched two Iranian Simulator (FMS) inaugurated? satellites, Kowsar and Hodhod, into O (a)​Air Force Station Ambala orbit? (b)​Air Force Station Agra (a)​Iran (c)​Air Force Station Bidar (b)​USA SJ (d)​Air Force Station Kalaikundu (c)​Russia (d)​Ukraine 51. What is the name of the indigenously designed and 56. Chancay port, which was in the manufactured machine pistol recently news recently, is located in which inducted by the Northern Command of country? D the Indian Army? (a)​Cambodia (a)​Rakshak (b)​Maldives (b)​Agni (c)​Peru (c)​Asmi (d)​Brazil C (d)​Tejas 57. Which of the following Indian Naval 52. Recently, the Government of India Sailing Vessels has completed the gifted two water-jet propelled Fast Navika Sagar Parikrama II expedition? Interceptor Craft (FIC) to the (a)​INS Sahyadri Government of _______? (b)​INS Vikrant  CDS JOURNEY AFCAT 1 2025 (c)​INS Tarini 63. Which of the following groups of (d)​INS Virat organic compounds are least likely to be used in making perfumes? 58. According to recent reports, which (a)​Alcohols one of the following countries emerged (b)​Carboxylic Acids as the top three destinations for (c)​Esters defence exports by India? (d)​Aldehydes EY (a)​Russia, China and Israel (b)​New Zealand, Australia and 64. Match the following Russia Vitamins​ Chemical (c)​Bangladesh, Iran and Iraq Name (d)​United States,France and 1.​ Vitamin K​ A. Tocopherol Armenia 2.​ Vitamin A​ B. Retinol 3.​ Vitamin D​ C. Calciferol N 59. What is the name of the sixth and 4.​ Vitamin E​ D. Phylloquinone final Scorpene-class submarine Choose the correct options: delivered to the Indian Navy? (a)​1-C,2-B,3-A,4-D R (a)​INS Vikrant (b)​INS Malpe (c)​INS Kaveri (d)​INS Vaghsheer (b)​1-D,2-B,3-C,4-A (c)​1-B,2-A,3-C,4-D (d)​1-D,2-B,3-A,4-C U 65. Measles is caused by - 60. Soyuz-2.1a rocket , which was in (a)​Rubella Virus news recently belongs to which (b)​Andro Virus Country? (c)​Variola virus O (a)​Russia (d)​None of the above (b)​China (c)​Iran 66. Rocket works on the principle of SJ (d)​Kuwait (a)​Newton’s third law of motion (b)​Newton’s first law of motion 61. “ National Science Day” is (c)​Newton’s second law of motion observed on- (d)​Archimedes principle (a)​2nd February (b)​3rd March 67. Through ‘photosynthesis’ green D (c)​28th February plants generate (d)​24th October (a)​inorganic materials (b)​Minerals 62. Barometer is used for measuring - (c)​organic materials C (a)​Depth of the ocean (d)​nutrients (b)​atmospheric pressure (c)​Intensity of sound 68. Lines that connect places of equal (d)​Quantity of heat salinity on a map are called- (a)​Isosaline (b)​Isohaline  CDS JOURNEY AFCAT 1 2025 (c)​Isomers (d)​Isotherms 75. Artificial rain is produced by seeding clouds with 69. The constituents of Brass are- (a)​Silver iodide (a)​Copper and Zinc (b)​Potassium Nitrate (b)​Copper and Tin (c)​Copper Sulphate (c)​Copper, Tin and Zinc (d)​Silver Nitrate EY (d)​Solder and Lead 76. Which one of the following explains 70. Mud houses are cooler in summer the occurrence of the solar eclipse? and warmer in winter, because (a)​Position of the Moon between (a)​mud is superconductor of heat Sun and Earth (b)​mud is bad conductor of heat (b)​Position of the Moon between (c)​mud is good conductor of heat Sun and Earth on a new Moon N (d)​None of the above (c)​Both (a) and (b) (d)​None of the above 71. Aqua-regia is a mixture of which of R the following in the ratio 3:1 by volume (a)​conc.HNO3 and conc. HCI (b)​conc.HCl and conc.HNO3 (c)​dil. HCl and dil.HNO3 77. In which atmospheric layer are the communication satellites located? (a)​Stratosphere (b)​lonosphere U (d)​conc. HCI and conc.H2SO4 (c)​Troposphere (d)​Mesosphere 72. Industrial commodities are graded with - 78. Which of the following inert gases O (a)​ISI MARK is used as a coolant in nuclear (b)​AGMARK reactors? (c)​FPO MARK (a)​Neon SJ (d)​HALL MARK (b)​Helium (c)​Argon 73. Biodegradable wastes can usually (d)​Xenon be converted into useful substances with the help of 79. Lactose is a disaccharide (a)​Bacteria containing- D (b)​Nuclear proteins (a)​Glucose and Fructose (c)​Radioactive (b)​Glucose and Galactose (d)​viruses (c)​Galactose and Fructose (d)​None C 74. Cadmium pollution is associated with 80. Which of the following soils is most (a)​minamata disease conducive to the growth of cotton? (b)​black foot disease (a)​Alluvial (c)​dyslexia (b)​Red (d)​Itai-itai (c)​Laterite  CDS JOURNEY AFCAT 1 2025 (d)​Black 87. Which of the following statements is/are correct. 81. Malic acid is found in - 1.​ Femur is the longest bone in the (a)​Orange human body. (b)​Apple 2.​ Keratin, which is a protein, is (c)​Tamarind found in nails. (d)​Amla (a)​Only 1 EY (b)​Only 2 82. Animals active at night are called? (c)​Both 1 and 2 (a)​Diurnal (d)​Neither 1 nor 2 (b)​Nocturnal (c)​Parasites 88. What is the chemical name of (d)​actor-diurnal Baking Soda? (a)​Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate N 83. What is the average life of the red (b)​Sodium Carbonate blood corpuscles? (c)​Magnesium Chloride (a)​100-120 days (d)​Copper Sulphate R (b)​120-140 days (c)​80-95 days (d)​70-85 days 89. Which of the following diseases is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin A? (a)​Scurvy U 84. Which one among the following (b)​Rickets metals is used in fireworks to make a (c)​Xerophthalmia brilliant white light? (d)​Beri-beri (a)​Sodium O (b)​Magnesium 90. What is the typical range of human (c)​Aluminium audible frequency? (d)​Silver (a)​20 HZ to 200 HZ SJ (b)​20 HZ TO 20,000 HZ 85. In visible spectrum, the ray of light (c)​40 Hz to 40,000 Hz with minimum wavelength is (d)​More than 20,000 HZ (a)​Violet ray (b)​Blue ray 91. Which disease is also known as (c)​Red Ray Hansen's disease? D (d)​Yellow Ray (a)​Leprosy (b)​Tuberculosis 86. LPG( Liquified Petroleum Gas) is (c)​Measles a mixture of (d)​Cancer C (a)​Methane and Propane (b)​Metane and Ethane 92. The _________ is/are given for (c)​Propane and Butane outstanding performance in sports and (d)​Butane and Methane games over a period of the previous four years and for showing qualities of  CDS JOURNEY AFCAT 1 2025 leadership, sportsmanship and a (d)​London 2012 sense of discipline. (a)​Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 98. Who was the first Indian to win an (MAKA) Trophy individual medal in the Olympics? (b)​Rashtriya Khel Protsahan (a)​MilkhaSingh Puraskar (b)​PTUsha (c)​Arjuna Awards (c)​Karnam Malleswari EY (d)​Dronacharya Awards (d)​KD Jadhav 93. ________ was the first fast bowler 99. Who is known as the female Don who was the Indian test team captain. Bradman in the cricketing world? (a)​Javagal Srinath (a)​Meghann Moira Lanning (b)​Jaspreet Bumrah (b)​Katherine Helen Brunt (c)​Zaheer Khan (c)​Jhulan Goswami N (d)​Kapil Dev (d)​Elizabeth Rebecca Wilson 94. Who among the following is 100. The term Pugilist is used for R popularly known as ‘The Flying Sikh’? (a)​Norman Pritchard (b)​Milkha Singh (c)​Vijay Singh Chauhan players of which game? (a)​Boxing (b)​Long-Lump (c)​Archery U (d)​Gurbachan Singh Randhawa (d)​Table Tennis 95. Indian football team won its first 101. Which cricket team won the first gold in which of the following Asian edition of the World Test O Games? Championship (WTC)? (a)​1951 (a)​Australia (b)​1962 (b)​India SJ (c)​1970 (c)​England (d)​1982 (d)​New Zealand 96. The term “Produnova” is 102. The "Duckworth–Lewis–Stern associated with which sports? method" is associated with which (a)​Badminton sport? D (b)​Rowing (a)​Football (c)​Gymnastics (b)​Tennis (d)​Chess (c)​Cricket (d)​Football C 97. Dipa Karmarkar was the first Indian female gymnast to compete in which of 103. Which country won the 2024 the following Olympics’ edition? Copa América Football (a)​Rio 2016 Championship? (b)​Tokyo 2020 (a)​Uruguay (c)​Paris 2024 (b)​Argentina