Information Science

1. Information is …
(A) Raw data
(B) Raw knowledge
(C) Input data
(D) Organized data

2. ‘Fair use’ is a term most relevant to
(A) Intellectual Property Rights
(B) Books borrowed for home reading
(C) Copy right
(D) Use of reference books

3. WIPO stands for
(A) World Information and Patents Organisation
(B) World Intellectual Property Organisation
(C) World International Property Organisation
(D) World Information Protection Organisation

4. Handling of Information in the sense of production is called
(A) Information Marketing
(B) Information Industry
(C) Information Production
(D) Information Revolution

5. BERN CONVENTION (1886) is concerned with
(A) Translations
(B) Copyright
(C) Patent
(D) Standards

6. Informal communication among knowledgeable person is known as
(A) Invisible College
(B) Information Gatekeeper
(C) Communication Gatekeeper
(D) Knowledge Management

7. Which one of the following is not associated with the communication system.
(A) Reciever
(B) Channel
(C) Sender
(D) Entropy

8. which is correct logical sequence of the following.
(A) Information, Knowledge, Data, Wisdom
(B) Knowledge, Wisdom, Information, Data
(C) Wisdom, Information, Data, Knowledge
(D) Data, Infomation, Knowledge, Wisdom

9. The invisible web refers to-
(A) the internet, since we cannot see it
(B) that part of the internet, which is hidden from the search engines
(C) the telecommunication signals which are not seen
(D) the failure in accessing the web pages

10. Who was the chairman of National Library Committee of India.
(A) B.S. Jha
(B) K.P. Sinha
(C) S. Mudaliar
(D) C.D. Deshmukh

11. Which organisation applied Library and Information Policy in India at national level.
(A) NISSAT
(B) INSDOC
(C) UNESCO
(D) RRRLF

12. Where is the head quarter of Patent Information System in India.
(A) Pune
(B) Mumbai
(C) Nagpur
 (D) Delhi

13. The act enacted in India in 1856 on Intellectual Property Right was based on .
(A) American Patent Law 1810
(B) British Patent Law 1852
(C) The Patent Bill
(D) The Design Act of 1911

14. Whether intellectual property can be sold.
(A) No
(B) Sale is possible
(C) Yes
(D) None of these

15. he term communication came from which language?
(A) Greek
(B) Latin
(C) German
(D) French

16. Who is the propounder of the term information transfer ?
(A) Ranganathan
(B) J.Martin
(C) Beesman
(D) Calvin Moores

17. To which country the credit is given to coin the term information society ?
(A) USA
(B) France
(C) Japan
(D) India

Answers
1. (D) 2. (C) 3. (B) 4. (B) 5. (B) 6. (A) 7. (D) 8. (D) 9. (B) 10. (A) 11. (D) 12. (C) 13. (B) 14. (B) 15. (B) 16. (C) 17. (C)