Where is the most common place to download applications to an iOS device?
A) Apple Play
B) Google Play
C) Apple App Store
D) From the developer’s web site
E) I need to deliver crushed candy to my tiny Death Star
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Which of these interfaces is restricted to a single drive per motherboard interface?
A) PATA
B) SCSI
C) FireWire
D) SATA
E) Just make sure it’s a really, really large drive
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Which of these interfaces would commonly be used with hot-swappable external storage devices?
A) FireWire
B) SATA
C) SCSI
D) PATA
E) I got a fever for more disk space
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Which of these standards would commonly be used to connect a DVD-ROM on an IDE controller?
A) eSATA
B) ATAPI
C) TCP/IP
D) USB
E) Let’s get it installed so I can open my SG-1 box set
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A) SSID broadcast suppression
B) Static IP addressing
C) MAC filtering
D) Modification of the default access point username and password
E) Disable everyone’s texting plan
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Where would you use a SCSI terminator?
A) At the beginning of a SCSI bus
B) Connected to every SCSI device
C) At the end of a SCSI bus
D) Terminators are no longer required on a SCSI bus
E) Don’t say “terminate” when you’re near my hard drive
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What happens if the failed passcode lock attempt security option is activated in Android OS?
A) The device erases itself after 10 failed attempts
B) The passcode will randomly change after every 10 attempts
C) The device locks and requires a Google login
D) An email will be sent to the device owner after 10 failed attempts
E) The phone continuously plays an annoying ring tone
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Which of these mobile device settings can be used to configure inbound email messages? Pick two.
A) IMAP
B) SMTP
C) MIME
D) POP
E) I’m forwarding all of my email messages to you
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You have two drives that you would like to configure into the most redundant configuration possible. Which of these RAID types should you configure?
A) RAID 0
B) RAID 1
C) RAID 5
D) RAID 1+0
E) I don’t want to ever lose those important episodes of Alf
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Filed Under: CompTIA A+ Pop QuizzesTags: raidBoston Dynamics, which contracts for the US military, is the eighth robotics company snapped up by Google this year.
Both the price and size of the project, which is led by former Android boss Andy Rubin, are being kept under wraps.
However, analysts say the purchases signal a rising interest in robotics use by consumer internet companies.
Online shopping portal Amazon, for example, recently announced plans to deploy a fleet of delivery drones.
The firm's BigDog robot can throw breeze blocksIn a statement posted on the Google Plus service, Chief Executive Larry Page said:
"I am excited about Andy Rubin's next project. His last big bet, Android, started off as a crazy idea that ended up putting a supercomputer in hundreds of millions of pockets. It is still very early days for this, but I can't wait to see the progress."
Robot MachinesBoston Dynamics, which does not sell robots commercially, was founded in 1992 by a former professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Cheetah Robot developed by Boston Dynamics breaks the speed recordIt consulted for Japanese electronics giant Sony on consumer applications such as Aibo, a robot dog.
But it mostly develops mobile and off-road robotics technology, funded by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa.
Google has said it would honour the existing military contracts with Darpa.
Boston Dynamics road-tests its Atlas robot on rough terrainBoston Dynamics' videos of its walking robots have garnered millions of views online.
One of them, called BigDog, is remarkably agile for a machine and is able to move over rough terrain such as snow and ice.
Another, of a four-legged robot named WildCat, shows the noisy machine galloping down a car park at high speed and pivoting quickly on the spot.
Boston Dynamics' WildCat robot is put through its pacesAs Ireland exits the European Union bailout programme, BBC Breakfast's Dominic Laurie has been looking back at which eurozone countries have recovered from the economic crisis.
He also considered the situation now with Jeremy Cook, chief economist at foreign exchange brokers, World First.
"It's become a lot less acute, the problems we have in the eurozone," Mr Cook said, but "the real fear is that [unemployment] lingers... People are emigrating to places which are growing at the moment. Europe used to pull people in, and it's letting people out now."
The latest purchasing managers' index (PMI) from Markit rose to 52.1 in December from 51.7 last month. A figure above 50 indicates expansion.
The eurozone as a whole has started to grow again after a long recession.
But Markit's Chris Williamson said the recovery was "lopsided".
These monthly surveys of business managers give an early indication of countries' economic performance.
Germany's solid PMI reading of 55.2 underlines the country's central role in driving the improvement across the region.
The country's manufacturing industry continued to gain new orders after a rather weak start to the year. The services sector also continued to expand.
Triple dip?France was a very different story, with its PMI reading falling to a seven-month low of 47.0. The figure suggests an accelerating contraction, and point to a decline in economic activity for the current three-month period.
If that is confirmed by data for gross domestic product, GDP, that would be the second consecutive quarter of falling production of goods and services in France.
In other words, a recession as the term is often used. It would be the second in rapid succession.
The economy of France contracted in the final quarter of last year and the first three months of 2013. It grew for just one quarter before going back into decline.
If this really is another recession that France is in now, it would make it what some call a triple dip. The first phase was the recession at the height of the global financial crisis.
In the case of France, that lasted a full year, with growth only returning in the third quarter of 2009. GDP is still about 0.3% lower than it was in the beginning of 2008, just before that first recession. Germany, by contrast is now 2.6% ahead.
The most obvious and damaging manifestation of this weakness in France is unemployment. Just under 11% of those who want to work can't find a job. It's not the worst in the eurozone but is much higher than Germany.
The figures released by Markit are preliminary - the company calls it a flash estimate. The final numbers, to be published next month, come from a survey of 5,000 firms across the eurozone. Markit says the flash figure is typically based on 85% to 90% of total responses.
Whether called shisha, hookah, nargillah or hubbly bubbly, the tobacco water pipe has long been a favourite of smokers in the Middle East.
One UAE based company has capitalised on this love affair - by transforming a small-scale tobacco factory into a major global supplier.
The BBC met the man behind the Al Fakhouri business in the emirate of Ajman.
Watch: Middle East Business Report
On 23 December 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act creating the US central bank that this month celebrates its 100th birthday.
Created in the wake of financial panics of the early 20th century - and in the teeth of deep suspicion of centralised power - it is now perhaps the most powerful financial institution on the planet.
BBC business reporter Simon Jack was granted rare access to the Federal Reserve's inner sanctum - just a stone's throw from the White House.
Inside the Fed, BBC Radio 4, Tuesday 10 December, 20:00 GMT, or listen again on the BBC iPlayer.
It is almost three years since the Arab uprisings began with Tunisia leading the way.
Creating more jobs was a big demand of the protesters who forced out President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
But revolution has not helped that happen - about a third of people under the age of 30 are still unemployed and young women in particular are suffering.
Simon Atkinson reports from the capital, Tunis.
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The American crypto-anarchist Cody Wilson shot to fame when he produced the world's first 3D printed gun and made the plans available online for free.
So what is he planning to do next? He tells BBC Click about some of his latest projects and explains why he decided to make the gun.
Watch more clips on the Click website. If you are in the UK you can watch the whole programme on BBC iPlayer.
The bank had been paying £320m a year for the government guarantee, agreed four years ago as a backstop against a further erosion of its capital.
BBC business editor Robert Peston said exiting the Contingent Capital Facility (CCF) was a "rare bit of good news" for the bank.
The CCF agreement was initially for five years.
RBS will now not have to pay next year's final instalment.
The bank, 81% state-owned following its near-collapse at the height of the financial crisis, said it has now strengthened it capital position and that the Bank of England's Prudential Regulatory Authority had approved its exit from the CCF.
The BBC's Robert Peston said the CCF "was an arrangement which meant that RBS could be confident of receiving £8bn from the Treasury if is capital was eroded in a dangerous way by losses".
"But it was very expensive," he said. "RBS will now not have to pay next year's £320m - and this year's profits will be boosted by that amount."
He said it was good news for RBS, coming after a period in which it has been hit by the latest in a series of embarrassing IT meltdowns as well as a $100m (£61m) fine over sanctions-busting allegations.
The bank has also faced claims that it drove distressed firms to collapse to buy back their assets at rock-bottom prices.
It had entered into the CCF arrangement as part of the Asset Protection Scheme (APS). It exited the APS in October last year after, having paid a total of £2.5bn since February 2009.
South African entrepreneur Richard Maponya has been talking about building up his retail empire and challenging the restrictions of the Apartheid state.
Widely regarded as the country's first black tycoon, he started from a dairy business and supermarkets.
But the "highlight" of his life, he told Lerato Mbele, was when his long-time friend Nelson Mandela opened his shopping mall - the country's first - in Soweto in 2007.
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Inga Beale, who is 50 years old and has 30 years' experience in the industry, will take up the post in January.
She will take over from Richard Ward who said in July he would leave after eight years in charge.
Lloyd's chairman, John Nelson, said: "I am absolutely delighted that we have appointed Inga as chief executive."
Mr Nelson added that her "underwriting background, international experience and operational skills, together with her knowledge of the Lloyd's market, make Inga the ideal chief executive for Lloyd's".
She is currently chief executive at reinsurer Canopius. Before joining that business she spent four years with Zurich Insurance and was group chief executive of Converium, the Swiss independent reinsurance company.
Ms Beale said she saw a strong future for Lloyd's: "Lloyd's is already an international leader, but this unique market has an extraordinary opportunity to increase its footprint and to cement its position as the global hub for specialist insurance and reinsurance."
Body partsLloyd's, a collection of about 80 insurance syndicates, was begun by Edward Lloyd at his coffee house in London's financial district in 1688 where a group of shipping merchants would gather to pool business news.
It has a reputation for insuring anything and everything.
Policies written have included insuring various body parts.
David Beckham's legs, Keith Richards' fingers and Bob Dylan's and Bruce Springsteen's vocal cords have all been covered by members of Lloyd's syndicates.
Colourful Spanish fashion designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada has been telling the BBC how an early experience of failure and a bailout by her grandmother "was the best lesson" of her life.
"Thank God I had that lesson at that time - it helped me not do silly things in the rest of my life," she explained.
She admits that her biggest success came after being pushed into children's clothing. "[It] was like saying, 'You don't know how to do woman's clothes!' I was not happy at all."
And her advice to budding students is to have self-belief: "If you don't believe in yourself, who is going to?"
Indian store-owners got together this week to offer three days of discounted shopping - but only for those buying via the internet.
Shilpa Kannan met some of the 200 retailers involved in the annual online shopping festival in Delhi and asked them about the potential for e-commerce in India.
She found that while internet shopping is growing, it faces unique challenges in India.
Watch India Business Report
The Volkswagen T1, better known as the Kombi, has been on the world's roads since 1950 and became one of the symbols of an easy-going, simple way of life in the following decades.
The vehicle is now only built in Brazil where it is still used by thousands of small businesses, despite its simple design and functional performance.
But as Wyre Davies reports from Sao Paulo, Volkswagen is to stop making the Kombi and a motoring era is coming to an end.
Mumbai has hosted two literary festivals recently and the number of these kinds of events has risen rapidly over the past few years.
It is being put down to the rise in the number of Indian authors writing in English.
Yogita Limaye reports on the boom in the country's publishing industry.
Watch India Business Report
The Verdi union said workers were on strike at Amazon's logistic centres in Bad Hersfeld and Leipzig and also in Graben. The action coincides with the busy Christmas shopping period.
Amazon employs more than 9,000 workers in Germany.
Later on Monday, a delegation of German workers will also protest at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle.
The union is planning further action on Tuesday in Germany in the town of Werne.
Amazon said 640 workers expected on the early shift had failed to turn up for work and that the industrial action would have little or no impact on orders: "Our customers can continue to rely on us for the prompt delivery of their Christmas presents," said a spokeswoman told Reuters.
The union said up to 700 workers joined the strike in Bad Hersfeld and another 200 had taken action in Leipzig.
The Verdi union added that action at the Graben site - the first strike at that plant - had been well supported.
Classification rowAmazon's sales in Germany are growing fast. Last year, they rose by 21% and the country is the firm's second-biggest market after the US, responsible for about a third of all overseas sales.
Verdi has called a series of strikes this year in an attempt to get the company to accept collective bargaining agreements for its staff.
It says Amazon is not paying them comparable rates to other warehouse staff in Germany, because the company has classified the staff as logistics workers, whose rates of pay are lower.
Verdi said in a statement: "The Amazon system is characterised by low wages, permanent performance pressure and short-term contracts."
Amazon says that they are well paid compared with other logistics workers in the country.
The union is also unhappy with what it calls the company's practice of "constant monitoring" of workers and what it says are impossible workplace targets.
Last month, an investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme into a UK-based Amazon warehouse found conditions a stress expert said could cause "mental and physical illness".
Prof Michael Marmot was shown secret filming of night shifts involving up to 11 miles of walking at the warehouse - where an undercover worker was expected to collect orders every 33 seconds.
Amazon told the BBC in a statement that worker safety was its "number one priority".
Giant 82in (208cm) TV screens, computers that can see and more flexible working thanks to a new generation of PCs - that's one vision of the future being presented by Microsoft.
The BBC's North America technology correspondent Richard Taylor went to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where the company has created a home and office of the future.
But how realistic a prediction is it of life in five to 10 years time?
Watch more clips on the Click website. If you are in the UK you can watch the whole programme on BBC iPlayer.
The big manufacturers' index rose to plus-16 from plus-12 in September's survey, exceeding market forecasts.
Large companies also plan to increase their capital spending by 4.6% next year, the survey showed.
The results indicate the government's stimulus policies, aimed at spurring growth, may be starting to take effect.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has taken aggressive steps in recent months to end nearly two decades of deflation - or falling consumer prices - in the economy.
Analysts said the survey's results indicate his policies, also known as Abenomics, were starting to have an impact.
"The general Abenomics-related boost and the weak yen have helped, along with the monetary easing by the Bank of Japan" said Marcel Theliant, Japan economist at Capital Economics in Singapore.
"We had a lot of fiscal and monetary stimulus. These measures have certainly helped in the short term."
However, the key question was whether the measures can create a longer term improvement in the economy. "The structural reform measures have been rather disappointing so far," he said.
The airline, if approved by regulators, will be called NokScoot and operate on medium and long-haul routes.
Both companies will make an initial joint investment of S$80m ($64m, £39m)
Nok Air, which is Thailand's second-largest budget carrier, will own up to 51% of the venture.
Nok Air Chief Executive Officer Patee Sarasin said they were "excited" at expanding overseas.
"It has always been Nok's goal to offer Thais more choice and more value, of which this venture is yet another example. We're also excited at the opportunity to encourage more inbound tourists, to boost the Thai economy," he said.
Scoot Chief Executive Officer Campbell Wilson added: "Thailand is Asia's premier tourist destination and logical hub for Scoot to expand to."
Budget rivalRival budget carrier Tiger Airways also announced plans on Monday to form a new low-cost airline, this time in Taiwan.
It plans to set up Tigerair Taiwan through a joint venture with China Airlines, Taiwan's biggest carrier.
Tigerair said it would hold a 10% stake in the new company, which is aimed at tapping the budget-conscious travel market in North Asia.
Tiger Airways, which is majority-owned by Singapore Airlines, also announced an agreement to enhance connectivity between flights with India's Spicejet, and to form a partnership with Scoot.
Shares in Singapore-listed Tiger Airways rose by about 3%, bucking an overall drop in the broader market.
Jim Ratcliffe, whose company Ineos owns the Grangemouth plant in Scotland, told the BBC that UK manufacturers would find the price unaffordable.
The government has guaranteed a price of £92.50 per megawatt hour (Mwh).
Mr Ratcliffe said Ineos recently agreed a deal for nuclear power in France at 45 euros (£37.94) per Mwh.
The government has guaranteed that the new Hinkley station, being developed by France's EdF and backed by Chinese investors, can charge the £92.50 minimum price for 35 years.
'Not competitive'"Forget it," Mr Ratcliffe said in an interview with the BBC's business editor Robert Peston. "Nobody in manufacturing is going to go near [that price]."
Mr Ratcliffe said: "The UK probably has the most expensive energy in the world.
"It is more expensive than Germany, it is more expensive than France, it is much, much, more expensive than America. It is not competitive at all, on the energy front, I am afraid."
A spokesperson for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said the UK needed an affordable energy supply.He said: "The UK Government has always been clear that EDF will only be offered an investment contract for the Hinkley Point C new nuclear power plant if it is fair, affordable, value for money and consistent with state aid rules.
"No consumer in the UK will pay anything for electricity from Hinkley until 2023."
When running at full capacity the new Hinkley plant is expected to generate about 7% of the UK's electricity.
Ministers and EdF were in talks for more than a year about the minimum price the company would be paid for electricity produced at the site, which the government estimates will cost £16bn to build.
In the end, the government guaranteed the group a price for electricity in 2023 at twice the current level of wholesale prices.
The guaranteed price was seen as necessary to ensure the investment in new nuclear capacity took place, given the huge cost of building the nuclear plants.
'Knife-edge'A spokesperson for the World Nuclear Association said the cost of nuclear energy in the UK was a "complex issue".
The association said Mr Ratcliffe had compared £92.50 per Mwh, a 35-year deal, to France's 45 euros, which was a "deal of unknown duration".
"It should be pointed out that France has the highest proportion of nuclear in its generation mix and lower than average EU power prices, so there is nothing automatically expensive about nuclear power," the spokesperson added.
The Grangemouth refinery is set to become the first chemical plant in the UK to receive shale gas from the US. This will be the first time it will transported across the Atlantic ocean.
The plant supplies 70% of the fuel used at Scotland's filling stations.
Mr Ratcliffe's company Ineos owns the Grangemouth plant in ScotlandThe company had announced in October the permanent closure of the plant, affecting 800 jobs, but the bitter dispute with the Unite union ended after workers agreed to changes in conditions - including a three-year pay freeze and an end to the final salary pension scheme - and the plant will stay open.
Continue reading the main story The world's fourth-largest chemicals company, with its headquarters in Switzerland;It has sites in 11 countries across the world, including the US, Canada, France, Germany and Italy;The company makes solvents used in antibiotics, biofuels, chlorine, plastics, and materials to insulate houses;It also makes products for car parts, medical applications, mobile phones and construction.Saying that the plant was on a "knife-edge" after "that turbulent time" in October, Mr Ratcliffe said: "I think Grangemouth has the prospect of a very good future if it can get through the next three years.""Attitude on the site is much more positive and you can see people are really anxious to move on."
Mr Ratcliffe was a chemical engineer before he became an entrepreneur, when Ineos started by buying a Belgian chemical plant in 1998, for less than £90m.
He was reckoned to be one of the UK's 10 richest men before the credit crunch, worth £2.3bn, although Forbes magazine put his worth at $1.1bn (£680m) this year.
He added that Ineos was looking into hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, where water and chemicals are pumped into shale rock at pressure to release gas.
"We are having a look at whether we have a part to play in the UK in shale gas exploration," Mr Ratcliffe said.
China has been looking to rebalance its economy as it aims for sustainable long term growth.
Policymakers want growth to be driven more by consumer spending, rather than by exports and a government led investment boom.
But that could be difficult as the Chinese like to save - typically putting away a third of their disposable income.
The BBC's Beijing correspondent Martin Patience examines how the government might encourage the Chinese to be a little less prudent.
Chicago-based Boeing's dividend will increase by about 50% to 73 cents a share, to be paid in March next year.
The company is looking to reward its shareholders as its cash flow improves from the higher sales and production of jetliners such as the 787 Dreamliner.
Boeing's previous buyback record was $7bn in 2007, with $800m still unused.
The company said the new repurchase program reflects its "positive outlook".
Boeing chief executive Jim McNerney said in a statement: "These actions reflect sustained, strong operational performance by our businesses, increasing cash flow and our confidence in the future,"
Boeing shares rose by about 2% in after-market trading in New York after the announcement.
Overall, the company's stock price has risen by about 79% this year, outperforming both its benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
Too many planes, not enough space New runways at Heathrow and Gatwick are among the options that have been short-listed by the Airports Commission for expanding UK airport capacity.The three short-listed options include adding a third runway at Heathrow, lengthening an existing runway at Heathrow, and a new runway at Gatwick.
The commission, led by businessman Sir Howard Davies, will also consider a new airport in the Isle of Grain in north Kent.
A final report is due by summer 2015.
Sir Howard Davies sets out the airport expansion optionsThe commission has not shortlisted proposals for expanding Stansted or Birmingham, but said there was likely to be a case for considering them as "potential options" for any second new runway by 2050.
Sir Howard was asked in 2012 to investigate the options for expanding the UK's aviation capacity and try to come up with a plan.
He said the Commission's analysis showed one net additional runway was needed by 2030.
"The capacity challenge is not yet critical, but it will become so if no action is taken soon," he added.
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Richard Westcott BBC transport correspondent There are three interesting elements of today's report: it's Heathrow-heavy; it hasn't written off the ambitious, expensive idea of building a new mega-airport on the other side of London in the Thames Estuary; and it misses off Stansted.
When I first took over the transport job, around two years ago, the government told me straight away that they would not expand Heathrow.
One of the first things the coalition did when it came to power was to cancel Labour plans for a third runway at the airport.
I've gone through my old notebooks and found this phrase written down, "dead and buried".
But after a great deal of lobbying from the airport's owners, other business leaders, airlines and the unions, as well as support from the Transport Select Committee, Heathrow is emerging once again, as a front-runner in the fight to get a new runway.
Sir Howard has set a deadline of 2030. But believe me, there are plenty in the industry - like Willie Walsh at British Airways, for example - who still don't think that in the end, anything will actually ever get built.
The Commission has short-listed the following proposals to investigate ahead of its final report:A new runway at Gatwick Airport more than 3,000m in lengthA new 3,500m runway at Heathrow Airport constructed to the north-west of the existing airportAn extension of Heathrow's existing northern runway to the west to at least 6,000m, enabling it to be used for both take-offs and landingsIn other developments:
The commission has not short-listed the Isle of Grain option, but will look at it in the first half of 2014 and "will reach a view later next year on whether that option offers a credible proposal for consideration alongside the other shortlisted options"Stansted and Birmingham expansion will not be taken forward at this stage, although they could be options for expansion in 2050The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has said that putting a new runway at Heathrow would be a "catastrophe".
Following the commission's report, Mr Johnson said he continued to support the creation of the Isle of Grain airport in north Kent.
"A new airport in the inner estuary is the only credible hub option left. By keeping it on the table, Davies is saying you have a choice - between a damaging U-turn or a radical new vision for expansion," he said.
But supporters of Heathrow's expansion say it will be quicker and cheaper than other options and will help to maintain the UK as an international aviation hub.
Heathrow's owners submitted evidence to the commission arguing that a new runway could be in place by 2029, allowing 260,000 more flights.
Colin Matthews, Heathrow chief executive, told the BBC: "The case for Heathrow is strong. It's important that businesses can get around the globe to where economies are growing."
Heathrow is one of the world's busiest hub airports, handling 70 million passengers in 2012. A third of those travellers were transit passengers transferring to other flights.
But the airport operates at 98% of its capacity.
When the coalition government came to power in 2010, it scrapped the former Labour government's plan for a third runway at Heathrow.
The government said on Monday that it had not ruled out any options when it came to airport expansion in the south-east of England.
On Sunday, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said that the government would stick to its pledge not to build a new runway at Heathrow before 2015.
He told the BBC: "We will not be building a third runway in this Parliament. We will stick by our manifesto commitment."
Possible options for new London hub airport looked at by Transport for London In its latest economic outlook, the deficit was forecast to rise to 47bn Australian dollars ($42bn; £26bn) in the year to June as a result of a weakening economy.
That compares with a forecast for a A$30bn deficit made in August.
The country's 2014-2015 growth forecast was also downgraded to 2.5% from 3%.
Treasurer Joe Hockey said the economy was undergoing a tough transition and pledged to tighten spending.
"This is an unsustainable fiscal position and the government is committed to taking the hard decisions to live within its means," Mr Hockey said.
"More than half the deterioration in the budget position is due to the softer economy," he said.
"This reflects a sharper-than-forecast fall in resources investment and a slower recovery in the non-resources sectors."
Economic challenges Australia's Holden Cars, a unit of General Motors, will stop production by 2017Australia's economy has been lifted by a mining boom over the past decade, driven by China's seemingly insatiable demand for natural resources such as iron ore and coal.
However, that trend has reversed in recent months because of a slowdown in China, Australia's biggest export market, and a weak global economy,
The reduced demand for commodities has pushed prices down, which in turn have hurt Australian mining businesses. Many have had to lay off workers and put projects on hold.
To try to stimulate growth, the Reserve Bank of Australia has cut interest rates to a record low of 2.5%, making it cheaper to borrow money.
But the effectiveness of that has been offset by the strength of the Australian dollar, which has put pressure on manufacturing industries such as carmakers.
Last week, General Motors announced it would stop production of its Holden cars and close its Australian plants by 2017.
The government said it expected challenging times ahead because global economic conditions remained "subdued".
"The Australian economy's growth transition from resources investment to the non-resources sector is also proving slower than expected," Mr Hockey said.
The European Union and International Monetary Fund have been monitoring the country's economic reforms, a condition of the 2011 78bn-euro (£66bn) bailout.
Portugal hopes to leave the bailout agreement in the middle of next year.
At the weekend Ireland became the first eurozone country to exit its bailout.
The troika - the EU, IMF and European Central Bank - have carried out ten reviews of the economy to ensure that budget cuts and economic restructuring are implemented.
"The lenders agreed that our targets were met and our objectives are within reach," said the country's finance minister Maria Luis Albuquerque. "It was a very smooth evaluation... that envisages the end of the bailout programme on the agreed date" in mid-2014, she said.
Growth expectedAn exit from the bailout would give Portugal back its financial independence, allowing the country to borrow on the financial markets.
During Portugal's recession, borrowing on the capital markets was effectively closed as the interest rate being demanded was seen as unsustainable.
Portugal has so far received 71.4bn euros of the 78bn euros which the troika agreed to lend the country in May 2011.
The country's economy is forecast to return to growth of 0.8% next year after falling 1.8% this year.
The troika said in a statement: "Further signs of recovery have emerged since the last review. Growth is broadly in line with projections, while unemployment has fallen by more than expected."
