C-PROGRAMMING

i-GATE
Test Ur Skills
Duration: 60min.

Maximum Marks: 50

Read the following instructions carefully.

1.
This questions paper contains 30 objective type questions.
2.
Question no 1 to 10 carry one mark each.
3.
Question no 11 to 30 carry two mark each
4.
Un attempted question carry zero marks
5.
Negative Marking: For Question no 1 to 10, 1/3rd mark will be deducted for each
wrong answer. For Question no 11 to 30, 2/3rd mark will be deducted for each wrong
answer.

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1.
2.

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Q.1 to Q.10 carry one mark each
1. aaa() {
printf("hi"); }
bbb(){
printf("hello"); }
ccc(){
printf("TechPreparation.com"); }
main()
{
int (*ptr[3])();
ptr[0]=aaa; ptr[1]=bbb; ptr[2]=ccc; ptr[2]();
}
(A) TechPreparation.com
(C) hi hi TechPreparation.com

(B) hi TechPreparation.com
(D) hello TechPreparation.com

2. What will print out?

void main()
{
char *p;
p="%d\n";
p++;
p++;
printf(p-2,300);
}
(A) 300

(B) 400

(C) 500

(D) None

3.What will print out?

main()
{
char *p1=name;
char *p2;
p2=(char*)malloc(20);
memset (p2, 0, 20);
while(*p2++ = *p1++);
printf(%s\n,p2);
}

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(A) N

(B) name

(C) empty string.

(D) None

4. Find out the for the following :

main()
{
char X = A;
printf(%c /n%3c /n%5c/n, x, x, x);
printf(%3c/n %c\n, x, x);
}
A

(A) A

(B)

(C)

A
A

A
A
A

(D)

A
A

5. Consider the statement given below :

main()
{
char c[] = string;
printf(%*.*s\n, w,6, c);
}
What would be the minimum value of w (integer) so that no blank place gets
printed at the left hand side of the printed character string?
(A) 6

(B) 7

(C) 8

(D) 9

6. What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

#define swap(a,b) a=a+b;b=a-b;a=a-b;
void main()
{
int x=5, y=10;
swap (x,y);
printf(%d %d\n,x,y);
swap2(x,y);
printf(%d %d\n,x,y);
}
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int swap2(int a, int b)
{ int temp;
temp=a; b=a; a=temp;
(A) 10, 5

5, 10

(B) 10, 5

return 0; }

10, 10

(C) 10, 5

10, 5

(D) 10, 5

5, 5

7. Find out the output of the following program.

#include <stdio.h>
void modify(int a);
main()
{
int a = 2;
printf(\na =%d\t, a);
modify(a);
printf(a=%d\t,a);
}
modify(int a)
{
a*=3;
printf(a=%d\t, a);
return;
}
(A) a = 2 a = 6 a = 2
(C) a = 2 a = 2 a = 2

(B) a = 2 a = 6 a = 6
(D) a = 2 a = 2 a = 6

8. What will be output if you will compile and execute the following c code?
void main(){
char *url="c:\tc\bin\rw.c";
printf("%s",url);
}
(A)c:\tc\bin\rw.c

(B)c:/tc/bin/rw.c

(C)c: c inw.c (D) w.c in

9. What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

int x;
int modifyvalue()
{
return(x+=10); }
int changevalue(int x)
{
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return(x+=1);
}
void main()
{
int x=10;
x++;
changevalue(x);
x++;
modifyvalue();
printf("First output:%d\n",x);
x++;
changevalue(x);
printf("Second output:%d\n",x);
modifyvalue();
printf("Third output:%d\n",x); }
(A) 12, 13 , 13

(B) 12,12,12

(C) 13,12,13

(D) None

10. Find the output of the following program.

#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
int a, b
int v =3;
int *pv;
a = 2*(v + 5);
pv = &v;
b = 2*(*pv + 5);
printf(\n a=%d b=%d, a, b);
}
(A) a 16 b 16

(B) a 16 b 32

(C) a 16 b 8

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Q.11 to Q.30 carry one mark each
11. main()
{ char s[]={'a','b','c','\n','c','\0'};
char *p,*str,*str1;
p=&s[3];
str=p;

str1=s;

printf("%d",++*p + ++*str1-32);

(A) 77

(B) 76

(C) 75

(D) 78

12. what is the value an integer value an integer can hold in an ANSI C complier?
(A) 65536

(B) 2147483647

(C) INT_MAX

(D) 1<<INT_BITS

13. Consider the following code

main()
{
int j = 8, *i = &j;
if(fork())
{
wait(0)
printf(%d,i);
}
else
*i=*i+10;
}
The result is :
(A) 10

(B) 8

(C) 18

(D) None of these.

14. Consider the following pair of mutually recursive functions:

int f(int x)
{if (x>0) return g(x) + f(x 1); return 1;}
int g(int x)
{if(x > 0) return g(x-1) + f(x-1)-1; return 1;}
What is the value of f(3)?
(A) 10

(B) 9

(C) 11

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15. What will be the output of the following program?
main()
{
int i = 4, j = 2;
junk(&i, j);
printf(\n %d %d, i, j);
}
junk(int *i , int j)
{
*i * *i;
j = j*j;
}
(A) 16, 4

(B) 4, 2

(C) 16, 2

(D) 4, 4

16. What is the output of the following program

void main()
{
int i=1,j=-1;
if((printf(%d\n,i))<(printf(%d\n,j)))
printf(%d\n,i);
else
printf(%d\n,j);
}
(B) 1

(A) 1

(C) 1

(D) 0

17. What is the effect of the following recursive C function?

int strange(int x)
{
if(x<=0) return 0;
if(x%2) !=0) return x-1;
return 1+strange(x-1);
}
(A) It decreases the value of any nonzero positive integer by 1
(B) it deceases the value of any integer by 1
(C) It decreases the value of only nonzero prime number by 1
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(D) It decreases the value of only nonzero odd integer by 1
18. The value of j at the end of execution of following C program is :
main()
{
int j;
j = incr();
printf(%d,j);
}
int incr();
{
int i, c;
c = -2;
for(i = 0; i<4; i++)
{
c = c + i;
}
return (c);
}
(A) 10

(B) 4

(C) 8

(D) 5

19. What will be the output of the following C program?

main()
{
int slogan();
int c = 5;
c = slog an();
printf(\t %d, c); }
int slogan()
{

printf(\n C is best programming language!);

Return 0;

(A) C is the best programming language 0

(B) C is the best programming language 1
(C) Garbage value
(D) Error message by compiler
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20. Consider the following C program :

int fun(int *i)
{
*i += 5;
return 4;
}
void main()
{
int x = 3;
x = x + fun(&x);
}
What is the value of x after the assignment statement in main, assuming
operands are evaluated right to left.
(A) 7

(B) 8

(C) 12

21. The for loop

for(i=0;i<10;++i)
printf(%d, i & 1);
prints
(A) 0101010101
(B) 0111111111

(D) 16

(C) 0000000000

(D) 1111111111

22. What will the following code fragment do

void something(int a, int z)
{
int x, y;
x = a;
y = 0;
while( x z )
{
x x z;
y y 1;

}
}
(A) Finds GCD of a, z
remainders

(B)

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(C) Finds multiples of a, z

(D)

Finds LCM a, z

23. The number of tokens in the following C statement

printf(i=%d;&i=%x,i, &i); is
(A) 3
(B) 26
(C) 10

(D) 21

24. void main()

{
printf(sizeof (void *) = %d \n, sizeof( void *));
printf(sizeof (int *) = %d \n, sizeof(int *));
printf(sizeof (double *) = %d \n, sizeof(double *));
printf(sizeof(struct unknown *) = %d \n, sizeof(struct unknown *));
}
(A) 0, 2 , 4, unknown

(B) 0 2 4 4 8

(C) 2 2 2 2

(D) Error

25. Consider the following code segment :

int count = 0;
void Test()
{
int i;
for( i = 1; i <=5; i++)
count = count + 1;
}
void main ()
{

Parbegin
Test();
Test();
Print(count);
Parend;

}
The output will be,
(A) 10

(B) 20

(C) 11

(D) 15

26. The value printed by the printf statement in the following C program is
main()
{
int y, s = 2, t = 5;
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y = fun(s + t);
printf(%d%d%d, s, t, y);
}
int t = 8;
fun(s)
{
s++;
t++;
return (s + t);
}
(A) 2, 9, 15

(B) 2, 9, 17

(C) 3, 5, 15

(D) 2, 5, 17

27. What would be the output of the following program?

main()
{
int x, y, s = 2;
s * = 3;
y = f(s);
x = g(s);
printf(\n %d %d, s, y, x);
}
int t = 8;
f(int a)
{
a + = -5;
t -= 4;
return(a + t);
}
g(int a)
{
a = 1;
t+=a;
return (a + t);
}
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(A) 1, 5, 6

(B) 6, 5, 5

(C) 6, 5, 6

(D) None of these

28. What would be the output of the following program?

#define PROD(X) (X*X)
main()
{
int i = 3, j, k;
j = PROD(i++);
k = PROD(++i);
printf(\n %d %d j, k);
}
(A) 9 49

(B) 9 36

(C) 9 25

(D) None of these

29. what is the output of the following program?

void main()
{
struct student
{
sex : 15;
status:6;
};
printf(\n size of= %d,sizeof(struct student ));
}
(A) 2

(B) 1

(C) 0

(D) 3

30. void display(int x)

{
if(x!=0)
{
display(x/16);
putchar(0123456789ABCDEF[x%16]);
}
else
putchar(\n);
}
What will be o/p if the above function is called with x=1234?
(A) 1234
(B)4321
(C)4D2
(D)It will not compile

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