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CS : COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Duration: Three Hours Maximum Marks: 100

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7. Questions Q.1 Q.25 carry 1 mark each. Questions Q.26 Q.55 carry 2 marks each. The 2 marks
questions include two pairs of common data questions and two pairs of linked answer questions. The
answer to the second question of the linked answer questions depends on the answer to the first
question of the pair. If the first question in the linked pair is wrongly answered or is not attempted,
then the answer to the second question in the pair will not be evaluated.
8. Questions Q.56 Q.65 belong to General Aptitude (GA) section and carry a total of 15 marks.
Questions Q.56 Q.60 carry 1 mark each, and questions Q.61 Q.65 carry 2 marks each.
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Q.1 to Q.25 carry one mark each.

Q.1 A binary operation on a set of integers is defined as x y = x 2 + y 2 . Which one of the following
statements is TRUE about ? Nptel Reference- Lec-36
(A) Commutative but not associative (B) Both commutative and associative
(C) Associative but not commutative (D) Neither commutative nor associative

Q.2 Suppose p is the number of cars per minute passing through a certain road junction between 5 PM
and 6 PM, and p has a Poisson distribution with mean 3. What is the probability of observing fewer
than 3 cars during any given minute in this interval? Nptel Reference 1
(A) 8/(2e3) (B) 9/(2e3) (C) 17/(2e3) (D) 26/(2e3)
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2
1 x x
Q.3
Which one of the following does NOT equal 1 y y 2 ?
1 z z2

1 x ( x + 1) x + 1 1 x +1 x2 + 1
(A) 1 y ( y + 1) y +1 (B) 1 y +1 y2 +1
1 z ( z + 1) z +1 1 z +1 z2 +1

0 x y x2 y2 2 x+ y x2 + y2 Nptel Reference
(C) 0 yz y z2 2
(D) 2 y+z y +z
2 2
2
1 z z 1 z z2

Q.4 The smallest integer that can be represented by an 8-bit number in 2s complement form is
(A) -256 (B) -128 (C) -127 (D) 0 Nptel Reference- Lec-11
Q.5 In the following truth table, V = 1 if and only if the input is valid.

Inputs Outputs
D0 D1 D2 D3 X0 X1 V
0 0 0 0 x x 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 1
x 1 0 0 0 1 1
x x 1 0 1 0 1
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x x x 1 1 1 1
What function does the truth table represent?
(A) Priority encoder (B) Decoder
(C) Multiplexer (D) Demultiplexer

Q.6 Which one of the following is the tightest upper bound that represents the number of swaps
required to sort n numbers using selection sort?
(A) O(log n) (B) O(n) (C) O(n log n) (D) O(n2) Nptel Reference

Q.7 Which one of the following is the tightest upper bound that represents the time complexity of
inserting an object into a binary search tree of n nodes?
(A) O(1) (B) O(log n) (C) O(n) (D) O(n log n) Nptel Reference-Lec-8
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Q.8 Consider the languages L1 = and L2 = { a } . Which one of the following represents L1 L2 U L1 ?
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(A) {} (B) (C) a* (D) {, a}
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Q.9 What is the maximum number of reduce moves that can be taken by a bottom-up parser for a
grammar with no epsilon- and unit-production (i.e., of type A and A a) to parse a string
with n tokens?
(A) n/2 (B) n-1 (C) 2n-1 (D) 2n Nptel Reference

Q.10 A scheduling algorithm assigns priority proportional to the waiting time of a process. Every process
starts with priority zero (the lowest priority). The scheduler re-evaluates the process priorities every
T time units and decides the next process to schedule. Which one of the following is TRUE if the
processes have no I/O operations and all arrive at time zero?
(A) This algorithm is equivalent to the first-come-first-serve algorithm.
(B) This algorithm is equivalent to the round-robin algorithm. Nptel Reference
(C) This algorithm is equivalent to the shortest-job-first algorithm.
(D) This algorithm is equivalent to the shortest-remaining-time-first algorithm.

Q.11 Match the problem domains in GROUP I with the solution technologies in GROUP II.

GROUP I GROUP II

(P) Service oriented computing (1) Interoperability

(Q) Heterogeneous communicating systems (2) BPMN
(R) Information representation (3) Publish-find-bind
(S) Process description (4) XML
(A) P-1, Q-2, R-3, S-4 (B) P-3, Q-4, R-2, S-1
(C) P-3, Q-1, R-4, S-2 (D) P-4, Q-3, R-2, S-1

Q.12 The transport layer protocols used for real time multimedia, file transfer, DNS and email,
respectively are
(A) TCP, UDP, UDP and TCP Nptel Reference-Lec-35
(B) UDP, TCP, TCP and UDP
(C) UDP, TCP, UDP and TCP
(D) TCP, UDP, TCP and UDP

Q.13 Using public key cryptography, X adds a digital signature to message M, encrypts <M, >, and
sends it to Y, where it is decrypted. Which one of the following sequences of keys is used for the
operations?
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(A) Encryption: Xs private key followed by Ys private key; Decryption: Xs public key followed
by Ys public key
(B) Encryption: Xs private key followed by Ys public key; Decryption: Xs public key followed
by Ys private key
(C) Encryption: Xs public key followed by Ys private key; Decryption: Ys public key followed
by Xs private key
(D) Encryption: Xs private key followed by Ys public key; Decryption: Ys private key followed
by Xs public key

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Q.14 Assume that source S and destination D are connected through two intermediate routers labeled R.
Determine how many times each packet has to visit the network layer and the data link layer during
a transmission from S to D.
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(A) Network layer 4 times and Data link layer 4 times

(B) Network layer 4 times and Data link layer 3 times
(C) Network layer 4 times and Data link layer 6 times
(D) Network layer 2 times and Data link layer 6 times

Q.15 An index is clustered, if

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(A) it is on a set of fields that form a candidate key.
(B) it is on a set of fields that include the primary key.
(C) the data records of the file are organized in the same order as the data entries of the index.
(D) the data records of the file are organized not in the same order as the data entries of the index.

Q.16 Three concurrent processes X, Y, and Z execute three different code segments that access and
update certain shared variables. Process X executes the P operation (i.e., wait) on semaphores
a, b and c; process Y executes the P operation on semaphores b, c and d; process Z executes the
P operation on semaphores c, d, and a before entering the respective code segments. After
completing the execution of its code segment, each process invokes the V operation (i.e., signal) on
its three semaphores. All semaphores are binary semaphores initialized to one. Which one of the
following represents a deadlock-free order of invoking the P operations by the processes?
(A) X: P(a)P(b)P(c) Y: P(b)P(c)P(d) Z: P(c)P(d)P(a) Nptel Reference 1
(B) X: P(b)P(a)P(c) Y: P(b)P(c)P(d) Z: P(a)P(c)P(d)
(C) X: P(b)P(a)P(c) Y: P(c)P(b)P(d) Z: P(a)P(c)P(d)
(D) X: P(a)P(b)P(c) Y: P(c)P(b)P(d) Z: P(c)P(d)P(a)
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Q.17 Which of the following statements is/are FALSE?

1. For every non-deterministic Turing machine, there exists an equivalent deterministic

Turing machine.
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2. Turing recognizable languages are closed under union and complementation.
3. Turing decidable languages are closed under intersection and complementation. Nptel Reference 2
4. Turing recognizable languages are closed under union and intersection.
(A) 1 and 4 only (B) 1 and 3 only (C) 2 only (D) 3 only

Q.18 Which of the following statements are TRUE?

1. The problem of determining whether there exists a cycle in an undirected graph is in P.
2. The problem of determining whether there exists a cycle in an undirected graph is in NP.
3. If a problem A is NP-Complete, there exists a non-deterministic polynomial time algorithm
to solve A.
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(A) 1, 2 and 3 (B) 1 and 2 only (C) 2 and 3 only (D) 1 and 3 only

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Q.19 What is the time complexity of Bellman-Ford single-source shortest path algorithm on a complete
graph of n vertices? Nptel Reference-Lec-36
2 2 3 3
(A) (n ) (B) (n log n) (C) (n ) (D) (n log n)

Q.20 In a k-way set associative cache, the cache is divided into v sets, each of which consists of k lines.
The lines of a set are placed in sequence one after another. The lines in set s are sequenced before
the lines in set (s+1). The main memory blocks are numbered 0 onwards. The main memory block
numbered j must be mapped to any one of the cache lines from Nptel Reference-Lec-29
(A) (j mod v) * k to (j mod v) * k + (k-1) (B) (j mod v) to (j mod v) + (k-1)
(C) (j mod k) to (j mod k) + (v-1) (D) (j mod k) * v to (j mod k) * v + (v-1)

Q.21 Which one of the following expressions does NOT represent exclusive NOR of x and y?
(A) xy + x y (B) x y (C) x y (D) x y Nptel Reference-Lec-5-7

Q.22 Which one of the following functions is continuous at x = 3?

2, if x = 3 4, if x =3
(B) f ( x ) =
(A) f ( x ) = x 1, if x > 3 8 x if x3
x +3 Nptel Reference-Lec-5-6
, if x<3
3
x + 3, if x3 1
(C) f ( x ) = (D) f ( x ) = , if x 3
x 4 if x>3 x 3 27

Q.23 Function f is known at the following points:

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x 0 0.3 0.6 0.9 1.2 1.5 1.8 2.1 2.4 2.7 3.0
f(x) 0 0.09 0.36 0.81 1.44 2.25 3.24 4.41 5.76 7.29 9.00

f (x ) dx
3
The value of computed using the trapezoidal rule is
0

(A) 8.983 (B) 9.003 (C) 9.017 (D) 9.045

Q.24 Consider an undirected random graph of eight vertices. The probability that there is an edge
between a pair of vertices is 1/2. What is the expected number of unordered cycles of length three?
(A) 1/8 (B) 1 (C) 7 (D) 8 Nptel Reference
Q.25 Which of the following statements is/are TRUE for undirected graphs?
P: Number of odd degree vertices is even.
Q: Sum of degrees of all vertices is even. Nptel Reference
(A) P only (B) Q only (C) Both P and Q (D) Neither P nor Q

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Q.26 to Q.55 carry two marks each.

Q.26 The line graph L(G) of a simple graph G is defined as follows: Nptel Reference

There is exactly one vertex v(e) in L(G) for each edge e in G.

For any two edges e and e' in G, L(G) has an edge between v(e) and v(e'), if and only if e and e'
are incident with the same vertex in G.

Which of the following statements is/are TRUE?

(P) The line graph of a cycle is a cycle.

(Q) The line graph of a clique is a clique.
(R) The line graph of a planar graph is planar.
(S) The line graph of a tree is a tree.
(A) P only (B) P and R only
(C) R only (D) P, Q and S only

Q.27 What is the logical translation of the following statement?

None of my friends are perfect. Nptel Reference

(A) x (F ( x ) P ( x )) (B) x ( F (x ) P (x ))
(C) x ( F (x ) P ( x )) (D) x (F ( x ) P ( x ))

Q.28 Consider the following sequence of micro-operations.

MBR PC Nptel Reference-Lec-6-7

MAR X
PC Y
Memory MBR

Which one of the following is a possible operation performed by this sequence?

(A) Instruction fetch (B) Operand fetch
(C) Conditional branch (D) Initiation of interrupt service

Q.29 Consider a hard disk with 16 recording surfaces (0-15) having 16384 cylinders (0-16383) and each
cylinder contains 64 sectors (0-63). Data storage capacity in each sector is 512 bytes. Data are
organized cylinder-wise and the addressing format is <cylinder no., surface no., sector no.>. A file
of size 42797 KB is stored in the disk and the starting disk location of the file is <1200, 9, 40>.
What is the cylinder number of the last sector of the file, if it is stored in a contiguous manner?
(A) 1281 (B) 1282 (C) 1283 (D) 1284 Nptel Reference-Lec-24-26
Q.30 The number of elements that can be sorted in (log n) time using heap sort is

(B) ( log n )
log n
(A) (1) (C) (D) (log n) Nptel Reference
log log n

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Q.31 Consider the following function: Nptel Reference 1-Lec-1

int unknown(int n){ Nptel Reference 2
int i, j, k=0;
for (i=n/2; i<=n; i++)
for (j=2; j<=n; j=j*2)
k = k + n/2;
return (k);
}
The return value of the function is
(A) (n2) (B) (n2log n) (C) (n3) (D) (n3logn)
Q.32 Consider the following languages.

{ }
L1 = 0 p 1q 0 r | p, q, r 0
L2 = {0 1 0 | p, q, r 0, p r }
p q r Nptel Reference

Which one of the following statements is FALSE?

(A) L2 is context-free.
(B) L1 L2 is context-free.
(C) Complement of L2 is recursive.
(D) Complement of L1 is context-free but not regular.
Q.33 Consider the DFA A given below.

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Which of the following are FALSE?

1. Complement of L(A) is context-free.
2. L(A) = L((11*0+0)(0 + 1)*0*1*)
3. For the language accepted by A, A is the minimal DFA.
4. A accepts all strings over {0, 1} of length at least 2.
(A) 1 and 3 only (B) 2 and 4 only (C) 2 and 3 only (D) 3 and 4 only
Q.34 A shared variable x, initialized to zero, is operated on by four concurrent processes W, X, Y, Z as
follows. Each of the processes W and X reads x from memory, increments by one, stores it to
memory, and then terminates. Each of the processes Y and Z reads x from memory, decrements by
two, stores it to memory, and then terminates. Each process before reading x invokes the P
operation (i.e., wait) on a counting semaphore S and invokes the V operation (i.e., signal) on the
semaphore S after storing x to memory. Semaphore S is initialized to two. What is the maximum
possible value of x after all processes complete execution? Nptel Reference 1
(A) 2 (B) 1 (C) 1 (D) 2 Nptel Reference 2
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Q.35 Consider the following relational schema. Nptel Reference 1

Students(rollno: integer, sname: string) Nptel Reference 2
Courses(courseno: integer, cname: string)
Registration(rollno: integer, courseno: integer, percent: real)
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Which of the following queries are equivalent to this query in English?
Find the distinct names of all students who score more than 90% in the course numbered 107
(I) SELECT DISTINCT S.sname
FROM Students as S, Registration as R
WHERE R.rollno=S.rollno AND R.courseno=107 AND R.percent >90
(II) sname(courseno=107 percent>90 (Registration Students))

(III) {T | SStudents, RRegistration ( S.rollno=R.rollno

R.courseno=107 R.percent>90 T.sname=S.sname)}

(IV) {<SN> | SRRP ( <SR, SN>Students <SR, 107, RP>Registration RP>90)}

(A) I, II, III and IV (B) I, II and III only

(C) I, II and IV only (D) II, III and IV only
Q.36 Determine the maximum length of the cable (in km) for transmitting data at a rate of 500 Mbps in
an Ethernet LAN with frames of size 10,000 bits. Assume the signal speed in the cable to be
2,00,000 km/s.
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(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 2.5 (D) 5
Q.37 In an IPv4 datagram, the M bit is 0, the value of HLEN is 10, the value of total length is 400 and
the fragment offset value is 300. The position of the datagram, the sequence numbers of the first
and the last bytes of the payload, respectively are
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(A) Last fragment, 2400 and 2789
(B) First fragment, 2400 and 2759
(C) Last fragment, 2400 and 2759
(D) Middle fragment, 300 and 689
Q.38 The following figure represents access graphs of two modules M1 and M2. The filled circles
represent methods and the unfilled circles represent attributes. If method m is moved to module M2
keeping the attributes where they are, what can we say about the average cohesion and coupling
between modules in the system of two modules?

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(A) There is no change.

(B) Average cohesion goes up but coupling is reduced.
(C) Average cohesion goes down and coupling also reduces.
(D) Average cohesion and coupling increase.
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Q.39 A certain computation generates two arrays a and b such that a[i]=f(i)for 0 i < n and
b[i] = g (a[i] )for 0 i < n. Suppose this computation is decomposed into two concurrent processes
X and Y such that X computes the array a and Y computes the array b. The processes employ two
binary semaphores R and S, both initialized to zero. The array a is shared by the two processes. The
structures of the processes are shown below.
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Process X: Process Y:
private i; private i; Nptel Reference 2
for (i=0; i<n; i++) { for (i=0; i<n; i++) {
a[i] = f(i); EntryY(R, S);
ExitX(R, S); b[i] = g(a[i]);
} }

Which one of the following represents the CORRECT implementations of ExitX and EntryY?
(A) ExitX(R, S) { (B) ExitX(R, S) {
P(R); V(R);
V(S); V(S);
} }
EntryY(R, S) { EntryY(R, S) {
P(S); P(R);
V(R); P(S);
} }
(C) ExitX(R, S) { (D) ExitX(R, S) {
P(S); V(R);
V(R); P(S);
} }
EntryY(R, S) { EntryY(R, S) {
V(S); V(S);
P(R); P(R);
} }
Q.40 Consider the following two sets of LR(1) items of an LR(1) grammar.

X c.X, c/d X c.X, $ Nptel Reference

X .cX, c/d X .cX, $
X .d, c/d X .d, $
Which of the following statements related to merging of the two sets in the corresponding LALR
parser is/are FALSE?
1. Cannot be merged since look aheads are different.
2. Can be merged but will result in S-R conflict.
3. Can be merged but will result in R-R conflict.
4. Cannot be merged since goto on c will lead to two different sets.
(A) 1 only (B) 2 only (C) 1 and 4 only (D) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Q.41 Which of the following is/are undecidable? Nptel Reference 1
1. G is a CFG. Is L(G) = ?
2. G is a CFG. Is L(G) = *?
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3. M is a Turing machine. Is L(M) regular?
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4. A is a DFA and N is an NFA. Is L(A) = L(N)?
(A) 3 only (B) 3 and 4 only (C) 1, 2 and 3 only (D) 2 and 3 only Nptel Reference 4
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Q.42 What is the return value of f(p,p), if the value of p is initialized to 5 before the call? Note that
the first parameter is passed by reference, whereas the second parameter is passed by value.

int f (int &x, int c) {

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c = c - 1;
if (c==0) return 1;
x = x + 1;
return f(x,c) * x;
}
(A) 3024 (B) 6561 (C) 55440 (D) 161051

Q.43 The preorder traversal sequence of a binary search tree is 30, 20, 10, 15, 25, 23, 39, 35, 42. Which
one of the following is the postorder traversal sequence of the same tree?
(A) 10, 20, 15, 23, 25, 35, 42, 39, 30 (B) 15, 10, 25, 23, 20, 42, 35, 39, 30
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(C) 15, 20, 10, 23, 25, 42, 35, 39, 30 (D) 15, 10, 23, 25, 20, 35, 42, 39, 30

Q.44 Consider the following operation along with Enqueue and Dequeue operations on queues, where
k is a global parameter.
MultiDequeue(Q){ Nptel Reference 1-Lec-1
m = k
while (Q is not empty) and (m > 0) { Nptel Reference 2
Dequeue(Q)
m = m 1
}
}
What is the worst case time complexity of a sequence of n queue operations on an initially empty
queue?
(A) (n) (B) (n + k) (C) (nk) (D) (n2)

Q.45 Consider an instruction pipeline with five stages without any branch prediction: Fetch Instruction
(FI), Decode Instruction (DI), Fetch Operand (FO), Execute Instruction (EI) and Write Operand
(WO). The stage delays for FI, DI, FO, EI and WO are 5 ns, 7 ns, 10 ns, 8 ns and 6 ns, respectively.
There are intermediate storage buffers after each stage and the delay of each buffer is 1 ns. A
program consisting of 12 instructions I1, I2, I3, , I12 is executed in this pipelined processor.
Instruction I4 is the only branch instruction and its branch target is I9. If the branch is taken during
the execution of this program, the time (in ns) needed to complete the program is
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(A) 132 (B) 165 (C) 176 (D) 328

Q.46 A RAM chip has a capacity of 1024 words of 8 bits each (1K 8). The number of 2 4 decoders
with enable line needed to construct a 16K 16 RAM from 1K 8 RAM is
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(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7

Q.47 Which one of the following is NOT logically equivalent to x ( y ( ) z ( )) ?

(A) x ( z ( ) y ( )) (B) x ( z ( ) y ( )) Nptel Reference

(C) x ( y ( ) z ( )) (D) x ( y ( ) z ( ))

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Common Data Questions

Common Data for Questions 48 and 49:
The following code segment is executed on a processor which allows only register operands in its
instructions. Each instruction can have atmost two source operands and one destination operand. Assume
that all variables are dead after this code segment.
c = a + b;
d = c * a;
e = c + a;
x = c * c;
if (x > a) {
y = a * a;
}
else {
d = d * d;
e = e * e;
}

Q.48 Suppose the instruction set architecture of the processor has only two registers. The only allowed
compiler optimization is code motion, which moves statements from one place to another while
preserving correctness. What is the minimum number of spills to memory in the compiled code? Nptel Reference 1
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 Nptel Reference 2
Q.49 What is the minimum number of registers needed in the instruction set architecture of the processor
to compile this code segment without any spill to memory? Do not apply any optimization other
than optimizing register allocation. Nptel Reference 1
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6
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Common Data for Questions 50 and 51:
The procedure given below is required to find and replace certain characters inside an input character string
supplied in array A. The characters to be replaced are supplied in array oldc, while their respective
replacement characters are supplied in array newc. Array A has a fixed length of five characters, while
arrays oldc and newc contain three characters each. However, the procedure is flawed.
void find_and_replace (char *A, char *oldc, char *newc) {
for (int i=0; i<5; i++)
for (int j=0; j<3; j++)
if (A[i] == oldc[j]) A[i] = newc[j];
}
The procedure is tested with the following four test cases.
(1) oldc = abc, newc = dab (2) oldc = cde, newc = bcd
(3) oldc = bca, newc = cda (4) oldc = abc, newc = bac
Q.50 The tester now tests the program on all input strings of length five consisting of characters a,
b, c, d and e with duplicates allowed. If the tester carries out this testing with the four
test cases given above, how many test cases will be able to capture the flaw? Nptel Reference- Lec-13
(A) Only one (B) Only two (C) Only three (D) All four
Q.51 If array A is made to hold the string abcde, which of the above four test cases will be successful
in exposing the flaw in this procedure?
(A) None (B) 2 only Nptel Reference- Lec-13
(C) 3 and 4 only (D) 4 only
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Linked Answer Questions

Statement for Linked Answer Questions 52 and 53:

A computer uses 46-bit virtual address, 32-bit physical address, and a three-level paged page table
organization. The page table base register stores the base address of the first-level table (T1), which
occupies exactly one page. Each entry of T1 stores the base address of a page of the second-level table (T2).
Each entry of T2 stores the base address of a page of the third-level table (T3). Each entry of T3 stores a page
table entry (PTE). The PTE is 32 bits in size. The processor used in the computer has a 1 MB 16-way set
associative virtually indexed physically tagged cache. The cache block size is 64 bytes.
Nptel Reference 1
Q.52 What is the size of a page in KB in this computer?
Nptel Reference 2-Lec-29
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 16

Q.53 What is the minimum number of page colours needed to guarantee that no two synonyms map to
different sets in the processor cache of this computer? Nptel Reference 1
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 16
Nptel Reference 2-Lec-29
Statement for Linked Answer Questions 54 and 55:

Relation R has eight attributes ABCDEFGH. Fields of R contain only atomic values.
F={CHG, ABC, BCFH, EA, FEG} is a set of functional dependencies (FDs) so that F+ is
exactly the set of FDs that hold for R.
Q.54 How many candidate keys does the relation R have? Nptel Reference

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6

Q.55 The relation R is

Nptel Reference
(A) in 1NF, but not in 2NF. (B) in 2NF, but not in 3NF.
(C) in 3NF, but not in BCNF. (D) in BCNF.

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General Aptitude (GA) Questions

Q.56 to Q.60 carry one mark each.

Q.56 Which one of the following options is the closest in meaning to the word given below?

Nadir
(A) Highest (B) Lowest (C) Medium (D) Integration

Q.57 Complete the sentence:

Universalism is to particularism as diffuseness is to _______________.
(A) specificity (B) neutrality (C) generality (D) adaptation

Q.58 What will be the maximum sum of 44, 42, 40, ...... ?
(A) 502 (B) 504 (C) 506 (D) 500

Q.59 Were you a bird, you ___________________ in the sky.

(A) would fly (B) shall fly (C) should fly (D) shall have flown

Q.60 Choose the grammatically INCORRECT sentence:

(A) He is of Asian origin.
(B) They belonged to Africa.
(C) She is an European.
(D) They migrated from India to Australia.

Q.61 to Q.65 carry two marks each.

Q.61 Find the sum of the expression
1 1 1 1
+ + + .......... ..... +
1+ 2 2+ 3 3+ 4 80 + 81
(A) 7 (B) 8
(C) 9 (D) 10

Q.62 Out of all the 2-digit integers between 1 and 100, a 2-digit number has to be selected at random.
What is the probability that the selected number is not divisible by 7?
(A) 13/90 (B) 12/90 (C) 78/90 (D) 77/90

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Q.63 After several defeats in wars, Robert Bruce went in exile and wanted to commit suicide. Just before
committing suicide, he came across a spider attempting tirelessly to have its net. Time and again,
the spider failed but that did not deter it to refrain from making attempts. Such attempts by the
spider made Bruce curious. Thus, Bruce started observing the near-impossible goal of the spider to
have the net. Ultimately, the spider succeeded in having its net despite several failures. Such act of
the spider encouraged Bruce not to commit suicide. And then, Bruce went back again and won
many a battle, and the rest is history.
Which one of the following assertions is best supported by the above information?
(A) Failure is the pillar of success.
(B) Honesty is the best policy.
(C) Life begins and ends with adventures.
(D) No adversity justifies giving up hope.

Q.64 A tourist covers half of his journey by train at 60 km/h, half of the remainder by bus at 30 km/h and
the rest by cycle at 10 km/h. The average speed of the tourist in km/h during his entire journey is
(A) 36 (B) 30 (C) 24 (D) 18

Q.65 The current erection cost of a structure is Rs. 13,200. If the labour wages per day increase by 1/5 of
the current wages and the working hours decrease by 1/24 of the current period, then the new cost
of erection in Rs. is
(A) 16,500 (B) 15,180 (C) 11,000 (D) 10,120

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