Drdo 2008
Drdo 2008
Section – A
1. Which of the following regular expressions describes the language- the set of
all strings over {0, 1} containing at least two 1’s?
A. (0+1)*11(0+1)*
B. 0*110*
C. 0*10*10*
D. (0+1)*1(0+1)*1(0+1)*
A. Only
B. And only
C. And only
D. Only
A. CFLs are closed under union but not closed under complement.
B. Regular sets are closed under intersection and Kleene Closure.
C. Recursive languages are closed under intersection but not closed under
complement.
D. Recursively enumerable languages are closed under union and
intersection.
A. B is NP- complete
B. A proportional p B
C. B proportional p A
D. None of the above.
10. if there is a polynomial time algorithm for an NP- complete problem, then that
would not imply which of t he following:
A. P = NP
B. NP = Co- NP
C. P = NP ∩ Co-NP
D. P NP
1. The instruction can be used only to take the flow of control back to the
program from which it initially jumped.
2.The instruction retrieves the address using the current stack pointer from
the stack and alters the control to the program pointed to by it.
3. The instruction works only if the registers used in the main program have
been pushed and later popped before its execution.
4.The instruction can be used only in conjunction with the call instruction.
14. In an n- CPU shared bus system, if is the probability that any CPU requests
the bus in a given cycle, the probability that only one CPU uses the bus is
given by-
A. Nz(1-z)(n-1)
B. Z(1-z)(n-1)
C. N(1-z)n
D. (N-1)z(1-z)n
15. A variable X has been assigned fresh values in statements numbered 6, 9 and
12 in a 25- statement program which does not have any jump instructions.
This variable is used in statements numbered 7, 8, 10, 16 and 17.the statement
range where the register, used by the variable X, could be assigned to some
other variable are-
A. 8-9, 10- 12, 17- 25
B. 11, 18-25
C. 17-25
D. Non of the above
16. If the Intel Pentium processors, was not made compatible to programs written
for its predecessor, it could have been designed to be a faster processor.
17. A certain snooping cache an snoop only an address lines. Which of the
following is true?
A. This would adversely affect the system if the write through protocol is
used.
B. This would run well if the write through protocol is used.
C. Data snooping is mandatory.
D. None of the above.
19. Micro programmed control is not fit for RISC architectures because-
A. It tends to slow down the processor.
B. It consumes more chips area.
C. Handling a large number of registers is impossible in micro programmed
systems.
D. The 1 instruction / cycle timing requirement for RISC is difficult to
achieve for all instructions.
20. A certain RISC processor has 12register windows and 16 global registers.
Each window has 8 input, 16 local and 8 output registers. The total number of
registers in the processor is –
A. 312
B. 320
C. 296
D. 304
21. In a certain system the main memory access time is 1000 ns. The cache
memory is 10 times faster then the main memory uses the write through protocol.
If the hit ratio for read request is 0.92 and 85% of the memory requests generated
by the CPU are for the read, the remaining being for write, then the average time
considering both read and write request is –
A. 14.62 ns
B. 348.47 ns
C. 29.62 ns
D. 296.2 ns
22. Shown below are segments of a code run on a CISC and a RISC architecture
separately.
CISC RISC
MOV AX, 05 MOV AX, 00
MOV BX, 06 MOV BX, 05
MUL AX, BX; Multiply AX with BX MOV CX, 06
START: ADD AX, BX
LOOP START ; loop till
CX=0
If the MUL instruction takes 402 clock cycles, which of the following statement is
true?
24. A 1 ns cycles time unpipeline processor consumes 4 cycles for ALU operations,3
cycles for branches and 5 for memory operations. The relative frequencies of these
operations are 45%, 15% and 40% respectively. What is the speedup in the
instruction execution rate if the same were pipelined? Assume a 0.4 ns overhead
consumed in setup and clock skew taken together.
A. 4.25
B. 3.04
C. 3.85
D. 3.44
25. the range of intigers that one can represent using an n –bit 2s complement number
system is –
A. -2(n-1) to (2n-1)
B. -2(n-1) to (2(n-1)-1)
C. -2n to(2n-1)
D. -2n +1 to (2(n-1) -1)
27.
28. The standard sum of products of the function f = A+B’c is expressed as-
A. ∑m(1, 4, 5, 6, 7) + d(0, 2, 3)
B. ∑m(1, 4, 5, 6, 7)
C. ∑m(0, 2, 3) + d(1, 4, 5, 6, 7)
D. ∏M (1, 4, 5, 6, 7)
29. hazards in combinational circuits are removed by-
A. Enclosing the minterms that cause the hazard with a product term that overlaps
both groupings.
B. Using NOT gates at all inputs.
C. Using NOT gates at all outputs.
D. None of the above.
30. four D – type flip flops are connected in such a manner that output Qi of one is
connected to the D input of the next flip flop.the input to the initial D-flip flop is
given by
D1 =Q3 XOR Q 4
All flip flops are clocked synchronously. Which of the following statements is /are
true?
i. D1 is ahead of Qi by one clock pulse.
ii. The circuit outputs the sequence 100010011010111 along all Qi ‘s
A. Only (i) is true
B. Only (ii) is true
C. Both (i) and (ii) are true
D. None of the statement is true.
31. Three is NOT gates are cascaded and the out put of the third provides input to the
first. Which of the following statements is true?
A. The connection from the output to the will lead to contention and hence damage
the circuit on power on.
B. The output is unpredictable making the circuit useless.
C. The output will be uniformly held at either logic 0 and logic 1.
D. The out put will alternate between logic 0 and logic 1 continuously.
32. A certain device dumps data into its interface register every 200 ns. The main
memory access time is 50 ns. If the CPU were interfaced to his device in cycle
stealing mode, what percentage of time does the CPU be in hold state?
A. 20
B. 25
C. 50
D. None of these
33. If a disc has a rotation speed of R rpm and track storage capacity of C bits, the data
transfer rate of the drive is defined as-
A. R/C bits/min
B. C/R bits/min
C. 0.5(R*C) bits/min
D. R*C bits/min
34. In the NONIX operating system, the time required for various file read operations are
given below:
Disk seek time: 25 msec
Disk latency time: 8 msec
Disk transfer time: 1 msec/Kbyte
Operating system overheads: 1 mse/Kbyte + 10 msec.
35. Which of t he following page replacement method guarantee the minimum number of
page faults?
A. Replace the page whose next reference will be the farthest in future.
B. Replace the page whose next reference will be the nearest in future.
C. Replace the page whose most recent reference was the nearest in past.
D. Replace the page whose most recent reference was the farthest in past
38. Assume that the following jobs are to be executed on a single processor system.
Job id CPU burst time
1 3
2 4
3 5
4 1
Assume that the jobs are arrived at time 0* and in the 1, 2, 3, 4. for round robin
scheduling with time slice 1, what is the completion time for the jobs 2?
A. 7
B. 8
C. 9
D. 11
41. a computer system has 9 printers, with a processes competing for them. Each process
needs 3 printers. What is the maximum value of n for the system to be deadlock free?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
42. A counting semaphore was initialized to eight. Then four P (wait) operations and six
V (signal) operations are performed on the semaphore. What is the resulting value of
the semaphore?
A. 0
B. 8
C. 10
D. 12
43. A computer system uses the Banker’s algorithm to deal with deadlocks its current
state is shown in the table below, where P0, P1, P2 and P4 are processes and A, B, and
C are resources types.
Maximum
A B C
P0 6 5 4
P1 3 4 2
P2 1 0 4
P3 3 2 5
Allocated
A B C
P0 0 3 4
P1 2 1 2
P2 0 0 2
P3 1 2 1
Available
A B C
4 3 1
A. P and Q only
B. P and R only
C. Q and R only
D. All P, Q and R.
44. Which of the following most appropriately describes the language generated by the
grammer: S aSa| bSb | ε
A. The set of string over {a, b} that begin and end with the same symbol.
B. The set of palindromes over {a, b}.
C. The set of string over {a, b}with equal number of a’s and b’s.
D. The set of even length palindromes over {a, b}.
45. Consider the rule of the C programming language –“every variable must be declared
before its use.” in which of the following phase of the compiler will an error violating
this rule be detected?
A. Code generation
B. Lexical analysis
C. Syntax analysis
D. Semantic analysis.
46. Find the best match between the element of Group-1 and Group -2 given below.
Group-1 Group -2
P. Dataflow analysis 1. Lexical analysis
Q: Regular expression 2. Semantic analysis
R: Type Checking 3.Parsing
S: Pushdown Automata 4. Code optimization
A. P-4, Q-1, R-3, S-2
B. P-2, Q-1, R-4, S-3
C. P-1, Q-4, R-2, S-3
D. P-4, Q-1, R-2, S-3
A. I and II only
B. I only
C. II only
D. I,II and III
49. Consider a state of an LR ( 0) parser containing the following two items only.
A → abB∙
C → a∙b
Which of the following CAN NOT be deducted from the information provided
above?
A. There is shift – reference conflict in the parsing table.
B. The given grammar is not LR(0).
C. There is reduce – reference conflict in the parsing table.
D. The goto function for this state on symbol b must lead to some state.
50. Who developed the original version of SQL?
A. Oracle
B. IBM
C. mySQL AB
D. Microsoft
51 for the relational schema RK1K2 are the only candidate keys. R has a functional
dependency X A where X is a set of attributes and A is an attribute. It is known
that A K1 and A K2 and X is not a superkey. Which of the following is true?
A. R should be in BCNF.
B. R is not surely in BCNF, but could be in 3NF
C. R is not surely in 3NF, but could be in 2NF
D. R is not surely in 2NF, but could be in 1NF
54. In the following, T1 and T2 are transactions and A is an object. Which of the
following has the potential of making T2 irrecoverable?
A. T2 writes A after T1 wrote A; T1 is uncommitted
B. T2 reads A after T1 wrote A ; T1 is uncommitted
C. T2 writes A after T1 wrote A ; T1 is committed
D. T2 reads A after T1 wrote A; T1 is uncommitted
57.RDBMS Query
58.DBMS Query
A)PQSR
B)PQRS
C)PSRQ
D)SPQR
62.Consider a sequence A of length n which is sorted except for one item that appears
out of order.Which of the following can sort the sequence in O(n) time?
A)Heapsort
B)Quick sort
C)Merge sort
D)Insertion sort.
66. To remove recursion from a program we have to use the following data structure:
A. array
B stack
C queue
D list
67. Absence of terminating condition in a recursive program causes the following run
time error:
A) array out of bounds
b) stack overflow
c) null ptr access
d) division by zero
68.On a set of n elements linear search is preferred over binary search when there are :
a)Ω(log n) queries
b) O(log2 n) queries
c) o(log n) queries
d) Θ(log2 n) queries
69.#include <stdio.h>
Void main() {
Int a=4,b=5,c=6;
C+=a++ + ++b;
Printf(“a=%d,b=%d,c=%d, \n”,a,b,c);
}
What is the o/p of the above c program:
a) 5 6 17
b) 56 18
c) 5 5 16
d) 5 6 16
70.what is the max size of the operator stack during the conversion of the infix exp
A+B*C-D/E to postfix?
A)1
B)2
c)3
D)4
71. what is the max size of the operand stack while evaluating the postfix exp
623+-382/+*?
A)1
B)2
c)3
D)4
72. binary search can be carried out on the set of ordered out on a set of ordered data
items stored in a:
A. array
B stack
C queue
D list
73. To o/p a binary tree level by level we have to use the following data structure
A. array
B stack
C queue
D list
76 The worst case time complexity of quicksort for n elements when the median is
selected as the pivot element is :
a)Θ (n2)
b) O(n2)
c)Θ (n log n)
d) o( n log n)
79.let T be a B-tree of order m and height h. If n is the no of key elements in T then the
max value of n is :
a)(m-1) h-1
b)(m-1) h-1+1
C) m h-1
D) m h-1+1
80. Adjacency list is preferred over adjacency matrix when the graph is :
a)Planar
B) Dense
c) Clique
D) None of the above
81.A binary tree can be uniquely reconstructed from the following traversal(s):
A) preorder
B) postorder
c) preorder and postorder
d) inorder and preorder
82. In a simple connected undirected graph with n nodes (n>=2) the max number of
nodes with distinct degrees is
a) n-1
b)n-2
c) n-3
d)2
83. The max number of edge disjoint cut sets in a simple graph with n nodes is:
a) n
b)
c)2 n
d)n-1
87.what is the number of edge disjoint Hamiltonian cycles in a complete graph G=(V,E),
where |v|=n and n is odd?
a)n
b)┌ n/2 ┐
c(n-1)/2
d) n 2
88. Given a set of n elements not all distinct, the majority element is one with freq>=n/2.
So the majority elements is always the
A) max element
B) minimum element
C) mean element
D) median element
89.Let 01111 be the frame delimiter flag in a data link protocol. What is the transmitted
bit sequence for the data 0111110111011110 using the bit stuffing method?
a) 0111110111011110
b) 011101101110111010
c) 01111011011100111010
d) 011100110111001110010
90. A frame 110010111001 is to be transmitted using the CRC with generating poly
x3+x+1 to protect it from errors. What is the transmitted frame?
a)1101011001010
b)1111010110010
c)1110110110101
d)1110111010111
91.The distance between two microwave towers, with link capacity 100Mbps, is 24km
and the speed of the signal is 3X108 m/s. If the frame size is 16kb in the stop and wait
protocol, what is the approx link utilization ? assume that the ack packets are negligible
in size and there are no errors during comm..
A)33%
B)50%
C)66%
D) 75%
92.Two ground stations r connected by a 10Mbps Sat link. The altitude of the satellite is
36000km and the speed of the signal is 3X108 m/s.What shd be the packet size for the
channel utilization of 50% using go-back-100 sliding window protocol? assume that the
ack packets are negligible in size and there are no errors during comm..
a) 1.5Kbytes
b)3 Kbytes
c)4.5 Kbytes
d)6 Kbytes
94.The sound trip propagation delay for 100Mbps Ethernet having 48-bit jamming signal
is 64 μs .What is the minimum frame size?
A) 400 bytes
B)600 bytes
C)800 bytes
D) 1400 bytes
97. which of the following statements is/r true about datagram subnet?
P: each packet contains the full source and destination addresses.
Q: Two packets b/n source and destination can follow diff. paths.
a) P only
b) Q only
c) Both P and Q
d) Neither P nor Q.
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