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each

Q.1 Consider the f ollowing f loat ing point f ormat

15 14

Signbit

8 7

'\

'\

Excess-64 Exponent Mantissa

Mantissa is a pure fraction in sign - magnitute form.

The dec imal number 0.529 x 213 has thefollowing hexadecimal representation without
normalization and rounding off .
(a)
{b) 0040

0024
(c)
4807
Q.2

{d) 4030

Consider the following recurrence relation

0; if n = 0
T(n) =
1; if n = 1
T(n- 1) + T(n- 2) + 1;otherwise
What is time complexity of the above recurrence relation if dynamic programming and topdown approach is used to solve recurrence?
{a)
{b) O{nlogn)
0(2n)
{d) O(nn)
(c) O(n)

Q.3

Consider the regular express

ion. r = (aa)*(bb)*b, then L(r) is

(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

Q.4

Set of all the string containing atleast one b.

Set of all the strings with an even rumber of a's followed by an odd number of b's.
Set of all strings with even number of a's and odd number of b's.
Set of all strings ending with b.

Given a recurrence
relation:

T(n) = 2T

(.Jn) + log2 n

What is time complexity of the above recurrence relation?

(a) O(log2 (1og2 n))

(b) O(n-(log2 (1og2 n))
(c) O(n log2 n)

{d) O(log2 n log2 (1og2 n))

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Q.5

What is the running time of function given

below? function (int n)

{
int i;
if (n <= 1)
return;
for (i = 1; i < n; i++)
printf ("*");
function (0.8 n);

}
(a) O(n)

(b) O(n2)

(c)
O(n3)

Q.6

Q.7

Given

(d) O{nlogn)

problem X such that VX ' E NP, X' is reducible to X then P is

(a) NP

(b) NPH

(c) NFC

(d) None of these

A mealy machine has m states for n-length input alphabet. If k-length input string run on the
mealy machine, what is the output length produced by the machine?
(a) m
(b) n
(c) k

Q.8

(d) None of these

Which of the following is the correct output for the 'C' program given below?
# include < stdio.h>
int main()

{
int arr [3]
char *p;

= {2, 3, 4};

p = (char*) arr;
printf ("%d", *p);

p = p+ 1;
pr intf ("%d \ n", *p);
return O;

}
(a) 2
3
(c) 1
O

(b) 2 0
{d) Garbage values

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The Probability of sucess in a Slotted aloha is 0.368 (exactly one frame ina slot) then the
probability of failure can be treated as

(a) No frames are

transmitted
(c) Both A & B

(b) Multiple frames are transm

itted ((d) None of these

Q.10 A Network with three routers uses distance vector routing. The distance table for router A <0 1
4>. Router A receives from B the vec tor <1 0 2>. the updated distance table for router A is _
(<a, b, C> vec tor specifies a is distance to A, b is distance to B and c is distance to C)
(a) < O 3 2 >
(b) < O 2 2 >
(c) < 0 1 2 >
(d) None of these

Q.11 t-or a 8-bit processor, the maximum possible number of self dualfunctio ns equals
to (a) (16)8
(b) (16)16
(c) (16)32
(d) (16)64

Q.12 Process

ArrivalTime Burst Time

2
3
3
1
2
4
8
5
4
6

No. 1
2
3
4

Assume CPU exec ution starts at time i.-nit 0.

The above processes are executed by using FCFS scheduling, while scheduling the
processes there is '1' unit of CPU scheduling overhead for every process. Then what is the
fraction of CPU scheduling overhead in the schedule length of the above processes?
(a) 20%
(b) 21.74%
(c) 26.3%
{d) 23.80%

Q.13 Let f: A
S1 :
S2 :

B and g: B

C denote two functions. Consider the following two statements:

If both f and g are injections then the composition functio n gof : A

C is an injectio n.
11 the f unction gof : A C is surjectionand g is an injection then the functionf is a

surj ection. Which of the above statements are valid?

(a) 81 only
(c) 81 and
82

(b) S2 only
(d) None of these

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Q.14 Which of the following statement is true?

(a) LL(1) parser is more powerful then LR(1)
(b) LR(1) parser is more powerful then LL(1)
(c) LR(O) parser is more powerful then LR( 1)
(d) None of these

Q.15 If IP1 = 210.15.131.141and subnet mask = 255.255.255.224. Calculate the last host of last
Subnet? (a) 210.15.131.202
(b) 210.15.131.162
(c) 210.15.131.222
(d) None of these

Q.16 To avoid the RACE condition, the maximum number of processes that may be simultaneously
inside the critical section is

(a) More than

two
(c) Zero

(b) Two
(d) None of the above

Q.17 Let A, B and C be sets such that C c B. Then (A - B) u(B - C)

(a) C u(A uB)

(b) --,Cn(A uB)

(c) --,C u(A uB)

(d) C n(A uB)

Q.18 Identify an operator grammar from the following

(a) A
B

B+C
b

c e
(c) s

AB

(b) E

E+ F
Fle

(d) None of these

Numerical Data Type Questions :Q.19 to Q.25 carry 1 mark

each

Q.19 Consider a system with 2 level caches. Access times of level 1 cache, level 2 cache and
main memory are 1 ns, 1Ons and 500 ns respectively. The hit rates of level 1 and level 2
caches are 0.8 and 0.9 respectively. What is the average access time (in ns) of the system
ignoring the search time within the cache?

Q.20 The productivity for a project of 24 KLOC was found to be 12 LOC/prog-ammer-day. If there
were 10 programmers employed for the project and they worked 20 days in amonth, find
the number of months required to complete the project.
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Q.21 A complete n-ary tree is a tree in which eachnode has n children or no children. LetIbe the
number of interrial nodes and L be the no. of leaf nodes in a complete tree.
If L = 61 and I= 20, what is the value of n?
Q.22 We have two designs 01 and 02 for a synchronous pipeline processor. 01 has 5 pipeline
stages with execution times of 3 nsec, 2 nsec, 4 nsec, 2 nsec and 3 nsec, while the design
02 has 8 pipeline stages each with 2 nsec execut ion time. How much time (in ns) can be
saved using design 02 over design 0 1 for executing 100 instructions?

Q.23 Number of state in a DFA to accept the language L = {w lna(w) mod 4 = 2 and nb(w) mod 5 = 4)
.
(n8(w) denotes the number of a's in string w)
Q.24 What is the output of the following
program? main( )
{
int i=-1, j=-1, k=O, /=2, m;
m=i++&&j++&&k++llJ++;
printf ("%d %d %d %d %d", i, j, k, /, m);

Q.25 Consider the three relations R 1(A.B.C).R2(.C,D.E) and R3(E,F). All candidate keys are singleton
and candidate keys for every relation is under lined. Given that R1 contains 200 rows. R 2
contains 300 rows and R3 contains 100 rows. Find the number of tuples in R 11><1 R2 1><1 R3.
Multiple Choice Questions :Q.26 to Q. 38 carry 2 marks
each

Q.26 The value

of

(a) oo

(c) 1

.
hm

cos x

X""'1t f 2 (

x-

1t)

2
(b) 0

(d}

00

Q.27 For what values of aand B. the following simultaneous equations have an infinite number of
solutions? x + y + z = 5
x + 3y + 3z = 9
x + 2y + az = B
(a) 2,
7
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(b} 3, 8
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1

10

6
1

What is the throughp ut of the system using FCFS scheduling (approx imately).
(a) 0.285
(b) 0.385
(c) 0.185
(d) 0.085

Q.29 Consider the below program to synchronize the two processes P0 and P 1 .

Ishared int turn = 1:I// global section

int myoid = O;

'1'}// I

II for P0 it is U, for P1 it is

process
h int
d ot erp1 .d
= 1-rnyp1 ;

bl

f h

oca vana es o t e
1

Iturn = otherpid;I
Which of the following is
satisfied?

(a) M.E. but not progress

(c) Both progress and M.E.

(b) Progress but not M.E.

(d) Neither M.E. nor progress

Q.30 The function f(x, y) = 2x 2 + 2xy - y3 has

(a) only one stationary point at (0, 0)
(b) two stationary points at (O, O) and (1/6, 1/3)
(c) two stationary points at (0, 0) and (1,-1)
(d) no stationary point

Q.31 A box contains 4 white balls and 3 red balls. In succession, two balls are randomly selected
and removed from the box. Given that the first removed ball is white, the probability that the
second removed ball is red is
(c) 1/2
(a)
1/3
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Q.32 The value of

f e-x2 dx using Simpson's one-third rule by taking h = 0.1 is

0

(a) 0.8731
(c) 0.1034

(b) 0.7468
(d) 0.1561

Q.33 Consider the following arguments.

A 1: (3x) [A(x) /\ B(x)]

[(3x)A(x) /\ 3x B(x)]

A2: (3x) (Vy) O(x, y)

(Vy)(3x) O(x, y)

Which of the above argument is valid?

(a) A 1only
(c) Both A 1 and A2

(b) A2 only

(d) Neither A 1 nor A2

Q.34 Given the follow ing expression

grammar: A
B

AaB IBbAIB

Bc ld

Which of the follow ing is correct?

(a) b has higher precedence than a

(c) a and b have same precedence

(b) c has higher precedence than a

(d) a has higher precedence than b

Q.35 How many permutations are there of the following string "VERYEASYEXAM "?

12!
(a) 3!

(b)

(C) 12 I

(d) 11 !

11!
2!

Q.36 Let R be a relation defined on Z where aRb means that a + b2 = 0 (mod 2). Then R is
(a) Equivalence relation
(c) Both (a) and (b)

(b) Partial ordered relation

(d) Neither (a) nor (b)

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Q.37 If q is the initial state and is the final state then the following transitions of TM can accept the
0
q1

language:

{q1,x, R)

8(q0,a)
8(q1, a)
8(q1, b)
8(q1, y)
8(q2, a)
8(q2, y)

(q1 ,a, R)
(q ,y, L)
2

(q1,y, R)
(q ,a,L)
2
(q ,y, L)
2

{q 0,x, R)

8(q2, x)
8(qo, y)
8(q3, 8)

(q3,y, R)
(q1, B,
R)

(a) {a0 b20 ln 1}

(c) {a0 b0 ln 1}

(b) Number of a's = Number of b's

{d) None of these

Q.38 Identify the correct equivalence of regular expression from the

following? 1. (r( + r1)* = r1*
2. r1(r1 + r2)* = (r1 + r2)* r1

3. (r1 + r2)*

= (r * r *)*
1

(r1r )* = r1* r *
2
2
(a) 1, 2 and
4.

(c) 1 arn..l 3

(b) 1 and 4
(d) 1, 2, 3 arid 4

Numerical Data Type Questions:Q.39 to Q. 47 carry 2 marks

each
Q.39 What willbe the output printed by the following program?

#incluoe<stdio.h>
main( )

{
char s[]={'a', 'b', 'c', '\n', 'c',\O'};
char *p, *str, *str 1;
p=&s[3];
str=p;
str 1=s;
printf("%d", ++*p + ++ *str 1-32);

Q.40 Find the minimum no.of multiplication required to multiply following matrixes

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of a software system that has 10 errors in 200 test cases.

Q.42 Consicer the following program:

#include <stdio.h>
int fun (int n, int *
fp)
{
int t, f;
if (n<=1)
{
'f p = 1;
return 1;
t = f un(n-1,
fp); f = t+*fp;
*fp = t
return(f);
main( )
{
int X =15;
printf("%d",fun(4,& x));
What willbe output printed by the above program?

Q.43 Consider a relation R (C, S, E, I,T) with the following set of functional dependenc ies .
{T

E, SI

T}

Find the number of relations in BCNF decompos ition.

Q.44 If delays are recorded as 8-bit numbers in a 20-routers network, and delay vectors are
exchanged once in a second.how much bandwidth per line (full duplex) is taken by
distance vector routing?

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Q.45 Consider a clocked sequential circuit as shown in the figure below.Assuming initial state to
be
For an input sequence X

Input a-, sequence

'X'=1010
(LSB enters f irst)

01 00 = oo
1010, the respective output sequence w ill be

,._..

-0,f-----'
y

Clock

Q.46 Consider the following definitions.

Eccentricity of a vertex: It is the distance ("distance" is the shortest path length) from a
vertex to the farthest away vertex in the graph.

Diameter of a graph: It is the value of the largest eccentricity.

[:. Here the shortest distance from g to j is 4 (g-e-h-i-j) and it is called eccentricity of g,
because 'j' is the farthest compared to any other vertex from 'g']. Find the diameter of the
above graph?

g
Q.47 Consider a system,which is using single level paging with the TLB. The time taken to
access the physical page is 70 ns when there is a TLB hit The TLB hit ratio is 95% and the
TLB access time is 20 ns. Then what is effective memory access time (EMAT in nsec)?

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Segment 1:
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for (int(int
j =i =
O;O;
j <i <100;
10;
10; j++)
i++)
i++)
Numerical Data Type Questions :Q.48 to Q. 51 carry 2 marks
fo r each
(int j = O ; j < 100; j ++)
for
for
(int
=O;
0;
<
<A
10;
10;
i++)
Data
A [ (int
j ] Common
=ii =(i
* j)i +
[ ji++)
];Q. 48 and 49
A [j ]A
= (ifully
* j) assoc
+ A [ iative
j ];
cache of 50 bytes with - a LRU replacement policy has block size of 10
bytes. Assume cache is write - back and array A initially contain O's. [Each element of array
occupies 1 byte]. Consider the following code segments

Q.48 How many reads are done from the main memory to the cache when code segment 1 is
executed?
Numerical Data Type Questions :Q.48 to Q. 51 carry 2 marks
each

Common Data Q. 48 and 49

A fully assoc iative cache of 50 bytes with - a LRU replacement policy has block size of 10
bytes. Assume cache is write - back and array A initially contain O's. [Each element of array
occupies 1 byte]. Consider the following code segments:

Q.49 How many reads are done from the main memory to the cache when code segment 2 is
executed?

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Common Data a.so

and a.S1
Consider the following
relations

GAT
EEXA
M

RESERVES

STUD
ENT

GATEID
BNAME
SID GATEID
SNAME
EXAM
AGE
DATE
SUB
Vinod
101
28/2/14
12
101
CSE
DBMSof tuples produced by the
Q.
SO
Find
the25
number
15
101
28/2/14
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CE 33
SOM
following
SOL
query. Select S.SID, R.GATEID
16
25
102ME 32
1/3/14
TD
103 Arun
From STUDENT S Natural Left Outer Join RESERVES R
25
16 Gautam
103
2/3/14
28
27
23
12 Rahul
104
1/3/14
Common Data a.so and a.S1
Consider the fol lowing relations

ST
UD
EN
T

GAT
EEX
AM

RESERVES

SID GATEID
SNAME
AGE
EXAM
DATE
GATEI
BNAME
SUB
101CSE25
28/2/14
D12
101
DBMS
a.51Vinod
How many tuples will be in the result of the following
15
SOM
101CE 33
28/2/14
102 Ravi
16
TDalgebra expression? (STUDENT C><l (AGE 225
25
102ME
1/3/14
32
103 Arun
relational

25
16 Gautam
103
2/3/14
28
RESERVES C><l GATEEXAM)
27
23
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Multiple Choice Questions :Q.52 to Q. 55 carry 2 marks

each

Linked Data Q. 52 and 53

In a power plant,the three digital signals: Drum Level (L0), Water Flow (Fw) and Steam Temperature
(Ts) are used to control a particular system requirements by feedback signal(Fb) that comes from the
tield to
the control room. A logic circuit is to be designed to generate the feedback signal (Fb) HIGH
whenever the input combinations are in order:
Fw (MSB) Ts L0 (LSB) = 000,010, 011, 100, 111
and all other input combinations willbe LOW.

Q.52 The minimal SOP expression for the feedback signal (Fb) willbe
(a) Tslo + Ts o + TsFw

(b) Tslo +Tslo + TsFw

TsFw + Ts Lo +Fwl...o +
Ts Lo

(d)

(c)

TsL.oFw + TsL.o +FwLo

Multiple Choice Questions :Q.52 to Q. 55 carry 2 marks

each

Linked Data Q. 52 and 53

In a power plant,the three digital signals: Drum Level (L0), Water Flow (Fw) and Steam
Temperature (Ts) are used to control a particular system requirements by feedback signal(Fb)
that comes from the field to
the control room. A logic circuit is to be designed to generate the feedback signal (Fb) HIGH
whenever the input combinations are in order:
Fw (MSB) Ts L0 (LSB) = 000,010, 011, 100, 111
and all other input combinations willbe LOW.

Q.53 If we realise the same logic circuit by using a 4 : 1 MUX as shown below
Do

o,

4:1

D2 MUX
D:i

s,
Fw

So

Lo

Then input data lines D0, D1, D2 and D3 will be respect ively

(a) (T8,
1,Ts,Ts)
(c) (T8, 1, 0,
Ts)

(b)

(1,0,Ts. 1)

(d) (1,Ts,Ts, Ts)

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Let S be an NP complete problem and Q and R be two other problems. Q is polynomial time
reducible to S and S is polynomial time reducible to R .

Q.54 Which of the following is

true?

(a) R is NP-complete

(b) R is NP-hard
(d) Q is NP-hard

(c) Q is NP-complete

Linked Answer 54 and 55

Let S be an NP complete problem and Q and R be two other problems. Q is polynomial time
reducible to S and S is polynomial time reducible to R .

Q.55 If R is also polynomial reduc ible to S then which of the following is true?
(a) R s NP but not NP-complete
(b) R is NP-complete
(c) R is P

(d) R is NP-hard but not NP-complete

General Aptitude :Q. No.56 to Q. No.60 carry 1 marks

each
Q.56 Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following
sentence: All the to prevent the spread of dengue w ill be taken by the government.

(a) functions

(b} attempts

(c) measures

(d) issues

Q.57 If first nine multiples of five are multiplied together, then the number of zeros at the end of
the product are

(a) 4
(c) 9

(b) 10
(d) 7

Q.58 Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following
sentence: Reality is often stranger than

(a) dream

_
(b} fancy

(c) fiction

(d} imagination

Q.59 Which of the following sentence is grammatically INCORRECT?

(a) Iprefer staying here than going there
now. (b} Iprefer to stay here to go there
now.

(c) Iprefer to stay here than go there now.

(d) Iprefer staying here to going there now.

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Q.60 Which of the following options is the CLOSEST in meaning to the word below?
WEIRD
(a) Strange
(b) Erotic
(c) Vivid
(d) Docile
General Aptitude: Q. No.61 to Q. No.65 carry 2 marks
each
Q.61 If N = 1! + 3! + 5! + 71 ...................... 99! then remainder obtained when N is divided by 24 is
(a) 7
(b) 6
(c) 3

(d) 5

Q.62 The question below consists of a pair of related words followed by four pairs of words. Select
the pair that expresses best the relation in the original pair.
MEEK : TRACTABLE
(a) Obstinate :
(b) Mellifluous : Harsh
Rigid
(d) Doleful : Alone
(c) Shrewd : Rapid

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Q.63 The unit's digit in the product of

(197)443 x (296) 1076 x (273)4513 x (2379)2194 x (3125)773 is
(a) 7
(b) 6
(c) 3
(d) O
Q.64 Red light flashes 3 times per minute and Green light flashes 5 times in every two minutes. If
both light start flashing at the same time, then how many times do they flash together in each
hour? (a) 30
(b) 24
(c) 20
(d) 60
Q.65 From a beaker fullof pure cola, Mohit withdraws 25% of cola and replaces it with water. He
again withdraws 25% of mixture of cola and again replaces it with water and the process
was repeated two more times till he finds 567 ml of pure cola left in the mixture. Then the
actual initialquantity (in ml) of cola was
(a)
(b) 1000
1792
(d) None of these
(c)
1296

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