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SECTION - A
1. This question consists of 35 THIRTY-FIVE multiple questions of ONE mark each.
For each question, four possible alternatives (A, B, C and D) are given, out of
which ONLY ONE is correct. Indicate the correct answer in the boxes
corresponding to the questions only on the FIRST sheet of the answer book.
1.1 A die is rolled three times. The probability that exactly one odd number turns up
among the three outcomes is
1 3 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
6 8 8 2
1.2 Consider the following set of equations:

x + 2y = 5
4 x + 8y = 12
3x + 6y + 3z = 15
This set
(a) has unique solution (b) has no solutions
(c) has finite number of solutions (d) has infinite number of solutions
1.3 Which of the following statements applies to the bisection method used for
finding roots of functions:
(a) converges within a few iterations
(b) guaranteed to work for all continuous functions
(c) is faster than the Newton-Raphson method
(d) requires that there be no error in determining the sign of the function.
1.4 Consider the function y = x in the interval [-1,1]. In this interval, the function is
(a) continuous and differentiable

(b) continuous but not differentiable
(c) differentiable but not continuous
(d) neither continuous nor differentiable
1.5 What is the converse of the following assertion?

I stay only if you go
(a) I stay if you go
(b) If I stay then you go
(c) If you do not go then I do not stay
(d) If I do not stay then you go
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1.6 Suppose A is a finite set with n elements. The number of elements in the largest
equivalence relation of A is
(a) n (b) n2 (c) 1 (d) n + 1
1.7 Let R1 and R2 be two equivalence relations on a set. Consider the following
assertions:
(i) R1 ∪ R2 is an equivalence relation
(ii) R1 ∩ R2 is an equivalence relation
Which of the following is correct?
(a) Both assertions are true
(b) Assertion (i) is true but assertion (ii) is not true
(c) Assertion (ii) is true but assertion (i) is not true
(d) Neither (i) nor (ii) is true
1.8 The number of functions from an m element set to an n element set is

(a) m + n (b) mn (c) nm (d) m*n
1.9 If the regular set A is represented by A = (01 + 1)* and the regular set ‘B’ is
represented by B = ((01)*1*)*, which of the following is true?
(a) A ⊂ B (b) B ⊂ A
(c) A and B are incomparable (d) A = B
1.10 Which of the following set can be recognized by a Deterministic Finite state
Automaton?
(a) The numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, ……………. 2n , ………… written in binary
(b) The numbers 1, 2, 4, ………………., 2n , …………..written in unary
(c) The set of binary string in which the number of zeros is the same as the
number of ones.
(d) The set {1, 101, 11011, 1110111, ………..}
1.11 Regarding the power of recognition of languages, which of the following

statements is false?
(a) The non-deterministic finite-state automata are equivalent to deterministic
finite-state automata.
(b) Non-deterministic Push-down automata are equivalent to deterministic Push-
down automata.
(c) Non-deterministic Turing machines are equivalent to deterministic Push-down
automata.
(d) Non-deterministic Turing machines are equivalent to deterministic Turing
machines.
(e) Multi-tape Turing machines are equivalent to Single-tape Turing machines.
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1.12 The string 1101 does not belong to the set represented by
(a) 110*(0 + 1) (b) 1 ( 0 + 1)* 101
(c) (10)* (01)* (00 + 11)* (d) (00 + (11)*0)*
1.13 What happens when a bit-string is XORed with itself n-times as shown:
B ⊕ B ⊕ B ⊕ ( B K n times 
( (
 
(a) complements when n is even (b) complements when n is odd
(c) divides by 2n always
(d) remains unchanged when n is even
1.14 A multiplexor with a 4 bit data select input is a

(a) 4:1 multiplexor (b) 2:1 multiplexor
(c) 16:1 multiplexor (d) 8:1 multiplexor
1.15 The threshold level for logic 1 in the TTL family is

(a) any voltage above 2.5 V
(b) any voltage between 0.8 V and 5.0 V
(c) any voltage below 5.0 V
(d) any voltage below Vcc but above 2.8 V
1.16 In serial communication employing 8 data bits, a parity bit and 2 stop bits, the
minimum band rate required to sustain a transfer rate of 300 characters per
second is
(a) 2400 band (b) 19200 band
(c) 4800 band (d) 1200 band
1.17 The octal representation of an integer is 3428. If this were to be treated as an

eight-bit integer is an 8085 based computer, its decimal equivalent is
(a) 226 (b) -98 (c) 76 (d) -30
1.18 Which of the following devices should get higher priority in assigning interrupts?
(a) Hard disk (b) Printer
(c) Keyboard (d) Floppy disk
1.19 Which of the following addressing modes permits relocation without any change
whatsoever in the code?
(a) Indirect addressing (b) Indexed addressing
(c) Base register addressing (d) PC relative addressing
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1.20 Which of the following is true?

(a) Unless enabled, a CPU will not be able to process interrupts.
(b) Loop instructions cannot be interrupted till they complete.
(c) A processor checks for interrupts before executing a new instruction.
(d) Only level triggered interrupts are possible on microprocessors
1.21 Which one of the following algorithm design techniques is used in finding all pairs
of shortest distances in a graph?
(a) Dynamic programming (b) Backtracking
(c) Greedy (d) Divide and Conquer
1.22 Give the correct matching for the following pairs:
(A) O (log n) (P) Selection

(B) O (n) (Q) Insertion sort
(C) O (n log n) (R) Binary search
(D) O n2 ( ) (S) Merge sort
(a) A – R B – P C – Q D - S (b) A – R B – P C – S D - Q
(c) A – P B – R C – S D - Q (d) A – P B – S C – R D - Q
1.23 How many sub strings of different lengths (non-zero) can be found formed from a
character string of length n?
n ( n + 1)
(a) n (b) n2 (c) 2n (d)
2
1.24 Which of the following statements is false?

(a) A tree with a n nodes has (n – 1) edges
(b) A labeled rooted binary tree can be uniquely constructed given its postorder
and preorder traversal results.
(c) A complete binary tree with n internal nodes has (n + 1) leaves.
(d) The maximum number of nodes in a binary tree of height h is 2h+1 − 1 ( )

1.25 In a resident – OS computer, which of the following systems must reside in the
main memory under all situations?
(a) Assembler (b) Linker
(c) Loader (d) Compiler
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1.26 Which of the following statements is true?

(a) SLR parser is more powerful than LALR
(b) LALR parser is more powerful than Canonical LR parser
(c) Canonical LR parser is more powerful than LALR parser.
(d) The parsers SLR, Canonical CR, and LALR have the same power
1.27 Type checking is normally done during

(a) lexical analysis (b) syntax analysis
(c) syntax directed translation (d) code optimization
1.28 A linker reads four modules whose lengths are 200, 800, 600 and 500 words,
respectively. If they are loaded in that order, what are the relocation constants?
(a) 0, 200, 500, 600 (b) 0, 200, 1000, 1600
(c) 200, 500, 600, 800 (d) 200, 700, 1300, 2100
1.29 Which of the following is an example of a spooled device?

(a) The terminal used to enter the input data for the C program being executed
(b) An output device used to print the output of a number of jobs.
(c) The secondary memory device in a virtual storage system
(d) The swapping area on a disk used by the swapper.
1.30 When the result of a computation depends on the speed of the processes
involved there is said to be
(a) cycle steating (b) rare condition
(c) a time lock (d) a deadlock
1.31 A counting semaphore was initialized to 10. Then 6 P (wait) operations and 4V
(signal) operations were completed on this semaphore. The resulting value of the
semaphore is
(a) 0 (b) 8 (c) 10 (d) 12
1.32 A computer has six tape drives, with n processes competing for them. Each
process may need two drives. What is the maximum value of n for the system to
be deadlock free?
(a) 6 (b) 5 (c) 4 (d) 3
1.33 Given two union compatible relations R1(A,B) and R2 (C,D), what is the result of
the operation R1A = CAB = DR2?
(a) R1 ∪ R2 (b) R1 × R2 (c) R1 − R2 (d) R1 ∩ R2
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1.34 Which normal form is considered adequate for normal relational database design?
(a) 2 NF (b) 5 NF (c) 4 NF (d) 3 NF
1.35 There are five records in a database.
Name Age Occupation Category

Rama 27 CON A
Abdul 22 ENG A
Jeniffer 28 DOC B
Maya 32 SER D
Dev 24 MUS C
There is an index file associated with this and it contains the values 1,3,2,5 and
4.Which one of the fields is the index built from?
(a) Age (b) Name (c) Occupation (d) Category
2. This question consists of 20 (TWENTY) multiple-choice questions (2.1 – 2.20) of

TWO marks each. The answers to the multiple choice questions of this section
MUST be written only in the boxes corresponding to the questions, in the second
page of the answer book.
2.1 The rank of the matrix given below is:
1 4 8 7
0 0 3 0
4 2 3 1
3 12 24 2
(a) 3 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 4
1 a bc
2.2. Consider the following determinant ∆ = 1 b ca .
1 C ab
Which of the following is a factor of ∆ ?

(a) a+b (b) a-b (c) a+b+c (d) abc
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2.3. The binary relation R = {(1,1)} , (2,1) , (2, 2) , (2, 3) , (2, 4) , (3,1) , (3,2) , (3, 3) , (3, 4) on
the set A = {1,2,3,4} is
(a) reflexive, symmetric and transitive
(b) neither reflexive, nor irreflexive but transitive
(c) irreflexive, symmetric and transitive
(d) irreflexive and antisymmetric
2.4. In a room containing 28 people, there are 18 people who speak English, 15
people who speak Hindi and 22 people who speak Kannada. 9 persons speak both
English and Hindi, 11 persons speak both Hindi and Kannada whereas 13 persons
speak both Kannada and English. How many people speak all three languages?
(a) 9 (b) 8 (c) 7 (d) 6
2.5. Let L be the set of all binary strings whose last two symbols are the same. The
number of states in the minimum state deterministic finite 0 state automaton
accepting L is
(a) 2 (b) 5 (c) 8 (d) 3
2.6. Which of the following statements is false?

(a) Every finite subset of a non-regular set is regular
(b) Every subset of a regular set is regular
(c) Every finite subset of a regular set is regular
(d) The intersection of two regular sets is regular
2.7. The function represented by the Karnaugh map given below is

BC
A 00 01 10 11
0 1 1 0 1
1 1 0 0 1
(a) A.B (b) AB+BC+CA (c) B ⊕ C (d) A.BC
2.8. Which of the following operations is commutative but not associative?

(a) AND (b) OR (c) NAND (d) EXOR
2.9. Formatting for a floppy disk refers to

(a) arranging the data on the disk in contiguous fashion
(b) writing the directory
(c) erasing the system area
(d) writing identification information on all tracks and sectors
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2.10. The address space of 8086 CPU is

(a) one Megabyte (b) 256 Kilobytes
(c) 1 K Megabytes (d) 64 Kilobytes
2.11. A complete n-ary tree is one in which every node has O or n sons. If x is the
number of internal nodes of a complete n-ary tree, the number of leaves in it is
given by
(a) x(n – 1) +1 (b) xn - 1 (c) xn + 1 (d) x(n+1)
2.12. What value would the following function return for the input x = 95?
Function fun (x:integer):integer;
Begin
If x > 100 then fun : x – 10
Else fun : fun(fun (x + 11))
End;
(a) 89 (b) 90 (c) 91 (d) 92
2.13. What is the result of the following program?

program side-effect (input, output);
var x, result: integer:
fucntion f (var x:integer):integer;
begin
x:x+1;f:=x;
end
begin
x:=5
result:=f(x)*f(x)
writeln(result)
end
(a) 5 (b) 25 (c) 36 (d) 42
2.14. Let A be a two-dimensional array declared as follows:

A: array [1 …. 10] [1 …… 15] of integer;
Assuming that each integer takes one memory locations the array is stored in
row-major order and the first element of the array is stored at location 100, what
is the address of the element A[i][j]?
(a) 15i + j + 84 (b) 15j + i + 84
(c) 10i + j + 89 (d) 10j + i + 89
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2.15. Faster access to non-local variables is achieved using an array of pointers to

activation records called a
(a) stack (b) heap
(c) display (d) activation tree
2.16. The overlay tree for a program is as shown below:
Root 2 KB
A 4 KB B 6 KB C 8 KB
D 6 KB E 8 KB F 2 KB G 4 KB
What will be the size of the partition (in physical memory) required to load (and
run) this program?
(a) 12 KB (b) 14 KB (c) 10 KB (d) 8 KB
2.17. Consider n processes sharing the CPU in a round-robin fashion. Assuming that
each process switch takes s seconds, what must be the quantum size q such that
the overhead resulting from process switching is minimized but at the same time
each process is guaranteed to get its turn at the CPU at least every t seconds?
t − ns t − ns t − ns t − ns
(a) q ≤ (b) q ≥ (c) q ≤ (d) q ≥
n −1 n −1 n +1 n +1
2.18. If an instruction takes i microseconds and a page fault takes an additional j

microseconds, the effective instruction time if on the average a page fault occurs
every k instruction is:
j i+ j
(a) i + (b) i + j * k (c) (d) ( i + j ) * k
k k
2.19. Which of the following query transformations (i.e. replacing the l.h.s. expression
by the r.h.s. expression) is incorrect? R1 and R2 are relations, C1, C2 are selection
conditions and A1, A2 are attributes of R1?
( ) (
(a) σ c1 σ c1 ( R1 ) → σ c 2 σ c 2 ( R1 ) ) ( ) (
(b) σ c1 π A1 ( R1 ) → π A1 σ c1 ( R1 ) )
(c) σ c1 ( R1 ∪ R2 ) → σ c1 ( R1 ) ∪ σ c1 ( R2 ) (d) π A1 (σ c1 ( R1 ) ) → σ c1 (π A1 ( R1 ) )
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2.20. Suppose the domain set of an attribute consists of signed four digit numbers.
What is the percentage of reduction in storage space of this attribute if it is
stored as an integer rather than in character form?
(a) 80% (b) 20% (c) 60% (d) 40%
3. (a) Two friends agree to meet at a park with the following conditions. Each will
reach the park between 4.0 p.m. and 5.00 p.m. and will see if the other has
already arrived. If not, they will wait for 10 minutes or the end of the hour
whichever is earlier and leave. What is the probability that the two will not
meet?
(b) Give a regular expression for the set of binary strings where 0 every is
immediately followed by exactly k 1’s and preceded by at least k 1’s (k is a
fixed integer)
4. Design a deterministic finite state automaton (using minimum number of states)

that recognizes the following language:
L = {w ∈ {0, 1}*|w interpreted as binary number (ignoring the leading zeros) is
divisible by five.
5. (a) The implication gate, shown below has two inputs (x and y); the output is 1
except when x = 1 and y = 0, realize f = xy + xy using only four implication
gates.
(b) show that the implication gate is functionally complete.
6. (a) Solve the following recurrence relation

xn = 2 xn −1 − 1, n > 1
x1 = 2
(b) Consider the grammar
S Aa|b
A Ac|Sd|∈
Construct an equivalent grammar with no left recursion and with minimum
number of production sales.
7. (a) Suppose we have a database consisting of the following three relations.

FREQUENTS (student, parlor) giving the parlors each student visits.
SERVES (parlor, ice-cream) indicating what kind of ice-creams each parlor
serves.
LIKES (student, ice-cream) indicating what ice-creams each student likes.
(Assume that each student likes at least one ice-cream and frequents at least
one parlor)
Express the following in SQL:
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Print the students that frequent at least one parlor that serves some ice-
cream that they like.
(b) In a computer system where the ‘best-fit’ algorithm is used for allocating
‘jobs’ to ‘memory partitions’, the following situation was encountered:
Partitions sizes in KB 4K 8K 20K 2K

Jobs sizes in KB 2K 14K 3K 6K 6K 10K 20K 2K
Time for execution 4 10 2 1 4 1 8 6
When will the 20K job complete?
SECTION – B
This section consists of TWENTY questions numbered 8 to 27 of FIVE marks each.
Attempt ANY TEN questions. Answers must be given in the answer book provided.
Answer for each question must start on a fresh page and must appear at one place only.
(Answers to all parts of a question must appear together).
8. (a) Find the points of local maxima and minima, if any, of the following function
defined in 0≤x≤6.
x 3 − 6 x 2 + 9 x + 15
(b) Integrate
π
∫ π x cos xdx
−
9. Derive the expression for the number of operations required to solve a system of
linear equations in n unknowns using the Gaussian Elimination Method. Assume
that one operation refers to a multiplication followed by an addition.
10. (a) Prove by induction that the expression for the number of diagonals in a
n ( n − 3)
polygon of n sides is
2
(b) Let R be a binary relation on A = {a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h} represented by the
following two component digraph. Find the smallest integers m and n such
that m < n and Rm = Rn.
e
b
d
f
c h g
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11. Suppose A = {a,b,c,d} and Π1 is the following partition of A

Π1 ={{a,b,c}{d}}
(a) List the ordered pairs of the equivalence relations induced by Π1 .
(b) Draw the graph of the above equivalence relation.
(c) Let Π2 = {{a} , {b} , {C} , {d}}
Π3 = {{a, b, c, d}}
and Π 4 = {{a, b}{c, d}}
Draw a Poset diagram of the poset,

{Π1 , Π2 , Π3 , Π 4 } , refines
12. Let (A, *) be a semigroup, Furthermore, for every a and b in A, if a ≠ b, then a*b,
b ≠ b*a.
(a) Show that for every a in A
a*a =a
(b) Show that for every a, b in A
a*b*a =a
(c) Show that for every a, b, c in A
a*b*c = a*c
13. Let M = ({q0 , q1} , {0,1} , {z0 , X } , δ , q0 , z0 , φ ) be a Pushdown automation where δ is

given by
δ ( q0 ,1, z0 ) = {( q0 , xz0 )}
δ ( q0 , ∈, z0 ) = {( q0 , ∈)}
δ ( q0 ,1, X ) = {( q0 , XX )}
δ ( q1 ,1, X ) = {( q1 , ∈)}
δ ( q0 , 0, X ) = {( q1 , X )}
δ ( q0 , 0, z0 ) = {( q0 , z0 )}
(a) What is the language accepted by this PDA by empty store?

(b) Describe informally the working of the PDA.
14. (a) Let G1 = (N, T, P, S1) be a CFG where,

N = {S1, A, B} T = {a, b} and
P is given by
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S1 a, S1 b S1 a B b
S1 a A b B Bb
AaA Bb
Aa
What is L(G1)?
(b) Use the grammar in Part (a) to give a CFG
for (
L2 = ai bi ak b1 i, j, k.1 ≥ 1, i = j or k = 1 by ) adding not more than 5
production rules.
(c) Is L2 inherently ambiguous?
15. (a) Draw the schematic of 8085 based system that can be used to measure the
width of a pulse. Assume that the pulse is given as a TTL compatible signal
by the source, which generates it.
(b) Write the 8085 Assembly Language program to measure the width of the
pulse. State all your assumptions clearly.
16. Design a synchronous counter to go through the following states:

1, 4, 2, 3, 1, 4, 2, 3, 1, 4 ……………
17. Calculate the total time required to read 35 sectors on a 2-sided floppy disk.
Assume that each track has 8 sectors and the track-to-track step time is 8
milliseconds. The first sector to be read is sector 3 on track 10. Assume that the
diskette is soft sectored and the controller has a 1-sector buffer. The diskette
spins at 300 RPM and initially; the head is on track 10.
18. For a set-associative Cache Organization, the parameters are as follows:

tc -- Cache access time
tm -- Main memory access time
l -- number of sets
b -- block size
k*b -- set size
Calculate the hit ratio for a loop executed 100 times where the size of the loop is
n * b, and n = k*m is a non-zero integer and 1 < m ≤ 1.
Give the value of the hit ratio for 1 = 1
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19. (a) Let p be a pointer as shown in the figure in a single linked list.
…………. ………….
p cell i cell(i+1) cell(i+2) cell(i+3)
What do the following assignment statements achieve?

q: = p next
p next:=q next
p next:=(q next) next
(p next) next:=q
(b) Compute the post fix equivalent of the following expression.
a
3 * log ( x + 1) −
2
20. Draw the binary tree with node labels a, b, c, d, e, f and g for which the inorder
and postorder traversals result in the following sequences.
Inorder afbcdge
Postorder afcgedb
21. (a) Derive a recurrence relation for the size of the smallest AVL tree with height
h.
(b) What is the size of the smallest AVL tree with height 8?
(c)
22. (a) An identifier in a programming language consists of up to six letters and

digits of which the first character must be a letter. Derive a regular
expression for the identifier.
(b) Build an LL (1) parsing table for the language defined by the LL(1) grammar
with productions
Program begin d semi X end
X d semi X | sY
Y semi s Y | ∈
23. Let the attribute ‘val’ give the value of a binary number generated by S in the
following grammar:
S L.L | L
L LB | B
B0|1
For example, an input 101.101 give S.val = 5.625
Construct a syntax directed translation scheme using only synthesized attributes,
to determine S.val.
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24. (a) Four jobs are waiting to be run. Their expected run times are 6, 3, 5 and x.
in what order should they be run to minimize the average response time?
(b) Write a concurrent program using par begin-par end to represent the
procedure graph shown below.
S1
S2 S3
S4
S5
25. (a) Free disk space can be kept track of using a free list or a bit map. Disk
addresses require d bits. For a disk with B blocks, F of which are free, state
the condition under which the free list uses less space than the bit map.
(b) Consider a disk with C cylinders, t tracks per cylinder, s sectors per track and
a sector length sl. A logical file dl with fixed record length rl is stored
continuously on this disk starting at location (cL,tL,sL), when CL, tL and SL are
the cylinder, track and sector numbers, respectively. Derive the formula to
calculate the disk address (i.e. cylinder, track and sector) of a logical record
n assuming that rl = sl.
26. Consider the following database relations containing the attributes

Book – id
Subject – Category – of – book
Name – of – Author
Nationality – of – Author
With book – id as the primary key.
(a) What is the highest normal form satisfied by this relation?
(b) Suppose the attributes Book – title and Author – address are added to the
relation, and the primary key is changed to {Name – of – Author, Book –
title}, what will be the highest normal form satisfied by the relation?
27. Consider the following relational database schemes:

COURSES (Cno.name)
PRE-REQ(Cno, pre-Cno)
COMPLETED (student – no, Cno)
COURSES gives the number and name of all the available courses.
PRE-REQ gives the information about which courses are pre-requisites for a given
course.
COMPLETED indicates what courses have been completed by students.
Express the following using relational algebra:
List all the courses for which a student with student-no 2310 has completed all
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1.2 Consider the following set of equations:

(a) continuous and differentiable

1.5 What is the converse of the following assertion?

1.8 The number of functions from an m element set to an n element set is

1.11 Regarding the power of recognition of languages, which of the following

1.14 A multiplexor with a 4 bit data select input is a

1.15 The threshold level for logic 1 in the TTL family is

1.17 The octal representation of an integer is 3428. If this were to be treated as an

1.20 Which of the following is true?

1.22 Give the correct matching for the following pairs:

(A) O (log n) (P) Selection

(D) O n2 ( ) (S) Merge sort

1.24 Which of the following statements is false?

(d) The maximum number of nodes in a binary tree of height h is 2h+1 − 1 ( )

1.26 Which of the following statements is true?

1.27 Type checking is normally done during

1.29 Which of the following is an example of a spooled device?

1.35 There are five records in a database.

Name Age Occupation Category

2. This question consists of 20 (TWENTY) multiple-choice questions (2.1 – 2.20) of

2.1 The rank of the matrix given below is:

Which of the following is a factor of ∆ ?

2.6. Which of the following statements is false?

2.7. The function represented by the Karnaugh map given below is

(a) A.B (b) AB+BC+CA (c) B ⊕ C (d) A.BC

2.8. Which of the following operations is commutative but not associative?

2.9. Formatting for a floppy disk refers to

2.10. The address space of 8086 CPU is

2.13. What is the result of the following program?

(a) 5 (b) 25 (c) 36 (d) 42

2.14. Let A be a two-dimensional array declared as follows:

2.15. Faster access to non-local variables is achieved using an array of pointers to

2.16. The overlay tree for a program is as shown below:

2.18. If an instruction takes i microseconds and a page fault takes an additional j

4. Design a deterministic finite state automaton (using minimum number of states)

6. (a) Solve the following recurrence relation

7. (a) Suppose we have a database consisting of the following three relations.

Partitions sizes in KB 4K 8K 20K 2K

When will the 20K job complete?

11. Suppose A = {a,b,c,d} and Π1 is the following partition of A

and Π 4 = {{a, b}{c, d}}

Draw a Poset diagram of the poset,

13. Let M = ({q0 , q1} , {0,1} , {z0 , X } , δ , q0 , z0 , φ ) be a Pushdown automation where δ is

(a) What is the language accepted by this PDA by empty store?

14. (a) Let G1 = (N, T, P, S1) be a CFG where,

16. Design a synchronous counter to go through the following states:

18. For a set-associative Cache Organization, the parameters are as follows:

What do the following assignment statements achieve?

22. (a) An identifier in a programming language consists of up to six letters and

26. Consider the following database relations containing the attributes

27. Consider the following relational database schemes:

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