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GENERAL APTITUDE TEST  (Time:30 min)

SECTION 1:READING COMPREHENSION

.......................................

..(passage of one and half page.)

The question & answers based on this passage were given.
 There were 5 questions.
You shouldn't expect the same passage to be given to you 
but we havw written down the questions to give you a general
view of the type of RC questions that you can expect

1. A reductive cycle is one in which

a. an employer attempts to reduce costs
b. the work-force is gradually reduced in number
c. costs decreases as....
d. there is less productive effort on the part of employees

Ans. (d)


2. If a substantial number of employees remain the reductive
 cycle one may assume that 

a. the org. is enjoying increased business
b. the personnel dept....
c. the boss is not...
d. there is an unwholessome..

Ans. (a)


3. The passage indicates that unionisation of a worker...

a. opportunities for the workers realise..
b. opportunities for the workers to ...
c. more please working...
d. greater fringe benifits include

Ans. (d)


4. According to the author management failures in supervision 
mainly attributable to

a. carrying...
b. a soft-hearted...
c. ignorance.
d. lack of consideration.

Ans. (d)


5. Employees will get together to seek an improvement of
 conditions because of dissatisfaction stemming from 
i.  social just
ii. economic
iii. moral decadence

a. i only
b. ii only
c. i and ii only
d. i &amp; iii only

Ans. (d)

 


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SECTION II:QUANTITATIVE AND NUMERICAL ABILITY


6. The monthly personal maintenance allowance for a family
 of an employee is determined by the average age of family
 and size of the family. Jacob was drawing rs.570 as PMA
 after he got married 6 years back.At present he draws
 Rs 720 as PMA with his family of 3 after the birth of son?

a. 2 years
b. 3 years
c. 4 years
d. 5 years

Ans. (d)

7. White collar sells a shirt for an amount. Due to off season 
sale white collar started offering a discount of 20% on
 tag price. come diwali, white collar offered a further
 discount of 10% on the reduced price. If i get the shirt
 for Rs 108 what was the original price?

a. Rs.180
b. 160
c. 145
d. none

Ans. (d)


8. A vertical stick 10-cm long casts a shadow 6 cm long on
 the ground under similar conditions a tower casts a shadow 
10m long determine the height of the tower to the 2nd place
 of the decimal.

a. 16.67m
b. 17.70m
c. 16.8m
d. none

Ans. (a)


9. In the fig given below ...... which curve rep.the monthly
 savage(the fig.cannot be recollected by the candidate)

a. LR
b. ST
c. PQ
d. none

Ans. (b)


10. Two poles of height 7m and 12m stand on a play ground.
 If the distance between their feet is 12m,find the distance
 between their tops.

a. 12m
b. 13m
c. 11m
d. none

Ans. (b)


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 SECTION III : ANALOGY

11. saint : holiness : : mongol : 

a. chinese
b. barbarity
c. tribal
d. courageousness

Ans. (d)


12. entomologist : insects : : ornithologist : 

a. marine life
b. birds
c. wild life
d. astronomy 

Ans. (b)


13. ostracize : exclude : : 

a. war : death
b. shipping : transport
c. war : surrender
d. population : people

Ans. (a)


14. rain : downpour : : joy : 

a. happiness
b. triumph
c. ecstasy
d. laughter

Ans. (b)


15. niggardly : generous : : dolorous : 

a. understandable
b. practical
c. happy
d. ostentatious

Ans. (d) 


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SECTION IV  :  INTELLIGENCE AND CRITICAL REASONING


16. Which one of the following is venn diagram true.
( 4 diagrams are there. )

 

17. In the given fig. (triangle.square.,circle)...

a. A
b. B
c. D
d. E

Ans. (b)

Direction : (18-20) :  In column one are listed certain groups
 of individual while in column 2 are listedsome of the
 characteristics against each group of individuals which
 are common to each member of that group

Coloumn1                                      Column 2

BCDFH                                           TU
DEGH                                             QRS
DEF                                                 PN
ACDE                                              NS
GDE                                                 PVQ
DEG                                                 VQRS
CDE                                                 VNO
BCD                                                 VTS
ABD                                                 PT 

18. Which characteristcs are found either in 'E' or 'F' or
 in both but not in 'H'?

a. QRS
b. NOP
c. PVT
d. UVW

Ans. (b)


19. Which character is common to 'B' &amp 'C' but is not
 present in 'H'?

a. U
b. V
c. W
d. T

Ans. (a)


20. Which characteristics are common to 'C' &amp 'E' but are 
not present in 'F'?

a. T,V
b. V,W
c. T,U
d. O,P

Ans. (d)


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 SECTION V  :  VERBAL ABILITY

In the following questions mark the option that is nearest
 to the given word

21. Synonym for quixotic

a. rapid
b. exotic
c. longing
d. timid
e. idealistic

Ans. (e)


22. Antonym of recondite

a. unfriendly
b. easily comprehensive
c. closely juxtaposed
d. broad minded
e. sardonic

Ans. (b)


23. antonym of servile

a. moral
b. pue
c. futile
d. foul
e. haughty

Ans. (e)


24. Antonym of tacit

a. spoken
b. allowed
c. neutral
d. impertinent
e. unwanted

Ans. (a)


25. Synonym for macabre

a. musical
b. frightening
c. chewed
d. wicked
e. exceptional

Ans. (b)


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SECTION VI : ANALYTICAL ABILITY

 

26. Fran: i want to stay out of ...

Sid:that's not true.... 

a.  makes unfair demands on her students
b. only gives grades to a few favoured students
c. never gives out grades of A

Ans. (c)


For Q27 - 28 A small passage was given.
The answers though are the following

27. The major logical.weakness of the argument above is the 
fact that

a. it draws meaningful distinction between hands out and
 subsidies
b. it supports only the subsidy and does not provide the 
other side view.
c. it draws no meaningful distinction between hands out and
 subsidies
d. subsidies should not be given
e. none of the above

Ans. (c)


28. Which of the following persons would be most likely 
to disagree with the conclusions reached above argument 

a. the president..
b. the patenee of a new device designed to make the widget
 absolute
c. the worker who worked with the patentee

Ans. (b)

29.- 30 (a small passage )

In a laboratory study,160 rabbits in an experimental group 
were injected with serum d, while 160 rabbits in a control
 group were injected with in two weeks, 39% of the experimental
 group rabbits had contracted jungle fever, a highly contagious
and usually fatal disease therefore jungle fever must be caused 
by some substance similar to the substance
found in serum d 

29. The above argument would be most greately strengthened if 
it were shown that 

a. the normal...
b. 40% of ..
c. serum...
d. the blood of jungle fever victims invariably contains a high
 level of a certain toxic substance also

Ans. (d)

30. The above argument would be most seriously weakened if it 
were shown that 

a. none of the rabbits in the experimental group had had jungle
 fever prior to the start of the experiment 
b. the rabbits  in the experimental group had had jungle fever 
prior to the start of the experiment.
c. some of the rabbits in the experimental group had had jungle
 fever prior to the start of the experiment .
d. four of the rabbits had had jungle fever prior to the start
 of the experiment .
e. one of the rabbits in the experimental group had had jungle 
fever prior to the start of the experiment 

Ans. (e) 


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GENERAL TECHNICAL TEST

 

1) Which of the following language is a functional language

a. RPG
b. Small Talk
c. PI/I
d. LISP

Ans. (c)


2) What is the full form of ATM

a. Automated teller machine
b. All time money
c. Asynchronous transfer mode
d. Active test monitor

Ans. (c)


3) FDDI is a

a.  ring network
b. star network
c. mesh network
d. bus based network

Ans. (a)


4) Which is pure object oriented language?

a. Effiel
b. C++
c. object pascal
d. Small talk

Ans. (d)


5) x.25 transfer protocal is used for 

a.  packet switching
b. circuit switching
c.  framing
d. datagram

Ans. (b)


6) What is the binary equivalent of decimal 269?

a. 100001100
b. 100001010
c. 101001011
d. 100001101

Ans. (c)


7) The 4NF is for

a. related to Multi-Value Dependency
b. related to transitive dependency
c. related to function dependency
d. non trival function or multi value dependency

Ans.


8) The LRU algorithm

a. pages out pages that have been used recently
b. pages out pages that have not been used recently
c. pages out pages that have been least used recently
d. pages out the first page in given data

Ans. (c)


9) A search procedure which assosiates an address with a key 
value and provides a mechanism for dealing with two or more
 values assigned to the same address to the same address
 is called.

a. linear search
b. binary search
c. hash coded search
d. radix search

Ans. (c)


10) A t-switch is used to

a. control how message are passed between computers
b. echo every character that received
c. transmit characers one at a time
d. rearrange the ....

Ans. (c)


11) EE-ROM is

a. electricity erasable
b. easily erasable
c. non erasable
d. effective erasable

Ans. (a)


12) Which device can sense inventory data specified in bar codes?

a. mouse
b. light pen
c. holographs
d. joysticks

Ans. (c)


13) Corba stands for ...

a. common object request broker architecture 
b. combined recovery based system
c. code recovery bench architecture 
d. none of the above

Ans. (a)


14) Which is non-procedural language?
a. effiel
b. ada
c. small talk
d. sql

Ans. (a)


15) Which of the following language supports associative arrays?

a. pl/i
b. rpg
c. perl
d. ada

Ans. (c)


16) Which network protocol IBM mainframe and midrange support

a.  SNA
b.  TCP/IP
c.  X.25
d. IEEE 802.5

Ans. (a)


17) The achronym DAN stands for 

a. data acess network
b. distributed area network
c. desktop area network
d. disk access node

Ans. (a)


18) The program fragment that follows is written in a
 block-structured language . Assume that it is syntactically
 correct and determine its output

begin
integer x,y;
x:=3;y:=7;
begin 
integer x;
begin
integer y;
y:=9;
x:=2*y;
end;
x:=x+y;
print(x);
end;
print(x);
end;

a. 25 27
b. 27 27
c. 27 3
d. 25 3
e. 25 25

Ans. (e)


19) Which of the following is responsible for coordinating
 various operations using timing signals?

a. arithmetic-logic unit
b. control unit
c. memory unit
d. input/output unit

Ans. (b)


20) Microprocessors can be used to make

a. computers
b. calculators
c. digital systems
d. all the above

Ans. (d)


21) FORTRAN implimentation do not permit recursion because

a. they use static allocation for variables
b. they use dynamic allocation for variables
c. stacks are not avalible on all machines
d. it is not possible to impliment recursion on all m/c s

Ans. (a)


22) What does the following code do 
var a,b :integer
begin
a :=a+b
b :=a-b
a :=a-b
end;

a. exchange a and b
b. doubles a and stores in b
c. leaves a and b unchanged
d. none

Ans. (a)


23) For program segment given bellow, which of the follwing
 are true?

program main(output)
type link = ^data
data = record
d : record
n : link
end;
var ptr : link;
begin
new(ptr);
ptr :=nil;
ptr ^.d :=5.2
written(ptr);
end;

a. the program leads to compile time error
b. the program leads to run time error
c. the program produces error relating to nil pointer 
dereferencing
d. both b and a


24) What is the output of the program segament below if the
 compiler operates call byreference?

procedure CALC(P,Q,R);
begin
Q:=Q-1.0
R:=Q+P
end;
begin{main}
A:=2.5; B:=9.0;
CALC(B-A,A,A);
print(A);
end; {main}

a. 1.5
b. 2.5
c. 10.5
d. 8
e. 6.5

Ans. (d)


25) Which of the following is not provided in C?

a. test loops
b. grouping and subprograms
c. synchronization, coroutines,and parallel processing
d. all the above

Ans. (c)


26) Data encryption

a. is most used by public billboard networks
b. is most used by public financial networks
c. cannot be used by private installation
d. is not necessary ..

Ans. (a)


27) An ideal compiler should 

a. be a smaller in size
b. produce object code that is smaller in size and executes faster
c. take less time of compiling
d. all the above 

Ans. (d)


28) What will be the value of x and y after execution of the
 following statment ( C language)

n== 5; x = n++; y = --x;

a. 5,4
b. 6,5
c. 6,6
d. 5,5

Ans. (d)


29) For athe following code

1 i:=1;sum:=0;
repeat
begin
2 sum:=sum+1;
3 i:=i+1
end;
4 until i=n

let"A" represent the initialization(i:=1;sum:=0)of line 1.
let"B"represent the summing action within the loop(loop 2),
and let "i" represent the increment (line 3).if "T"represents
 the best contained in line 4,which of the following regular
 expressions represents all possiblee sequences of the steps
 taken by this program fragment?

a. A(BIT)(BI) T
B. A(BIT)
C. A(BIT)
D. A(BIT) T
E. A(BIT) T


30) Consider the production grammer

S -> AB
S -> BC 
A -> WA
A -> X
B -> Y
B -> ZB
C -> W
Consider this grammer together with one and only one of the
 productions (A) through(E).what production from the list may
 not be added to retain its status as an LL(1) grammer?

a. S -> CA
b. S -> Z
c. C -> Z
d. C -> BC
e. More than one of the above

Ans.


31) Consider the function below:

function calc(x,y:integer):integer;
begin
if y=1
then calc:=x
else calc:=calc(x,y-1)+x
end;

assuming that the invocation call is "calc(a,b)"and that
 "a"and "b"are positive integers,what result does this function 
return?

a. a*(b-1)
b. a*b
c. a+b
d. a power b
e. a*b



32) In a left-to-right breadth-first search of the tree below,
which would be first terminal node to be explored?

____

____ 

/ \

/ \

__/__ __\__ 

__B__ _____

a. F
b. B
c. I
d. J
e. E


33) Which data structure is needed to convert infix notations
 to postfix notations?

a. linear list
b. queue
c. tree
d. stack

Ans. (d)


34) Recursive procedures are implemented by

a. queues
b. stacks
c. linked lists
d. strings

Ans. (b).

35) A linear list of elments in which deletion can be done
 from one end (front)and insertion can take place only at
 the other end(rear)is known as

a. queues
b. stacks
c. trees
d. deque

Ans. (a)

36) A linear list in which elements can be added or removed
 at either end but not in the middle is known as

a. queue
b. deque
c. stack
d. tree

Ans. (a)


37) Which of the following sorting procedure is slowest 

a. quick sort
b. heap sort
c. shell sort
d. bubble sort

Ans. (d)

 

38) How many 1's are present in the binary representation of
 3 x 512 + 7 x 64 + 5 x 8 =3?

a. 8
b. 9
c.10
d.11
e.12

Ans. (d)

39) File record length

a. should always be fixed
b. should always be variable
c. depends upon the size of the file
d. should be choosen to match the data characteristics

Ans. (a)

40) NLP stands for

a. natural language processing
b. neuro logic programming
c. normal logic pad
d. nominal loadable process
e. none

Ans. (a)


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