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The paper consists of three sections.

1. Aptitude 15 questions 20 min
2. System concepts 20 questions 20 min.
3. 'C' 15 questions 20 min.

Section 1

Question 1 to 5 have to be answered on the basis of the information given below:

On Sunday, December 23, four ships were berthed at the Port. 

Ship W left at 4 PM on Sunday, December 23, for a series of 8-day cruises to Bermuda and Nassau. 
Ship X left at 4:30 PM on Sunday, December 23, for a series of alternating11-day and 13-day cruises. 
Ship Y sailed at 5 PM on Sunday, December 23, for a series of 5-day cruises to Bermuda. 
Ship Z sailed on Monday, Decmeber 24, for a series of 7-day cruises to Nassau. 
Each cruise begins on the day after departure.
Each ship is scheduled to return to the Port early in the morning after the last day of the cruise and leave again in the afternoon of the same day.
( From 1999 Barrons GRE book Model Test 3 - Section 5 - Q8 to Q12)


1. On December 31, which ships will be sailing from the Port on a New Year's Eve.

(a) W and X
(b) X and Y
(c) W and Z
(d) X and Z
(e) X, Y and Z

Ans: (c)


2. On how many sailing dates between December 24 and February 28 will ship W be moored alongside another ship

(a) 0
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 5
(e) 6

Ans: (d)


3. On how many occasions between December 24 and February 28 will three ships be moored at the Port.

(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 3
(e) 4

Ans: (a)


4. On which day of the week will these four ships make most of their departures?

(a) Sunday
(b) Monday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Thursday
(e) Saturday

Ans: (b)


5. On which days of the week in the period between December 24 and February 28 will the pier be least crowded?

(a) Tuesday and Friday
(b) Tuesday and Thursday
(c) Friday and Saturday
(d) Wednesday and Thursday
(e) Thursday and Saturday

Ans: (a)


6. A family with a husband, his wife and their child are at one side of river.
    They want to cross the river on a boat. The child can't be left alone. 
    The only available boat can hold only one person and the boatboy.
    Only the boatboy can row the boat.
    What is the minimum number of trips from on bank to the other, that the boatboy has to make
     for the whole family to reach the other side.


Question 7 to 10  have to be answered on the basis of the information given below:

The workweek in a small business is a five-day workweek running from Monday through Friday. 
In each workweek, activities L,M,N,O and P must all be done.The work is subject to the following restrictions: 

L must be done earlier in the week than O and earlier than P 
M must be done earlier in the week than N and earler than O 
No more than one of the activities can ever be done on any one day 

7.Which of the following is an acceptable schedule starting from Monday to Friday

a) L, M, N, O, P
b) M, N, O, N, M
c) O, N, L, P, M
d) P, O, L, M, L
e) P, O, L, M, N

Ans. (a)


8. Which of the following pair of activies could be done on Monday and Tuesday

a) L and O
b) M and L
c) M and P
d) N and O
e) O and M

Ans. (b)


9.If P and N are done on Thursday and Friday, then which of the following is true

a) L is done on Tuesday
b) L is done on Wednesday
c) M is done on Monday
d) O is done on Tuesday
e) O is done on Wednesday

Ans. (e)


10. Which of the following could be true

a) L on Friday
b) M on Thursday
c) N on Monday
d) O on Monday
e) P on Tuesday

Ans. (e)


Rest of the paper is based on similar questions.
I donot remember them completely but I'll just give a basic idea about them below

* 5 programs are sheduled from monday to saturday, monday is not holiday,
PQRST are the programs. The day before P is holiday, and some other clues are
given, we have to find the sequence (4 questions)


* Suppose U R the presoner, There are two guards Who will tell truth or
one will tell truth. There is a gate for liberty and another foe hell.
asking about which sequencing is sufficient to find the gate for liberty??


* There are 7 targets, A B and C has to shoot them.
All should be shot down consecutively.
1. The number of chances for A and B are not less then 2,
2. C has only one chance
3. A can't shot 3 times consicutively.
4. B is permited to shoot in even chances only.

They have given some 2 or 3 MCQ questions on this.




Section 2

1. Encryption and decryption is done in the following layer.

a) DLL 
b) Network layer 
c) Transport 
d) Presentation 

Ans: (d)


2. Floating point has different formats on two different machines.
    This modifications are taken care by which layer?

a) DLL 
b) Network layer 
c) Transpor layer 
d) Presentation 

Ans: (d)


3. Time complexity of quick sort algorithm is

a) N*N 
b) log(N) 
c) N*log(N) 
d) N 

Ans: (c)


4. Time complexity of AVL tree is .

a) N*N 
b) log(N) 
c) N*log(N) 
d) N 

Ans: (b)


5. Cycle stealing is used in which concept?

a) Programmed I/O 
b) DMA
c) Interrupts

Ans: (b)


6. How many octets are there in an IP address 

a) 6
b) 8 
c)10 
d)12 


7.What are the maximum number of hosts that can be served by an IP

a) 254 
b) 256 
c) 2**24(2 to the power 24)


8. Which of the following is model representation of life cycle software

a) Water fall model 
b) Spiral 


9. The purpose of reviewing code is

a) To find syntax error 
b) Tocheck for the proper design


10. Semaphores are used for the resolution of

a) Contention 
b) Accessing of same resources by more than one


11.In threading of processes when the race condition will happen

a) Low priority process 
b) Higher priority process 

(See O.S.Concepts by Silberschatz)


12.Which of the following function is not performed by O.S.

a) CPU sheduling 
b) Memory management 
c) Transaction 

Ans: (c)


13. If two applicaltion programmes uses same libraries which of following are shared

a) Lib code 
b) Code and stack 
c) Data 
d) Data, code and stack 


14. Which is the maximum 16 bit signed integer.

a) 66337 
b) 66338 
c) 257 
d) 258


15.When will interrupt occurs?

a) Divide by zero 
b) DMA completed 
c) Insufficient memory


16. Which of the following has low power cosumption

a) EIL 
b)CMOS 
c) Totempole Arrangement


17. Which of the following is the wrong statement

a) Cominational circuits has memory
b) Sequential circuits has memory
c) Sequential circuits is a function of time 

Ans: (a)


18.Virtual address is

a) More than physical address
b) Lesstthan physical memory
c) Equal to physical memory
d) None 

Ans : (a)

19. Which of the following reduces CPU burden

Ans : DMA


20. Malloc function allocates memory at

a) compilation time 
b)link 
c)load 
d)running 

Ans: d


Section 3

1.Max value of SIGNED int


2. A long C program is given -- try to be familiar with few of the concepts listed below

int *num={10,1,5,22,90};
main()
{
int *p,*q;
int i;
p=num;
q=num+2;
i=*p++;
print the value of i, and q-p, and some other operations are there.
}
how the values will change?

 

3. One pointer diff is given like this:

int *(*p[10])(char *, char*)

Explain the variable assignment

 

4. char *a[4]={"jaya","mahe","chandra","buchi"};
    What is the value of sizeof(a) /sizeof(char *)

 

5. For the following C program

void fn(int *a, int *b)
{int *t;
t=a;
a=b;
b=t;
}

main()
{int a=2;
int b=3;
fn(&a,&b);
printf("%d,%d", a,b);
}

What is the output?

a) Error at runtime
b) Compilation error
c) 2 3
d) 3 2

 

6. For the following C program

#define scanf "%s is a string"
main()
{printf(scanf,scanf);
}

What is the output.

Ans. %s is string is string

 

7. For the following C program

{char *p="abc";
char *q="abc123";
while(*p=*q)
print("%c %c",*p,*q);
}

a) aabbcc
b) aabbcc123
c) abcabc123
d) infinate loop 

 

8. What is the value of the following:

printf("%u",-1)

a) -1 
b) 1 
c) 65336 

 

9. For the following C program

#define void int
int i=300;
void main(void)
{int i=200;
{int i=100;
print the value of i;}
print the value of i;}

What is the output?

 

10. For the following C program

int x=2;
x=x<<2;
printf("%d ",x);

Ans. 8


11. For the following C program

int a[]={0,0X4,4,9}; /*some values are given*/
int i=2;
printf("%d %d",a[i],i[a]);

What is the value? 



 

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1. One Nibble = ?

a) 8 bits
b)16 bits
c) 4 bits
d)32 bits

Ans. (c)


2. Hexadecimal and Octal representation of 1024 ?


3. What a compiler does ?


4.What type of interface does DOS have?

a) Graphical interface
b) Character interface
c) Symbolic interface
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)


5.What is the abbrevation of CPU?

a) Control Processing Unit
b) Central Processing Unit
c) Central Programming Unit
d) Control Programming Unit

Ans. (b)


6. Fortran is used as a

a) Scientific Language
b) Business Language
c) Language  used in LANs 
d) Applications Language

Ans. (a)


7.The total numberof characters in the ASCII code?

a) 126
b) 256
c) 258
d) 128

Ans. (d)


8. In Windows NT- What NT stands for?    

a) Network Techniques
b) New Technology
c) Network Transmission  
d) None of  the above

Ans. (b)


9. Which is not an input device ?

a)  Keyboard
b)  Disk
c)  Mouse
d) Lightpen

Ans. (b)


10. Which is not a pointing device ?

a) Mouse
b) Joy stick
c) Lightpen 
d) None


11. Who is the CEO of Microsoft ?

a) Bill Gates
b) Steve Jobs
c) Steve Balmer
d) Andy Grove

Ans. (c)


12. 4GL ? 

a) Fortran
b) SQL
c) ADA


13.Who is the father of Computers?

a) Alan Turing
b) Charles Babbage
c) Bill Gates
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)


14. Which of them is Object Oriented Language.?

a) Basic
b) C
c) C++
d) Fortran

Ans. (c)


15. Power PC is the product of ? 

a) Microsoft
b) IBM
c) Apple
d) Motorola

Ans. (c)


16. The latest processor being used these days by Intel is?

a) Pentium-III
b) Power PC
c) Pentium pro
d) None


17. MS Word is ?


18. First Super Computer built in India. 

a) Cray
b) Param
c) Aryabhatta
d) Arjun

Ans. (b)


19. Which of the following companies do not manufacture chips?

a) Microsoft
b) Motorola
c) Intel
d) HP

Ans. (a)


20.What is the full form of  LAN 

a) Local Area Network
b) Local Arial Networking
c) Loop Around Network
d) Loop Area Network

Ans. (a)


21. What is the full form of WAN 

a) Wireless Application Networking
b) Wireless Access Network
c) Wired Access Network
d) Wide Area Network

Ans. (d)

22.What is a  Modem  ? 

a) Modulator Emmulator
b) Modulator Demodulator
c) Mode Modulator
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)


23. What is the full form FDD 

a) Floppy Drive Detector
b) Floppy Drive Demodulator
c) Floppy Disk Drive
d) None of the above

Ans. (c)


24. What is the full form BIT 

a) Binary Integer
b) Binary Term
c) Binary Digit
d) None of the above

Ans. (c)


25. Information is ? 

a) Message
b) Data
c) Processed data
d) None

Ans. (b)


26. Which is not networking ?

a) Internet
b) Ethernet
c) Arcnet
d) None


27. One Gigabyte =?

a) 2 30 
b) 2 20 
c) 2 10 
d) None

Ans. (a)


28. Which of the following is not RDBMS ? 

a) Sybase
b) SQL
c) Acess
d) None

Ans. (b)


29. Oracle is ? 

a) HLL
b) OS
c) RDBMS
d) Query Language

Ans. (c)


30. In Oracle, Table means ( Ans : Collection of records)


31. DMA - abbrevation 

a) Direct Memory Access
b) Discrete Memory Access
c) Disk Memory Access
d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

 

32. What is meant by Static Variable ?{refer data storage techniques}


33. What is meant by QUEUE? {refer any data structures text}


34. What is meant by STACK? {refer any data structures text}


35. The processor used in first IBM PC? 

(8086,8088,zig4,intel)


36. Difference between 80286 and 80287


37. In bubble sort , no. of comparisons required are ?

a) N*(N+1)/2
b) N*(N-2)/2
c) N*(N-1)/2)
d) None of the above

Ans. (c)


38. No. of comparisons of an item in 100 items by binary comparison? 

a) 10
b) 25
c) 50 
d) 100


39. What is the full form of CRT 

a) Cathode Ray Terminal
b) Cathode Ray Tube
c) Common Resistor Transistor
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)


40. No. of entryvalues are there in ideally in a subroutine. 


41. Binary tree?


42. In which of the following is the flow in both the directions ? 

a) Single linked list
b) Double linked
c) Queue
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)


43. Electron screen size ? (here, 2 lines of algorithm is given. Name the algoirithm)


44. Which is not storage device.? 

a) Floppy Disk
b) CD ROM
c) Disk
d) None

Ans. (d)


45. A question regarding memory ? ( least used memory,recently unused

memory,..)


46.What is the full form of ISO 

a) International Software Organisation
b) International Standard Organisation
c) International Solutions Organisation
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)


47.What is the full form of HTML 

a) Hyper Text Makeup Language
b) Hyper Text  Markup Language
c) Hyper Terminal Markup Language
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)


48. Flow chart for factorial N? (ans :choice a)


49. What is meant by Recursion ?


50.  For the following C program

Struct(s)
{int a;
long b;
}

Union (u)
{int a;
long b;
}

Print sizeof(s)and sizeof(u) if sizeof(int)=4 and sizeof(long)=4


51. For the following C program

Switch (i)
i=1;
case 1
i++;
case 2 
++i;
break; 
case 3
--i;

Output of i after executing the program


52. For the following C program

char S;
char S[6]= " HELLO";
printf("%s ",S[6]);

output of the above program ? 

(a) 0
(b) ASCII 0
(c) I
(d) unpredictable


53. For the following C program

Unsigned char c;
for ( c=0;c!=256;c++2)
printf("%d",c);

No. of times the loop is executed ? 

(a) 127
(b) 128
(c) 256
(d) infinitely


54. For the following program

int i;
i=0;
repeat
i=i+1; <====== PASCAL PROGRAM
print i;
until(i<10)
end

No. of times the loop is executed?


55. For the following program

Convert (int A,var ,int B;int c)
{A=10;
B=4-;
C=120;
}

Convert (inta,b,c)
{ <====== PASCAL PROGRAM
a=1;
b=4;
c=12;
}


56. For the following program 

Procedure A
Begin
--------
end <====== PASCAL PROGRAM

Procedure B No. Of errors in the program ?(1,2,3,none)

Begin 
-----------
end


57. For the following program

int i;
i=2;
i++;
if(i==4)
{printf(i=4);
}
else
{printf(i=3);
}

Output of the program ? 

a) 4 
b) 3
c) unpredictable
d) none

Ans. (b)


58. What is FAT?.

a) File Allocation Table
b) File Access Table
c) FDD Allocation Table
d) None of the above

Ans. (a)


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QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE TEST :

Total 44 questions are there.

1. How many degrees hours hand rotate in 10 minutes?

a) 6°
b) 5°
c) 4°
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)


2. 1/(10 18) - 1/(10 20) = ?

a) 99/1016 
b) 99/1014
c) 99/1015
d) None of the above

Ans. (a)


3. 0 <x < 1: Which is greater ? 
a) 1/x2 
b) 1/x
c) x
d) x 2

Ans. (a)


4. c=a/b ; a-1=c What is the relation between a&b.b=?

a) a/(a-1)
b) a/(a+1)
c) (a+1)/a
d) None of the above

Ans. (a)


5. The sum of 7 consecutive odd integers with 27 as the fourth number.

a) 183
b) 181
c) 185
d) 179

Ans. (b)



6. For  (66666666666666)2 + 888888888888,what is the number at the unit's place

a) 2
b) 4
c) 8
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)


7.32736 Express it in product of 3 numbers.

a) 41,42,43
b) 31,32,33
c) 32,34,33
d) 38,38,33

Ans. (b)


8. Radius of sphere is increased by 50%. By how much percentage is surface area is increased.

a) 150%
b) 125%
c) 128%
d) 225%

Ans. (b)


9. In which of the following , 2 as a common factor , can be eliminated.

a) log(x2)/log(y2)
b) (logx*logx*logx)/(logy*logy*logy)
c) (logx*logx)/logy
d) None of the above 

Ans. (a)

Antonyms : 

11. Auspiciously

12. Recalcitrant

13. & 14. - Sentence correction

15, 16 , 17 - Spelling Mistakes

18, 19 - Two Questions

6 letters are assigned certain numbers.
In each question , 4 combination of digits are given . 
Find which gives a meaningful word.

20 & 21. - 4 sentences will be given in each question. Arrange them in logical order .

22. 5 straight lines are cut in a circle. A question regarding this.

In this section ,a question is followed by 2 statements A and B.Any one of these statements,or both are sufficient to answer the question.Mark your answer as :

a) If statement A alone is required
b) If statement B alone is required
c) If both the statements A & B are required
d) Neither of the statements are required


23. Does Mr. Mathew give tution ?

A) Mathew is a teacher
B) In school, the teacher is not expected to give tutions

Ans. (d)


24. There is no power cut in advanced country. If  T is a city, Is there power cut in that city?

A) Z is a advanced country
B) T ia a capital city of country Z

Ans. (c)


25. Tanzanians are in East Africa. Tanzanians are good in either education ,dance or music

A) Tanzanians are good at Education
B) East Africa are good at dance & Music.

Ans. (a)

Remaining questions 26 - 29 are of the same type.


30. On a single day, 14 children are admitted in a school by their mothers.2 are sisters, 3 are brothers,2 are brother and sister and 2 are twins.The rest are singles. How many mothers came? 

(a) 5 
(b) 7
(c) 9
(d) 14


Problem on  cisterns & pipes.

31.It will take 8hrs to fill a cistern. But due to leak at the bottom, it takes 10 hrs to fill it. In how many hrs, the full tank will be emptied because of the leak.? 

(a) 18
(b) 8
(c) 40
(d) 10

Ans. (c)

Question regarding men & work

32. A does alone a piece of work in 4 days.B does the same piece of work alone in 8 days.C does alone a work in 10 days.In how many days will A, B, C together complete the work

(a) 40/19
(b) 19/40
(c) 1/22
(d) 2

Ans. (a)


33. In 3.5 Kg rod , there is 74% silver. If it is alloyed with a 0.5 Kg rod, the % of silver goes up to 84%. The percent of silver in 0.5 Kg rod?


34. Two chords of lengths L1 and L2 are drawn in a circle. Their lengths are inversely proportional to the straight distance joining the centre.Find the radius of circle.


35. A Kg of tea costs Rs 49.50 . But the supplier gives 10 gms less for every Kg he sold. What is the actual cost.

(a) 49.001
(b) 49.005
(c) 49.01
(d) Same 

Ans. (b)


Questions 36 - 40  are based on the transportation table.

  A B C D E 
A X 12 8 20 6 
B 12 X 12 5 9 
C 20 8 X 4 7 
D 3 15 6 X 10 
E 12 5 8 3 X 

A,B,C,D,E denote the stages.
X denotes the start of the stage. 
The bus goes from A to E and E to A with back stops at B,C, &D.
For each the charge is Rs.0.70.
The numbers in the table are how many passengers are there in the bus upto that stage.( the numbers given the table are not correct)

36. Total no. of passengers in onward journey

37. Total amount in the conductors bag just before the bus reaches the stage C 

38. How many Rs. 1.40 tickets are issued to passengers in backward journey.

39. If the bus breaks down between the stages C & D , the amount refunded to passengers.

40. If the ticket costs Rs.1.50, how much is the profit in Backward journey.

 

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