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Post NameASSISTANT PROFESSOR (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)
DepartmentTECHNICAL EDUCATION (ENGINEERING COLLEGES)
Question Paper Code140/2016
Date of Test27 October 2016
Medium of QuestionENGLISH
Exam TypeOMR Examination
Total Questions100
1
What reflects the quintessence of the constitution?
Answer
B. The Preamble
2
Which are the articles dealing with the Centre-State Relations?
Answer
A. Articles 245 to 263
3
What is the subject matter of articles 346 and 347?
Answer
C. Official language or languages of a State
4
Which article provides a guaranteed remedy for the enforcement of fundamental rights? |
Answer
A. Article 32
5
The Central Government has been created the National Green Tribunal on :
Answer
D. 18% October 2010
6
6 In which year Samkshepo Vedartham, the first book in Malayalam was published?
Answer
C. 1772
7
Ayyankali organized the first planned peasant strike in Kerala at Venganoor in :
Answer
B. 1909
8
List out the odd one from the following options :
Answer
D. Vaikunda Swamigal
9
Who authored the work Ananda Sutra?
Answer
A. Brahmananda Sivayogi
10
Who was the martyr of Paliyam Satyagraha?
Answer
B. A. G Velayudhan
11
Who wrote the pamphlet Zau-us-Sabah?
Answer
C. Vakkam Moulavi
12
In which years Kumara Guru was nominated to the Sri Mulam popular Assembly?
Answer
D. 1921 and 1981
13
What was the name of the Madras Governor, who ordered the Travancore govt. to issue orders for permitting the Channar women to wear jacket and pinafore?
Answer
D. Lord Haris
14
The first woman Chief Secretary of Kerala :
Answer
C. Pathma Ramachandran
15
Who was the founder of Sree Ramadasa Asramam?
Answer
A. Sree Neelakanda Gurupadar
16
The founder of Sabari Asram in Palakkad?
Answer
C. T. R. Krishnaswamy
17
The first female Prime Minister of Greece?
Answer
B. Vassiliki Thanou
18
Who won the β€˜Global Indian of the Year’ award?
Answer
D. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
19
Who won the Nobel Prize 2015 in Economics?
Answer
B. Angus Deaton -
20
Who won the β€˜Man of the Match’ award in the final match of the ICC World Twenty 20 in 20167
Answer
A. M. Samuels
21
If 1, 2, 3 are the eigen values of a matrix A, then the eigen values of
Answer
C. 9,4,1
22
The value of the integral rae is: o Ind [n2
Answer
B. os
23
The homogeneous linear differential equation if its solutions are eΒ²Λ£, xeΒ²Λ£, xΒ²eΒ²Λ£ is: y‴ + Ayβ€³ + Byβ€² βˆ’ 8y = 0 where A and B are
Answer
B. βˆ’6, 12
24
The following is not a simple pole of the function oat
Answer
A. 0.75
25
The coefficient aβ‚™ in the Fourier cosine series expansion of the function f(x) = (x βˆ’ 1)Β² in the interval 0 < x < 1 is:
Answer
D. 4/(n²π²)
26
Centre of gravity of a right circular cone of base radius r and height h from the base is:
Answer
B. h/4
27
What is the maximum weight that can be lowered by a person who can exert a 500 N pull on a rope if the rope is wrapped 2Β° turns around a horizontal spur? Coefficient of friction between spur and rope is 0.0 :
Answer
D. 55659N
28
What is the length of a Surveyors chain? |
Answer
B. 66 ft
29
- 99.- R.Lof'a factory floor is 100.00. Staff reading on the floor is 5.62 ft. and the staff reading when | the staff is held inverted with bottom touching the tie beam of the roof truss is 10.16 ft. What | is the height of the tie beam above the floor?
Answer
A. 15.78 ft
30
The horizontal distance between the vertical joints in successive courses in brick work is |
Answer
B. Lap
31
Knocking in a spark ignition engine ia promoted by :
Answer
D. reduced turbulence of the fuel-air mixture during combustion
32
Centrifugal pumps operating in series will result in :
Answer
C. Higher head
33
34
In sheet metal blanking, shear is provided on punches and dies so that :
Answer
A. press load is reduced
35
A curve generated by a fixed point on the circumference of a circle which rolls without slipping on the outer side of a fixed circle is known as:
Answer
B. Epicycloid
36
Direction of dynamically induced EMF can be found by :
Answer
B. Flemings Right Hand rule
37
Form factor of sinusoidally varying alternating current is :
Answer
B. 1.11
38
Ina Delta connected three phase supply system phase current is given by: β€” |
Answer
D. 5 times line current
39
Earth wire is usually connected to β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” part of the electric heater.
Answer
A. Metallic body
40
Which of the following DC Motor gives highest No-load apeed?
Answer
C. } Series motor
41
The BJT used in an oscillator circuit is biased in region.
Answer
A. Active
42
The ripple factor of a capacitor filter C connected to the output of a full-wave rectifier with input line frequency f Hz and load resistance R_L is:
Answer
B. 1/(4√3 f R_L C)
43
The bandwidth of a wide-band frequency-modulated wave as per Carson's rule is (where D is the deviation ratio and W is the message-signal bandwidth):
Answer
C. B_T β‰ˆ 2(D + 1)W
44
For a voltage-shunt negative-feedback amplifier using an operational amplifier, select the TRUE statement:
Answer
A. Input impedance decreases and output impedance decreases
45
The type of negative feedback introduced in the Common Emitter amplifier using voltage divider bias network when the bypass capacitor is removed :
Answer
D. Current series
46
The CPU gets the address of the next instruction to be executed from the :
Answer
C. Program Counter
47
What is the value of b at the end of execution of the following C program? int add(int a) t static int count = 0; count = count + a; return (count); een int a, b; for (a = 0; a <= 4; at+) b = add(a); }
Answer
A. 10
48
What will be the output of the following C program segment? int n= 1; awitch (n) i case 1: printf (β€œ One”); case 2: printf ("Two"): case 3: case 4: case 5: β€” printf{(β€œWrong Choice”);
Answer
B. One Two Wrong Choice
49
The default parameter passing mechanism of functions is :
Answer
A. Call by value
50
What is the output of this C code? ra main) do printf(Inside while loop”); while(0); printf(β€œAfter while loop”); ;
Answer
D. Inside while loop After while loop
51
To implement a 2 input EXCLUSIVE OR function, the minimum number of NAND gates required is (use NAND gates only) :
Answer
C. 6
52
The number (A72E)₁₆ is equivalent to:
Answer
A. (123456)β‚ˆ and (22130232)β‚„
53
Which of the following DMA transfer modes and interrupt handling mechanisms will enable | the highest I/O bandwidth?
Answer
D. Block transfer and polling interrupts 140/2016 | 8 A
54
Which of the following statements is FALSE about relative addressing mode?
Answer
B. It allows indexing of array elements with same instruction _
55
The TRAP interrupt mechanism of the 8085 microprocessor :
Answer
A. Executes an instruction supplied by an external device through the INTA signal
56
Which of the following objects can be used in expressions and scriplets in JSP (Java Server Pages) Without explicitly declaring them?
Answer
A. Session and request only
57
The address bus of 8086 CPU is:
Answer
B. 20 bits
58
The register which keeps track of the execution of a program and which contains the memory address of the instruction currently being executed is called :
Answer
C. Program counter
59
The register used as a working area in CPU is:
Answer
D. Accumulator |
60
Inthe absolute addressing mode : |
Answer
D. Location of the operand is implicit
61
Ina software project, COCOMO
Answer
C. onstructive Cost Model) is used to estimate |
62
A relation EMPLOYEE is defined with attributes empcode (unique), name, street, city, state and pin code. For any pin code, there is only one city and state. Also, for any given street, city | and state, there is just one pin code. In normalization terms, EMPLOYEE is a relation in : |
Answer
B. 2 NF and hence also in 1 NF '
63
A software configuration management tool helps in -
Answer
B. Maintaining different versions of the configurable items
64
A relational database contains two tables employee and department in which employee table has columns emp-no, name and dept-id and department table has columns dept-id and dept-name. The following insert statement were executed successfully to populate the empty tables : Insert into department values (1, β€˜computer science’) Insert into department values (2, β€˜information technology’) Insert into employee values (1, β€˜Navin’, 1) Insert into employee values (2, β€˜Mukesh’, 2) Insert into employee values (3, β€˜Suresh’, 1) How many rows and columns will be retrieved by the following SQL statement? Select * from employee, department
Answer
D. 6 rows and 5 columns
65
A table has fields F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 with the following functional dependencies F1β€”> F3, F2 β€” F4, (F1, F2) + F5 in terms of normalization, this table is in :
Answer
A. INF
66
A B-tree used as an index for a large database table has four levels including the root node. If a new key is inserted in this index, then the maximum number of nodes that could be newly created in the process are:
Answer
A. 5
67
Amongst the ACID properties of a transaction, the β€˜durability’ property requires that the changes made to the database by a successful transaction persist :
Answer
D. Always, even if there is a failure of any kind
68
Consider a relation R with five attributes V, W, X, Y and Z. The following functional | dependencies hold: VY + W, WX-β€”2Z and ZY > V. Which of the following is a candidate | key for R? |
Answer
B. VXY
69
Which of the following is a realization of polymorphism?
Answer
D. All of these
70
A major advantage of inheritance 1s :
Answer
A. Reducing the time it takes to create new objects
71
The technique used to summarize the financial, statistical, mathematical, scientific and economic data is :
Answer
C. Presentation Graphica
72
Graphics and image processing technique used to produce a transformation of one object into another is called :
Answer
A. Animation
73
In a binary tree, for every node the difference between the number of nodes in the left and right subtrees is at most 2. If the height of the tree is h > 0, then the minimum number of nodes in the tree is:
Answer
B. 2^(hβˆ’1) + 1
74
A binary search tree contains the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. When the tree is traversed in pre-order and the values in each node are printed out, the sequence of values obtained is 5, 3, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 7. If the tree is traversed in post-order, the sequence obtained would be:
Answer
D. 2, 1, 4, 3, 7, 8, 6, 5
75
Let G be a weighted undirected graph and e be an edge with maximum weight in G. Suppose there is a minimum-weight spanning tree in G containing the edge e. Which of the following statements is always true?
Answer
C. Edge e cannot be contained in a cycle
76
Let P be a singly linked list. Let Q be the pointer to an intermediate node X in the list. What is the worst case time complexity of the best known algorithm to delete the node X from the list?
Answer
A. O(n)
77
A problem in NP is NP complete if
Answer
C. It can be reduced to any other problem in NP in polynomial time
78
The maximum number of edges in an acyclic undirected graph with n vertices is :
Answer
A. n-1
79
In a binary tree, the number of internal nodes of degree 1 is 5 and the number of internal nodes of degree 2 is 10. The number of leaf nodes in the binary tree is :
Answer
B. 11
80
Which of the following sequences of array elements forms a heap?
Answer
C. [23, 17, 14, 7, 13, 10, 1, 6, 6, 12]
81
The binary relation r = {(1, 1), (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (2, 4), (3, 1), (3, 2), (3, 3), (3, } on the set A={l, 2, 3, 4,} is:
Answer
B. Neither reflexive, nor irreflexive but transitive
82
Ina 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 where as 13 persons speak both Kannada and English. How many people speak all the three languages?
Answer
A. 6
83
Which one of the following regular expressions is NOT equivalent to the regular expression (
Answer
C. *
84
Which of the following statements is TRUE about the regular expression 01*0?
Answer
B. It represents an infinite set of finite strings
85
Let L be a context free language and M a regular language. Then the language L7M is:
Answer
D. Always a context free language 140/2016 12 eee
86
Consider a fully associative cache with Β§ cache blocks (numbered 0-7) and the following sequence of memory block requests : 4, 3, 25, 8, 19, 6, 25, 8, 16, 35, 45, 22, 8, 3, 16, 25, 7 if LRU replacement policy is used ,which cache block will have memory block 7?
Answer
D. 7
87
Two shared resources Ri and Re are used by processes P: and Pz. Each process has a certain priority for accessing each resource. Let Ty denote the priority of P; for accessing Ry. A process P; can snatch a resource Rx from process P; if Tx is greater than Tx. Given the following : | | Tu> Ta IT Tis>T2 WI Tu< Ta IV Tir
Answer
C. Land I
88
Dijkstra's banking algorithm in an OS, solves the problem of :
Answer
A. Deadlock avoidance
89
In real-time OS, which of the following is the most suitable scheduling scheme?
Answer
C. Preemptive
90
A linker:
Answer
C. Creates a load module
91
A firewall :
Answer
D. All of these
92
A sender is employing public key cryptography to send a secret message to a receiver. Which one of the following statements is TRUE?
Answer
A. Sender encrypts using receivers public key
93
A host is connected to a department network which is part of a university network. The university network in turn, is part of the Internet. The largest network in which the Ethernet address of the host is unique is:
Answer
D. The internet
94
Ina TCP/IP protocol suite, which one of the following is NOT part of the IP header?
Answer
D. Destination port number
95
Count to infinity is a problem associated with :
Answer
B. Distance vector routing protocol
96
Which of the following statements is TRUE about CSMA/CD?
Answer
C. β€” is not suitable for a high propagation. delay network like satellite netwo
97
HELO and PORT, respectively are commands from the protocols :
Answer
D. SMTP and FTP
98
A firewall is to be configured to allow hosts in a private network to freely open TCP connections and send packets on open connections. However, it will only allow external hosts | to send packets on existing open TCP connections or connections that are being opened |
Answer
B. y internal hosts) but not allow them to open TCP connections to hosts in the private | network. To achieve this the minimum capability of the firewall should be that of : |
99
In TCP, a unique sequence number is assigned to each :
Answer
B. Message
100
What is XML?
Answer
B. Subset of SGML, Extensible Markup Language

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