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Post NameHSST COMPUTER SCIENCE - SR FOR SC/ST
DepartmentHIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION
Question Paper Code086/2016/OL
Category Code099/2015
Date of Test29 December 2016
Medium of QuestionENGLISH
Exam TypeOnline Examination
Total Questions100
1
The buffer overflow attack is caused by
Answer
D. Vulnerability in software
2
Which of the following is not valid IPv4 addresses ?
Answer
B. 201.172.275.33
3
Address resource records are associated with
Answer
C. DNS servers
4
Which of the following protocols is used in accessing web mail ?
Answer
Question Cancelled
5
If gcd(a, b) = x and gcd(b, c) = y, then gcd(a, c) is
Answer
D. None of these
6
Assuming the same key is used, two occurrences of the same plaintext characters are encrypted as identical output symbols in which of the following
Answer
A. Caesar cipher
7
A product cipher is constructed using a combination of
Answer
B. Substitution and transposition ciphers
8
Which of the following characteristics is most widely used in fingerprint recognition ?
Answer
C. Coordinates and orientations of fingerprint minutiae
9
During the initial stages of an attack by a new internet scanning worm, the number of infected machines increases
Answer
A. Exponentially with time
10
Use privileges in windows are stored in
Answer
C. Access token
11
Probabilistic packet marking is technique used in support of
Answer
B. IP traceback
12
The role of the payment gateway is
Answer
D. A proxy to the bankcard network
13
What type of parameters are used in transcendental functions in Java ?
Answer
A. double
14
In what format is Java's character set represented ?
Answer
B. 16 bits unicode
15
Basic futures of structured programming
Answer
D. All of the above
16
In which year Java was developed ?
Answer
C. 1991
17
What feature of C++ was dropped in Java ?
Answer
D. Pointers
18
What type of storage class is involved when we pass by value in function ?
Answer
B. Automatic
19
What is Java equivalent of const in C++ ?
Answer
C. final
20
What is another name for semantic errors ?
Answer
A. Runtime errors
21
What are units of width and height specified in HTML tag ?
Answer
A. Pixels
22
What will be the values of x, m and n after execution of the following statements ? int x, m, n; m = 10; n = 15; x = ++m + n++;
Answer
C. x = 26, m = 11, n = 16
23
What will be the result of the expression 13 and 25 ?
Answer
B. 9
24
Which of the following will produce a value of 22 if x = 22.9 ?
Answer
D. floor(x)
25
Which is the legal ways to access a class data member using this pointer ?
Answer
D. (*this).x
26
Which one of the following is an associative container ?
Answer
C. map
27
Which one of the following is a sequence container ?
Answer
B. deque
28
What does the acronym BCPL stands for ?
Answer
A. Basic Combined Programming Language
29
What was Ken Thompson's version of C called ?
Answer
B. B
30
What does the fopen() function return ?
Answer
C. file pointer
31
Recursive algorithms are based on
Answer
C. Bottom-up approach
32
The Sorting method which is used for external sort is
Answer
C. Merge sort
33
Worst-case efficiency of binary search is:
Answer
D. log n
34
What is the type of the algorithm used in solving the 8 Queens problem ?
Answer
B. Backtracking
35
The time taken by an NP-class sorting algorithm is:
Answer
D. O(n)
36
How many nodes are there in a full state space tree with n = 6 ?
Answer
C. 63
37
Prims algorithm is based on __________ method.
Answer
B. Greedy method
38
Graph Colouring is which type of algorithm design stratergy
Answer
A. Backtracking
39
The asymptotic notation for defining the average time complexity is
Answer
A. Equivalence
40
The complexity of the merge sort algorithm is:
Answer
D. O(n log n)
41
Dijkstra's banking algorithm in an operating system, solves the problem of
Answer
C. Deadlock avoidance
42
Interval between the time of submission and completion of the job is called
Answer
D. Turnaround time
43
The example of non-preemptive scheduling is
Answer
A. First-Come-First-Served
44
__________ is a process-to-process protocol that adds only port addresses, checksum, error control and length information to the data from the upper layer.
Answer
B. UDP
45
The RSA algorithm uses a ___________ cryptography method.
Answer
A. Public Key
46
The __________ attack is related to confidentiality.
Answer
B. Interception
47
The cryptography method in which the plaintext BBBB becomes the ciphertext BCDE. This is probably
Answer
C. Polyalphabetic substation cipher
48
The following service is not provided by digital signature
Answer
D. Confidentiality
49
_________ is a technique of temporarily removing inactive programs from the memory of computer system.
Answer
A. Swapping
50
Fence register is used for
Answer
B. Memory protection
51
The __________ clause is used to list the attributes desired in the result of a query.
Answer
C. select
52
We express queries in QBE by
Answer
B. Skeleton tables
53
_________ is a set of permitted values for each attribute.
Answer
A. Domain
54
Minimal super keys are called
Answer
C. Candidate key
55
A relation is in __________, every non-key attribute is irreducibly dependent on the primary key.
Answer
B. 2NF
56
A statement that the system executes automatically when a database related event occurs.
Answer
D. Trigger
57
An index record appears for every Search key value in the file
Answer
A. Dense index
58
In hashing, we use the term to denote a unit of storage that can store one or more records.
Answer
D. Bucket
59
The number of transactions executed in a given amount of time is called
Answer
C. Throughput
60
_________ is a predicate expressing a condition that we wish the database always to satisfy.
Answer
D. Assertion
61
A variation in the representation of the waterfall model is called
Answer
B. V-model
62
The most common manifestation of separation of software into separately named and addressable components is called
Answer
C. Modularity
63
________ is an indication of the relative interdependence among modules.
Answer
A. Coupling
64
The diagram which help you to determine the functionality and features of the software from the user's perspective.
Answer
D. Use-case diagram
65
__________ testing is focuses on the functional requirements of the software.
Answer
B. Black-box testing
66
The software metric that provides a quantitative measure of the logical complexity of a program.
Answer
A. Cylcomatic complexity
67
________ is the most widely used strategy for statistical quality assurance in industry.
Answer
C. Six Sigma
68
__________ is an agile software development approach.
Answer
A. Extreme programming
69
________ provide a notation that translates actions and conditions described in a use case into a tabular form.
Answer
D. Decision tables
70
________ is a project scheduling method.
Answer
A. PERT
71
The bus carries bits between
Answer
D. Microprocessor, Memory and I/Os
72
The Gray code for the binary number (101110)β‚‚ is:
Answer
B. 111001
73
Simplify the expression AB + A(B + C) + B(B + C) using Boolean algebra techniques is
Answer
C. B + AC
74
How many 74154 4-line-to-16-line decoders are necessary to decode a six-bit binary number ?
Answer
B. Two
75
The binary equivalent for the BCD number 10000101 is:
Answer
D. (1010101)β‚‚
76
How many states are there in an eight-bit Johnson counter sequence ?
Answer
C. 16
77
How many clock pulses are required to serially enter a byte of data into an eight-bit shift register ?
Answer
A. 8
78
How many address bits are required for a 2048-bit memory ?
Answer
B. 11 bits
79
How many tracks are there on a typical 5Β½-inch floppy disk?
Answer
C. 77
80
Visual cryptography is mainly used for
Answer
D. Image encryption
81
Whose words are these "No Caste, No Religion, No God for Human being" ?
Answer
B. K. Ayyappan
82
Which Article of Constitution provide uniform civil code for the citizens ?
Answer
C. Article 44
83
Which agitation in Kerala is known as the "Maru Marakkal Samaram" ?
Answer
A. Channar Revolt
84
Who is known as 'Kalidasa of Kerala' ?
Answer
A. Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran
85
Who acted the role of Shree Narayana Guru in the film "Yugapurusham" ?
Answer
B. Thalaivasal Vijay
86
Which among the following 8th Schedule languages of the Constitution are spoken by minority polulation?
Answer
C. Sanskrit
87
The birth place of Chattampi Swamikal
Answer
A. Kannammoola
88
How many numbers of days lasted the Vaikom Satyagraha ?
Answer
A. 603 days
89
Which social reformer is known as the "Lincoln of Kerala" ?
Answer
B. Pandit Karuppan
90
The Jnanapit Award recipient of 2015 Raghuveer Chaudhari is famous for his writings in ________ language.
Answer
D. Gujarati
91
In which year the European Union was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace ?
Answer
C. 2012
92
Which movie won the best picture award for the 2016 Oscar ?
Answer
C. Spot Light
93
Which Iranian film maker who won the "Palme dβ€² or’ passed away recently ?
Answer
B. Abbas Kiarostami
94
Which country is the last member State of UNO ?
Answer
C. South Sudan
95
Whose work is "Keralam Malayalikalude Mathrubhumi" ?
Answer
D. E.M.S.
96
Which literary work received the Vayalor Award of 2015 ?
Answer
A. Manushyanu Oru Aamukham
97
Who is the Human Resource Development Minister of Union Cabinet ?
Answer
B. Prakash Javadekar
98
Which Article of the Constitution was names by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar as the Jewel Part ?
Answer
A. Article 32
99
Who won the 2016 COPA America ?
Answer
C. Chili
100
Full form of NSG
Answer
A. Nuclear Suppliers Group

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