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Q. 1 The height of a binary tree is the maximum number of edges in any root to leaf
path. The maximum number of nodes is a binary tree of height h is
(A) 2h (B) 2h - 1 - 1
(C)2h + 1 - 1 (D) 2h + 1

Q. 2 The maximum number of binary trees that can be formed with three unlabeled
nodes is
(A) 1 (B) 5
(C) 4 (D) 3

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(C) Quick sort (D) Selection sort

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(A) debfgca (B) edbgfca

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(C) edbfgca (D) defgbca

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(3x + 4) and 7. Assuming the has table is initially empty, which of the following
is the contents of the table when the sequence 1,3,8,10 is inserted into the table

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(A) 8,-,-,-,-,-,-,10 (B) 1,8,10,-,-,-,-,3
(C)1,-,-,-,-,-,-,,3 (D) 1,10,8,-,-,-,3

Q. 6 In an unweighted, undirected connected graph, the shortest path from a node S

to every other node is computed most efficiently, in terms of time complexity, by
(A) Dijkstra’s algorithm starting from S. (B) Warshall’s algorithm
(C) performing a DFS starting from S (D) preforming a BFS starting from S

Q. 7 A complete n-ary tree is a tree in which each node has n children or no children.
Let I be the number of internal nodes and L be the number of leaves in a
complete n-ary tree. If L= 41, and I =10, what is the value of n
(A) 3 (B) 4
(C) 5 (D) 6

Q. 8 In the following C function, let n # m.

int gcd (n,m)
{
if(n&m==0} return m;
n=n&m;
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return gcd(m,n);
}
How many recursive calls are made by this function?
(A) Q (log2 n) (B) W (n)
(C) Q (log2 log2 n) (D) Q ( n )

Q. 9 What is the time complexity of the following recursive function :

intDoSomething(int n) {
if n<=2
return 1;
else
return(DoSomething(floor(sqrt(n))
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(A) Q (n2) (B) Q (n log2 n)

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Q. 10 Consider the process of inserting an element into a Max Heap, where the Max

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Heap is represented by an array. Suppose we perform a binary search on the path

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from the new leaf to the root to find the position for the newly inserted element,
the number of comparisons performed is
(A) q (log2 n)

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Q. 11
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(C) Every minimum spanning tree has an edge of weight w
(D) e is present in every minimum spanning tree

Q. 12 An array of n numbers is given, where n is an even number. The maximum as

well as the minimum of these n numbers needs to be determined. Which of the
following is TRUE about the number of comparisons needed?
(A) At least 2n -c comparisons, for some constant c, are needed,
(B) At most 1.5n -2 comparisons are needed.
(C) At least n ,log2 n comparisons are needed.
(D) None of the above

Q. 13 Consider the following C code segment:

int IsPrime(n)
{
int i,n;
for (i=2;i<=sqrt(n);i++)
if (n&i==0)
print(Not Prime\n”};
return0;)
return 1;
}
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Let T (n) denote the number of times the for loop is executed by the program on
input n . Which of the following is TRUE?
(A) T (n) = O ( n ) and T (n) + W ( n ) (B) T (n) = O ( n ) and T (n) + W (1)
(C) T (n) = O (n) and T (n) = W ( n ) (D) None of these

Common Data For Q. 14 and 15

Solve the problems and choose the correct answers.
Suppose the letters a, b, c, d, e, f have probabilities 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 respectively.
2 4 8 16 32
Q. 14 Which of the following is the Hoffman code for the letters a, b, c, d, e, f ?
(A) 0, 10, 110, 1110, 11110, 11111 (B) 11, 10, 011, 010, 001, 000
(C) 11, 10, 01, 001, 0001, 0000 (D) 110, 100, 010, 000, 111

Q. 15 What is the average length of the correct answer to Q. ?

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(D) An LALR(k) parser

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Q. 17 Consider the grammar with non-terminals N = {S, C, S}, terminals

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T = {a, b, i, t, e}, with S as the start symbol, and the following of rules
S " iCtSS1 | a ; S1 " eS | e ; C " b

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Q. 18 Consider the following two statements:

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P: Every regular grammar is LL(1)
Q: Every regular set has LR(1) grammar
Which of the following is TRUE?
(A) Both P and Q are true (B) P is true and Q is false
(C) P is false and Q is true (D) Both P and Q are false

Q. 19 In a simplified computer the instructions are:

OP Rj , Ri - Performs R j OP Ri and stores the result in register Ri
OP m, Ri - Performs val OP Ri abd stores the result in Ri. value denotes the
content of memory location m .
MCVm, Ri -Moves the content off memory loction m to register Ri .
MCVm, Ri, m -Moves the content of register Ri to memory location m .
The computer has only two registers, and OP is either ADD or SUB. Consider
the following basic block:
t1 = a + b
t2 = c + d
t 3 = e - t2
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t 4 = t1 - t 2
Assume that all operands are initially in memory. The final value of the computation
should be in memory. What is the minimum number of MOV instructions in the
code generated for this basic block?
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) 5 (D) 6

Common Data For Q. 20 and 21

Solve the problems and choose the correct answers.
Consider the CFG with {S, A, B} as the non-terminal alphabet, {a, b} as the
terminal alphabet, S as the start symbol and the following set of production rules
s " bA S " aB
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A " bAA
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(C) aabbab

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Q. 21 For the correct answer string to Q. 9 how many derivation trees are there?

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(C) 3 (D) 4

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Q. 22 In Ehernet when manchester encoding is used, the bit rate is
(A) Half the baud rate (B) Twice the baud rate

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Which one of the following uses UDP as the transport protocol?
(A) HTTP
(C) DNS
(B) Telnet
(D) SMTP

Q. 24 There are n stations in a slotted LAN. Each station attempts to transmit with a
probability p in each time slot. What is the probability that ONLY one station
transmits in a given time slot?
(A) np (1 - p) n - 1 (B) (1 - p) n - 1
(C) p (1 - p) n - 1 (D) 1 - (1 - p) n - 1

Q. 25 In a token ring network the transmission speed is 10 bps and the propagation
speed is 200 metres/ ms . The 1-bit delay in this network is equivalent to;
(A) 500 metres of cable (B) 200 metres of cable
(C) 20 metres of cable (D) 50 metres of cable

Q. 26 The address of a class B host is to be split into subnets with a 6-bit subnet
number. What is the maximum number of subnets and the maximum number of
hosts in each subnet?
(A) 62 subnets and 262142 hosts (B) 64 subnets and 262142 hosts
(C) 62 subnets and 1022 hosts (D) 64 subnets and 1024 hosts
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Q. 27 The message 11001001 is to be transmitted using the CRC polynomial x3 + 1 to

protect it from errors. The message that should be transmitted is:
(A) 11001001000 (B) 11001001011
(C) 11001010 (D) 110010010011

Q. 28 The distance between two stations M and N is L kilo metres. All frames are K
bits long. The propagation delay per kilo metre is t seconds Let R bits/second be
the channel capacity. Assuming that processing delay is negligible, the minimum
number of bits for the sequence number field in a frame for maximum utilization,
when the sliding window protocol is used, is;
(A) :log2 2LtR + 2K D (B) :log2 2LtR D
K K

(C) :log2 2LtR + K D (D) :log2 2LtR + K D

K 2K
Q. 29 Match the following:
P. SMTP 1. Application layer

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R. TCP
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(C) P-1,Q-4,R-2,S-5 (D) P-2,Q-4,R-1,S-3

Q. 30

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(A) 9,6,5 (B) 7,7,6
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track. 512 bytes of data are stored in a bit serial manner in a sector. The capacity
of the disk pack and the number of bits required to specify a particular sector in
the disk are respectively
(A) 256 Mbytes, 19 bits (B) 256 Mbyte, 28 bits
(C) 512 Mbytes, 20 bits (D) 64 Gbyte, 28 bits

Q. 32 Consider a pipelined processor with the following four stages

IF: Instruction Fetch
ID: Instruction Decode and Operand Fetch
EX: Execute
WB: Write Bank
The IF, ID and WB stages take one clock cycle each to complete the operation.
The number of clock cycles for the EX stage depends on the instruction. The
ADD and SUB instructions need 1 clock cycle and the MUL instruction need
3 clock cycles in the EX stage. Operand forwarding is used in the pipelined
processor. What is the number of clock cycles taken to complete the following
sequence of instructions?
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ADD R2, R1, R0 R2!R1+R0

MUL R4, R3, R2 R4!R3*R2
SUB R6, R5, R4 R6!R5-R4
(A) 7 (B) 8
(C) 10 (D) 14

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Consider the following program segment. Here R1, R2 and R3 are the general
purpose registers.
Instruction Operation Instruction size
(no. of words)

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MOV R1,(3000) R1!M[3000] 2

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MOV R2,R1 R2!M[R3] 1

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HALT Stop
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register R3 is 2000. The content of each of the memory locations from 2000

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numbers are in decided.

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Assume that the memory is word addressable. The number of memory references
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for accessing the data in executing the program completely is
(A) 10 (B) 11
(C) 20 (D) 21

Q. 34 Assume that the memory is word addressable. After the execution of this program,
the content of memory location 2010 is
(A) 100 (B) 101
(C) 102 (D) 110

Q. 35 Assume that the memory is byte addressable and the word size is 32 bits. If an
interrupt occurs during the execution of the instruction “INC R3”, what return
address will be pushed on to the stack?
(A) 1005 (B) 1020
(C) 1024 (D) 1040
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Common Data For Q. 36 and 37

Consider a machine with a byte addressable main memory of 216 bytes. Assume
that a direct mapped data cache consisting of 32 lines of 64 bytes each is used in
the system. A 50 # 50 two-dimensional array of bytes is stored in the main memory
stating from memory location 1100H.Assume that the data cache is initially
empty. The complete array is accessed twice. Assume that the contents of the
data cache do not change in between the two accesses.
Q. 36 How many data cache misses will occur in total?
(A) 48 (B) 50
(C) 56 (D) 59

Q. 37 Which of the following lines of the data cache will be replaced by new blocks in
accessing the array
(A) line 4 to line 11 (B) line 4 to line 12
(C) line 0 to line 7 (D) line 0 to line 8

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has enrolled for (or taken) what course(s). Assume that every course is taken
by at least one male and at least one female student. What does the following

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Q. 39 Consider the relation employee (name, sex, supervisorName (with name as the
key. supervisor Name-gives the name of the supervisor of the employee under

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consideration. What does the following Tuple Relational Calculus query produce?
{e.name|employee(e) 0

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(6 #) [Jemployee (x) 0 x.supervisorName
! e.name 0 x.sex = "male"]}
(A) Names of employees with a male supervisor
(B) Names of employees with no immediate male subordinates
(C) Names of employees with no immediate female subordinates
(D) Names of employees with a female supervisor

Q. 40 Consider the table employee (empId, name, department, salary) and the two
queries Q1, Q2 below. Assuming that department 5 has more than one employee,
and we want to find the employees who get higher salary than anyone in the
department 5, which one of the statements is TRUE for any arbitrary employee
table?
Q1 : Select e. empId
From employee e
Where not exists
(Select*From employee s Where s. department=”5” and s.salay>=e.salary)
Q.2 : Select e. empId
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From employee e
Where e.salary>Any
(Select distinct salary From employee s Where s. department=”5”)
(A) Q1 is the correct query.
(B) Q2 is the correct query
(C) Both Q1 and Q2 produce the same answer
(D) Neither Q1 nor Q2 is the correct query

Q. 41 Which one of the following statements is FALSE?

(A) Any relation with two attributes is in BCNF
(B) A relation in which every key has only one attribute is in 2NF
(C) A prime attribute can be transitively dependent on a key in 3NF relation

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record pointer) pairs it can hold. Given that the block size is 1K bytes, data

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(C) 67

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Q. 43 Consider the following schedules involving two transactions. Which one of the

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Q. 44 What is the maximum number of different Boolean functions involving n Boolean

variables?
(A) n2 (B) 2n
(C) 22 (D) 2n
n 2

Q. 45 How many 3-to-8 line decoders with an enable input are needed to construct a
6-to-64 line decoder without using any other logic gates?
(A) 7 (B) 8
(C) 9 (D) 10

Q. 46 Consider the following Boolean function of four variables

f (w, x,, y, z) = / (1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 14)
The function is
(A) independent of one variable (B) independent of two variables
(C) independent of three variables (D) dependent on all the variables

Q. 47 Let f (w, x, y, z) = / (0, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15). Which of the following expressions are
NOT equivalent to f ?
(A) x'y'z + w'xy' + wy'z + xz (B) w'y'x' + wx'y' + xz
(C) w'y'z' + wx'y' + xyz + xy'z (D) x'y'z + wx'y' + w'y
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Q. 48 Define the connective* for the boolean variable X and Y as: X * Y = XY + X'Y'
Let Z = X * Z
Consider the following expression P, Q and R.
P: X = Y * ZQ: Y = X * Z
R: X * Y * Z = 1
Which of the following is TRUE?
(A) only P and Q are valid (B) Only Q and Rare valid
(C) Only P and Rare valid (D) All P, Q ,Rare valid

Q. 49 Suppose only one multiplexer and one inverter are allowed to be used to implement
any Boolean function of n variables. What is the minimum size of the multiplexer
needed?
(A) 2n line to 1 line (B) 2n + 1 line to 1 line
(C) 2n - 1 line to 1 line (D) 2n - 2 line to 1 line

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Q. 50 In a look-ahead carry generator, the carry generate function Gi and the carry

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propagate function Pi for inputs, Ai and Bi are given by Pi = Ai 5 Bi and Gi = Ai Bi

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adder are given by

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the AND and OR gates can have any number of inputs. The number of AND

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(A) 6,3 (B) 10,4
(C) 6,4 (D) 10,5

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(where X is “don’t care”)
Clear Clock Load Count Function
1 X X X Clear to 0
0 X 0 0 No change
0 - 1 X Load input
0 - 0 1 Count next
The counter is connected as follows
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Assume that the counter and gate delays are negligible. If the counter starts at 0,
then it cycles through the following sequence
(A) 0,3,4 (B) 0,3,4,5
(C) 0,1,2,3,4 (D) 0,1,2,3,4,5

Q. 52 Let S be a set of n elements. The number of ordered pairs in the largest and the
smallest equivalence relations on S are
(A) n and n (B) n2 and n
(C) n2 and 0 (D) n and 1

Q. 53 Let G be the non-planar graph with the minimum possible number of edges.
Then G has.
(A) 9 edges and 5 vertices (B) 9 edges and 6 vertices
(C) 10 edges and 5 vertices (D) 10 edges and 6 vertices

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Q. 55 Consider the following two statements about the function f (x^= | x |h
P: f (x) is continuous for all real values of x

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Q: f (x) is differentiable for all real values of x
Which of the following is TRUE?
(A) P is true and Q is false (B) P is false and Q is true
(C) Both P and Q are true (D) Both P and Q are false

Q. 56 Let Graph (x) be a predicate which denotes that x is a graph. Let connected (x)
be a predicate which denotes that x is connected. Which of the following first
order logic sentences DOES NOT represent the statement; ‘Not every graph is
connected”?
(A) J6x (Graph(x) & Connected (x)) (B) 7x (Graph(x) /J Connected (x))
(C) J6x (JGraph(x) 0 Connected (x)) (D) 6x (Graph(x) & J Connected (x))

Q. 57 Which of the following is TRUE about formulae in Conjunctive Normal Form

(A) For any formula, there is a truth assignment for which at least half the
clauses evaluate to true.
(B) For any formula, there is a truth assignment for a which all the clauses
evaluate to true.
(C) For is a formula such that for each truth assignment at most one-rourth of
the clauses evaluate to true.
(D) None of the above.
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Q. 58 Suppose we uniformly and randomly select a permutation from the 20! permutations
of 1, 2, 3.......20. What is the probability that 2 appears at an earlier position that
any other even number in the selected permutation?
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/10
(C) 9! (D) None of these
20!
Q. 59 How many different non-iscomorphic Abelian groups of order 4 are there?
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) 4 (D) 5

Q. 60 Consider the set S = {a, b, c, d}. Consider the following 4 partitions p 1, p 2, p 3, p 4, on

S: p 1 = {abcd }, p 2 {ab, cd }, p 3 = {abc, d }, p 4 = {a, b, c, d }. Let ' be the partial
order on the set of partitions S' = (p 1, p 2. p 3, p 4) defined as follows: p i ' p j if and
only if pi refines pj . The poset diagram for (S', ') is

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Common Data For Q. 61 and 62
Solve the problems and choose the correct answers.
Suppose that a robot is placed on the Cartesian plane. At each step it is allowed
to move either one unit up or one unit right, i.e., if it is at (i, j) then it an move
to either (i + 1), j) or (i, j + 1).
Q. 61 How many distinct paths are there for the robot to reach the point (10, 10)
starting from the initial position (0, 0)?
20
(A) d n (B) 220
10
(C) 210 (D) None of these

Q. 62 Suppose that the robot is not allowed to traverse the line segment from (4, 4) to
(5, 4). With this constraint, how many distinct paths are there for the robot to
reach (10, 10) starting from (0, 0)?
(A) 29 (B) 219
8 11 20 8 11
(C) d n # d n (D) d n - d n # d n
4 5 10 4 5
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Q. 63 Which of the following graphs has an Eulerian circuit?

(A) Any k-regular graph where k is an even number
(B) A complete graph on 90 vertices
(C) The complement of a cycle on 25 vertices
(D) None of the above

Q. 64 Let A be a 4 # 4 matrix with eigenvalues = 5, - 2, 1, 4 . Which of the following is

an eigenvalue of
A I
= G
I A
Where I is the 4 # 4 identity matrix?
(A) - 5 (B) - 7
(C) 2 (D) 1

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Q. 66 Consider the series xn + 1 = xn + 9 , x 0 = 0.5 obtained from the Newton-Raphson
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(C) 1.6 (D) 1.4

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Group-1 contains some CPU scheduling algorithms and group-2 contains some
applications. Match entries in Group-1 entries in Group-2
Group-1 Group-2
P. Gang Scheduling 1. Guaranteed Scheduling
Q. Rate Monotonic Scheduling 2. Real-time Scheduling
R. Fair Share scheduling 3. Thread Scheduling

(A) P-3;Q-2;R-1 (B) P-1;Q-2;R-3

(C) P-2;Q-3;R-1 (D) P-1;Q-3;R-2

Q. 68 Consider the following statements about user level threads and kernel level
threads. Which one of the following statements is FALSE?
(A) Context switch time is longer for kernel level threads than for user level
threads
(B) User level threads do not need any hardware support
(C) Related kernal level thread can be scheduled on different processors in a
multiprocessor system
(D) Blocking one kernel level thread blocks all related threads
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Q. 69 An operating system uses Shortest Remaining Time first (SRT) process scheduling
algorithm. Consider the arrival times and execution times for the following
processes

Process Execution time Arrival time

P1 20 0
P2 25 15
P3 10 30
P4 15 45

What is the total waiting time for process P2?

(A) 5 (B) 15
(C) 40 (D) 55

Q. 70 A virtual memory system uses first In First Out (FIFO) page replacement policy

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statements:

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(D) Both P and Q are false

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by three processes. There are 5 units of each resource type. Consider the following
scenario, where the column alloc denotes the number of units of each resource
type allocated to each process, and the column request denotes the number of
units of each resource type requested by a process in order to complete execution.
Which of these processes will finish LAST?

alloc request
XYZ XYZ
P0 121 103
P1 201 012
P2 221 120
(A) P0
(B) P1
(C) P2
(D) None of the above, since the system is in a deadlock
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Q. 72 Two processes, P1 and P2, need to access a critical section of code. Consider the
following synchronization construct used by the processes:
/*P1*/ /*P2*/
while (true) { while (true) {
wants1=true; wants2 = true;
while (wants1 ==
while(wants2==true); true);
/* Critical /* Critical
Section*/ Section*/
wants 1 = false; wants 2 = false;
} }
/* Remainder section*/ /*Remainder section*/
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(C) It requires that processes enter the critical section in strict alternation.

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Q. 73 If optimal page replacement policy is used, how many page faults occur for the
above reference string?

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(A) 7 (B) 8
(C) 9 (D) 10

Q. 74 Least Recently Used (LRU) page replacement policy is a practical approximation

to optimal page replacement. For the above reference string, how many more page
faults occur with LRU than with the optimal page replacement policy?
(A) 0 (B) 1
(C) 2 (D) 3

Q. 75 Consider the following segment of C-code

int,j,n;
j=1;
while (j<=n)
j=j*2;
The number of comparisons made in the execution of the loop for any n > 0 is
(A) [log2 n] + 1 (B) n
(C) [log2 n] (D) 6log2 n @ + 1
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Q. 76 The following postfix expression with single digit operands in evaluated using a
stack
823^23*+51*-
Note that^is the exponentiation operator. The top two elements of the stack after
the first* is evaluated are
(A) 6, 1 (B) 5, 7
(C) 3, 2 (D) 1, 5

Q. 77 Consider the following C function:

int f(int n)
static int r=0;
if (n<=0) return 1;
if (n>3)
{r=n;
return f(n-2)+2;
}

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}
What is the value of f(5) ?
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(A) 5 (B) 7

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Q. 78

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struct CellNode {

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struct CellNode*leftchild;
int element;

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int GetValue(struct CellNode * ptr) {

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if (ptr!=NULL) {

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if ((ptr->leftChild = = NULL)&&
(ptr->rightChild = = NULL))
Value = 1;
else
value = value + GetValue
(ptr->leftChild)
+ Get Value
(ptr->rightChild);
}
return(value);
}
The value returned by Get Value when a pointer to the root of a binary tree is
passed as its argument is
(A) the number of nodes in the tree
(B) the number of internal nodes in the tree
(C) the number of leaf nodes in the tree
(D) the height of the tree
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Q. 79 Which of the following problems is undecidable?

(A) Membership problem for CFGs (B) Ambiguity problem for CFGs
(C) Finiteness problem for FSAs (D) Equivalence problem for FSAs

Q. 80 Which of the following is TRUE?

(A) Every subset of a regular set is regular
(B) Every finite subset of a non-regular set is regular
(C) The union of two non-regular sets is not regular
(D) Infinite union of finite sets is regular

Q. 81 A minimum state deterministic finite automation accepting the language

L = {w | w ! (0, 1}* , number of 0s &1s in w are divisible by 3 and 5, respectively}
has
(A) 15 states (B) 11 states

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(C) 10 states (D) 9 states

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Q. 82 The language L = {0T 21i | i # 0} over the alphabet {0,1,2) is

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(A) not recursive

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(C) us a regular language

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Q. 83 Which of the following languages is regular?
(A) {WWR | W ! {0,1} +} (B) {WWR X | X, W ! {0,1} +}

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Solve the problems and choose the correct answers.
Consider the following Finite State Automation

Q. 84 The language accepted by this automaton is given by the regular expression

(A) b * ab * ab * ab * (B) (a + b)*
(C) b * a (a + b)* (D) b * ab * ab *

Q. 85 The minimum state automaton equivalent to the above FSA has the following
number of states
(A) 1 (B) 2
(C) 3 (D) 4

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ANSWER KEY
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
(C) (B) (A) (A) (B) (D) (C) (C) (D) (A)
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
(D) (D) (B) (A) (D) (A) (C) (B) (B) (C)
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
(B) (B) (C) (A) (C) (C) (D) (B) (B) (B)
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
(A) (B) (D) (A) (A) (C) (C) (B) (B) (B)
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
(B) (B) (C) (C) (B) (B) (D) (D) (C) (C)
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

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(D) (B) (B) (D) (A) (D) (B) (D) (B) (C)
61 62 63 64 65 66
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67 68 69 70

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(A) (D) (A) (D) (B) (A) (A) (D) (B) (B)
71 72 73 74 75 76

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