CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING

GUESS PAPER FOR DITISS JUN JUL 2013

Each question shall carry one mark. There will be a negative 3. Marc Andreessen
marking i.e., quarter (0.25) mark will be deducted for every 4. Ken Thompson
wrong answer. 12. Who co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the
1. C – programming language is related to which of company to Microsoft?
the following generation? 1. Shawn Fanning
1. Fourth 2. Ada Byron Lovelace
2. Third 3. Sabeer Bhatia
3. Second 4. Ray Tomlinson
4. First 13. What is the max length for primary name of a
2. Who introduce the concept of Stored Program? computer file under DOS?
1. Charles Babbage 1. 8
2. Howard A 2. 12
3. Von Neumann 3. 3
4. John Atanasoff 4. 16
3. The primary advantage of key-to-tape data entry 14. Which of the following could be a valid DOS file
system is___________. specification?
1. A large percentage of editing can be 1. NOSFILE.POST
performed at the time of data entry. 2. NOSFILE.P.OST
2. Key verification is easily performed 3. NOSFILE.DOC
3. The tape is reusable 4. NOST.FILEDOC
4. Keying errors can be detected as they occur. 15. In which configuration, multiple computers are
4. While inserting a diskette into the diskette drive of a connected to a host computer?
PC, the diskette’s label side should face_________. 1. Star Networks
1. East 2. Rings Networks
2. North 3. Bus Networks
3. South 4. Hybrid Networks
4. Up 16. What would be the best way to move around a 3-D
5. Firewire is usually used for__________. environment?
1. Connecting to the internet 1. Use a space mouse
2. Downloading Digital Camera pictures 2. Use a tracker ball
3. Connecting to the printer 3. Use a keyboard
4. Interfacing to a Digital Camcorder 4. Use touch screen
6. What is USB? 17. _________is capable of changing signals from one
1. A new Hard Disk standard form to another?
2. A new CD-ROM specification 1. Converter
3. A high-speed serial connection 2. Transducer
4. A high-speed video connection 3. Conductor
7. Where is your BIOS stored? 4. All of the above
1. DRAM 18. When single medium is used to present
2. SDRAM information is called as__________.
3. Flash 1. Unimedium presentation
4. Hard Disk 2. Single medium Presentation
8. Where does your PC store your programs when 3. Both 1& 2
the power is off? 4. None of the above
1. DRAM 19. In India first computer installed in _________.
2. Cache 1. Indian institute of Technology,
3. Hard Disk Drive 2. Indian Institute of Science,
4. Monitor 3. Indian Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.
9. What type of character recognition technologies 4. Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta,
used by the banking industry to process checks? 20. Main component of the CPU is __________
1. CIRT 1. Control unit and registers
2. OICR 2. Registers and main memory
3. MICR 3. Control Unit and ALU
4. SICR 4. ALU and BUS
10. Print resolution is measured in__________ 21. When a computer is first turned on or restarted, a
1. PPM special type of absolute loader called ________ is
2. DPI executed.
3. Pixels 1. Compile and Go loader
4. Fonts 2. Boot loader
11. Who created Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)? 3. Bootstrap loader
1. Paul Zimmerman 4. Relating loader
2. Tim Berners-Lee

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22. Why the virtual memory is used? 31. ________ is a protocol that enables applications to
a. A process cannot be loaded and has to keep exchange data in a variety of formats.
waiting for its execution to start until sufficient 1. Dynamic data exchange
free memory for loading the entire process 2. Component object model
become available. 3. Data copy
b. A process cannot be loaded in a system 4. None of the above
whose main memory size is less than the total 32. _________ is an efficient way for two or more
memory required by the process. processes on the same computer to share data.
1. Only a 1. File exchange
2. Only b 2. File sharing
3. Both a and b 3. File mapping
4. None of the above 4. None of the above
23. Single-user operating system is __________. 33. Dirty bit is used to show the _________.
1. MS-DOS 1. Page with corrupted data
2. UNIX 2. The wrong page in the memory
3. OS/2 3. Page that is less frequently accessed
4. All of the above 4. Page that is modified after being loaded into
24. The operating system creates _________from the cache memory
physical computer. 34. The first-fit, best-fit and the worst-fit algorithm can
1. Virtual space be used for _________.
2. Virtual computers 1. Contiguous allocation of memory
3. Virtual device 2. Linked allocation of memory
4. None of the above 3. Indexed allocation of memory
25. Which of the following OS does not implement 4. All of the above
multi tasking truly _________. 35. In Round Robin CPU scheduling, as the time
1. Windows 98 quantum is increased, the average turn around
2. Windows NT time _________.
3. Windows XP 1. Increases
4. MS DOS 2. Decreases
26. Which of the following OS would you prefer to 3. Remain constant
implement a Client-Server architecture? 4. Varies irregularly
1. MS DOS 36. Page size is always
2. Windows 95 1. In powers of 2
3. Windows 98 2. One
4. Windows 2000 3. In powers of 3
27. In First-Come, First-Served scheduling policy, I/O 4. None of the above
bound processes may have to wait long in the 37. Which of the following memory allocation scheme
ready queue waiting for a CPU bound job to finish. suffers from External fragmentation?
This is known as __________. 1. Segmentation
1. Aging 2. Swapping
2. Priority inversion 3. Pure demand paging
3. Priority inheritance 4. Paging
4. Convoy effect 38. _________ page replacement algorithm suffers
28. The minimum number of page frames that must be from Belady's anomaly.
allocated to a running process in a virtual memory 1. LRU
environment is determined by 2. MRU
1. the instruction set architecture 3. FIFO
2. page size 4. LIFO
3. physical memory size 39. Which of the following could be considered an
4. number of processes in memory advantage of Virtual Memory Management?
29. Which of the following is used to describe 1. Thrashing may occur when a program
interconnected computer configurations with two or requires two or more pages.
more CPUs. 2. Only a part of each page needs to be loaded
1. Multitasking into memory.
2. Time Sharing 3. Job size is no longer restricted to the size of
3. Multiprogramming main memory
4. Multiprocessing 4. All of the above
30. A ________ is an application or a process that 40. Memory mapped I/O involves
responds to a client request. 1. transferring information between memory locations
1. client 2. transferring information between the CPU
2. thread and I/O devices in the same way as between
3. server the CPU and memory.
4. All of the above 3. transferring information between registers
and memory
4. transferring information between I/O devices
and memory
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41. In demand paging, while initiating execution of 51. What is SMTP?
process _________ space is allocated on paging 1. Simple Mailer transport protocol
device for its logical address, its code & data. 2. Simple Mail Transport protocol
1. Logical 3. Single Mail transport protocol
2. Swap 4. None of the above
3. Virtual 52. An organization that share devices, saves_______.
4. Physical 1. Money
42. File length _________. 2. Time
1. Should always be fixed 3. Space
2. Should always be variable 4. All of the above
3. Depends upon the size of the file. 53. Which of the following is not a guided medium?
4. Should be chosen to match the data 1. Coaxial cable
character 2. Fiber-optic cable
43. What is internal backup? 3. Atmosphere
1. Uses more tapes 4. None of the above
2. Should be done each month 54. What is the major factor that makes coaxial cable
3. Saves only files that have recently changed less susceptible to noise?
4. Saves all files 1. Inner conductor
44. When should backup be done? 2. Diameter of cable
1. Daily for most installations 3. Outer conductor
2. Weekly for most installations 4. Insulating material
3. As several images copies, followed by an 55. A _________ operates at the upper levels of the OSI
incremental model and translates information between two completely
4. As several incremental, followed by an different network architectures or data formats.
image copy 1. Router
45. I/O devices can be classified according to the 2. Switch
following criteria 3. Gateway
1. Nature of access 4. None of the above
2. Purpose 56. Which of the following device is responsible for the
3. Data Transfer Mode connection of Local Area Networks with Wide Area
4. All of the above Networks?
46. To perform an output operation, data to be written 1. Hub
onto the I/O device is first transferred from the 2. Bridge
memory to the DMA buffer. 3. Data switch
1. True 4. Gateway
2. False 57. Which of these is not part of the TCP/IP model?
3. Can’t say 1. Network access
4. None of the above 2. Internet
47. Tapes and disks are _________ devices 3. Presentation
1. Block Mode 4. Application
2. Character Mode 58. Which of the following is not true for switching
3. Both technology?
4. None of the above 1. Packet Switching
48. Which of the following statement is false regarding 2. Link Switching
deadlock? 3. Packets are switched in the form of
1. Deadlock affects OS performance. datagram
2. A deadlock involving OS performance can 4. Circuit Switching techniques
not have more severe consequences. 59. Which of the following statement is a true
3. OS handles only deadlocks caused by description of fiber Optic Cable?
sharing of resources. 1. Fiber optic cables transfer data in a mesh
4. Operating system uses resource allocation 2. Fiber optic cables transfer data in light form
policies. 3. Fiber optic cables are similar to coaxial
49. A set of processes is deadlocked if each of cables
them_________. 4. None of the above
1. does not waits for an event 60. Which of the following topologies is used for Ethernet?
2. waits for an event can be caused only by 1. Star
processes in the set. 2. Bus
3. Both 1 & 2 3. Ring
4. None of the above 4. All of the above
50. Is the following statement is true? 61. Which of the following is not always necessary for
Various kinds of deadlocks can arise in an OS. accessing the Web?
1. Yes 1. A Web browser
2. No 2. A connection to an Internet Access Provider
3. Can’t say 3. A computer
4. None of the above 4. A modem

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62. A word that looks underlined on a web page is 4. Bits
usually __________. 73. Fiber optics is an example of ________ layer.
1. important word 1. Physical Layer
2. the web address 2. Data Link Layer
3. a "link" to another web page 3. Network layer
4. a mistake 4. Application Layer
63. How many stations can a fiber optic network 74. FDM in Networking stands for __________.
support? 1. Frequency Division Multiplexing
1. 25000 2. Frequency Distribution Multiplexing
2. 10000 3. Frequency Division Methods
3. 5000 4. Frequency Distribution Methods
4. 1000 75. NIC stands for __________.
64. Which layer translates between physical and 1. Network Internet Cable
logical addresses? 2. Network Internet Card
1. the MAC sublayer of the data link layer 3. Network Internal Card
2. transport 4. None of the above
3. physical 76. When a process wants to establish a TCP
4. network connection with a remote process, it attaches itself
65. Which of the following layer is responsible for to an unused TCP port on its own machine. This is
transmitting raw bit streams between two nodes? called a _________ port.
1. Transport Layer 1. Source
2. Presentation Layer 2. Destination
3. Physical Layer 3. External
4. Data Link Layer 4. Internal
66. ISO OSI model is used in __________. 77. Which one of the following is a connectionless protocol?
1. Stand alone PC 1. UDP
2. Network environment 2. Ethernet
3. Any where 3. IPX
4. None of the above 4. All of the above
67. Which of the following switching methods accept 78. Which of the following application uses the UDP
only the first 6 bytes of a frame? protocol?
1. store and forward 1. DNS
2. cut-through 2. TFTP
3. tag 3. RIP
4. fast flag 4. All of the above
68. Which of the following ISO level is more closely 79. The HTTP request line contains a _________
related to the physical communications facilities? method to request a document from the server.
1. Application 1. Get
2. Session 2. Post
3. Network 3. Copy
4. Data link 4. Do
69. Which of the following are benefits of using a 80. Which of the following protocols is unacknowledged?
layered network model? 1. TCP
1. it facilitates troubleshooting 2. UDP
2. it breaks the complex process of networking 3. SPX
into more manageable chunks 4. All of the above
3. it allows layers developed by different 81. The inclusion of the checksum in the TCP segment
vendors to interoperate is _________.
4. All of the above 1. Optional
70. Which of the following are considered to be the 2. Mandatory
upper layer protocols? 3. at the discretion of the application program
1. presentation and session 4. None of the above
2. application and presentation 82. The value of window size is determined by _________.
3. application, presentation, and session 1. the sender
4. application, presentation, session, and transport 2. the receiver
71. The purpose of the ________ layer is to transport 3. both the sender and receiver
a raw bit stream from one machine to another. 4. None of the above
1. Physical Layer 83. E-mail use ________ communication protocol.
2. Transport Layer 1. SMTP
3. Network 2. HTTP
4. Data Link Layer 3. ICMP
72. The physical layer is concerned with the movement 4. TCP/IP
of _______ over the physical medium. 84. What is the default port number for SMTP?
1. Programs 1. 21
2. Dialogs 2. 22
3. Protocols 3. 28
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85. Current wireless MACs are based on _________. 97. What is the most widely used protocol for local
1. CSMA/CD area networks?
2. CSMA/CA 1. HTML
3. Hybrid technique depending on traffic 2. TCP/IP
4. Hybrid technique with fixed time partitions 3. Ethernet
86. Routers function in the _______ layers 4. Token ring
1. physical and data link 98. At which layer does Flow control take place?
2. physical, data link, and network 1. Physical
3. data link and network 2. data link
4. None of the above 3. Network
87. Which device act as a traffic cop? 4. transport
1. Router 99. At which layer error detection and recovery take
2. Hub place?
3. Switch 1. transport
4. Modem 2. presentation
88. Any electronic device on a network is called _______. 3. network
1. Node 4. application
2. Hub 100. Which of the following statement is true about an
3. Router IP address?
4. Cable 1. IP address is based on your computer
89. ________ algorithm change their routing decisions network card
to reflect changes in the topology. 2. IP address is issued by a computer vendor
1. Routing 3. IP address is a Transport Protocol
2. Session 4. IP address is not used on the internet
3. Adaptive 101. Which of the following words have correct spelling?
4. Nonadaptive 1. Vocabilary
90. Clients are the computers used by ________ users 2. Vocabullary
for everyday work. 3. Vocabulary
1. Individual 4. Voccabulary
2. Group of 102. Which of the following is odd one?
3. System administrator 1. Cow
4. None of the above 2. Bull
91. What does USB stand for in USB Port? 3. Cock
1. United System Booting 4. Horse
2. Universal System Bus 103. Which of the following is synonymous to the word
3. Universal Serial Bus ’Disparity’?
4. Universal System Booting 1. Uniform
92. What data communications hardware converts 2. Equal
data from one standard to another? 3. Par
1. Hub 4. Gap
2. Router 104. Which of the following is synonymous to the word
3. Repeater ’Deprivation’?
4. Gateway 1. Scarcity
93. Which of the following is standard for transmitting a data? 2. Control
1. Topology 3. Tenure
2. Protocol 4. Custody
3. Packet 105. Which of the following is synonymous to the word
4. Token ring ’Gleam’?
94. Which of the following OSI layers is concerned with the 1. Atrocious
transmission of unstructured bit stream over a physical link? 2. Nasty
1. 7 3. Shimmer
2. 1 4. Hide
3. 6 106. Which of the following is synonymous to the word
4. 2 ’Compulsion’?
95. What type of network architecture would be the 1. Obligation
easiest to setup and maintain? 2. Claim
1. Local area network 3. Tribute
2. Wide area network 4. Recognize
3. Peer-to-peer network 107. Which of the following is synonymous to the word
4. Metropolitan network ’Ignoble’?
96. What network is used at a military base? 1. Remarkable
1. Local area network 2. Splendid
2. Wide area network 3. Dastardly
3. Campus area network 4. Amazing
4. Office area network
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108. Adults differ a lot in their sleeping ________. 120. If DELETE is coded as 6 then how is INSERTED
1. Manners coded?
2. Time 1. 12
3. Habits 2. 13
4. Techniques 3. 18
109. There should be ________of fresh air in the room. 4. 14
1. Plenty 121. C is the sister of F, B is the brother of E's husband,
2. Much D is the father of A and grandfather of F. There are
3. more 2 fathers, one mother and 3 brothers in the family.
4. Lots Who is the mother?
110. If houses are made of wood, then they easily catch 1. A
________ fire. 2. B
1. to 3. C
2. on 4. E
3. the 122. 2(48)4, 3(74)7, 4(82)1, 3(___)2. What is the
4. with missing number?
111. The task calls ________ much effort. 1. 64
1. at 2. 62
2. specific 3. 66
3. for 4. 68
4. much 123. Which is the odd number, (33, 58), (66, 91), (42,
112. What is the antonym of the word ‘cyclic’? 62), (55,80)?
1. Repeated 1. (33, 58)
2. Recurring 2. (66, 91)
3. Rare 3. (42, 62)
4. Continual 4. (55,80)
113. What is the antonym of the word ‘Propel’? 124. Sourav from his house walks towards north and
1. Push covers 15.5 km and then turns left and travels 7
2. Drive km. He then turns left again and after traveling
3. Force 31km, again turns left and stops after traveling
4. Linger turns left and stops after traveling 7 km. How far is
114. Full : empty ::? he from his house?
1. Chaos: water 1. 8.5 km
2. Chaos: scattered 2. 46.5 km
3. Chaos:frenzy 3. 15.5 km
4. Chaos: order 4. 60.5 km
115. Genuine: honest:: ? 125. Tarun walks towards east a distance of 120 m to
1. Fraudulent :sensitive sell his product. Later he walks straight 70 m right
2. Fraudulent :deceitful to sell his product. What would be approximately
3. Fraudulent :selfish the shortest distance between the two places?
4. Fraudulent :truthful 1. 190
116. The bus stops ________ the bus stop. 2. 138.9
1. At 3. 50
2. On 4. None of these
3. into 126. Sachin is 7th from the left and Geeta is 5th from the
4. to right. When they interchange their positions Geeta
th
117. The clock ________ the wall is very old. becomes 19 from the right. What is Sachin’s
1. To position from the left?
2. By 1. 21st
th
3. On 2. 19
th
4. Over 3. 23
th
118. 2,4,6,8,10, ________? 4. 20
1. 13 127. Flight to Mumbai leaves every 5 hrs. At the
2. 14 information counter a man learnt that the flight took
3. 12 off 25 min before. If the present time is 10:45 a.m.,
4. 16 what is the time for the next flight?
119. If PRIYA can coded as 15 then how can 1. 2:20 a.m.
TENDULKAR coded? 2. 4:10 a.m.
1. 108 3. 3:30 p.m.
2. 107 4. 3:20 p.m.
3. 106 128. If “Y% of 12 is 3 ” then what is ” H% of 50”?
4. 105 1. 8
2. 4
3. 6
4. 2
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129. If × means ‘addition’, - means ‘division’, ÷ means 138. X began a business with Rs. 85,000. He was
‘subtraction’, and + means ‘multiplication’, what joined afterwards by Y with Rs. 42,500. What will
would be the value of the following? be the profit ratio at the end of the year, if Y joins
a) 18 × 5 ÷ 10 +4 –5 after 4 months?
b) 18 +5 ÷ 10 × 4 – 5 1. 1:2
1. 15,80 2. 3:1
2. 815.8, 80.8 3. 2:1
3. 15, 80.8 4. 4:3
4. 15.5, 80.5 139. A student multiplied a number by 3/5 instead of
130. There are five friends A, B, K, D and E. K is taller 5/3. What is the percentage error in the
than B. B and D are of same height. A is taller than calculation?
E and there is only one shorter than A in the group. 1. 34%
Who is the taller in the group? 2. 44%
1. A 3. 54%
2. B 4. 64%
3. K 140. How many words can be formed of the letters of
4. D the word 'BANANA' be arranged so that the
131. Swimming downstream in a river, you can swim 2 consonants occupy the even places?
miles in 40 minutes, & in upstream 2 miles in 60 1. 36
minutes. How long would it take you to swim a mile 2. 10
in still water? 3. 3
1. 25 Minutes 4. 5
2. 23 Minutes 141. How many ways can 6 men be arranged in a
3. 24 Minutes circle?
4. None of the above 1. 720
132. If alternate letters are deleted from the following 2. 240
series then which letter will divide the new series in 3. 120
two equal parts? 4. None of the above
ACEGIKMOQSUWY 142. One pipe can fill a tank three times as fast as
1. N another pipe. Together the two pipes can fill the
2. M tank in 12 minutes, then in how many minutes the
3. K slower pipe alone will be able to fill the tank?
4. O 1. 48 minutes
133. If the following words are arranged according to 2. 81 minutes
the dictionary order then which will be the second 3. 108 minutes
word in that order? 4. 192 minutes
1. youthful 143. Three taps P, Q and R can fill a tank in 12, 15 and
2. yokel 20 hours respectively. If P is open all the time and
3. young Q and R are open for one hour each alternately, by
4. youngster what time the tank will be full?
134. How many times in a day the hands of a clock are 1. 6 hours
straight? 2. 7 hours 30 min
1. 22 3. 6 hours 30 min
2. 30 4. 7 hours
3. 44 144. A bag contains 6 black and 8 white balls. One ball
4. None of the above is drawn at random. What is the probability that the
135. A sum of money doubles itself at compound ball drawn is white?
interest in 15 years. In how many years will it 1. 3/4
become eight times? 2. 4/7
1. 45 years 3. 1/8
2. 40 years 4. 3/7
3. 42 years 145. There are 6 red shoes & 4 green shoes . If two of
4. None of the above red shoes are drawn what is the probability of
136. Which is the greatest of the four least common getting red shoes?
multiples of 3,5,7? 1. 1/3
1. 1 2. 2/3
2. 420 3. 3/5
3. 315 4. 2/5
4. 105 146. A shopkeeper expects a gain of 20 % on his cost
137. What will be the smallest one digit number to be price. If in a week, his sale was of Rs. 360, what
replaced by * in the number 6*106 so that the was his profit?
number is exactly divisible by 11? 1. 80
1. 4 2. 72
2. 3 3. 70
3. 2 4. 60
4. 1
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147. A man buys a cycle for Rs. 1200 and sells it at a
loss of 10%. What is the selling price of the cycle?
1. Rs. 1080
2. Rs. 1160
3. Rs. 1202
4. Rs. 1190
148. If 40% of a number is equal to two-third of another
number, what is the ratio of first number to the
second number?
1. 2:5
2. 3:7
3. 5:3
4. 7:3
149. A sum of money at simple interest amounts to Rs.
815 in 3 years and to Rs. 854 in 4 years. What is
the sum?
1. Rs. 698
2. Rs. 690
3. Rs. 650
4. Rs. 700
150. A train can travel 50% faster than a car. Both start
from point A at the same time and reach point B 75
kms away from A at the same time. On the way,
however, the train lost about 12.5 minutes while
stopping at the stations. What is the speed of the
car?
1. 90 km/hr
2. 120 km/hr
3. 140 km/hr
4. 150 km/hr

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