SET 1

1. Insert the missing number. 12, 25, 49, 99, 197, 395, (...)
A) 789B) 1579
C) 722 D) 812
ANS :- A

2. P is able to do a piece of work in 15 days and Q can do the same work in 20 days. If they
can work together for 4 days, what is the fraction of work left?
A) 8/15 B) 7/15
C) 11/15 D) 2/11

ANS :- A
3. From a point P on a level ground, the angle of elevation of the top tower is 30º. If the
tower is 200 m high, the distance of point P from the foot of the tower is:
A) 312 mB) 400 m

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C) 346 m D) 298 m
ANS :- C
4. How much time will it take for an amount of Rs. 900 to yield Rs. 81 as interest at 4.5% per
annum of simple interest?
A) 1 year B) 2 years
C) 3 years D) 4 years
ANS : B
5. The cost price of 20 articles is the same as the selling price of x articles. If the profit
is 25%, find the value of x
A) 14 B) 15
C) 16 D) 18

ANS:- C
6. What would be the output of the following program?

#include<stdio.h>
int main(){

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 int i=4;
switch(i){
default:
printf("\n A mouse is an elephant built by the Japanese");
case 1:
printf(" Breeding rabbits is a hair raising experience");
break;
case 2:
printf("\n Friction is a drag");
break;
case 3:
printf("\n If practice make perfect, then no body's perfect");
}

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return 0;
}
A) A mouse is an elephant built by the Japanese

B) Breeding rabbits is a hare raising experience

C) All of the above
D) None of the above
ANS :- C

7. Which of the following statements is correct?

A) Base class pointer cannot point to derived class.
B) Derived class pointer cannot point to base class.
C) Pointer to derived class cannot be created.
D) Pointer to base class cannot be created.
ANS :- B

8. What is object in C++ ?

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 A) Object is part of syntax of a class.B) Object is datatype of a class.
C) Object is an instance of a class. D) Object is function of a class.
ANS :- B

9. The keyword used to transfer control from a function back to the calling function is

A) switch B) goto
C) go back D) return
ANS :- D

10. C was primarily developed as

A) System programming language B) General purpose language

C) Data processing language D) None of the above.
ANS :- A

11. What is a pointer?

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A) A keyword used to create variables
B) A variable used to store address of an instruction
C) A variable used to store address of other variable
D) A variable used to store address of a structure
ANS :- C

12.What is the size of ‘int’?

A) 2 B) 4
C) 8 D) Compiler dependent
ANS :- A

13.Find the average of first 40 natural numbers.

A) 18 B) 20.5
C) 19 D) 19.5
ANS :- B

14. Recursion is sometimes called?

A) Circular Definition B) Complex Definition

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 C) Procedure D) Union
ANS :- A

15.Which are build-in data structures in C ?

A) Arrays B) Structures
C) Files D) All of the above
ANS :- B

16.The size of a character variable in C ?

A) 1 bytes B) 2 bytes
C) 4 bytes D) 8 bytes
ANS :- A

17.Which is the correct sequence statements that swaps values of two statements ?
A) a = a+b; a = a-b; b = a-b; B) a = a+b; b = a-b; a = a-b;

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C) a = a-b; a = a+b; b = b-a; D) None of these
ANS :- B

18.Which of the following is responsible for conversion of C programs to machine language ?

A) Operating System B) An Editor

C) A Compiler D) An Interpreter

ANS :- C
19.What is right wayto initialization array?
A) int n{6} = {2,4,12};
B) int n{} = {2,4, 45,5,12,5};
C) intnum[6] = {2,4,12,5,45,5};
D) int n(6) = {2,4,12,5,45,5};

ANS :- C
20.The C language is?
A) Context free language

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 B) Context sensitive language
C) Regular language
D) None of these

ANS :- A

SET 2

1) A person crosses a 600 m long street in 5 minutes. What is his speed in km per hour?

a) 3.6 b) 7.2 c) 8.4 d) 10

ANS :- B

2) If a person walks at 14 km/hr instead of 10 km/hr, he would have walked 20 km more. The
actual distance travelled by him is:

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a) 50 km b) 56 km c) 70 km d) 80 km
ANS :-A

3) A man complete a journey in 10 hours. He travels first half of the journey at the rate of 21
km/hr and second half at the rate of 24 km/hr. Find the total journey in km.

a) 220 km b) 224 km c) 230 km d) 234 km

ANS :- B

4) The least perfect square, which is divisible by each of 21, 36 and 66 is:

a) 213444 b) 214344 c) 214434 d) 231444

ANS :- A

5) A group of students decided to collect as many paise from each member of group as is the
number of members. If the total collection amounts to Rs. 59.29, the number of the member is
the group is:

a) 57 b) 67 c) 77 d) 87
ANS :- C

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6) Vincent has a paper route. Each morning, he delivers 37 newspapers to customers in his
neighborhood. It takes Vincent 50 minutes to deliver all the papers. If Vincent is sick or has
other plans, his friend Thomas, who lives on the same street, will sometimes deliver the papers
for him.

a) Vincent and Thomas live in the same neighborhood

b) It takes Thomas more than 50 minutes to deliver the papers.
c) It is dark outside when Vincent begins his deliveries.
d) Thomas would like to have his own paper route.
ANS :- A

7) What are the different types of real data type in C ?

a) float, double b) short int, double, long int

c) float, double, long double d) double, long int, float
ANS :- C

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8) Which of the following statements are correct about 6 used in the program?
intnum[6];
num[6]=21;

a) In the first statement 6 specifies a particular element, whereas in the second statement
it specifies a type.
b) In the first statement 6 specifies a array size, whereas in the second statement it
specifies a particular element of array.
c) In the first statement 6 specifies a particular element, whereas in the second statement
it specifies a array size.
d) In both the statement 6 specifies array size.
ANS :- B

9) Which one of the following statements is correct?

a) Array elements can be of integer type only.

b) The rank of an Array is the total number of elements it can contain.
c) The length of an Array is the number of dimensions in the Array.
d)The default value of numeric array elements is zero.
e) The Array elements are guaranteed to be sorted.
ANS :- D

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10 ) The string built using the String class are immutable (unchangeable), whereas, the ones
built- using the StringBuilder class are mutable.

a) True b) False
ANS :- A

11) Which of the following is an 8-byte Integer?

a) Char b) Long c) Short d) Byte e) Integer

ANS :- B

12) Which of the following is the correct size of a Decimal datatype?

a) 8 Bytes b) 4 Bytes c) 10 Bytes d ) 16 Bytes e) None of the above.

ANS :- D

13) A large tanker can be filled by two pipes A and B in 60 minutes and 40 minutes respectively.
How many minutes will it take to fill the tanker from empty state if B is used for half the time

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and A and B fill it together for the other half?

a) 15 min b) 20 min c) 27.5 min d) 30 min

ANS :- D

14) A large cube is formed from the material obtained by melting three smaller cubes of 3, 4 and
5 cm side. What is the ratio of the total surface areas of the smaller cubes and the large cube?
a) 2 : 1 b) 3 : 2 c) 25 : 18 d) 27 : 20
ANS :- C

15) In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 20% of the
votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the
other candidate got, was:

a) 2700 b) 2900 c) 3000 d)3100

ANS :- A

16) Robert is travelling on his cycle and has calculated to reach point A at 2 P.M. if he travels at
10 kmph, he will reach there at 12 noon if he travels at 15 kmph. At what speed must he travel to
reach A at 1 P.M.?

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 a) 8 kmph b) 11 kmph c) 12 kmph d)14 kmph

ANS :- C

17)A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth". If the
father's age is 38 years now, the son's age five years back was:
a) 14 years b) 19 years c) 33 years d) 38 years
ANS :- A

18) What function should be used to free the memory allocated by calloc()

a) dealloc(); b) malloc(variable_name, 0)
c)free(); d) memalloc(variable_name, 0)
ANS :- C

19) The binary equivalent of 5.375 is

a) 101.101110111 b) 101.011 c) 101011 d) None of above

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ANS :- B

20) If a variable is a pointer to a structure, then which of the following operator is used to access
data members of the structure through the pointer variable?

a). b)& c)* d) ->

ANS :- D

SET 3

1. The sum of three numbers is 98. If the ratio of the first to second is 2 :3 and that of the
second to the third is 5 : 8, then the second number is:

A) 20 B) 30 C) 48 D) 58

ANS: - B

2. Insert the missing number.

11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, (....)

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 A) 43 B) 47 C) 53 D)51
ANS :- A

3. Ayesha's father was 38 years of age when she was born while her mother was 36 years
old when her brother four years younger to her was born. What is the difference between
the ages of her parents?

A) 2 Years B) 4 years C) 6 years D) 8 years

ANS :- C

4. The ratio between the length and the breadth of a rectangular park is 3 : 2. If a man
cycling along the boundary of the park at the speed of 12 km/hr completes one round in 8
minutes, then the area of the park (in sq. m) is:

A)15360 B) 153600 C) 30720 D) 307200

ANS:- B

5. A man wants to sell his scooter. There are two offers, one at Rs. 12,000 cash and the

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other a credit of Rs. 12,880 to be paid after 8 months, money being at 18% per annum.
Which is

A)Rs. 12,000 in cash B) s. 12,880 at credit C) Both are equally good

ANS :- A

6. Eritrea, which became the 182nd member of the UN in 1993, is in the continent of

A) Asia B) Africa C) EuropeD) Australia

ANS:- B
7. Fastest shorthand writer was

Dr. G. D. Bist B) J.R.D Tata C) J.M. Tagore D) Khudada Khan

ANS :- A

8. First human heart transplant operation conducted by Dr. Christiaan Barnard on Louis
Washkansky, was conducted in

A)1967 B) 1968 C) 1958 D) 1922

ANS:- A

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 9. For the Olympics and World Tournaments, the dimensions of basketball court are

26 m x 14 m B) 28 m x 15 m C) 27 m x 16 m D) 28 m x 16 m
ANS :- B

10. The chief constituent of gobar gas is

A)Ethane B) methane C) hydrogen D) carbon dioxide
ANS :-B

11. Associativity has no role to play unless the precedence of operator is same

A) True B) False
ANS :- A

12. Is it true that too many recursive calls may result into stack overflow?
A) YES B) NO

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ANS :-A

13. The library function used to find the last occurrence of a character in a string is

A)trnstr() B) laststr() C) strrchr() D) strstr()

ANS :- C

14. Which header file should you include, if you are going to develop a function, which can
accept variable number of arguments?

A) varagrg.h B) stdlib.h C) stdio.h D) stdarg.h

ANS :- D

15. The keyword used to transfer control from a function back to the calling function is.

A)switch B) goto C) go back D) return

ANS :- D

16. A train running at the speed of 60 km/hr crosses a pole in 9 seconds. What is the length of
the train?

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 A) 120 metres B) 180 metres C) 324metres D) 150 metres
ANS :- D

17. A train passes a station platform in 36 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 20
seconds. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr, what is the length of the platform?

A) 120 m B) 240 m C) 300 m D) None of these

ANS :- A

18. From a point P on a level ground, the angle of elevation of the top tower is 30º. If the
tower is 100 m high, the distance of point P from the foot of the tower is:

A)149 m B) 156 m C) 173 m D) 200 m\

ANS :- C

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19. What was the day of the week on 17th June, 1998?

A) Monday B) Tuesday C) Wednesday D) Thursday

ANS :- C

20. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how many days
can A do the work if he is assisted by B and C on every third day?

A)12 days B) 15 days C) 16 days D) 18 days

ANS :-B

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