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1.

Lokesh does unpaid work for the charity school.

A. honourable
B. honorary
C. honest
D. Honorific
Answer» C. honest
2.

DUCK : QUACK

A. Dog : Growl
B. Sparrow : Peck
C. Snake : Creep
D. Camel : Desert
Answer» B. Sparrow : Peck
3.

BRAIN : NEUROLOGY

A. Biology : Animals
B. Hydrology : Water
C. Body : Physiology
D. Entomology : Plants
Answer» D. Entomology : Plants
4.

  ERRORS : INEXPERIENCE

A. Skill : Mistake
B. Training : Economy
C. Losses: Carelessness
D. News: Publication
Answer» D. News: Publication
5.

What did Gandhiji express to the interviewer?

A. That since he possessed an ability of being amused he survived
B. That since he possessed a determinative set of mind he survived
C. That he could survive under any pressure
D. That he was not scared of worries
Answer» B. That since he possessed a determinative set of mind he survived
6.

What did Nehruji wish the Hindu widows would possess?

A. The quality of commanding respect from others
B. The quality of enjoying laughter, and becoming more active and aggressive
C. The quality of not giving respect to others
D. The quality of talking loudly
Answer» C. The quality of not giving respect to others
7.

  Choose the right word or words to describe GLUM

A. Glamorous
B. Glad
C. Gloomy
D. Great
Answer» D. Great
8.

'Raillery in the circle of my family' would mean _______.

A. Railway talk
B. Good-humoured teasing
C. Angry reproaches
D. Simple meaningless talk
Answer» C. Angry reproaches
9.

Choose the right word or words which mean Conceit

A. Imagined
B. Admit to be true
C. Too much pride in oneself
D. None of the above
Answer» D. None of the above
10.

A merchant bought some goods worth Rs. 6,000/- and sold half of them at 12% profit. At what profit percent should he sell the remaining goods to make an overall profit of 18%?

A. 24%
B. 28%
C. 18%
D. 20%
Answer» B. 28%
11.

What will come in place of question mark (?) in the given question? 36 38.8 42.8 ? 54.4 62

A. 46.2
B. 46.6
C. 48.2
D. 48
Answer» C. 48.2
12.

Pure milk costs Rs. 16/- per liter. After adding water the milkman sells the mixture @ Rs. 15/- per liter and thereby makes a profit of 25% in what respective ratio does he mix milk with water?

A. 3 : 1
B. 4 : 3
C. 3 : 2
D. 5 : 3
Answer» B. 4 : 3
13.

-676.76 + 1237.87 + 897.34 - ? = 1294.25

A. 168.6
B. 164.2
C. 156.4
D. 172.2
Answer» C. 156.4
14.

(34.5 × 14 × 42) ÷ 2.8 =?

A. 7150
B. 7365
C. 7245
D. 7575
Answer» D. 7575
15.

A, B and C started a business by investing Rs. 12,800/-. Rs.16,800/- and Rs. 9,600/- respectively. If after 8 months B received Rs. 13,125/- as his share of profit, what amount did C get as his share of profit?

A. Rs. 7,800/-
B. Rs. 7,150/-
C. Rs. 7,750/-
D. Rs. 7,500/-
Answer» E.
16.

Dharmendar was heard telling someone to go further down the corridor to the last office on the right side. To whose office room was he trying to direct that person?

A. Anil
B. Brijendar
C. Chander
D. Elexandar
Answer» C. Chander
17.

The binary equivalent of 5.375 is

A. 101.101110111
B. 101.011
C. 101011
D. None of above
Answer» C. 101011
18.

Input/output function prototypes and macros are defined in which header file?

A. conio.h
B. stdlib.h
C. stdio.h
D. dos.h
Answer» D. dos.h
19.

What will the function rewind() do?

A. Reposition the file pointer to a character reverse.
B. Reposition the file pointer stream to end of file.
C. Reposition the file pointer to begining of that line.
D. Reposition the file pointer to begining of file.
Answer» E.
20.

In which order do the following gets evaluated 1. Relational 2. Arithmetic 3. Logical 4. Assignment

A. 2134
B. 1234
C. 4321
D. 3214
Answer» B. 1234
21.

What does the following declaration mean? int (*ptr)[10];

A. ptr is array of pointers to 10 integers
B. ptr is a pointer to an array of 10 integers
C. ptr is an array of 10 integers
D. ptr is an pointer to array
Answer» C. ptr is an array of 10 integers
22.

What is the purpose of fflush() function.

A. flushes all streams and specified streams.
B. flushes only specified stream.
C. flushes input/output buffer.
D. flushes file buffer.
Answer» B. flushes only specified stream.
23.

What are the types of linkages?

A. Internal and External
B. External, Internal and None
C. External and None
D. Internal
Answer» C. External and None
24.

Which bitwise operator is suitable for turning on a particular bit in a number?

A. && operator
B. & operator
C. || operator
D. | operator
Answer» E.
25.

A float occupies 4 bytes. If the hexadecimal equivalent of these 4 bytes are A, B, C and D, then when this float is stored in memory in which of the following order do these bytes gets stored?

A. ABCD
B. DCBA
C. 0xABCD
D. Depends on big endian or little endian architecture
Answer» E.
26.

A boatman goes 2 km against the current of the stream in 1 hour and goes 1 km along the current in 10 minutes. How long will it take to go 5 km in stationary water?

A. 40 minutes
B. 1 hour
C. 1 hr 15 min
D. 1 hr 30 min
Answer» D. 1 hr 30 min
27.

On multiplying a number by 7, the product is a number each of whose digits is 3. The smallest such number is:

A. 47619
B. 47719
C. 48619
D. 47649
Answer» B. 47719
28.

A certain amount earns simple interest of Rs. 1750 after 7 years. Had the interest been 2% more, how much more interest would it have earned?

A. Rs. 35
B. Rs. 245
C. Rs. 350
D. Cannot be determined
Answer» E.
29.

A merchant has 1000 kg of sugar, part of which he sells at 8% profit and the rest at 18% profit. He gains 14% on the whole. The quantity sold at 18% profit is:

A. 400 kg
B. 560 kg
C. 600 kg
D. 640 kg
Answer» D. 640 kg
30.

Three numbers which are co-prime to each other are such that the product of the first two is 551 and that of the last two is 1073. The sum of the three numbers is:

A. 75
B. 81
C. 85
D. 89
Answer» D. 89
31.

In how many different ways can the letters of the word ‘OPTICAL’ be arranged so that the vowels always come together?

A. 120
B. 720
C. 4320
D. 2160
Answer» C. 4320
32.

A person’s present age is two-fifth of the age of his mother. After 8 years, he will be one-half of the age of his mother. How old is the mother at present?

A. 32 years
B. 36 years
C. 40 years
D. 48 years
Answer» D. 48 years
33.

Statements: No women teacher can play. Some women teachers are athletes. Conclusions: I Male athletes can play. II Some athletes can play.

A. Only conclusion I follows
B. Only conclusion II follows
C. Either I or II follows
D. Neither I nor II follows
Answer» E.
34.

Look at this series: 1.5, 2.3, 3.1, 3.9, … What number should come next?

A. 4.2
B. 4.4
C. 4.7
D. 5.1
Answer» D. 5.1
35.

Statement: “In order to bring punctuality in our office, we must provide conveyance allowance to our employees.” – In charge of a company tells Personnel Manager. Assumptions: Conveyance allowance will not help in bringing punctuality. Discipline and reward should always go hand in hand.

A. Only assumption I is implicit
B. Only assumption II is implicit
C. Either I or II is implicit
D. Neither I nor II is implicit
Answer» C. Either I or II is implicit
36.

(Essential Part) language

A. tongue
B. slang
C. writing
D. words
Answer» E.
37.

Look at this series: 22, 21, 23, 22, 24, 23, … What number should come next?

A. 22
B. 24
C. 25
D. 26
Answer» D. 26
38.

(Find the correctly spelt words.)

A. Skillful
B. Skillfull
C. Skilfull
D. Skilpull
Answer» B. Skillfull
39.

(Completing Statements) Even if it rains I shall come means ……

A. if I come it will not rain
B. if it rains I shall not come
C. I will certainly come whether it rains or not
D. whenever there is rain I shall come
Answer» D. whenever there is rain I shall come
40.

(Sentence Correction) The small child does whatever his father was done.

A. has done
B. did
C. does
D. had done
Answer» D. had done
41.

(Ordering of Words) It has been established that P : Einstein was Q : although a great scientist R : weak in arithmetic S : right from his school days The Proper sequence should be:

A. SRPQ
B. QPRS
C. QPSR
D. RQPS
Answer» C. QPSR
42.

(Spotting Errors)

A. We discussed about the problem so thoroughly
B. on the eve of the examination
C. that I found it very easy to work it out
D. No error.
Answer» B. on the eve of the examination
43.

In which header file is the NULL macro defined?

A. stdio.h
B. stddef.h
C. stdio.h and stddef.h
D. math.h
Answer» D. math.h
44.

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)
Answer» D. memalloc(variable_name,0)
45.

In C, if you pass an array as an argument to a function, what actually gets passed?

A. Value of elements in array
B. First element of the array
C. Base address of the array
D. Address of the last element of array
Answer» D. Address of the last element of array
46.

Look at this series: 53, 53, 40, 40, 27, 27, … What number should come next?

A. 12
B. 14
C. 27
D. 53
Answer» C. 27
47.

Embarrassed is to humiliated as frightened is to

A. terrified
B. agitated
C. courageous
D. reckless
Answer» B. agitated
48.

Yard is to inch as quart is to

A. gallon
B. ounce
C. milk
D. liquid
Answer» C. milk
49.

What is the difference between the compound interests on Rs. 5000 for 1 year at 4% per annum compounded yearly and half-yearly?

A. Rs. 2.04
B. Rs. 3.06
C. Rs. 4.80
D. Rs. 8.30
Answer» B. Rs. 3.06
50.

If log 27 = 1.431, then the value of log 9 is:

A. 0.934
B. 0.945
C. 0.954
D. 0.958
Answer» D. 0.958