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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
CTBT is meant to |
| A. | Create Nuclear free zone in Asia |
| B. | Create Nuclear free zone |
| C. | Ban testing of Nuclear weapons |
| D. | Ban production and export of Nuclear Material |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
Which one of the International Organization proposed at Bretton Woods, was never created? |
| A. | International Trade Organization |
| B. | GATT |
| C. | WTO |
| D. | IMF |
| Answer» B. GATT | |
| 3. |
The instrument used in seeing objects on the surface of sea from submarine is known as |
| A. | Kaleidoscope |
| B. | Spectroscope |
| C. | Telescope |
| D. | Periscope |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
The difference between a nuclear reactor and atomic bomb is that |
| A. | No chain reaction takes place in nuclear reactor, while in the atomic bomb there is a chain reaction. |
| B. | The chain reaction in nuclear reactor is controlled. |
| C. | The chain reaction in nuclear reactor is not controlled. |
| D. | No chain reaction takes place in atomic bomb, while it takes place in nuclear reactor |
| Answer» C. The chain reaction in nuclear reactor is not controlled. | |
| 5. |
'Who so ever rules the ocean, will rule the world' was propounded by |
| A. | A.T. Mahan |
| B. | Walter Lippman |
| C. | Mao Tse Tung |
| D. | Indira Gandhi |
| Answer» B. Walter Lippman | |
| 6. |
Arrange the sequence of wars in India in chronological order. |
| A. | Indo-Pak War on Kashmir, Sino Indian War, Bangladesh Liberation War, Goa Liberation War |
| B. | Goa Liberation War, Indo-Pak War on Kashmir, Sino Indian War, Bangladesh Liberation War |
| C. | Indo-Pak War on Kashmir, Goa Liberation War, Sino Indian War, Bangladesh LiberationnWar |
| D. | Indo-Pak War on Kashmir, Sino Indian War, Goa Liberation War, Bangladesh Liberation War |
| Answer» D. Indo-Pak War on Kashmir, Sino Indian War, Goa Liberation War, Bangladesh Liberation War | |
| 7. |
Rimland Theory emphasises on |
| A. | Core area |
| B. | Inner crescent |
| C. | Outer crescent |
| D. | Core area and outer crescent |
| Answer» C. Outer crescent | |
| 8. |
Chakma refugees are |
| A. | Ethnic Vietnamese settled in Cambodia |
| B. | Muslim Burmese who fled to Bangladesh following repression by the Burmese Junta |
| C. | Sinhalese who fled the Jaffna peninsula in the wake of civil war |
| D. | Buddhist inhabitants of Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh who fled to India. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
Mark the correct sequence of world regions in descending order in respect of per capita CO2 emissions |
| A. | Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Oceana, Asia (excluding middle East), North America |
| B. | North America, Oceana, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Asia (excluding Middle East) |
| C. | Europe, North America, Oceana, Asia (Excluding Middle East), Middle East and North Africa |
| D. | North America, Europe, Asia (excluding Middle East), Oceana, Middle East and North Africa |
| Answer» C. Europe, North America, Oceana, Asia (Excluding Middle East), Middle East and North Africa | |
| 10. |
Match the military activity given in List - I with their military code name given in List - II. Choose the appropriate code:List - I a. Integration of Hyderabad into Indian Union b. Integration of Goa into Indian Union c. Liberation of East Pakistan d. Clearance of Terrorists from Golden Temple (Punjab) List - IIi. OP Poloii. OP Vijayiii. OP Cactus Lilyiv. OP Blue StarCodes: |
| A. | A(i), (b)(ii), (c)(iii), (d)(iv) |
| B. | (b)(ii), (c)(iii), (b)(ii), (c)(iii) |
| C. | (c)(iii), (d)(ii), (a)(i), (b)(ii) |
| D. | A(iv), (a)(i), (d)(iv), (a)(i) |
| Answer» B. (b)(ii), (c)(iii), (b)(ii), (c)(iii) | |
| 11. |
Identify the correct sequence of induction of following ships in Indian Navy in chronological order: |
| A. | INS Vikrant, INS Virat, INS Jalashwa, INS Arihant |
| B. | INS Arihant, INS Virat, INS Vikrant, INS Jalashwa |
| C. | INS Jalashwa, INS Vikrant, INS Arihant, INS Virat |
| D. | INS Virat, INS Vikrant, INS Arihant, INS Jalashwa |
| Answer» B. INS Arihant, INS Virat, INS Vikrant, INS Jalashwa | |
| 12. |
'Universal Declaration of Human Rights' was adopted by U.N.O. on |
| A. | 24th Oct. 1945 |
| B. | 10th Dec. 1948 |
| C. | 25th Sept. 1951 |
| D. | 30 July 1970 |
| Answer» C. 25th Sept. 1951 | |
| 13. |
How many countries emerged out of disintegration of USSR? |
| A. | Nine |
| B. | Twelve |
| C. | Fifteen |
| D. | Six |
| Answer» D. Six | |
| 14. |
Lakshadweep is a |
| A. | Islet |
| B. | Island |
| C. | Continent |
| D. | Capital of a state |
| Answer» C. Continent | |
| 15. |
A fuzzy set A on R is ________ iff A (?x1 + (1 - ?) x2) = min [A(x1), A(x2)] for all x1, x2 ? R and all ? ? [0, 1], where min denotes the minimum operator. |
| A. | Support |
| B. | a-cut |
| C. | Convex |
| D. | Concave |
| Answer» D. Concave | |
| 16. |
Which of the following is a knowledge representation technique used to represent knowledge about stereotype situation? |
| A. | Semantic network |
| B. | Frames |
| C. | Scripts |
| D. | Conceptual Dependency |
| Answer» D. Conceptual Dependency | |
| 17. |
The map colouring problem can be solved using which of the following technique? |
| A. | Means-end analysis |
| B. | Constraint satisfaction |
| C. | AO* search |
| D. | Breadth first search |
| Answer» C. AO* search | |
| 18. |
Identify the correct descending order in respect of ethnic population in the Jafana province of Sri Lanka. |
| A. | Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Christians |
| B. | Tamils, Muslims, Sinhalese, Christians |
| C. | Muslims, Tamils, Christians, Sinhalese |
| D. | Christians, Tamils, Muslims, Sinhalese |
| Answer» C. Muslims, Tamils, Christians, Sinhalese | |
| 19. |
Officer Training Academy is located at |
| A. | Bombay |
| B. | Kolkata |
| C. | Chennai |
| D. | Hyderabad |
| Answer» D. Hyderabad | |
| 20. |
Cabinet Committee on security is presided by |
| A. | Defence Minister |
| B. | National Security Advisor |
| C. | Prime Minister |
| D. | President of India |
| Answer» D. President of India | |
| 21. |
Given two jugs of capacities 5 litres and 3 litres with no measuring markers on them. Assume that there is endless supply of water. Then the minimum number of states to measure 4 litres water will be |
| A. | 3 |
| B. | 4 |
| C. | 5 |
| D. | 7 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
Which one of the following is not an informed search technique? |
| A. | Hill climbing search |
| B. | Best first search |
| C. | A* search |
| D. | Depth first search |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
A UNIX file system has 1 KB block size and 4-byte disk addresses. What is the maximum file size if the in node contains ten direct block entries, one single indirect block entry, one double indirect block entry and one triple indirect block entry? |
| A. | 30 GB |
| B. | 64 GB |
| C. | 16 GB |
| D. | 1 GB |
| Answer» D. 1 GB | |
| 24. |
If we convert ?u ?v ?x ?y (P(f(u),v, x, y) ? Q(u,v,y)) to ?v ?x (P(f(a),v, x, g(v,x)) ? Q(a,v,g(v,x)))This process is known as |
| A. | Simplification |
| B. | Unification |
| C. | Skolemization |
| D. | Resolution |
| Answer» D. Resolution | |
| 25. |
Which one of the following is a correct implementation of the meta-predicatenotin PROLOG (Here G represents a goal)? |
| A. | not (G):- !, call(G), fail. not(G). |
| B. | not (G):- call(G), !, fail. not(G). |
| C. | not (G):- call(G), fail, !. not(G). |
| D. | not (G) |
| Answer» C. not (G):- call(G), fail, !. not(G). | |
| 26. |
The versions of windows operating system like windows XP and window Vista uses following file system: |
| A. | FAT-16 |
| B. | FAT-32 |
| C. | NTFS (NT File System) |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
A thread is usually defined as a light weight process because an Operating System (OS) maintains smaller data structure for a thread than for a process. In relation to this, which of the following statement is correct? |
| A. | OS maintains only scheduling and accounting information for each thread. |
| B. | OS maintains only CPU registers for each thread. |
| C. | OS does not maintain a separate stack for each thread. |
| D. | OS does not maintain virtual memory state for each thread. |
| Answer» C. OS does not maintain a separate stack for each thread. | |
| 28. |
Working set model is used in memory management to implement the concept of |
| A. | Swapping |
| B. | Principal of Locality |
| C. | Segmentation |
| D. | Thrashing |
| Answer» C. Segmentation | |
| 29. |
Let the time taken to switch between user mode and kernel mode of execution be T1 while time taken to switch between two user processes be T2. Which of the following is correct? |
| A. | T1 u003c T2 |
| B. | T1 u003e T2 |
| C. | T1 = T2 |
| D. | Nothing can be said about the relation between T1 and T2. |
| Answer» B. T1 u003e T2 | |
| 30. |
An operating system using banker's algorithm for deadlock avoidance has ten dedicated devices (of same type) and has three processes P1, P2 and P3 with maximum resource requirements of 4, 5 and 8 respectively. There are two states of allocation of devices as follows:State 1 Processes P1 P2 P3Devices allocated 2 3 4State 2 Processes P1 P2 P3Devices allocated 0 2 4Which of the following is correct? |
| A. | State 1 is unsafe and state 2 is safe. |
| B. | State 1 is safe and state 2 is unsafe. |
| C. | Both, state 1 and state 2 are safe. |
| D. | Both, state 1 and state 2 are unsafe. |
| Answer» B. State 1 is safe and state 2 is unsafe. | |
| 31. |
Suppose S and Q are two semaphores initialized to 1. P1 and P2 are two processes which are sharing resources.P1 has statements P2 has statementsWait(S); wait (Q);Wait (Q); wait(S);Critical section 1; critical section 2;Signal(S); signal (Q); signal (Q); signal(S);Their execution may sometimes lead to an undesirable situation called |
| A. | Starvation |
| B. | Race condition |
| C. | Multithreading |
| D. | Deadlock |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
A job has four pages A, B, C, D and the main memory has two page frames only. The job needs to process its pages in following order: ABACABDBACD Assuming that a page interrupt occurs when a new page is brought in the main memory, irrespective of whether the page is swapped out or not. The number of page interrupts in FIFO and LRU page replacement algorithms are |
| A. | 9 and 7 |
| B. | 7 and 6 |
| C. | 9 and 8 |
| D. | 8 and 6 |
| Answer» D. 8 and 6 | |
| 33. |
Consider the following processes with time slice of 4 milliseconds (I/O requests are ignored):Process A B C DArrival time 0 123CPU cycle 8 495The average turnaround time of these processes will be |
| A. | 19.25 milliseconds |
| B. | 18.25 milliseconds |
| C. | 19.5 milliseconds |
| D. | 18.5 milliseconds |
| Answer» C. 19.5 milliseconds | |
| 34. |
The number of distinct binary images which can be generated from a given binary image of right M X N are |
| A. | M + N |
| B. | M X N |
| C. | 2M + N |
| D. | 2MN |
| Answer» E. | |
| 35. |
Match the following:a. calloc( ) i. Frees previously allocated spaceb. free( ) ii. Modifies previously allocated spacec. malloc( ) iii. Allocates space for arrayd. realloc( ) iv. Allocates requested size of spaceCodes: a b c d |
| A. | iii i iv ii |
| B. | iii ii i iv |
| C. | iii iv i ii |
| D. | iv ii iii i |
| Answer» B. iii ii i iv | |
| 36. |
Match the following:a. Foreign keys i. Domain constraintb. Private key ii. Referential integrityc. Event control action model iii. Encryptiond. Data security iv. TriggerCodes:a b c d |
| A. | iii ii i iv |
| B. | ii i iv iii |
| C. | iii iv i ii |
| D. | i ii iii iv |
| Answer» C. iii iv i ii | |
| 37. |
Suppose you want to delete the name that occurs beforeVivekin an alphabetical listing. Which of the following data structures shall be most efficient for this operation? |
| A. | Circular linked list |
| B. | Doubly linked list |
| C. | Linked list |
| D. | Dequeue |
| Answer» C. Linked list | |
| 38. |
The simplified function in product of sums of Boolean function F(W, X, Y, Z) = S(0, 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10) is |
| A. | (W' + X') (Y' + Z') (X' + Z) |
| B. | (W' + X') (Y' + Z') (X' + Z') |
| C. | (W' + X') (Y' + Z) (X' + Z) |
| D. | (W' + X') (Y + Z') (X' + Z) |
| Answer» B. (W' + X') (Y' + Z') (X' + Z') | |
| 39. |
The statements s1 and s2 are given as:s1: Context sensitive languages are closed under intersection, concatenation, substitution and inverse homomorphism.s2: Context free languages are closed under complementation, substitution and homomorphism.Which of the following is correct statement? |
| A. | Both s1 and s2 are correct. |
| B. | s1 is correct and s2 is not correct. |
| C. | s1 is not correct and s2 is correct. |
| D. | Both s1 and s2 are not correct. |
| Answer» C. s1 is not correct and s2 is correct. | |
| 40. |
Match the following:a. Context sensitive language i. Deterministic finite automationb. Regular grammar ii. Recursive enumerablec. Context free grammar iii. Recursive languaged. Unrestricted grammar iv. Pushdown automationCodes: a b c d |
| A. | ii i iv iii |
| B. | iii iv i ii |
| C. | iii i iv ii |
| D. | ii iv i iii |
| Answer» D. ii iv i iii | |
| 41. |
For every context free grammar (G) there exists an algorithm that passes any w ? L (G) in number of steps proportional to |
| A. | ln|w| |
| B. | |w| |
| C. | |w|2 |
| D. | |w|3 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
A pushdown automation M = (Q, S, G, d, q0, z, F) is set to be deterministic subject to which of the following condition(s), for every q ? Q, a ? S U {?} and b ? G(s1) d (q, a, b) contains at most one element(s2) if d (q, ?, b) is not empty then d(q, c, b) must be empty for every c ? S |
| A. | Only s1 |
| B. | Only s2 |
| C. | Both s1 and s2 |
| D. | Neither s1 nor s2 |
| Answer» D. Neither s1 nor s2 | |
| 43. |
The grammar with production rules S ? aSb |SS|? generates language L given by: |
| A. | L = {w? {a, b}* | na (w) = nb (w) and na (v) = nb (v) where v is any prefix of w} |
| B. | L = {w? {a, b}* | na (w) = nb (w) and na (v) = nb (v) where v is any prefix of w} |
| C. | L = {w? {a, b}* | na (w) ? nb (w) and na (v) = nb (v) where v is any prefix of w} |
| D. | L = {w? {a, b}* | na (w) ? nb (w) and na (v) = nb (v) where v is any prefix of w} |
| Answer» C. L = {w? {a, b}* | na (w) ? nb (w) and na (v) = nb (v) where v is any prefix of w} | |
| 44. |
Horn clauses are special kinds of propositions which can be described as |
| A. | Single atomic proposition on left side. |
| B. | Single or multiple atomic propositions on left side. |
| C. | A single atomic proposition on left side and a single atomic proposition on right side. |
| D. | A single atomic proposition on left side or an empty left side. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 45. |
Refer the points as listed below:(a) What are the operator precedence rules?(b) What are the operator associativity rules?(c) What is the order of operand evaluation?(d) Are there restrictions on operand evaluation side effects?Which of the above must be considered as primary design issues for arithmetic expressions? |
| A. | (a), (b) and (c) |
| B. | (a), (c) and (d) |
| C. | (a), (b) and (d) |
| D. | (a), (b), (c) and (d) |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
The refresh rate above which a picture stops flickering and fuses into a steady image is called _________. |
| A. | Crucial fusion frequency |
| B. | Current frequency fusion |
| C. | Critical fusion frequency |
| D. | Critically diffused frequency |
| Answer» D. Critically diffused frequency | |
| 47. |
Which of the following is/are the fundamental semantic model(s) of parameter passing? |
| A. | In mode |
| B. | Out mode |
| C. | in-out mode |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 48. |
Arrays in C language can have _________ with reference to memory representation. |
| A. | n-subscripts |
| B. | two-subscripts |
| C. | Only one subscript |
| D. | Three subscripts only |
| Answer» D. Three subscripts only | |
| 49. |
A basic feasible solution to a m-origin, n-destination transportation problem is said to be _________ if the number of positive allocations are less than m + n - 1. |
| A. | Degenerate |
| B. | Non-degenerate |
| C. | Unbounded |
| D. | Unbalanced |
| Answer» B. Non-degenerate | |
| 50. |
An actor in an animation is a small program invoked _______ per frame to determine the characteristics of some object in the animation. |
| A. | Once |
| B. | Twice |
| C. | 30 times |
| D. | 60 times |
| Answer» B. Twice | |