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| 1. |
Who among the following was not a member of the Indian Constituent Assembly? |
| A. | Sir Firoz Khan Nur |
| B. | Sir Zafarullah Khan |
| C. | Dr. Jay Shankar |
| D. | Jai Prakash Narayan |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
Ralph Miliband mewed the state as an instrument in the hands of the ruling class. Which perspective ofcomparative politics can he be placed under? |
| A. | Structural |
| B. | Feminist |
| C. | Instrumental |
| D. | Plural Socialist |
| Answer» D. Plural Socialist | |
| 3. |
Which of the former presidents was associated with the Trade-Union Movement in India? |
| A. | K.R. Narayanan |
| B. | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| C. | V.V. Giri |
| D. | Rana Swami Venkat Raman |
| Answer» D. Rana Swami Venkat Raman | |
| 4. |
Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:List - I (Chief Ministers dismissed) a. Ajay Mukherjee b. Charan Singh c. N.T. Rama Rao d. Farooq Abdullah List - II(Governors responsible) i. Gopala Reddy ii. Jagmohan iii. Dharam Vira iv. Ram Lal Codes: a b c d |
| A. | iv ii i iii |
| B. | ii iv iii i |
| C. | i iii ii iv |
| D. | iii i iv ii |
| Answer» E. | |
| 5. |
Which one of the following theories developed by the European thinkers came under the active discussion of social scientists in the US in the fifties? |
| A. | Communications theory |
| B. | Elite theory |
| C. | Structural functionalism |
| D. | Decision-making theory |
| Answer» C. Structural functionalism | |
| 6. |
Which of the following are the common features of India and U.K?(i) Supremacy of Parliament(ii) A written Constitution(iii) Bicameralism(iv) Prime Minister is the leader of the largest party on the floor of the House. |
| A. | (i) and (ii) are correct. |
| B. | (ii) and (iii) are correct. |
| C. | (iii) and (iv) are correct. |
| D. | (i) and (iv) are correct. |
| Answer» D. (i) and (iv) are correct. | |
| 7. |
Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?(i) Dependency theory: Samir Amin(ii) Theory of Development: Lucian Pye(iii) Theory of Alienation: Karl Marx(iv) Theory of Negative Liberty: Johan RawlsSelect the correct |
| A. | (i), (ii), (iv) are correct. |
| B. | (i), (iii), (iv) are correct. |
| C. | (ii), (iii), (iv) are correct. |
| D. | (i), (ii), (iii) are correct. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 8. |
According to S.P. HuntigtonPolitical Decaytakes place when |
| A. | Mass Mobilisation plus participation is greater than Institutionalisation. |
| B. | Mass mobilisation and participation is lesser than Institutionalisation. |
| C. | The Institutions have both complexity and simplicity. |
| D. | There is longevity of Institutions. |
| Answer» B. Mass mobilisation and participation is lesser than Institutionalisation. | |
| 9. |
Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:List - I (Electoral Process) a. First-Past-the- Post system b. Second Ballot system c. Additional member system d. Party list system List - II (Countries)i. Germanyii. Switzerland iii. USA iv. France Codes: a b c d |
| A. | i iii ii iv |
| B. | iii iv i ii |
| C. | ii i iv iii |
| D. | iv ii iii i |
| Answer» C. ii i iv iii | |
| 10. |
Which of the following statements are true of the British Parliamentary system?(i) Parliament can make law on any subject.(ii) The Queen acts on the advice of the Cabinet.(iii) The House of Lords can delay a bill passed by the House of Commons for two years.(iv) The Cabinet functions on the principle of collective responsibility.Codes: |
| A. | (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct. |
| B. | (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct. |
| C. | (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct. |
| D. | (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (AS) and the other labelled as Reason (R):Assertion (AS): John Stuart Mill is a reluctant democrat.Reason (R): All peoples are fit for democracy.Codes: |
| A. | Both (AS) and (R) are true and (R) is the right explanation of (AS). |
| B. | Both (AS) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (AS). |
| C. | (AS) is true, but (R) is false. |
| D. | (AS) is false, but (R) is true. |
| Answer» D. (AS) is false, but (R) is true. | |
| 12. |
Assertion (AS): The US Senate is the most powerful second chamber in the world.Reason (R): There are few things which the President and the House of Representatives can do together without the approval of the Senate.Codes: |
| A. | Both (AS) and (R) are true and(R) is the correct explanation of(AS). |
| B. | Both (AS) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (AS). |
| C. | (AS) is true, but (R) is false. |
| D. | (R) is true but (AS) is false. |
| Answer» B. Both (AS) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (AS). | |
| 13. |
Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:List - I (Authors) a. D. Held b. J. Lively c. MacPherson d. C. Pateman List - II (Books) i. Participation and Democratic theory ii. Models of Democracy iii. Democracyiv. The Real World of Democracy Codes: a b c d |
| A. | i ii iii iv |
| B. | ii iii iv i |
| C. | iii i ii iv |
| D. | iv ii i iii |
| Answer» C. iii i ii iv | |
| 14. |
Who among the following envisaged the conflict of the present age as between the all devouring collective ego - whether of the nation or of the class and the individual struggling for freedom? |
| A. | Gandhi |
| B. | M.N. Roy |
| C. | Aurobindo |
| D. | Ambedkar |
| Answer» C. Aurobindo | |
| 15. |
Who among the following regarded Buddhism as a moral and tolerant alternative to Marxism? |
| A. | Ram Mohan Roy |
| B. | Vivekananda |
| C. | B.R. Ambedkar |
| D. | M.N. Roy |
| Answer» D. M.N. Roy | |
| 16. |
For Savarkar, what were the three fundamental bonds that united the Hindus? |
| A. | Territory, Race, Culture. |
| B. | Territory, Population, Sovereignty. |
| C. | Territory, Government and International Recognition. |
| D. | None of the above. |
| Answer» B. Territory, Population, Sovereignty. | |
| 17. |
Identify the correct sequence regarding the debate on the decline/demise of Political theory.(i) David Easton on decline of Political theory.(ii) R.A. Dahl on death of Political theory.(iii) Riemer-Political theory is in the dog house.(iv) Peter Laslett on demise of Political theory.Select the correct answer from the codes given below: |
| A. | (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) |
| B. | (i), (iv), (ii), (iii) |
| C. | (ii), (iii), (i), (iv) |
| D. | (iv), (i), (ii), (iii) |
| Answer» C. (ii), (iii), (i), (iv) | |
| 18. |
Who differentiated between antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions? |
| A. | Marx |
| B. | Lenin |
| C. | Mao |
| D. | M.N. Roy |
| Answer» D. M.N. Roy | |
| 19. |
John Rawls' theory of Justice combines |
| A. | People's democracy, market economy, and the redistributive welfare scheme. |
| B. | Liberal democracy, command economy and distributive justice. |
| C. | Liberal or associational socialistic democracy, market economy and the redistributive welfare scheme. |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 20. |
Plato describes the working of the human mind by |
| A. | The allegory of the cave |
| B. | The metaphor of the divided line |
| C. | The doctrine of forms |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 21. |
The speed up of a pipeline processing over an equivalent non-pipeline processing is defined by the ratio: |
| A. | S = n tn / (k + n - 1)tp |
| B. | S = n tn / (k + n + 1)tp |
| C. | S = n tn / (k - n + 1)tp |
| D. | S = (k + n - 1)tp / n tnnWhere n ? no. of tasksntn ? time of completion of each tasknk ? no. of segments of pipelinentp ? clock cycle timenS ? speed up ratio |
| Answer» B. S = n tn / (k + n + 1)tp | |
| 22. |
Match the following:List - I Process state transition a Ready? Running b Blocked? Ready c Running? Blocked d Running? ReadyList - IIReason for transitioni. Request made by the process is satisfied or an event for which it was waiting occurs.ii. Process wishes to wait for some action by another process.iii. The process is dispatched.iv. The process is preempted. Codes:a b c d |
| A. | iiiiiiiv |
| B. | iviiiiii |
| C. | iviiiiii |
| D. | iiiiiiiii |
| Answer» B. iviiiiii | |
| 23. |
The hit ratio of a Translation Look Aside Buffer (TLAB) is 80%. It takes 20 nanoseconds (ns) to search TLAB and 100 ns to access main memory. The effective memory access time is ______. |
| A. | 36 ns |
| B. | 140 ns |
| C. | 122 ns |
| D. | 40 ns |
| Answer» C. 122 ns | |
| 24. |
Thoma's-write rule is ______. |
| A. | Two phase locking protocol |
| B. | Timestamp ordering protocol |
| C. | One phase locking protocol |
| D. | Sliding window protocol |
| Answer» C. One phase locking protocol | |
| 25. |
A method to provide secure transmission of email is called ____. |
| A. | TLS |
| B. | SA |
| C. | IPSec |
| D. | PGP |
| Answer» E. | |
| 26. |
Cross_tab displays permit users to view ______ of multidimensional data at a time. |
| A. | One dimension |
| B. | Two dimensions |
| C. | Three dimensions |
| D. | Multi dimensions |
| Answer» C. Three dimensions | |
| 27. |
The decision tree classifier is a widely used technique for ______. |
| A. | Classification |
| B. | Association |
| C. | Partition |
| D. | Clustering |
| Answer» B. Association | |
| 28. |
Views are useful for _____ unwanted information, and for collecting together information from more than one relation into a single view. |
| A. | Hiding |
| B. | Deleting |
| C. | Highlighting |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. Deleting | |
| 29. |
The _____ language was originally designed as the Transformation Language for Style Sheet facility. |
| A. | XSTL |
| B. | XML |
| C. | XQuery |
| D. | XPath |
| Answer» B. XML | |
| 30. |
Usage of Preemption and Transaction Rollback prevents ______. |
| A. | Unauthorized usage of data file |
| B. | Deadlock situation |
| C. | Data manipulation |
| D. | File preemption |
| Answer» C. Data manipulation | |
| 31. |
Linked Lists are not suitable for _____. |
| A. | Binary Search |
| B. | Polynomial Manipulation |
| C. | Insertion |
| D. | Radix Sort |
| Answer» B. Polynomial Manipulation | |
| 32. |
Equivalence partitioning is a ______ testing method that divides the input domain of a program into classes of data from which test cases can be derived. |
| A. | White box |
| B. | Black box |
| C. | Regression |
| D. | Smoke |
| Answer» C. Regression | |
| 33. |
The ______ of a program or computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software components, the externally visible properties of these components, and the relationship among them. |
| A. | E-R diagram |
| B. | Data flow diagram |
| C. | Software architecture |
| D. | Software design |
| Answer» D. Software design | |
| 34. |
Match the following identities/laws to their corresponding name:(a) x + x = x x • x = x i. Dominance(b) x + 0 = x x • 1 = x ii. Absorption(c) x + 1 = 1 x • 0 = 0 iii. Idempotent(d) x • (x + y) = x iv. IdentityCodes:(a) (b) (c) (d) |
| A. | iiiiviii |
| B. | iviiiiii |
| C. | iviiiiii |
| D. | iiiiviii |
| Answer» B. iviiiiii | |
| 35. |
Find the number of ways to paint 12 offices so that 3 of them will be green, 2 of them pink, 2 of them yellow and the rest ones white. |
| A. | 55,440 |
| B. | 1, 66,320 |
| C. | 4.790E+08 |
| D. | 39, 91,680 |
| Answer» C. 4.790E+08 | |
| 36. |
The number of eight-bit strings beginning with either 111 or 101 is ______. |
| A. | 64 |
| B. | 128 |
| C. | 265 |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. 128 | |
| 37. |
Assume the statements S1 and S2 given as:S1: Given a context free grammar G, there exists an algorithm for determining whether L(G) is infinite.S2: There exists an algorithm to determine whether two context free grammars generate the same language.Which of the following is true? |
| A. | S1 is correct and S2 is not correct. |
| B. | Both S1 and S2 are correct. |
| C. | Both S1 and S2 are not correct. |
| D. | S1 is not correct and S2 is correct. |
| Answer» B. Both S1 and S2 are correct. | |
| 38. |
Which one of the following set of gates is best suited for 'parity' checking and 'parity' generation? |
| A. | AND, OR, NOT |
| B. | NAND, NOR |
| C. | EX-OR, EX-NOR |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 39. |
Consider the In-order and Post-order traversals of a tree as given below: In-order: j e n k o p b f a c l g m d h i Post-order: j n o p k e f b c l m g h i d aThe Pre-order traversal of the tree shall be |
| A. | a b f e j k n o p c d g l m h i |
| B. | a b c d e f j k n o p g l m h i |
| C. | a b e j k n o p f c d g l m h i |
| D. | j e n o p k f b c l m g h i d a |
| Answer» D. j e n o p k f b c l m g h i d a | |
| 40. |
Consider the following statements:(i) A graph in which there is a unique path between every pair of vertices is a tree.(ii) A connected graph with e = v - 1 is a tree.(iii) A graph with e = v - 1 that has no circuit is a tree.Which of the above statements is/are true? |
| A. | (i) u0026 (iii) |
| B. | (ii) u0026 (iii) |
| C. | (i) u0026 (ii) |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
Regular expression for the language L = {w ? {0, 1}* | w has no pair of consecutive zeros} is |
| A. | (1 + 010)* |
| B. | (01 + 10)* |
| C. | (1 + 010)* (0 + ?) |
| D. | (1 + 01)* (0 + ?) |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
The number of states in a minimal deterministic finite automaton corresponding to the languageL = { an | n=4 } is |
| A. | 3 |
| B. | 4 |
| C. | 5 |
| D. | 6 |
| Answer» D. 6 | |
| 43. |
The efficient data structure to insert/delete a number in a stored set of numbers is |
| A. | Queue |
| B. | Linked list |
| C. | Doubly linked list |
| D. | Binary tree |
| Answer» D. Binary tree | |
| 44. |
The minimum number of nodes in a binary tree of depth d (root is at level 0) is |
| A. | 2d - 1 |
| B. | 2d + 1 - 1 |
| C. | d + 1 |
| D. | d |
| Answer» D. d | |
| 45. |
Suppose that the splits at every level of Quicksort are in proportion 1-ß to ß, where 0 u003c ß = 0.5 is a constant. The number of elements in an array is n. The maximum depth is approximately |
| A. | 0.5 ß Ig n |
| B. | 0.5 (1 - ß) Ig n |
| C. | - (Ig n)/(Ig ß) |
| D. | - (Ig n)/Ig (1 - ß) |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
LL grammar for the language L = {an bm cn+m | m=0, n=0} is |
| A. | S ? aSc | S1; S1 ? bS1c | ? |
| B. | S ? aSc | S1| ; S1 ? bS1c |
| C. | S ? aSc | S1| ?; S1 ? bS1c| ? |
| D. | S ? aSc | ?; S1 ? bS1c| ? |
| Answer» D. S ? aSc | ?; S1 ? bS1c| ? | |
| 47. |
Consider the following two languages:L1 = {an bl ak | n + l +ku003e5}L2 = {an bl ak |nu003e5, l u003e3, k= l}Which of the following is true? |
| A. | L1 is regular language and L2 is not regular language. |
| B. | Both L1 and L2 are regular languages. |
| C. | Both L1 and L2 are not regular languages. |
| D. | L1 is not regular language and L2 is regular language. |
| Answer» B. Both L1 and L2 are regular languages. | |
| 48. |
The amortized time complexity to perform ______ operation(s) in Splay trees is O(Ig n). |
| A. | Search |
| B. | Search and Insert |
| C. | Search and Delete |
| D. | Search, Insert and Delete |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
The IEEE single-precision and double-precision format to represent floating-point numbers, has a length of ______ and ______ respectively. |
| A. | 8 bits and 16 bits |
| B. | 16 bits and 32 bits |
| C. | 32 bits and 64 bits |
| D. | 64 bits and 128 bits |
| Answer» D. 64 bits and 128 bits | |
| 50. |
Consider an undirected graph G with 100 nodes. The maximum number of edges to be included in G so that the graph is not connected is |
| A. | 2451 |
| B. | 4950 |
| C. | 4851 |
| D. | 9900 |
| Answer» D. 9900 | |