Aptitude - General Paper - 12

Directions for questions 1-10: Expand the following terms

Ans. Open Database Connectivity.

1. HTML
   Ans. Hyper Text Markup Language

2. RISC
   Ans. Reduced Instruction Set Computing

3. ASCII
   Ans. American Standard Code For Information Interchange

4. ANSI
   Ans. American National Standard Institute.

5. XML
   Ans. Extended Markup Language

6. FLOPS
   Ans. Floating Point Operating Per Second

7. SQL
   Ans. Sequential Query Language

8. QBE
   Ans. Query By Example

9. ALE
   Ans. Address Latch Enable

10. What is lagging in DBMS ?
    Ans. Reduced Redundancy.
    
    Directions 12 to 20: For the following questions find the odd man out

11. Unix
    OS/2
    CMOS
    MSDOS
    Ans. CMOS

12. Oracle
    Informix
    Sybase
    LISP
    Ans. LISP

13. Laser
    Inkjet
    Dotmatirx
    Mouse
    Ans. Mouse

14. Dir
    Cls
    Csh
    Copy
    Ans. Csh

15. Bit
    Byte
    Nibble
    Digit
    Ans. Digit

16. Hard Disk
    Floppy Drive
    CD ROM
    Cache
    Ans. Cache

17. SQL
    QUEL
    QBE
    ORACLE
    Ans. Oracle

18. C++
    JAVA
    VC++
    PASCAL
    Ans. PASCAL

19. Projection Operation
    Selection Operation
    Intersection
    Set Difference Operation
    Ans. Intersection

20. Which of the following is a universal gate ?
    (a) OR
    (b) AND
    (c) XOR
    (d) NOR
    Ans. NOR

21. The default back end of the VB is
    (a) Oracle
    (b) Sybase
    (c) Informics
    Ans. Sybase

22. What is meant by Superconductivity?
    Ans. No reistance

23. Viscosity
    Ans. Friction

24. What is the Lock Based Protocol used for?
    Ans. Concurrency Control in DBMS
    Directions for question 25 to 32: Convert the decimal numbers on the left to the required form

25. 9,s complement of 28
    Ans. 71

26. Binary of 58
    Ans. 111010

27. Octal of 359
    Ans.547

28. Hexadecimal of 650
    Ans.28A

29. BCD of 18
    Ans.0001 1000

30. BCD of 34.8
    Ans.0011 0100.1000

31. Excess-3 code of 6
    Ans.1001

32. Excess-3 code of 9
    Ans.1100

33. If Ax + By = 1F₁₆; Cx + Dy = 25₁₀ .Find the value of x and y

34. Semaphore is used for
    (a) synchronization
    (b) dead-lock avoidence
    (c) box
    (d) none
    Ans. a

35. For addressing 1 MB memory, the number of address lines required,
    (a) 11
    (b) 16
    (c) 22
    (d) 24
    Ans. b

36. Which of the following remains in memory temporarily
    (a) Resident portion of COMMAND.COM
    (b) Transient portion of COMMAND.COM
    (c) API
    (d) Disk BIOS
    Ans. b

37. Pick the odd man out
    (a) IO.SYS
    (b) MSDOS.SYS
    (c) ROM-BIOS
    (d) COMMAND.COM
    Ans. c

38. OS/2 is a
    (a) Single User OS
    (b) Multi User OS
    (c) Multi Tasking OS
    (d) None of these
    Ans. c

39. Bootstrap loader program is a program belonging to
    (a) ROM startup software
    (b) ROM extension software
    (c) ROM BIOS software
    (d) ROM Basic software
    Ans. a

40. The entry of starting cluster of a file is present in
    (a) Boot Parameters
    (b) Directory
    (c) FAT
    (d) Partition Table and master boot program
    Ans. c

APTITUDE SECTION

Directions for questions 1-6: Find the correct meaning of the following phrases

1. A man of letters

2. A man of straw

3. To be in the air

4. To bite the dust

5. Man of few words

6. Penny wise pound foolish

7. Find the reminder when 333666777888999 divided by 3 or 9 or 11 ?

8. Which is the biggest perfect square amongst the following
   15129, 12348, 23716, 20736

9. The greatest area of the following
   (a) The radius of circle is 4
   (b) The square of diagonal is 4
   (c) The square of side is 4

10. The area of the maximum size of the circle described from the 10 square inch square?

11. In the series 0, 3, 8, 15,__ What is the next number?

12. X <> 0 then what is the possibility that the result is always positive?
    Ans. xy

13. 3 red and 4 blue balls are in a basket. A member of PPTeam is drawing balls from the basket. What is the
    probablity of getting the 3 red balls simultaneously?

14. Let ax² + bx + c = 0
    If the sum of the equal roots is equal to the product of the same roots.Then which of the following hold true
    (a) a + b = 0
    (b) a = 0
    (c) c = 0
    (d) a + c = 0

15. A fold density is 19 times greater than the water and for copper it is 9 times.At what ratio you can mix gold and
    copper to get 15 times denser than water.
    Ans. 3 : 2

16. Find the value of (1.99)²
    Ans. 3.9601

17. There is a room with 6, x 8,. A 1, tile is fixed along the 4 walls in one row. How many 1" tiles require to
    finish the work.
    Ans. 24

18. 2 persons can finish a job in 8 days. First person alone can finish the work in 24 days. How many days
    does the second person take to finish the job?
    Ans. 12 days

19. A 4" cube is painted in all its faces and then it is cut down into 1" blocks. How many 1" blocks are there
    even without a single face being painted?
    Ans. 8

20. A cylinder is inserted in a sphere d/h = 2/3. Find the surface area of the cylinder ?

21. In a car wheel, two spokes cover 15 degree. Then for the entire car,how many spokes are there?
    Ans. 24.

22. What is the angle of degree suspended when two hands of clock showing the time 2.30.
    Ans. 105 degrees

23. he age difference between two brothers is 3 years. After 6 years the ratio between the age is 9:8
    What are their ages?
    Ans. 21 and 18

24. A person,s salary is getting reduced by 20%. What percentage should be added to get back his
    original salary?
    Ans. 25%

25. Two persons start at the same point, walk in opposite directions with 5km/hr and 5.5km/hr respectively.
    What is the distance separated after 2 and half hrs?
    Ans. 26.25 (approx)

26. A person starts walking at a speed of 5km/hr through half the distance, rest of the distance he covers with a
    speed 4km/hr. Total time of travel is 9 hours. What is the maximum distance he can cover?
    Ans. 40km.

27. Initially two cups of same volume are present with milk filled upto 3/5th and 4/5th of their volumes.Water is then
    filled. Then two mixtures are mixed. Find the ratio of water to milk in the mixture.
    Ans. 3 : 7

28. 16 grams of radioactive material decays into 8 grams in 10 years. How long will it take to decay to 1 gram ?
    Ans. 70 yrs.

29. In a rectangle the length is increased by of the original length . By what proportion should the
    width be reduced so that the area will be the same?
    Ans. 33

30. Find the nth number in the series is 1, -3, 5, -7.___
    Ans. (-1)*(2n-1)

31. If a square is formed by the diagonal of the square as an edge, what is the ratio between the area?
    Ans. 2

32. The perimeter of a rhombus is 52 units. One of its diagonal is 24 units.What is its second diagonals length?
    Ans. 10

33. A cubical rectangular bar has the dimensions with the ratio 5 : 4 : 3. Its volume is 7500. What is the
    surface area of the bar?
    Ans. 2350

34. In a class total 34 students, 16 are have a brother, 15 are have sisters, 9 students don,t have either
    brothers or sisters.Find the number of students having both brother and sisters.
    Ans. 6

35. A batsman scored 18 runs in his 18th innings and that makes his average 18. Find his average upto the
    17th innings?
    Ans. 19

36. 6 women can do 75 units of work in 8 days by working 5hrs/day. In how many days can 4 women do 30 units
    of work by working 8hrs/day ?

37. A persons salary iis decreased by steps of 20%, 15% and 10%. What will be the percentage decrease, if the
    salary is decreased in a single shot?

38. The ratio of the length : breadth : height of a cuboid is 5 : 4: 3, and the volume is 7500. What will be its surface
    area ?

39. If the circumference of a circle is 100 units, Then what will the length of the arc described by an angle of 20
    degree ?

40. 3 persons started placementpapers with a capital of Rs.3000 . B invest Rs.600 less than A, C invest Rs.300 less
    than B. Then what is the share amount of B in a profit of Rs.886 ?
    Directions for 41-50: Which of the following is the correct spelling for the word

41. supercede and supersede

42. recommend and reccomend

43. superitendent and superitendant

44. separate and seperate

45. succeed and suceed

46. coolly and cooly

47. despair and dispair

48. ridiculous and rediculous

49. indespensible and indepensable

50. tranquility or tranquillity

C TEST
Directions: For the given sample program give the output of the program(30 marks)

1. main()
   {
   int a[]={ 2,4,6,8,10 };
   int i;
   change(a,5);
   for( i = 0; i <= 4; i++) printf("\n %d",a[i]); } change( int *b, int n){ int i; for( i = 0; i <>