Computer Science (GATE Exam) 2009 - Previous Question Paper Solution
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Which one of the following in NOT necessarily a property of a Group?
What is the chromatic number of an n-vertex simple connected graph which does not contain any odd length cycle? Assume n $\ge$ 2.
Which one of the following is TRUE for any simple connected undirected graph with more than 2 vertices?
What is the number of swaps required to sort n elements using selection sort, in the worst case?
Which of the following statement(s) is / are correct regarding Bellman-Ford shortest path algorithm? P. Always finds a negative weighted cycle, if one exists. Q. Finds whether any negative weighted cycle is reachable from the source.
An unbalanced dice (with 6 faces, numbered from 1 to 6) is thrown. The probability that the face value is odd is 90% of the probability that the face value is even. The probability of getting any even numbered face is the same. If the probability that the face is even given that it is greater than 3 is 0.75, which one of the following options is closest to the probability that the face value exceeds 3?
Let $\pi_A$ be a problem that belongs to the class NP. Then which one of the following is TRUE?
Consider the HTML table definition given below:
ab
cd
ef
gh
ik
The number of rows in each column and the number of columns in each row are:
The coupling between different modules of a software is categorized as follows: I. Content coupling II. Common coupling III. Control coupling IV Stamp coupling V. Data coupling Coupling between modules can be ranked in the order of strongest (least desirable) to weakest (most desirable) as follows:
For the composition table of a cyclic group shown below
* | a | b | c | d |
---|---|---|---|---|
a | a | b | c | d |
b | b | a | d | c |
c | c | b | d | a |
d | d | c | a | b |
Which one of the following choices is correct?
Evaluate: $\int^{\pi/4}_0 (1-\tan x)/(1+\tan x)dx $
Consider the following well-formed formulae:
I. $\neg \forall x(P(x))$ II. $\neg \exists x(P(x))$ III. $\neg \exists x(\neg P(x))$ IV. $\exists x(\neg P(x))$
Which of the above are equivalent?
What is the minimum number of gates required to implement the Boolean function (AB + C) if we have to use only 2-input NOR gates?
(1217)8 is equivalent to
Consider the binary relation R = {(x,y), (x,z), (z,x), (z,y)} on the set {x,y,z}.
Which one of the following is TRUE?
In which one of the following page replacement policies, Belady's anomaly may occur?a
Which one of the following is the most appropriate logical formula to represent the statement? “Gold and silver ornaments are precious”. The following notations are used: G(x): x is a gold ornament S(x): x is a silver ornament P(x): x is precious
A multilevel page table is preferred in comparison to a single level page table for translating virtual address to physical address because
Consider a disk system with 100 cylinders. The requests to access the cylinders occur in the following sequence: 4, 34, 10, 7, 19, 73, 2, 15, 6, 20
Assuming that the head is currently at cylinder 50, what is the time taken to satisfy all requests if it takes 1ms to move from one cylinder to the adjacent one and shortest seek time first policy is used?
In the following process state transition diagram for a uniprocessor system, assume that there are always some processes in the ready state:
Now consider the following statements: I. If a process makes a transition D, it would result in another process making transition A immediately. II. A process P2 in blocked state can make transition E while another process P1 is in running state. III. The OS uses preemptive scheduling. IV. The OS uses non-preemptive scheduling. Which of the above statements are TRUE?
The enter_CS() and leave_CS() functions to implement critical section of a process are realized using test-and-set instruction as follows:
void enter_CS(X)
{
while(test-and-set(X));
}
void leave_CS(X)
{
X = 0;
}
In the above solution, X is a memory location associated with the CS and is initialized to 0. Now consider the following statements: I. The above solution to CS problem is deadlock-free. II. The solution is starvation free. III. The processes enter CS in FIFO order. IV More than one process can enter CS at the same time. Which of the above statements is/are TRUE?
While opening a TCP connection, the initial sequence number is to be derived using a time-of-day (ToD) clock that keeps running even when the host is down. The low order 32 bits of the counter of the ToD clock is to be used for the initial sequence numbers. The clock counter increments once per millisecond. The maximum packet lifetime is given to be 64s. Which one of the choices given below is closest to the minimum permissible rate at which sequence numbers used for packets of a connection can increase?
In quick-sort, for sorting n elements, the $\left(n/4\right)^{th}$ smallest element is selected as pivot using an O(n) time algorithm. What is the worst case time complexity of the quick sort?
The running time of an algorithm is represented by the following recurrence relation:
$T(n) = \begin{cases} n & n \leq 3 \\ T(\frac{n}{3})+cn & \text{ otherwise } \end{cases}$
Which one of the following represents the time complexity of the algorithm?
Consider the following statements about the cyclomatic complexity of the control flow graph of a program module. Which of these are TRUE?
I. The cyclomatic complexity of a module is equal to the maximum number of linearly independent circuits in the graph. II. The cyclomatic complexity of a module is the number of decisions in the module plus one, where a decision is effectively any conditional statement in the module. III. The cyclomatic complexity can also be used as a number of linearly independent paths that should be tested during path coverage testing.
Which of the following statements are TRUE?
I. The context diagram should depict the system as a single bubble. II. External entities should be identified clearly at all levels of DFDs. III. Control information should not be represented in a DFD. IV. A data store can be connected either to another data store or to an external entity.
Let G(x) be the generator polynomial used for CRC checking. What is the condition that should be satisfied by G(x) to detect odd number of bits in error?
The binary operation □ is defined as follows
P | Q | P □ Q |
---|---|---|
T | T | T |
T | F | T |
F | T | F |
F | F | T |
Which one of the following is equivalent to $P \vee Q$?
A sub-sequence of a given sequence is just the given sequence with some elements (possibly none or all) left out. We are given two sequences X[m] and Y[n] of lengths m and n, respectively, with indexes of X and Y starting from 0.
The values of l(i,j) could be obtained by dynamic programming based on the correct recursive definition of l(i,j) of the form given above, using an array L[M,N], where M = m+1 and N=n+1, such that L[i, j] = l(i,j). Which one of the following statements would be TRUE regarding the dynamic programming solution for the recursive definition of l(I, j)?
In the RSA public key cryptosystem, the private and public keys are (e,n) and (d,n) respectively, where
n=p*q and p and q are large primes. Besides, n is public and p and q are private. Let M be an integer
such that 0<M<n and $\phi$ (n) = (p − 1) (q − 1). Now consider the following equations.
I. M' = Me mod n
M = (M')d mod n
II. Ed = 1 mod n
III. ed = 1 mod $\phi$(n)
IV. M' = Me mod $\phi$(n)
M = (M')d mod $\phi$(n)
Which of the above equations correctly represent RSA
cryptosystem?
A sub-sequence of a given sequence is just the given sequence with some elements (possibly none or all) left out. We are given two sequences X[m] and Y[n] of lengths m and n, respectively, with indexes of X and Y starting from 0.
We wish to find the length of the longest common sub-sequence (LCS) of X[m] and Y[n] as l(m, n), where an incomplete recursive definition for the function l(i, j) to compute the length of the LCS of X[m] and Y[n] is given below: l (i, j) = 0, if either i=0 or j=0 = expr1, if i,j>0 and X [i-1] = Y [j 1] = expr2, if i,j>0 and X [i-1] = Y [j 1]
Which one of the following options is correct?
Frames of 1000 bits are sent over a 106 bps duplex link between two hosts. The propagation time is 25 ms. Frames are to be transmitted into this link to maximally pack them in transit (within the link).
What is the minimum number of bits (l) that will be required to represent the sequence numbers distinctly? Assume that no time gap needs to be given between transmission of two frames.
Consider the following graph:
Which one of the following is NOT the sequence of edges added to the minimum spanning tree using Kruskal's algorithm?
Frames of 1000 bits are sent over a 106 bps duplex link between two hosts. The propagation time is 25 ms. Frames are to be transmitted into this link to maximally pack them in transit (within the link).
Suppose that the sliding window protocol is used with the sender window size of 2l, where l is the number of bits identified in the earlier part and acknowledgements are always piggy backed. After sending 2l frames, what is the minimum time the sender will have to wait before starting transmission of the next frame? (Identify the closest choice ignoring the frame processing time.)
Which of the following statements are TRUE? I. There exist parsing algorithms for some programming languages whose complexities are less than $\theta$(n3). II. A programming language which allows recursion can be implemented with static storage allocation. III. No L-attributed definition can be evaluated in the framework of bottom-up parsing. IV. Code improving transformations can be performed at both source language and intermediate code level.
The keys 12, 18, 13, 2, 3, 23, 5 and 15 are inserted into an initially empty hash table of length 10 using open addressing with hash function h(k) = k mod 10 and linear probing. What is the resultant hash table?
How many 32 K x 1 RAM chips are needed to provide a memory capacity of 256 Kbytes?
A CPU generally handles an interrupt by executing an interrupt service routine
Consider a 4-way set associative cache (initially empty) with total 16 cache blocks. The main memory consists of 256 blocks and the request for memory blocks is in the following order: 0, 255, 1, 4, 3, 8, 133, 159, 216, 129, 63, 8, 48, 32, 73, 92, 155. Which one of the following memory block will NOT be in cache if LRU replacement policy is used?
A hard disk has 63 sectors per track, 10 platters each with 2 recording surfaces and 1000 cylinders. The address of a sector is given as a triple (c,h,s) , where c is the cylinder number, h is the surface number and s is the sector number. Thus, the 0th sector is addressed as (0,0,0), the 1st sector as (0,0,1), and so on
The address <400, 16, 29> corre4sponds tp sector number:
Consider a 4 stage pipeline processor. The number of cycles needed by the four instructions I1, I2, I3, I4 in stages S1, S2, S3, S4 is shown below:
S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
12 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
14 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
What is the number of cycles needed to execute the following loop? For (I = 1 to 2) {I1; I2; I3; I4;}
A hard disk has 63 sectors per track, 10 platters each with 2 recording surfaces and 1000 cylinders. The address of a sector is given as a triple (c, h, s), where c is the cylinder number, h is the surface number and s is the sector number. Thus, the 0th sector is addressed as (0, 0, 0), the 1st sector as (0, 0, 1), and so on
The address of the 1039th sector is
Consider the program below:
#include
int fun(int n, int *f_p) {
int t, f;
if (n <= 1) {
*f_p = 1;
return 1;
}
t = fun(n-1, f_p);
f = t + *f_p;
*f_p = t;
return f;
}
int main() {
int x = 15;
printf("%d/n", fun(5, &x));
return 0;
}
The value printed is
What is the maximum height of any AVL-tree with 7 nodes? Assume that the height of a tree with a single node is 0.
Consider a binary max-heap implemented using an array.
Which one of the following array represents a binary max-heap?
Consider a binary max-heap implemented using an array.
What is the content of the array after two delete operations on the correct answer to the previous question?
The following key values are inserted into a B+ - tree in which order of the internal nodes is 3, and that of the leaf nodes is 2, in the sequence given below. The order of internal nodes is the maximum number of tree pointers in each node, and the order of leaf nodes is the maximum number of data items that can be stored in it. The B+ - tree is initially empty. 10, 3, 6, 8, 4, 2, 1 The maximum number of times leaf nodes would get split as a result of these insertions is
Consider two transactions T1 and T2 and four schedules S1, S2, S3 and S4 of T1 and T2 as given below: T1 : R1 [x] W1 [x] W1 [y] T2 : R2 [x] R2 [y] W2 [y] S1 : R1 [x] R2 [x] R2 [y] W1 [x] W1 [y] W2 [y] S2 : R1 [x] R2 [x] R2 [y] W1 [x] W2 [y] W1 [y] S3 : R1 [x] W1 [x] R2 [x] W1 [y] R2 [y] W2 [y] S4 : R2 [x] R2 [y] R1 [x] W1 [x] W1 [y] W2 [y]
Which of the above schedules is/are conflict-serializable?
Let R and S be relational schemes such that R={a,b,c} and S={c}. Now consider the following queries on the database:
I. $\pi_{R-S}(r) - \pi_{R-S} \left (\pi_{R-S} (r) \times s - \pi_{R-S,S}(r)\right )$ II. $\left\{t \mid t \in \pi_{R-S} (r) \wedge \forall u \in s \left(\exists v \in r \left(u = v[S] \wedge t = v\left[R-S\right]\right )\right )\right\}$ III. $\left\{t \mid t \in \pi_{R-S} (r) \wedge \forall v \in r \left(\exists u \in s \left(u = v[S] \wedge t = v\left[R-S\right]\right )\right ) \right\}$ IV.
Select R.a, R.b
From R,S
Where R.c=S.c
Which of the above queries are equivalent?
Consider the following relational schema:
Suppliers(sid:integer, sname:string, city:string, street:string) Parts(pid:integer, pname:string, color:string) Catalog(sid:integer, pid:integer, cost:real) Assume that in the suppliers relation above, each supplier and each street within a city has a unique name, and (sname, city) forms a candidate key. No other functional dependency is implied other than those implied by primary and candidate keys.
Which of the following statements is TRUE about the above schema?
Consider the following relational schema: Suppliers(sid:integer, sname:string, city:string, street:string) Parts(pid:integer, pname:string, color:string) Catalog(sid:integer, pid:integer, cost:real) Consider the following relational query on the above database: SELECT S.sname FROM Suppliers S WHERE S.sid NOT IN (SELECT C.sid FROM Catalog C WHERE C.pid NOT (SELECT P.pid FROM Parts P WHERE P.color<> 'blue'))
Assume that relations corresponding to the above schema are not empty. Which one of the following is the correct interpretation of the above query?
S $\rightarrow$ aSa | bSb | a | b; The language generated by the above grammar over the alphabet {a, b} is the set of
Which one of the following languages over the alphabet {0, 1} is described by the regular expression: (0 + 1)0(0 + 1)*0(0 + 1)?
Which one of the following is FALSE?
The above DFA accepts the set of all strings over {0, 1} that
Match all items in Group 1 with correct options from those given in Group 2.
Group 1 Group 2 P. Regular expression 1. Syntax analysis Q. Pushdown automata 2. Code generation R. Dataflow analysis 3. Lexical analysis S. Register allocation 4. Code optimization
Let L = L1 $\cap$ L2, where L1 and L2 are languages as defined below: L1 = $(a^m b^m\ ca^n b^m | m,n \ge 0)$ L2 = $(a^i b^j\ c^k | i,j \ge 0)$ Then L is
Given the following state table of an FSM with two states A and B, one input and one output:
Present State A | Present State B | Input | Next State A | Next State B | Output |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
If the initial state is A = 0, B = 0, what is the minimum length of an input string which will take the machine to the state A = 0, B = 1 with Output = 1?
Consider a system with 4 types of resources R1 (3 units), R2 (2 units), R3 (3 units), R4 (2 units). A non-preemptive resource allocation policy is used. At any given instance, a request is not entertained if it cannot be completely satisfied. Three processes P1, P2, P3 request the sources as follows if executed independently.
Process P1: | Process P2: | Process P3: |
---|---|---|
t=0: requests 2 units of R2 | t=0: requests 2 units of R3 | t=0: requests 1 unit of R4 |
t=1: requests 1 unit of R3 | t=2: requests 1 unit of R4 | t=2: requests 2 units of R1 |
t=3: requests 2 units of R1 | t=4: requests 1 unit of R1 | t=5: releases 2 units of R1 |
t=5: releases 1 unit of R2 and 1 unit of R1. | t=6: releases 1 unit of R3 | t=7: requests 1 unit of R2 |
t=7: releases 1 unit of R3 | t=8: Finishes | t=8: requests 1 unit of R3 |
t=8: requests 2 units of R4 | t=9: Finishes | |
t=10: Finishes |
Which one of the following statements is TRUE if all three processes run concurrently starting at time t=0?
The essential content(s) in each entry of a page table is / are