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Topic: GATE–Sample Questions-Software Systems
Posted By: aparna
Subject: GATE–Sample Questions-Software Systems
Date Posted: 27Nov2007 at 2:32am
Que. 1      Determinimg all possible decompositions of sequential machines requires...............
time in N,where N is the number of states.
A         logarithmic
B         linear
C         N log(N)
D         exponential
Que. 2     The following sequence of operations is performed on a stack          
PUSH(10),PUSH(20),POP,PUSH(10)PUSH(20),POP,POP,POP,PUSH(20),POP     
the sequence of values popped out is
A         20,10,20,10,20
B         20,20,10,10,20
C         10,20,20,10,20
D         20,20,10,20,10
Que. 3     A sorting technique is called stable if
A         it takes 0 (n log n) time
B         it maintains the relative order of occurrence of non-distinct     
      elements
C         it uses divide and conquer paradigm
D         it takes 0 (n) space.
Que. 4     Which of the following is correct?
A         B-trees are for storing data on disk and B* trees are for         
      main memory.
B         Range queries are faster on B* trees.
C         B-trees are for primary indexes and B* trees are for secondary    
      indexes.
D         The height of a B* tree is independent of the number of           
      records.
Que. 5     A certain processor supports only the immediate and the direct       
addressing modes. Which of the follow­ing programming language       features
cannot be implemented on this processor?
A         Pointers
B         Arrays
C         Records
D         Recursive procedures with local variable
Que. 6     The problems 3-SAT and 2-SAT are
A         both P
B         both NP
C         NP complete and in P respectively
D         undecidable and NP complete respectively
Que. 7     In SQL, relations can contain null values, and comparisons with null
values are treated as unknown. Suppose all comparisons with a null value
are treated as false. Which of the following pairs is not equivalent?
A         x = 5 not (not (x = 5 ) )
B         x= 5 x> 4 and x < 6, where x is an integer
C         x (not equal) 5 not (x = 5)
D         None of the above
Que. 8     consider the following C function:
  int f(int n)
   {
   static int i=1;
   if(n>=50) return n;
    n=n+1;
     i++;
      return f(n);
  }
The value returned by f(1) is
A         5
B         6
C         7
D         8
Que. 9     The time complexity of the following C function is
int recursive(int n)   {
    if(n==1)
       return(1);
     else
       return(recursive (n-1)+recursive(n-1));
}
A         O(n)
B         O(n log n)
C         O(n^2)
D         O(2^n)
Que. 10     What does the following code do?                var a,b:integer;      
           begin  a:=a+b;  b:=a-b;  a:=a-b;   end;
A         exchangs a and b
B         doubles  a and stores in b
C         doubles  b and stores in a
D         leaves a and b unchanged
Que. 11     In the index allocation scheme of block to file,the maximum possible size
ofthe file depends on
A         the size ofthe blocks,and the size of the address of the blocks.
B         the number of blocks used for the index, and the size of the block.
C         the size of the blocks,the number of blocks used for the index,and
the size ofthe address ofthe blocks.
D         none of these
Que. 12     indicate which ofthe following statments are true      The number of rooted
binary trees with n nodes is,
A         equal to number of ways of multiplying (n+1) matrices
B         equal to number of ways of arrenging n out of 2n distinct elements
C         equal to 1/(n+1)=(2n/2)
D         equal to n!
Que. 13     What does the following code do?    var a,b:integer    begin         a:=a+b;
        b:=a-b;         a:=a-b;    end;
A         exchanges a and b
B         doubles a and store in b
C         doubles b and store in a
D         leaves a and b unchanged
         (E)none of these
Que. 14     A part of the system software,which under all circumstances must reside
in the main      memory,is
A         text editor
B         assembler
C         linker
D         loader
         (E)none of these
Que. 15     Listed below are some operating system abstractions (in the left     
   column) and the hardware components (in the right column)?
A         (d)  -4, (B)-1, (C)-2, (D)-3
B         (d)  (A)-4, -1, (C)-2, (D)-3
C         (d)  (A)-4, (B)-1, -2, (D)-3
D         (A)-4, (B)-1, (C)-2, -3
Que. 16     Which of the following disk scheduling strategies is likely to       
  give the best through put?
A         Farthest cylinder next
B         Nearest cylinder next
C         First come first served
D         Elevator algorithm
Que. 17     Let s be a sorted array of n integers. Let t (n) denote the time taken
for the most efficient algorithm to determine if there are two elements
with sum less than 1000 in s. Which of the following statements is true?
A         t (n) is 0 (1)
B         n
C         n log 2 n
D         t (n) =  (n/2)
Que. 18     A top down parser generates
A         right most derivation
B         left most derivation
C         right most derivation in reverse
D         left most derivation in reverse
Que. 19     The root directory if a disk should be placed
A         At a fixed address in the main memory
B         At a fixed location on the disk
C         anywhere on the disk
D         At a fixed location on the system disk          (E)anywhere on
the system disk
Que. 20     conisder a system having m resources of the same type.These resources
are shared by 3       processes A,B and C,which have peak demands of 3,4
and 6 respectively.For what value       of m deadlock will not occure?
A         7
B         10
C         13
D         15
Que. 21     A linker is given object modules for a set of programs that wer      compiled
separately.What information need not be included in an     object module?
A         Object code
B         Relocation bits
C         Names and locations of all external symbols defined in the        
object module
D         Absolute address of internal symbols
Que. 22     A binary tree T has a leaf nodes.The number of nodes of degree 2     in
T is
A         log2 n
B         n-1
C         n
D         2^n
Que. 23     What is the value of A,B,C and D satisfy the following      simultaneous
boolean equation         A'+AB=0,AB=AC,AB+AC'+CD=C'D'
A         A=1,B=0,C=0,D=1
B         A=1,B=1,C=0,D=0
C         A=1,B=0,C=1,D=1
D         A=1,B=0,C=0,D=0
Que. 24     A binary search tree contains the value 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.The tree is traversed
in       pre-order and the value are printed out.Which of the following
sequence is a valid output?
A         5 3 1 2 4 7 8 6
B         5 3 1 2 6 4 8 7
C         5 3 2 4 1 6 7 8
D         5 3 1 2 4 7 8 6
Que. 25     A computer has 6 Tape drivers,with n processes competing for them.Each
process may need two drivers.What is the maximum value of n for the system
to be deadlock free?
A         6
B         5
C         4
D         3
Que. 26     Banker's algorithm for resource allocation deals with
A         deadlock preventation
B         deadlock avoidance
C         deadlock recvery
D         mutual exclusion
Que. 27     Suppose the domain set of an attribute consists of signed four digit numbers.What
is the % of reduction in storage space of this attribute if it is stored
as an integer rather than in character form?
A         80%
B         20%
C         60%
D         40%
Que. 28     The function of the syntax phase is
A         to recognize the major constructs of the language and to call the
appropriate action routine
B         to build a literal table
C         to build a uniform symbol table
D         to parse the source program into the basic elements or tokens of the
language
Que. 29     Abstruct class used in
A         Virtual function
B         pure virtual function
C         member function
D         none of these
Que. 30     QUEL is the query language in the system
A         ingers. QUEL based on the relation calculus
B         Codsyl.QUEL
C         SQL.QUEL
D         none of the above
Que. 31     What is the name of O.S. system for the laptop computer called Maclite?
A         Windows
B         DOS
C         MS-DOS
D         OZ
Que. 32     Queues serve a major role in
A         simulation of recursion
B         simulation of motion of subatomic particle
C         simulation of arbitary linked list
D         simulation of limited resources allocation
Que. 33     The results returned by functions under value result and referance parameter
passing conventions
A         Donor differ
B         differ in presence of loops
C         differ in all cases
D         may differ in the presence of exceptions
Que. 34     Storage mapping is done by
A         loader
B         linker
C         editor
D         compiler
Que. 35     If n is a power of 2, then the minimum number of multiplications needed
to computer a^n is
A         log2 n
B         [(sqrt)n]
C         n-1
D         n
Que. 36     Which of the following is most powerful parsing method?
A         LL(1)
B         Canonical LR
C         SLR
D         LALR
Que. 37     How many comparisons are required to sort an array of length 5 if a straight
selection sort is used and the array is already sorted in the opposite order?
A         0
B         1
C         10
D         20
Que. 38     For marging two sorted lists of sizes m and n into a sorted list of size
m+n we require comparisons of
A         O(m)
B         O(n)
C         O(m+n)
D         O(log m + log n)
Que. 39     The parsing technique that avoides back traacking is
A         top down parsing
B         recursive descent parsing
C         predictive parsing
D         both b and c above
Que. 40     Let L be the set of binary strings whose last two symbols are same.The
number ofstates in the minimum state deterministic finite state automation
accepting L is
A         2
B         5
C         8
D         3



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