Mascot Placement Paper (Aptitude- Reading Comprehension & Numerical Ability)

Paper: Mascot Placement Paper (Aptitude- Reading Comprehension & Numerical Ability)

SECTION 1:READING COMPREHENSION

(passage of one and half page.)

The question & answers based on this passage were given. There were 5 questions. You shouldn’t expect the same passage to be given to you but we have written down the questions to give you a general view of the type of RC questions that you can expect

1. A reductive cycle is one in which

a. an employer attempts to reduce costs
b. the work-force is gradually reduced in number
c. costs decreases as….
d. there is less productive effort on the part of employees

Ans. (d)

2. If a substantial number of employees remain the reductive cycle one may assume that

a. the org. is enjoying increased business
b. the personnel dept….
c. the boss is not…
d. there is an unwholesome..

Ans. (a)

3. The passage indicates that unionizations of a worker…

a. opportunities for the workers realize..
b. opportunities for the workers to …
c. more please working…
d. greater fringe benefits include

Ans. (d)

4. According to the author management failures in supervision mainly attributable to

a. carrying…
b. a soft-hearted…
c. ignorance.
d. lack of consideration.

Ans. (d)

5. Employees will get together to seek an improvement of conditions because of dissatisfaction stemming from
i. social just
ii. economic
iii. moral decadence

a. i only
b. ii only
c. i and ii only
d. i & iii only

Ans. (d)

SECTION II: QUANTITATIVE AND NUMERICAL ABILITY

6. The monthly personal maintenance allowance for a family of an employee is determined by the average age of family and size of the family. Jacob was drawing rs.570 as PMA after he got married 6 years back. At present he draws Rs 720 as PMA with his family of 3 after the birth of son?

a. 2 years
b. 3 years
c. 4 years
d. 5 years

Ans. (d)

7. White collar sells a shirt for an amount. Due to off season sale white collar started offering a discount of 20% on tag price. come diwali, white collar offered a further discount of 10% on the reduced price. If i get the shirt for Rs 108 what was the original price?

a. Rs.180
b. 160
c. 145
d. none

Ans. (d)

8. A vertical stick 10-cm long casts a shadow 6 cm long on the ground under similar conditions a tower casts a shadow 10m long determine the height of the tower to the 2nd place of the decimal.

a. 16.67m
b. 17.70m
c. 16.8m
d. none

Ans. (a)

9. In the fig given below …… which curve represent the monthly savage (the fig.cannot be recollected by the candidate)

a. LR
b. ST
c. PQ
d. none

Ans. (b)

10. Two poles of height 7m and 12m stand on a play ground. If the distance between their feet is 12m,find the distance between their tops.

a. 12m
b. 13m
c. 11m
d. none

Ans. (b)

Mascot Placement Paper (Analytical Ability Test)

Paper: Mascot Placement Paper (Analytical Ability Test)

ANALYTICAL ABILITY

1. Fran: i want to stay out of …

Sid:that’s not true….

a. makes unfair demands on her students
b. only gives grades to a few favored students
c. never gives out grades of A

Ans. (c)

For Q2 – 3 A small passage was given. The answers though are the following

2. The major logical. weakness of the argument above is the fact that

a. it draws meaningful distinction between hands out and subsidies
b. it supports only the subsidy and does not provide the other side view.
c. it draws no meaningful distinction between hands out and subsidies
d. subsidies should not be given
e. none of the above

Ans. (c)

3. Which of the following persons would be most likely to disagree with the conclusions reached above argument

a. the president..
b. the patenee of a new device designed to make the widget absolute
c. the worker who worked with the patentee

Ans. (b)

4.- 5 (a small passage )

In a laboratory study,160 rabbits in an experimental group were injected with serum d, while 160 rabbits in a control group were injected with in two weeks, 39% of the experimental group rabbits had contracted jungle fever, a highly contagious and usually fatal disease therefore jungle fever must be caused by some substance similar to the substance
found in serum d

4. The above argument would be most greatly strengthened if it were shown that

a. the normal…
b. 40% of ..
c. serum…
d. the blood of jungle fever victims invariably contains a high level of a certain toxic substance also

Ans. (d)

5. The above argument would be most seriously weakened if it were shown that

a. none of the rabbits in the experimental group had had jungle fever prior to the start of the experiment
b. the rabbits in the experimental group had had jungle fever prior to the start of the experiment.
c. some of the rabbits in the experimental group had had jungle fever prior to the start of the experiment .
d. four of the rabbits had had jungle fever prior to the start of the experiment .
e. one of the rabbits in the experimental group had had jungle fever prior to the start of the experiment

Ans. (e)

Mascot Placement Paper (General Technical Test)

Paper: Mascot Placement Paper (General Technical Test)

GENERAL TECHNICAL TEST

1) Which of the following language is a functional language

a. RPG
b. Small Talk
c. PI/I
d. LISP

Ans. (c)

2) What is the full form of ATM

a. Automated teller machine
b. All time money
c. Asynchronous transfer mode
d. Active test monitor

Ans. (c)

3) FDDI is a

a. ring network
b. star network
c. mesh network
d. bus based network

Ans. (a)

4) Which is pure object oriented language?

a. Effiel
b. C++
c. object pascal
d. Small talk

Ans. (d)

5) x.25 transfer protocal is used for

a. packet switching
b. circuit switching
c. framing
d. datagram

Ans. (b)

6) What is the binary equivalent of decimal 269?

a. 100001100
b. 100001010
c. 101001011
d. 100001101

Ans. (c)

7) The 4NF is for

a. related to Multi-Value Dependency
b. related to transitive dependency
c. related to function dependency
d. non trival function or multi value dependency

Ans.
The LRU algorithm

a. pages out pages that have been used recently
b. pages out pages that have not been used recently
c. pages out pages that have been least used recently
d. pages out the first page in given data

Ans. (c)

9) A search procedure which assosiates an address with a key value and provides a mechanism for dealing with two or more values assigned to the same address to the same address is called.

a. linear search
b. binary search
c. hash coded search
d. radix search

Ans. (c)

10) A t-switch is used to

a. control how message are passed between computers
b. echo every character that received
c. transmit characers one at a time
d. rearrange the ….

Ans. (c)

11) EE-ROM is

a. electricity erasable
b. easily erasable
c. non erasable
d. effective erasable

Ans. (a)

12) Which device can sense inventory data specified in bar codes?

a. mouse
b. light pen
c. holographs
d. joysticks

Ans. (c)

13) Corba stands for …

a. common object request broker architecture
b. combined recovery based system
c. code recovery bench architecture
d. none of the above

Ans. (a)

14) Which is non-procedural language?
a. effiel
b. ada
c. small talk
d. sql

Ans. (a)

15) Which of the following language supports associative arrays?

a. pl/i
b. rpg
c. perl
d. ada

Ans. (c)

16) Which network protocol IBM mainframe and midrange support

a. SNA
b. TCP/IP
c. X.25
d. IEEE 802.5

Ans. (a)

17) The achronym DAN stands for

a. data acess network
b. distributed area network
c. desktop area network
d. disk access node

Ans. (a)

18) The program fragment that follows is written in a block-structured language . Assume that it is syntactically correct and determine its output

begin
integer x,y;
x:=3;y:=7;
begin
integer x;
begin
integer y;
y:=9;
x:=2*y;
end;
x:=x+y;
print(x);
end;
print(x);
end;

a. 25 27
b. 27 27
c. 27 3
d. 25 3
e. 25 25

Ans. (e)

19) Which of the following is responsible for coordinating various operations using timing signals?

a. arithmetic-logic unit
b. control unit
c. memory unit
d. input/output unit

Ans. (b)

20) Microprocessors can be used to make

a. computers
b. calculators
c. digital systems
d. all the above

Ans. (d)

21) FORTRAN implimentation do not permit recursion because

a. they use static allocation for variables
b. they use dynamic allocation for variables
c. stacks are not avalible on all machines
d. it is not possible to impliment recursion on all m/c s

Ans. (a)

22) What does the following code do
var a,b :integer
begin
a :=a+b
b :=a-b
a :=a-b
end;

a. exchange a and b
b. doubles a and stores in b
c. leaves a and b unchanged
d. none

Ans. (a)

23) For program segment given bellow, which of the follwing are true?

program main(output)
type link = ^data
data = record
d : record
n : link
end;
var ptr : link;
begin
new(ptr);
ptr :=nil;
ptr ^.d :=5.2
written(ptr);
end;

a. the program leads to compile time error
b. the program leads to run time error
c. the program produces error relating to nil pointer dereferencing
d. both b and a

24) What is the output of the program segament below if the compiler operates call byreference?

procedure CALC(P,Q,R);
begin
Q:=Q-1.0
R:=Q+P
end;
begin{main}
A:=2.5; B:=9.0;
CALC(B-A,A,A);
print(A);
end; {main}

a. 1.5
b. 2.5
c. 10.5
d. 8
e. 6.5

Ans. (d)

25) Which of the following is not provided in C?

a. test loops
b. grouping and subprograms
c. synchronization, coroutines,and parallel processing
d. all the above

Ans. (c)

26) Data encryption

a. is most used by public billboard networks
b. is most used by public financial networks
c. cannot be used by private installation
d. is not necessary ..

Ans. (a)

27) An ideal compiler should

a. be a smaller in size
b. produce object code that is smaller in size and executes faster
c. take less time of compiling
d. all the above

Ans. (d)

28) What will be the value of x and y after execution of the following statment ( C language)

n== 5; x = n++; y = –x;

a. 5,4
b. 6,5
c. 6,6
d. 5,5

Ans. (d)

29) For athe following code

1 i:=1;sum:=0;
repeat
begin
2 sum:=sum+1;
3 i:=i+1
end;
4 until i=n

let”A” represent the initialization(i:=1;sum:=0)of line 1.let”B”represent the summing action within the loop(loop 2),and let “i” represent the increment (line 3).if “T”represents the best contained in line 4,which of the following regular expressions represents all possiblee sequences of the steps taken by this program fragment?

a. A(BIT)(BI) T
B. A(BIT)
C. A(BIT)
D. A(BIT) T
E. A(BIT) T

30) Consider the production grammer

S -> AB
S -> BC
A -> WA
A -> X
B -> Y
B -> ZB
C -> W
Consider this grammer together with one and only one of the productions (A) through(E).what production from the list may not be added to retain its status as an LL(1) grammer?

a. S -> CA
b. S -> Z
c. C -> Z
d. C -> BC
e. More than one of the above

Ans.

31) Consider the function below:

function calc(x,y:integer):integer;
begin
if y=1
then calc:=x
else calc:=calc(x,y-1)+x
end;

assuming that the invocation call is “calc(a,b)”and that “a”and “b”are positive integers,what result does this function return?

a. a*(b-1)
b. a*b
c. a+b
d. a power b
e. a*b

32) In a left-to-right breadth-first search of the tree below,which would be first terminal node to be explored?

____

____

/

/

__/__ ____

__B__ _____

a. F
b. B
c. I
d. J
e. E

33) Which data structure is needed to convert infix notations to postfix notations?

a. linear list
b. queue
c. tree
d. stack

Ans. (d)

34) Recursive procedures are implemented by

a. queues
b. stacks
c. linked lists
d. strings

Ans. (b).

35) A linear list of elments in which deletion can be done from one end (front)and insertion can take place only at the other end(rear)is known as

a. queues
b. stacks
c. trees
d. deque

Ans. (a)

36) A linear list in which elements can be added or removed at either end but not in the middle is known as

a. queue
b. deque
c. stack
d. tree

Ans. (a)

37) Which of the following sorting procedure is slowest

a. quick sort
b. heap sort
c. shell sort
d. bubble sort

Ans. (d)

38) How many 1’s are present in the binary representation of 3 x 512 + 7 x 64 + 5 x 8 =3?

a. 8
b. 9
c.10
d.11
e.12

Ans. (d)

39) File record length

a. should always be fixed
b. should always be variable
c. depends upon the size of the file
d. should be choosen to match the data characteristics

Ans. (a)

40) NLP stands for

a. natural language processing
b. neuro logic programming
c. normal logic pad
d. nominal loadable process
e. none

Ans. (a)

Mascot Placement Paper (Technical Section)

Paper: Mascot Placement Paper (Technical Section)

1. One Nibble = ?

a) 8 bits
b)16 bits
c) 4 bits
d)32 bits

Ans. (c)

2. Hexadecimal and Octal representation of 1024 ?

3. What a compiler does ?

4.What type of interface does DOS have?

a) Graphical interface
b) Character interface
c) Symbolic interface
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

5.What is the abbrevation of CPU?

a) Control Processing Unit
b) Central Processing Unit
c) Central Programming Unit
d) Control Programming Unit

Ans. (b)

6. Fortran is used as a

a) Scientific Language
b) Business Language
c) Language used in LANs
d) Applications Language

Ans. (a)

7.The total numberof characters in the ASCII code?

a) 126
b) 256
c) 258
d) 128

Ans. (d)

8. In Windows NT- What NT stands for?

a) Network Techniques
b) New Technology
c) Network Transmission
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

9. Which is not an input device ?

a) Keyboard
b) Disk
c) Mouse
d) Lightpen

Ans. (b)

10. Which is not a pointing device ?

a) Mouse
b) Joy stick
c) Lightpen
d) None

11. Who is the CEO of Microsoft ?

a) Bill Gates
b) Steve Jobs
c) Steve Balmer
d) Andy Grove

Ans. (c)

12. 4GL ?

a) Fortran
b) SQL
c) ADA

13.Who is the father of Computers?

a) Alan Turing
b) Charles Babbage
c) Bill Gates
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

14. Which of them is Object Oriented Language.?

a) Basic
b) C
c) C++
d) Fortran

Ans. (c)

15. Power PC is the product of ?

a) Microsoft
b) IBM
c) Apple
d) Motorola

Ans. (c)

16. The latest processor being used these days by Intel is?

a) Pentium-III
b) Power PC
c) Pentium pro
d) None

17. MS Word is ?

18. First Super Computer built in India.

a) Cray
b) Param
c) Aryabhatta
d) Arjun

Ans. (b)

19. Which of the following companies do not manufacture chips?

a) Microsoft
b) Motorola
c) Intel
d) HP

Ans. (a)

20.What is the full form of LAN

a) Local Area Network
b) Local Arial Networking
c) Loop Around Network
d) Loop Area Network

Ans. (a)

21. What is the full form of WAN

a) Wireless Application Networking
b) Wireless Access Network
c) Wired Access Network
d) Wide Area Network

Ans. (d)

22.What is a Modem ?

a) Modulator Emmulator
b) Modulator Demodulator
c) Mode Modulator
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

23. What is the full form FDD

a) Floppy Drive Detector
b) Floppy Drive Demodulator
c) Floppy Disk Drive
d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

24. What is the full form BIT

a) Binary Integer
b) Binary Term
c) Binary Digit
d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

25. Information is ?

a) Message
b) Data
c) Processed data
d) None

Ans. (b)

26. Which is not networking ?

a) Internet
b) Ethernet
c) Arcnet
d) None

27. One Gigabyte =?

a) 2 30
b) 2 20
c) 2 10
d) None

Ans. (a)

28. Which of the following is not RDBMS ?

a) Sybase
b) SQL
c) Acess
d) None

Ans. (b)

29. Oracle is ?

a) HLL
b) OS
c) RDBMS
d) Query Language

Ans. (c)

30. In Oracle, Table means ( Ans : Collection of records)

31. DMA – abbrevation

a) Direct Memory Access
b) Discrete Memory Access
c) Disk Memory Access
d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

32. What is meant by Static Variable ?{refer data storage techniques}

33. What is meant by QUEUE? {refer any data structures text}

34. What is meant by STACK? {refer any data structures text}

35. The processor used in first IBM PC?

(8086,8088,zig4,intel)

36. Difference between 80286 and 80287

37. In bubble sort , no. of comparisons required are ?

a) N*(N+1)/2
b) N*(N-2)/2
c) N*(N-1)/2)
d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

38. No. of comparisons of an item in 100 items by binary comparison?

a) 10
b) 25
c) 50
d) 100

39. What is the full form of CRT

a) Cathode Ray Terminal
b) Cathode Ray Tube
c) Common Resistor Transistor
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

40. No. of entryvalues are there in ideally in a subroutine.

41. Binary tree?

42. In which of the following is the flow in both the directions ?

a) Single linked list
b) Double linked
c) Queue
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

43. Electron screen size ? (here, 2 lines of algorithm is given. Name the algoirithm)

44. Which is not storage device.?

a) Floppy Disk
b) CD ROM
c) Disk
d) None

Ans. (d)

45. A question regarding memory ? ( least used memory,recently unused memory,..)

46.What is the full form of ISO

a) International Software Organisation
b) International Standard Organisation
c) International Solutions Organisation
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

47.What is the full form of HTML

a) Hyper Text Makeup Language
b) Hyper Text Markup Language
c) Hyper Terminal Markup Language
d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

48. Flow chart for factorial N? (ans :choice a)

49. What is meant by Recursion ?

50. For the following C program

Struct(s)
{int a;
long b;
}

Union (u)
{int a;
long b;
}

Print sizeof(s)and sizeof(u) if sizeof(int)=4 and sizeof(long)=4

51. For the following C program

Switch (i)
i=1;
case 1
i++;
case 2
++i;
break;
case 3
–i;

Output of i after executing the program

52. For the following C program

char S;
char S[6]= ” HELLO”;
printf(“%s “,S[6]);

output of the above program ?

(a) 0
(b) ASCII 0
(c) I
(d) unpredictable

53. For the following C program

Unsigned char c;
for ( c=0;c!=256;c++2)
printf(“%d”,c);

No. of times the loop is executed ?

(a) 127
(b) 128
(c) 256
(d) infinitely

54. For the following program

int i;
i=0;
repeat
i=i+1; <====== PASCAL PROGRAM
print i;
until(i<10)
end

No. of times the loop is executed?

55. For the following program

Convert (int A,var ,int B;int c)
{A=10;
B=4-;
C=120;
}

Convert (inta,b,c)
{ <====== PASCAL PROGRAM
a=1;
b=4;
c=12;
}

56. For the following program

Procedure A
Begin
——–
end <====== PASCAL PROGRAM

Procedure B No. Of errors in the program ?(1,2,3,none)

Begin
———–
end

57. For the following program

int i;
i=2;
i++;
if(i==4)
{printf(i=4);
}
else
{printf(i=3);
}

Output of the program ?

a) 4
b) 3
c) unpredictable
d) none

Ans. (b)

58. What is FAT?.

a) File Allocation Table
b) File Access Table
c) FDD Allocation Table
d) None of the above

Ans. (a)