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GATE 1996 CSE & IT

45 questions across 1 session

PYQ 1

Let R be a non-emply relation on a collection of sets defined by $${A^R}\,B $$ if and only if $$A\, \cap \,B\, = \,\phi $$. Then, (pick the true statement)

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 2

Two dice are thrown simultaneously. The probability that at least one of them will have 6 facing up is

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 3

Which one of the following is false?

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 4

A $$1000$$ Kbyte memory is managed using variable partitions but to compaction. It currently has two partitions of sizes $$200$$ Kbytes and $$260$$ Kbytes respectively. The smalles...

Operating Systems·MCQ·medium·✓ keyed
PYQ 5

A solution to the Dining Philosophers Problem which avoids deadlock is

Operating Systems·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 6

A critical section is a program segment

Operating Systems·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 7

Let $$A = \left[ {\matrix{ {{a_{11}}} & {{a_{12}}} \cr {{a_{21}}} & {{a_{22}}} \cr } } \right]\,\,$$ and $$B = \left[ {\matrix{ {{b_{11}}} & {{b_{12}}} \cr {{b_{21}}} & {{b_{22}}}...

Discrete Mathematics·OTHER·medium
PYQ 8

The correct matching for the following pairs is List - I (A) Activation record (B) Location counter (C) Reference counts (D) Address relocation List - II (1) Linking loader (2) Gar...

Programming Languages·MTF·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 9

The probability that the top and bottom cards of a randomly shuffled deck are both access is

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 10

Let AX = B be a system of linear equations where A is an m x n matrix and B is a $$m\,\, \times \,\,1$$ column vector and X is a n x 1 column vector of unknowns. Which of the follo...

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 11

Which one of the following is false? Read $$ \wedge $$ as AND, $$ \vee $$ as OR, $$ \sim $$ as NOT, $$ \to $$ as one way implication and $$ \leftrightarrow $$ two way implication.

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 12

The recurrence relation $$\,\,\,\,\,$$ $$T\left( 1 \right) = 2$$ $$T\left( n \right) = 3T\left( {{n \over 4}} \right) + n$$ has the solution $$T(n)$$ equal to

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 13

Let $$X$$ $$X = \left\{ {2,3,6,12,24} \right\}$$. Let $$ \le $$ the partial order defined by $$x \le y$$ if $$x$$ divides $$y$$. The number of edges in the Hasse diagram of $$\left...

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 14

Suppose $$X$$ and $$Y$$ are sets and $$\left| X \right|$$ and $$\left| Y \right|$$ are their respective cardinalities. It is given that there are exactly 97 functions from $$X$$ to...

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 15

A $$ROM$$ is used to store the table for multiplication of two $$8$$ bit unsigned integers. The size of $$ROM$$ required is

Computer Organization·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 16

The pass numbers for each of the following activities (i) object code generation (ii) literals added to literal table (iii) listing printed (iv) address resolution of local symbols...

Compiler Design·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 17

A binary search tree is used to locate the number 43. Which of the following probe sequences are not possible?

Data Structures·MCQ·medium·✓ keyed
PYQ 18

A binary search tree is generated by inserting in order the following integers: 50, 15, 62, 5, 20, 58, 91, 3, 8, 37, 60, 24 The number of nodes in the left subtree and right subtre...

Data Structures·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 19

The minimum number of interchanges needed to convert the array 89, 19, 40, 17, 12, 10, 2, 5, 7, 11, 6, 9, 70 into a heap with the maximum element at the root is

Algorithms·MCQ·medium·✓ keyed
PYQ 20

Quicksort is run on two inputs shown below to sort in ascending order taking first element as pivot i) 1, 2, 3,......., n ii) n, n-1, n-2,......, 2, 1 Let C 1 and C 2 be the number...

Algorithms·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 21

A binary search tree is generated by inserting in order the following integers: 50, 15, 62, 5, 20, 58, 91, 3, 8, 37, 60, 24 The number of nodes in the left subtree and right subtre...

Algorithms·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 22

Let $$A$$ and $$B$$ be sets and let $${A^c}$$ and $${B^c}$$ denote the complements of the sets $$A$$ and $$B$$. The set $$\left( {A - B} \right) \cup \left( {B - A} \right) \cup \l...

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 23

The average number of key comparisons done on a successful sequential search in list of length n is

Algorithms·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 24

The recurrence relation T(1) = 2 T(n) = 3T(n/4) + n has the solution, T(n) equals to

Algorithms·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 25

Which of the following sequences denotes the post order traversal sequence of the tree of previous question?

Data Structures·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 26

Both’s algorithm for integer multiplication gives worst performance when the multiplier pattern is

Computer Organization·MCQ·medium·✓ keyed
PYQ 27

Four jobs to be executed on a single processor system arrive at time $${0^ + }$$ in the order $$A, B, C, D.$$ their burst $$CPU$$ time requirements are $$4, 1, 8, 1$$ time units re...

Operating Systems·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 28

It gives non-uniform priority to various devices.

Computer Organization·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 29

An advantage of chained hash table (external hashing) over the open addressing scheme is

Data Structures·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 30

The concurrent programming constructs fork and join are as below: Fork (label) which creates a new process executing from the specified label join (variable) which decrements the s...

Operating Systems·OTHER·medium
PYQ 31

Let R denote the set of real numbers. Let f: $$R\,x\,R \to \,R\,x\,R\,$$ be a bijective function defined by f (x, y ) = (x + y, x - y). The inverse function of f is given by

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 32

Which of the following is an example of spooled device?

Operating Systems·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 33

The formula used to compute an approximation for the second derivative of a function $$f$$ at a point $${x_0}$$ is

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 34

A file system with a one-level directory structure is implemented on a disk with disk block size of $$4$$ K bytes. The disk is used as follows: Disk-block $$0:$$ File Allocation Ta...

Operating Systems·OTHER·medium
PYQ 35

Consider the following statements: (i) First-in-first out types of computations are efficiently supported by STACKS. (ii) Implementing LISTS on linked lists is more efficient than...

Data Structures·STMT·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 36

Which of the following statements is false?

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 37

A library relational database system uses the following schema USERS (User #, User Name, Home Town) BOOKS (Books # Book Title, Author Name) ISSUED (Book #, User #, Date) Explain in...

Database Management System·OTHER·medium
PYQ 38

A ROM is sued to store the table for multiplication of two $$8$$-bit unsigned integers. The size of ROM required is

Operating Systems·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 39

The matrices$$\left[ {\matrix{ {\cos \,\theta } & { - \sin \,\theta } \cr {\sin \,\,\theta } & {\cos \,\,\theta } \cr } } \right]\,\,and$$ $$\left[ {\matrix{ a & 0 \cr 0 & b \cr }...

Discrete Mathematics·MCQ·medium·✓ keyed
PYQ 40

If $${L_1}$$ and $${L_2}$$ are context free languages and $$R$$ a regular set, one of the languages below is not necessarily a context free language. Which one?

Theory of Computation·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 41

Which of the following statements is false?

Theory of Computation·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 42

Let $$L \subseteq \sum {^{^ * }\,} $$ where $$\,\sum { = \,\,\left\{ {a,b} \right\}\,\,} $$ which of the following is true?

Theory of Computation·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 43

Let $$G$$ be a context free grammar where $$G = \left( {\left\{ {S,A,.B,C} \right\},\left\{ {a,b,d} \right\},P,S} \right)$$ with productions $$P$$ given below $$\eqalign{ & S \to A...

Theory of Computation·OTHER·medium
PYQ 44

Which two of the following four regular expressions are equivalent? (i) $${\left( {00} \right)^ * }\left( {\varepsilon + 0} \right)$$ (ii) $${\left( {00} \right)^ * }$$ (iii) $${0^...

Theory of Computation·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 45

Which of the following is false?

Algorithms·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed