SAIL paper 2008

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hi friends
i have attend my first SAIL exam in 10 feb, 2008. same day an exam of GATE is
also take palce..

SAIL is having five section - Reasoning ( 45 ) , Quanti. ques.( 35 ), Genral

knowledge ( 35 ), English Comp ( 35 )., Technical Question ( 100 ).
In previos year their is some change in no of questions.
And total time given is 2 hour 25 minutes....
Their is not saparate time given for saperate sections, all section have to solve in
2:25 hour, but individual cuttoff is their ....
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Section FIRST - REASONING ( 45 )

This is vry easy to solve and I suggest to solve as many as possible becoz easy to
solve and efficiency is above 90 %.
type of question...
Family relation - one question - "A person looking at portral and said that ' his
mother is wife of my father .I m only child of my father' what is relation between
them "
five question - " A, B ,C, D, E ,F are five , A is ..., B is ...and so on " a very well
known question belong to R.S.Agrawal " and five easy question based on that.
DIsc problem - one question - " two diagram was given and ask that no of dots
opposite to one dots " vry simple ...
Sitting Arrengment - five question based on sitting arrengment that was a little
time taking but easy to solve.
Syllogism - four to five question based on that in which statment and conclusion
was given and have to solved.
Odd one out - one are two odd one out type but question was too easy and must be
tried.
Venn Diagram - four question from R.S.agrawal " Square represent girls, square
rep. sportperson , circle rep. coach and question based on that".
LR - some question are based on that but vry easy to solve.
Direction finding - one or two question based on that...

Over all this section was thats most scoring section and i must suggest you to
prepair that esay and score most in that.....
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Section SECOND - QUANTI.. ( 35 )

In quanti. the question of starting are easy to solve and question after 15 in quanti.
is a little bit tough as compare to starting....
Quanti portion consist of work and energy, pipe line problem, up and downword
water stream problem, profit and loss, ratio propertion which are common in any
exam.

Lenghty as compare to reasoning problems.

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Section THIRD - GENRAL AWARNESS. ( 35 )

This portion is as usual not easy and a lot of luck is required......

their is question mainly form
History - (' who fight the third panipath war' , and so on.......)
Geography - (' india and pak border is name as ', and one form such border
problem....
Author - their is three question related to book and authors (' who the writer of
Harry Porter'........etc
Regional dance - (' Given some name and asked that name belong to what field' )
Sports - (' Wimbuldon belong to which games' )
and such type of GK...
i prefered you to read some important event of History, Sports knowledge, some
famous person name and feild knowledge etc....
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Section FOURTH - ENGLISH. ( 35 )

This section will have five antonisms, ten find the error is sentence, two para.
reading each having 5 question, five to seven find best meaning ...
antonism and synonims are quite unknown section and i faced some difficulty in it,
else section 'error and reading' was easy to solve .....
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Section FIVETH - TECHNICAL QUESTION. ( 100 )

I am belong to Eletronics and telecommunication stream...

their are question which are vry basics and portion are :-
Network, Analog, Digital , Communication, Electromagnatic, antenna etc......
Remember one thing that you have less time to solve this question so read only
thoes which are conform to you that you will deffinatly solve tht..
first attempt which is solid to you and after then for tukakka........................and
remember that mainly 80% protion are theory and 50% pure theroy ..no
knowledge of practical field where ask so prepare some basic theory ....

Sail Exam Paper MODEL PAPER

SAIL PAPER ON 3RD APRIL,2008
Hi................Friends........ I am swathi......I would like to tell about the written test which
was conducted by SAIL......
I am from mechanical branch.........basically we have 250 questions...............in that we
have parts.....in that

1.Aptitude in that they have asked most of the questions from percentage , profit and
loss , problems on train , Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Calender, Age problems,
Time and Work ,H.C.F & L.C.F, average, square roots, Decimal Fractions, Discount
problems, Odd man out and series. Hey freinds just go through the R.S AGGARWAL.

2.Verbal in that they have asked for meanings, opposites, appropriate words,
Passages, analogy, relational, Coding and decoding ,cubes and dice, statement and
conclusions, Mirror images, Alphabet test, Mathematical Operations, Data sufficiency.
follow Verbal and NON-verbal Reasoning by R.S AGGARWAL.

3.General Awareness this all about general knowledge test of the student. So try to
refer some G.K general questions like some quotations given by great people like
Mahatma Gandhi they will give some quotation n they will ask who said this quotation
like that, next O2 is carried out by red blood cells n some on nature n some n history n
some on current affairs n some on politics n some on food products like that so try to
know some general questions.

4.Technical Test In this they will ask about subject as I am from mechanical they asked
questions from Automobile engineering, Design of machine members, Strength of
materials, Kinematics, MOF, Thermal subject study all cycles n about working of piston
n they have asked some problems from DMM n some problems on turbines n some of
determining speeds so frens do concentrate up on core subjects which we have in our
2nd and 3rd and 4-1 sem subjects that too core subjects.
Frens we have negative marking for each wrong answer they will deduct 1/4 mark so
first try to do only known questions n they try other questions
we will have time for 2hrs and 20mins so try the best.
to day only I have given exam I donno any information regarding portion so I dint
perform that much good in General Awareness and some tech questions and I am poor
at verbal........so I dont want other people do the same as I did in the exam so I giving
clear cut of this SAIL written test.Hope the best frens........bubbye....
Pray for me frens (swathi)

Computer Science Questions For SAIL

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1. Assuming all numbers are in 2’s complement representation, which of the
following numbers is divisible by 11111011?
(a) 11100111
(b) 11100100
(c) 11010111
(d) 11011011
2. The following is a scheme for floating point number representation using 16 bits.

Let s, e, and m be the numbers represented in binary in the sign, exponent, and
mantissa fields respectively. Then the floating point number represented is

3. A 1-input, 2-output synchronous sequential circuit behaves as follows:

Let Zk, nkdenote the number of 0’s and l’s respectively in initial k bits of the input
(zk + nk = k). The circuit outputs 00 until one of the following condition’s holds
1. Zk-nk = 2. In this case, the output at the k-th and all subsequency clock ticks is
10.
2. nk —zk= 2. In this case, the output at the k-th and all subsequent clock ticks is
01.
What in the minimum number of states required in the state transition graph of the
above circuit?
(b)6
(d) 8
(a) 5
(c) 7
4.The literal count of a boolean expression is the sum of the number of times each
literal appears in the expression. For example, the literal count of (xy+ xz) is 4.
What are the minimum possible literal counts of the product-of-sum and sum-of-
product representations respectively of the function given by the following
Karnaugh map? Here, X denotes “don’t care”

(a) (11,9)
(b) (9, 13)
(c) (9, 10)
(d)(11,11)
5. Consider the following circuit composed of XOR gates and non inverting buffers.

The non-inverting buffers have delays δ1=2 ns and δ2=4ns as shown in the figure.
Both XOR gates and all wires have zero delay. Assume that all gate inputs, outputs
and wires are stable at logic level 0 at time 0. If the following waveform is applied
at input A, how many transition (s) (change of logic levels) occur(s) at B during the
interval from 0 to 10 ns?

(a)1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
6. The Boolean function x’ y’ + xy + x’ y is equivalent to
(a)x’+y’
(b)x+y
(c)x+y’
(d)x’+y
7. In an SR latch made by cross-coupling two NAND gates, if both S and R inputs
are set to 0, then it will result in
(a)Q=0,Q’=l
(b)Q=1.Q’=O
(c) Q = 1, Q’ =1
(d) Indeterminate states
8. if 73 x(in base-x number system) is equal to 54, (in base-y number system), the
possible values of x and y are
(a) 8, 16
(b) 10, 12
(c) 9, 13
(d) 8, 11
9. What is the result of evaluating the following two expressions using three-digit
floating point arithmetic with rounding?
(113.+—111.)+ 7.51
113 +(—111. +7 51)
(a) 9.51 and 10.0 respectively
(b) 10.0 and 9.51 respectively
(c) 9.51 and 9.51 respectively
(d)10. 0 and 10 .0 respectively
10. A circuit outputs a digit in the form of 4 bits. 0 is represented by 0000, 1 by
0001, …, 9 by 1001. A combinational circuit is to be designed which takes these 4
bits as input and outputs 1 if the digit>=5, and 0 otherwise. If only AND, OR and
NOT gates may be used, what is the minimum number of gates required?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
11. Which are the essential prime implications of the following Boolean function?
f(a, b, c) =a’c + ac’ + b’c
(a) a’c and ac’
(c) a’c only
(b) a’c and b’c
(d) ac’ and bc’
 12. Consider the partial implementation for a 2-bit counter using T flip- flops
following the sequence 0-2-3-1-0, as shown below

13. A4-bit carry look ahead adder, which adds two 4-bit numbers, is designed using
AND, OR. NOT, NAND, NOR gates only. Assuming that all the inputs are available in
both complemented and uncomplemented forms and the delay of each gate is one
time unit, what is the overall propagation delay of the adder? Assume that the carry
network has been implemented using two-level AND-OR logic.
(a) 4time units
(b) 6time units
(c) 10 time units
(d) 12 time units
14. Let A= 11111010 and B +0000 1010 be two 8-bit 2’s complement numbers.
Their product in 2’s complement is
(a) 11000100
(b) 1001 1100
(c) 10100101
(d) 11010101
15. Consider the following circuit

Which one of the following is TRUE?

(a) f is independent Of X
(b) f is independent of Y
(c) f is independent of Z
(d) None of x, Y, Z is redundant
Answers:
1: a
2: c
3: c
4: c
5: c
6: d
7: c
8: d
9: a
10: b
11: a
12: d
13: b
14:a
15:c

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1. For a pipelined CPU with a single ALU, consider the following situations
1. The j + 1 — st instruction uses the result of the j-th instruction as an operand
2. The execution of a conditional jump instruction
3. The j -th and j + 1 — St instructions require the ALU at the same time
Which of the above can cause a hazard?
(a) l and 2only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 3 only
(d) All the three
2. Consider an array multiplier for multiplying two n bit numbers. If each gate in the circuit has a
unit delay, the total delay of the multiplier is
(a) Θ(1)
(b) Θ(log n)
(c) Θ(n)
(d)Θ(n2)
3. Consider the ALU shown below

If the operands are in 2’s complement representation, which of the following operations can be
performed by suitably setting the control lines K and C0 only (+ and — denote addition and
subtraction respectively)?
(a) A + B, and A — B, but not A + I
(b) A + B, and A + 1, but not A— B
(c) A+B, but not A—B,or A+l
(d) A + B, and A — B, and A + 1
Data for Q.4 & Q.5 are given below. choose the correct answers.
Consider the following assembly language program for a hypothetical processor. A, B and C are 8
bit registers. The meanings of various instructions are shown as comments.
MOV B,#O ; B← 0
MOV C,#8 ; C←8
Z: CMP C, #0 ; compare C with 0
JZX ; jump to X if zero flag is set
SUBC,#l ; C←C-1
RRCA, # 1 ; right rotate A through carry by one bit. Thus:
;if the initial values of A and the carry flag are a7 … a0 and
;c 0 respectively, their values after the execution of this
instruction will be c0a7 ….a1and a0 respectively.
JC Y ; jump to Y if carry flag is set
JMPZ ; jump to Z
Y: ADDB,#l ; B ← B+1
JMPZ ; jump to Z
X:
4.If the initial value of register A is A 0 the value of register B after the program execution will be
(a) the number of 0 bits in A0
(b) the number of 1 bits in A0
(c) A 0
(d) 8
5. Which of the following instructions when inserted at location X will ensure that the value of
register A after program execution is the same as its initial value?
(a) RRC A, # 1
(b) NOP ; no operation
(e) LRC A, # 1 ; left rotate A through carry flag by one bit
(d) ADDA,#l
6. Which of the following addressing modes are suitable for program relocation at run time?
1. Absolute addressing
2. Based addressing
3. Relative addressing
4. Indirect addressing
(a) l and 4
(c) 2 and 3
(b) l and2
(d) l, 2and 4
7. Consider a multiplexer with X and Y as data inputs and Z as control input.
Z = 0 selects input X, and Z =1 selects input Y.
What are the connections required to realize the 2-variable Boolean function f= T + R, without
using any additional hardware?
(a)R to X,l to Y,T to Z
(b)T to X,R to Y,T to Z
(c)T to X,R to Y,O to Z
(d)R to X, O to Y,T to Z
8. Consider a small two-way set-associative cache memory, consisting of four blocks. For
choosing the block to be replaced, use the least recently used (LRU) scheme. The number of
cache misses for the following sequence of block addresses is 8, 12,0, 12, 8
(a)2
(b)3
(c)4
(d)5
9. The goal of structured programming is to
(a) have well indented programs
(b) be able to infer the flow of control from the compiled code
(c) be able to infer the flow of control from the program text
(d) avoid the use of GOTO statements
10. Consider the following C function
void swap (int a, int b)
{ int temp;
temp =a;
a=b
b=temp;
}
In order to exchange the values of two variables x and y.
(a) call swap(x,y)
(b) call swap (&x, &y)
(c) swap (x, y) cannot be used as it does not return any value
(d) swap (x, y) cannot be used as the parameters are passed by value
11. A single array A [ 1....MAXSIZE] is used to implement two stacks. The two stacks grow from
opposite ends of the array. Variables top 1 and top 2 (top 1
(a) (top 1 = MAXSIZE/2) and (top 2= MAXSTZE/2 + 1)
(b) top 1 + top 2= MAXSIZE
(c) (top 1 = MAXSIZE/2) or (top 2= MAXSIZE)
(d) top 1 = top 2 — 1
12. The following numbers are inserted into an empty binary search tree in the given order: 10,
1,3,5, 15, 12, 16. What is the height of the binary search tree (the height is the maximum
distance of a leaf node from the root)?
(a) 2
(b)3
(c) 4
(d) 6
13. The best data structure to check whether an arithmetic expression has balanced parentheses
is a
(a) queue
(b) stack
(c) tree
(d) list

14. Consider the following C function

The value returned by f( 1) is

(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 8
15. Consider the following program fragment for reversing the digits in a given integer to obtain
a new integer. Let n = d1 d2… dm
16. Consider the following C program segment:

Answers:
1d
2c
3d
4a
5a
6c
7a
8c
9c
10 d
11 d
12 b
13 b
14 c
15 a