ANALOG COMMUNICATION

EC 501
GROUP A

(Multiple Choice Type Questions)

1. Choose the correct alternative-

i) In an FM wave, the sidebands are specified at intervals equal to
a) twice the modulating frequency
b) half the modulating frequency
c) equal to the modulating frequency
d) greater than modulating frequency

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ii) Signal at the output of an AM modulator is given by
= 5.3 (1 + 0.64 sin 6280) sin 106 . The modulating frequency is
a) 6.28 kHz
b) 1 kHz
c) 1000 kHz
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d) indeterminate from the given data
iii) The Channel capacity of a communication system is
a) B log10 (1 + SNR) c) B log10 (1 + SNR)-1
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b) B log2 (1 + SNR) d) B loge (1 + SNR)
iv) Which is not the purpose of modulation?
a) Increase in signal power
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b) Multiplexing
c) Effective radiation
d) All of these
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v) The maximum transmission efficiency of AM is

a) 33.33% c) 66.6%
b) 50% d) 100%
vi) The main advantage of TDM over FDM is that it
a) needs less power
b) needs less BW
c) needs simple circuit
d) gives better signal to noise ratio
vii) The image channel rejection in a super heterodyne receiver comes from
a) IF stages only c) Detector and RF stages only
b) RF stages only d) Detector, RF and IF stages
viii) Demodulation of DSB-SC signals requires
a) an envelope detector c) a discriminator
b) a synchronous detector d) an integrator
 ix) Varactor diode is used for
a) FM generation c) PM generation
b) AM generation d) All of these
x) A source X which produces five symbols with probabilities , , 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32. The
source entropy is
a) 1.875 b/symbols c) 3 b/symbols
b) 2.875 b/symbols d) 5.5 b/symbols
xi) PAM signals can be demodulated by using
a) a low-pass filter c) a band-pass filter
b) a high-pass filter d) none of these

GROUP B

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(Short Answer Type Questions)

2. Write down the threshold effect in an envelope detector. Calculate the input and output signal
power in SSB-SC system.
3. a) What do you mean by figure of merit ()?
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b) Calculate the figure of merit () for DSB-SC modulation.

4. a) Define Carsons rule for bandwidth requirement in FM.

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b) Consider a FM modulated signal
XFM (t) = 10 cos (ct + 3 sinmt), if the frequency of the modulating signal fm = 1 kHz. Calculate
the modulation index and find the bandwidth, when
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a) fm is doubled and
b) fm is decreased by one half.
5. a) Find the percent modulation of an AM wave whose total power content is 2500 W and whose
each sideband contains 400 W.
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c) Calculate the % power saving in SSB scheme when 50% modulation is used compared to AM
transmission.
6. Derive the expression of signal to noise ratio of DSB-SC system.
7. Explain pre-emphasis and de-emphasis in FM.

GROUP C

(Long Answer Type Questions)

8. a) A DSB-SC signal () is determined using a locally generated carrier ( + )

as shown in the following figure. Show that this scheme can demodulate the signal (with some
attenuation) as long as is not /2.
 b) A certain frequency modulated signal is represented as
() = 10 sin[108 + 15 sin 2000] . Determine the power delivered to a 20 load. Also
write all the information that we get from the expression.
c) State and prove time convolution theorem.

9. a) What are the conditions for distortion less transmission through LTI system? Explain with

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amplitude and phase responses.
b) Show that ideal low pass filter is unrealizable i.e. it is a non-causal system. How do you
convert it to a causal system?
c) A low pass filter transfer function H () is given by
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() = (1 + ) ||
() = 0 || >
A pulse x(t) band limited to m rad/s is applied at the input of this filter. Find the output y(t).
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Draw |H ()|, h(), x(t) and y(t).

10. a) What are the different sources of noise on a communication system?

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b) Define noise figure and noise bandwidth?

c) Obtain the destination SNR in a DSB-SC carrier AM system?

11. a) State Channel capacity theorem.

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b) What is meant by entropy of a source?

c) What is source coding? Why it is done?
d) A source is generating 8 symbols with probabilities 0.25, 0.2, 0.2, 0.1, 0.1, 0.05, 0.05 and 0.05.
Calculate the entropy and rate of information.

12. Write short notes on any three of the following:

a) VSB-SC modulation and demodulation
b) Super heterodyne receiver
c) Stereophonic FM broadcasting
d) QAM system
e) Envelope Detector
f) Pre-emphasis and de-emphasis circuits and their use
 CONTROL SYSTEM
EC 503
GROUP A

(Multiple Choice Type Questions)

1. Choose the correct alternative

i) Addition of a pole to the closed loop transfer function
a) increases size time
b) decreases size time
c) increases overshoot
d) has no effect

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ii) State variable approach converts on nth order system into
a) n second order differential equation
b) two differential equation
c) n first order differential equation
d) a lower order system
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iii) If the gain K of the system increases, the steady state error of the system
a) decreases
b) increases
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c) may increase or decrease
d) remains unchanged
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iv) The function has the slope of
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1+
a) - 6 dB/decade c) 20 dB/decade
b) 6 dB/decade d) 20 dB/decade
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v) The natural frequency of oscillations of the output for the equation + 1.5 +
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2
4 = 1 is
a) 0 rad/sec c) 2 rad/sec
b) 1.5 rad/sec d) 4 rad/sec
vi) In z plane, the unit circle corresponds to
a) imaginary axis of s-plane
b) positive real axis of s-plane
c) negative real axis of s-plane
d) origin of s-plane
vii) The type number of a transfer function denotes the number of
a) poles at origin c) zeros at origin
b) poles at infinity d) none of these
viii) The disadvantage (s) of polar plot is (are)
a) plot is cramped of high frequencies
 b) the calculations are time consuming for exact plot
c) it is very difficult to calculate gain & phase margin
d) all of these
ix) The input-output relationship of a linear system is given by
a) = 0 2 + 1 + 0
b) = 1 + 0
c) = 1
d) = 0
x) By the use of PD control to the second order system, the rise time
a) decreases c) remains same
b) increases d) none of these
xi) The lead compensator network is considered to be
a) high-pass filter c) equalizer
b) low-pass filter d) none of these

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xii) The Z transform F(Z) of function f (nt) = a is

a)


b)
+

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d)

xiii) The transfer function of an integral compensator is given by
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a) c)

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b) d)
2
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GROUP B

(Short Answer Type Questions)

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2. A feedback control system is described as

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() = , () =
( + 2)( + 5)
Evaluate the static error constants Kp, Kv & Ka for the system.
3. A control system is described by the state equation :
 Obtain the transfer function of the system.
4. Obtain the unit step response of a unity feedback system whose open loop transfer function is
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given by G(s) = .
(+5)

5. Find the transfer function from the following signal flow graph using Masons gain formula.

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6. Find the inverse and transform of the following system:
4 2 2
() = 3
5 2 + 8 4
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GROUP C

(Long Answer Type Questions)

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7. a) Sketch the Bode plot of a unity negative feedback closed loop system of which open loop
transfer function is given by
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5 (+2)
(+3)(+10)
Determine gain margin, phase margin, gain cross-over frequency & phase crossover frequency.
b) Comment on the stability of the system.
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8. The transfer function of an open loop control system is

() = 2
( + 4 + 8)
a) Sketch the root loci of the system on a graph paper, touching the following points:
i) Number of the root loci
ii) Number of asymptotes
iii) Angle of asymptotes & their axis intercept.
iv) Angle of departure
v) Imaginary axis intercepts
vi) Real axis part of root locus.
b) From your sketch, find the value of gain k at which dominant pole will have a damping
ration, = 0.5. Also find the corresponding transient frequency of oscillation.
9. a) State and explain Nyquist stability criterion.
 b) The open loop transfer function of a unity negative feddback system is given by
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() = . Draw the Nyquist diagram & hence find out whether the system is
(+1)(+2)
stable or not.
10. a) Find the z transform of the following:
i) () = ( 1 5 ) sampling time T = 0.2 sec
ii) () =

b) For the sampled data system shown in figure, find the output Y(k) for r(t) = unit step.

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11. a) State the difference between describing function and transfer function.
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b) A single input single output system is given by
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c) Obtain the eigenvalues and eigenvectors for a system described by

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EI(EC) 502 - Microprocessor & Microcontroller
Short Answer Type Questions
1. a) What is T-state?
b) Stack is used only when a CALL instruction is executed in 8085. Comment.
c) What is multiplexed address/databus?

2. a) Explain the function of the following routines:

i) LXI SP, (8700) H
PUSH B
PUSH D
POP B
POP D

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RET
ii) LXI SP, (8800) H
MVI C, (00) H
PUSH B
POP PSW
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RET
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b) Write a program (in Assembly Language) to add two Hex numbers (7A) H and (46) H and to
store the sum in memory location (8898) H and flag status at (8897) H location.
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3. What are the advantages of having segmentation? How does the 8086 microprocessor support
segmentation?
4. Describe the different modes of operation of 8253 timer.
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5. If the system clock is 2 MHz, find the time to executr the given instruction code:
MVI A, (5A) H
MVI B, (A7) H
ADD B
INR A
XRA A
HLT / RST 1

6. a) What are the functions of program counter and stack pointer?

b) Distinguish between Software interrupts and Hardware interrupts in 8085 Microprocessor.
 7. a) What are the functions of the following pins of 8086?
BHE / S7
LOCK

b) What is the clock frequency used in 8086?

Long Answer Type Questions

8. a) What are the difference between a microprocessor and a microcontroller?
b) Discuss the memory organization of 8051 microcontroller. What is the function of program
status word (PSW) in 8051?
c) What is the role of SFRs in 8051 microcontroller? Explain.
d) Write an 8051 assembly language program to add two 16 bit no.

9. a) Describe the different addressing modes of 8086 microprocessor.

b) What are the main functions performed by BIU and EU unit of 8086 microprocessor?

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c) How is pipelining achieved in 8086 microprocessor?

10. a) i) What do you mean by subroutine?

ii) Briefly discuss the sequence of events that takes place while executing CALL instruction.
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iii) With the help of diagrams, explain Multiple ending subroutine, Multiple calling subroutine
and nesting.
b) Exchange the contents of DE register pair with that of HL register pair, using PUSH & POP
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instructions.
c) Explain the functions of RESET & READY pins of 8085 microprocessor.
d) What is the purpose of DMA controller?
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11. a) Draw the timing diagram for IN instruction of Intel 8085 microprocessors.
b) Write an 8085 assembly language program for 1 ms delay. Assume the system clk period as
0.33 sec. Calculate the maximum delay for that subroutine.
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c) Write down the MODE-0 control word for the following:

i) Port A = Input
ii) Port B not used
iii) Port C upper = Input, Port C lower = output

Please remember that this is just a guess paper, please try to cover the whole syllabus.
 HU501

Economics for Engineers

GROUP A

Multiple Choice Type Questions

1. Answer all the questions

i) Working capital is equal to
a) Current Assets Current Liabilities
b) Fixed Assets Long term Liabilities
c) Sundry Debaters - Sundry Creditors
d) None of these
ii) Sunk cost is the money spent as a result of
a) Present decision

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b) Past decision
c) Future decision
d) All of these
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iii) Which of the following is a current asset?
a) Investments
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b) Furniture
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c) Closing stock
d) Debentures
iv) Value added tax (VAT) is based on
a) Percentage of firms profit
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b) On payroll
c) At each stage of the supply chain
d) On resource development
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v) Inflation is caused due to

a) Excessive demand
b) Increase in production cost
c) Due to scarcity of goods
d) All of these
vi) The worthiness of an engineering project is analyzed by
a) Gross domestic product
b) Capital-output ratio
c) Present worth analysis
d) Return on capital employed
vii) Depreciation is charged on the original cost of the asset in
a) Straight-line method
b) Reducing balance method
c) Sinking-fund method
d) Double declining method
 viii) Stock turnover ratio is equal to
cost of goods sold
a)
stock
PBIT
b)
Interest
current assets
c)
current liabilities
Fixed Assets
d) P
V
ratio
ix) Capitalised cost is equal to
a) Sales cost of goods sold
b) EUAW EUAC
Annual disbursement
c)
Interest rate
Cost
d)
Uniform annual benefit

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GROUP B

Short Answer Type Question

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(Answer any three of the following)

2. Define break-even point. Draw a break-even chart and explain its components.
3. A bank gives loan to a company to purchase an equipment which is worth of Rs. 5,00,000 at
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an interest rate of 18% compounded annually. This amount should be repaid in 25 yearly
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equal instalments. Find the instalment amount that the company has to pay to the bank.
4. A piece of land may be purchased for Rs. 610,000 to be strip-mined for the underlying coal.
Annual net income will be Rs. 2,00,000 for 10 years. At the end of 10 years, the surface of
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the land will be restored as required by a national law on strip-mining. The reclamation will
cost Rs 1.5 million more than the resale value of the land after it is restored. Using a 10%
interest rate, determine whether the project is desirable.
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5. What is accounting equation? From the following information calculate

i) Gross Profit ratio
ii) Stock Turnover ratio
iii) Debtors Turnover ratio

Sales Rs. 1,50,000

Cost of Goods Sold Rs. 1,20,000

Opening Stock Rs. 27,000

Debtors Rs. 14,000

Closing stock Rs. 33,000

Bills Receivable Rs. 6,000

6. A company has purchased a bus for its offices for Rs. 10,00,000. The expected life of the bus
is 8 years. The salvage value of the bus at the end of its life is Rs. 1,50,000. Find the following
using the sinking fund method
a) Depreciation at the end of third and fifth year.
b) Book value at the end of second and sixth year.

GROUP C

Long Answer Type Question

7. a) What is inflation? What are the consequences of inflation?

b) A proposal with an initial cost of $2000 is expected to produce net returns of $850 per
year for 3 years. The minimum acceptable rate of return is 15% and rate of inflation is 5%.
Analyse whether the project should be accepted or rejected by
i) without considering inflation
ii) considering inflation.

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8. a) Define the following costs with examples
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i) Sunk cost
ii) Opportunity cost
iii) Life-cycle costs
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b) Krishna Company Ltd. has the following details
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Fixed cost = Rs 40,00,000

Variable cost per unit = Rs 300

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Selling price per unit = Rs 500

Find
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a) Break-even sales quantity,

b) Brean-even sales,

c) If the actual production quantity is 1,20,000 units, find i) Contribution, ii) Margin of safety.

9. Write short notes on

i) Replacement Analysis
ii) Joint Probability Distributions
iii) Incremental Analysis
10. a) Compute the taxable income for each of the three years, when a firm had the following
results
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Gross Income from 200 200 200
Sales
Purchase of special -60 0 0
tooling (useful life 3
years)
All other -140 -140 -140
expenditures
0 60 60

b) Explain the different types of property in the context of depreciation.

11. a) The cash flows for two alternatives are as follows

Year A B
0 -1000 -2783
1 +200 +1200

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2 +200 +1200
3 +1200 +1200
4 +1200 +1200
5 +1200
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It is assumed that benefits occur throughout the year. Based on payback period, which
alternative should be selected?
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b) Consider the following two mutually exclusive alternatives
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A B
Cost Rs 4000 Rs 6000
Uniform Annual Benefit Rs 640 Rs 960
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Useful Life (years) 20 20

Using 15% interest rate which alternative should be selected based on future worth method.
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 EC504A

Computer Architecture

Short Answer Type Questions

1. What is virtual memory? Why is it called virtual? Write the advantages of virtual memory.
2. What do you mean by instruction cycle, machine cycle and T states?
3. What are the advantages of relative addressing mode over direct addressing mode?
4. Compare RISC with CISC.
5. Distinguish between vectored interrupt and non-vectored interrupt.
6. What is meant by parallel processing? What is the basic objective of parallel processing?

Long Answer Type Question

7. a) Discuss the principle of carry look ahead after and design a 4-bit CLA adder and estimate the

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speed enhancement with respect to ripple carry adder.
b) Briefly state the relative advantages and disadvantages of parallel adder over serial adder.
c) X = (A + B) C
Write down the zero address, one address, and three address instructions for the expression.
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8. a) Explain Booths Algorithm. Apply Booths algorithm to multiply the two numbers (+ 14)10 and
(- 12)10. Assume the multiplier and multiplicand to be of 5 bits each.
b) Give the flowchart for division of two binary numbers and explain.
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9. a) What is meant by DMA? Why it is useful? Briefly explain with suitable diagram, the DMA
operation in association with CPU.
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b) Give the main reason why DMA based I/O is better in some circumstances than interrupt
driven I/O.
c) Where does DMA mode of data transfer find its use?
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10. a) What is meant by Pipeline architecture?

b) What are pipeline hazards?
c) A non-pipeline system takes 40 ns to process a task. The same task can be processed in a four
segment pipeline with a clock cycle of 10 ns. Determine the speed up ration of the pipeline for
50 tasks. What is the maximum speed up that can be achieved in this case?
d) What do you mean by speedup, efficiency and throughput of a pipelined processor?

11. Write short notes on any three of the following:

a) DMA controller
b) Page replacement policies
c) Flash memory
d) Flynns classification
e) Micro-programmed control unit

Remember this is just a Suggestion Paper; always try to cover the whole syllabus before examination.
 EC504B DATA STRUCTURE WITH C
Multiple Choice Type Questions

1. i) Maximum possible height of an AVL Tree with 7 nodes is

a) 3 c) 5
b) 4 d) 6

ii) Worst case time complexity of the heap sort algorithm is

2
a) O( Nlog2 N) c) O( n )
3
b) O( Nln N) d) O( n )

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iii) The prefix notation is also known as

a) Polish notation c) reverse Polish notation

b) reverse Polish notation d) none of these
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iv) Which of the following statements are true in case of Depth-First-Traversal?

i) DFS is used to determine statements are true in case of Depth-First-Traversal?

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ii) DFS is used to determine acyclic nature of a graph
a) only (i) is true b) only (ii) is true
b) both (i) and (ii) are true d) all are false
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v) Structure in C is an

a) user defined data type

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b) ADT

c) both (a) and (b)

d) none of these

vi) What is suitable efficient data structure to construct a tree?

a) Linked list
b) Stack
c) Queue
d) none of these
 vii) A graph G with n nodes bipartite if it contains

a) n edges
b) a cycle of odd length
c) no cycle of odd length
2
d) n edges

viii) The ratio of items present in the hash table, to the total table size is called

a) balanced factor c) item factor

b) load factor d) none of these

ix) Adjacency matrix of a digraph is

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a) O ( n ) c) O ( 2 )

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b) O ( log2 n ) d) O ( nlog2 n )

x) A is an array of size m * n, stored in the row major order. If the address of the first element in
the array is M, the address of the element A (i, j) (A (0, 0) ) is the first element of the array and
each element occupies one location in memory that is
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a) M + (i j) * m + j 1 c) M + (j 1) * m + i -1
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b) M + i * m + j d) M + (i -1) * n + j -1

xi) In which collision processing method, it is not required to detect a given list position, if it is
occupied or not?
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a) Quadratic c) Rehashing
b) Linked d) None of these
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xii) The height difference of any node in an AVL tree is

a) -1, 0, 1 c) -2, 0, 2
b) -2, 0, 1 d) -1, 0, 2

Short Answer Type Questions

2. Convert the following into postfix:

a+bc$d(efg)/h
3. Write an algorithm for inorder traversal of a threaded binary tree.
4. Is circular queue a non-linear data structure? Justify your answer.
5. What is Hashing? What is Linear Probing?
6. Write an algorithm to delete a node from a doubly linked list, where a node contains one data
and two address (prev & next) portion.
7. Create a AVL tree by inserting the following numbers in the order in which they are given:
17 25 19 23 75
Draw figure for each step.

8. Distinguish between linear and non-linear data structure with suitable example.

Long Answer type Questions

9. a) Represent the following polynomial by linked list (show the diagram only) :
5 3
9x + 3x 8x + 15
b) Convert the following:
i) A + ( ( ( B C ) * ( D E ) + F ) / G ) $ ( H I ) [POSTFIX]
ii) ABC - / DEF + * + [PREFIX]

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c) Write an algorithm to add two polynomials.
10. a) What is a graph? Find out the shortest path between all pairs of nodes in the given graph by
Kruskals algorithm.
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b) Write down the DFS algorithm.

c) Define a directed graph. Provide an example.
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11. a) In a 2-tree, if E be the external path length, P be the internal path length and Q be the
number of vertices that are not leaves, then prove that

E = P + 2Q

b) Write a function to delete any node from a binary search tree.

c) The in-order & pre-order traversal sequence of nodes in a binary tree are given below:

In-order: E A C K F H D B G

Pre-order: F A E K C D H G B
12. a) Construct the following Queue of characters where Queue is a circular array which is
allocated six memory cells.
FRONT = 2 REAR = 4 QUEUE: _ , A, C, D, _, _
Describe the Queue as the following operations take place:
i) F is added to the Queue
ii) Two letters are from the Queue
iii) K, L, M are added to the Queue
iv) Two letters are deleted from the Queue
v) R is added to the Queue
vi) One letter is deleted from the Queue

b) What is tail recursion? How is it different from ordinary recursion? What are the difference
between iteration and recursion?

c) Write the push( ) and pop( ) functions for a stack after describing the Data-Structure clearly.

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13. a) Why is hashing referred as a heuristic search method?
b) Write an algorithm for heap sort algorithm.
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c) Define a B-Tree. Insert the following keys into a B-Tree of order 3. (i.e. the B-tree is a 3-way
tree)
A F B K H M E S R C L
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N U P
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