Vortex 24

Main Quiz
1. What is the scientific name of the computer?

A. Homo silicium
B. Homo digitalis
C. Homo computatrix
D. Silico sapiens
2. How is the quality of a printer measured?

A. Alphabet per strike

B. Words per Inch
C. Strike per Inch
D. Dots per Inch
3. Which was the first virus detected on ARPANET,
the forerunner of the internet in the early 1970s?

A. Exe Flie
B. Creeper Virus
C. Peeper Virus
D. Trozen horse
4. The first commercially available personal computer
was the:

A. Apple II
B. Altair 8800
C. IBM PC
D. Commodore 64
5. What does EEPROM stands for?

1. Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read-Only Memory

2. Electronically Erasable and Programmable Read-Only Memory
3. Electrically Enabled and Programmable Read-Only Memory
4. None of the above
6. What is the binary value of ‘E’?
7. Which one of the following given statements possibly
contains the error?

1. select * from emp where empid = 10003;

2. select empid from emp where empid = 10006;
3. select empid from emp;
4. select empid where empid = 1009 and Lastname = 'GELLER';
8. The size of virtual memory is based on:

1. CPU
2. Address bus
3. RAM
4. Data bus
9. In a subnet with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.224, what is
the maximum number of hosts per subnet?

A. 30
B. 32
C. 64
D. 62
10. Given a B-tree with an order of 4, what is the maximum
number of keys and pointers in a single node?

A. 3 keys, 4 pointers
B. 4 keys, 5 pointers
C. 5 keys, 6 pointers
D. 6 keys, 7 pointers
11. What is the purpose of the "nice" command in Unix/Linux
operating systems?

A. Adjusts the priority of a process

B. Changes file permissions

C. Modifies the system time

D. Formats a disk
12. What is the maximum data transfer rate of
a USB 3.0 device?
13.What is the formula for calculating the accuracy of a
machine learning model?

A) (True Positives + True Negatives) / Total Predictions

B) True Positives / (True Positives + False Negatives)
C) True Positives / (True Positives + False Positives)
D) (True Positives + True Negatives + False Positives + False
Negatives) / Total Predictions
14. In the context of deep learning, what is the main advantage
of transfer learning?

A. Reducing model complexity

B. Accelerating training time
C. Leveraging knowledge from pre-trained models
D. Improving generalization to new data generate answer with
same question
15. Which routing algorithm considers the distance and time
delay to make routing decisions?

a) Bellman-Ford Algorithm

b) Dijkstra's Algorithm

c) OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)

d) RIP (Routing Information Protocol)

16. What is the purpose of the 'swapping' technique in
operating systems?

a) To increase system performance by moving idle processes to

secondary memory

b) To reduce memory fragmentation

c) To facilitate communication between processes

d) To optimize disk access speed

17. Consider a relation R (A, B, C) with a B-tree index on
attribute B. A query selects tuples where B < 8 and C > 5.
Which index access method is most efficient?

A). Full table scan

B). Clustered index scan
C). Non-clustered index scan with range search on B
D). Non-clustered index scan with point search on B and
range search on C
18. A process with 10 pages of virtual memory is mapped to a
physical memory of 5 frames. The page table size is 4 bytes per
page. The operating system uses fixed-size page tables. What is
the internal fragmentation overhead due to the page table?

A. 0 bytes
B. 20 bytes
C. 40 bytes
D. 80 bytes
19. Consider the languages L1 = ∅ and L2 = {a}. Which one of
the following represents L1L2* U L1*?

(A) {∈}
(B) ∅
(C) a*
(D) {∈,a}
20. A process executes the code
fork( );
fork( );
fork( );
The total number of child processes created is :

(A) 3
(B) 4
(C) 7
(D) 8
21. Suppose the time to service a page fault is on average 10
milliseconds, while a memory access takes 1 microsecond. Then
a 99.99% hit ratio results in an average memory access time of
22. Identify the correct order in which the following actions take
place in an interaction between a web browser and a web server.

1. The web browser requests a webpage using HTTP.

2. The web browser establishes a TCP connection with the web server.
3. The web server sends the requested webpage using HTTP.
4. The web browser resolves the domain name using DNS.

A) 4,2,1,3 B) 1,2,3,4 C) 4,1,2,3 D) 2,4,1,3

23. Which of the following are used to generate a message digest by
the network security protocols?
(P) RSA
(Q) SHA-1
(R) DES
(S) MD5
1. P and R only
2. Q and R only
3. Q and S only
4. R and S only
24. Consider the following program:
main()
{
if(fork()>0)
sleep(100);
}
1) Infinite process
2) Zombie process
3) Orphan process
4) None
25. Let R1 and R2 be two 4-bit registers that store numbers in 2’s
complement form. For the operation R1+R2, which one of the
following values of R1 and R2 gives an arithmetic overflow?

(A) R1 = 1011 and R2 = 1110

(B) R1 = 1100 and R2 = 1010

(C) R1 = 0011 and R2 = 0100

(D) R1 = 1001 and R2 = 1111

26. Match the following:
Layer Protocol
1.Application A.DSL
2.Transport B.IPMP
3.Network C.RTP
4.Data Link D.TCP
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i. 1-C 2-A 3-D 4-B
ii. 1-A 2-C 3-B 4-D
iii. 1-C 2-D 3-B 4-A
iv. 1-A 2-D 3-C 4-B
27. A CPU generates 32-bit virtual addresses. The page size is 4 KB.
The processor has a translation look-aside buffer (TLB) which can
hold a total of 128 pages table entries and is 4-way set associative.
The minimum size of the TLB tag is:

a) 11 bits
b) 13 bits
c) 15 bits
d) 20 bits
28. Consider that the page fault service time in a computer is
10ms and the average memory access time is 20ns. If, in case, it
generates a page fault every 10^6 memory accesses, then what
would be the effective access time for this memory?

A. 30ns
B. 21ns
C. 35ns
D. 23ns
29. Which is used to specify the user views and their mappings
to the conceptual schema?

1) DDL
2) DML
3) SDL
4) VDL
30. A computer system has a cache with a total capacity of 64 KB, a
block size of 64 bytes, and a 4-way set-associative mapping.
Calculate the number of sets in the cache and the tag size required
for addressing.

A. 256, 18
B. 128, 18
C. 256, 22
D. 128, 22
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