NIC Scientist B Exam

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 SECTION - A 5. Look at this sequence SCD TEP UGH
____ WKL and find the missing
I ;_ GENERAL APTITUDE sequence.
Ch'oos·e the most appropriate option:. (A) CMN (B) UJI
•!
J
(Q.No. 01 to 13)
(C) VIJ (D) IJT

1. Which word does NOT belong with the

others ?
I I 6. Here are some words translated from any
(A) wing (B) fin Language.
(C) beak (D) rudder
dionot means oak tree

blyonot means oak leaf

2. Suppose a fraud shopkeeper sells rice to
the customer at the cost price, but he uses blycrin means maple leaf
a false weight of 900 gm for a kg then his
percentage gain is ____ Which word could mean "maple syrup" ? ·
(A) 5.75% (B) 5.56%
(A) blymuth (B) hupponot
(C) 5.20% (D) 5.00%
(C) patricrin (D) crinweel

3. Let us consider the length of the side of a

square represented by 2y + 3. The length I'
of the side of an equilateral triangle is 4y. 7. If finch related to bird i.e. FINCH : BIRD.
If the square and the equilateral triangle Then, find the pair that has a similar
have equal perimeter, then what is the relationship.
value of y?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (A) frog : toad

(C) 6 (D) 8 (B) elephant : reptile

(C) dalmatian : dog

4. A software engineer has the capability of
thinking 200 lines of code in five minutes (D) collie : marsupial
and can type 200 lines of code in 10
minutes. He takes a break for five minutes
after every ten minutes. How many lines
of code will he complete typing after an 8. Candid is to indirect as honest is to :
hour?
(A) frank (B) wicked
(A) 200 (B) 300
(C) 400 (D) 500 (C) truthful (D) untruthful

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 28. A continuous random variable ·:x is
2z 2 - 5
24. The value of f -------dz distributed over the interval [O, 2] with
c (z + 2)2 (z2 + 4)z2 probability density function f(x) = ax2 + bx,
where a and b are constants. If the mean
(where c is the square with vertices
1 + i, 2 + i, 2 + 2i, i + 2i) is :
of the distribution is 2. Find the values of
(A) 0 the constants a and b.
(C) 21·ri
13
(A) a = 2, b=--
6
25. If w =f(z) = u(x, y) + i v (x, y) is an analytic
dw (B)
function, then z is :
d
29
au .au au .av (C) a= - b= 2
--1- -+ L- 6 '
(A) ax
ay (B) ax ay
au .av au au 7
(C) --1-
(D) ax + iay (D) a=3' b = --2
ax ax

29. If 2a + 3b + c = 0, then at least one root of

26. If P(AnB) = - 1 p (An
- -) = - 1 and the equation ax2+bx+ c = 0, lies in the
B
2' 2 interval:
2P(A) = P(B) = p , then the value of p is
given by: (A) (0, 1) (B) (1, 2)

1 1 (C) (2, 3) (D) (1, 3)

(A) 4 (B) 2
I ,t
(C) -1 (D)
2 30. The general solution of the differential
3 3 equation
dy = (1 2
2x ta n-1 y) is:
+ y2 ) (e-x -
dx
27. Using Green's theorem in plane, evaluate
f/2x - y)dx + (x + y) dy , where c is the
. 2
circle x2 + y2 = 4 in the plane : (B) e-x tan y=x+c

(A) 2,r (B) 4ir (C) ex tan y = x2 + c

(C) -4,r (D) Sir

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�- sorting algorithms has the 51. (A+C')(B' +C') simplifies to---�
lowest worst-case complexity.
(A) AC'+B' (B) C(A' +B')
(A) Selection Sort
(B) Bubble Sort (C) BC' +A (D) AB' +C'

(C) Merge Sort

(D) Quick Sort
is used to convert from
recursive to iterative implementa�on of an
4 Baud rate measures the number of
transmitted per second.
algorithm.

(A) Array (B) Tree

(A) Symbols
(C) Stack (D) Queue
(B) Bits
(C) Byte �"
(D) None of these 'k/ Identify the true statement from the given
statements.

--.....418. Evaluation of the given postfix expression (1) Lossless, dependency-preserving

Decomposition into 3 NF is always
10 10 + 60 6 / * s- is : possible.
(A) 192 (B) 190
(2) Any relation with two attributes is
(C) 110 (D) 92 in BCNF.

(A) (1 )
49. Identify the subnet mask for the given
· direct broadcast address of subnet is (B) (2)
201.15.16.31.
(C) (1) and (2)
(A) 255.255.192.192
(B) 255.255.255.198 (D) None of these

(C) 255.255.255.240
(D) 255.255.257.240 ( ____ pairs o f traversals is not
sufficient to build a binary tree.

�: Decreasing the RAM causes ____ (A) Preorder and Inorder

(A). Fewer page faults
(B) Postorder and Inorder
(B) More page faults
Virtual memory get increases (C) Postorder and Preorder
(C)
(D) Virtual memory get decreases (D) None of these

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 55. Find the effective access time for the 59. Among all given option, ____ must
memory for the given data. reside in the main memory.
Page fault service time= 8 ms (A) Assembler (B) Compiler
Average memory access time= 20 ns (C) Linker (D) Loader
One page fault is generated for every
memory access= 10 6
Time to Live (TTL) field in the IP datagram
(A) 29 ns (B) 33 ns is used ____
(C) 28 ns (D) 30 ns (A) to optimize throughput
(B) to prevent packet looping
� For the given recurrence equation (C) to reduce delays .
T(n)=2T(n-1), if n>0 (D) to prioritize packets
= 1, otherwise
(A) O(nlogn) (B) O(n2) Maximum number of superkeys for the
relation schema R(X, Y, Z, W) with X as
(C) 0(2 n) (D) O(n) the key is:
(A) 6 (B) 8
k/_____ symbol is used to denote (C) 9 (D) 12
derived attributes in ER Model.
(A) Dashed ellipse
�f the period of a signal is 100 ms. Then its
(B) Squared ellipse frequency in Hertz is ____
(C) Ellipse with attribute name (A) 10 (B) 100
underlined
(C) 1000 (D) 10000
(D) Rectangular Box

/ In a system, counting semaphore was

'\.,,,
58. ____ is NOT a part of the ACID
initialized to 10 .. Then 6 P (wait) operations
properties.
and 4 V (signal) operations were
Inconsistency
(A) completed on this semaphore. So
_____ is the final value of the
(B) Consistency semaphore.
(C)
Atomicity (A) 7 (B) 8
(D)
Isolation (C) 13 (D) 12

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 /�
Identify the tr
?9. e statement from the given Consider the following functional
statements. dependencies in a database
A➔B
(1) "· FIFO is non-preemptive.
B ➔C

(2) Round robin is non-preemptive. ·D➔E

E➔D
(3) Multilevel Queue Scheduling is non­ F➔G
preemptive.
F➔H
(A) (1) (B) (1) and (2) (E, F)➔I
The relation (E, D, A, B) is :
(C) (1), (2) and (3) (D) (2) (A) 2 NF
(B) 3 NF
(C) BCNF
�, 80. Identify the true statement from the given (D) None of the above
··
fu'fafe'ments.
/
'(1) . Number of child pointers in a '81. The hexadecimal representation of (632) 8
B/B + tree node is always equal to is:
number of keys in it plus one. (A) 19A (B) 198
(C) 29A (D) 291
(2) B/B + tree is defined by a term
minimum degree. And minimum
degree depends on harddisk block
size, key and address sizes.
✓• The process executes the following code
and after execution ____ number
of child process get created.
fork();
fork();
(B) (1) and (2)
fork();
(C) (2) fork();
(A) 4 (B) 1
(D) None of these
(C) 15 (D) 16

8 ___ merges the bodies of two

The ALU uses to store loops.
intermediate result. (A) loop rolling
(B) loop folding
(A) Cache (B) Registers
(C) loop merge
(C) · Accumulators (D) Stack (D) loop jamming

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 The. Fourier transform of a conjugate
symmetric function is
✓rh e number of memory cycles required to
execute the following 8085 instructions

(A) imaginary
(i) LOA 3000H
(B) conjugate atiti�symmetric
(C) real (ii) LXI D, FOFlH would be :
(D) conjugate symmetric
(A) 2 for (i) and 2 for (ii)

·ch of the following analog modulation

(B) 4 for (i) and 3 for (ii)
sqheme requires the minimum transmitted
power and minimu m channel band
width? (C) 3 for (i) and 3 for (ii)
(A) VSB (B) DSB-SC

(C) SSB (D) AM (D) 3 for (i) and 4 for (ii)

The cascade amplifier is a multistage

configuration of
✓• The function x(t) is shown in the figure.
(A) CC-CB Even and odd parts of a unit step function
u(t) are respectively,
(B) CE-CB
(C) CB-CC x(t)
(D) CE-CC 1'---

-----+----t
0
4 As x increased from -3 to 3, the function ------4-1
eX
f(x)=-
1+e x (A) 1/2, 1/2 x(t)
(A) monotonically increases
(B) -1/2, 1/2 x(t)
(B) monotonically decreases
(C) increases to a maximum value and
then decreases
(C) ½ t -1/2 x(t)

(D) decreases to a minimum value and

then increases (D) -1/2, -1/2

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 A master-slave flip-flop has the Consider the sequence of 8085 instructions
characteristic that : given below :

(A) change in the output immediately LXI H, 9258

reflected in the output

(B) change in the output occurs when MOV A, M CMA MOV M, A; Which one
the state of the master is affected of the following is performed by this
sequence?
(C) change in the output occurs when
the state of the slave is affected (A) Contents of location 9258 are moved
(D) both the master and the slave states to the accumulator
are affected at the same time
(B) Contents of location 9258 are
compared with the contents of the
accumulator
56 The circuit shown in fig. has been kept
I opened for a long time before closing at
t < 0. The initial condition is v(0) = 2 V.
(C) Contents of location 8529 are
The v(t) for t > is : complemented and stored in location

(D) Contents of location 5892 are

complemented and stored in location
t=O 5892

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3I

9. The distribution function Fx(x) of a random

variable x is shown in the fi gure.
(A) 5e-t -7e-3t V
The probability that x = 1 is :
(B) 7e-1-5e-3t V

(C) - e - 1 + 3e - 31 V
Fix)
(D) 3e-t -e-3t V

1.0
A 1 kHz sinusoidal signal is ideally sampled 0.55
at 1500 samples/ sec and the sampled
si gnal is passed through an ideal low-pass -2 0 1 2
filter with cut-off frequency 800 Hz. The
output si gnal has the frequency.
(A) 0 (B) 0.25
(A) zero Hz (B) 0.75 kHz

(C) 0.5 kHz (D) 0.25 kHz (C) 0.55 (D) 0.30

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 The input resistance R i of the amplifier A bipolar transistor is operating in the
shown in the figure is active region with a collector current of
1 mA. Assuming that the /3 of the tra11sistor
is 100 and the thermal voltage (VT) is
30kD 25 mV, the transcondu tance (gm) and the
input resistance (rp) of the transistor in the
common emitter configuration, are :

11
R-
(A)
(B)
gm=25 mA/V and rp = lS.625 kW
gm = 40 mA/V and rp=4.0 kW
-=
(C) gm = 25 mA/V and rp = 2.5 kW
(D) gm = 40 mA/V and rp = 2.5 kW
(A) 30/4 kn (B) 10 kn

(C) 40 kn (D) Infinite �he positive values of K and a so that the

system shown in the figures below
oscillates at a frequency of 2 rad/sec
respectively are

If the differential voltage gain and the R(s) K(s + 1) C(s)

common mode voltage gain of differ ntial +
amplifier are 48 dB and 2 dB respectively,
then common mode rejection ratio is

(A) 23 dB (B) 25 dB (A) 1, 0.75 (B) 2, 0.75

(C) 1, 1 (D) 2, 2
(C) 46 dB (D) 50 dB

'.!? . Derivation of expression for peak percent

overshoot:

, 72. A PD controller is used to compensate a

system. Compared to the uncompensated
system, the compensated system has:

(A) System is linear and time invariant.

(A) a higher type number
(B) The system transfer function has a
pair of complex conjugate poles and
(B) reduced damping no zeroes. •
(C) There is no transportation delay in
(C) higher noise amplification the system.
(D) The system has zero initial
(D) larger transient overshoot conditions.

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