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 Question 1 Out of the following four sentences, select the most suitable sentence with respect to grammar and usage.


 A I will not leave the place until the minister does not meet me.
 B I will not leave the place until the minister doesn’t meet me. C I will not leave the place until the minister meet me. D I will not leave the place until the minister meets me GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 2 A rewording of something written or spoken is a ______________. A paraphrase B paradox C paradigm D paraffin English GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 3 Archimedes said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I will move the world.” The sentence above is an example of a ___________ statement. A figurative B collateral C literal D figurine English GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 4 If ‘relftaga’ means carefree, ‘otaga’ means careful and ‘fertaga’ means careless, which of the following could mean ‘aftercare’? A zentaga B tagafer C tagazen D relffer General Aptitude GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 5 A cube is built using 64 cubic blocks of side one unit. After it is built, one cubic block is removed from every corner of the cube. The resulting surface area of the body (in square units) after the removal is __________. A 56 B 64 C 72 D 96 General Aptitude GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 6 A shaving set company sells 4 different types of razors, Elegance, Smooth, Soft and Executive. Elegance sells at Rs. 48, Smooth at Rs. 63, Soft at Rs. 78 and Executive at Rs. 173 per piece. The table below shows the numbers of each razor sold in each quarter of a year. GATECS161 Which product contributes the greatest fraction to the revenue of the company in that year? A Elegance B Executive C Smooth D Soft General Aptitude GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 7 Indian currency notes show the denomination indicated in at least seventeen languages. If this is not an indication of the nation’s diversity, nothing else is. Which of the following can be logically inferred from the above sentences? A India is a country of exactly seventeen languages. B Linguistic pluralism is the only indicator of a nation’s diversity. C Indian currency notes have sufficient space for all the Indian languages. D Linguistic pluralism is strong evidence of India’s diversity. General Aptitude GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 8 Consider the following statements relating to the level of poker play of four players P, Q, R, and S. I P always beats Q II. R always beats S III. S loses to P only sometimes IV. R always loses to Q Which of the following can be logically inferred from the above statements? (i) P is likely to beat all the three other players (ii) S is the absolute worst player in the set A (i) only B (ii) only C (i) and (ii) D neither (i) nor (ii) General Aptitude GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 9 If f(x) = 2x7 + 3x - 5 Which of the following is a factor of f(x)? A (x3 + 8) B (x - 1) C (2x - 5) D (x + 1) General Aptitude GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 10 In a process, the number of cycles to failure decreases exponentially with an increase in load. At a load of 80 units, it takes 100 cycles for failure. When the load is halved, it takes 10000 cycles for failure. The load for which the failure will happen in 5000 cycles is ________. A 40.00 B 46.02 C 60.01 D 92.02 General Aptitude GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 11 Let p, q, r, s represent the following propositions. p: {8, 9, 10, 11, 12} q: x is a composite number r: x is a perfect square s: x is a prime number gatecs20162 Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 8 B 9 C 11 D 12 GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 12 Let an be the number of n-bit strings that do NOT contain two consecutive 1s. Which one of the following is the recurrence relation for an gatecs20163 A A B B C C D D GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 13 gatecs20164 Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 0 B 1 C 2 D 3 Numerical Methods and Calculus GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 14 A probability density function on the interval [a, 1] is given by 1 / x2 and outside this interval the value of the function is zero. The value of a is : Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A -1 B 0 C 1 D 0.5 Probability GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 15 Two eigenvalues of a 3 x 3 real matrix P are (2 + √ -1) and 3. The determinant of P is _____ Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 0 B 1 C 15 D -1 Linear Algebra GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 16 Consider the Boolean operator # with the following properties: x#0 = x, x#1 = x', x#x = 0 and x#x' = 1 Then x#y is equivalent to A x'y + x'y B xy' + (xy) C x'y + xy D xy + (xy)' GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 17 The 16-bit 2’s complement representation of an integer is 1111 1111 1111 0101; its decimal representation is Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 10 B 11 C -10 D -11 Number Representation GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 18 We want to design a synchronous counter that counts the sequence 0-1-0-2-0-3 and then repeats. The minimum number of J-K flip-flops required to implement this counter is Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 1 B 2 C 4 D 5 Digital Logic & Number representation GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 19 A processor can support a maximum memory of 4 GB, where the memory is word-addressable (a word consists of two bytes). The size of the address bus of the processor is at ____ least bits. Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 16 B 31 C 32 D None Computer Organization and Architecture GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 20 A queue is implemented using an array such that ENQUEUE and DEQUEUE operations are performed efficiently. Which one of the following statements is CORRECT (n refers to the number of items in the queue)? A Both operations can be performed in O(1) time B At most one operation can be performed in O(1) time but the worst case time for the other operation will be Ω(n) C The worst case time complexity for both operations will be Ω(n) D Worst case time complexity for both operations will be Ω(log n) Queue GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 21 Consider the following directed graph. GATECS20167 The number of different topological orderings of the vertices of the graph is Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 1 B 2 C 4 D 6 Graph Traversals GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 22 Consider the following C program. void f(int, short); void main() { int i = 100; short s = 12; short *p = &s; __________ ; // call to f() } Run on IDE Which one of the following expressions, when placed in the blank above, will NOT result in a type checking error? A f(s, *s) B i = f(i,s) C f(i,*s) D f(i,*p) Functions GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 23 The worst case running times of Insertion sort, Merge sort and Quick sort, respectively, are: A Θ(n log n), Θ(n log n) and Θ(n2) B Θ(n2), Θ(n2) and Θ(n Log n) C Θ(n2), Θ(n log n) and Θ(n log n) D Θ(n2), Θ(n log n) and Θ(n2) Analysis of Algorithms Sorting GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 24 Let G be a weighted connected undirected graph with distinct positive edge weights. If every edge weight is increased by the same value, then which of the following statements is/are TRUE? P: Minimum spanning tree of G does not change Q: Shortest path between any pair of vertices does not change A P only B Q only C Neither P nor Q D Both P and Q Graph Minimum Spanning Tree GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 25 Consider the following C program. #include void mystery(int *ptra, int *ptrb) { int *temp; temp = ptrb; ptrb = ptra; ptra = temp; } int main() { int a=2016, b=0, c=4, d=42; mystery(&a, &b); if (a < c) mystery(&c, &a); mystery(&a, &d); printf("%d\n", a); } Run on IDE The output of the program _____________ Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 2016 B 0 C 4 D 8 Pointer Basics GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 26 Which of the following languages is generated by the given grammar? S -> aS|bS|ε GATECS20168 A A B B C C D D Regular languages and finite automata GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 27 Which of the following decision problems are undecidable GATECS20169 A I and IV only B II and III only C III and IV only D II and IV only Undecidability GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 28 Which one of the following regular expressions represents the language: the set of all binary strings having two consecutive 0s and two consecutive 1s? gatecs201611 A A B B C C D D Regular languages and finite automata GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 29 Consider the following code segment. x = u - t; y = x * v; x = y + w; y = t - z; y = x * y; The minimum number of total variables required to convert the above code segment to static single assignment form is Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 6 B 8 C 9 D 10 Code Generation and Optimization GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 30 Consider an arbitrary set of CPU-bound processes with unequal CPU burst lengths submitted at the same time to a computer system. Which one of the following process scheduling algorithms would minimize the average waiting time in the ready queue? A Shortest remaining time first B Round-robin with time quantum less than the shortest CPU burst C Uniform random D Highest priority first with priority proportional to CPU burst length CPU Scheduling GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 31 Which of the following is NOT a superkey in a relational schema with attributes V, W, X, Y, Z and primary key V Y ? A V X Y Z B V W X Z C V W X Y D V W X Y Z Database Design(Normal Forms) GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 32 Which one of the following is NOT a part of the ACID properties of database transactions? A Atomicity B Consistency C Isolation D Deadlock-freedom Transactions and concurrency control GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 33 A database of research articles in a journal uses the following schema. (VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPGE, ENDPAGE, TITLE, YEAR, PRICE) The primary key is (VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE) and the following functional dependencies exist in the schema. (VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE) -> TITLE (VOLUME, NUMBER) -> YEAR (VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE) -> PRICE The database is redesigned to use the following schemas. (VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE, TITLE, PRICE) (VOLUME, NUMBER, YEAR) Which is the weakest normal form that the new database satisfies, but the old one does not? A 1NF B 2NF C 3NF D BCNF ER and Relational Models GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 34 Which one of the following protocols is NOT used to resolve one form of address to another one? A DNS B ARP C DHCP D RARP Misc Topics in Computer Networks GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 35 Which of the following is/are example(s) of stateful application layer protocols? (i) HTTP (ii) FTP (iii) TCP (iv) POP3 A (i) and (ii) only B (ii) and (iii) only C (ii) and (iv) only D (iv) only Application Layer GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 36 The coefficient of x12 in (x3 + x4 + x5 + x6 + ...)3 is. [This Question was originally a Fill-in-the-Blanks question] A 1 B 2 C 4 D 10 General Aptitude GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 37 Consider the recurrence relation a1 = 8, an = 6n2 + 2n + an-1. Let a99 = k x 104. The value of K is _____ Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 190 B 296 C 198 D 200 Analysis of Algorithms (Recurrences) GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 38 GATECS201612 [This Question was originally a Fill-in-the-Blanks question] A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 Set Theory & Algebra GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 39 Consider the following experiment. Step 1. Flip a fair coin twice. Step 2. If the outcomes are (TAILS, HEADS) then output Y and stop. Step 3. If the outcomes are either (HEADS, HEAD) or (HEADS, TAILS), then output N and stop. Step 4. If the outcomes are (TAILS, TAILS), then go to Step 1. The probability that the output of the experiment is Y is (up to two decimal places). [This Question was originally a Fill-in-the-Blanks question] A 0.33 B 0.25 C 0.5 D 0.27 Probability GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 40 Consider the two cascaded 2-to-1 multiplexers as shown in the figure. GT20161 The minimal sum of products form of the output X is gt162 A A B B C C D D Digital Logic & Number representation GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 41 The size of the data count register of a DMA controller is 16 bits. The processor needs to transfer a file of 29,154 kilobytes from disk to main memory. The memory is byte addressable. The minimum number of times the DMA controller needs to get the control of the system bus from the processor to transfer the file from the disk to main memory is _________ Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 3644 B 3645 C 456 D 1823 Computer Organization and Architecture GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 42 The stage delays in a 4-stage pipeline are 800, 500, 400 and 300 picoseconds. The first stage (with delay 800 picoseconds) is replaced with a functionally equivalent design involving two stages with respective delays 600 and 350 picoseconds. The throughput increase of the pipeline is _______ percent. [This Question was originally a Fill-in-the-Blanks question] A 33 or 34 B 30 or 31 C 38 or 39 D 100 Computer Organization and Architecture GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 43 Consider a carry lookahead adder for adding two n-bit integers, built using gates of fan-in at most two. The time to perform addition using this adder is A Θ(1) B Θ(Log (n)) C Θ(√ n) D Θ(n) Digital Logic & Number representation GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 44 The following function computes the maximum value contained in an integer array p[] of size n (n >= 1) int max(int *p, int n) { int a=0, b=n-1; while (__________) { if (p[a] <= p[b]) { a = a+1; } else { b = b-1; } } return p[a]; } Run on IDE The missing loop condition is A a != n B b != 0 C b > (a + 1) D b != a Arrays GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 45 What will be the output of the following C program? void count(int n) { static int d = 1; printf("%d ", n); printf("%d ", d); d++; if(n > 1) count(n-1); printf("%d ", d); } int main() { count(3); } Run on IDE A 3 1 2 2 1 3 4 4 4 B 3 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 C 3 1 2 2 1 3 4 D 3 1 2 1 1 1 2 Recursion GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 46 What will be the output of the following pseudo-code when parameters are passed by reference and dynamic scoping is assumed? a=3; void n(x) {x = x * a; print(x);} void m(y) {a = 1; a = y - a; n(a); print(a);} void main() {m(a);} A 6, 2 B 6, 6 C 4, 2 D 4, 4 Principles of Programming Languages GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 47 An operator delete(i) for a binary heap data structure is to be designed to delete the item in the i-th node. Assume that the heap is implemented in an array and i refers to the i-th index of the array. If the heap tree has depth d (number of edges on the path from the root to the farthest leaf), then what is the time complexity to re-fix the heap efficiently after the removal of the element? A O(1) B O(d) but not O(1) C O(2d) but not O(d) D O(d2d) but not O(2d) Heap GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 48 Consider the weighted undirected graph with 4 vertices, where the weight of edge {i, j} g is given by the entry Wij in the matrix W gt164 The largest possible integer value of x, for which at least one shortest path between some pair of vertices will contain the edge with weight x is ________ Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 8 B 12 C 10 D 11 Graph Shortest Paths GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 49 Let G be a complete undirected graph on 4 vertices, having 6 edges with weights being 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. The maximum possible weight that a minimum weight spanning tree of G can have is. [This Question was originally a Fill-in-the-Blanks question] A 6 B 7 C 8 D 9 Graph Minimum Spanning Tree GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 50 G = (V, E) is an undirected simple graph in which each edge has a distinct weight, and e is a particular edge of G. Which of the following statements about the minimum spanning trees (MSTs) of G is/are TRUE I. If e is the lightest edge of some cycle in G, then every MST of G includes e II. If e is the heaviest edge of some cycle in G, then every MST of G excludes e A I only B II only C both I and II D neither I nor II Graph Minimum Spanning Tree GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 51 Let Q denote a queue containing sixteen numbers and S be an empty stack. Head(Q) returns the element at the head of the queue Q without removing it from Q. Similarly Top(S) returns the element at the top of S without removing it from S. Consider the algorithm given below. gtcs7 The maximum possible number of iterations of the while loop in the algorithm is______ [This Question was originally a Fill-in-the-Blanks question] A 16 B 32 C 256 D 64 Queue GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 52 Consider the following context-free grammars: gt8 Which one of the following pairs of languages is generated by G1 and G2, respectively gt9 A A B B C C D D Context free languages and Push-down automata GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 53 Consider the transition diagram of a PDA given below with input alphabet ∑ = {a, b}and stack alphabet Γ = {X, Z}. Z is the initial stack symbol. Let L denote the language accepted by the PDA. gt11 A A B B C C D D GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 54 Let X be a recursive language and Y be a recursively enumerable but not recursive language. Let W and Z be two languages such that Y reduces to W, and Z reduces to X (reduction means the standard many-one reduction). Which one of the following statements is TRUE A W can be recursively enumerable and Z is recursive. B W an be recursive and Z is recursively enumerable. C W is not recursively enumerable and Z is recursive. D W is not recursively enumerable and Z is not recursive Recursively enumerable sets and Turing machines GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 55 The attributes of three arithmetic operators in some programming language are given below. Operator Precedence Associativity Arity + High Left Binary - Medium Right Binary * Low Left Binary The value of the expression 2 - 5 + 1 - 7 * 3 in this language is __________ ? Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 1 B 2 C 3 D 9 Principles of Programming Languages GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 56 Consider the following Syntax Directed Translation Scheme (SDTS), with non-terminals {S, A} and terminals {a, b}}. gt46 Using the above SDTS, the output printed by a bottom-up parser, for the input aab is A 1 3 2 B 2 2 3 C 2 3 1 D Syntax Error Parsing and Syntax directed translation GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 57 Consider a computer system with 40-bit virtual addressing and page size of sixteen kilobytes. If the computer system has a one-level page table per process and each page table entry requires 48 bits, then the size of the per-process page table is _________megabytes. Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 384 B 48 C 192 D 96 Memory Management GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 58 Consider a disk queue with requests for I/O to blocks on cylinders 47, 38, 121, 191, 87, 11, 92, 10. The C-LOOK scheduling algorithm is used. The head is initially at cylinder number 63, moving towards larger cylinder numbers on its servicing pass. The cylinders are numbered from 0 to 199. The total head movement (in number of cylinders) incurred while servicing these requests is: Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 346 B 165 C 154 D 173 Input Output Systems GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 59 Consider a computer system with ten physical page frames. The system is provided with an access sequence a1, a2, ..., a20, a1, a2, ..., a20), where each ai number. The difference in the number of page faults between the last-in-first-out page replacement policy and the optimal page replacement policy is __________ [Note that this question was originally Fill-in-the-Blanks question] A 0 B 1 C 2 D 3 Memory Management GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 60 Consider the following proposed solution for the critical section problem. There are n processes: P0 ...Pn−1. In the code, function pmax returns an integer not smaller than any of its arguments. For all i, t[i] is initialized to zero. deadlock Which one of the following is TRUE about the above solution? A At most one process can be in the critical section at any time B The bounded wait condition is satisfied C The progress condition is satisfied D It cannot cause a deadlock Deadlock GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 61 Consider the following two phase locking protocol. Suppose a transaction T accesses (for read or write operations), a certain set of objects {O1,...,Ok}. This is done in the following manner: Step 1. T acquires exclusive locks to O1, . . . , Ok in increasing order of their addresses. Step 2. The required operations are performed. Step 3. All locks are released. This protocol will A guarantee serializability and deadlock-freedom B guarantee neither serializability nor deadlock-freedom C guarantee serializability but not deadlock-freedom D guarantee deadlock-freedom but not serializability Transactions and concurrency control GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 62 Consider that B wants to send a message m that is digitally signed to A. Let the pair of private and public keys for A and B be denoted gt20 represent the operation of encrypting m with a key Kx and H(m) represent the message digest. Which one of the following indicates the CORRECT way of sending the message m along with the digital signature to A? gt18 A A B B C C D D Network Security GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 63 An IP datagram of size 1000 bytes arrives at a router. The router has to forward this packet on a link whose MTU (maximum transmission unit) is 100 bytes. Assume that the size of the IP header is 20 bytes. The number of fragments that the IP datagram will be divided into for transmission is : Note : This question was asked as Numerical Answer Type. A 10 B 50 C 12 D 13 Network Layer GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 64 For a host machine that uses the token bucket algorithm for congestion control, the token bucket has a capacity of 1 megabyte and the maximum output rate is 20 megabytes per second. Tokens arrive at a rate to sustain output at a rate of 10 megabytes per second. The token bucket is currently full and the machine needs to send 12 megabytes of data. The minimum time required to transmit the data is _________________ seconds. A 1.1 B 0.1 C 2.1 D 2.0 Transport Layer GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it Question 65 A sender uses the Stop-and-Wait ARQ protocol for reliable transmission of frames. Frames are of size 1000 bytes and the transmission rate at the sender is 80 Kbps (1Kbps = 1000 bits/second). Size of an acknowledgement is 100 bytes and the transmission rate at the receiver is 8 Kbps. The one-way propagation delay is 100 milliseconds. Assuming no frame is lost, the sender throughput is __________ bytes/second. A 2500 B 2000 C 1500 D 500 Data Link Layer GATE-CS-2016 (Set 1) Discuss it There are 65 questions to complete. GATE-CS-2016 (Set 2) See Placement Course for placement preparation, GATE Corner for GATE CS Preparation and Quiz Corner for all Quizzes on GeeksQuiz.