GATE 2010 CSE Computer Science and information technology

[Q1 – Q25 carry ONE mark each ]

Q1➡ | Engineering Mathematics
Let G = (V,E) be a graph. Define ξ(G) = , where id is the number of vertices of degree d in G. If S and T are two different trees with ξ(S) = ξ(T),then
i ➥ |S| = 2|T|
ii ➥ |S| = |T| – 1
iii ➥ |S| = |T|
iv ➥ |S| = |T| + 1

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Q2➡ | Engineering Mathematics
Newton-Raphson method is used to compute a root of the equation x2 – 13 = 0 with 3.5 as the initial value. The approximation after one iteration is
i ➥ 3.575
ii ➥ 3.676
iii ➥ 3.667
iv ➥ 3.607

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Q3➡ | Engineering Mathematics
What is the possible number of reflexive relations on a set of 5 elements?
i ➥ 210
ii ➥ 215
iii ➥ 220
iv ➥ 225

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Answer: III
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Q4➡ | Engineering Mathematics
Consider the set S = {1, ω, ω2}, where ω and ω2 are cube roots of unity. If * denotes the multiplication operation, the structure (S,*) forms
i ➥ A group
ii ➥ A ring
iii ➥ An integral domain
iv ➥ A field

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Q5➡ | Engineering-Mathematics
What is the value of
i ➥ 0
ii ➥ e-2
iii ➥ e-1/2
iv ➥ 1

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Answer: II
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Q6➡ | Digital Logic Design
The minterm expansion of f(P,Q,R) = PQ +QR’ +PR’ is.
i ➥ m2+m4+m6+m7
ii ➥ m0+m1+m3+m5
iii ➥ m0+m1+m6+m7
iv ➥ m2+m3+m4+m5

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Q7➡ | Digital Logic Design
A main memory unit with a capacity of 4 megabytes is built using 1M 1-bit DRAM chips. Each DRAM chip has 1K rows of cells with 1K cells in each row. The time taken for a single refresh operation is 100 nanoseconds. The time required to perform one refresh operation on all the cells in the memory unit is
i ➥ 100 nanoseconds
ii ➥ 100*210 nanoseconds
iii ➥ 100*220 nanoseconds
iv ➥ 3200*220 nanoseconds

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Q8➡ | Digital Logic Design
P is a 16-bit signed integer. The 2’s complement representation of P is (F87B)16. The 2’s complement representation of 8*P is
i ➥ (C3D8)16
ii ➥ (187B)16
iii ➥ (F878)16
iv ➥ (987B)16

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Q9➡ | Digital Logic Design
The Boolean expression for the output ‘f’ of the multiplexer shown below.
i ➥
ii ➥
iii ➥
iv ➥

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Answer: II
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Q10➡ | Data Structures
In a binary tree with n nodes, every node has an odd number of descendants. Every node is considered to be its own descendant. What is the number of nodes in the tree that have exactly one child?
i ➥ 0
ii ➥ 1
iii ➥ (n-1)/2
iv ➥ n-1

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Q11➡ | Programming
What does the following program print?
i ➥ 2 2
ii ➥ 2 1
iii ➥ 0 1
iv ➥ 0 2

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Answer: IV
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Q12➡ | Algorithms
Two alternative packages A and B are available for processing a database having 10k records. Package A requires 0.0001n2 time units and package B requires 10nlog10n time units to process n records.What is the smallest value of k for which package B will be preferred over A?
i ➥ 12
ii ➥ 10
iii ➥ 6
iv ➥ 5

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Q13➡ | Compiler Design
Which data structure in a compiler is used for managing information about variables and their attributes?
i ➥ Abstract syntax tree
ii ➥ Symbol table
iii ➥ Semantic stack
iv ➥ Parse Table

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Q14➡ | Compiler Design
Which languages necessarily need heap allocation in the runtime environment?
i ➥ Those that support recursion
ii ➥ Those that use dynamic scoping
iii ➥ Those that allow dynamic data structures
iv ➥ Those that use global variables

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Answer: III
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Q15➡ | Computer Network
Which one of the following is not a client server application?
i ➥ Internet chat
ii ➥ Web browsing
iii ➥ E-mail
iv ➥ ping

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Q16➡ | Computer Network
One of the header fields in an IP datagram is the Time to Live (TTL) field. Which of the following statements best explains the need for this field?
i ➥ It can be used to prioritize packets
ii ➥ It can be used to reduce delays
iii ➥ It can be used to optimize throughput
iv ➥ It can be used to prevent packet looping

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Q17➡ | Theory-of-Computation
Let L1 be a recursive language. Let L2 and L3 be languages that are recursively enumerable but not recursive. Which of the following statements is not necessarily true?
i ➥ L2 – L1 is recursively enumerable
ii ➥ L1 – L3 is recursively enumerable
iii ➥ L2 ∩ L1 is recursively enumerable
iv ➥ L2 ∪ L1 is recursively enumerable

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Q18➡ | Database Management System
Consider a B+-tree in which the maximum number of keys in a node is 5. What is the minimum number of keys in any non-root node?
i ➥ 1
ii ➥ 2
iii ➥ 3
iv ➥ 4

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Q19➡ | Database Management System
A relational schema for a train reservation database is given below. Passenger (pid, pname, age) Reservation (pid, class, tid)

What pids are returned by the following SQL query for the above instance of the tables?
SLECT pid
FROM Reservation ,
WHERE class ‘AC’ AND
EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Passenger WHERE age > 65 AND Passenger. pid = Reservation.pid)
i ➥ 1,0
ii ➥ 1,2
iii ➥ 1,3
iv ➥ 1,5

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Q20➡ | Database Management System
Which of the following concurrency control protocols ensure both conflict serializability and freedom from deadlock?
I. 2-phase locking
II. TIme-stamp ordering
i ➥ I only
ii ➥ II only
iii ➥ Both I and II
iv ➥ Neither I nor II

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Q21➡ | Software Engineering
The cyclomatic complexity of each of the modules A and B shown below is 10. What is the cyclomatic complexity of the sequential integration shown on the right hand using
i ➥ 19
ii ➥ 21
iii ➥ 20
iv ➥ 10

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