Karnataka PGCET 2023 Question Paper MCA

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PARTA
Each question carries one mark.

1. Pratyush is the
fastest supercomputer in the world.
(A) first second
(B)
(C) third (D) fourth

2. "The main purpose of time sharing techniques used in computers is to make the best use ot :
(A) Central Processing Unit (B) Peripherals
(C) Secondary storage (D) Floppy disks

3. A joystick is primarily used to/for :
(A) Control sound (B) Computer gaming
(C) Draw pictures (D) Enter text

4. Which of the following is the largest unit of storage ?
(A) TB (B) MB
(C) KB (D) GB

5. The use of combination of 1's and 0's. is the feature of which of the following type of
computer language ?
(A) High Level Language (B) PASCAL

(C) Machine language (D) COBOL

6. The two categories of software are:
(A) Word processing and Spreadsheet (B) Transaction and Application
(C) Windows and MacOS L(D) System and Application
7. What does the acronym ISP stand for ?
(A) Internet Service Provider (B) InternalService Provider
(C) Internet Service Providing (D) Internet Service Provision

8. The one's complement of binary number 101010 is:
(A) 010110 (B) 010101
(C) 110111 (D) 101011

9. Which of the following uses the spawn mechanism to duplicate itself ?
(A) Trojan Horse (B) Worm
(C) Keystroke Logger (D) Logic Bomb

10. To move to the bottom of a document while working on MS Word, which key is used ?
(A) Home key (B) End key
(C) Insert key (D) Ctrl key + End key

11. Integrated Circuit (1C) chips used in computers are made with:
(A) Copper (B) Aluminiüm
(C) Silicon (D) Silver

12. Binary system is also called :
(A) Base one system (B) Base two system
(C) Base system (D) None of the above

13. What is Backup ?
(A) Connectingg the user's network to more components
(B) Copying of files to save data from original source to another destination
(C) Filtering on old data from new data
(D) Accessing data from tape

14. Error in a program is called:
(A) Bug (B) Debug (C) Virus (D) Noise
y
15. Windows XP was released in the year :
(A) 2000 (B) 1998 (C) 1999 (D) 2001

1e If in a certain code language 'CROWNED is written as
coded as 'STREAMS' ?
PSDVEFO, which word 3

(A) QSRDTNB (B) SUTDTNB
(C) TUSDTNB
(D) SUTDBNT
17. Nithish leaves his house. He
walks 20 m in
South-West direction. Next he moves 40 m inNorth-West
South-East
direction and then 40 m in
towards his house. In which direction is Nithish going ? direction. Finally he turns
(A) North-West
(B) South-East
(C) North-East
(D) South-West
18. M is the daughter of N. Nis
married to Y. Gis the mother of both Y and Q. Q is the
only son of X. Xis the brother of H. How is M
related to Q?
(A) Son-in-law (B) Daughter
(C) Niece
(D) Grand-daughter
19. What comes in the place of question mark (?) in the
following number series ?
330, 80, 280, 120, 250, ?
(A) 160 (B) 180 (C) 110 (D) 140

20. Find the odd one.
(A) 321 (B) 876 (C) 987 (D) $45
21. Given the following three-digit numbers :
684, 512, 437, 385, 296
What will be the resultant number if the second digit of the second lowest number 1s
divided by the third digit of the highest number ?
(A) 3 (B)
(C) 2 (D) 1

22. Which one of the following interchange of signs would make the given equation correct ?
5 +3x 8- 12 +4=3
(A) + and + (B) + and x (C) and x (D) - and
23. Find the missing letter and number in the following :
25

J

49 16 22

A
8
4 C 9

(A) Y and 40 (B) Xand 81
(C) W and 64 (D) U and 36

24. How many hexagons are there in the following figure ?

(A) 15 (B) 12 (C) 14 (D) 20

25. Find the missing number in the following :
6 2 3
5 7 4
9 8 1
? 1 6
2
(A) 22 9 (D) 8
6 (C)

not run by Government of India under
programme/scheme is
thefollowing
of
Which Mission?
28 Health Janani Suraksha Yojana
National
A) MissionIndradhanush (B)
(D) PrasutiAraike
Rashtriya Bal.Swasthya Karyakram
(C) New Parliament House which is situated
recently inaugurated
architect of the
isthe
27. Who ?
Delhi (B) Bijoy Jain
inNew
(4) BimalPatel (D) Rahul Mehrotra
C) B.V.Doshi
to Chandrayaan-3 ?
is/are correct with regard
statements
Whichofthe1following
28.
launched on 15"July, 2023.
I Itwas Dhawan Space Centre.
from Satish
II It waslaunched
Veeramuthuvel is the Mission Director.
II Dr. P. is LVM3-M4.
was used for the launch
IV. The rocket which
Codes:
(B) Only II and IV
(A) All the above
(D) Only III
(C) Only I
February 18, 2019 runs
Bharat Express train which was inaugurated on
29. The first Vande
between which of thefollowing cities?
(B) Puri - Howrah
(A) Mumbai Sainagar Shirdi
(C) Varanasi- New Delhi (D) Bengaluru Dharwad
of lndia ?
0v Apresent who is the Comptroller and Auditor General
(A) Girish Chandra Murmu (B) V. Narahari Rao
(C) Shashikant Sharma (D) M.K. Jain

31. The National Green Hydrogen Mission aims to enable India to be energy independent by
which year?
(A) 2030 (C) 2042 (D) 2047
(B) 2035

32. Expand UPT.
(A) United Payment India (B) Unified Payment Interface
(C) Unique Payment Information (D) Unified Payment Information

33. Which of following is/are wrongly matched ?
Product GST Rate
I Lassi 5%
II. Sugar 0%
III. Butter 12%
IV. Pasta 28%
V. Toothpaste 18%

Codes:
(A) Only II and IV (B) Only I

Only I, II and IV (D) None of the above
(C)

34. Which of the following pairs is wrongly matched ?
Name of the Jnanpith Awardee Language
(A) Damodar Mauzo Konkani

Krishna Sobti Hindi
(B)
Odia
(C) Pratibha Ray
(D) Kedarnath Singh Punjabi

matched ?
35. Which of the following pairs is wrongly
Acquirer Bank Merger Bank
(A) Indian Bank VijayaBank
Syndicate Bank
(B) Canara Bank
Andhra Bank
(C) Union Bank of India
United Bank of India
(D) Punjab National Bank
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synonymof Circumscribe'
is :
36. The
(A) Din
(B) Mention
(C) Restrict
(D) Aliance

37. The antonym of Philanthropist is :
(A) Disphilanthropist
(B) Unphilanthropist
(C) Disanthropist
(D) Misanthropist

38. Choose the correct meaning of the
underlined phrase.
Mr. Jacob pulled throughhis
illness.
(A) recover
(B) leave
(C) give up
(D)
Suppress

39. Identify the T3+
correct
(A) Simple work meaning of the idiomatic expression ´uphill
task'.
(B) Hard work
(C) Discontinuous work
(D) Continuous work
40. Isaw four

(A) deer in the forest.
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(C) deering
(B)
deers
(D) deered
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41. The thirty-first term of 1 1 1 1 1 .... is:
3' 7' 11 15 19
1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
128 132 150 154

COS L sin a
42. IfA = then the value of AA' is :
-sin a COS O.

(B) I (C) 2I (D) 3I
(A) 0

the digits 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 if the digits
43. How many three-digit odd numbers can be formed from
can be repeated?
(C). 75 (D) 100
(A) 25 (B) 50
5

is:
44. The coefficient of y in the expansion of
(C) 5c3 (D) 10 3
(A) 4c (B) 10c2.
line segment joining (1, 2) and (4, 5) internally in
45.. The co-ordinates of a point dividing the
the ratio 2:1 are :
(C)(5, 4) (D) (5, 3)
(A) (3, 4) (B) (4, 3)

circle with equation x + y-4x 10y + 4=0 are :
46. The centre and radius of the
(B) (-2,-5), 5 )
(A) (-2, -5), 3
(D) (2, 5), 5
(C) (2, 5), 3

coordinates of the foci of the ellipse 9x + 4y = 36 are :
47. The
-/5) (B) (0, 5), (0, - 5)
(A) (0, 5), (0, 4

(C) (V5, 0), (-V5,0)
(D) (5.0), (-5, 0) L)

48. The number of vertices and foci of a hyperbola respectively are.
(A) two, one (B) one, one

(C) two, two (D) one, two

49. lf A, B, Care three matrices such that all the matrices are conformable for the pr
matrices, then :
(A) (AB)C = (BA)C (B) (AB)C = A(BC)
(C) (AB)C = C(AB) (D) (AB)C = B(AC)

50. In Boolean algebra, X+ Y= 1if:
(A) X=0, Y=1 (B) X1, Y=1
(C) X= 1, Y = 0 (D) X = 0, Y = 0

51. In Boolean algebra, the value of (X + Y)X + Y) is :
(A) X (B) Y (C) X (D) Y

1. 0|
52. IfA = B= then the value ofAB is:
|0 2 |1 1

(A) 1 (B) -1 (C) 0 (D) 2

53. The value of cos + X + cOS R| -X is :
4 4

(A) J2 sin x (B) V2 COS X
(C) 2 sin X (D) 2 cos X

54. The principal value of cot- is :
T
(A) (B) (C)
2 3
(D)

36
55. The value of sin-1sin 3 is :
5

(A) 2
5 (B)
5
3r 3
(C) (D)
5 5

27
5 T
56. of 33sin
The value of sin sec-4 sin cot is : S
6 6 4
3.4
(A) 0 (B) 1
1
(C) -1 (D)
2

57. One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. If each outcome is equally likely,
the probability that the card isa diamond is:
1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
2 3 4 5

58. If gis the standard deviation for a set. of values in an x-series, the coefficient of variation
is :

(A) x 100 (B) x 100
X X

(C) x 100 (D) x 100
X

59. Which of the following values of the correlation coefficient r are valid ?
(A) -2 (B) - 15 (C) 05 (D) 15

60. If the regression line of y on x is y = ax +b and regression line of x on yis x =ey +d, then
which of the following is true?
,(A) ac <1, r=t Vac (B) ac <l, r= ac

(C) ac > 1,r=t /ac (D) ac > 1, r= ac

PARTB

twO marks.
Each question carries
the computer language COBOL ?
61. Who among the following invented
(A) Grace Murray Hopper
(B) John McCarthy

(C) Guido van Rossum
(D) Brendan Eich

62. What is a website?
where we can get information in documents and files
(A) Aplace from
company
(B) A site that is owned by any particular
(C) Alocation on world wide web
(D) A place from where we can access the Internet

63. Traditional LAN runs at a speed of.

(A) 1to 10 Mbps
(B) 10 to 100 bps

(C) 100 to 1000 Mbps

(D) 1000 to 10,000 Mbps

64. Multiprogramming systems
(A) are easier todevelop than
Single programming systems
(B) execute each job faster
(C) execute more jobs in the same time
period
(D) are used only on one
large mainframe
computer

5. Find out the missing number in the following series :
4, 36, 144, ?,900, 1764
(A) 25 (B) 20
(C) 49 (D) 100

6. Awatch which gains uniformly, is 3 minutesslow at 12 noon on Sunday and is 5 minutes
36 seconds fast at 4 pm on the next Sunday. At what time was it correct ?
(A) 12 pm on Monday
(B) 12 am on Tuesday
(C) 12 am on Wednesday

(D) 12 am on the same day

7. If 27h March, 1995 was a Monday, then what day of the week was 1st November, 1994 ?
(A) Wednesday (B)- Tuesday
(C) Sunday (D) Monday
8. Krishna went 50m South from his house, then turned left and went 30 m, then turning to
North he went 50 m. In which direction is his home from this point ?
(A) North-West

(B) East E
(C) North

(D) South-West

39. In a hotel, 60% had vegetarian lunch while 30% had non-vegetarian lunch and 15% had
both types of lunches. If 96 people were present, then how many did not eat either type of
lunch ?

(A) 26 (B) 20 57
(C) 28 (D) 24

70. Which of the following is/are wrongly matched ?
73. The
Industrial City Industry
(A)
I. Korba Aluminium (C
II. Vapi Ship-building 74. T
III. Hissar Steel
(A
IV. Dhanbad
Copper (C
(A) Only I 75. T

(B) Only II and IV
(C) All of the above
76. T
(D) None of the above

71, Which of following statement with regard to G20 Summit is wrong ? 77.

(A) The 2023 G20 New Delhi Summit was the first ever G20 Summit to be held in India
as well as in South Asia.

(B) In 2024,G20 Summit is scheduled to be held in Rio de Janeiro
(C) In 2022, G20 Summit was held in Rome.
78.
(D) The first G20 Summit was held in 2008 in Washington, D.C.

79.
72. Which of the following cannot be a subordinate clause ?

(A) Prepositional clause
80.
(B) Noun clause

(C) Adjective clause
(D) Adverb clause
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factorization of 4(x + y)- 28(*- y) +
73. The 49(x-y is :
(5x+9y)2 (B) (9y - 5x)
(A)
(5y+ 9x) (D) (5y- 9x)'
(C)
74. The solutionof22 -8y =18, 3x + 4y =7 is:
or (5,-1) B) (x, y) = (3, 1) or (5, 2)
(A) (x. y) =(3, -1)
-0°8) or (5, -2) (D) (x, y)= (3·4, 0·8) or (5, 2)
(C) (x, y) = (84,
75. The distance off the point (3, 5) fromthe line 3x 4ý 260is:
4
2 (D)
(B) 5 5
(A) 5
5
about the y-axis and passes through the
equation of the parabola which is symmetric
76. The
point (2, - 3)is :
(A) 4x=-3y (B) 3x' =-4y 22-26
(D) 3*=-2y
2x=- 3y
(C)
A, B, C, D, E are equal ?
77. Which of the following sets
A = {0}
andx<5)
B= (x:x> 15
C= {x:x-5=0}
D= (x:= 25) root of theequation x-2x-15 =
0}
E(x:x is an integral positive
(D) C, D
(B) D, E (C):. C, E
(A) C,D, E
78. IfAUB=AnB, then (D) ¢=B
(B) A= B
(C) A=B
(A) A=B
5 quadrant, then the value of sin x is :
79. If cot x = and x lies in the 2nd 14
12 12 (D) 13
13 13 (C)
(A) (B) 13
12 14

80. In binary addition,
0111 + 0001 =
(D) 1110
(C) 1001
(A) 111 (B) 1000
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