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ENTRANCE TEST-2021
SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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In questions (1-2) below choose the option which can 6. Ted Rosen explained in an interview that_______
be substituted for the given words/sentences. his new book describes actual historical events
from the days of the establishment of the State, he
1. One who breaks the established traditions and
does not_______ regarded as a history book. He
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even states explicitly that he _______objective
(A) fatalist
facts in the book: “In writing this book, I felt
(B) iconoclast bound__________ ,” he said.
(C) fanatic (A) although / intend it to be / never claimed to
(D) philogynist present / only by my experiences and
thoughts
2. Placing a thing beside another
(B) since / object to it being / spared no effort
(A) impose
to present / only by my personal impressions
(B) repose
(C) although / intend it to be / spared no effort
(C) juxtapose to present / by facts alone
(D) expose (D) since / intend it to be / never claimed to
Choose the best possible analogies for Q3-Q4. present / by facts alone
3. Thrust:Spear:: 7. Following an internet advertising campaign for
the beverage Trix, the director of the advertising
(A) mangle:iron
agency that launched the campaign conducted a
(B) scabbard:sword
survey and found that Trix’s sales were higher
(C) bow:arrow than those of the competing beverage, Platon. He
(D) fence:epee concluded from this that internet advertising is
4. Bewilderment:Confusion :: more effective than advertising by means of other
communications media. Which of the following
(A) Bursa : sack
does not weaken his conclusion?
(B) Bewitched : alliteration
(A) The price of Trix was reduced during the
(C) Fantod : nervousness course of the internet advertising campaign.
(D) Coracle : lodestar (B) Trix’s sales were higher than Platon’s sales
5. Choose the word which is least like the other even before the start of the internet
words. advertising campaign.

(A) Barber (C) During the advertising campaign for Trix,
Platon was not advertised at all.
(B) Carpenter
(D) A widespread television advertising
(C) Blacksmith
campaign conducted a year earlier did not
(D) Tailor result in an increase in Trix’s sales.

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8. Which of the following options would be the best 12. In a row of boys, A’s position from the left end is
synonym for “seethe”? 33rd and B’s position from the right end is 25th.
After interchanging their position, A’s position
(A) hate
becomes 45th from the left end. How many boys
(B) fume are there in the row?
(C) avoid (A) 67

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turns left and goes based on
and goes 40
back to the road on which he had started walking. Statements : The old order changed yielding
If X and Y walk with the same speed, what is the place to new.
distance between them now? Conclusions : I. Change is the law of nature.

(A) 20 m II. Discard old ideas because they
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(A) Only conclusion I follows
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sequence:4, 9, 20, 43, 90, ___ 14. The police rounded up A, B and C yesterday
(A) 126 because one of them was suspected of robbing
(B) 145 the local bank. The 3 suspects gave following
statements after intensive questioning:
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A : I’m innocent.
(D) 185

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15. Three persons A, B, C were sitting in a row of 17. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and
three chairs. When asked about their respective 60 days respectively. In how many days can A do
the work if he is assisted by B and C on every
positions, each of them made two statements as
third day?
follows. It is known that each of them made a true
(A) 12 days
statement and a false statement in any order.
(B) 15 days
A : I am at the extreme left and C is at the
(C) 16 days
extreme right.
(D) 18 days
B : A is between me and C and I am at extreme 18. The salaries of A, B and C are of ratio 2:3:5. If
right. the increments of 15%, 10% and 20% are done
C : I am at the extreme left and B is at the to their respective salaries, then find the new ratio
of their salaries.
extreme right.
(A) 20:33:60
What are the actual positions from left to right?
(B) 21:33:60
(A) A-B-C
(C) 22:33:60
(B) C-A-B (D) 23:33:60
(C) A-C-B 19. Two bicyclists do the same journey by travelling
respectively at the rate of 9 and 10 km an hour.
(D) None of these
Find the distance travelled when one takes
16. Three persons A, B and C gave these statements: 32 minutes longer than the other?
A said, either Freedom Party or Green Party won (A) 32 KM
the elections. (B) 48 KM

B said, Freedom Party won. (C) 64 KM
(D) 72 KM
C said, neither Freedom Party nor Green Party
20. Three pipes A, B and C can fill a tank in 6 hours.
won the elections.
After working at it together for 2 hours, C is
Of these persons, only one person is wrong. closed and A and B can fill the remaining part in
Who won the elections? 7 hours. The number of hours taken by C alone to
fill the tank is:
(A) Freedom Party
(A) 10
(B) Green Party
(B) 12
(C) Data Inadequate (C) 14
(D) None of these (D) 16

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21. log9 (3log2 (1 + log3 (1 + 2log2x))) =1/2. Find x. 26. The point (4, 1) undergoes the following three
(A) 1/2 transformations successively
(B) 1 (a) Reflection about the line y = x
(C) 2 (b) Transformation through distance 2 units
(D) 3/2 along the positive direction of the x-axis.

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(D) 149,700
(D) (-3/√2, 4/√2)
23. Find the number of ways of arranging the letters
27. The point of intersection of 3x – y = 4 and
of the words DANGER, so that no vowel occupies
x + y = 8 is
odd place.
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x2 – kx + k2 = 0 than zero but less than one?
(A) k, k2 (A) Circle
(B) k2 , k (B) Parabola
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30. What is the degree of first order differential 34. The distribution in which mean = 60 and
1.5
 x cos x 
3 mode = 50, will be __________
 dy 
equation, given by  dx  = 
  (
 x 2 + sin x  ?
 ) (A) Symmetrical
(B) Positive skewed
(A) 1
(C) Negative skewed
(B) 1.5
(D) None of these
(C) 2 35. The range of the correlation coefficient is.
(D) 2.5 (A) (–1, 1)

31. A ladder 15 meters long just reaches the top of a (B) (0, 1)

vertical wall. If the ladder makes an angle of 60° (C) [–1, 1]
with the wall, then the height of the wall will be (D) None of these

(A) 7.3m 36. If the regression coefficient of x on y and y on x
are –0.5 and –0.125 respectively, then what is
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the correlation coefficient between x and y?
(C) 7.7m (A) –0.25
(D) 7.9m (B) 0.25
32. The range of tan-1x is (C) –0.5

(A) [–1,1] (D) 0.5
37. Among 18 students in a classroom, 7 study
(B) (0, π)
Mathematics, 10 study Science and 10 study
(C) ( –π/2 , π/2) Computer programming. Also, 3 study
(D) R Mathematics and Science, 4 study Mathematics
and Computer programming and 5 study Science
33. The number of patients who visited the
and Computer programming. We know that
cardiologist is as 63, 57, 51 and 65 in four days,
1 student studies all three subjects. How many of
then the mean absolute deviation is
these students study none of the three subjects?
(A) 5 patients (A) 1
(B) 8 patients (B) 2
(C) 13 patients (C) 3
(D) 17 patients (D) 4

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38. For matrix A, (A3) = I, A-1 is equal to _________ 42. A class B IP address has the subnet mask
255.255.248.0, then how many maximum host will
(A) A2
be possible in the network?
(B) A-2
(A) 2046
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(A) 16
(A) 6 Days (B) 32
(B) 12 days (C) 48

(C) 18 Days (D) 64
44. Which of the following field in IPv4 datagram is
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(B) 6
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47. The type of mapping used by cache memory 52. Consider the array A[]= {6,4,8,1,3} apply the
is/are insertion sort to sort the array. Consider the cost
(A) Associative mapping associated with each sort is 20 Units, what is the
(B) Direct mapping total cost of the insertion sort when element 1
reaches the first position of the array?
(C) Set-associative mapping
(A) 20
(D) All of the above
(B) 40
48. The two’s complement of the signed decimal
number -7810 is ________. (C) 60
(A) 110011102 (D) 80
(B) 010011102 53. Consider the following scenario: T1 consists of
6 operations and T2 consists of 4 operations then
(C) 101100102
the number of concurrent schedules possible is:
(D) 101100012
(A) 17280
49. Choose the pure virtual function definition from
(B) 3628798
the following.
(C) 127
(A) virtual void f()=0 { }
(D) 210
(B) void virtual f()=0 { }
54. Specifying that only people who satisfy certain
(C) virtual void f() {} = 0;
criteria receive a questionnaire is a feature of a
(D) None of the above
(A) Purposeful sample
50. Assume that there are 3 page frames which are
(B) Convenient sample
initially empty. If the page reference string is 1,
2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 5, 3, 2, 4, 6, the number of page (C) Controlled sample
faults using the optimal replacement policy (D) Stratified sample
is__________. 55. A Relation R with attributes (A, B, C, D, E) with
(A) 5 the functional dependencies A —> C, B —> D
(B) 6 and (A, B) —> E. In terms of normalization, this
table is in
(C) 7
(A) 1NF
(D) 8
(B) 2NF
51. When searching for the key value 60 in a binary
search tree, nodes containing the key values 10, (C) 3NF
20, 40, 50, 70, 80, 90 are traversed, not (D) BCNF
necessarily in the order given. How many different 56. Relation R has 7 tuples and 5 attributes. Relation
orders are possible in which these key values can R2 has 0 tuples and 5 attributes. A Cartesian
occur on the search path from the root to the node Product between R and S would have how many
containing the value 60? tuples?
(A) 35 (A) 27
(B) 720 (B) 25
(C) 7 (C) 7
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57. Which of the following provides an interface by 59. Aspect ratio is generally defined as the ratio of
which application programs can access and the :
process SQL databases in a platform independent
(A) Horizontal to vertical points
manner?
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(B) Tweening & Dissolve (B) Bitmap

(C) Warp & Tweening (C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) Tweening & Wrap (D) None of these

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