Tripura Public Service Commission 2019: Programmer (contractual), TPSC, General Ability Test
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GENERAL ABILITY TEST
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Four options are given against each of the following questions. Select the best/correct option
from among the four options and encode in the answer sheet by using Black Ball Point
Pen only as per example given below :
Example : The capital of India is
(a) Delhi 9 New Delhi
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1. Tripura attained full Statehood in 3. Total Number of Assembly Seats in
Tripura is
(a) 1967
(b) 1970 (a) 60
(c) 1971 (b) 65
(d) 1972 (c) 42
(d) 56
2. Which State lS to the east of
Tripura?
./ 4. Total number of Wildlife Sanctuaries
in Tripura is
(a) Meghalaya
(b) Sikkim (a) Two
(c) Mizoram (b) Three
(d) Arunachal Pradesh (c) Four
(d) None of these
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5. The ratio of width of our National flag 9. What was the official mascot of the
to its length is 2018 FIFA World Cup ?
(a) 3:5 (a) Caira
(b) 2:3 (b) Koara
(c) 2:4 (c) Zabivaka
(d) 3:4 (d) Zaltanowa
6. Who is the present Chainnan of the
Union Public Service Commission 10. Which is the first country to commence
(UPSC)? competitive examination in civil
services?
(a) Arvind Saxena
(b) Bhim Sain Bassi (a) China
(c) Kirti Kumar (b) India
(d) Omi Agrawal (c) USA
(d) UK
7. WhichStatehasthelargestareainlndia?
(a) Maharashtra 11 . The deepest point in the world is
(b) Madhya Pradesh (a) Dead Sea
(c) Uttar Pradesh (b) South Pole
(d) Rajasthan (c) Sinai Peninsula
8. Who was awarded Shanti Swarup (d) Mariana Trench
Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for Science and
Technology 2017 in the domain of
12. What is the first artificial satellite to
Engineering Sciences ?
orbit Earth ?
(a) Dr. Deepak Thankappan Nair
(a) Sputnik I
(b) Dr. Aloke Paul
(b) Explorer 1
(c) Dr. Nissim Kanekar
(c) Vanguard 1
(d) Dr. Sanjeev Das
(d) Discoverer I
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13. Which of the following books is 16. Which of the books is written by Kapil
written by Rabindranath Tagore ? Dev?
(a) Anand Math (a) One day Wonders
(b) Chidambara (b) Cricket - My Style
(c) Raktakarabi (c) Twenty Years at the top
(d) Durgeshnandini (d) Cricket-Favourite Game
14. Match the following items: 17. Which of the following is used in
pencils?
Authors Books
A. Mahatma Gandhi 1. India Wins Freedom (a) Graphite
B. Ram Manohar Lohia 2. India Divided (b) Silicon
C. Dr. Rajendra Prasad 3. Hind Swaraj (c) Charcoal
D. Maulana Azad 4. The Wheel of History (d) Phosphorous
Below the options are given in A B C
D order 18. Which of the following blood group is
considered as Universal Donor ?
(a) 3 4 2 1
(b) 1 3 4 2
(c) 4 3 2 1
(d) 2 3 4 1
15. Who is the author of · the book
"Flaming Tresses of Draupadi" ? 19. Which of the following allow the
electric current to pass through it ?
(a) Smriti Irani
(a) Glasses
(b) Veerappa Moily
(b) Graphite
(c) Mallikarjun Kharge
(c) Rubber
(d) None of them
(d) PVC
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20. The inert gas which is substituted for 23. He left medicine in between and
nitrogen in the air used by deep sea decided to take music for
divers for breathing, is higher studies as that was his real
passion.
(a) Argon
(a) up
(b) Xenon
(b) of
(c) Helium
(c) upon
(d) Krypton (d) in
Select the appropriate article/ preposition to 24. Vmay does not play cricket, and -
complete the following sentences whenever does Yashwant.
necessary. (Question Nos. 21-24)
(a) so
21 . Luckily, I made it to the station (b) also
- - - time to catch the last train. (c) either
(a) m (d) neither
(b) for
Each of the following items consists of
(c) at a word in capital letters, followed by
four words or group of words. Select the
(d) to
word or group of words that is opposite
meaning to the word in capital letters.
(Question Nos. 25-27)
22. She's staying at hotel m
- - - small town in Colorado. 25. DILAPIDATED
(a) a; the (a) Costly
(b) a; a (b) Well-furnished
(c) the; a (c) Broken-down
(d) the; the (d) Renovated
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26. ZEAL 29. IMBECILE
(a) Intolerance (a) Sane
(b) Inefficiency (b) Astute
(c) Senile (c) Foolish
(d) Apathy (d) Aid
27. BENIGN 30. CANDOR
(a) Malevolent (a) Generous
(b) Friendly (b) Falsifier
(c) Unwise (c) Rough
(d) Soft (d) Truthfulness
Each of the following items consists of a In the following question, an idiom or
word in capital letters, followed by four proverb has been underlined. Choose its
words or group ofwords. Select the word or correct meaning in the given context from
group of words which express the closest/ the alternatives given below. (Question Nos.
similar meaning ofthe given word in capital 31-32)
letters. (Question Nos. 28-30)
31 . Her fame spread far and wide because
28. MASTICATE she was a talented singer.
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32. The old father brought home the moral In the question below, there is a sentence
of unity by asking each of his sons to with jumbled up parts. Rearrange these
parts, which are labelled A, B, C and D to
break the bundle of sticks. produce the correct sentence. Choose the
proper sequence. (Question Nos. 35-36)
(a) emphasised
(b) voiced 35. Rather than refuting -
(c) declared (A) the claim, the author clearly
(d) suggested (B) the reader's sympathy
(C) acknowledges Meredith's inability
(D) to evoke
Select the option which gives the correct
meaning of the given idiom/phrase. (a) ABCD
(Question Nos. 33-34) (b) DCAB
33. A man of straw (c) BCAD
(d) ACDB
(a) a worthy fellow
(b) a man of no substance 36. A man can be physically confined
within stone walls.
(c) a very active man
(A) But his mind and spirit will still
(d) a selfish person
be free.
(B) Thus his freedom of ·action may
be restricted.
34. To wash one's dirty linen in public
(C) His hopes and aspiration still
(a) to do some ugly work in public remain with him.
(b) to insult in the presence of others (D) Hence, he will be free spiritually
if not physically.
(c) to discuss secret matters in public
(a) ABCD
(d) to discuss private or embarrassing
(b) DCBA
matters in public, especially when
quarreling. (c) BACD
(d) BADC
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Read each sentence comprising of (a), (b), 39. (a) A small baby breathes about
(c) and (d) to find out whether there is any
(b) 45 times per minute while
grammatical error or idiomatic error in it.
Find out the incorrect option from amongst (c) a child of about six years breathes
the sentences given below. (Question Nos. about 25 times per minute.
37-40)
(d) No error.
37. (a) Having received your letter
(b) this morning, we are writing 40. (a) Regretfully, profits earned by your
company
(c) to thank you for the same.
(b) fell by 20 per cent last year
(d) No error.
(c) despite higher sales.
38. (a) I could not put up in a hotel (d) No error.
(b) because the boarding and lodging
charges
(c) were exorbitant.
(d) No error.
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PART-II
41 . A station in a network forwards incoming 44. is used to optimize the use of
packets by placing them on its shortest the channel capacity available in a
output queue. What routing algorithm is network, to minimize the transmission
being used·? latency and to increase robustness of
communication.
(a) hot potato routing
(a) Message switching
(b) flooding
(b) Linear switching
(c) static routing
(c) Circuit switching
(d) delta routing
(d) Packet switching
42. To connect a computer with a device in
the same room, you might be likely to
45. An Internet Service Provider (ISP) has
use
the following chunk of Classless Inter
(a) a dedicated line Domain Routing (CIDR)-based IP
addresses available with it :
(b) a ground station
245.248.128.0/20. The ISP wants to
(c) a coaxial cable give half of this chunk of addreses to
Organization A, and a quarter to
(d) All of the above
Organization B, while retaining the
remaining with itself. Which of the
43. End-to-end connectivity is provided following is a valid allocation of
from host-to-host in : addresses to A and B ?
(a) Network layer (a) 245.248.136.0121 and 245.248.128.0122
(b) Session layer (b) 245.248.128.0/21 and 245.248.128.0/22
(c) Data link layer (c) 245.248.132.0/22 and 245.248.132.0/21
(d) Transport layer (d) 245.248.136.0/22 and 245.248.132.0/21
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46. If data link transmits 4000 frames per 49. What will be the size of the following
second, and each slot has 8 bits, the structure?
transmission rate of circuit this Time #include <stdio.h>
division multipl~xing (TDM) is
struct temp
(a) 32 Kbps {
int a(lO);
(b) 500 bps char p;
(c) 500 Kbps
};
(d) None of the mentioned above (a) 5
(b) 11
47. What is the output of the following
(c) 41
program?
(d) 44
#include<stdio.h>
main()
{ 50. Choose the correct statement:
fprintf(stdout, "Hello, World!");
(a) Strictly speaking C supports one
}
dimensional arrays only.
(a) Hello, World!
(b) An array element may be an array
(b) No output by itself.
(c) Compile error (c) Array elements need not occupy
contiguous memory locations.
(d) Runtime error
(d) Both (a) and (b) above
48. C programs are converted into machine
51. An array elements are always stored
language with the help of
m memory locations.
(a) an editor
(a) sequential
(b) a compiler (b) random
(c) an operating system (c) sequential and random
(d) None of the above (d) None of the above.
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52. In Microsoft Disk Operating System 55. In Hypertext Markup Language
(MS-DOS), RESTORE command is (HTML), a/an is essentially a
used to macro that allows a short name to be
associated with replacement text.
(a) restore files from disks made
using the BACKUP command (a) Entity
(b) restore files which are deleted (b) Attribute
(c) restore files from recycle bin (c) Comment
(d) restore files which are deleted (d) None of the mentioned above
recently
56. Choose the correct statement of
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) :
53. Maximum length of Disk Operating
System (DOS) command using any (a) In traditional XHTML close tag
optional parameter is for some elements is optional but
not encouraged.
(a) 26 characters
(b) In traditional HTML close tag for
(b) 87 characters some elements is optional but not
(c) 127 characters encouraged.
(d) None of the above (c) None of the mentioned.
(d) In both traditional XHTML and
54. The deleted file in Microsoft Disk HTML close tag for some
elements is optional.
Operating System (MS-DOS) can be
recovered immediately, if you use the
command mention below, the command 57. Which of the following element is
is removed by HTML5 ?
(a) DO NOT DELETE (a) vlink
(b) NO DELETE (b) dir
(c) UNDELETE (c) marginwidth
(d) ONDELETE (d) compact
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58. What is the correct HTML for creating 62. The graph that shows basic blocks and
a hyperlink ? their successor relationship is called
(a) <a name= "">A</a> (a) DAG
(b) <a>B</a> (b) Flow graph
(c) <a href="http://www.example (c) Control graph
com''> example </a> (d) Hamiltonion graph
(d) <a url="http://www.example
com''> example</a> 63. The number of tokens in the following
C statement is
59. H1ML markup language is a set of pri..ntft"i = %d, &i = %x", i, &i);
Markup _ _ _ (a) 3
(a) Sets (b) 26
(b) Tags (c) 10
(c) Attributes (d) 21
(d) Groups 64. The lexical analysis for a modem
computer language such as Java needs
60. In Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which the power ofwhich one ofthe following
of the following selector selects the machine models in a necessary and
elements that are checked ? sufficient sense ?
(a) E-F (a) Finite state automata
(b) ::after (b) Detenninistic pushdown automata
(c) :checked (c) Non-deterministic pushdown
automata
(d) None of the mentioned above
(d) Turing Machine
61. In HTML, which ofthe following is the
attribute that is used to add a name/ 65. When a computer is first turned on or
value pair to a microdata item ? restarted, a special type of absolute
loader is executed called
(a) item scope
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(c) itemprop
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(d) itemid c-r·
L- p ~ _..Cc (d) Relating loader
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66. The languages that need heap allocation 69. Assuming that the height of a tree with
in the runtime environment are a single node is 0, the maximum height
of any AVL-tree with 7 nodes is
(a) those ~at use global variables
(a) 5
(b) those that use dynamic scoping
(b) 4
(c) those ·that support recursion
(c) 3
(d) those that allow dynamic data
(d) 2
structure
70. Language of finite automata is
67. In a compiler, the data structure
responsible for the management of (a) Type 0
information about variables and their (b) Type 1
attributes is
(c) Type 2
(a) Semantic stack
(d) Type 3
(b) Parser table
(c) Symbol table 71. The word 'formal' in formal languages
means
(d) Abstract syntax-tree
(a) they are unnecessary, in reality
(b) the symbols used have well
68. Consider a program that reads 500 defined meaning
integers in the range of [O, 100] that
represents the score of 500 students. (c) only the form of the string of
symbols is significant
Frequency of each score above 50 is
then printed. For the program to store (d) None of the above
the frequencies the best way is
(a) a dynamically allocated array of 72. Which ofthe following is not primitive
550 numbers recursive, but partially recursive ?
(b) an array of 100 numbers (a) Riemann function
(c) an array of 500 numbers (b) Bounded function
(c) Carnot function
(d) an array of 50 numbers
(d) Ackermann function
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73. Which among the following 1s not 77. Which ofthe following pairs ofregular
notated as infinite language ? expressions are equivalent ?
(a) Palindrome (a) 1(01)* and (10)* l
(b) Reverse
(b) x (xx)* and (xx)• x
(c) Factorial
(c) x• and x• x••
(d) L={ab}*
(d) All of the above
74. Number ofstates require to accept string
ends with 10 is 78. Dynamic errors can be detected at
(a) 3 (a) compile time
(b) 2 (b) runtime
(c) 1 (c) Both (a) and (b) above
(d) can't be represented (d) None of the above
75. Grammatical rules which do not involve
the meaning of words are called 79. For which ofthe following applications
regular expressions can be used ?
(a) Semantics (a) Designing compilers
(b) Syntactic (b) Developing text editors
(c) Both (a) and (b) (c) Simulating sequential circuits
(d) None of the given above (d) All of the above
76. Which statement is true?
(a) The tape of turing machine ts 80. In multilevel feedback scheduling
infinite. algorithm
(b) The ·tape of turing machine is
(a) a process can move to a different
finite.
classified ready queue
(c) The tape of turing machine is
infinite when the language is (b) classification of ready queue is
regular. permanent
(d) The tape of turing machine is (c) processes are not classified into
finite when the language is non groups
regular. (d) None of the mention~d above
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81. Which process can be affected by other 85. A computer system has 6 tape drives,
processes executing in the system ? with 'n' processes competing for them.
(a) cooperating process Each process may need 3 driv~. The
(b) child process maximum value of 'n' for .which the
system is guaranteed to be deadlock
(c) parent process
free is
(d) ~t process
(a) 1
82. The signal operation of the semaphore
basically works on the basic _ __ (b) 2
system call.
(c) 3
(a) continue()
(d) 4
(b) wakeup()
(c) getup()
(d) startO 86. In the Zero capacity queue
83. In analyzing the compilation of PL/I (a) the queue can store at least one
(Programming Language One) program, message
the term "Lexical analysis" is associated
with (b) the sender blocks until the receiver
receives the message
(a) recognition of basic syntactic
constructs through reductions (c) the sender keeps sending and the
(b) recognition of basic elements and messages don't wait in the queue
creation of uniform symbols
(d) None of the mentioned above
(c) creation of more optional matrix
(d) use of macro processor to produce
more optimal assembly code 87. Real time streaming protocol is used
84. Memory management is (a) to control streaming media servers
(a) not used in modern operating (b) for establishing and controlling
system media sessions between endpoints
(b) replaced with virtual memory on
current systems (c) to provide real time control of
playback of media files from the
(c) not used on multiprogramming
systems server
(d) critical for even the simplest (d) All of the mentioned above
operating systems
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88. For a weak entity set to be meaningful, 92. Boehm suggests an approach that
it must be associat d with another entity ·addresses project objectives, milestones
set, called the and schedules, responsibilities,
(a) Identifying set management and technical approaches
(b) Owner set and required resources. This principle
(c) Neighbour set is called as -
(d) Strong entity set (a) W3Illi principle
89. The relational model feature is that (b) WHO principle
there
(c) W5Illi principle
(a) is no need for primary key data
(b) is much more data independence (d) None of the above
than some other database models
(c) are explicit relationships among
: records 93. Alpha and Beta Testing are forms
(d) are tables with many dimensions of - -
(a) Acceptance testing
90. Consider the join of a relation R with
relation S. If R has m tuples and S has (b) Integration testing
n tuples, then the maximum size ofjoin
is (c) System testing
(a) mn (d) Unit testing
(b) m+n
(c) (m+n)/2
94. Which ofthe following requires design
(d) 2(m+n)
control measures, such as holding and
91. A subset of data in a data warehouse in recording design reviews and
the form of summary data, related to a qualification tests?
particular department or business
function: (a) CMM
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(b) Archive data P~D QUS P.WR)~,1t:) ISO 9000-3
(c) Data Marts cs Nor- FO "A' r.- !,':)• d) None of the mentioned above
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95. Which diagram in Unified Modeling 98. What is the typical invalid voltage for
Language (UML) shows a complete or a binary signal ? ·
partial view of the structure of a
modeled system at a specific time ? ,(a) 0.7 - 2.8 volts
(b) 0.8-3 volts
(a) Sequence Diagram
(c) 0.8 -2 volts
(b) Collaboration Diagram
(d) 0.7 - 2.5 volts
(c) Class Diagram
(d) Object Diagram
99. What type of register would have a
complete binary number shifted in one
96. A decade counter skips __. bit at a time and have all the stored bits
shifted out one at a time ?
(a) binary states 1000 to 1111
(b) binary states 0000 to 0011 (a) parallel-in, parallel-out
(c) binary states 1010 to 1111 (b) parallel-in, serial-out
(d) binary states 1111 to higher (c) serial-in, parallel-out
(d) serial-in, serial-out
97. The access time of a word in 4 MB main
memory is 100 ms. The access time of 100. The American Standard Code for
a word in a 32 kb data cache memory Information Interchange (ASCII) uses
is 10 ns. The average data cache bit ratio how many individual pulses for any
is 0.95. The efficiency of memory given character ?
access time is
(a) 1
(a) 9.5ns
(b) 2
(b) 14.5 ns
(c) 7
(c) 20ns
(d) 95ns (d) 8
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Final Answer key of Written Examination for recruitment to the Post of Programmer
vide Advt No. 09/2018 (Item No-02)
Written Examination held on 22nd February,2019
Test Booklet Series-A
Q No Answer Q No Answer Q No Answer Q No Answer
1 D 26 D 51 A 76 A
2 C 27 A 52 A 77 D
3 A 28 C 53 C 78 B
4 C 29 C 54 C 79 D
5 B 30 D 55 A 80 A
6 A 31 A 56 B 81 A
7 D 32 A 57 B 82 B
8 B 33 B 58 C 83 B
9 C 34 D 59 B 84 D
10 A 35 D 60 C 85 B
11 D 36 A 61 C 86 B
12 A 37 D 62 B 87 D
13 C 38 A 63 C 88 A
14 A 39 D 64 A 89 B
15 B 40 A 65 C 90 A
16 B 41 A 66 D 91 C
17 A 42 C 67 C 92 C
18 D 43 D 68 D 93 A
19 B 44 D 69 C 94 C
20 C 45 A 70 D 95 D
21 A 46 A 71 C 96 C
22 B 47 C 72 D 97 B
23 A 48 B 73 C 98 C
24 A 49 D 74 A 99 C
25 D 50 D 75 B 100 CPage 1 of 17
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