Important Questions Series 3

1) If a = 5 and b = 7 then the statement p = (a > b) : a ? b
(A) assigns a value 5 to p (B) assigns a value 7 to p
(C) assigns a value 8 to p (D) gives an error message

2) Changes made to the system to reduce the future system failure chances is called

(A) Preventive Maintenance (B) Adaptive Maintenance
(C) Corrective Maintenance (D) Perfective Maintenance

3) The machine registers are sometimes called

(A) local variables (B) global variables
(C) accumulators (D) static variables

4) The searching technique that takes O (1) time to find a data is

(A) Linear Search (B) Binary Search
(C) Hashing (D) Tree Search

5) The OS of a computer may periodically collect all the free memory space to form contiguous block of free space. This is called

(A) Concatenation (B) Garbage collection
(C) Collision (D) Dynamic Memory Allocation

6) You have to sort a list L consisting of a sorted list followed by a few “random” elements. Which of the following sorting methods would be especially suitable for such a task?

(A) Bubble sort (B) Selection sort
(C) Quick sort (D) Insertion sort

7) The common column is eliminated in

(A) theta join 
(B) outer join 
(C) natural join 
(D) composed join

Paper 1 Important Questions

1) Which of the following institutions in the field of education is set up by the MHRD Government of India?
(A) Indian council of world Affair, New Delhi
(B) Mythic Society, Bangalore
(C) National Bal Bhawn, New Delhi
(D) India International Centre, New Delhi

2) Ethical norms in research do not involve guidelines for :

(1) Thesis format (2) Copyright
(3) Patenting policy (4) Data sharing policies

3) The main objective of teaching at Higher Education Level is : (December-2006)

1. To prepare students to pass examination
2. To develop the capacity to take decisions
3. To give new information
4. To motivate students to ask questions during lecture

4) Communication becomes circular when (Dec-2009)

1. the decoder becomes an encoder
2. the feedback is absent
3. the source is credible
4. the channel is clear

5) One of the anthropogenic sources of gaseous pollutants chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in air is

(A) Cement Industry

(B) Fertiliser industry

(C) Foam industry

(D) Pesticide industry

6) Video transmission over the Internet that looks like delayed livecasting is called:

(A) virtual video
(B) direct broadcast
(C) video shift
(D) real-time video

7) The method of research may be selected on the basis of

1. Purpose of research.
2. Type of control.
3. Source of data.
4. All of the above

Important UGC NET Questions Series 3

1) The worst type of coupling is
(A) Data coupling. (B) control coupling.
(C) stamp coupling. (D) content coupling

2) A struct is the same as a class except that

(A) there are no member functions.
(B) all members are public.
(C) cannot be used in inheritance hierarchy.
(D) it does have a this pointer.

3) The problem that threatens the success of a project but which has not yet happened is a

(A) bug (B) error
(C) risk (D) failure

4) FAST stands for

(A) Functional Application Specification Technique
(B) Fast Application Specification Technique
(C) Facilitated Application Specification Technique
(D) None of the above

5) What is the output of the following program segment?

main()
{
int i = ++2;
printf(“%d\n”, i);
}
(A) 3 (B) 2
(C) 0 (D) -1

6) Aggregation represents

(A) is_a relationship (B) part_of relationship
(C) composed_of relationship (D) none of above

7) Modifying the software to match changes in the ever changing environment is called

(A) adaptive maintenance (B) corrective maintenance
(C) perfective maintenance (D) preventive maintenance

Paper 1 Important Questions

1) Positive classroom Communication leads to ?
(a) Coercion
(b) Submission
(c) Confrontation.
(d) Persuasion.

2) Effective communication pre-supposes

Non-alignment
Domination
Passivity
Understanding

3)CCF stands for................ .

(A) Current Classification Format
(B) Current Communication Format
(C) Common Communication Format
(D) Common Classification Forma

4) Research suggests that people in all cultures have a tendency to do all of the following except which one? 

->A) Believe that what happens in other cultures is unnatural and incorrect 
->B) Behave in ways that favor their own cultural group 
->C) Prefer to associate with individuals from different cultural groups 
->D) Feel proud of their own cultural group

5) The link between the home and the school is an example of a ............. 

->A) microsystem 
->B) mesosystem 
->C) exosystem 
->D) macrosystem

6) Which of the following represents Vygotsky's view of the origin of cognitive development? 

->A) Intelligence 
->B) Genetics 
->C) Social interactions 
->D) Self regulated behavior

7) When you are noticed and appraised by everyone around you... This is?

A. Total appraisal
B. Overall appraisal
C. 360 degree appraisal
D. Management appraisal

8) Learning is primarily the result of ............. 

->A) development 
->B) experience 
->C) innate abilities 
->D) socialization

Important UGC NET Computer Questions Series 2

1) Assume that the SLR parser for a grammar G has n1 states and the LALR parser for G has n2 states. The relationship between n1 and n2 is
(A) n1 is necessarily less than n2 
(B) n1 is necessarily equal to n2 
(C) n1 is necessarily greater than n2 
(D) None of the above

2) Which of the following statements is false ? 

(A) An unambiguous grammar has same left most and right most derivation 
(B) An LL(1) parser is a top-down parser 
(C) LALR is more powerful than SLR 
(D) An ambiguous grammar can never be LR (K) for any k

3)Type checking is normally done during

(a) Lexical analysis (b) Syntax Analysis 
(c) Syntax Directed Translation (d) Code optimization

4) A compiler that converts embedded DML statements to normal procedure calls is known as 

(A) Embedded DML precompiler (B) Embedded DML compiler (C) C++ compiler (D) DML compiler

5)  In a language processing model using compiler, the output of an Assembler is

(A) Assembly Program (B) Absolute Machine Code 
(C) Relocatable Machine Code (D) Skeletal Source program

6) Which of the following phase of the compiler facilitates retargeting i.e. Compiler for different machine can be created by attaching a back end for the new machine to the existing front end?

(A) Code generation
(B) Intermediate code generation
(C) Code optimization
(D) Semantic analysis

7) The maximum number of objects that can be presented by using the z-buffer algorithm 

(A) One (B) Infinite 
(C) Two (D) Arbitrary

8) In SQL, which command is used to add new rows to a table? 
(A) ALTER TABLE (B) ADD ROW 
(C) INSERT (D) APPEND

Important Questions Series 1

1) A chip having 150 gates will be classified as
(A) SSI (B) MSI (C) LSI (D) VLSI

2) The characteristic equation of a T Flip Flop is

a. Qn+1=T Qn’ + T’ Qn 
b. Qn+1=T + Qn 
c. Qn+1=T Qn 
d. Qn+1=T’ Qn’

3) Which languages necessarily need heap allocation in the runtime environment ? 

(A) Those that support recursion 
(B) Those that use dynamic scoping 
(C) Those that allow dynamic data structure 
(D) Those that use global variables

4)  An LALR(1) parser for a grammar can have shift-reduce (S-R) conflicts if and only if 

(A) The SLR(1) parser for G has S-R conflicts 
(B) The LR(1) parser for G has S-R conflicts 
(C) The LR(0) parser for G has S-R conflicts 
(D) The LALR(1) parser for G has reduce-reduce conflicts

5) Consider the following two statements: 

P: Every regular grammar is LL(1) 
Q: Every regular set has LR(1) grammar 
Which of the following is TRUE? 
(A) Both P and Q are true (B) P is true and Q is false 
(C) P is false and Q is true (D) Both P and Q are false

6) Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using shared, dynamically linked libraries as opposed to using statically linked libraries? 

(A) Smaller sizes of executable 
(B) Lesser overall page fault rate in the system 
(C) Faster program startup 
(D) Existing programs need not be re-linked to take advantage of newer versions of libraries

7) Which of the following statements is FALSE? 

(A) In statically typed language, each variable in a program has a fixed type 
(B) In up-typed languages, values do not have any types 
(C) In dynamically typed languages, variables have no types 
(D) In all statically typed languages, each variable in a program is associated with values of only a single type during the execution of the program

8) In a bottom-up evaluation of a syntax directed definition, inherited attributes can 

(A) always be evaluated 
(B) be evaluated if the definition is L-attributed 
(C) be evaluated only if the definition has synthesized attributes 
(D) never be evaluated