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Direction: Study the bar graph carefully to answer the following question.
The bar graph represents the profit earned by two individuals A and B over 5 years.

In which year, the profit percent increase of B is the highest compared to previous year?
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Direction: A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
The traveller said, "Can you tell me the way to the nearest inn"?
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The area of the region bounded externally by a square of side 2a cm and internally by the circle touching the four sides of the square is:
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Direction: Read the data carefully and answer the following question.
The pie chart shows the percentage of total employees working in-5 companiesA,B,C,D and E. The total number of employees is 25000.

Find the average number of employees working in companies B,C and E:
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Direction: Given below idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Choose the response which is the most appropriate expression and mark your response.
Get the jitters
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There are 60 students in a class. The students are divided into three groups A, B and C of 15, 20 and 25 students, respectively. The groups A and C are combined to form group D. What is the average weight of the students in group D?
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The probability that a man will live 10 more years is 1/4 and the probability that his wife will live 10 more years is 1/3. The probability that neither of them will be alive in 10 years is
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Voting is the privilege for which wars have been fought, protests have been organized, and editorials have been written. "No taxation without representation," was a battle cry of the American Revolution. Women struggled for suffrage, as did many minorities. Eighteen year olds clamored for the right to vote, saying that if they were old enough to fight in the war, then they should be allowed to vote. Yet Americans have a deplorable voting history, and many will tell you that they have never voted.
Which of the following words is the best synonym for the word 'privilege' as used in the passage?
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Two trains start at the same time from two stations A and B towards each other.
They arrive at B and A respectively in 5 hours and 20 hours after they passed each other.
If the speed of the train that started from A is 56 kmph, then what is the speed of the second train (in kmph)?
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A man starts at a certain point, walks one km east, then two km north, one km east, one km north, one km east and finally one km north to arrive at the destination. What is the shortest distance (in km) from the starting point to the destination?
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A certain processor uses a fully associative cache of size 16 kB. The cache block size Q.1
is 16 bytes. Assume that the main memory is byte addressable and uses a 32-bit
address. How many bits are required for the Tag and the Index fields respectively in
the addresses generated by the processor?
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Let G be an undirected complete graph, on n vertices, where n > 2. Then, the number
of different Hamiltonian cycles in G is equal to
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In 16-bit 2’s complement representation, the decimal number –28 is:
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Consider the following two statements about database transaction schedules:
I. Strict two-phase locking protocol generates conflict serializable schedules that are also recoverable.
II Timestamp-ordering concurrency control protocol with Thomas’ Write Rule can generate view serializable schedules that are not conflict serializable.
Which of the above statements is/are TRUE?
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Let the set of functional dependencies F = {QR → S, R → P, S → Q} hold on a relation
schema X = (PQRS). X is not in BCNF. Suppose X is decomposed into two schemas
Y and Z where Y = (PR) and Z = (QRS).
Consider the two statements given below:
I. Both Y and Z are in BCNF
II. Decomposition of X into Y and Z is dependency preserving and lossless
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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The difference between the eigen values of matrix
is
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For what value of x, the given matrix
becomes singular?
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The range of signed decimal numbers that can be represented by 6-bit 1's complement number is:
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Which of the following is used for the purpose of link editing?
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Which of the following notations satisfies the given condition?
f(n) ≤ c*g(n), where f(n) and g(n) are functions, and c is a positive constant.
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Which of the following tables views the constraints in SQL?
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In which addressing mode is the operand given explicitly in the instruction?
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What is the post order traversal of the following?

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Which of the following networks cannot be an APIPA (Automatic Private IP Address)?
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Consider a system with `m` resources of the same type being shared by `n` processes. Resources can be requested and released by processes only one at a time. The system is deadlock free if and only if
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When a process is rolled out of memory, it loses its ability to use the CPU (atleast for a while). Describe another situation, where a process loses its ability to use the CPU, but it does not get rolled out
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Directions: Consider the following statements.
Which of these statement(s) is/are correct?
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Which of the following statements is/are true with reference to the way of describing XML data?
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Recursive enumerable languages are not closed under
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Consider a disk pack with 16 surfaces, 128 tracks per surface and 256 sectors per track. 512 bytes of data is stored in a bit serial manner in a sector. The capacity of the disk pack and the number of bits required to specify a particular sector in the disk respectively are:
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