CP Interview Question
CP Interview Question
1. A bus is a / an
A. electronic track system
B. part of register
C. special memory
D. part of a Cpu
2. A form of code that uses more than one process and processor, possibly of different type, and that
may on occasions have more than one process or processor active at the same time, is known as
A. multiprogramming
B. multi threading
C. broadcasting
D. time sharing
3. Which of the following system program forgoes the production of object code to generate absolute
machine code and load it into the physical main storage location from which it will be executed
immediately upon completion of the assembly?
A. two pass assembler
B. load-and-go assembler
C. macroprocessor
D. compiler
5. Which policy replace a page if it is not in the favoured subset of a process's pages?
A. FIFO
B. LRU
C. LFU
D. Working set
6. There are certain packages that allow people to define data items, place these items in particular
records, combine the records into designated files and then manipulate and retrieve the stored data.
What are they called?
A. Data storage system
B. Database management system (DBMS)
C. Batch processing system
D. Data communication package
7. Subschema can be used to
A. create very different, personalized views of the same data
B. present information in different formats
C. hide sensitive information by omitting fields from the sub¬schema's description
D. All of the above
9. A large computer information system maintains many different computer files. Which amongst them is
called a perpetual file?
A. Specialized file
B. Log file
C. Master file
D. Update file
10. The Management Information system (MIS) structure with one main computer system is called a
A. hierarchical MIS structure
B. distributed MIS structure
C. centralized MIS structure
D. decentralized MIS structure
13. What is the type of the algorithm used in solving the 8 Queens problem?
22. In SQL, which of the following is not a data definition language commands?
A. RENAME
B. REVOKE
C. GRANT
D. UPDATE
24. RS-449/442-A/423-A is
A. a set of physical layer standards developed by EIA and intended to replace RS-232-C.
B. a check bit appended to an array of binary digits to make the sum of the all the binary digits
C. a code in which each expression conforms to specific rules of construction, so that if certain
errors occur in an expression the resulting expression will not conform to the rules of construction
and thus the presence of the errors is detected
D. the ratio of the number of data units in error to the total number of data units
25. A modem that is attached to the telephone system by jamming the phone's handset into two flexible
receptacles in the coupler?
A. gateway
B. bridge
C. acoustic coupler
D. time-division multiplexer
27. How would you allow device drivers and TSR's to be loaded into Upper Memory Blocks?
A. DOS=High
B. DOS=UMB
C. Loadhigh=
D. Devicehigh=
30. What was originally called the "imitation game" by its creator?
A. The Turing Test
B. LISP
C. The Logic Theorist
D. Cybernetics
6. Pick up the one which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word printer in bold and can replaces
it without altering the meaning of the sentence.
The great dancer impressed the appreciative crowd by his nimble movements.
A. Unrhythmic
B. lively
C. quickening
D. clear
7. Choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
"If you don't keep quite I shall shoot you", he said to her in a calm voice.
A. He warned her to shoot if she didn't keep quite calmly.
B. He said calmly that I shall shoot you if you don't be quite.
C. He warned her calmly that he would shoot her if she didn't keep quite.
D. Calmly he warned her that be quite or else he will have to shoot her.
8. Choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Passive/Active voice.
I remember my sister taking me to the museum.
A. I remember I was taken to the museum by my sister.
B. I remember being taken to the museum by my sister.
C. I remember myself being taken to the museum by my sister.
D. I remember taken to the museum by my sister.
13. Choose the word which best express the meaning of the given word
AUGUST
A. Common
B. Ridiculous
C. Dignified
D. Petty
14. Choose the word which best express the meaning of the given word
SALACITY
A. Bliss
B. Depression
C. Indecency
D. Recession
15. Choose the word which best express the meaning of the given word
PIOUS
A. Pure
B. Pretentious
C. Clean
D. Devout
17. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in
one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer.
A. A lot of travel delay is caused
B. due to the inefficiency and lack of good management
C. on behalf of the railways.
D. No error.
18. The first and sixth sentence are given in the begining. The middle four sentences in each have been
removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order for the four
sentences.
S1: Calcutta unlike other cities kepts its trams.
P: As a result there horrendous congestion.
Q: It was going to be the first in South Asia.
R: They run down the centre of the road
S: To ease in the city decided to build an underground railway line.
S6: The foundation stone was laid in 1972.
The Proper sequence should be:
A. PRSQ
B. PSQR
C. SQRP
D. RPSQ
19. Pick out the best one which can complete incomplete stem correctly and meaningfully.
His appearance is unsmiling but ......
A. his heart is full of compassion for others
B. he looks very serious on most occasions
C. people are afraid of him
D. he is uncompromising on matters of task performance
E. he is full of jealousy towards his colleagues
20. Pick out the best one which can complete incomplete stem correctly and meaningfully.
I felt somewhat more relaxed ......
A. but tense as compared to earlier
B. and tense as compared to earlier
C. as there was already no tension at all
D. and tension-free as compared to earlier
E. because the worry had already captured by mind
21. Find out that word, the spelling of which is WRONG. The letter of that word is the answer. A.
Amature
B. Manual
C. Nephew
D. Athletic
E. All correct
22. In the sentence below, four words which are lettered (A), (B), (C) and (D) have been printed in bold
type, one which may be either inappropriate in the context of the sentence or wrongly spelt.The letter of
that word is answer.
A. People in our country are distressed
B. by the spate of strikes, an almost
C. perpetual go slow and
D. increadibily low productivity
E. All correct
23. Find the correctly spelt words.
A. Benefitted
B. Benifited
C. Benefited
D. Benefeted
Section-C-Reasoning
1. An institute organised a fete and 1/5 of the girls and 1/8 of the boys participated in the same. What
fraction of the total number of students took part in the fete ?
A. 2/13
B. 13/40
C. Data inadequate
D. None of these
2. A number of friends decided to go on a picnic and planned to spend Rs. 96 on eatables. Four of them,
however, did not turn up. As a consequence, the remaining ones had to contribute Rs. 4 each extra. The
number of those who attended the picnic was
A. 8
B. 12
C. 16
D. 24
3. A girl counted in the following way on the fingers of her left hand : She started by calling the thumb 1,
the index finger 2, middle finger 3, ring finger 4, little finger 5 and then reversed direction calling the ring
finger 6, middle finger 7 and so on. She counted upto 1994. She ended counting on which finger ?
A. Thumb
B. Index finger
C. Middle finger
D. Ring finger
4. You're a detective who just filed a report of a burglary. You've gone over the stolen items with the
householder victim, John Day. John Day tells you he can't find his watch valued at 375 dollars. His wife is
missing a ruby pendant valued at 850 dollars, and there was cash on hand, also missing, of 200 dollars.
What is the total value of the stolen items and cash combined?
A. 1125 dollars
B. 1175 dollars
C. 1425 dollars
D. 1475 dollar
5. The rest stop snack machines accept quarters only. You are making snack purchases for people
traveling with you. You need to buy 2 candy bars, a pack of peanuts, and one can of soda. A sign on the
machines tells you the prices: candy bars cost .25 cents, a bag of peanuts costs .50 cents, and a can of
soda costs .75 cents. There is a change machine in the lobby area. How many quarters will you need to
make the required purchases?
A. Eight
B. Six
C. Seven
D. Eleven
6. A woman went to a sale with a coupon that gave her a twenty percent discount on certain items. She
bought a sweater and a skirt that qualified for the discount. The regular price for both items would be
$160.00. What price did the woman pay for the clothing she bought?
A., $ 180.00
B. $ 148.00
C. $ 140.00
D. $128.00
8. If the tire of a car rotates at a constant speed of 552 times in one minute, how many times will the tire
rotate in half-an-hour?
9. What is the smallest number of ducks that could swim in this formation - two ducks in front of a duck,
two ducks behind a duck and a duck between two ducks ?
A. 3
B. 5
C. 7
D. 9
10. Agency Y employs 13,800 people . Of these, 42% are male, and 50% of the males are age 30 or
younger. How many males are there in Agency Y who are older than 30?
A. 5796
B. 2898
C. 3471
D. 2910
11. A salesperson traveled 145 miles Monday, 72 miles Tuesday, and 98 miles Wednesday for $2300
worth of sales. If the business pays 210 a mile for gas and vehicle maintenance, approximately what
percent of sales for the three days went to gas and vehicle maintenance?
12. The number of people attending a weekly training program in the month of January averaged 116
people . If there were 105 people attending the first week, 106 the second, and 125 the third, how many
people attended the fourth week?
A. 118
B. 130
C. 128
D. 124
13. A cabinet maker has a dowel of wood 13 mm in diameter and 0.800 m long. She needs half the
length for the back of the chair and the remaining piece for 37 mm pegs. Pegs greater than 13 turn in
diameter or shorter than 37 mm will not work. How many good pegs can she make?
A. 108
B. 11
C. 10
D. 109
14. In a cricket match, five batsmen A, B, C, D and E scored an average of 36 runs. D Scored 5 more than
E; E scored 8 fewer than A; B scored as many as D and E combined; and B and C scored 107 between
them. How many runs did E score ?
A. 62
B. 45
C. 28
D. 20
15. In three coloured boxes - Red, Green and Blue, 108 balls are placed. There are twice as many balls in
the green and red boxes combined as there are in the blue box and twice as many in the blue box as
there are in the red box. How many balls are there in the green box ?
A. 18
B. 36
C. 45
D. None of these
16. Which approach to speech recognition avoids the problem caused by the variation in speech patterns
among different speakers?
A. Continuous speech recognition
B. Isolated word recognition
C. Connected word recognition
D. Speaker-dependent recognition
E. None of the above
17. What part of the manufacturing process relate to each stage of the process and to the process as a
whole?
A. field service
B. design
C. distribution
D. project management
18. For speech understanding systems to gain widespread acceptance in office automation, they must
feature:
A. speaker independence
B. speaker dependence
C. isolated word recognition
D. All of the above
19. MCC is investigating the improvement of the relationship between people and computers through a
technology called:
A. computer-aided design
B. human factors
C. parallel processing
D. All of the above
24. Read the paragraph carefully and determine the main point the author is trying to make. What
conclusion can be drawn from the argument?
In the past, consumers would rarely walk into an ice cream store and order low-fat ice cream. But that
isn't the case today. An increasing health consciousness combined with a much bigger selection of tasty
low-fat foods in all categories has made low-fat ice cream a very profitable item for ice cream store
owners.
This paragraph best supports the statement that
A. low-fat ice cream produces more revenue than other low-fat foods.
B. ice cream store owners would be better off carrying only low-fat ice cream.
C. ice cream store owners no longer think that low-fat ice cream is an unpopular
item.
D. low-fat ice cream is more popular than other kinds of ice cream.
E. consumers are fickle and it is impossible to please them
25. select the figure from a set of four figures (A), (B), (C) and (D) that can be formed by joining the
figures given in box marked.
A B C D
33. Rahul put his timepiece on the table in such a way that at 6 P.M. hour hand points to North. In which
direction the minute hand will point at 9.15 P.M. ?
A. South-East
B. South
C. North
D. West
A. 4, 3, 1, 2, 5
B. 4, 2, 5, 1, 3
C. 4, 3, 2, 1, 5
D. 4, 2, 1, 3, 5
35. The total of the ages of Amar, Akbar and Anthony is 80 years. What was the total of their ages three
years ago ?
A. 71 years
B. 72 years
C. 74 years
D. 77 years
Section-A
1. C
2. B
3. B
4. D
5. B
6. B
7. D
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. STACK
12. A
13. BACKTRACKING
14. ...
15. ...
16. ...
17. ...
18. ...
19. ...
20. B
21. D
22. D
23. D
24. A
25. C
26. D
27. B
28. D
29. C
30. A
SECTION-B
1. D
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. B
6. C
7. C
8. B
9. A
10. A
11. D
12. B
13. C
14. C
15. D
16. E
17. C
18. D
19. A
20. D
21. A
22. D
23. A
24. D
25. A
SECTION-3
1. C
2. A
3. B
4. C
5. C
6. D
7. D
8. 16560
9. A
10. B
11. 28.7
12. C
13. C
14. D
15. D
16. D
17. D
18. A
19. B
20. D
21. A
22. D
23. B
24. C
25. C
26. D
27. B
28. C
29. A
30. D
31. D
32. K8
33. D
34. D
35. A