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1. Which one of the following in NOT necessarily a property of a Group?
(A) Commutativity
(B) Associativity
(C) Existence of inverse for every element
(D) Existence of identity
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Correct Answer is A
2. What is the chromatic number of an n-vertex simple connected graph which does
not contain any odd length cycle? Assume n≥2.
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) n-1
(D) n
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Correct Answer is A
3. Which one of the following is TRUE for any simple connected undirected graph
with more than 2 vertices?
(A) No two vertices have the same degree.
(B) At least two vertices have the same degree
(C) At least three vertices have the same degree
(D) All vertices have the same degree.
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Correct Answer is B
4. Consider the binary relation R={(x,y),(x,z),(z,x),(z,y)} on the set {x,y,z}.
Which one of the following is TRUE?
(A) R is symmetric but NOT antisymmetric
(B) R is NOT symmetric but antisymmetric
(C) R is both symmetric and antisymmetric
(D) R is neither symmetric nor antisymmetric
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Correct Answer is D
5. (1217)8 is equivalent to
(A) (1217)16
(B) (028F)16
(C) (2297)10
(D) (0B17)16
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Correct Answer is B
6. What is the minimum number of gates required to implement the Boolean
function (AB+C) if we have to use only 2-input NOR gates?
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
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Correct Answer is B
7. How many 32K x 1 RAM chips are needed to provide a memory capacity of 256Kbytes?
(A) 8
(B) 32
(C) 64
(D) 128
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Correct Answer is C
8. A CPU generally handles an interrupt by executing an interrupt service routine
(A) As soon as an interrupt is raised
(B) By checking the interrupt register at the end of fetch cycle.
(C) By checking the interrupt register after finishing the execution of the current
instruction.
(D) By checking the interrupt register at fixed time intervals
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Correct Answer is C
9. In which one of the following page replacement policies, Belady’s anomaly may
occur?
(A) FIFO
(B) Optimal
(C) LRU
(D) MRU
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Correct Answer is A
10. The essential content(s) in each entry of a page table is/are
(A) Virtual page number
(B) Page frame number
(C) Both virtual page number and page frame number
(D) Access right information
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Correct Answer is B
11. What is the number of swaps required to sort n elements using selection sort, in
the worst case?
(A) Θ(n)
(B) Θ(n log n)
(C) Θ(n2)
(D) Θ(n2log n)
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Correct Answer is A
12. S → aSa|bSb|a|b;
The language generated by the above grammar over the
alphabet {a,b} is the set of
(A) All palindromes.
(B) All odd length palindromes.
(C) Strings that begin and end with the same symbol
(D) All even length palindromes.
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Correct Answer is B
13. Which of the following statement(s) is / are correct regarding Bellman-Ford
shortest path algorithm?
P. Always finds a negative weighted cycle, if one exists.
Q. Finds whether any negative weighted cycle is reachable from the source.
(A) P only
(B) Q only
(C) both P and Q
(D) Neither P nor Q
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Correct Answer is B
14. Let πA be a problem that belongs to the class NP. Then which one of the
following is TRUE?
(A) There is no polynomial time algorithm for πA
(B) If πA can be solved deterministically in polynomial time, then P = NP.
(C) If πA is NP-hard, then it is NP-complete.
(D) πA may be undecidable.
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Correct Answer is C
15. Which one of the following languages over the alphabet {0,1} is described by the
regular expression:
(0+1)*0(0+1)*0(0+1)*?
(A) The set of all strings containing the substring 00.
(B) The set of all strings containing at most two 0’s.
(C) The set of all strings containing at least two 0’s.
(D) The set of all strings that begin and end with either 0 or 1.
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Correct Answer is C
16. Which one of the following is FALSE?
(A) There is unique minimal DFA for every regular language
(B) Every NFA can be converted to an equivalent PDA.
(C) Complement of every context-free language is recursive.
(D) Every nondeterministic PDA can be converted to an equivalent deterministic
PDA.
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Correct Answer is D
17. Match all items in Group 1 with correct options from those given in Group 2.
Codes:
Group 1
Group 2
P. Regular expression
1. Syntax analysis
Q. Pushdown automata
2. Code generation
R. Dataflow analysis
3. Lexical analysis
S. Register allocation
4. Code optimization
(A) P-4. Q-1, R-2, S-3
(B) P-3, Q-1, R-4, S-2
(C) P-3, Q-4, R-1, S-2
(D) P-2, Q-1, R-4, S-3
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Correct Answer is B
18.Consider the program below:
#include
int fun(int n, int *f_p)
{
int t, f;
if (n <= 1)
{
*f_p = 1;
return 1;
}
t = fun(n- 1,f_p);
f = t+ * f_p;
*f_p = t;
return f;
}
int main()
{
int x = 15;
printf (" %d \n", fun(5, &x));
return 0;
}
Output of the above program is
(A) 6
(B) 8
(C) 14
(D) 15
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Correct Answer is B
19. The coupling between different modules of a software is categorized as follows:
I. Content coupling
II. Common coupling
III. Control coupling
IV Stamp coupling
V. Data coupling
Coupling between modules can be ranked in the order of strongest (least
desirable) to weakest (most desirable) as follows:
(A) I-II-III-IV-V
(B) V-IV-III-II-I
(C) I-III-V -II-IV
(D) IV-II-V -III-I
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Correct Answer is A
20. Consider the HTML table definition given below:
The number of rows in each column and the number of columns in each row are:
(A) 2,2,3 and 2,3,2
(B) 2,2,3 and 2,2,3
(C) 2,3,2 and 2,3,2
(D) 2,3,2 and 2,2,3
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Correct Answer is C
21. An unbalanced dice (with 6 faces, numbered from 1 to 6) is thrown. The
probability that the face value is odd is 90% of the probability that the face value
is even. The probability of getting any even numbered face is the same.
If the probability that the face is even given that it is greater than 3 is 0.75,
which one of the following options is closest to the probability that the face value
exceeds 3?
(A) 0.453
(B) 0.468
(C) 0.485
(D) 0.492
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Correct Answer is B
22. For the composition table of a cyclic group shown below
23. Which one of the following is the most appropriate logical formula to represent
the statement?
“Gold and silver ornaments are precious”.
The following notations are used:
G(x): x is a gold ornament
S(x): x is a silver ornament
P(x): x is precious
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Correct Answer is D
24. The binary operation * is defined as follows
Which one of the following is equivalent to P∨Q?
(A) ~Q*~P
(B) ~Q*P
(C) Q*~P
(D) ~P*~Q
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Correct Answer is B
25.
evalutes to
(A) 0
(B) 1
(C) ln 2
(D) (1/2)ln 2
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Correct Answer is D
26. Consider the following well-formed formulae:
I.∼∀x(p(x))
II.∼∃x(p(x))
III.∼∀x(∼p(x))
IV.∼∃x(∼p(x))
Which of the above are equivalent?
(A) I and III
(B) I and IV
(C) II and III
(D) II and IV
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Correct Answer is B
27.Given the following state table of an FSM with two states A and B, one input and
one output:
28. Consider a 4 stage pipeline processor. The number of cycles needed by the four
instructions I1, I2, I3, I4 in stages S1, S2, S3, S4 is shown below:
29. Consider a 4-way set associative cache (initially empty) with total 16 cache
blocks. The main memory consists of 256 blocks and the request for memory
blocks is in the following order:
0, 255, 1, 4, 3, 8, 133, 159, 216, 129, 63, 8, 48, 32, 73, 92, 155.
Which one of the following memory block will NOT be in cache if LRU replacement
policy is used?
(A) 3
(B) 8
(C) 129
(D) 216
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Correct Answer is D
30. Consider a system with 4 types of resources R1 (3 units), R2 (2 units), R3 (3
units), R4 (2 units). A non-preemptive resource allocation policy is used. At any
given instance, a request is not entertained if it cannot be completely satisfied.
Three processes P1, P2, P3 request the sources as follows if executed
independently.
31. Consider a disk system with 100 cylinders. The requests to access the cylinders
occur in following sequence:
4, 34, 10, 7, 19, 73, 2, 15, 6, 20
Assuming that the head is currently at cylinder 50, what is the time taken to
satisfy all requests if it takes 1ms to move from one cylinder to adjacent one and
shortest seek time first policy is used?
(A) 95ms
(B) 119ms
(C) 233ms
(D) 276ms
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Correct Answer is B
32. In the following process state transition diagram for a uniprocessor system,
assume that there are always some processes in the ready state:
33. The enter_CS() and leave_CS() functions to implement critical section of a
process are realized using test-and-set instruction as follows:
void enter_CS(X)
{
while test-and-set(X) ;
}
void leave_CS(X)
{
X=0;
}
In the above solution, X is a memory location associated with the CS and is
initialized to 0. Now consider the following statements:
I. The above solution to CS problem is deadlock-free
II. The solution is starvation free.
III. The processes enter CS in FIFO order.
IV More than one process can enter CS at the same time.
Which of the above statements is TRUE?
(A) I only
(B) I and II
(C) II and III
(D) IV only
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Correct Answer is A
34. A multilevel page table is preferred in comparison to a single level page table for
translating virtual address to physical address because
(A) It reduces the memory access time to read or write a memory location.
(B) It helps to reduce the size of page table needed to implement the virtual
address space of a process.
(C) It is required by the translation lookaside buffer.
(D) It helps to reduce the number of page faults in page replacement algorithms.
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Correct Answer is B
35. The running time of an algorithm is represented by the following recurrence
relation:
if n <= 3 then T(n) = n
else T(n) = T(n/3) + cn
Which one of the following represents the time complexity of the algorithm?
(A) Θ(n)
(B) Θ(n log n)
(C) Θ(n2)
(D) Θ(n2log n)
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Correct Answer is A
36. The keys 12, 18, 13, 2, 3, 23, 5 and 15 are inserted into an initially empty hash
table of length 10 using open addressing with hash function h(k) = k mod 10 and
linear probing. What is the resultant hash table.
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Correct Answer is C
37. What is the maximum height of any AVL-tree with 7 nodes? Assume that the
height of a tree with a single node is 0.
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
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Correct Answer is B
38. Consider the following graph:
39. In quick sort, for sorting n elements, the (n/4)th smallest element is selected as
pivot using an O(n) time algorithm. What is the worst case time complexity of the
quick sort?
(A) Θ(n)
(B) Θ(n log n)
(C) Θ(n2)
(D) Θ(n2 log n)
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Correct Answer is B
40. Let L=L1∩L2, where L1 and L2
are languages as defined below:
L1={am bm c an bm| m,n≥0}
L2={aibjck | i,j,k≥0 }
Then L is
(A) Not recursive
(B) Regular
(C) Context free but not regular
(D) Recursively enumerable but not context free.
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Correct Answer is C
41. The below DFA accepts the set of all strings over {0,1} that
42. Which of the following statements are TRUE?
I. There exist parsing algorithms for some programming languages whose
complexities are less than Θ(n3).
II. A programming language which allows recursion can be implemented with
static storage allocation.
III. No L-attributed definition can be evaluated in the framework of bottom-up
parsing.
IV. Code improving transformations can be performed at both source language
and intermediate code level.
(A) I and II
(B) I and IV
(C) III and IV
(D) I, III and IV
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Correct Answer is B
43.Consider two transactions T1 and T2, and four schedules S1, S2, S3, S4
of T1 and T2 as given below:
T1:R1[x] W1[x] W1[y]
T2:R2[x] R2[y] W2[y]
S1:R1[x] R2[x] R2[y] W1[x] W1[y] W2[y]
S2:R1[x] R2[x] R2[y] W1[x] W2[y] W1[y]
S3:R1[x] W1[x] R2[x] W1[y] R2[y] W2[y]
S4:R2[x] R2[y] R1[x] W1[x] W1[y] W2[y]
Which of the above schedules are conflict-serializable?
(A) S1 and S2
(B) S2 and S3
(C) S3 only
(D) S4 only
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Correct Answer is B
44. The following key values are inserted into a B+ - tree in which order of the
internal nodes is 3, and that of the leaf nodes is 2, in the sequence given below.
The order of internal nodes is the maximum number of tree pointers in each
node, and the order of leaf nodes is the maximum number of data items that can
be stored in it. The B+ - tree is initially empty.
10, 3, 6, 8, 4, 2, 1
The maximum number of times leaf nodes would get split up as a result of these
insertions is
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
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Correct Answer is B
45. Let R and S be relational schemes such that R={a,b,c} and S={c}. Now consider
the following queries on the database:
Which of the above queries are equivalent?
(A) I and II
(B) I and III
(C) II and IV
(D) III and IV
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Correct Answer is A
46. In the RSA public key cryptosystem, the private and public keys are (e,n) and
(d,n) respectively, where n=p*q and p and q are large primes. Besides, n is
public and p and q are private. Let M be an integer such that 0<M<n and
f(n) = (p−1)(q−1). Now consider the following equations.
I. M'=Me mod n
M=(M')d mod n
II. ed=1mod n
III. ed=1mod f(n)
IV. M'=Me mod f(n)
M=(M')d mod f(n)
Which of the above equations correctly represent RSA cryptosystem?
(A) I and II
(B) I and III
(C) II and IV
(D) III and IV
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Correct Answer is B
47. While opening a TCP connection, the initial sequence number is to be derived
using a time-of-day (ToD) clock that keeps running even when the host is down.
The low order 32 bits of the counter of the ToD clock is to be used for the initial
sequence numbers. The clock counter increments once per millisecond. The
maximum packet lifetime is given to be 64s.
Which one of the choices given below is closest to the minimum permissible rate
at which sequence numbers used for packets of a connection can increase?
(A) 0.015/s
(B) 0.064/s
(C) 0.135/s
(D) 0.327/s
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Correct Answer is A
48. Let G(x) be the generator polynomial used for CRC checking. What is the
condition that should be satisfied by G(x) to detect odd number of bits in error?
(A) G(x) contains more than two terms
(B) G(x) does not divide 1+xk, for any k not exceeding the frame length
(C) 1+x is a factor of G(x)
(D) G(x) has an odd number of terms.
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Correct Answer is C
49. Which of the following statements are TRUE?
I. The context diagram should depict the system as a single bubble.
II. External entities should be identified clearly at all levels of DFDs.
III. Control information should not be represented in a DFD.
IV. A data store can be connected either to another data store or to an external entity
(A) II and III
(B) II and III
(C) I and III
(D) I, II and III
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Correct Answer is C
50. Consider the following statements about the cyclomatic complexity of the control
flow graph of a program module. Which of these are TRUE?
I. The cyclomatic complexity of a module is equal to the maximum number of
linearly independent circuits in the graph.
II. The cyclomatic complexity of a module is the number of decisions in the
module plus one, where a decision is effectively any conditional statement in
the module.
III. The cyclomatic complexity can also be used as a number of linearly
independent paths that should be tested during path coverage testing.
(A) I and II
(B) II and III
(C) I and III
(D) I, II and III
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Correct Answer is B
51. A hard disk has 63 sectors per track, 10 platters each with 2 recording surfaces
and 1000 cylinders. The address of a sector is given as a triple {c,h,s} , where c
is the cylinder number, h is the surface number and s is the sector number. Thus,
the 0th sector is addressed as {0,0,0} , the 1st sector as {0,0,1} , and so on
The address <400, 16, 29> corre4sponds tp sector number:
(A) 505035
(B) 505036
(C) 505037
(D) 505038
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Correct Answer is C
52. A hard disk has 63 sectors per track, 10 platters each with 2 recording surfaces
and 1000 cylinders. The address of a sector is given as a triple {c,h,s} , where c
is the cylinder number, h is the surface number and s is the sector number. Thus,
the 0th sector is addressed as {0,0,0} , the 1st sector as {0,0,1} , and so on
The address of the 1039th sector is
(A) 0,15,31
(B) 0,16,30
(C) 0,16,31
(D) 0,17,31
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Correct Answer is C
53. A sub-sequence of a given sequence is just the given sequence with some
elements (possibly none or all) left out. We are given two sequences X[m] and
Y[n] of lengths m and n, respectively, with indexes of X and Y starting from 0.
We wish to find the length of the longest common sub-sequence (LCS) of X[m]
and Y[n] as l(m,n), where an incomplete recursive definition for the function l(i,j)
to compute the length of the LCS of X[m] and Y[n] is given below:
l(i, j) = 0, if either i=0 or j=0
= expr1, if i,j>0 and X [i-1]= Y[j-1]
= expr2, if i,j>0 and X [i-1]≠ Y[j-1]
Which one of the following options is correct?
(A) expr1 = l(i−1,j) + 1
(B) expr1 = l(i,j−1)
(C) expr2 = max(l(i−1,j), l(i,j-1))
(D) expr2 = max(l(i−1,j−1), l(i,j))
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Correct Answer is C
54. A sub-sequence of a given sequence is just the given sequence with some
elements (possibly none or all) left out. We are given two sequences X[m] and
Y[n] of lengths m and n, respectively, with indexes of X and Y starting from 0.
The values of l(i,j) could be obtained by dynamic programming based on the
correct recursive definition of l(i,j) of the form given above, using an array
L[M,N], where M = m+1 and N=n+1, such that L[i,j] = l(i,j).
Which one of the following statements would be TRUE regarding the dynamic
programming solution for the recursive definition of l(i,j)?
(A) All elements L should be initialized to 0 for the values of l(i,j) to be properly
computed.
(B) The values of l(i,j) may be computed in a row major order or column major
order of L(M,N)
(C) The values of l(i,j) cannot be computed in either row major order or column
major order of L(M,N).
(D) L[p,q] needs to be computed before L[r,s] if either p<r or q<s.
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Correct Answer is B
55. Consider the following relational schema:
Suppliers(sid:integer, sname:string, city:string, street:string)
Parts(pid:integer, pname:string, color:string)
Catalog(sid:integer, pid:integer, cost:real)
Consider the following relational query on the above database:
SELECT S.sname
FROM Suppliers S
WHERE S.sid NOT IN (SELECT C.sid
FROM Catalog C
WHERE C.pid NOT (SELECT P.pid
FROM Parts P
WHERE P.color<> 'blue'))
Assume that relations corresponding to the above schema are not empty. Which
one of the following is the correct interpretation of the above query?
(A) Find the names of all suppliers who have supplied a non-blue part.
(B) Find the names of all suppliers who have not supplied a non-blue part.
(C) Find the names of all suppliers who have supplied only blue parts.
(D) Find the names of all suppliers who have not supplied only blue parts.
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Correct Answer is A
56. Consider the following relational schema:
Suppliers(sid:integer, sname:string, city:string, street:string)
Parts(pid:integer, pname:string, color:string)
Catalog(sid:integer, pid:integer, cost:real)
Assume that, in the suppliers relation above, each supplier and each street within
a city has a unique name, and (sname, city) forms a candidate key. No other
functional dependencies are implied other than those implied by primary and
candidate keys. Which one of the following is TRUE about the above schema?
(A) The schema is in BCNF
(B) The schema is in 3NF but not in BCNF
(C) The schema is in 2NF but not in 3NF
(D) The schema is not in 2NF
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Correct Answer is A
57. Frames of 1000 bits are sent over a 106 bps duplex link between two hosts. The
propagation time is 25ms. Frames are to be transmitted into this link to
maximally pack them in transit (within the link).
What is the minimum number of bits (i) that will be required to represent the sequence numbers distinctly? Assume that no time gap needs to be given between transmission of two frames.
(A) l=2
(B) l=3
(C) l=4
(D) l=5
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Correct Answer is D
58. Frames of 1000 bits are sent over a 106 bps duplex link between two hosts. The
propagation time is 25ms. Frames are to be transmitted into this link to
maximally pack them in transit (within the link).
Suppose that the sliding window protocol is used with the sender window size of
2l, where l is the number of bits identified in the earlier part and
acknowledgements are always piggy backed. After sending 2l frames, what is the
minimum time the sender will have to wait before starting transmission of the
next frame? (Identify the closest choice ignoring the frame processing time.)
(A) 16ms
(B) 18ms
(C) 20ms
(D) 22ms
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Correct Answer is B
59. Consider a binary max-heap implemented using an array.
Which one of the following array represents a binary max-heap?
(A) {25,12,16,13,10,8,14}
(B) {25,14,13,16,10,8,12}
(C) {25,14,16,13,10,8,12}
(D) {25,14,12,13,10,8,16}
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Correct Answer is C
60. Consider the data given in above question. What is the content of the array after two delete operations on the correct
answer to the previous question?
(A) {14,13,12,10,8}
(B) {14,12,13,8,10}
(C) {14,13,8,12,10}
(D) {14,13,12,8,10}
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Correct Answer is D
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