KPSC-MOCK-TEST Mock Exam
KPSC Mock Test: Lecturer in Computer Applications and Business Management - Technical Education
KPSC Mock Test: Lecturer in Computer Applications and Business Management - Technical Education
Official Kerala Public Service Commission ONLINE Exam Question Paper & Answer Key. • Name of Post: Lecturer in Computer Applications and Business Management - Technical Education • Category Number: 126/2023 • Date of Test: 02/07/2024 • Answer Key: Final Answer Key Question Paper PDF: https://www.keralapsc.gov.in/sites/default/files/2024-07/79%2024%20Lr%20Computer%20Appln%20and%20Business%20Management.pdf Answer Key PDF: https://www.keralapsc.gov.in/sites/default/files/2024-07/Final%20key%20Lr%20in%20Computer%20Appln%20and%20Business.pdf
100 Questions
Progress: 0 / 100 Answered
1
The output of the following C program is
#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
int a=5,b=7;
printf("%d",++a-b+++b++);
}
2
Which of the following functions are not a part of string.h header file
i. strstr
ii. strget
iii. strcpi
iv. strchr
3
The exact order of priorities for the following operators in C is
<=||!=*&?=
4
The equivalent C statement for the mathematical expression
5
The statement referring the second element in third row of an array arr in C is
6
The standard file pointer in C used for printing operations is
7
The format specifier for printing and reading long double values in C is
8
Which among the following functions is not a part of math.h header file.
9
Which operation is used to restore the balance in an AVL tree after an insertion or deletion?
10
In a B-tree, what is the maximum number of children a node can have?
11
What type of problem is the Traveling salesman problem in terms of computational complexity?
12
Which algorithm is commonly used to find an approximate solution to the traveling salesman problem?
13
Which of the following is not an asymptotic notation type
14
If a process fails, most operating system write the error information to a _______
15
The FCFS algorithm is particularly troublesome for _________
16
In which language UNIX is written?
17
Which part of the Unix operating system interacts with the hardware?
18
A common synchronization mechanism used in multiprocessor operating system is
19
In a multiprocessor system, if one processor fails, the system will halt
20
A Data Base Management system
21
One to many relationships means
22
Which one of the following is a type of Data Manipulation Command?
23
What is the basic client/server architecture, one has to deal with?
24
Which API is used for the interaction in 2-tier architecture?
25
In which architecture, client can't directly communicate with the server?
26
How many primary keys can have in a table?
27
Which command is used to change the definition of a table in SQL?
28
What is the output of the following program fragment?
int x = 10;
int result = ++x-x++/++x*++x/5*2-++x+2>>3^3;
Consolve. WriteLine(result);
29
Which UML diagram is used to show the physical architecture of a system, including hardware and software components?
30
Which of the following statements are true for ADO.NET
i. ADO.NET supports both connection-oriented architecture and disconnection-oriented architecture
ii. RecordSet object represents data from one data source at a time
iii. Pessimistic locking is used to avoid concurrent changes to data
31
Which of the following statements is true for the program fragment?
Array Arr=Array.CreateInstance(Typeof(int), 3, 2, 4);
32
What is the output of the following program fragment :
int a, b, c;
for (c=1; c>=0, c--)
{
for (a = 1; a >= 0; a--)
{
for (b = 0; b <=1; b++)
{
if (a == b)
{
console.write ("1");
}
else
{
Console.write ("0");
}
}
}
Console.WriteLine ("\n");
}
33
Which of the following is not part of Common Language Runtime of .NET framework
34
What is the size of the storage space required to store a variable of type 'Date' in VB.NET?
35
As seen below, we have a network consisting of five nodes, A through E. The values displayed represent the route's cost. The Distance Vector Routing protocol is used by the network. After the route have stabilized, which route has never been used by all nodes? 
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The following shows a coding scheme for error correction. Find the number of errors that can be detected and corrected by the system
Data word Code word
0000 00000
0001 00011
0010 00101
0011 00110
0100 01001
0101 01010
0110 01100
0111 01111
37
A few statements regarding link state routing protocols are provided below. Which of these claims is true?
i. Every router floods its partial knowledge about topology only to their immediate neighbours
ii. It is a dynamic protocol
iii. Bell-man ford algorithm is used
iv. Count-to-infinity problem occurs in link state routing
38
Suppose that two persons A and B want to exchange confidential information. They set up a secret communication system using the Diffie-Hellman key exchange technique. They agreed on a prime number, P. They chose the primitive root as 3. A chooses 2 and B chooses 4 as their respective secrets. If their D-H key is 5, find out the prime number P for the modulo operation.
39
An organization is granted a block of addresses. The IP address of one desktop machine is set as 192.168.112.40/28 from the given block. What is the last IP address in that block?
40
RSA cryptosystem is used by A. The two prime numbers are selected as p = 7 and q = 17 to generate her public and private keys. If the public key of A is 5. Then the private key of A is __________.
41
Some statements about the TCP/IP reference model are listed below.
i. RARP protocol resides in the Transport layer
ii. The session layer of the OSI reference model is
iii. Equivalent to the network layer of TCP/IP
iv. UDP is defined in network layer
Which of these statements is TRUE?
42
Some statements regarding IEEE802.11 are presented here
i. The basic service set defined by IEEE802.11 without an access point is called an infrastructure network
ii. Distributed coordination function protocol uses CSMA/CA
iii. The 'Frame Control' field in the MAC layer frame defines the duration of the transmission
iv. IEEE 802.11 control frames are used for accessing the channel and acknowledging.
Which of the above statements are true?
43
In the Object Oriented Systems development life cycle, what is the main activity during the object design phase?
44
How are use cases integrated with object-oriented design in Jacobson's Methodology?
45
When identifying object relationship, which type of relationship shows a whole-part association?
46
What does the acronym "INVEST" stand for in the context of user stories in Agile?
47
Which of the following is a corollary of the design axiom "Design for Change"?
48
Which activity is essential for maintaining security throughout the software life cycle?
49
Which protocol is commonly used to establish a secure VPN tunnel and run encrypted connections?
50
Name the law which protects the rights of inventors by granting them exclusive rights to their inventions?
51
Which of the following is/are unsupervised learning problem(s)?
i. Grouping documents into different categories based on their topics
ii. Forecasting the hourly temperature in a city based on historical temperature patterns
iii. Identifying close-kint communities of people in a social network
iv. Training an autonomous agent to drive a vehicle
v. Identifying different species of animals from images
52
Calculate the value of y at x = 2.5 using K-nearest neighbour (k-NN) regression with k = 3 in the given data cluster
X Y
0.5 1.5
1 2
1.5 3
2 3.5
3 4
53
Which of the following statement(s) about Reinforcement Learning (RL) is/are true?
i. While learning a policy, the goal is to maximize the long-term reward
ii. During training, the agent is explicitly provided the most optimal action to be taken in each state
iii. The state of the environment changes based on the action taken by the agent
iv. RL is used for building agents to play chess
v. RL is used for predicting the prices of apatments from their features
54
Consider a neural network model consisting of a single neuron designed to emulate the behavior of an AND gate. This neuron takes two binary input, x1 and x2, each of which can be 0 or 1. The neuron applies a weight w to each input and adds a bias b before passing the sum through an activation function f(z) to produce the output y. The activation function used is a step function, defined as :
Given the nature of an AND gate, which of the following sets of weights and bias would correctly configure the neuron to emulate an AND gate?
55
A machine learning model is trained to predict the category of various finance-related objectives. The categories are "Investment", "Savings", "Retirement", and "Budgeting". When preparing the data for model training. One-hot encoding is applied to the category labels. Given a finance-related objective classified as "Retirement", what would be the one-hot encoded representation of this category for the model?
56
What is the purpose of using assert statements in python?
57
What is the result of the expression 'Hello'*3?
58
What is the output of
print("Hello", end='@')
print("world")
59
Which function can be used to plot a sine curve in Matplotlib?
60
Which of the following is an immutable data type?
61
Which of the following statements is/are related to Taylor's contribution?
62
Arrange the following steps of MBO development by Peter Drucker
i. Stimulate the participation of the employees in the determining of the objectives
ii. Determine the organizational objectives to employees.
iii. Monitoring the performance
iv. Evaluation of reward achievements
v. Translating the organizational objectives to the employees
63
A situation that will often involve an apparent conflict between moral and imperatives in which to obey one would result in transgressing another. Identify the situation
64
Which of the following are the part of Corporate social responsibility?
i. Reasonable chances and the proper system for accomplishments and promotion
ii. To supply goods at reasonable prices even when there is sellers market
iii. Improving the efficiency of business operation
iv. To provide an opportunity for being heard and redress genuine grievance
65
What is the sequence of introduction of classical management theory?
i. Administrative management
ii. Bureacratic management
iii. Scientific management
66
"Coordination is the essence of management". This statement is stated by
67
One good thing about the principles of measurement is that it helps understand the relationship between human and material resources in achieving organisational goals. Which features of the principles of management is described in the above statement?
68
The principle of division of work is applicable to a government office where there is a diary/dispatch clerk whose jobs is to receive and send mail, a data entry operator who's task is to input data on the computer. Division of work is also applicable to limited companies where there are separate like productions, finance, research and development etc. Which quality of principles of management is highlighted above?
69
Which of the following activities is not a direct responsibility of operation management?
70
This stage may involve the provision of necessary items, the maintenance of records, the monitoring of workflows as planned, the recording of number of times a machine idle time, etc. Which is the production process the above lines mentions about?
71
Which of the following is/are correct statements about Total Quality Management?
i. TQM originated in the industrial sector of Japan in 1954
ii. TQM is a firm wide management philosophy of continuously improving the quality of the products and services by focusing on consumer's need.
iii. TQM requires that the company maintain quality standard only in production
iv. The objective of TQM is doing things right at the first time over and over again
72
Which of the following statements is/are correct about ISO 9000 and ISO 14000?
i. ISO 9000 is devoted to quality management
ii. ISO 14000 is an environment management system
iii. customer focus, leadership, engagement of people, process approach and improvement are five standards of ISO 14000 series
iv. ISO 14000 certification can open the doors to new business. Some companies prefer to use suppliers that are ISO 14000-certified suppliers
73
Which of the following is/are the features of Six Sigma?
i. it is a data-driven approach to improving production and operations management
ii. it seeks to eliminate waste and improve efficiency in production and operation processes
iii. it can help reduce costs associated with defects and variations in production and operations processes
iv. six sigma uses non statistical tools and methods to identify and track causes of defects and variation
74
It is an emerging strategic approach that focuses on a few key principles. These include flexibility, rapid, response, collaboration and continuous improvement... Identify the type of manufacturing?
75
Which of the following is the main focus of Lean Production?
76
Which of the following features of green operation management is/are incorrect?
i. it have the same components as the conventional operation management, but it aims to minimize harm to environment
ii. it involves green design, green manufacturing, green logistics, etc
iii. it focus on innovative planning to emphasis on eco-friendly materials so that each part of the material cannot be recycled
iv. it hardly provides renovation of production and environment friendly operations
77
Identify the true statement/s
i. There is no difference between selling and marketing.
ii. Selling emphasizes on the product whereas marketing emphasis on consumers wants
78
Identify the mismatched pair
Four Ps -- Four Cs
79
Which of the following is not a controllable factor to the marketing management?
80
Product assortment is also known as
81
The buyer purchases all his needs from a single seller is called
82
Which of the following is/are the mismatched pair?
i. Marketing Mix - Jerome McCarthy
ii. Market segmentation - Wendell Smith
83
Market segmentation, market targeting and market positioning are the three steps for ___________marketing.
84
Market specialization segmentation is also known as
85
Equity shareholders return can be traced from
i. Earnings per share
ii. Return on investment
86
Trading on equity is also known as
i. operating leverage
ii. financial leverage
87
Which of the following is not applied in Capital Budgeting?
i. All cost and benefits are measured on cash basis
ii. All accrued costs are to be incorporated
88
Which of the following capital budgeting technique consider time value of money?
i. pay back method
ii. net present value method
iii. profitability index method
89
Cash breakeven point helps in
i. Financial planning
ii. Securing fund
90
Identify the true statement/s relating to breakeven point
i. The Y-axis represents the sales volume, typically measured in units of product sold
ii. The X-axis represents the total cost and total revenue in dollar value
91
Which of the following has the highest cost of capital?
i. Equity share capital
ii. Preference share capital
92
Marginal cost of capital is the cost of
i. Additional sales
ii. Additional interest
93
Identify the true statements
Statement A : Personnel Management and HRM reveal the same meaning
Statement B : HRM is the continuing process of personnel management according to Pat Lowry.
94
Identify the true statements :
Statement A : Developing personnel for better performance is the operative function of HRM.
Statement B : Formulating Personnel policies and HR budget are the managerial functions of HRM.
95
Identify the true statements :
Statement A : Managerial functions of HRM is done by the HR manager
Statement B : Operative functions of HRM is entrusted to the Personnel Department
96
Imposed policies means
Statement A : Imposed policy is a type of HR policies which means policies formulated due to the external pressure or influence
Statement B : Imposed policies may be affected because the change policies of the government, trade unions, trade associations, etc...
97
Which of the following are the false statements?
Statement A : Formulated policies are framed by the top level management
Statement B : Implied policies are inferred from the actions and behavior of low level management
98
Identify the true statement :
Statement A : Sigmund Freud developed the personality theory which is known as Psycho-Analytical theory
Statement B : This theory gives more emphasis to the biological and sexual factors
99
Which of the following statements are true in relating to Erikson personality theory?
Statement A : Erikson theory give more importance to the social factors
Statement B : Ego is the element in developing Erikson's theory
100
Identify the true statements in connection with Chris Argyris
Statement A : He developed psycho-analytical theory
Statement B : Trust Vs mistrust is a stage in his theory.
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