Placement Papers: EDS Paper on 2nd Nov 2007

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Directions: Each of the following questions begins with a sentence that has either one or more blanks. The blanks indicate that a piece of the sentence is missing. Each sentence is followed by five answer choice that consist of words or phrases. Select the answer choice that completes the sentence best.

  1. The fundamental. Between dogs and cats is for the most part a myth; members of these species often coexist
    1. antipathy. Amiably
    2. disharmony uneasily
    3. Compatability. Together
    4. Relationship. Peacefully
    5. Different. Placidly
  2. The early form of writing known as Linear B was. In 1952, but no one has yet succeeded in the of the still more ancient Linear A.
    1. superseded explanation
    2. encoded. Transcription
    3. obliterated analysis
    4. Deciphered. Interpretation
    5. Discovered. Obfuscation
  3. His desire to state his case completely was certainly reasonable; however, his lengthy technical explanations were monotonous and tended to? Rather than. The jury.
    1. enlighten. Inform
    2. interest persuade
    3. provoke. Influence
    4. allay pacify
    5. bore convince
  4. () 18- () 20 = ?
    1. 0.9
    2. none of these
  5. Pipe A can fill in 20 minutes and Pipe B in 30 min՚s and Pipe C can empty the same in 40 min՚s. If all of them work together, find the time taken to fill the tank
    1. 17 min՚s
    2. 20 min՚s
    3. 8 min՚s
    4. none of these
  6. A goat is tied to one corner of a square plot of side 12 m by a rope 7m long. Find the area it can graze?
    1. 38.5 sq. m
    2. 155 sq. m
    3. 144 sq. m
    4. 19.25 sq. m

Answer These

Directions: Each of the following questions below begins with a single word in capital letters. Five answer choices follow. Select the answer choice that has the most opposite meaning of the words in capital letters.

  1. UNDERMINE:
    1. appreciate
    2. donate
    3. bolster
    4. decay
    5. simplify
  2. OBSEQUIOUS:
    1. original
    2. haughty
    3. casual
    4. virtuous
    5. informative
  3. BLANCH:
    1. stand
    2. repay
    3. flush
    4. relax
    5. cope
  4. DISSIPATED:
    1. levity
    2. sanity
    3. cowardice
    4. sterility
    5. ventilation
  5. FECUNDITY:
    1. consideration
    2. comprehensibility
    3. barrenness
    4. gravity
    5. sanity
  6. A person, who decided to go to weekend trip should not exceed 8 hours driving in a day. Average speed of forward journey is 40 m/h. Due to traffic in Sundays, the return journey average speed is 30 m/h. How far he can select a picnic spot?
    1. 120 miles
    2. Between 120 and 140 miles
    3. 160 miles
    4. 110 miles
  7. A bus started from bus stand at 8.00 am, and after 30 minutes staying at destination, it returned back to the bus stand. The speed of the bus is 18mph. In return journey bus travels with 50% fast speed. At what time it returns to the bus stand?
    1. 11.00am
    2. 10.00am
    3. 10.30am
    4. 12.00pm
  8. A computer printer produces 176400 lines in a given day. If the printer was in operation for 7 hours during the day how many lines did it print per minute?
    1. 400
    2. 420
    3. 600
    4. 375
  9. In a certain company 20% of the men and 40% of the women attended the annual company picnic. If 35% of all the employees are men. What % of all the employee went to the picnic?
    1. 25%
    2. 30%
    3. 33%
    4. 40%

Logical Reasoning I

An editor must choose five articles to be published in the upcoming issue of an arts review. The only articles available for publication are theater articles F, G, H and

J and dance articles K, L, M and O. At least three out of five published articles must be dance article. If J is chosen, then M cannot be. If F is chosen, then J must

also be chosen.

  1. If M is not chosen for the issue, which of the following must be chosen?
    1. F
    2. G
    3. H
    4. J
    5. K
  2. How many acceptable groupings of articles include J?
    1. one
    2. two
    3. three
    4. four
    5. five
  3. The choice of which article makes only one group of articles acceptable?
    1. F
    2. G
    3. J
    4. L
    5. M
  4. If G is chosen for the issue, which of the following must be true?
    1. J is not chosen
    2. Exactly three dance articles are chosen
    3. H is not chosen
    4. All four of the dance articles are chosen
    5. F is not chosen

Logical Reasoning II

For a motorist there are three ways of going from City A to City C and By way of a bridge the distance is 20 miles and the toll is $ 0.75. A tunnel between the two cities is a distance of 10 miles and the toll is $ 1.00 for the vehicle and driver plus $ 0.10 for each passenger. A two-lane high-way without tolls goes east for 30 miles to City B and then 20 miles in a northwest direction to City C.

  1. Which of the following is the shortest route from B to C?
    1. Directly on the toll-free highway to City C
    2. The bridge
    3. The tunnel
    4. The tunnel or the bridge
    5. The bridge only if traffic is heavy on the toll-free highway
  2. The most economical way of going from City A to City B, in terms of tolls and distance, is to use the
    1. tunnel
    2. bridge
    3. bridge or tunnel
    4. toll-free highway
    5. bridge and highway
  3. Jim usually drives alone from City C to City A every working day. His firm deducts a percentage of employee pay for lateness. Which factor would most probably influence his choice of the bridge or the tunnel?
    1. Whether his wife goes with him
    2. Scenic interest of each route
    3. Traffic conditions on the road, bridge, and tunnel
    4. Saving of $ 0.25 in tolls
    5. Price of gasoline consumed in converting the 10 additional miles on the bridge
  4. In choosing between the use of the bridge and the tunnel, the chief factors would be
    1. traffic and road conditions
    2. number of passengers in the car
    3. location of one՚s home in the center or outskirts of one of the cities
    4. desire to save $ 0.25
  5. Which is correct?
    1. I only
    2. II only
    3. II and III only
    4. III and IV only
    5. I and II only
  6. A policeman and a thief spot each other when they are 400m apart and both start running in the same direction. If the thief runs at a speed of 10km/hr and the policeman runs at a speed of 15 km/hr. Find how much time the policemen has to run in order to nab the thief.
    1. 200s
    2. 220s
    3. 288s
    4. 300s
    5. 312s
  7. A coffee shop blends 2 kinds of coffee, putting in 2 parts of a 33p. a gm. Grade to 1 part of a 24p. a gm. If the mixture is changed to 1 part of the 33p. a gm. To 2 parts of the less expensive grade, how much will the shop save in blending 100 gms.
    1. 90
    2. ₹ 1.00
    3. ₹ 3.00
    4. ₹ 8.00
  8. In a group of 15,7 have studied Latin, 8 have studied Greek, and 3 have not studied either. How many of these studied both Latin and Greek?
    1. 0
    2. 3
    3. 4
    4. 5

Logical Reasoning III

Following questions are based on letter՚s analogy. First pair of letters should have the same relationship as the second pair of letters or vice versa.

  1. ? BGLQ: YDIN: VAFK
    1. EKNS
    2. DKMT
    3. DLMS
    4. EJOT
  2. NLO: RPS: ZXA
    1. VUW
    2. VTR
    3. VTW
    4. TRP
  3. If football is cricket, cricket is basketball, basketball is volleyball, volleyball is khokho and khokho is cricket, which is not a ball game?
    1. cricket
    2. football
    3. khokho
    4. basketball
  4. During a given week a programmer spend of his time preparing charts, of his time for coding, rest of his time for debugging the programs. If he had 48 hrs during the week how many hours did he spent debugging the program.
    1. 16 hrs
    2. 18 hrs
    3. 20 hrs
    4. 12 hrs

Verbal Reasoning I

Each of the following question consists of a pair of words that are separated by a colon and followed by five answer choice. Choose the pair of words or phrases in the answer choices that are most similar to the original pair.

  1. NOVEL: BOOK:
    1. epic: Poem
    2. house: Library
    3. tale: Fable
    4. number: Page
    5. play: Theatre
  2. PARAPHRASE: VERBATIM:
    1. approximation: Precise
    2. description: Vivid
    3. quotation: Apt
    4. interpretation: Val
    5. significance: Uncertain
  3. REALIST: QUIXOTIC:
    1. scholar: Pedantic
    2. fool: Idiotic
    3. idler: Lethargic
    4. tormentor: Sympathetic
    5. diner: Dyspeptic
  4. SHARD: GLASS:
    1. grain: Sand
    2. morsel: Meal
    3. strand: Rope
    4. scrap: Rope
    5. splinter: Wood
  5. INTRANSIGENT: FLEXIBILITY:
    1. transient: Mobility
    2. disinterested: Partisanship
    3. dissimilar: Variation
    4. progressive: Transition
    5. ineluctable: Modality
  6. The format specify-% d is used for which purpose in C
    1. Left justifying a string
    2. Right justifying a string
    3. Removing a string from the console
    4. Used for the scope specification of a char [] variable
  7. A shift register can be used for
    1. Parallel to serial conversion
    2. Serial to parallel conversion
    3. Digital delay line
    4. All the above
  8. A sorting algorithm which can prove to be a best time algorithm in one case and a worst time algorithm in worst case is
    1. Quick sort
    2. Heap sort
    3. Merge sort
    4. Insert sort
  9. Which of the following is a broadband communication channel?
    1. Coaxial cable
    2. Fiber optic cable
    3. Microwave circuits
    4. All of the above
  10. Find the output for the following C program # include < stdio. h > void main () {char s1 [] = Mphasis; char s2 [] = Technologies; s1 = s2; printf (% s, s1) ;}
    1. Mphasis
    2. Technologies
    3. Compilation Error
    4. None
  11. . Find the output for the following C program # include < stdio. h > #include < stdlib. h > void main () {char ⚹ p1 = Name; char ⚹ p2; p2 = (char ⚹) malloc (20) ; while (⚹ p2 ++ = ⚹ p1 ++) ; printf (% s⧵n, p2) ;}
    1. An empty string
    2. Name
    3. 0
    4. Junk letters
  12. . Find the output for the following C program # include < stdio. h > void main () {int x = 20, y = 35; x = y ++ + x ++ ; y =+ + y ++ + x; printf (% d % d⧵n, x, y) ;}
    1. 25 50
    2. 50 90
    3. 45 80
    4. 57 94
  13. A structure called record which holds an integer called loop, a character array of 5 elements called word, and a float called sum, will occupy. Bytes
    1. 4
    2. 5
    3. 10
    4. 11
  14. Consider the following program: Void f (char ⚹⚹) ; main () {char ⚹ argv [] = {ab, cd, ef, gh, ij, ki; f (argv) ;} } void f (char ⚹⚹ p) {char ⚹ t; t = (p += sizeof (int) ) [-1] ; printf (% s, t) ;} the output for this program is:
    1. ab
    2. cd
    3. ef
    4. gh
  15. Consider the following program: Main () {char ⚹ p; char buf [10] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 9,8} ; p = (buf + 1) [5] printf (% d, p) ;} The output for this program is
    1. 5
    2. 6
    3. 9
    4. None of the above