Junior Informatics Officer, Information Technology and Communications — 29 March 2025 (September 2024 cycle) — question paper

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Junior Informatics Officer, Information Technology and Communications — 29 March 2025 (September 2024 cycle)

Paper #3064 · 29-03-2025 · General English, General Knowledge, Aptitude and Computer Science · 134 reviewed questions · Showing 81–120 of 134

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Complete original Series I question PDF and matching official MPSC answer key. KSLC study explanations accompany all 150 numbered official answers across 6 source-reference sections. The official key controls scoring; concise qualifications explain printed defects and contextual assumptions without editorial exclusions. These sections accompany the original PDF, including its figures, code and tables, and are not 150 new auto-scoring MCQ cards. Examination: 29 March 2025; recruitment cycle: September 2024.

  1. The average of 5 terms is 50. If the first 4 terms are 45, 42, 39 and 84, what will be the last term?
    1. 56
    2. 20
    3. 40
    4. 50
  2. Complete the following series: BAZ, DBY, FCX, ?
    1. FXW
    2. EFX
    3. FEY
    4. HDW
  3. Complete the following series: ZYX, SRQ, LKJ, ?
    1. EDC
    2. MED
    3. JGF
    4. STR
  4. Complete the following series: BFG, HLM, NRS, ?
    1. RVW
    2. TWX
    3. TXY
    4. TYZ
  5. Complete the following series: 7, 10, 8, 11, 9, 12, ?
    1. 7
    2. 10
    3. 12
    4. 13
  6. Complete the following series: 53, 53, 40, 40, 27, 27, ?
    1. 14
    2. 12
    3. 27
    4. 53
  7. Complete the following series: 2, 6, 18, 54, ?
    1. 108
    2. 148
    3. 162
    4. 216
  8. 'Marathon' is to 'Race' as 'Hibernation' is to
    1. Winter
    2. Bear
    3. Dream
    4. Sleep
  9. 'Yard' is to 'Inch' as 'Quart' is to
    1. Gallon
    2. Ounce
    3. Milk
    4. Liquid
  10. Peace : Chaos :: Creation : ?
    1. Build
    2. Construction
    3. Destruction
    4. Manufacture
  11. Microphone : Loud :: Microscope : ?
    1. Elongate
    2. Investigate
    3. Magnify
    4. Examine.
  12. 'Jade' is related to 'Green' in the same way as 'Garnet' is related to
    1. Red
    2. Blue
    3. Orange
    4. Yellow
  13. Arrange the words given below in a meaningful sequence:
    1. Heptagon
    2. Square
    3. Hexagon
    4. Decagon
    5. Triangle
    1. 5, 2, 3, 1, 4
    2. 1, 5, 3, 2, 4
    3. 5, 3, 1, 2, 4
    4. 2, 1, 3, 4, 5
  14. Arrange the words given below in a meaningful sequence: 1. Presentation; 2. Recommendation; 3. Arrival; 4. Discussion; 5. Introduction.
    1. 3, 5, 1, 4, 2
    2. 5, 3, 4, 1, 2
    3. 3, 5, 4, 2, 1
    4. 5, 3, 1, 2, 4
  15. Which software development life cycle model is best suited when a project is short and the requirements are constant?
    1. Spiral
    2. Big Bang
    3. Waterfall
    4. Prototype
  16. CSMA is most commonly used in which topology?
    1. Bus
    2. Ring
    3. Star
    4. Mesh
  17. Which is not the Disk Scheduling Algorithm?
    1. FCFS
    2. SSTF
    3. SCAN
    4. SFJ
  18. What is the value of postfix expression 6 3 2 4 + - *?
    1. 74
    2. -18
    3. 22
    4. 40
  19. The binary equivalent of 891 is
    1. 1010110110
    2. 1101111011
    3. 1100110101
    4. 1001110001
  20. Autoboxing is the conversion from
    1. wrapper class to primitive datatype manually
    2. primitive datatype to wrapper class automatically
    3. primitive datatype to wrapper class manually
    4. wrapper class to primitive datatype automatically
  21. Which is the correct type of projects in COCOMO?
    1. Organic, semidetached, embedded
    2. Organic, detached, semidetached
    3. Organic, inorganic, embedded
    4. Detached, semidetached, detailed
  22. Which guided media has a frequency range from 0 to 3.5 kHz?
    1. Coaxial cable
    2. Shielded twisted pair
    3. Unshielded twisted pair
    4. Fibre optics
  23. Which one of the following commands is used for removing (or deleting) a relation from the SQL database?
    1. Delete
    2. Drop
    3. Remove
    4. All of the above
  24. Which one of the following statements possibly contains the error?
    1. Select * from emp where empid = 1423;
    2. Select empid from emp where empid = 1326;
    3. Select empid from emp;
    4. Select empid where empid = 1321 and lastname = 'Jones';
  25. Which data structure is used to handle recursion in C?
    1. Stack
    2. Queue
    3. Tree
    4. Graph
  26. Given the grammar below
    S → Aa | Bb
    A → c | ε
    B → d | ε
    the FIRST() set of S is
    1. {A,B}
    2. {c,d}
    3. {a,b,c,d}
    4. {b,c}
  27. The sum of two octal numbers 71 and 36 is
    1. 123
    2. 127
    3. 213
    4. 345
  28. Identify the error type in the following code:
    public class_M{
    public static void main(int a, int b, int c){
    if(a+b>c)&&(b+c>a)&&(c+a>b){
    System.out.println("Triangle is possible");
    If(a==b)&&(b==c)&&(c==a){
    System.out.println("Equilateral triangle");}
    else if(a==b)||(b==c)||(c==a){
    System.out.println("Isosceles triangle");}
    else
    System.out.println("Triangle not possible");}}}
    1. Syntax error
    2. Logical error
    3. Runtime error
    4. No error
  29. Which SDLC model is a risk-driven process model?
    1. Agile model
    2. Spiral model
    3. V-model
    4. Iterative model
  30. The small and very fast RAM is called as
    1. cache
    2. register
    3. SRAM
    4. ROM
  31. What value is considered as a Don't Care condition?
    1. 0
    2. 1
    3. Both 0 and 1
    4. Either 0 or 1
  32. What is the postfix expression for 2+3*5/7+4?
    1. 23+5*7/4+
    2. 235*7/+4+
    3. 235*7/4++
    4. 23+57*/4+
  33. The collection of information stored in a database at a certain time is known as
    1. schema
    2. relation
    3. instance
    4. tuple
  34. A large collection of data that is accumulated from several sources is
    1. database
    2. data warehouse
    3. data storage
    4. data mining
  35. What happens if a piece of data is stored in two places in the database?
    1. Storage space is wasted and modifying the data in one spot will cause data inconsistency
    2. Data can be more easily accessed
    3. Modifying the data in one spot will cause data inconsistency
    4. Storage space is wasted
  36. What will be the output from a D flip-flop if the clock is low and D = 0?
    1. 0
    2. 1
    3. No change
    4. Toggle between 0 and 1
  37. What is an AVL tree?
    1. A tree which is unbalanced and is a height-balanced tree
    2. A tree which is balanced and is a height-balanced tree
    3. A tree with at most 3 children
    4. A tree with 3 children
  38. What does the following declaration indicate?
    int x : 4;
    1. x is initialized with the value 4
    2. x is an array with size 4
    3. x is a 4-bit integer
    4. None of the above
  39. What is a dequeue?
    1. A queue implemented with both singly and doubly linked lists
    2. A queue with insert/delete defined for front side of the queue
    3. A queue with insert/delete defined for both front and rear ends of the queue
    4. A queue implemented with a doubly linked list
  40. The binary equivalent of 78 is
    1. 1011100
    2. 1100011
    3. 1001110
    4. 1001010

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