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Q1A tiny bootstrap loader program is situated in -
A bootstrap program is the small initial program executed at startup to begin loading the operating system. Standard operating-system teaching material describes this bootstrap program or BIOS code as being stored in ROM or other non-volatile memory. Therefore, the tiny bootstrap loader is situated in ROM, so B is correct.
Q2Command to open Snipping tool menu to take a screenshot of only a section of your screen -
Microsoft lists Windows logo key + Shift + S as the shortcut that opens the Snipping Tool overlay for capturing an image snapshot. That overlay lets the user select a rectangular or other part of the screen. Therefore B is correct.
Q3Which of the following declarations is incorrect in python language?
Python assignment can use a valid expression list, and commas can form tuples or unpack values. Options A, C, and D are syntactically valid because the comma-separated values are legal expressions. Option B places number literals side by side without any comma or operator, so it is an invalid declaration.
Q4In context of memory card, SD and MMC stands for -
In memory-card terminology, SD expands to Secure Digital and MMC expands to Multimedia Card. Option A gives both standard expansions correctly. The other options replace one or both names with non-standard phrases such as Secure Data or Safe Digits.
Q5Which of the following is not a first generation computer?
First-generation computers were vacuum-tube based machines, and ENIAC, UNIVAC-I, and IBM-701 belong to that early group. The PDP-11 was introduced in 1970 as a DEC minicomputer, much later than the first-generation period. Therefore PDP-11 is not a first-generation computer, so B is correct.
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6What will be post order traversal of a binary Tree T, if preorder and inorder traversals of T are given by ABCDEF and BADCFE respectively?
7Assume that p and q are non-zero positive integers, the following program segment will perform - While (p != 0) { If (p>q) p=p-q; else q=q-p; printf(“%d”,p);
8If P×Q means P is the brother of Q, P÷Q means P is the son of Q and P+Q means P is the sister of Q, then P is the nephew of Q can be represented as -
9Which of the following is used by banking industry to handle large volume of cheques?
10The first step to the system study project is to -
11Which of the following is not related to format of animation?
12A RAM chip has a capacity of 1024 words of 8 bits each (1k×8). The no. of 2×4 decoders with enable line needed to construct a 16k×16 RAM from 1k×8 RAM is –
13Find the wrong term of the following number series – 325, 259, 204, 160, 125, 105, 94
14In Artificial intelligence (AI) which agent deals with happy and unhappy state?
15To increase the “Critical thinking” ability among students, which of the following teaching method is most effective?