General Aptitude Test

1:A fold density is 19 times greater than the water and for copper it is 9 times. At what ratio you

can mix gold and copper to get 15 times denser than water.

a)3:5 b)3:2 c)1:3 d)1:5

2: The very first process created by the kernal that runs till the kernal process is halts is

a) init b) getty c) both (a) and (b) d) none of these

3. There is a room with 6' x 8'. A 1' tile is fixed along the 4 walls in one row. How many 1" tiles

require to finish the work.

a)20 b)24 c)30 d)8

4. 2 persons can finish a job in 8 days. First person alone can finish the work in 24 days. How many days

does the second person take to finish the job?

a)10 DAYS b)20 DAYS c)12DAYS d)50DAYS

5. A cylinder is inserted in a sphere d/h = 2/3. Find the surface area of the cylinder?

a)24 b)50 c)60 d)8

6. The age difference between two brothers is 3 years. After 6 years the ratio between the age is 9:8. What

are their ages?

a)21 &18 b)20&10 c)12&15 d)18&7

7. A person's salary is getting reduced by 20%. What percentage should be added to get back his original

salary?

a)50% b)10% c)25% d)60%

8. Two persons start at the same point, walk in opposite directions with 5 km/hr and 5.5 km/hr

respectively. What is the distance separated after 2 and half hrs?

a)26.25 b)20 c)10 d)30.25

9. A person starts walking at a speed of 5 km/hr through half the distance, rest of the distance he covers

with a speed 4km/hr. Total time of travel is 9 hours. What is the maximum distance he can cover?

a)40Km b)50 km c)30km d)10km

10. Initially two cups of same volume are present with milk filled upto 3/5th and 4/5th of their volumes.

Water is then filled. Then two mixtures are mixed. Find the ratio of water to milk in the mixture.

a)3:7 b)1:3 c)5:8 d)9:5

11. 16 grams of radioactive material decays into 8 grams in 10 years. How long will it take to decay to 1

gram?

a)70 yrs b)10years c)80 years d)5years

12. In a rectangle the length is increased by of the original length. By what proportion should the width be

reduced so that the area will be the same?

a)33 b)22 c)11 d)55

13. Find the nth number in the series is 1, -3, 5, -7.___

a)(-1)*(2n-1) b ) (-1)*(2*n/2) c) -1 d)5

14. If a square is formed by the diagonal of the square as an edge, what is the ratio between the area?

a)2 b)4 c)8 d)10

15. The perimeter of a rhombus is 52 units. One of its diagonal is 24 units. What is its second diagonals

length?

a)5 b)10 c)15 d)20

16. A cubical rectangular bar has the dimensions with the ratio 5 : 4 : 3. Its volume is 7500. What is the

surface area of the bar?

a)2350 b)2250 c)2105 d)2050

17. In a class total 34 students, 16 are have a brother, 15 are have sisters, 9 students don't have either

brothers or sisters. Find the number of students having both brother and sisters.

a)8 b)6 c)3 d)2

18. A batsman scored 18 runs in his 18th innings and that makes his average 18. Find his average upto the

17th innings?

a)18 b)19 c)6 d)20

19. 4. Max number of satellite hops allowed in voice communication is :

a) only one b) more than one c) two hops d) four hops

20. Frequency at which VOICE is sampled is

a) 4 Khz b) 8 Khz c) 16 Khz d) 64 Khz

21. Line of Sight is

a) Straight Line b) Parabolic c) Tx & Rx should be visible to each other

d) none

22. The UNIX shell ....

a) does not come with the rest of the system

b) forms the interface between the user and the kernal

c) does not give any scope for programming

d) deos not allow calling one program from with in another

e) all of the above

23. The status of the Kernel is

a) task b) process c) not defined. d) none of the above.

24. Which of the following remains in memory temporarily

(a) Resident portion of COMMAND.COM

(b) Transient portion of COMMAND.COM

(c) API

(d) Disk BIOS

25. Pick the odd man out

(a) IO.SYS

(b) MSDOS.SYS

(c) ROM-BIOS

(d) COMMAND.COM

26. OS/2 is a

(a) Single User OS

(b) Multi User OS

(c) Multi Tasking OS

(d) None of these

27. Bootstrap loader program is a program belonging to

(a) ROM startup software

(b) ROM extension software

(c) ROM BIOS software

(d) ROM Basic software

28. The entry of starting cluster of a file is present in

(a) Boot Parameters

(b) Directory

(c) FAT

(d) Partition Table and master boot program

29. Which of the following is a universal gate?

(a) OR

(b) AND

(c) XOR

(d) NOR

30. The default back end of the VB is

(a) Oracle

(b) Sybase

(c) Informics

For the following questions find the odd man out.

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a)Unix

b)OS/2

c)CMOS

d)MSDOS

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. a)Oracle

b)Informix

c)Sybase

d)LISP

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.a) Laser

b)Inkjet

c)Dotmatirx

d)Mouse

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a). Dir

b)Cls

c)Csh

d)Copy

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.a) Bit

v)Byte

c)Nibble

d)Digit

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a) Hard Disk

b)Floppy Drive

c)CD ROM

d)Cache

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a). SQL

b)QUEL

c)QBE

d)ORACLE

38 In a class composed of x girls and y boys what part of the class is composed of girls

A. y/(x + y)

B. x/xy

C. x/(x + y)

D. y/xy

39 What is the maximum number of half-pint bottles of cream that can be filled with a 4-gallon

can of cream(2 pt.=1 qt. and 4 qt.=1 gal)

A. 16

B. 24

C. 30

D. 64

40 If the operation,^ is defined by the equation x ^ y = 2x + y,what is the value of a in 2 ^ a = a ^

3

A.0 B.1 C.-1 D.4

41 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.

A.Rs.90 B.Rs.1.00 C.Rs.3.00 D.Rs.8.00

42 There are 200 questions on a 3 hr examination.Among these questions are 50 mathematics

problems.It is suggested that twice as much time be spent on each maths problem as for each

other question.How many minutes should be spent on mathematics problems

A.36 B.72 C.60 D.100

43 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

A.0 B.3 C.4 D.5

44 If 13 = 13w/(1-w) ,then (2w)2 =

A.1/4 B.1/2 C.1 D.2

If a and b are positive integers and (a-b)/3.5 = 4/7, then

(A) b < a (B) b > a (C) b = a (D) b >= a

45 In june a baseball team that played 60 games had won 30% of its game played. After a

phenomenal winning streak this team raised its average to 50% .How many games must the team

have won in a row to attain this average?

A. 12 B. 20 C. 24 D. 30

46 M men agree to purchase a gift for Rs. D. If three men drop out how much more will each

have to contribute towards the purchase of the gift/

A. D/(M-3) B. MD/3 C. M/(D-3) D. 3D/(M2-3M)

.47 A company contracts to paint 3 houses. Mr.Brown can paint a house in 6 days while

Mr.Black would take 8 days and Mr.Blue 12 days. After 8 days Mr.Brown goes on vacation and

Mr. Black begins to work for a period of 6 days. How many days will it take Mr.Blue to

complete the contract?

A. 7 B. 8 C. 11 D. 12

48 hours after a freight train leaves Delhi a passenger train leaves the same station travelling in

the same direction at an average speed of 16 km/hr. After travelling 4 hrs the passenger train

overtakes the freight train. The average speed of the freight train was?

A. 30 B. 40 C.58 D. 60

49 f 9x-3y=12 and 3x-5y=7 then 6x-2y = ?

A.-5 B. 4 C. 2 D. 8

50 There are 5 red shoes, 4 green shoes. If one draw randomly a shoe what is the probability of

getting a red shoe

a)5C2/5C1 b)5C1/9C1 c)5P2/5P3 d)9C5/5C1

51 What is the selling price of a car? If the cost of the car is Rs.60 and a profit of 10% over

selling price is earned

a)RS 80 b) RS 66 c) RS 100 d)RS 80

52 1/3 of girls , 1/2 of boys go to canteen .What factor and total number of classmates go to

canteen.

a)1/5 b)2/5 c) Cannot be determined. d)can not determined

53 The price of a product is reduced by 30% . By what percentage should it be increased to

make it 100%

a)49% b)42.857% c)55% d)0%

54 There is a square of side 6cm . A circle is inscribed inside the square. Find the ratio of the

area of circle to square.

a) 11/14 b)12/9 c) 5/2 d)8/5

55 There are two candles of equal lengths and of different thickness. The thicker one lasts of six

hours. The thinner 2 hours less than the thicker one. Ramesh lights the two candles at the same

time. When he went to bed he saw the thicker one is twice the length of the thinner one. How

long ago did Ramesh light the two candles .

a)2 hours b)1hours c)3hours d)5hours

56. What is the missing number in this series? 8 2 14 6 11 ? 14 6 18 12

a) 10 b)9 c)8 d)7

57. 25. If it takes five minutes to boil one egg, how long will it take to boil four eggs?

a) 1 minute b)5minutes c)6minutes d)3 minutes

58. 14. Three cards are drawn at random from an ordinary pack of cards. Find the

probability that they will consist of a king, a queen and an ace.

a) 50/2210 b)24/2210 c)14/2210 d)1/2210

59. 8. A goat is tied to one corner of a square plot of side 12m by a rope 7m

long.Find the area it can graze?

(a) 38.5 sq.m (b) 155 sq.m (c) 144 sq.m (d) 19.25sq.m

60. 5. Thirty men take 20 days to complete a job working 9 hours a day.How many hour

a day should 40 men work to complete the job?

(a) 8 hrs (b) 7 1/2 hrs (c) 7 hrs (d) 9 hrs