PROGRAMMER (CONTRACTUAL) in the Office of the Meghalaya Public Service Commission

YEAR OF ADVT: 2023 DATE OF EXAM: 07-MARCH-2024

DO NOT BREAK THE SEAL OF THE BOOKLET UNTIL YOU ARE TOID TO DO SO

QUESTION BOOKLET SERIES III

SUBJECTS : GENERAL ENGLISH, GENERAL STUDIES, COMPUTER SCIENCE

BOOKLET SERIAL NO. 019 Marks :200

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Time : 2 hours

Read the following instruction carefully before you

begin to answer the questions.

INSTRUCTTONS TO CANDIDATES
1. This booklet containsl50 questions to be answered in a separate OMR Answer Sheet using Black Ball Pen in
following two parts :
Part - A- General English : 25 questions, Part - B- General Studies : 25 questions
Part - C - Computer Science : 50 questions
2. All Questions are compulsory.

3. You will be supplied the Answer sheet separately by the invigilator. You must complete the details of particulars
asked for.

4. Answer must be shown by completely blackening the corresponding circles in the Answer Sheet against the rel-
evant questions number by Black Ball Pen. OMR Answer Sheet without marking series / double series marking
shall not be evaluated.

Example:
Supposing the following questions is asked :-

The Capital of Meghalaya is - 2

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A. Guwahati +
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B. Kohima
C. Shillong
D. Delhi
You will have four alternatives in the Answer Sheet for your response correspoding to each question of the
Question Booklet as below:-

In the above illustration, if your chosen response is alternative C i.e. Shillong, then the same should be maiked
on the Answer Sheet by blackening the relevant circle with a Black Ball Point Pen only as below :-

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WHICH IS THE ONLY CORRECT MENTHOD OF ANSWERING

5. Answer the questions as quickly and as carefully as you can. Some questions may be dillicult and others easy. l)o
not spend too much time on any one question.

There will NOT be any negative marking for wrong answers.

'Il.re Answer Sheet must be handed over to the invigilator before you leave the Examination Hall.

No rough work is to be done on the Anwer Sheet. Space for rough work has been provided in the question
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 PART A- GENERAL ENGLISH
[Marks:50]

Directions: ( Q1-5): Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

Sir Walter Scott was a man who was honest to 3. What is the synonym of unblemished ?

the core of his flature: and his strenuous and A) Untarnished

determined efforts to pay his debts, or rather B) Imperfect
the debts of the firm with which he had become C) Altered
involved, have always appeared to us one of the D) Flawed
grandest things in biography. When his publisher
and printer broke down, ruin seemed to stare him
4. Which of the following statements best
in the face. There was no want of sympathy for describes Walter Scott ?

him in his great misfortune. His friends came A) A hardworking man

forward and offered to raise money enough to B) Aproud man
help him arrange with his creditors: 'No, said he C) A thoroughly honest man
proudly, 'this right-hand shall work it all off,' 'If D) A sympathetic man
we lose everything else,'he wrote to a friend, ' we
5. Choose the antonym of undermined
will at least keep our honour unblemished.'While
A) Destabilised
his health was already becoming undermined by
B) Weakened
overwork, he went on 'writing like a tiger', as he
himself expressed it,until no longer able to yield a
C) Improved
pen; and though he paid the penalty of his supreme
D) Damaged
efforts with his life; he nevertheless saved his
honour and his self-respect. Directions: (Q6-10): Read the passage given
below and answer the questions that follow:
1. What is the main idea of the given passage ?

A) Printing and Publication as business Humanitarianism took many forms. It was

ventures evidenced in the widespread demand for'oreform"-

B) To pay his firm's debts reform ofsociety as preached by Rousseau, reform

C) To arrange an understanding with the of economics as advocated by Adam Smith,

creditors reforms of laws as demanded by Beccaria and

D) To keep his honour unblemished Bentham, reform of ethics as sponsored by Kant,
reform. of religion as urged by Voltaire and the
) The word strenuous in this passage could
deists by Wesley and the pietists. Al1 such reform,
best be replaced by which of the following
it was contended, would makg for human liberty,
word ?
for human health and wealth, for human perfection.
A) Active Indeed it was optimisticaliy assumed that the study
B) Energetic of man, his individual and social characteristics,
C) Tireless would but prove how perfectible he is; how, if
D) Spirited lreed from the trammels of the past and reliant
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only on his own reason, he would create a social, Directions: (Q 11 - l2)z Out of the four given
political, economic, ethical, and religious paradise alternatives, choose the one which can be
on earth and would create it very soon. substituted for the given words/sentence.

6. What kind of reform did the idea of 11. Theviolation orprofaning of sacred things
humanitarianism demand for ? A) Sacrilege
A) Reform for society, economics, B) Sinectrre
religions, deists and laws C) Sensory
B) Reform of economics, ethics, religion D) Sanctimonious
and laws 12. One who hates or is strongly prejudiced
C) Reform of society, economics, laws, against women
ethics, religion and deists A) Misogamist
D) Reform of society, deists, laws and B) Misanthropist
religion. C) Misogynist
7, Who demanded reform of laws ?
D) Misobiblic.
A) Rosseau, Beccaria andAdam Smith Directions: (Q 13 - 14): In the following ques-
B) Beccaria and Bentham tions four alternatives are given for idioms and
C) Kant and Bentham phrases. Choose the meaning of the given idiom/
D) Voltaire and Wesley. phrase.

8. Through the reforms man would achieve 13. Gift of the gab
which of the following ? A) Fluencl in music
A) Human liberty, wealth and human B) Fluency in speech
health
C) Fluency in something
B) Human wealth, health and freedom
D) Fluency in ar1
C) Human health, wealth and human 14. Taken a leaf out of my book
perfection A) Stole my page
D) Human liberty, health, wealth, and B) Sketched in my page
human perfection. C) .Imitated me
9 Choose the synonym of the word '( D) Mocked me
Contendt'
A) Agreeable Directions: (Q 15 - 16): Rearrange the parts
B) undisputed of the sentence in correct order and mark the
C) Struggle correct option from the given four alternatives.
D) Uncontroversial 15. The most picturesque
P- is the successful management of the game
10. Choose the antonym of the word
tttrammels" Q- element in the football match
R- resulting liom team work
A) Assistance
B) Hindrance A) PQR
C) curbs B) QPR
D) limitations C) QRP
D) PRQ
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16. Science has enabled us A) impractical
P- of work is shorter time and B) basic
Q- with less physical labour C) secondary
R- to do a much greater volume D) uncomplicated
A) PQR 2t
B) RQP A) interpretations
C) RPQ B) knowledge
D) QRP C) data
Directions: (Q 17 - 21): In the following passage D) information
there are blanks, each of which has been Directions (a 22-25s): In the following
numbered, These numbers are printed below questions, a sentence is given. Find out which
the passage and against each, four options part of the sentence has an error and choose
are suggested, one of which fits the blank the option corresponding to it. If the sentence is
appropriately. Find out the appropriate word free from error; choose'No Error.'
from the given options.
22. The reason we have not been able to
Culture is an important but can be a slippery even complete the work is due to fact that we
a chaotic_(11)_.It _(18)_
can mean a did not receive instructions on time.
deal when its scope and relevance are_(l9)_ A) The reason we have not been able to
defined and yet also very little, especially when complete the work
it is used as synonymous for the the 'social'. To B) Is due to fact
assert that culture is central does not mean that C) That we did not receive instructions on
everything else is _(20)_. When we consider time
the possible meanings, connotations and uses of D) No error
the word 'culture', we face a mass of _(21)_
and symbolic associations.
23. I should be obliged if you will help me.
A) I should
17. B) Be obliged
A) inkling C) If you will help me
B) concept D) No error
C) issue
D) impression
24. He is a man whom I know is trustworthy
18
and honest.

A) great A) He is a man
B) boundless B) Whom I know
C) limitless C) Is trustworthy and honest
D) limited D) No error.
t9 25. The audience of a football match are
A) plainly excited when a goal is scored
,B) naturally A) The audience
C) obviously B) Of a lootball match
D) clearly C) Are excited when a goal is scored
20
D) No error
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 PART B- GENERAL STUDIES
[Marks:50]

26. Who among the following was the socialist 30. Consider the following statement about
leader, who escaped from the Hazaribagh acetylene:
Prison and joined the Quit India Movement ? l. It is used in welding industry
A) Ram Manohar Lohia 2, It is a raw material for preparing plastics
B) Minoo Masani 3. It is easily obtained by mixing silicon
C) |ayprakash Narayan carbide and water of these statements

D) Achyut Patwardhan A) I tnd2 are correct

27. The only session of the Indian National B) I and 3 are correct
Congress which was addresed by Mahatma C) 2 and.3 are correct
Gandhi was held at D) 1,2 and3 are correct
A) Amravati 31. Neutral water with pH about 7 becomes
B) Belgaum slightly acidic when aerated. This is because
C) Karachi A) Oxygen from air is dissolved in the water
D) Nagpur which makes the water acidic
B) Dirt, which get contaminated with the
28. Matchthefollowingcolumns water during aeration makes the water
' acidic
List-I List-II C) Ultraviolet radiation dissociates water
a) Reorganisation of 1. Seventh Amend-
molecules and makes water acidic
States ment
D) Carbon-dioxide from air is dissolved
b) Sikkim becarne22"d 2. Thirty- sixth
State of Indian Union Amendment 32. The enzyme involved in the oxidation of
c) Ninth Schedule ethanol to form vinegar is
3. First Amendment
Added A) Zymase
d) Abolition of Titles 4. Twenty-sixth B) Oxidase
of Princes Amendment C) Acetobacter
D) Invertase
A) A-l,B-2, C-3,D-2
33. Which of the following isotopes of carbon is/
B) A-2,8-1, C-3,D-4 are used in carbon dating ?
c) A-3,8-2, C-1, D-4
A) 6Cl2 only
D) A-3, B-1, C-4,D-2
B) 6Cl3 only
C) 6Cl4only
29. The elements of a group in the periodic D) 6Cl2and,6C14
table
A) Have similar chemical properties 34. The founder president of All India Kisan
Sabha was
B) Have consecutive atomic numbers
A) Acharya Narendra Dev
C) Are isobars
B) Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
D) Are isotopes
C) Bankim Mukherjee
D) )ayprakash Narayan
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35. Which among the following statements 39. The characteristic odour of garlic is due to
with regard to Raju Rammohan Roy are A) a Chloro compound
correct? B) a Sulphur compound
1. He started the Atmiya Sabha C) a Fluorine compound

2. He wrote the Gift of Monotheist D) Acetic acid

3. He published the Percepts of fesus 40. The chemical name of lime stone is
4. He founded the Brahmo Sabha A) Calcium chloride
Select the correct answer B) Calcium oxide
A) 2,3 and4 only C) Calcium carbonate
B) 1,2 and 3 only D) Calcium
C) 1,3 and 4 only 41. Match the column
D) L,2,3 and4 A) A-3,8-4, C-l,D-2
36. Which of the following was/were the new B) A-l,B-2, C-3,D-4
feature/features visible in the Quit India c) A-3,8-2, C-1, D-4
D) A-l,B-4, C-3,D-2
Movement (1942) ?

1. Large-scale movements in some of the 42. First CNG based train of India started on
industrial areas. l3 fanuary, 2015 run between
2. Large-scale mass involvement in some -
List-I (Mineral) List-II Industries in which
of the Princely States
largely used
3. Increase in the activities of the Kisan A) Limestone 1. Cement
Sabha
B) Copper 2.Electrical goods
Select the correct answer using the code C) Bauxite 3. Manufacture of Aeroplanes
given below. D) Manganese 4. Steel
A) 1,2 and3
A) Rewari to Rohtak
B) l only
B) Delhi to Mumbai
C) land3only
c) Rohtak to Nizamuddin
D) 3 only
D) Howrah to Delhi
37 . Gas welding used for welding broken pieces
43. The company that has the tag line
of Iron, we normally use a mixture of :
'Connecting India'is
A) Ethane and Oxygen
A) Airtel
B) Ethene and Oxygen
B) BSNL
C) Ethyne and Oxygen C) IDEA
D) Ethene and Air D) Indian Telephone Industry

38. Which one among the following does have 44. Television transmission is arr example of
an alliotrope ? which of the-following ?

A) Oxygen A) Simplex Communication

B) Sulphur B) Half-duplexCommunication
C) Nitrogen C) Full-duplex Communication
D) Carbon D) None of the above
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45. Weibo is a social media platform popularly 49. Match List-I with List-II about Chairman of
used in difierent Constituent Assembly Committees
and select the correct answer using the code
A) South Korea
givenbelow:
B) China
C) Thailand List-I List-II
D) Japan 1. Sardar Vallabhbai
a) Steering Committee
Patel Committee
46. Ozone content is maximum in areas b) Fundamental Rights
2. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
A) Near equator Sub-Committee
B) Polewards of 50-degree latitude c) Union Constitution
3. I.B Kripalani
Committee
C) Near the tropics
d) Provincial Constitu-
D) Equatorward of 25degree latitude. 4. |awaharlal Nehru
tion Committee
47. Consider the following statements and
A) ABCD 2341
choose the correct code:
B) ABCD:t432
1. The democratic left school of C) ABCD:243t
fundamental right sought the provision D) ABCD t342
of socioeconomic rights.
2. The liberal school of fundamental rights
50. How many types of emergencies have been
envisaged under the Indian Constitution?
qought the provision of negative rights,
A) Two
though made non justifiable.
B) Three
A) 1 is true but 2 is false C) Four
B) 2 is true but 1 is false D) One
C) I and2 both are true
D) I and2 both are false
48. Which of the following pairs of the
Schedule in the Constitution of India and
its Content is not correctly matched ?

A) Eighth Schedule:Languages
B) Second Schedule: The forms of oaths

and afErmations

C) Fourth Schedule: Allocation of seats in

the Council of States
D) Tenth Schedule: Provisions as to
disqualification on the ground ofdefection

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 PART C- COMPUTER SCIENCE
[Marks: 100]

51. What does the command 'uname-a' 57. Which of the following algorithm allocates
display in linux ? fixed amount of CPU time to each I/O
'A) User information request, regardless ofthe size?
B) Available disk space A) First Come First Serve (FCFS)
C) System information B) Shortest Job First (SJF)
D) Network Interface information C) Round Robin (RR)
52. IPv6 addresses have a size of
D) None of the above
A) 256 bits 58. Which of the following linux command
B) 128 bits is used to to display the contents of the
C) 64 bits specified file (s)
D) 32bits A) cp
B) cat
53. Encryption and Decryption are features of C) ln
A) Transport layer D) we
B) Session layer 59. RAID is an acronym for
C) Data Link layer A) ReliableArrays of Independent Disks
D) Presentation layer B) RedundantArrays of Internet Disks
54. Which later of OSI model provides a data C) RedundantArrays of Independent Disks
transfer in the form of frames across the D) ReliableArrays of Internet Disks
transmission link ?

A) Physical layer 60. Pattern matching is the process to

B) Data Link layer A) To check if two strings are identical
C) Network layer B) To compare two strings to know the
count of similar characters
D) Transport layer
C) To check if one string is present in the
55. Which of the following port number is other string
. used for Telnet ? D) To check if two strings are of the same
A) 2l length
B) 23
c) 43
61. Which of the following command is used
to zip files in linux
D) 80
?

A) gzip
56. Semaphore is a/an to solve the B) zip
ciitical section problem C) compress
A) Integer variable D) tar
B) Special program for a system
C) Digital cirCuit
D) Hardware
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62. A Decoder with enable input can function 68. What will be the output of the following
asa program:
A) Multiplexer int main0
B) Demultiplexer {
C) Encoder int a:10,b:10,
D) None of the above printf(" an s:o/o d",alb? a*'.b lb) ;

63. The outputs of Combinational Circuit are return 0;

determined from
)
A) The previous outputs
A) ans:100
B) The present combination of inputs
B) ans:10
C) The combination of inputs and past
C) ans:O
outputs
D) ans:l
D) A1l of the above
69. Which of the following C constants is
64. A Full adder consists of
invalid ?
A) One input and one output
B) Two inputs and one output
A) 0001

C) Two inputs and two outputs B) T23.4s

D) Three inputs and two outputs C) 0xfgf

D) Oxffi
65. In a Data Flow Diagram, the process is
represented by a/an 70. The calloc function has
A) Square A) One argument
B) Rectangle B) Two arguments
C) Oval C) Three arguments
D) Circle D) Four arguments

66. Black Box Testing is also called as 71. Which of the following expression is
A) Non-functionalTesting referring to the ith element of the
B) Functional Testing array A ?

C) Glass Box Testing A) (A+i)

D) Unit Testing B) *(A+i)

67. What is the process of defining a method

c) (i +A)

in a subclass having same nanie and type

D) &(A+i)

signature as a method in its superclass ? 72. Which interface is used to create a Thread
A) Method Overriding in JA\A
B) Method Overloading A) Iterable
C) Recursion B) Readable
D) Method Uiding C) Serializable
D) Runnable
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73. In JAVA, which keyword is used to 79. Choose the output for the following
implement inheritance between classes sequence ofoperations
A) Inherits Push(7), push(6), pop, push(2), push(7), pop,

B) Mustlnherits push(6), push(3)

C) Extends A) 762763
D) Implements B) 7263
c) 6163
74. MSIL is an acronym for D) 1627
A) Microsoft Interactive Language
B) Microsoft Intermediate Language
80. Octal number equivalent to (1110101), is

C) Microsoft Independent Language

A) rtl
B) t6s
D) Microsoft Incorporative Language
c) 7s
75, Which of the following is the incorrect D) t75
constructor type ?
81. Which of the following query will display
A) Copy Constructor the first name of all the employees that
B) Default Constructor starts with letter'A'?
C) Parameterized Constructor A) Select FNAME from EMPLOYEE
D) Friend Constructor where FNAME:A%;

76. Which of the following operation signals

B) Select FNAME from EMPLOYEE
where FNAME:%A;
a successful end of the transaction so that
any changes (updates) executed by the C) Select FNAME from EMPLOYEE
transaction can be safely committed to the where FNAME like' Ao/o' ;

database and will not be undone D) Select FNAME from EMPLOYEE

where FNAME like'o/oN;
A) COMMIT_TRANSACTION
B) ROLLBACK (or ABORT) 82. Database structures, operations and
C) READ or WRITE constraints are defined at which level of
D) END TRANSACTION the three schema architecture ?

A) lnternal Level
77. The surface of a magnetic disk consists of B) Conceptual Level
A) Tracks, sectors, blocks C) External Level
B) Circles, segments, sectors D) None of the above
C) Tracks, segments, centre
D) None of the above 83. Address (Street, City, State, ZipCode,
Country) is an example of
78. ln a recursive function, _ must A) Composite attribute
always be reachable B) Multivaluedattribute
A) Recursive case C) Simple attribute
B) Explicit case D) Complex attribute
C) Repetitive case
D) Base case
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84. Man made Information system can be 90. A method to provide secure transmission
categorized as of email is called
A) Strategic, Managerial and Operational A) TLS
B) Formal, Informal and Computer based B) SA
C) Both (a) and (b) C) IPSec
D) Nore 9f the above D) PGP

85. Which language is popular for Machine 91. The _ defines standard and consistent
Learning ? mechanisms to generate and process
A) C Language events

B) Visual Basic A) Data Model

C) Python
B) Waterfall Model

D) C++
C) Process Model
D) Delegation Event Model
86. Which of the following is not an advantage
92. An Entity type in ER model is represented
of distributed systems ?
bya
A) Reliability
A) Diamond
B) Incremental growth B) Rectangle
C) Resource sharing C) Triangle
D) None of these D) Circle
87. Which of the following statements is false ?
93. What is the full form of OLAP
A) Any relation with two attributes is in A) On-Line Analysis Processing
BCNF B) On-Line Application Processing
B) A relation in which every key has only C) On-Line Access Processing
one attribute is in 2NF D) On-Line Analytical Processing
C) A prime attribute can be transitively
94. In data warehousing, the function _,,
dependent on a key in 3NF relation
typicalty gathers data from multiple,
D) A prime attribute can be transitively
heterogeneous and external sources.
dependent on a key in BCNF relation
A) Data cleaning
88. DROP TABLE cannot be used to drop a B) Data transformation
. TABLE referenced by constraint C) Data extraction
A) Foreign Key D) Load
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B) Primary Key 95. You are given data about seismic activity
C) Unique Key
in Japan, and you want to predict a
D) Super Key
magnitude of the next earthquake, this is
89. When we pass an array as an argument to in an example of
a function, what actually gets passed ? A) Supervised learning
A) Address of the array B) Unsupervisedlearning
B) Values of the elements of the array C) Serration
C) Base address of the anay D) Dimensionality reduction
D) Number of elements of the array
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96. _ group are not predefined
In
A) Association rules
B) Clustering
C) Classification
D) Summarization

97 Extreme values that occur infrequently

are called as _
A) Outliers
B) Rare values
C) NULL values
D) Random values
98. In K-means clustering, the centre point is
known as the
A) Radius
B) Centroid
C) Medoid
D) Median

99. Which of the following tree is used in

BIRCH clustering algorithm
A) B-Tree
B) Binary Tree
C) CF Tree
D) General Tree

100. The categories in which Machine

learning approaches can be traditionally
categorized are
A) Supervised Leaming
. B) Unsupervised Learning
C) Reinforcement Learning
D) All of the above

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