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1.COBOLPROGRAM for calculation of salary and computation file is to be generated.
computation rule:
basic pay proportional to no. of eligible days.
DA at rate of 60% of basicpayfor grades1,10,20
NO DA for grade 50.
DA 70% FOR GRADE 30,40
HRA 25% OF BP FOR 1,10,20.
30% OF BP FOR 30,40
DEDUCTIONS PF 10% OF BP
NET SHOULD BE ROUNDED.

2. what is Pragma exception_init()? how does it work?

3. PATH = /bin : /usr : /yourhome

The file /bin/calendar has the following line in it

cal 10 1997

The file /yourhome/calendar has the following line in it

cal 5 1997

If the current directory is /yourhome and calendar is executed

a) The calendar for May 1997 will be printed on screen

b) The calendar for Oct 1997 will be printed on screen

c) The calendar for the current month( whatever it is) will be printed

d) Nothing will get printed on screen

e) An error massage will be printed

4. Which is the most important step in SDLC?

5. What is shared variable?

6. Which topology takes minimum wiring options: star,bus,ring and complete etc

7. What is data integrity

8.ARP is used for...........
A. map from MAC address to IP add.
B. map from IP addresses to MAC add.
C. to store the IP addresses.

9.In Unix inter process communication take place using?.

10.

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Max relaxable permission value with out giving write permission to others?.

11. Explain normalization technique as you would explain to a common man?

12.main()

{

printf("%u",main);

}

what will be the output?

main()

{

int 1,b;

int con;

1=b=2;

con (b==1) ? 1 : 0;

printf("%d",con);

} what will be the value of con?

13.What is the most important thing in database design?

14.What is the API used to hide window.

15.Function entry for DLL in win3.1

16.Which of the following function is used to repaint a window immediately

a) Sendmessage(hWnd,WM_PAINt,......)

b) InvalidateRect(.......)

c) MoveWindow

d) WM_COPY

e) None

17.Function to repaint a window immediately?.

18.const char *

char * const

What is the difference between the above two?.

19. What is trigger in DBMS

20.Software Configuration Management process is --------------

21.Paging is ------------------------

22. Data Integrity constraint is ----------------------

23.What is error detection and where will u do it?

24.What type of memory could be accessed in least time?

2534. What is pkey and f key with example?
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Comments: 2 Read/Add Answers Last Update: December 03, 2006 By itnovice 37. What are the steps in SDLC?
Comments: 2 Read/Add Answers Last Update: July 05, 2005 By Abish Asharaf 38. What is the difference b/w 0123 and 123 in c?
Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: June 27, 2005 By Raghavan 39. What is fork()?
Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: June 27, 2005 By Raghavan 40. What are the files in /etc directory?.
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41. Result of the following program ismain(){int i=0;for(i=0;i<20;i++){switch(i)case>
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Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: December 28, 2005 By nivas 44. If "ibm04india" is coded in this way....step1: 9 2 13 00 04 9 14 4 9 1step2: 79 72 713 00 04
Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: December 30, 2005 By imjoy 45. If x cows and y goats give some milk in 5 days and a cows and b goats give same amt of milk in 3 days
Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: September 17, 2005 By manjunath 46. If a person moves 25 miles in the south then he moves perpendicularly towards west 25 miles then he has
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 47. Less than 500 of them are there. Among those 1/3rd know only French 1/4th knows only English, 1/7 knows
Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: July 26, 2006 By vipull 48. Find the probability of coinciding the day of birth of three person out of 9 person?
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 49. Two same length train are moving with speed 24 kmph and 18 kmph towards each other, if they crosses each
Comments: 2 Read/Add Answers Last Update: May 12, 2006 By Prateek Chawla 50. If a pipe can fill a tank in 2 hrs and can empty it in 3 hrs. If they are open at the same time
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51. Nice command is used for?
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52. Which is not is not overloaded?
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53. Declare the function pointer, which return integer and a function, which return integer pointer?
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54. What does the following statement mean?int (*a)[4]A. 'a' is a pointer to an array of 4 integersB. 'a'
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55. class xx{int getseg();private:int segDet;};this class may create problem because: reasons are..
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56. Locking protocol and its usage and utility.
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57. What is erow dbms?
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58. What is security and consistency?
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59. What is ROM
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60. Which is correct to append the output of ls and who to some file x.
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61. It has 20 mixutre conatins mil and water in the ratio 3:5,replace 4 litres of mixture with 4 litres of
Comments: 2 Read/Add Answers Last Update: July 08, 2006 By divya 62. + means * and * means / and / means % what is the value of 2+3*5/7
Comments: 2 Read/Add Answers Last Update: June 28, 2006 By darshan 63. What is the equivalent compound ratio of 5:6::7:10::6:5
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 64. Work can be done by 8 men and 10 women in 25 days, the same work can be done by 10 children and 5 women
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 65. One man or two women or three boys can do a work in 44 days then one man, one women and one boy together
Comments: 2 Read/Add Answers Last Update: June 08, 2006 By Parth 66. (998-1)(998-2)(998-3)…………..(998-n)=------- when n>1000
Comments: 2 Read/Add Answers Last Update: October 12, 2006 By Nirupam Ch Bera 67. In how many ways can a lock be opened if that lock has three digit number lock if i) the last digit is
Comments: 3 Read/Add Answers Last Update: June 20, 2006 By kiruba 68. If a man reduces the selling price of a fan from 400 to 380 his loss increases by 20% .What is the cost
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 69. There are 76 persons. 53 can read hindu,46 can read times,39 can read deccan and 15 can read all.if 22
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 70. In pure milk if 20% replaced by water and in this again 20% is replaced by water and again 20% is replaced
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71. After 10 years A will be twice the age of B before 10 years.and now if the difference is 9 years between
Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: July 22, 2006 By SRIVATSA V 72. If you type in the commandnohup sort employees > list 2 > error out & and log off ,the next
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 73. In UNIX, What is files i-node
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 74. The UNIX shell is....a).does not come with the rest of the systemb).forms the interface between the user
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 75. The very first process created by the kernel that runs till the kernel process halts isa)initb)getty
Comments: 2 Read/Add Answers Last Update: July 28, 2006 By vipull 76. What is the resultmain(){char c=-64;int i=-32unsigned int u =-16;if(c>i){printf("pass1,");if(c
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 77. In the process table entry for the kernel process, the process id value isa) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 255 e) it
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 78. Which of the following API is used to hide a windowa) ShowWindowb) EnableWindowc) MoveWindowd) SetWindowPlacemente)None
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 79. What will the following program do?void main(){int i;char a[]="String";char *p="New String";char *Temp;Temp=a;a=malloc(strlen(p)
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 80. In the following code segment what will be the result of the function, value of x , value of y{unsigned
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81. What will be the result of the following program ?char *gxxx(){static char xxx[1024];return xxx;}main(){char
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 82. What will be result of the following program?void myalloc(char *x, int n){x= (char *)malloc(n*sizeof(char));memset(x
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 83. Which function is the entry point for a DLL in MS Windows 3.1a) mainb) Winmainc) Dllmaind) Libmaine)
Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: August 09, 2006 By Sukanto 84. The standard source for standard input , standard output and standard error isa) the terminalb) /dev/nullc)
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 85. The redirection operators > and >>a) do the same functionb) differ : > overwrites, while
Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 86. The command grep first second third /usr/you/myfilea) prints lines containing the words first, second
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Comments: 0 Read/Add Answers 89. Win 3.1 supports which type of multi tasking?.
Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: June 12, 2006 By Mukesh Bhardwaj 90. Message to limit the size of window.
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91. What is vector processing
Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: October 06, 2005 By Nilesh Rane 92. Best sorting if elements are already sorted
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Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: September 27, 2005 By balaguru 95. What happens when we open a file in r+ mode
Comments: 1 Read/Add Answers Last Update: September 13, 2005 By Pavani 96. If you get error in adapter which device will u use?
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