MCQ English FINAL
MCQ English FINAL
MCQ English FINAL
General Certificate of Education (A/L) Examination – 2024 April – Third Term Test – Grade 12
අධ්යය හදාු හ ික ද්ර උසහහ හද) ිදාායය - 2024 අහේල් හතව වාර දරීක්ෂෂණය - 12 හරණිය
Instructions
Answer all the questions
3). Cache memory is used in modern computers to overcome the gap between random access memory
and processor speed. The correct clause/s about term memory are,
A. Primary cache memory is located in the processor.
B. The capacity of L1 cache memory is greater than L2 and L3.
C. L1 cache memory speed is higher than L2 and L3
D. Cache memory is non-volatile memory
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4). A memory that provides only sequential access.
1). Cache memory 2). Random Access Memory 3). Magnetic tape
5). The total number of students in the IT society of a school is 100001112. 1/3 of them are girls. What is
the correct answer for the number of girls in this association ?
1). 271.625 2). 217.625 3). 217.875 4). 752.62 5). 434.625
7). Which answer represent, -13 and 17 in 8 bits, two's complement respectively ?
8). What is the one's complement of 8 bits equal to the value of 67-72?
1). 00000101 2). 11111010 3). 11111011 4). 00000100 5). 00000101
9). Which of the following is the correct result of bitwise AND and bitwise XOR operations between two
binary numbers 110001112 and 101010112 respectively?
10). What is the result of simplify the Boolean expression F(X,Y) = ̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿
(𝑋 + 𝑌)𝑋𝑌 + 𝑋̅ + 𝑌̅ ?
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11). Select the correct Karnaugh diagram which represents following expression, X = AC +BC + B?
12). Which answer shows the possible values of A, B, C, D so that the value of 𝐴̅ + B + 𝐶̅ + D is equal to 0?
1). A=1, B=O, C=0, D=O 2). A=1, B=0, C=1, D=0 3). A=0, B=1, C=0, D=0
13). When A and B are input to the logic circuit shown below as bit-sequence inputs, what would be the
correct output bit-sequence for S and C ,
A – 0010 B – 0101
1). S – 0101 , C – 0011
14). What is the output of the following integrated circuit implemented using universal gates?
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
1). (𝐴𝐵) 2). ̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
(𝐴 + 𝐵) 3). AB
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15). Which statement is obtained when the Boolean expression for output Z in the following table is
decremented?
A B C Z 1). 𝐴̅ + B
0 0 0 1
2). A + 𝐵̅
0 0 1 1
0 1 0 0 3). A.𝐵̅
0 1 1 0
1 0 0 1 4). 𝐴̅.B
1 0 1 1
5). A+B.C
1 1 0 1
1 1 1 1
4). All of the above are correct 5). All of the above are wrong.
17). The general method of buying goods and services on the Internet can be called electronic market. A
back-end related component of e-marketplace is,
1) Using the sellers portal
2) Use of Payment Gateway
3) Packaging
4) Use of shopping carts
5) Use of search engines
18). Large number of buyers come together to buy the goods in bulk and having special discount offers in
e- business , is called….
1) Web portal
2) E-business
3) Content provider
4) E-purchasing
5) Group Purchasing
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19). Nimal sells his car to Sandun through the “Riyasevana” website. What is the type of e-business
transaction is,
1). B2B 2). C2C 3). B2E 4). B2C 5). C2B
20). Ashan Liyanage renews his vehicle revenue license online. He can do it anytime at home. What kind of
business is this?
1). B2B 2). B2C 3). G2C 4). G2B 5). G2E
22). Which of the following situations is not expected by the operating system by maintaining process
scheduling?
1) To maintain optimum utilization of the processor.
2) Minimizing Response Time.
3) Minimizing the turnaround time.
4) Maximize throughput.
5) To maximize the Burst time of an operation.
23). Which of the following state transition does not use midterm schedulers?
1) On transition from Ready state to Suspend Ready state.
2) In the transition from blocked and suspended state to suspended ready state.
3) During the transition from the blocked suspend state to the blocked state,
4) On transition from Ready state to Running state.
5) On transition from Blocked state to Ready state.
24). A byte-addressable computer system has a maximum usable memory of 2GB. What is the minimum
width of the address bus (Address Bus) in bits?
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25). Consider a system with byte-addressable memory, 32 bit logical addresses, 4KB page size and page
table entries of 4 bytes each. The size of the page table in the system is…?
26). Calculate the number of bits required in the address for memory having size of 16 GB. Assume the
memory is 4-byte addressable
1). 16 bits 2). 20 bits 3). 32 bits 4). 64 bits 5). 8 bits
27). The size of a user program on a computer can exceed the size of physical memory. And only the
necessary parts of the programs are retained in the physical memory. These are the results of which
process?
1) Use of register memories
2) Use of cache memory
3) Use of File Allocation Table
4) Use of contiguous file allocation
5) Use of page, frames and page tables
28). Consider the following statements about New Technology File System (NTFS).
A. The maximum capacity of a file is 16TB.
B. There is no limit to the length of the file name.
C. There is no ability to compress files.
D. Supports Unicode.
Among the above statements, the correct statements are,
29). Which of the following statements about memory allocation on the hard disk for files is false?
1) External fragmentation does not occur in linked allocation.
2) A major disadvantage of contiguous allocation is the occurrence of external fragmentation.
3) In indexed allocation, a unique index structure (Index Block) is created for each file.
4) External and internal fragmentation are major disadvantages in indexed allocation.
5) Linked allocation is a more efficient technique for files with sequential access.
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30). What is false about a process
1) A process is not a program
2) A process can be executed by the central processing unit
3) A single program can have multiple processes
4) A process contains several programs
5) On a single-processor multitasking computer, the process switches between different states after
an operation is initiated.
31). Choose the false statement from the following clauses related to HTML.
1) HTML is a markup language.
2) When there are errors in the authoring rules of an HTML code segment, that code segment is
ignored.
3) HTML is a programming language.
4) HTML runs on any operating system.
5) HTML can be rendered by any web browser.
33). In which of the following answer is shown HTML tag <a> correctly?
1) <a srchref="url"> link </a>
2) <a href="url "> link </a>
3) <a src="url"> link </a>
4) <a link="url"> link </a>
5) <a hreflink="url"> link </a>
34). What is the answer that shows the code snippet related to formatting the words 'Taxila Central
College' in red font, using the font type 'Calibri' and font size 6 …?
1) <font color="Red" size="6" font-family="Calibri"> Taxila Central College </font>
2) <font color="Red" size="6" font-face="Calibri"> Taxila Central College </font>
3) <font colour="Red" font-size="6" font-face="Calibri"> Taxila Central College </font>
4) <font colour="Red" size="6" face="Calibri"> Taxila Central College </font>
5) <font color="Red" size="6" face="Calibri"> Taxila Central College </font>
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35). Which of the following is the correct attribute used to increase the spacing between cells in a table?
4). 5).
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37). The correct HTML code to create the following table is….
1 ). 2).
3). 4).
5).
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38). Which of the following HTML code snippets can be used to add a background color to a web page?
1) <BODY background="blue">
2) <BODY bgcolor="#12E6FA">
3) <BODY color="blue">
4) <BODY backgroundcolor="#12E6FA">
5) <BODY background="#12E6FA">
39). The answer includes tags that can be used to format a text in HTML.
1). <li> <i> <h1> <em> 2). <b> <i> <br> <li> 3). <em> <u> <br> <hr>
4). <i> <em> <u> <b> 5). <i> <li> <u> <hr>
40). The HTML tag that can be used to insert a video into a web page is…….
1). <movie> 2). <media> 3). <audio> 4). <film> 5). <video>
42) Normalization methods are used to eliminate errors that may occur in the final stages of a mapped
physical relationship diagram. Accordingly, which of the following statements is the answer with incorrect
statements?
A. First normalization (1NF) ensures that data is atomic.
B. In the case of second normalization (2NF), a non-prime attribute eliminates the denotation of other
non-prime attributes.
C. Eliminating partial dependencies in third order (3NF) case.
D. Standardization minimizes repetition.
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Use the ER Diagram given below to answer the questions 43 to 46.
quantity
contact
SupplyDate
43). The Relational Schema related to the ER diagram above is correctly shown in,
44). In the above ER diagram, the type of quantity, unitPrice, SupplyDate attributes are respectively,
45). The correct SQL command to update the phone number of the supplier whose supplier number is
S20B as “0761234568” is,
Assume the following SQL commands are given to update the data table above.
Update Employee set Salary=38000 where EmpID=’Eb15’;
Insert into employee values (‘Eb17’, ‘Kasuni’, 24, 32000, ‘ITSec6’);
47). After executing the above commands, the correct SQL command to get the net total of monthly salary
of all the employees working in IT department is,
48). After executing the above command the correct output will be,
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49). If Sandun left the office, the command to delete his data record would be,
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