Karnataka PGCET 2024 MCA Question paper with answer key pdf is available here for download. Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) conducted the Karnataka PGCET 2024 for MCA on August 4 in Afternoon Shift 2.30 PM to 4.30 PM. The question paper comprises a total of 100 questions divided among 4 sections.
Karnataka PGCET 2024 MCA Question Paper with Answer Key
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Choose the word which is CLOSEST in meaning to the word given in the question:
FABULOUS
Choose the word which is OPPOSITE in meaning to the word given in the question:
ISOLATE
Select the option which best expresses the meaning of the given idiom/phrase.
Add fuel to the fire
Directions: There are five sentences marked as I, II, III, IV and V. The position of I is fixed as the first sentence of the passage. Choose one of the four alternatives given below as the most logical sequence of the sentences in the passage.
I.For thousands of years, Indians have believed that man is different from his fellow animals because of his ability to make tools.
II.In modern India, people still place garlands on the machines of their different trades hoping for an auspicious response.
III.They have also developed a tradition of worshipping and honouring the tools and implements they use in agriculture and business.
IV.By honouring their implements they honour human ingenuity.
V.Weapon worship originated with warriors honouring their weapons, the tools of their trade.
There are four parts of the sentence marked A, B, C and D. Choose one of the four alternatives given below as the most logical sequence of the parts to form a correct sentence.
I enjoy going markets because / bargains and unusual items / to auctions and flea / I can find
Select the best alternative for the underlined expression to make the sentence better in meaning.
If I were Ramesh, I would not accept this job.
Choose the correct word and fill in the blank.
_______ is a pond near the hill.
Select the most appropriate form of the word and complete the sentence.
Health is too important to be __________.
There are four parts to the sentence that have been underlined and marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the part that has an error.
He was quite amusing when he heard what had happened.
Choose the passive form of the following sentence from the options given:
"The boys were playing cricket."
Choose the alternative which is the best substitute for the phrase.
One who is filled with excessive enthusiasm in religious matters
According to the passage, which of the following have non-astronomers not been busy with?
As per the passage,
According to the author, who are continually searching for the truth about us and the universe?
Mentioning "The morbid passion for war", the author
The net understanding of the passage is
Ajay left home for the bus stop 15 minutes earlier than usual. It takes 10 minutes to reach the stop. He reached the stop at 8.40 a.m. What time does he usually leave home for the bus stop?
If in the word 'DISTURBANCE', the first letter is interchanged with the last letter, the second letter is interchanged with the tenth letter and so on, which letter comes after the letter T in the newly formed word?
Six roads lead to a country. They may be indicated by letters X, Y, Z and digits 1, 2, 3.
When there is a storm, Y is blocked. When there are floods, X, 1 and 2 will be affected. When road 1 is blocked, Z also is blocked. At a time when there are floods and a storm also blows, which road(s) can be used?
There are six children playing football, namely A, B, C, D, E and F. A and E are brothers. F is the sister of E. C is the only son of A's uncle. B and D are the daughters of the brother of C's father. How is C related to F?
Manoj and Sachin are ranked seventh and eleventh respectively from the top in a class of 31 students. What will be their respective ranks from the bottom of the class?
Consider the following statements followed by conclusions. Assuming the statements to be true, decide which of the conclusion(s) follow(s) from the given statements.
Statements:
All books are books.
All cakes are apples.
Conclusions:
I. Some cakes are books.
II. No cake is a book.
III. Some apples are books.
IV. All apples are books.
Two positions of a dice are shown. When 4 is at the bottom, what number will be on the top?
Reena is twice as old as Sunitha. Three years ago, she was three times as old as Sunitha. How old is Reena now?
Consider the following statement followed by conclusions. Decide which of the conclusion(s) follows from the given statement.
Statement: Morning walks are good for health.
Conclusions:
I. All healthy people go for a morning walk.
II. Evening walks are harmful.
Four milkmen rented a pasture. A grazed 24 cows for 3 months, B, 10 cows for 5 months, C, 35 cows for 4 months and D, 21 cows for 3 months. If A’s share of rent is Rs.720, then the total rent of the field is:
If the cost price of an article is Rs.632, selling price of an article is Rs.765 and total profit earned is Rs.1596, then the number of articles sold are:
A mixture contains alcohol and water in the ratio 4 : 3. If 5 litres of water is added to the mixture, the ratio becomes 4 : 5. The quantity of alcohol in the given mixture is:
If 20 men can build a wall 56 metres long in 6 days, what length of a similar wall can be built by 35 men in 3 days?
A man takes 3 hours 45 minutes to row a boat 15 km downstream of a river and 2 hours 30 minutes to cover a distance of 5 km upstream. What is the speed of the river current in km/hr?
A man is standing on a railway bridge which is 180 m long. He finds that a train crosses the bridge in 20 seconds and him in 8 seconds. The length of the train is:
If the seventh day of a month is three days earlier than Friday, what day will it be on the nineteenth day of the month?
How many 5’s are there in the following sequence which are immediately followed by 3 but not immediately preceded by 7?
8953253855687335775363535738
If the height of a pole is \( 2\sqrt{3} \) metres and the length of its shadow is 2 metres, what is the angle of elevation of the sun?
A cone, a hemisphere and a cylinder stand on equal bases and have the same height. The ratio of their volumes is:
If \( \log_3 2, \log_3 (2^x - 5), \log_3 \left(2^x - \frac{7}{2}\right) \) are in A.P., then \(x\) is:
If the sum of the roots of a quadratic equation \( ax^2 + bx + c = 0 \) is equal to the sum of the square of their reciprocals, then \( \frac{a}{c}, \frac{b}{a}, \frac{c}{b} \) are in:
The value of \( \sum_{a,b,c} \frac{1}{1 + \log_a bc} \) is:
In the expansion of \( \left( x - \frac{3}{x^2} \right)^9 \), the constant term is:
If \( A = \begin{bmatrix} \cos \theta & \sin \theta & 0
\sin \theta & -\cos \theta & 0
0 & 0 & 1 \end{bmatrix} \), then the value of \( AA' \) is:
If the latus rectum of an ellipse is equal to half of the minor axis, then its eccentricity is:
The equation of the tangent at \( (2, -3) \) on the hyperbola \( x^2 - \frac{y^2}{3} = 1 \) is:
The angle between \( x^2 = y \) and \( y^2 = x \) at \( (1, 1) \) is:
The distance between the foci of the hyperbola \( \frac{x^2}{16} - \frac{y^2}{9} = 1 \) is:
What is the annual income derived by investing Rs.6800 in 10% stock at 136?
If \( x \) and \( y \) are Boolean variables, then which of the following statement is/are incorrect?
a. \( x \lor 0 = x, \, x \land 1 = x \)
b. \( x \lor x' = 1, \, x \land x' = 0 \)
c. \( x \land (x \lor y) = x \)
d. \( x \land (x \land y) = x \lor y \)
The Boolean equation of NOR gate is
The dual of \( x \lor (y \land 0) \) is
In Boolean algebra, if \( a \land x = b \land x \) and \( a \land x' = b \land x' \), then which of the following statements is correct ?
In Boolean algebra \( [B, \land, \lor, ', 0, 1] \), the value of \( x' \land (x \lor y) \) is
The value of \( \sqrt{2 + \sqrt{2 + 2 \cos 4\theta}} \) is
The value of \( \tan^{-1}(1) + \tan^{-1}(2) + \tan^{-1}(3) \) is equal to
If \( \cos B = \frac{\sin A}{2 \sin C} \), then the triangle is
The value of \( \frac{1}{\sin 10^\circ} - \frac{\sqrt{3}}{\cos 10^\circ} \) is equal to
If \( \cot^{-1}(n) > \frac{\pi}{6} \), \( n \in N \), then the maximum value of n is
The probability that A passes a test is \( \frac{2}{3} \) and the probability that B passes the same test is \( \frac{3}{5} \). The probability that only one passes is
If \( P(A) = \frac{1}{4} \), \( P(B) = \frac{1}{3} \) and \( P(A \cup B) = \frac{1}{2} \), then \( P(A \cap B) = \)
Suppose that there is a chance for a newly constructed house to collapse whether the design is faulty or not. The chance that the design is faulty is 10%. The chance that the house will collapse if the design is faulty is 95% and otherwise it is 45%. It is seen that the house collapsed. What is the probability that the design is faulty?
The probability that a person aged 60 years will live up to 70 is 0.65. What is the probability that out of 10 persons aged 60, at least 7 of them will live up to 70?
Quartile coefficient of skewness is
A set of processes and procedures that transform data into information and knowledge is known as
The default character coding in HTML-5 is
The fastest memory in a computer system is
Pick the correct sequence which is in the decreasing order of storage capacity.
Given the following information with respect to Third and Fourth generation languages:
S1: Both are non portable.
S2: Third generation languages are mostly compiled languages.
S3: Fourth generation languages are in line with minimum work and skill concept.
S4: Third generation languages are user-friendly and have intelligent default options.
Which of the following is correct?
Given the following Lists:
Identify the correct match.
Given the following information with respect to a high level programming language:
a. Easier to use.
b. Uses English-like words and familiar mathematical symbols.
c. Computer cannot understand high level language programs.
Which of the following is correct?
Conversion of decimal number 100 to Octal and Hexadecimal is ______ and ______
The storage of 1024 KB in binary means ______ number of bytes.
Given the following Lists:
Identify the correct match.
Given the following Lists:
List-I List-II
a. BCD code i. Code used for encoding characters in IBM mainframe systems
b. EBCDIC ii. Codes widely used for character encoding standard for electronic communication
c. ASCII iii. Universal character encoding standard that can represent virtually all written languages
d. Unicode iv. Code used to represent decimal digits in binary form
Identify the correct match.
A floating-point number is said to be normalized, if the MSB (Most Significant Bit) of the mantissa is ______.
The product of \( 0110_2 \) and \( 0110_2 \) is _____.
In floating-point representation, the part that represents a signed and fixed-point number, and the position of the decimal point are called ______ and ______.
Division of \( 111000_{(2)} \) by \( 100_{(2)} \) in binary is ______.
Given the following Lists:
List-I (Binary Representation) List-II (Decimal Representation)
a. 00100001 iii. 33
b. 11100011 ii. 227
c. 11111111 iv. 255
d. 10000000 i. 128
Identify the correct match.
The process of starting a computer system is called ______.
To access the services of the Operating System, the interface is provided by ______.
Given the following information about Open-Source Operating Systems:
a. Free to use and distribute
b. Easy to customize
c. Availability of technical support
Which of the following is correct ?
Given the following statements about an Operating System:
S1: Operating System is a resource manager.
S2: Operating System acts as an interface between user and the computer.
S3: The primary function of the Operating System is application development.
Which of the following holds good?
What does a Gantt chart primarily display ?
Which of the following are Porter's Five Forces ?
a. Threat of new entrants
b. Power of suppliers
c. Competition among competitors
d. Bargaining power of buyers
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
Match the following:
List-I (Year) List-II (Events in India)
a. 1971 ii. Signing of Indo-Soviet Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation
b. 1974 i. Conducted first Nuclear Test
c. 1975 iii. Declaration of Emergency
d. 1984 iv. Assassination of Smt. Indira Gandhi
Options:
Which of the following are considered primary functions of a Central bank ?
a. Regulating the money supply
b. Supervising commercial banks
c. Setting interest rates
d. Managing government revenue collection
State the correct answer using the codes given below.
Which of the following is not a stage in Tuckman's Model of group development ?
What does the term "intermodal transportation" refer to ?
Which of the following services are commonly provided by business incubators ?
a. Networking opportunities
b. Long-term financial investment
c. Legal and regulatory assistance
d. Research and Development funding
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
Who is known for the 'Theory of General Relativity' ?
Which type of analysis focuses on evaluating a company's financial statements ?
Which of the following statements are true about cultural assimilation ?
a. Cultural assimilation is the process by which a minority group adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
b. Cultural assimilation always leads to the complete loss of the minority group's original culture.
c. Cultural assimilation can result in the blending of cultures, creating a new, diverse society.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
What is "Invisible hand" in economics ?
What does "bootstrap" mean in entrepreneurship ?
a. It refers to starting a business without external investment and relying on personal finances or operating revenues.
b. It means acquiring large amounts of venture capital for quick business growth.
Which of the above is/are correct ?
Which communication barrier involves misunderstandings due to different backgrounds or experiences?
Which global health initiative aims to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health ?
How many of the following are types of financial markets ?
a. Stock market
b. Bond market
c. Real estate market
d. Consumer market
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
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