Theory of Computation: Which of the following language classes is NOT closed under intersection and complementation in 'Memory Management: Paging, Segmentation, Virtual Memory and Page Replacement (LRU, FIFO)'?
GATE Engineering - Computer Science & Information Technology (CS/IT) previous year questions (PYQ)
280 previous year GATE Engineering - Computer Science & Information Technology (CS/IT) questions, grouped by year, with answers and solutions.
2025 (7 questions)
Database Management Systems (DBMS): In 'Graph Algorithms: BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, Kruskal and Prim's MST', a relation $R(A,B,C,D)$ has functional dependencies $F = \{AB \to C, C \to D, D \to A\}$. What is the highest normal form of $R$?
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2024 (203 questions)
Engineering Analysis & Principles: In technical analysis of 'Computer Networks: OSI and TCP/IP Reference Models, Framing, Error Detection (CRC) and Sliding Window' within Process Scheduling, Normalization, SQL & Networking Protocols, which governing relationship or mathematical model determines optimal system response under equilibrium conditions?
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GATE Technical Standard: In computational modeling of 'Computer Networks: OSI and TCP/IP Reference Models, Framing, Error Detection (CRC) and Sliding Window', what constitutes the primary performance trade-off regarding asymptotic efficiency and resource conservation?
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2023 (7 questions)
GATE CS/IT (Algorithms): What is the asymptotic time complexity of building a Max-Heap from an unsorted array of $n$ elements in 'Turing Machines: Decidability, Halting Problem and Chomsky Hierarchy'?
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Theory of Computation: Which of the following language classes is NOT closed under intersection and complementation in 'Graph Algorithms: BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, Kruskal and Prim's MST'?
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2022 (7 questions)
Operating Systems: In 'Transactions and Concurrency Control: ACID Properties, Serializability, 2PL and Timestamp Ordering', which page replacement algorithm is immune to Belady's Anomaly (where increasing page frames increases page faults)?
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Theory of Computation: Which of the following language classes is NOT closed under intersection and complementation in 'Routing Protocols: Distance Vector, Link State, OSPF, BGP and IPv4/IPv6 Subnetting'?
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2021 (8 questions)
Algorithms (Graph Theory): What is the tightest worst-case time complexity of finding Single-Source Shortest Paths in a directed graph with $V$ vertices, $E$ edges, and NON-NEGATIVE weights using a Fibonacci Heap in 'Non-Linear Data Structures: Binary Trees, BST, AVL Trees, Heaps and Hashing'?
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Computer Networks (Subnetting): An organization is allocated the network block 192.168.10.0/24 in 'Theory of Computation: Regular Expressions, DFA, NFA, Pumping Lemma, CFL and Pushdown Automata'. If it requires 4 equal subnets, what is the subnet mask and maximum usable host count per subnet?
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2020 (8 questions)
Computer Networks (Subnetting): An organization is allocated the network block 192.168.10.0/24 in 'Non-Linear Data Structures: Binary Trees, BST, AVL Trees, Heaps and Hashing'. If it requires 4 equal subnets, what is the subnet mask and maximum usable host count per subnet?
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Theory of Computation: Which of the following language classes is NOT closed under intersection and complementation in 'DBMS: ER Modeling, Relational Algebra, Relational Calculus and Tuple Calculus'?
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2019 (8 questions)
Algorithms (Graph Theory): What is the tightest worst-case time complexity of finding Single-Source Shortest Paths in a directed graph with $V$ vertices, $E$ edges, and NON-NEGATIVE weights using a Fibonacci Heap in 'Database Normalization: Functional Dependencies, 1NF, 2NF, 3NF and BCNF'?
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Theory of Computation: Which of the following language classes is NOT closed under intersection and complementation in 'Operating Systems: Process Management, CPU Scheduling Algorithms, Deadlocks and Banker's Algorithm'?
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2018 (8 questions)
Operating Systems: In 'Non-Linear Data Structures: Binary Trees, BST, AVL Trees, Heaps and Hashing', which page replacement algorithm is immune to Belady's Anomaly (where increasing page frames increases page faults)?
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Computer Networks (Subnetting): An organization is allocated the network block 192.168.10.0/24 in 'Database Normalization: Functional Dependencies, 1NF, 2NF, 3NF and BCNF'. If it requires 4 equal subnets, what is the subnet mask and maximum usable host count per subnet?
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2017 (8 questions)
Algorithms (Graph Theory): What is the tightest worst-case time complexity of finding Single-Source Shortest Paths in a directed graph with $V$ vertices, $E$ edges, and NON-NEGATIVE weights using a Fibonacci Heap in 'Turing Machines: Decidability, Halting Problem and Chomsky Hierarchy'?
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Computer Networks (Subnetting): An organization is allocated the network block 192.168.10.0/24 in 'Memory Management: Paging, Segmentation, Virtual Memory and Page Replacement (LRU, FIFO)'. If it requires 4 equal subnets, what is the subnet mask and maximum usable host count per subnet?
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2016 (8 questions)
Theory of Computation: Which of the following language classes is NOT closed under intersection and complementation in 'Computer Networks: OSI and TCP/IP Reference Models, Framing, Error Detection (CRC) and Sliding Window'?
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Algorithms (Graph Theory): What is the tightest worst-case time complexity of finding Single-Source Shortest Paths in a directed graph with $V$ vertices, $E$ edges, and NON-NEGATIVE weights using a Fibonacci Heap in 'Graph Algorithms: BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, Kruskal and Prim's MST'?
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2015 (8 questions)
Computer Networks (Subnetting): An organization is allocated the network block 192.168.10.0/24 in 'Graph Algorithms: BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, Kruskal and Prim's MST'. If it requires 4 equal subnets, what is the subnet mask and maximum usable host count per subnet?
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Database Management Systems (DBMS): In 'Turing Machines: Decidability, Halting Problem and Chomsky Hierarchy', a relation $R(A,B,C,D)$ has functional dependencies $F = \{AB \to C, C \to D, D \to A\}$. What is the highest normal form of $R$?
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