UGC NET MERIT ENTRANCE SECTIONAL TEST NO.

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PAPER II – AIRTHMETIC

1 …..Is the fastest logic family; it’s used in high – speed applications.
(1) DTL
(2) ECL
(3) TTL
(4) MOS

2 …. Dominates the LSI field and …. is used extensively where lowest power consumption
is necessary.
(1) NMOS, PMOS
(2) NMOS, CMOS
(3) PMOS, CMOS
(4) MOSFET, PMOS
(5) None of the above

3 Digital design often starts by construction a …. table.

(1) Standard
(2) Truth
(3) Two-stage
(4) Two-dimensional
(5) None of theabove

4 The 7400, series, also called standard TTL, contains a variety of SSI and … chips that
allow us to build all kinds of digital circuits and systems.
(1) LSI
(2) MOS
(3) MSI
(4) MOSFET
(5) None of the above

5 A preliminary guide for comparing the simplicity of logic circuits is to count the number of
input … leads .
(1) Wire
(2) Bus
(3) Gate
(4) All of the above
(5) None of the above

6 Standard TTL has a multiple emitter input transistor and a … output .

(1) Totem-pole
(2) Register
(3) Bipolar
(4) Transistor
(5) None of the above

7 A bus is a group of … carrying digital signals .

(1) Wires
(2) Transistors
(3) Gates
(4) Registers
(5) None of the above

8 The 7400- series devices are guaranteed to work reliably over a temperature range of 0
to … and over a voltage range of 4.75 to 5.25 V.
(1) 800 C
(2) 1000 C
(3) 700 C
(4) 900 C
(5) None of the above

9 One way to simplify the sum-of- products equation is to use boolean algebra. Another
way is the … map.
(1) De Morgan
(2) Schottky
(3) Standard
(4) Karnaugh
(5) None of the above

10 A … TTL device can sink upto 16 MA and can source up to 400 MA.
(1) Low-power
(2) Standard
(3) High – power
(4) Schottky
(5) None of the above

11 What are the fundamental products for inputs words ABCD = 0010, ABCD = 1101 and ABCD
= 1110 ?
1) ABCD, ABCD, ABCD
2) ABC D, ABCD, ABC D
3) ABCD, ABCD, ABCD
4) ABCD, ABC D, ABCD

12 The maximum number of TTL loads that a TTL device can drive reliably over the specified
temperature range is
1) Fanout
2) Chip
3) Bipolar
4) Universal logic circuit
5) None of the above

13 Consider the logic circuit in the figure below. The functions f1, f 2 and f (in canonical sum of
products form in decimal notation ) are :
f1, ( w, x, y, z , )   8,9,10
f 2 ( w, x, y, z , )   7,8,12,13,14,15
f ( w, x, y , z , )   8,9
The function f3 is
1)  9,10
2) 9
3) 1,8,9
4)  8,10,15
14 Let f ( x, y, z )  x  yx  xz be a switching function. Which one of the
following is valid ?
1) y  x  is a prime implicant off
2) Xzis an implicant off
3) Xzis a minterm of  f
4) Yis a prime implicant off

15 What happens when a nit string is XORed with itself n – times as

shown :
 B  B  ( B  ( B....n times) 
1) Complements when n is even
2) Divides by 2 n always
3) Complements when n is odd
4) Remains unchanged when n is even

16 The ALU carries out arithmetic and logic operations. It processes …..
numbers rather than decimal numbers.
1) Decimal
2) Hexadecimal
3) Binary
4) All of the above
5) None of the above

17 A 2’s complement adder-subtracter can add or subtract binary

numbers. Singmagnitude numbers represent …. Decimal numbers, and 2’s complements
stand for …. Decimal numbers .
1) Hexa, sidn
2) Sign , hexa
3) Positive, negative
4) Negative, positive
5) None of the above

18 A half –adder adds …. Bits

1) 16
2) 10
3) 8
4) 2
5) None of the above

19 How many full and half- adders are required to add 16 – bit numbers ?
1) 8 half-adders, 8 full adders
2) 1 half –adders, 15 full adders
3) 16 half-adders, no full adders
4) 4 half –adders, 12 full adders
5) None of the above

20. A full – adder adds …. Bits, producing a SUM and a

(1) 8, SUBTRACTION
(2) 3, CARRY
(3) 16, DIVIDE
(4) All of the above
(5) None of the above

21. Express- 7 as 16- bit signed binary numbers

(1) 0000 0000 0000 0111
(2) 1000 0000 0000 0111
(3) 0111 0000 0000 0001
(4) 0111 0000 0000 0000
(5) None of the above

22. A binary adder is a logic circuits that can add …. binary numbers at a time.
(1) Hundreds
(2) One
(3) Thousands
(4) Two
(5) None of the above

23. The leading bit stands for the … and the remaining bits for the ….. is known as signed binary
numbers.
(1) Sign, remainder
(2) Sign , magnitude
(3) Value, sign
(4) Variable , value
(5) None of the above

24. Convert the 1000 0000 0000 1111 signed binary number to decimal number.
(1) + 15
(2) 30
(3) 15
(4) + 30
25. Signed binary numbers requires too much hardware. This has led to the use of ……
complements to represent negiative numbers.
(1) 1’s
(2) 3’s
(3) 2’s
(4) No

26. What is the 2’s complement of 0011 0101 1001 1100 number ?
(1) 1100 1010 1100 1011
(2) 1100 1010 0110 0011
(3) 1100 1010 0110 0100
(4) 1100 1010 1111 1111
(5) None of the above

27. The ….. is ultraviolet –light –erasable and electrically programmable. This allows the user to
erase and store until programs and data are perfected.
(1) EPROM
(2) PROM
(3) ROM
(4) RAM
(5) None of the above

28. What is the highest address in a 48k memory? Express in hesadecimal and decimal form.
(1) 7FFFH, 64,387
(2) BFFFH, 49,151
(3) BFFFH, 49,152
(4) 7FFFH, 64,386
(5) None of the above

29. The memory cell of dynamic RAM is simpler and smaller than the memory cell of a…. Ram
(1) Volatile
(2) Semiconductor
(3) Static
(4) Bipolar
(5) None of the above

30. Filp-flop outputs are always

(1) Complementary
(2) Independent of each other
(3) The same
(4) Same as inputs
(5) None of the above

31. A combinational logic circuit which is used to send data coming from a single source to two
or more separate destinations is called as:
(1) Decoder
(2) Encoder
(3) Multiplexer
(4) Demultiplexer
(5) None of these
32. How many memory locations can 14 address bits access?
1) 16,384
2) 4,096
3) 8,192
4) 14
5) None of the above

33. The 2,764 is 65,536- bit EPROM organized as 8,192 words of 8 bits each. How many address
lines does it have?
6) 12
7) 13
8) 14
9) 8
10) None of these

34. In which of the following adder circuits the carry-look ripple delay is eliminated?
(1) Half adder
(2) Parallel adder
(3) Full adder
(4) Carry-look-ahead adder
(5) None of the above

35. Consider as Rs flip-flops with both inputs set to 0. IF a momentary ‘1’ is applied at the input
S, then the output:
(1) Q will flip from 0 to 1
(2) Q will flip from 0 to 1 and then back to 0

(3) Q will flip from 0 to 1

(4) Q will flip form 0 to 1 and then back to 0

(5) None of the above

36. The threshold level for logic 1 in the TTL family is

(1) Any voltage above 2.5 V
(2) Any voltage between 0.8 V and 5.0 V
(3) Any voltage below 5.0 V
(4) Any voltage below V  but above 2.8 V

37. A multiplexer with a 4 bit data select input is a Trueman’s UGC Net Computer Science
(1) 4:1 multiplexer
(2) 16:1 Multiplexer
(3) 2:1 Multiplexer
(4) 8:1 Multiplexer

38. The octal representation of an integer is 3428. If this were to be treated as an eight-bit
integer in an 8, 0885 based computer, its decimal equivalent is
(1) 226
(2) -98
(3) -30
(4) 76

39. Which of the following operations is commutative but not associative

(1) AND
(2) NAND
(3) OR
(4) EXOR

40. Which of the following functions implements the karnaugh map shown below?

(1) AB  CD
(2) AD  AB
(3) D (C  A)
(4) (C  D _(C  D)( A  B )

41. Which of the following expressions is not equivalent to x ?

(1) X NAND x
(2) X NOR x
(3) X NAND 1
(4) X NOT 1

42. With a Jk master-slave flip-flop master is clocked when the clock is….and the salve is
triggered when the clock is …..
(1) Set, reset
(2) Race no change
(3) High low
(4) Set, race
(5) None of the above

43. With an RS latch a high S and low R sets the output to ….; a low S and a high R ….. the
output to low
(1) No change, set
(2) Race, high
(3) High, reset
(4) Set, reset
(5) None of the above

44. A shift register moves the …. Left or right. Serial loading means storing a word in a shift
register by entering bit per clock pulse. With parallel or broadside loading it takes
only one… pulse to load the input word.
(1) Light, eight, clock
(2) Right, eight, clock
(3) Bits, one, register
(4) Bits, one, clock
(5) None of the above
45. A flip-flop is a …. element that stores a binary digit as a low or high voltage.
(1) Chip
(2) Bus
(3) I/O
(4) Memory
(5) None of the above

46. When the LOAD, input of a buffer register is active, the input word is stored on the next
positive ….. edge.
(1) Clock
(2) Pulse
(3) Register
(4) Transistor
(5) None of the above

47. With a NAND latch, a low R and a low S produce a ….. condition
(1) Race
(2) Reset
(3) Set
(4) No change
(5) None of the above

48. One flip-flop divides the clock frequency by a factor of …. In general, n flip-flop divide by 2 n
(1) Two, n + 1
(2) 12, n + 12
(3) Four, n + 4
(4) Two, 2 n
(5) None of the above

49. Computers use thousands of flip-flops. To coordinate the overall action, a common signal
called the … is sent to each flip – flop.
(1) Latch
(2) Master
(3) Clock
(4) Slave
(5) None of the above

50. With positive clocking, the clock signal must be …. for the flip-flop to respond.
(1) High
(2) Set
(3) Low
(4) Race
(5) None of the above