Karnataka SET (KSET) 2013 Paper 1 General (41-50)

1. Below an incomplete statement is followed by four possible alternative choices. Select the most appropriate that completes the statement. In order to achieve success in life one should
Have plenty of money
Have contacts with influential persons
Work hard day and night
Be honest and sincere

2.Choose the pair of words which shows the same relationship as given at the top.
Glove : Hand
Neck : Collar
Socks : Feet
Tie : Shirt
Coat : Pocket

3. The average age of 10 boys in a hostel comes out to be 14. A new admission brought down their average age by one year. How old the new recruit must be ?
4
5
3
12

4.From the following table, compute the percentage of women watching television (TV) between 15H and 29H per week. Hours per week ------ Number of housewives
watching T.V.
5 – 9------------------- 19
10 – 14----------------35
15 – 19----------------66
20 – 24----------------81
25 – 29----------------48
30 – 34----------------33
35 – 39----------------18
60
50
65
70

5. The amounts of rainfall (in mm) in a town on 10 consecutive days are given below.
9.5, 0.5, 6.8, 3.2, 4.8, 10.5, 86.2, 9.4, 1.2 and 1.0.
The most appropriate measure of central tendency is
Mean
Median
Mode
Third quartile

6. A company regularly updates a user reference guide.
Some staff are confused about which of the printed documents is the most current.
What feature should be included in the reference guide to eliminate this confusion ?
Date printed
Version number
Author’s name
Copyright information

7. An input device which can read characters directly from an ordinary piece of paper
OCR
OMR
MSI
POS

8. Data integrity refers to
Privacy of data
Security of data
Validity of data
Simplicity of data

9. Why would a switch be used in a network in preference to a hub ?
To reduce network traffic
To prevent the spread of all viruses
To connect a computer directly to the Internet
To manage password security at a workstation

10. A researcher is generally expected to
Study the existing literature in a field
Generate new principles, theories and validate
Synthesize the ideas given by others
Evaluate the findings of a study