1
GATE CSE 2008
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
A Binary Search Tree (BST) stores values in the range 37 to 573. Consider the following sequence of keys.
I. 81, 537, 102, 439, 285, 376, 305
II. 52, 97, 121, 195, 242, 381, 472
III. 142, 248, 520, 386, 345, 270, 307
IV. 550, 149, 507, 395, 463, 402, 270
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A
I, II and IV are inorder sequences of three different BSTs
B
I is a preorder sequence of some BST with 439 as the root
C
II is an inorder sequence of some BST where 121 is the root and 52 is a leaf
D
IV is a postorder sequence of some BST with 149 as the root
2
GATE CSE 2008
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+1
-0.3
A clustering index is defined on the fields which are of type
A
non-key and ordering
B
non-key and non-ordering
C
key and ordering
D
key and non-ordering
3
GATE CSE 2008
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
Consider a file of 16384 records. Each record is 32 bytes long and its key field is of size 6 bytes. The file is ordered on a non-key field, and the file organization is unspanned. The file is stored in a file system with block size 1024 bytes, and the size of a block pointer is 10 bytes. If the secondary index is built on the key field of the file, and a multi-level index scheme is used to store the secondary index, the number of first-level and second-level blocks in the multi-level index are respectively
A
8 and 0
B
128 and 6
C
256 and 4
D
512 and 5
4
GATE CSE 2008
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
Consider the following three schedules of transactions T1, T2 and T3.
[ Notation: In the following NYO represents the action Y (R for read, W for write) performed by transac­tion N on object O. ]

(S1) 2RA 2WA 3RC 2WB 3WA 3WC 1RA 1RB 1WA 1WB

(S2) 3RC 2RA 2WA 2WB 3WA 1RA 1RB 1WA 1WB 3WC

(S3) 2RZ 3RC 3WA 2WA 2WB 3WC 1RA 1RB 1WA 1WB

Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A
S1, S2 and S3 are all conflict equivalent to each other
B
No two of S1, S2 and S3 are conflict equivalent to each other
C
S2 is conflict equivalent to S3, but not to S1
D
S1 is conflict equivalent to S2, but not to S3