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Arrays In Data Structures — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

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Question 1 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following data structures is best suited for implementing an array list in Java?

Question 2 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

How do you find the maximum element in an array in Python?

Question 3 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What happens when you access an array element out of bounds in C++?

Question 4 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

How do you copy an array in C++?

Question 5 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is a correct way to declare a constant array in JavaScript?

Question 6 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which matrix has most of the elements (not all) as Zero?

Question 7 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

It is not possible to find the minimum number of steps to reach the end of an array in linear time.

Question 8 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the time complexity of the following code that determines the number of inversions in an array? int InvCount(int arr[], int n) { int count = 0; for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) if (arr[i] > arr[j]) count++; return count; }

Question 9 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

If column-major order is used, how is the following matrix stored in memory? a b c d e f g h i

Question 10 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the time complexity of the juggling algorithm to rotate an array?

Question 11 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What will be the suffix array of the string "engineering"?

Question 12 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Where does the GNU C compiler allocates memory for variable-length arrays?

Question 13 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is not an application of sorted array?

Question 14 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is a bit array?

Question 15 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following bitwise operations will you use to set a particular bit to 1?

Question 16 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What are parallel arrays?

Question 17 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is an advantage of parallel arrays?

Question 18 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is an advantage of matrices?

Question 19 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What will be the output of the following code? #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; void func1(int arr[], int n) { int k = arr[0], i; for (i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) arr[i] = arr[i + 1]; arr[i] = k; } void func(int arr[], int d, int n) { for (int i = 0; i < d; i++) func1(arr, n); } void printArray(int arr[], int n) { for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) cout << arr[i] << " "; } int main() { int arr[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; int n = sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0]); func(arr, 3, n); printArray(arr, n); return 0; }

Question 20 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is not a disadvantage of bit array?

Question 21 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What will be the output of the following code? #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; void func1(int arr[], int left, int right) { while (left < right) { int temp = arr[left]; arr[left] = arr[right]; arr[right] = temp; left++; right--; } } void func(int arr[], int d, int n) { func1(arr, 0, d-1); func1(arr, d, n-1); func1(arr, 0, n-1); } void printArray(int arr[], int size) { for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) cout << arr[i] << " "; } int main() { int arr[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; int n = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]); int d = 2; func(arr, d, n); printArray(arr, n); return 0; }

Question 22 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is the correct syntax to declare an ArrayList in Java?

Question 23 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the time complexity for inserting/deleting at the beginning of the array?

Question 24 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the worst case time complexity of inserting an element into the sorted array?

Question 25 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following algorithm to rotate an array has the maximum time complexity?

Question 26 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Suffix array of the string "statistics" is . . . . . . . .

Question 27 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What does the following piece of code do? for(int i = 0; i < row; i++) { for(int j = 0; j < column; j++) { if(i == j) sum = sum + (array[i][j]); } } System.out.println(sum);

Question 28 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The matrix contains m rows and n columns. The matrix is called Sparse Matrix if . . . . . . . .

Question 29 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Both Dynamic array and Dynamically memory allocated array are same.

Question 30 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the order of a matrix?

Question 31 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Reversal algorithm and juggling algorithm for array rotation have the same time complexity.

Question 32 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

How many arguments are required by the predefined function rotate() in C++?

Question 33 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Who coined the term Sparse Matrix?

Question 34 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the relation between Sparsity and Density of a matrix?

Question 35 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Arbitrary expressions can be used while declaring variable-length arrays.

Question 36 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

How many inversions does a sorted array have?

Question 37 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following can be called a parallel array implementation?

Question 38 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is the disadvantage of sparse matrices over normal matrices?

Question 39 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What will be the time complexity of the following code? #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; void func(int arr[], int left, int right) { while (left < right) { int temp = arr[left]; arr[left] = arr[right]; arr[right] = temp; left++; right--; } } void printArray(int arr[], int size) { for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) cout << arr[i] << " "; } int main() { int arr[] = {1,4,3,5}; int n = sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0]); func(arr, 0, n-1); printArray(arr, n); return 0; }

Question 40 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In special case, the time complexity of inserting/deleting elements at the end of dynamic array is . . . . . . . .

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