**Aptitude test Industrial Information Technology**

For Educational Purposes Only

1. In a university with 2000 students the student-faculty ratio is 16:1. If 18% of the faculty has completed
some of their own study at the university, approximately how many have not?

- (1) 119

- (2) 127

- (3) 23

- (4) 103

2. A discount house advertises that they sell merchandise at cost plus 10%. If Neranjala buys a TV set for
Rs3000, approximately what is the store's profit?

- (1) Rs.3000.00

- (2) Rs.2700.00

- (3) Rs.2772.00

- (4) Rs.3226.00

3. From 6 p.m. until midnight, the temperature dropped at a constant rate. From midnight until 1 a.m., it
dropped 8°F. If at 6 p.m., the temperature was 54° and by 1 a.m. it was 37°, what was the temperature
at 10 p.m.?

- (1) 46

- (2) 48

- (3) 45

- (4) 49

4. One eighth of a half gallon carton of ice cream has been eaten. The remainder is divided among three
people. Approximately what percentage of a gallon does each person get?

- (1) 14.6%

- (2) 11.3%

- (3) 29.2%

- (4) 18.1%
5. On a promotional exam a woman scored 143 on a scale of 0-160. Her score converted to a scale of 0-
100 is approximately:

- (1) 89

- (2) 70

- (3) 91

- (4) 84

6. A woman paid a tax of Rs.8,800 on property assessed at Rs.28,000. Her neighbor, assessed at the
same rate paid a tax of Rs.10. What was the assessed value of the neighbor's house?

- (1) Rs.242,200

- (2) Rs.32,400

- (3) Rs.35,000

- (4) Rs.31,200

7. If Vicje can build 22 tables in 14 days, and Porca can build 22 tables in 16 days, approximately how
long will it take them to build 22 tables together?

- (1) 9.5 days

- (2) 7.5 days

- (3) 15 days

- (4) 8 days

8. Chamila loaned Rs13 to Mali. But Chamila borrowed Rs14 from Shama, and Rs16 from Thanuja.
Thanuja owes Rs17 to Shama and Rs9 to Malee. One day they got together to settle their accounts. Who
left with less than she came with?

- (1) Chamila

- (2) Shama

- (3) Malee

- (4) Thanuja
9. How many square tiles, each 12 inches on a side, will it need to cover a floor that is 11 feet wide and
18 feet long?

- (1) 99

- (2) 150

- (3) 163

- (4) 198

10. A car has depreciated to 72% of its original cost. If the car is presently valued at Rs.324, 500
approximately what was its original cost?

- (1) Rs.2,519

- (2) Rs.5,580

- (3) Rs.450,694

- (4) Rs.233,600

11. The sales tax on a typewriter is Rs.13.41 and the sales tax rate is 4%. The purchase price, before the
tax was added, was:

- (1) Rs.332.25

- (2) Rs.336.40

- (3) Rs.279.10

- (4) Rs.317.50

12. What is the interest on Rs.600 at 8% for 30 days?

- (1) Rs.4.00

- (2) Rs.11.52

- (3) Rs.7.50

- (4) Rs.4.80
13. A garden is 30 feet by 40 feet. A fence is built around the garden at a cost of Rs.1.75 per foot of
fencing. What was the cost of the fencing?

- (1) Rs.133.33

- (2) Rs.245.00

- (3) Rs.210.00

- (4) Rs.122.50

14. A tax analyst earns four times as much in April as in each of the other months. What part of her
entire year's earnings does she earn in April?

- (1) 4/11

- (2) 1/3

- (3) 4/15

- (4) 4/13

15. A train travels 70 miles when a bus travels 50 miles. How many miles will the train travel when the
bus travels 60 miles?

- (1) 40

- (2) 78

- (3) 90

- (4) 84

16. Which of the following symbols is not used as a digit in hexadecimal Number system?

- (1) H

- (2) 9

- (3) F

- (4) 0

17. Which of the communication medium has the highest data transfer speed?

- (1) Unshielded Twisted pair

- (2) Fiber Optics

 - (3) Microwave

- (4) Coaxial Cables

18. Which of the following is a valid URL?

- (1) http://www@uwa.lk

- (2) http://www.uwa..lk

- (3) http://www.uwa:ac.lk

- (4) http://www/uwa/ac/lk

19. Business Process Outsourcing is:

- (1) Hiring professionals from a company in a developed country to a company in a developing country
to improve the business process

- (2) Outsourcing a company in a developed country to a company in a developing country

- (3) Outsourcing the front office or back office activities of a company in a developed country to a
company in a developing country

- (4) Outsourcing the front office or back office activities of a company in a developing country to a
company in a developed country

20. Management information systems usually:

- (1) Serve managers interested in weekly, monthly, and yearly results, not day-to-day activities.

- (2) Help managers make decisions that are unique, rapidly changing, and not easily specified in
advance.

- (3) Provide managers with a generalized computing and telecommunications capacity that can be
applied to a changing array of problems.

- (4) Perform and record the daily routine transactions necessary to the conduct of business.

21. Which of the following is not an example of a business process?

- (1) Designing a new product

- (2) Hiring an employee

- (3) Purchasing services

 - (4) Software Testing

22. Which of the following best describes an invoice?

- (1) A document produced by a purchaser detailing items purchased.

- (2) A document produced by a seller detailing the return of goods.

- (3) A document produced by a seller following items sold.

- (4) A document produced by a seller listing monthly transactions.

23. Which of the following individuals typically have less formal, advanced educational degrees and tend
to process data rather than create information?

- (1) Data workers

- (2) Knowledge workers

- (3) Systems analysts

- (4) Executives

24. Which of the following is a disadvantage of Software outsourcing?

- (1) It is slow and expensive.

- (2) It is inappropriate for large, complex systems.

- (3) The loss of control over the information systems function.

- (4) It can lead to proliferation of uncontrolled information systems.

25. Which of the following is a biometric access control method?

- (1) Signature verification System

- (2) Retinal scan

- (3) Password entry system

- (4) Firewall
26. 'MPC' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

- (1) WordPerfect Document file

- (2) MS Office document

- (3) Animation/movie file

- (4) Image file

27. Another word for the CPU is...

- (1) Execute

- (2) Microprocessor

- (3) Micro-chip

- (4) Decode

28. What do we call a collection of two or more computers that are located within a limited distance of
each other and that are connected to each other directly or indirectly?

- (1) Internet

- (2) Intranet

- (3) Local Area Network

- (4) Wide Area Network

29. Hardware devices that are not part of the main computer system and are often added later to the
system.

- (1) Peripheral

- (2) Clip art

- (3) Highlight

- (4) Execute

30. Hypertext transfer protocol is used

- (1) To transfer any data from the Internet to the user's computers

- (2) To transfer multimedia from the Internet to the user's computers

 - (3) To transfer contents of HTML from the Internet to the user's computers

- (4) To transfer files from the Internet to the user's computers

31. Which of the following is not an output device for a computer system?

- (1) Plotter

- (2) Printer

- (3) Speaker

- (4) None of the above

32. Which of the communication medium has the highest data transfer speed?

- (1) Unshielded Twisted pair

- (2) Fiber Optics

- (3) Microwave

- (4) Coaxial Cables

33. 'BAK' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

- (1) Backup file

- (2) Audio file

- (3) Animation/movie file

- (4) MS Encarta document

34. 'MOV' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

- (1) Image file

- (2) Animation/movie file

- (3) Audio file

- (4) MS Office document

35. Who co-created the UNIX operating system in 1969 with Dennis Ritchie?

- (1) Bjarne Stroustrup

 - (2) Steve Wozniak

- (3) Ken Thompson

- (4) Niklaus Wirth

36. The incident which led to the naming of International Worker's Day (May Day) took place in

- (1) United States of America

- (2) United Kingdom

- (3) Germany

- (4) Russia

37. Who built the world's first binary digit computer: Z1...?

- (1) Konrad Zuse

- (2) Ken Thompson

- (3) Alan Turing

- (4) George Boole

38. Which OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) member country is in Asia

- (1) China

- (2) Malaysia

- (3) India

- (4) Indonesia

39. What does VLAN stands for?

- (1) Virtual Local Area Network

- (2) Versatile Local Area Network

- (3) Virtual Language Area Network

- (4) Versatile Language Area Network

40. Where is the headquarters of Intel located?

- (1) Redmond, Washington

- (2) Tucson, Arizona

- (3) Santa Clara, California

- (4) Richmond, Virginia