This set of Automata Theory Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Applications of NFA”.
1. Under which of the following operation, NFA is not closed?
a) Negation
b) Kleene
c) Concatenation
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: NFA is said to be closed under the following operations:
a) Union
b) Intersection
c) Concatenation
d) Kleene
e) Negation.
2. It is less complex to prove the closure properties over regular languages using:
a) NFA
b) DFA
c) PDA
d) Can’t be said
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Explanation: None.
3. Which of the following is an application of Finite Automaton?
a) Compiler Design
b) Grammar Parsers
c) Text Search
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: There are many applications of finite automata, mainly in the field of Compiler Design and Parsers and Search Engines.
4. John is asked to make an automaton which accepts a given string for all the occurrence of ‘1001’ in it. How many number of transitions would John use such that, the string processing application works?
a) 9
b) 11
c) 12
d) 15
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Explanation: None.
5. Which of the following do we use to form an NFA from a regular expression?
a) Subset Construction Method
b) Power Set Construction Method
c) Thompson Construction Method
d) Scott Construction Method
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Explanation: Thompson Construction method is used to turn a regular expression in an NFA by fragmenting the given regular expression through the operations performed on the input alphabets.
6. Which among the following can be an example of application of finite state machine(FSM)?
a) Communication Link
b) Adder
c) Stack
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: Idle is the state when data in form of packets is send and returns if NAK is received else waits for the NAK to be received.
7. Which among the following is not an application of FSM?
a) Lexical Analyser
b) BOT
c) State charts
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: Finite state automation is used in Lexical Analyser, Computer BOT (used in games), State charts, etc.
8. L1= {w | w does not contain the string tr }
L2= {w | w does contain the string tr}
Given ∑= {t, r}, The difference of the minimum number of states required to form L1 and L2?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) Cannot be said
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Explanation: None.
9. Predict the number of transitions required to automate the following language using only 3 states:
L= {w | w ends with 00}
a) 3
b) 2
c) 4
d) Cannot be said
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Explanation: None.
10. The total number of states to build the given language using DFA:
L= {w | w has exactly 2 a’s and at least 2 b’s}
a) 10
b) 11
c) 12
d) 13
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Explanation: We need to make the number of a as fixed i.e. 2 and b can be 2 or more. Thus, using this condition a finite automata can be created using 1 states.
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