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ICICI Placement Paper (Aptitude Question)

2009-06-21T07:06:00.001-07:00

Paper: ICICI Placement Paper (Aptitude Question)

1. If 2x-y=4 then 6x-3y=? (a)15 (b)12 (c)18 (d)10 Ans. (b)

2. If x=y=2z and xyz=256 then what is the value of x? (a)12 (b)8 (c)16 (d)6 Ans. (b)

3. (1/10)18 - (1/10)20 = ?

(a) 99/1020 (b) 99/10 (c) 0.9 (d) none of these Ans. (a)

4. Pipe A can fill in 20 minutes and Pipe B in 30 mins and Pipe C can empty the same in 40 mins.If all of them work together, find the time taken to fill the tank

(a) 17 1/7 mins (b) 20 mins (c) 8 mins (d) none of these Ans. (a)

5. Thirty men take 20 days to complete a job working 9 hours a day.How many hour a day should 40 men work to complete the job?

(a) 8 hrs (b) 7 1/2 hrs (c) 7 hrs (d) 9 hrs Ans. (b)

6. . Find the smallest number in a GP whose sum is 38 and product 1728

(a) 12 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) none of these Ans. (c)

7. A boat travels 20 kms upstream in 6 hrs and 18 kms downstream in 4 hrs.Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the water current?

(a) 1/2 kmph (b) 7/12 kmph (c) 5 kmph (d) none of these Ans. (b)

8. A goat is tied to one corner of a square plot of side 12m by a rope 7m long.Find the area it can graze?

(a) 38.5 sq.m (b) 155 sq.m (c) 144 sq.m (d) 19.25 sq.m Ans. (a)

9. Mr. Shah decided to walk down the escalator of a tube station. He found that if he walks down 26 steps, he requires 30 seconds to reach the bottom. However, if he steps down 34 stairs he would only require 18 seconds to get to the bottom. If the time is measured from the moment the top step begins to descend to the time he steps off the last step at the bottom, find out the height of the stair way in steps?

Ans.46 steps.

10. The average age of 10 members of a committee is the same as it was 4 years ago, because an old member has been replaced by a young member. Find how much younger is the new member ? Ans.40 years.

11. Three containers A, B and C have volumes a, b, and c respectively; and container A is full of water while the other two are empty. If from container A water is poured into container B which becomes 1/3 full, and into container C which becomes 1/2 full, how much water is left in container A?

12. ABCE is an isosceles trapezoid and ACDE is a rectangle. AB = 10 and EC = 20. What is the length of AE? Ans. AE = 10

13. In the given figure, PA and PB are tangents to the circle at A and B respectively and the chord BC is parallel to tangent PA. If AC = 6 cm, and length of the tangent AP is 9 cm, then what is the length of the chord BC? Ans. BC = 4 cm.

14. Three cards are drawn at random from an ordinary pack of cards. Find the probability that they will consist of a king, a queen and an ace. Ans. 64/2210

15. A number of cats got together and decided to kill between them 999919 mice. Every cat killed an equal number of mice. Each cat killed more mice than there were cats. How many cats do you think there were ? Ans. 991.

16. If Log2 x - 5 Log x + 6 = 0, then what would the value / values of x be?

Ans. x = e2 or e3.

17. In june a baseball team that played 60 games had won 30% of its game played. After a phenomenal winning streak this team raised its average to 50% .How many games must the team have won in a row to attain this average?

A. 12 B. 20 C. 24 D. 30 (Ans. C)

18. .Can you tender a one rupee note in such a manner that there shall be total 50 coins but none of them would be 2 paise coins.? Ans. 45 one paisa coins, 2 five paise coins, 2 ten paise coins, and 1 twenty-five paise coins.

19. A monkey starts climbing up a tree 20ft. tall. Each hour, it hops 3ft. and slips back 2ft. How much time would it take the monkey to reach the top? Ans.18 hours.

20. What is the missing number in this series? 8 2 14 6 11 ? 14 6 18 12 Ans. 9

21. A certain type of mixture is prepared by mixing brand A at Rs.9 a kg. with brand B at Rs.4 a kg. If the mixture is worth Rs.7 a kg., how many kgs. of brand A are needed to make 40kgs. of the mixture? Ans. Brand A needed is 24kgs.

22. A wizard named Nepo says "I am only three times my son's age. My father is 40 years more than twice my age. Together the three of us are a mere 1240 years old." How old is Nepo? Ans. 360 years old.

23. One dog tells the other that there are two dogs in front of me. The other one also shouts that he too had two behind him. How many are they? Ans. Three

24. A man ate 100 bananas in five days, each day eating 6 more than the previous day. How many bananas did he eat on the first day? Ans. Eight.

25. If it takes five minutes to boil one egg, how long will it take to boil four eggs?

Ans. Five minutes.

26. The minute hand of a clock overtakes the hour hand at intervals of 64 minutes of correct time. How much a day does the clock gain or lose? Ans. 32 8/11 minutes.

27. Solve for x and y: 1/x - 1/y = 1/3, 1/x2 + 1/y2 = 5/9. Ans. x = 3/2 or -3 and y = 3 or -3/2.

28. Daal is now being sold at Rs. 20 a kg. During last month its rate was Rs. 16 per kg. By how much percent should a family reduce its consumption so as to keep the expenditure fixed? Ans. 20 %.

29. Find the least value of 3x + 4y if x2y3 = 6. Ans. 10.

30. Can you find out what day of the week was January 12, 1979? Ans. Friday.

31. A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days, when given at a rate of 850 grams per head. At the end of 7 days a reinforcement arrives and it was found that now the provisions will last 8 days less, when given at the rate of 825 grams per head. How, many more men can it feed? Ans. 1700 men.

32. From 5 different green balls, four different blue balls and three different red balls, how many combinations of balls can be chosen taking at least one green and one blue ball?

33. Three pipes, A, B, & C are attached to a tank. A & B can fill it in 20 & 30 minutes respectively while C can empty it in 15 minutes. If A, B & C are kept open successively for 1 minute each, how soon will the tank be filled? Ans. 167 minutes.

34. A person walking 5/6 of his usual rate is 40 minutes late. What is his usual time? Ans. 3 hours 20 minutes.

RELIANCE PAPER PATTERN - 2008 At BHOPAL

2009-06-21T07:05:00.000-07:00

RIL On 30th March 08 in Bhopal the paper consists of Aptitude and Technical.

Aptitude was very simple consists of 75 questions, to be solved in 30 minutes. And all the questions are repetitive.

In Technical there are 50 questions and to be solved in 30 minutes.

The tech part is quite tough, consists questions from all subjects. Some questions are from air compressors, pumps, production, refrigeration, strength of materials, material science etc.

They Shortlisted 145 students from around 3000 students for interviews.

They will concentrate mainly on your major project.

Verizone Placement Paper (Interview Procedure)

2009-06-21T07:04:00.000-07:00

Interview Procedure:

The interview lays stress on your technical stream. The questions asked are from the subjects Data Structures, C Programming, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, etc.

Some of the questions asked were:

1.What is a finite Automata?
2.What is a real time system.?
3.What is binary search, traversal, hashing etc.
4.What is indexing in databases?
5.What is atomicity?
6.What is testing. what is unit testing, integration testing etc.

The paper consists of two parts, Aptitude and Technical sections, to be completed in 45 minutes. The aptitude section has 20 questions to be completed in 15 minutes and the technical has 30 questions to be completed in 30 minutes.

The technical section has the following break-up:-

1.Electronics-15 questions
2.Computer Networks-5 questions.
3.Operating Systems-5 questions.
4.Compilers and Algorithms-5 questions.
5.DBMS-5 questions
6.Data Structures-5 questions
7.C Programming-5 questions.

Verizone Placement Paper Pattern 22 April 2007 at West Bengal

2009-06-21T07:03:00.000-07:00

Paper: Verizone Placement Paper Pattern 22 April 2007 at West Bengal

There were 4 rounds in the written paper
1.Verbal Ability Test-20 min
2.Numerical Aptitude-30 min
3.Detail Assessment test-20 min
4.C and Data Structure-10 min

Verbal Ability Test
There were total 20 questions in this part. first 10 were fill in the blanks with preposition and article simple ones. Then there were 2 passages n read them once u would be able to answer all the questions… jus be attentive n have patience

Numerical Aptitude
1.venn diagram related question…5
2.then which of the following is true. that replacement questions as / stands for *….etc etc
3.then a question in which nos were replaced by symbols in a special pattern stay cool and attempt's you would be able to

Detail Assessment
1.This section is the easiest one but time consuming.. so be fast at the same time assess correctly
2.nos will be given n asked if they r same…
3.some sort of puzzles kind who is oldest youngest. architect n all…..after giving certain conditions http://www.TowardsJob.com
4.then there were questions of certain qualifications for the post.. then related question that whether a person possessing such n such qualities
5.shud be rejected or qualified

C and Data structure
Some codes were given and output was to be determined.. then there were questions related to writing missing codes.. options were provided. one question was based on TREE from data structure.. another on directed graph..

Verizone Placement Paper Pattern 22 April 2007 at Hyderabad

2009-06-21T07:02:00.000-07:00

Written test

1.English : prepositions, articles, graph (refer wren &martin)
2.Analytical reasoning (cubes,venn diagram,dollors) dollors problem are like this for a value of 8 the ans:$***(binary conversion in that treat 1 as $ and 0 as *)
3.Mental ability(ex:54*7+6-3=)

Technical: it last 30 minutes

1.more about my project
2.basic C question i.e size of struct{int i;char j; long k;}
3.how node is created in single linked list
4.scope variable in struct and in class
5.encapsulation Ch etanaS
6.about company

HR:
1.tell me about u r self
2.project explanation
3.strengths
4.how u make ur weakness into strength.
5.about company
6.any questions

SAP Interview Pattern &Interview Tips

2009-06-21T07:01:00.000-07:00

Interview Pattern:

Technical Interview: Discussion on the written paper. How did u solved the problem? explain him about that. small discussion on yr project for a while. simple technical questions related to project. simple language question : Collections in java.. types of joins in SQL. if u want to ask something about sapient etc?

Hint: Ask something good. eg kind of projects they are doing.. processes they follow .. how do they capture the requirements etc.

Business Interview 1: Hr interview.. behavioral questions.. how will u react in some conditions.. how how did u reacted..

1) Give an example when your boss is not agreed with u. what did u do?
2) Give an example when u had a clash with your peer. what did u do?
3) Give an example when u faced some ambiguous situation. (when u are not understanding the things properly ) what did u do?
4) Give an example when u faced some stressful situation. what did u do?
5) Did u make some decision of your own to carry out something. and suggested this to yr boss and your boss agreed?

Hint : Ask some good question. like how open the environment is? is a junior person part of design?? what is the responsibility of a member for the proper working of project?

Business Interview 2: This was more of type 2 only. but they will tell about sapient. and u may ask as many question as u want. now u can again ask the same question asked in previous 2 interviews.

Verizone Placement Paper Selection Procedure Details

2009-06-21T07:00:00.002-07:00

Hi I am Suneel Dixit I got selected in Verizon Data Services. I am providing the full selected procedure details

Initially they call for Written examination. They normally ask 75 questions out of which 65 questions are of aptitude type and rest 10 are from C and Data Structures. What i believe anyone should attempt around 90% of the questions. C part is most important to clear. There is no negative Marking

When u clear written examination they call for technical interview. In Technical Interview they query about the final year project which u have developed sometimes they ask about coding and puzzles also. Prepare C and Data Structures well to crack the interview. but if ur project is from different domain then prepare accourding to it. Interview round will last for around 30minutes to 1 hour. Believe me its not too tough to crack it

But remember one thing if ur selected in one comp then don't mention it . It may prove disastrous for u . after technical interview if ur thru then they let u to the HR Round . HR is just a formality Once technical is clear it means u r at Verizon. HR will simply handover a bag to u as a gift from Verizon.

HCL Placement Paper Conducted On 21 May 2001 (Aptitude)

2009-06-21T07:00:00.001-07:00

Paper: HCL Placement Paper Conducted On 21 May 2001 (Aptitude)

1. A merchant sells an item at a 20 percent discount. but still makes a gross profit of 20 percent of the cost. What percent of cost would be gross profit on the item have been if it had been sold without the discount?
(A) 20% (B) 40% (C) 50% (D) 60% (E) 66.6%
Ans :c) 50%

2. A millionaire bought a job lot of hats 1/4 of which were brown. The millionaire sold 2/3 of the hats including 4/5 of the brown hats. What fraction of the unsold hats were brown.
(A)1/60 (B)1/15 (C)3/20 (D)3/5 (E)3/4 Answer :c)3/20

3. How many integers n greater than and less than 100 are there such that, if the digits of n are reversed, the resulting integer is n+9 ?

(A)5 (B)6 (C)7 (D)8 (E)9 Answer :D)8

4. An investor purchased a shares of stock at a certain price. If the stock increased in price Rs 0.25 per share and the total increase for the x shares was Rs 12.50, how many shares of stock had been purchased ?
(A)25 (B)50 (C)75 (D)100 (E)125
Answer :B)50

5. At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are purchased at the sale, the amount saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5 tickets?
(A)20% (B)33.3% (C)40% (D)60% (E)66.6% Answer :c)40%

6. Working independently, Tina can do a certain job in 12 hours. Working independently, Ann can do the same job in 9 hours. If Tina works independently at the job for 8 hours and then Ann works independently, how many hours will it take Ann to complete the remainder of the jobs?
(A)2/3 (B)3/4 (C)1 (D)2 (E)3 Ans :E)3

7. A decorator bought a bolt of d m number of red chips in any one stack ?
(A)7 (B)6 (C)5 (D)4 (E)3 Answer :C) 5

Verizone Placement Paper & Pattern 13 May 2008

2009-06-21T06:58:00.000-07:00

VERIZON recruitment process on 13-5-2008 in Hyderabad

In this off campus recruitment event: Eligibility is 70% throughout academics.

Around 2500 students came for this event but short listed persons for the written test is 70 only. And I am also not qualified in the written test.

The Written Test consists of 4 sections and the time limit is 1.10 min
1) English section 20q-15min
2) reasoning section 25q 30min
3) attention details 20Q -10min
4) technical test 10Q -15min

The written test was conducted by MERITTRAC

1) First section consists of articles (5Q ), prepositions(5Q), and 2 essays - 10Q

2) Second section consists of reasoning which includes Venn diagrams 5Q, data sufficiency 5Q, cubes 5Q, puzzle 5Q (combination of seating arrangement and blood relations) And another 5 questions on something sorry friends I cannot remember

3) Third section consists of questions on attention to details These are very easy but the time is less In this around 5 questions are like this below http://www.TowardsJob.com
A) if all are the 1,2,3 are alike
B) if 1&2 are alike
C) if 1 & 3 are alike
D) None
1)121561 2)121564 3)121547
Answer is A.

And another 7 questions on the arithmetic conversion like * is represented as +, - is represented as +, like that And 6 questions on puzzle type. Here he gave some conditions according to that conditions we must conclude the answer which satisfied above given conditions

4) Fourth section consists of questions on C (4Q), data structures (5Q) but THESE ARE VERY LENGTHY. In this we must find code segment in data structures questions.

Verizone Placement Paper 22 April 2007 at St. Patrics High School Hyderabad

2009-06-21T06:56:00.000-07:00

Paper: Verizone Placement Paper 22 April 2007 at St. Patrics High School Hyderabad

Directions for QUESTIONS 1-4:

1)samarth is a bcom with 65% marks. He is ready to pay rs75000 per annum as tuition feees. He was born on 30 may 1976 and has scored more than 64% in th both the entrance examination and the interview. He is:

a)not admitted

b)admitted

c)referred to the admissions in charge

d)referred to the director

2)chitra secured more than 66% in both the entrance examination and in the interview. She was born on the 14th of april 1979 . she completed her bsc with botany as her specialization with 70% marks. She is:

a)not admitted

b)admitted

c) referred to the admissions in charge

d)referred to the director

3)arjun completed ba, English literature with 63%marks. He scored 552 in the entrance examination and 64 marks in the interview. He was born on 10 december 1984 and is ready to deposit rs.100000 per annum as tution fees. He is:

a)not admitted

b)admitted

c)referred to the admissions in charge

d)referred to the director

4)supriya completed her graduation with 66% marks. She is 21 years old. She cannot the requisite tution fee at the time of admission. She secured 62 marks in the interview and 637 marks in the entrance test. She is:

a)not admitted

b)admitted

c)referred to the admissions in charge

d)referred to the director

directions for questions1-4 :

a rating company needs to appoint financial analysts in an organization. The candidate must:

i. be a graduate in any discipline with at least 60% marks

ii. not more than 30 years of age as on 1 may 2003

iii. be either a ca,icwa,or mba finance or cfa as professional qualification

iv. have at least 4 years of work experiance

v. have cleared the written examination conducted by the organization with at least 50% marks

HCL Placement Paper Conducted On 22 March 2004 (Technical)

2009-06-21T06:55:00.000-07:00

Paper: HCL Placement Paper Conducted On 22 March 2004 (Technical)

Section A

1. Which of the following involves context switch,

(a) system call
(b) priviliged instruction
(c) floating poitnt exception (d) all the above
(e) none of the above

Ans: (a)

2. In OST, terminal emulation is done in

(a) sessions layer
(b) application layer
(c) presentation layer
(d) transport layer

Ans: (b)

3. For a 25MHz processor , what is the time taken by the instruction which needs 3 clock cycles,

(a)120 nano secs
(b)120 micro secs
(c)75 nano secs
(d)75 micro secs

4. For 1 MB memory, the number of address lines required,

(a)11
(b)16
(c)22
(d) 24

Ans. (b)

5. Semaphore is used for

(a) synchronization
(b) dead-lock avoidence
(c) box
(d) none

Ans. (a)

6. Which holds true for the following statement

class c: public A, public B

a) 2 member in class A, B should not have same name
b) 2 member in class A, C should not have same name
c) both
d) none

Ans. (a)

7. Question related to java

8. OLE is used in

a) inter connection in unix
b) interconnection in WINDOWS
c) interconnection in WINDOWS NT

9. Convert a given HEX number to OCTAL

10. Macros and function are related in what aspect?

(a)recursion
(b)varying no of arguments
(c)hypochecking
(d)type declaration

11.Preproconia.. does not do which one of the following

(a) macro
(b) conditional compliclation
(c) in type checking
(d) including load file

Ans. (c)

12. Piggy backing is a technique for

a) Flow control
b) Sequence
c) Acknowledgement
d) retransmition

Ans. (c)

13. In signed magnitude notation what is the minimum value that can be represented with 8 bits

(a) -128
(b) -255
(c) -127
(d) 0

14. There is an employer table with key fields as employer number data in every n'th row are needed for a simple following queries will get required results.

(a) select A employee number from employee A , where exists from employee B where A employee no. >= B employee having (count(.) mod n)=0
(b) select employee number from employe A, employe B where A employe number>=B employ number group by employee number having(count(.) mod n=0 )
(c) both (a) & (b)
(d) none of the above

15. Type duplicates of a row in a table customer with non uniform key field customer number you can see

a) delete from costomer where customer number exists( select distinct customer number from customer having count )
b) delete customer a where customer number in b rowid
c) delete customer a where custermor number in( select customer number from customer a, customer b )
d) none of the above

Section B

1. Given the following statement
enum day = { jan = 1 ,feb=4, april, may}
What is the value of may?

(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 6
(d) 11
(e) None of the above

2. Find the output for the following C program

main
{int x,j,k;
j=k=6;x=2;
x=j.k;
printf("%d", x);

3. Find the output for the following C program

fn f(x)
{ if(x<=0) return; else f(x-1)+x; } 4. Find the output for the following C program i=20,k=0; for(j=1;j10)
{printf("%d", Y);
else
printf("%d", Y);
}

Ans. 13

8. Find the output for the following C program

f=(x>y)?x:y

a) f points to max of x and y
b) f points to min of x and y
c)error

Ans. (a)

9. What is the sizeof(long int)

(a) 4 bytes
(b) 2 bytes
(c) compiler dependent
(d) 8 bytes

10. Which of the function operator cannot be over loaded

(a) <=
(b) ?:
(c) ==
(d) .

11. Find the output for the following C program

main()
{intx=2,y=6,z=6;
x=y==z;
printf(%d",x)
}

Section C (Programming Skills)

Answer the questions based on the following program

STRUCT DOUBLELIST
{ DOUBLE CLINKED
INT DET; LIST VOID
STRUCT PREVIOUS; (BE GIVEN AND A PROCEDURE TO DELETE)
STRUCT NEW; (AN ELEMENT WILL BE GIVEN)
}
DELETE(STRUCT NODE)
{NODE-PREV-NEXT NODE-NEXT;
NODE-NEXT-PREV NODE-PREV;
IF(NODE==HEAD)
NODE
}

Q. In what case the prev was

(a) All cases
(b) It does not work for the last element
(c) It does not for the first element
(d) None of these

Answer the questions based on the following program

VOID FUNCTION(INT KK)
{KK+=20;
}
VOID FUNCTION (INT K)
INT MM,N=&M
KN = K
KN+-=10;
}

Q. What is the output of the following program

main()
{ int var=25,varp;
varp=&var;
varp p = 10;
fnc(varp)
printf("%d%d,var,varp);
}

(a) 20,55
(b) 35,35
(c) 25,25
(d)55,55

Section D

1. a=2, b=3, c=6
Find the value of c/(a+b)-(a+b)/c

2. What does the hexanumber E78 in radix 7.

(a) 12455
(b) 14153
(c) 14256
(d) 13541
(e) 131112

Ans. (d)

3. 10 : 4 seconds :: ? : 6 minutes

Ans. 900

4. Q is not equal to zero and k = (Q x n - s)/2.What is n?

(a) (2 x k + s)/Q
(b) (2 x s x k)/Q
(c) (2 x k - s)/Q
(d) (2 x k + s x Q)/Q
(e) (k + s)/Q

5. From the following statements determine the order of ranking

. M has double the amount as D
. Y has 3 rupess more than half the amount of D

Ans. Data insuffiecient

Questions 6 - 10 are to be answered on the following data

. A causes B or C, but not both
. F occurs only if B occurs
. D occurs if B or C occurs
. E occurs only if C occurs
. J occurs only if E or F occurs
. D causes G,H or both
. H occurs if E occurs
. G occurs if F occurs

6. If A occurs which of the following must occurs

I. F and G
II. E and H
III. D

(a) I only
(b) II only
(c) III only
(d) I,II, & III
(e) I & II (or) II & III but not both

Ans. (e)

7. If B occurs which must occur

(a) D
(b) D and G
(c) G and H
(d) F and G
(e) J

Ans. (a)

8. If J occurs which must have occurred

(a) E
(b) either B or C
(c) both E & F
(d) B
(e) both B & C

Ans. (b)

9. Which may occurs as a result of cause not mentioned

I. D
II. A
III. F

(a) I only
(b) II only
(c) I & II
(d) II & III
(e) I,II & III

Ans. (c)

10. E occurs which one cannot occurs

(a) A
(b) F
(c) D
(d) C
(e) J

Ans. (b)

Oracle Campus Interview Held on 11th July 2003

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Paper: Oracle Campus Interview Held on 11th July 2003

1. given a square matrix which consists only of 1 and 0......find which rows, which cols and which diagonals consist entirely of 1's.

2. given an array of integers find all possible combinations of the numbers whose sum equal to 90.....

Ans : knapsack problem (in data structures - aho ullman)

Note : for them solution was not the criteria.......but the approach was important......the solution should be generalized and optimized..optimization was given the top priority

3. const int MAX=10;

main()

{ enum a {a,b,MAX};

print MAX;

}

ans. 2

4. enum variable is a const variable which can only be assigned a value at initialization or a non const variable which can be assigned any value in the middle of the program?

ans. const variable

5. void *p;

what operation cannot be performed on p?

Ans : arithmetic operation unless it is properly typecasted

6. char **p="Hello";

print p,*p,**p

ans. Hello (null)

warning: suspicious pointer conversion

7. main()

{ char str[]="Geneius";

print (str);

}

print(char *s)

{ if(*s)

print(++s);

printf("%c",*s);

}

ans. suiene

8. what does the function fcloseall() does ?

ans. fcloseall() closes all open streams except stdin,stdout,stderr,stdprn and stdaux

9. main()

{ printf("Genius %d",fun(123));

}

fun(int n)

{ return (printf("%d",n));

}

ans. 123genius3

10. difference between definition and declaration.

ans. definition once while declaration more than once

11. find the error?

main()

{ void fun();

fun();

}

void fun()

{ int i=10;

if(i<10)

return 2.0;

return 3.0;

}

ans. no error but warning

12. int a=9,b=5,c=3,d;

d=(b-c)<(c-a) ? a : b;

print d

ans 5

13. 1+2/3*4+1=?

Ans. 2

14. In C++, a variable can be defined wherever needed whereas not in C

15. main()

{ int i=4;

fun(i=i/4);

print i;

}

fun(int i)

{ return i/2;

}

ans 1

16. what is an array ?

ans. contiguous collection of memory occupied by similar data types

17. printf(""NITK %%SURAHKAL%% !"");

ans. "NITK %SURATHKAL% !"

18. difference between scanf and gets in case of string input

ans. scanf does not accepts white space while gets does

19. table t1 m rows and x cols

table t2 n rows and y cols

in t1*t2 rows? cols=?

ans. m*n ,x+y

20. symbol of relationship between 2 entities?

21. which one cannot come in data modelling

a. customer b. student c. office d. speed

Ans speed

22. can a database table exist without a primary key ?

23. whether higher normal forms better than lower forms as far redundancy is concerned ?

ans. higher

24. file is at which level

ans. conceptual level

25. what is a foreign key

ans. primary key in some other table

Cisco Placement Paper (Technical- Digital Software Section)

2009-06-21T06:50:00.000-07:00

Paper: Cisco Placement Paper (Technical- Digital & Software Section)

Section I - Basic Digital Section

1. In order to find out stack fault of a three input nand gate how many necessary input vectors are needed ?
2. What is parity generation ?
3. A nand gate becomes ___ gate when used with negative logic ?
4. What is the advantage of cmos over nmos ?
5. What is the advantage of synchronous circuits over asynchronous circuits ?
6. What is the function of ALE in 8085 ?
7. A voice signal sample is stored as one byte. Frequency range is 16 Hz to 20 Hz. What is the memory size required to store 4 minutes voice signal?
8. What will the controller do before interrupting CPU?
9. In a normalized floating point representation, mantissa is represented using 24 bits and exponent with 8 bits using signed representation. What is range ?
10. The stack uses which policy out of the following-- LIFO, FIFO, Round Robin or none of these ?
11. Where will be the actual address of the subroutine is placed for vectored interrupts?
12. Give the equivalent Gray code representation of AC2H.
13. What is the memory space required if two unsigned 8 bit numbers are multiplied ?
14. The vector address of RST 7.5 in 8085 processor is _______.
Ans. 003C (multiply 7.5 by 8 and convert to hex)
15. Subtract the following hexadecimal numbers--- 8416 - 2A16
16. Add the following BCD numbers--- 1001 and 0100
17.How much time does a serial link of 64 Kbps take to transmit a picture with 540 pixels
18. Give the output when the input of a D-flip flop is tied to the output through the XOR gate.
19. How much time does a serial link of 64 Kbps take to transmit a picture with 540 pixels.
20. Give the output when the input of a D-flip flop is tied to the output through the XOR gate
21. Implement the NOR gate as an inverter.
22. What is the effect of temperature on the Icb in a transistor
23. What is the bit storage capacity of a ROM with a 512*4 organization?
24. What is the reason of the refresh operation in dynamic RAM's ?
25. Suppose that the D input of a flip flop changes from low to high in the middle of a clock pulse. Describe what happens if the flip flop is a positive edge triggered type?
26. How many flip flops are required to produce a divide by 32 device ?
27. An active HIGH input S-R latch has a 1 on the S input and a 0 on the R input. What state is the latch in?
28. Implement the logic equation Y = C^BA^ + CB^A + CBA with a multiplexer. (where C^ stands for C complement)
29. Equivalent Gray code representation of AC2H.
30. What does a PLL consist of ?

Section II - Software Section

1. The starting location of an array is 1000. If the array[1..5/...4] is stored in row major order, what is the location of element [4,3]. Each word occupies 4 bytes
2. In a tertiary tree, which has three childs for every node, if the number of internal nodes are N, then the total number of leaf nodes are
3. Explain the term "locality of reference" ?
4. What is the language used for Artificial Intelligence
Ans: lisp
5. What is the character set used in JAVA 2.0 ?
Ans: Unicode
6. char a =0xAA ;
int b ;
b = (int) a ;
b = b >> 4 ;
printf("%x",b);
What is the output of the above program segment ?
7. struct s1 { struct { struct { int x; } s2 } s3 }y; How does one access x in the above given structure definition ?
8. Why there is no recursion in Fortran ?
Ans. There is no dynamic allocation.
9. What is the worst case complexity of Quick sort?
Ans. O(n2)
10. What will be sequence of operating system activities when an interrupt occurs ?

Convergys Placement Paper (Aptitude, C C++ &VB)

2009-06-21T06:48:00.000-07:00

Paper: Convergys Placement Paper (Aptitude, C C++ & VB)

Aptitude :

1) All the children were arranged in rows. all the rows containing equal no. of students. if 4 students were removed from each row 10 more rows had to be added. if 5 students were added in each row no. of rows were reduced by 8.find the no. of children. the choices were like this
1)400
2)500
3)600
4)800.
Ans) 800

2) 2/3 of people read newspaper A , 3/4 read newspaper B.if 38 read both and 8 didn't read any of the 2.how many read A?

ans) 48

3) There are 5 questions based on a murder story.the questions concentrate on the seating arrangements of people mentioned.

4) A plane goes from Chicago to Columbus and then comes back. It takes the same time to travel in either ways. It leave Chicago early in the morning 0644 LOCAL TIME and reaches the destination Columbus at 0849 LOCAL TIME. In the same evening it leave Columbus at 1625 hrs LOCAL TIME and reaches the destination at 1638 LOCAL TIME. Find the time that the plane takes to travel either way?

Ans: 69 mins

5) There is a 14 digit credit card number in which every 3 consecutive digits add to 20. Here is a part of it.. Find the value of 'x'?

_ _ _ 9 _ _ _ x _ _ _ 7 _ _

Ans : 4

6) Ram gets 148 marks for 20 questions. +10 for correct. -3 for wrong. How many correct answers?

Ans : 16

7) Ganesh and Shankar travel abroad and take more luggage than the airlines allow. They have to pay extra money for it. They carry 52 kgs together and pay $60 and $100 respectively. Now, if the same luggage was carried by only Ganesh it would cost him $340. If the airlines charges only at one rate for extra luggage what is the maximum luggage that a person can carry without paying extra?

Ans : 18 kgs

8) There are 6 consecutive numbers P, Q, R, S, T, U, not necessarily in that order. Given that, Q is 2 less that P, P is 3 less that T and R is 2 less than S, arrange them in an ascending order.

Ans: QRPSUT

9) Number of digits with a 2 in them between 100 and 400?

Ans : 138

10) Bactria double every 3 mins. It is N in 1 hour, when was it N/4?

Ans : 54 minutes.

11) One day the Finance minister decides that the country should have only 33 paise and 56 paise.If there are two traders having enough change in the two denominations, what is the minimum amount for which they can transact?

Choices :1,2,3,6

Ans: 3

12) Out of the following numbers which is the greatest number when 7 times that number is (1,2) b)*g(1,2) c)(*g)(1,2) d)g(1,2)

Ans: c) (*g)(1,2)

4) Encapsulation

a)Aggregation of member objects
b)Aggregation of member functions
c)Used to incorporate data hiding

Ans: c)

5) Float_ptr = new float[100]
In order to deallocate this memory use

a)delete float_ptr
b)delete [] float_ptr
c)delete float_ptr [100]
d)delete float_ptr []

Ans:b)

6) i = 12
int *p = &I;
print ("%d %d", p/p,*p**p)

Output
a) 1144
b) 144144
c) O/p Error
d) Junk

Ans:c)

7) What is Virtual member function?

8) Cin, Cout are

a)Class
b)Objects
c)Methods
d)Keywords

Ans: objects

9) cout << ( cout << "Hello" )<< "World"

Ans: HelloWorld

10) i=0;
a = 1;
b = 4;
swap(int a, int b)
{
int temp;
temp = a;
a = b;
b = a;
i = 1;
}

Output
a)4 0 0
b)0 4 1
c)1 4 1
d)Error

The questions is similar to this but am sure of the answer it is

Ans: 4 0 0

11)difference between member function and a constructor?
Ans: constructor cannot return value.

12)class B is the subclass of class A.which of the following describes the relationship?
a)…..is a……
b)….has a…..
c)…..implemented as……
d)
ans : I guess …..is a…. (Im not sure)

Language : VB

1) How will u keep the exisiting values of a array when enlarging it

Ans : Using Redim Preserve

2) for i = 0 to 5
a[i] = i
print a[i]
next i

how would it get printed in the form?

1.012345
2.0
1
2
3
4
5
3.12345
4.1
2
3
4
5

Ans : guess the choice is 2

Note : the question is some what similar to this, have a look at how print stmt's result
would be

3) Resume used in conjunction with
a)On Error b)Error c)Error GOTO

Ans:On Error

4) Creating a new object using
a)New b) New, Create Object
c)New, Create Object, Set
d) New, CreateObject, Set Get Object

Ans: a) New

5) DIM x, y, z as Integer

Ans: X, Y variants, Z - Integer

6) Dim Counter;
For Counter = True to False
Print Counter
Next
Output :
a)Error msg b) True False c) -1 0 d) True

Ans: c) -1 0

7) Form load
textbox.text = "Hello"
on form load what all events will take place
a) Initialise b) Initialise, load c) Initialise, load, activate
d) Initialise, load, activate, validate

Ans: (c)

8) Connection object, command objection. How can u
associate both?

a)Set command object.activeconnection = connectionobject

9)some code segment was given (I don't remember that) but the question was about this statement.
Print A A (A is a variable)
How VB will react?

10) var1 is declared as global variable.proc1( ) and proc( ) have local variables.when a call is made from proc1( ) to proc ( ) which are the variables will be displayed in locals window?

11)how do u unregister a COM from registry?
Ans) I think the third option .the answer will start with regsvr32 /u …..

12)what will happen when Require Variable Declaration option is checked?
a) existing undeclared variables are converted to variant by VB
b) this comes into effect for the new code segment

13)A global module called global. as is creates. which part of the program can access this module? The options were ambigous.be clear about the scope of the global. as module and the application which access it

HP Placement Paper (Technical)

2009-06-21T06:43:00.000-07:00

Paper: HP Placement Paper (Technical)

1. Write a Program find and replace a character in a string.

2. Write a Program function to perform the subtraction of two .Eg:char N1="123",N2="478", N3=-355(N1-N2).

3.Write a Program dynamically initialize a 2 dimensional array Eg:5x20,accept strings and check for vowels and display the no. finally free the space allocated .

4. Write a Program read a line from file from location N1 to N2 using command line arguments Eg:exe 10 20 a.c

5. Write a Program find the largest of 4 no using macros.

6. HP acquired this company in 2002. Which is the company
a) Compaq b) Dell c) option 3 d) Option4
Ans: a

7. What does 3G denote
a) 3rd generation mobile communication b) 3rd generation computer languages
c) option 3 d) option4
Ans: a

8. An application program that is used by the users to get the information from the backend of some application like databases:
a) application server b) proxy server c) database server d) option 4
Ans: database server

9. Which of the following is not true about the e-mail
a) It can be accessed by a client program using POP
b) It can be accessed by a client program using imap protocol
c) option 3
d) option 4
Ans: I don't remember the answer but first 2 are true.

10. Some question regarding the company and who developed it ( the thing to remember is that Apple produce Macintosh computers).

11 main( )
{
unsigned int i=3;
while( i >=0)
printf( "%d", i--);
}
how many times will the printf statement be executed?
a)0 b)3 c)4 d) infinite

12. main( )
{
int x,y, z;
x=2;
y=5;
z= x+++y;
printf("%d %d %d", x, y z);
}
a)3 5 7 b)option 2 c)option 3 d)option 4
Ans: a

13. # define swap(a,b) temp=a; a=b; b=temp;
main( )
{
int i, j, temp;
i=5;
j=10;
temp=0;
if( i > j)
swap( i, j );
printf( "%d %d %d", i, j, temp);
}
Ans: On compiling i got ans 10, 0, 0. I did not understand the concept. Please
expalin this to me.

14. Java section: questions on java related stuff.
1) Java was initially code named as:
a)Oak b)green c)miller d)option4
Ans: Oak

15. What is not true about the following statements about java.
a) it is compiled using javac compiler
b) the compiled files have .class extension.
c) such files cannot be transfered from one comp to another.
d) they use the java interpreter
Ans: c

16. Why is the synchronize used?
a) to initialize multiple objects b) to lock an object c)option3 d) option 4
Ans: b (probably)

Infosys Campus Placement Paper Held On 21st Jan 2008 At Noida (Pattern & Interview)

2009-06-02T07:31:00.001-07:00

Paper: Infosys Campus Placement Paper Held On 21st Jan 2008 At Noida (Pattern & Interview)

Hi friends,
This is mahendra a student of jnct bhopal (a sister concern of lnct bhopal). infy gives the toughest written test than any that of any company. The test paper consists of two papers first one is of logical reasoning containing 30 questions in 30 mins. no negative marking is there. All the reasoning Questions inclusions the following.

1. Deductive reasoning
2. Simple reasoning (diagrams)
3. A paragraph will, be given n the reasoning questions will be asked on the basis of paragraph (very easy questions thes r)
4. A graph would b given n questions will b asked on the basis of that graph (easy but time taking)

The second paper is of complete english. very long paper it is, containins 40 ques n the time to solve is 35 mins.... this paper is very tough...includes
1.unseen passage (never read the passage first. first see the questions asked after that find the answers in the passage for better time management.
2.small passages were given to u n the best summary will b asked.... also tthe title for the passage may b asked....
3.fill in the blank wid the appropiate sentence
4. correct the wrong sentence

After giving the written i quickly went to other college to give l& t InfoTech. I have filled all the entries of answer sheet there n just the paper was about to b distributed... i got the call that i have been selected... i gave back my answer sheet n run to my bike to lnct i picked my tie n wear it n on a call for my name i entered the room for interview. As the interviewer was very far away from the gate i didn't ask for the permission to enter...

I: a very gud evening sir
Int:yes gud eve have ur seat
I: thank u sir
Int:give me ur cv
I gave my cv
Int: mr mahendra u have not signed ur cv
I; sorry sir n signed it
Int: tell me ur family background
I told evrything
Int:to which cities the potatoes from u r supplied
I told
int: hiow many trucks u load usually per day
i; on avg 2 or 3 n also depends on the availability of trucks
int:okay wat r ur interests
i: cooking
int: oh wat can u cook veg or non veg
i: only veg in semi veg i can cook egg curr very tasty
int: do u eat non veg
i: yes sir
int: okay mahendra tell me about efi system as i have wriiten that i have presented paper on the (electronic fuel injection system)
i told everything about it
int: wat about maruti 800
I; its using mpfi system
in:differences
i told
int: tell me more abt efi
i:told everything so that he was impressed
int:dear so u r a cricketeri: my gud luck sir
in:wat u do in the game
i:medium pace bowling
in: wher do u field
i: at point
int:then u r the specialist of fielding
i: sir i m, as it is considere that the point fielder is the specialist of the fielding
int:okay mahendra there r two bars one is magnet n other is iron looking same .....how will u judge wich one is magnet
i tried but couldnt solve
int; there r three pots equidistance from each other. u have to place a 4th pot at equidistance from all these threes where will u place...
i: sir i wont b comfortable with puzzles
int:oh my dear mahendra these r not puzzles ,the r just approaches
i: itry to my level best
int: okay
i found the anwer in just less than 30 seconds n shooted it

he was very very impressed n asked to leave i wished last time n come out from the room.... after that i went to have a cup of tea i was very happy n i was make known that there is also a second phase of interview.....fortyunately i reached at time there

second phase, this i asked before entry

int: r u indian
i: yes sir
int:sure
i:100%
int: i dont think sooo
i: wat happened sir
int: u have placed blank the cloumn of citizenship in ur proforma
i: sorry sir n filled it that time
int :why didnt u
i: i forgot sir
int: u know mahendra u got second highest marke in written test n i dont expect these type of non sense things from a student like u.
i: sori sir,xtremly very sori
int:how was the interaction in ur 1st interview
i:it was nice
int:wat was nice in it
i: sir the man taking my interview was very cool
int weren't u cool
i: i was too sir
int: okay this was the interaction b/w both of us u may leave now

i said thanks n came out from the room after that interview i was very tense.....because i dont want to come back after reaching the final stage.

frens after that i again went to have the tea.... before reaching back the results were announced n i was selected in final 13 students if my college. frens if u have cleared the written of infy ... u have 90% selected......but in written try to good better

IBM Campus Placement Paper (Technical, Aptitude & HR)

2009-06-02T07:30:00.000-07:00

Paper: IBM Campus Placement Paper (Technical, Aptitude & HR)

Sections:
1. Aptitude
2. Technical

Aptitude :

1. like 3 consecutive prime adds to some no what is that
Ans: both 49 and 59.

2. one person traveled 4 laps with the speed of 10,20,40 ( or 30) and 60 kmph and what is the average speed.
Ans: 20 (sure)

3.like one student takes 20 mins if he go with speed 15kmph and at what speed he should go to reach in 15 mins ( nos are not same)
Ans: 16kmph( but not sure)

4. there are 2 type of people group 'yes' who always says yes ( they never say 'no') if they are not sure about they will remain silent. and other group name 'no' where the group of people always say 'no' if they are not sure they will remain silent. that's it now questions are
1) what will be the answer if i ask are u belong to group 'yes' options are: they remain silent ,say yes, say no, either yes or no, can't be determined
2) same question but if i ask are u belong to group 'no' answers for both above questions are not ( not determined)
3) what will the other person say if ask are u belong to group 'yes' and etc there were 5 questions first 4 u can do it last one little bit tough. spend some time on this u can do it.

5.Like from height of 8 mts on ball fell down and each time it bounces half the distance back. so what will be the distance traveled
Ans: 24 (sure) like 8+4+4+2+2+1+1+0.5+0.5+ and etc ..

6.like 6 cubes are arranged adjacently and given the perimeter and asked to find the perimeter of one cube.

Ans: if x is the total perimeter then (x/14)*4 leads to the answer. but check it once u will be having plenty of time. answer is 52 (13*4)

7. some data is given like this 10kmph in still water ship took some x mins and downstream some y mins in same time what is the stream value .... (q is not exat)
Ans: 3 (not sure)

8.some average problem like 16 students average weight and teacher joins them ....
Ans: 23 (sure) do this (16x+40)/(x+1) will give the value.

9. some problem on square like to increase area by 69% by what percent side should be increased
Ans: square root of 169 i.e 13 ( not sure)

10. no of rational nos b/w 0 and 5
Ans: infinite

11. First day of 1999 is Sunday what day is the last day
Ans: Monday

12. bullets problem some x no of bullets are shared by 3 people equally . and each fired 4 bullets then the sum of remaining bullets is equal to initially division value
Ans: 18 (sure)

13. bread problem, one come and eat half no of breads and something...
Ans: 63( check it)

14. like A can do in 6 day and B can do in 8 and C can do in 12 days but b left after working for 6 days for how many no of day A and C shluld work
Ans: 11(

Technical:

1. what is vector processing

2. what is data integrity

3.which topology takes minimum wiring

4.best sorting if elements are already sorted
Ans: insertion sort

5.software configuration management -----
Ans: option a ( but check it from SE text book there are only 2 confusing answers)

6.In network the packers are flowing unnecessarily what is the way to control it and ....

7.some octal no to decimal conversion for given octal no the last digit was 7
Ans: the option a ( the decimal last digit was 1)

8. x-=y+1 is equivalent to
Ans: x=x-y-1 (sure) because it is interpreted as x=x-(y+1)

9. in a student form what is the relationship b/w student and course
Ans: actually it is many to one but they specified in a student form so think and write.

10.which is correct to append the output of ls and who to some file x.
Ans: (who;ls)>>x (check it)

11.what is trigger in DBMS (know what it will do)

12.what happens when we open a file in r+ mode like whether file will be created if it s not there can we write to file ...

13. what is ROM
Ans: it contains boot up program and it is not accessible that was one answer and another option was it is non volatile ( choose one among these 2)

14. what is int (*a)[4]
Ans: pointer to an array of 4 integer (check it)

15. primary key of another table is present and so on..........
Ans: foreign key

16. what is the difference b/w 0123 and 123 in c?
Ans: 40(sure)

17. which among the devices is spooled device
Ans: printer (correct)

18. if u get error in adapter which device will u use?

19. which is the real time application
Ans: robotics

HR Questions:

1. why 2+2 is 4 why not 5.

Ans: assume u took 2 apples from A and 2 more apples from B and assume u are having 5 and give 2 to X and give 2 more to Y then nothing will be with u i.e u loosed.

2.how may stones did hanuman thowned on Lanka? ( different but of same type) and one more how many trees are there in your campus ?

Bajaj Placement Paper Held On 8th August 2008

2009-06-02T07:29:00.000-07:00

Paper : Bajaj Placement Paper Held On 8th August 2008

Here are some of the written test questions (Mathematical, Aptitude, Reasoning Type Questions)

1. There are three guys who have equal number of bullets. All of them shoot 4 bullets. The remaining bullets are equal to the total number of bullets remaining is equal to the bullets each had after division. What was the original number of bullets each one had?

2. Find out the sum of digits. Let A= 19991999 B = sum of digits of A, C = sum of digits of B, D = sum of digits of C. (HINT: A = B = C = D (mod 9))

3.There is a 50m long army platoon marching ahead. The last person in the platoon wants to give a letter to the first person leading the platoon. So while the platoon is marching he runs ahead, reaches the first person and hands over the letter to him and without stopping he runs and comes back to his original position. In the mean time the whole platoon has moved ahead by 50m. If the person ran with uniform speed, how much did the last man cover in that time?

4. Take a marker and start from a corner of a cube. How many edges you can trace if you dont move the marker twice anywhere and never remove it? (You can move the marker only on the corner and edges)

Answer: 9

5. One of Mr. Bajaj, his wife, their son and Mr. Bajaj’s mother is an Engineer and another is a Doctor. If the Doctor is a male, then the Engineer is a male. If the Engineer is younger than the Doctor, then the Engineer and the Doctor are not blood relatives. If the Engineer is a female, then she and the Doctor are blood relatives. Can you tell who is the Doctor and the Engineer?

6. There are 1000 buildings in a street. A sign-maker is contracted to number the houses from 1 to 1000. How many zeroes will he need?

7.There are 9 coins. Out of which one is odd one i.e weight is less or more. How many iterations of weighing are required to find odd coin?

8. Medals question. Easy one.

9.In Mr. Mehta’s family, there are one grandfather, two fathers, two mothers, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, etc. etc.You have to give the minimal number of members. The question is like this.

10. A person wants to withdraw some rupees and some paise from the bank. But the cashier gave him the wrong amount. The person comes to know after spending 20 paise. Now the person has double the amount he should have. Find out how much money he wanted to withdraw.

Ericsson Placement Paper 12 Feb 2006 At Gurgaon (Aptitude & Technical)

2009-06-02T07:26:00.002-07:00

Paper: Ericsson Placement Paper 12 Feb 2006 At Gurgaon (Aptitude & Technical)

There were two round

1. aptitude (60 questions 60 mins)
2 c or Java test (15 questions 30 mins) first one has 2 clear the aptitude test then only u can give the C or java test

Aptitude
1. first 10 questions where of data interpretation they will give u some figures based on that u have to answer
2. 5 questions of data sufficiency.
3. 20 questions of quantitatives aptitude mainly from rs aggrawal (solved examples) topics like profit and loss time and work percentage average clock time boats work and distance
4. 10 questions of analytical reasoning
a. one questions of similar puzzle given in rs agrawal verbal and nonverbal reasoning
5. 5 questions of verbal reasoning synonyms + some verbal reasoning question based on passage
6.10 technical questions:- 3 questions on unix , 1 question which is not a universal gate, 2 more question of Electronics

C paper

1. i don't remember exactly but something on function ptr.
2. is char a[] and char *ptr same ? Ans no
3. can we use void fun(char *ptr) in place of void fun( char a[])? Ans Yes
4. what is the o/p of printf("%d",i++*++i); Ans no o/p error
5. in a 64 bit os what is the o/p of sizeof(a)= ? char a[10]; Ans 10
6. what is the o/p of
for(i=0;i<10;i++);
{
printf("%d",i);
} Ans no o/p
7.can a structure point to itself ? Ans Yes
8-12. 5 questions on command line arguments (simple one from test ur c skills from yashwant kanetakar)
13. will this work strcpy(string,'a'); Ans Yes
14. char *a="abcd";
char *b="fgeh";
strcpy(a,b) will it work
is no what is the error?
Ans it will not work as what is beyond abcd in a is not known

Accenture IDC Recruitment Latest Paper (Technical-C)

2009-06-02T07:26:00.001-07:00

Paper: Accenture IDC Recruitment Latest Paper (Technical-C)

1.Study the Following Points:
a.One Cannot Take the address of a Bit Field
b.bit fields cannot be arrayed
c.Bit-Fields are machine Dependant
d.Bit-fields cannot be declared as static
Which of the Following Statements are true w.r.t Bit-Fields
A)a,b&c B)Only a & b C)Only c D)All

2.What is the function of ceil(X) defined in math.h do?
A)It returns the value rounded down to the next lower integer
B)it returns the value rounded up to the next higher integer
C)the Next Higher Value
D)the next lower value

3.When do you say that a digraph is acyclic
A)if and only if its first search does not have back arcs
B)a digraph is acyclic if and only if its first search does not have back vertices
C)if and only if its first search does not have same dfnumber
D)None of these

4.A function ‘q’ that accepts a pointer to a character as argument and returns a pointer to an array of integer can be declared as:
A)int (*q(char*)) []
B)int *q(char*) []
C)int(*q)(char*) []
D)None of the Above

5.What kind of sorting is this:

SORT (k,n)
1.[Loop on I Index]
repeat thru step2 for i=1,2,……..n-1
2.[For each pass,get small value]
min=i;
repeat for j=i+1 to N do
{
if K[j]
min=j;
}
temp=K[i];K[i]=K[min];K[min]=temp;

3.[Sorted Values will be returned]

A)Bubble Sort
B)Quick Sort
C)Selection Sort
D)Merge Sort

6.Which of the Following is not defined in string.h?
A)strspn()
B)strerror()
C)memchr()
D)strod()

7.Identify the correct argument for the function call fflush() in ANSI C:
A)stdout
B)stdin
C)stderr
D)All the above

8.Which of the Following will define a type NODE that is a node in a Linked list?
A)struct node {NODE*next;int x;};type def struct node NODE;
B)typedef struct NODE {struct NODE *next;int x;};
C)typedef struct NODE {NODE *next;int x;};
D)typedef struct {NODE *next;int x;}NODE;

9.Which of these statements are false w.r.t File Functions?
i)fputs() ii)fdopen() iii)fgetpos() iv)ferror()

A)ii B)i,ii C)iii D)iv

10.Study the code:
void show()
main()
{
show();
}
void show (char *s)
{
printf("%sn",s);
}

What will happen if it is compiled & run on an ANSI C Compiler?
A)It will compile & nothing will be printed when it is executed
B)it will compile but not link
C)the compiler will generate an error
D)the compiler will generate a warning

11.Look at the Code:
#include
void main()
{
char s1[]="abcd";
char s2[10];
char s3[]="efgh";
int i;
clrscr();
i=strcmp(strcat(s3,ctrcpy(s2,s1))strcat(s3,"abcd"));
printf("%d",i);
}

What will be the output?
A)No output B) A Non Integer C)0 D) Garbage

12.Look at the Code:
main()
{
int a[]={1,2,3},i;
for(i=0;i<3;i++)
{
printf("%d",*a);
a++;
}
}

Which Statement is/are True w.r.t the above code?
I.Executes Successfully & Prints the contents of the array
II.Gives the Error:Lvalue Required
III.The address of the array should not be changed
IV.None of the Above.

A)Only I B)Only II C)II & III D)IV

13.what is the output?
#define fun(a,b,t) (g ##t=(a),(a)=(b),(b)=g##t)
float gfloat;
main()
{
float a=1.12,b=3.14;
fun (a,b,float);
printf("na=%4.2f,b=%4.2f",a,b);
}

A)Error in Defining Macro
B)a=1.12,b=3.14
C)a=3.14,b=1.12
D)None of teh Above

14.study the code:
#include
void main()
{
const int a=100;
int *p;
p=&a;
(*p)++;
printf("a=%dn(*p)=%dn",a,*p);
}
What is printed?

A)100,101 B)100,100 C)101,101 D)None of the above

15.Which of the following are valid “include” formats?
A)#include and #include[file.h]
B)#include (file.h) and #include
C)#include [file.h] and #include “file.h”
D)#include and #include “file.h”

BSNL GE-JTO Recruitment Paper

2009-06-02T07:25:00.000-07:00

Paper: BSNL GE-JTO Recruitment Paper

1. For a parallel plate capacitor which is being charged out of the following the incorrect statement is –

a). Energy stored in the capacitor does not enter it through the connecting wire through the space around the wires and plates of capacitor.

b.) Rate at which energy flows into this volume is equal to the integration of the poynting vector over the boundary of the volume between the plates.

c.) The poynting vector points everywhere radially outward of the volume between plates.

d.) The poynting vector points everywhere radially into the volume between the plates.

2. The presence of alkali oxides in alumino silicate ceramics is likely to result in dielectric breakdown due to –

a. )Polarization

b.)Conductivity

c.)Structural homogeneties

d) Ionization

3. Which of the following will serve as a donor impurity in silicon –

a.)Boron

b) Indium

c) Germanium

d) Antimony

4. Electrical contact materials used in switches, brushes and relays must possess –

a)High thermal conductivity and high melting point

b) Low thermal conductivity and low melting point

c) High thermal conductivity and low melting point.

d) Low thermal conductivity and high melting point.

5. The Maximum spectral response of the germanium and silicon is in the –

a) infrared region

b) ultraviolet region

c) visible region

d) x-ray region

6. For an insulating material, dielectric strength and dielectric loss should be respectively –

a) high and high

b) low and high

c.) high and low

d.) low and low

7. In a distortion factor meter, the filter at the front end is used to suppress –

a.) odd harmonics

b.) even harmonics

c.) fundamental component

d.) dc component

8. The coefficient of coupling between two air core coils depends on –

a). mutual inductance between two coils only

b). self inductances of the two coils only

c). mutual inductance and self inductances of the two coils

d.) none

9. Modern capacitors which have high capacitance in small size use a dielectric of –

a.) paper

b.) rubber

c.) ceramic

d.) Mylar

10. In any atom the potential energy of an orbiting electron is –

a.) always positive

b.) always negative

c.) sometime positive, sometime negative

d.) numerically less than its kinetic energy

11. A DE MOSFET differs from a JFET in the sense that it has no –

a.) channel

b.) gate

c.) P-N junctions

d.) substrate

12. The advantage of a semiconductor strain gauge over the normal strain gauge is that

a.) it is more sensitive

b.) it is more linear

c.) it is less temperature dependent

d.) it's cost is low

13. Barrier potential in a P-N junction is caused by –

a.) thermally generated electrons and holes

b.) diffusion of majority carriers across the junction

c.) migration of minority carriers across the junction

d.) flow of drift current

14. When an NPN transistor is properly biased then most of the electrons from the emitter –

a.) recombine with holes in the base

b.) recombine in the emitter itself

c.) pass through the base to the collector

d.) are stopped by the junction barrier

15. The value of r when a transistor is biased to cut off is –

a.) 0.5

b.) 0

c.) 1.0

d.) 0.8

16. A UJT can –

a.) be triggered by any one of it's three terminals

b.) not be triggered

c.) be triggered by two of its three terminal only

d.) be triggered by all of its terminals only

17. An SCR can only be turned off via it's –

a.) cathode

b.) anode

c.) gates

d) none

18. Gold is often diffused into silicon DN junction devices to –

a.) increase the recombination rate

b.) reduce the recombination rate

c.) make silicon a direct gap semiconductor

d.) make silicon semi-metal

19. With n nodes and b branches a network will have –

a.) (b + n) links

b.) b – n + 1 links

c.) b – n – 1 links

d.) b + n + 1 links

20. When a network has 10 nodes and 17 branches in all then the number of node pair voltages would be -

a.) 7

b.) 9

c.) 10

d.) 45

21. A two port network having a 6 dB loss will give –

a.) an output power which is one – quarter of the input power

b.) an output power which is one – half of the input power

c.) an output voltage which is 0.707 of the input voltage

d.) an output power which is 0.707 of the input power

22. While transporting a sensitive galvanometer –

a.) the terminals are kept shorted

b.) critical damping resistance is connected across the terminals

c.) the terminals are kept open circuited

d.) it does not matter as to what is connected across the terminals

23. A T type attenuator is designed for an attenuation of 40 dB and terminating resistance of 75 ohms. Which of the following values represent full series and R1 and shunt arm R2 ?

1. R1 = 147W 2. R1 = 153W

3. R2 = 1.5W 4. R2 = 3750W

a..) 1 and 3

b.). 1 and 4

c.). 2 and 3

d..) 2 and 4

24. For a transmission line, the characteristic impedance with inductance 0.294mH/m and capacitance 60pF/m is –

a..) 49w

b.). 60w

c..) 70w

d..) 140w

25. When the graph of a network has six branches with three tree branches then the minimum number of equations required for the solution of the network is –

a..) 2

b..) 3

c..) 4

d..) 5

26. Consider the following statement for a 2-port network

1. Z11 = Z22 2. h12 = h21

3. Y12 = -Y21 4. BC – AD = -1

then the network is reciprocal if and only if –

a..) 1 and 2 are correct

b.) 2 and 3 are correct

c.) 3 and 4 are correct

d.). 4 alone is correct

27. As a network contains only independent current sources and resistors then if the values of all resistors are doubled then the values of the node voltages are –

a.) will become half

b.) will remain uncha

c.). will become double

d.). cannot be determined unless the circuit configuration and the values of the resistors are known

28. The energy of electric field due to a spherical charge distribution of radius r and uniform charge density in vacuum is-

29. Maxwell’s divergence equation for the magnetic field is given by

30. When a short grounded vertical antenna has a length L which is 0.05 l at frequency f and if it’s radiation resistances at f is R Ohms, then it’s radiation resistance at a frequency 2f will be –

a). R/2 ohms

b). R ohms

c). 2R ohms

d). 4R ohms

31. In a cylindrical cavity resonator, the two modes which are degenerate would include

a.) TE111 and TM111

b). TE011 and TM011

c). TE022 and TM111

d). TE111 and TM011

32. When an antenna of input resistance 73 ohm is connected to a 50-ohm line and if the losses are ignored then it’s efficiency will be nearly

a). 0.19

b). 0.81

c). 0.97

d). 1.19

33. If an isolated conducting sphere in air has radius = 1/ 4pqe0 it capacitance will be

a). Zero

b). IF

c). 4pF

d). OF

34. When a dominant mode wave guide not terminated in it’s characteristic impedance is excited with a 10 GHz signal then if ‘d’ is the distance between two successive minima of the standing wave in the guide then

a). d = 1.5 cm

b). d is less then 1.5 cm

c). d is greater than 1.5 cm

d). d = 3cm

35. When a dipole antenna of l/8 length has an equivalent total loss resistance of 1.5 W then the efficiency of the antenna is

a). 0.89159 %

b). 8.9159 %

c). 89.159 %

d). 891.59 %

36. In commercial FM broadcasting, the maximum frequency deviation is normally

a). 5 KHz

b). 15 KHz

c). 75 KHz

d). 200 KHz

37. Weins bridge is used for measurement of frequency in the applied voltage waveform is measurement of frequency in the applied voltage waveform is –

a). sinusoidal

b). square

c). rectangular

d). triangular

38. Strain gauge is –

a). not a transducer

b). an active transducer

c). not an electronic instrument

d). none

39. A high Q coil has –

a). large band width

b). high losses

c). low losses

d). flat response

40. In the case of an instrument reading of 8.3V with a 0 to 150 voltmeter having a guaranteed accuracy of 1% full scale reading, the percentage limiting error is –

a). 1.810%

b). 0.181%

c). 18.10%

d). 0.0018%

41. The 'h' parameter equivalent circuit of a junction transistor is valid for –

a). High frequency, large signal operation

b.) High frequency, small signal operation

c.) Low frequency, small signal operation

d). Low frequency, large signal operation

42. A system is causal if the output of any time depends only on –

a.) Values of input in the past and in the future

b). Values of input at that time and in the past

c). Values of input at that time and in the future

d). None

43. A iron cored choke is a –

a). Linear and active device

b). Non linear and passive device

c). Active device only

d). Linear device only

44. Poynting vector wattmeter uses –

a). Seebeck effect

b). Ferranti effect

c). Induction effect

d). Hall effect

45. Which one of the following is not a transducer in the true sense ?

a). Thermocouple

b). Piezoelectric pick – up

c). Photo voltaic cell

d). LCD

46. The term used to denote a static device that converts ac to dc, dc to ac, dc to dc or ac to ac is –

a). Converter system

b). Inverter

c). Chopper

d). Thyristor

47. It is an unidirectional device that blocks the current flow from cathode to anode –

a). SCR

b). PCR

c). VCR

d). DCR

48. An ideal constant current source is connected in series with an ideal constant voltage source. Considering together the combination will be a –

a). constant voltage source

b). constant current source

c). constant voltage and a constant current source or a constant power source

d). resistance

49. Anode current in an thyristor is made up of –

a). electrons only

b). electrons or holes

c). electrons and holes

d). holes only

50. For a pulse transformer, the material used for its core and the possible turn ratio from primary to secondary are respectively –

a). ferrite : 20 : 1

b). laminated iron : 1 : 1

c). ferrite : 1 : 1

d). powdered iron : 1 : 1

51. A converter which can operate in both 3 pulse and 6 pulse modes is a –

a.) 1 phase full converter

b). 3 phase half wave converter

c). 3 phase semi converter

d). 3 phase full converter

52. A single phase CSI has capacitor C as the load. For a constant source current, the voltage across the capacitor is –

a.) square wave

b.) triangular wave

c )step function

d.) pulsed wave

53. A single phase full wave midpoint thyristor converter uses a 230/200V transformer with centre tap on the secondary side. The P.I.V per thyristor is –

a). 100V

b). 141.4V

c). 200V

d). 282.8V

54. In dc choppers for chopping period T, the output voltage can be controlled by FM by varying –

a). T keeping Ton constant

b). Ton keeping T constant

c). Toff keeping T constant

d.) None of the above

55. From the hot metal surface electrons escape because

a). of change of state from metal to gas due to heat.

b). of change of stats from gas to metal.

c). the energy supplied is greater than the work function .

d). the energy is greater than Fermi level.

56. The most common device used for detection in radio receivers is –

a). amplifier

b). triode

c). diode

d). transistor

57. In a full wave rectifier the negative point in a circuit is

a). Either cathode

b). Either anode

c). The central tap on the high voltage secondary

d). Either plate

58. Negative feedback amplifier has a signal corrupted by noise as its input. The amplifier will-

a). Amplify the noise as much as the signal

b). Reduce the noise

c). Increase the noise

d). Not effect the noise

59. Match the given feedback circuit with it’s proper nomenclatures

a). Current series feedback

b). Current shunt feedback

c). Voltage series feedback

d). Voltage shunt feedback

60. Class A amplifier is used when

a). No phase inversion is required

b). Highest voltage gain is required

c). dc voltages are to be amplified

d). Minimum distortion is desired

61. Identify the correct match for the given transistor

a). Enhancement type P channel MOSFET

b). Depletion type N channel MOSFET

c). Enhancement type N channel MOSFET

d). Depletion type P channel MOSFET

62. In case a signal band limited to fm is sampled at a rate less than 2fm, the constructed signal will be

a). Distortionless

b). Small in amplitude

c). Having higher frequencies suppressed

d). Distorted

63. Quad 2 input AND gates IC No is –

a). 7411

b). 7404

c). 7400

d). 7408

64. Registers in which data is entered or taken out in serial form are referred as –

a). left shift register

b). right shift register

c). shift registers

d). none of the above

65. The expression can be simplified to

b.) AB + BC + CA

66. An ideal power supply consist of –

a) . Very small output resistance

b) . Zero internal resistance

c) . Very large input resistance

d) . Very large output resistance

67. The linearity error for a digital input is indicated by –

68. Register and counters are similar in the sense that they both –

a). count pulses

b). store binary operation

c). shift registers

d). made from an array of flip flops and gates integrated on a single chip

69. In the 8421 BCD code the decimal number 125 is written as –

a). 1111101

b). 0001 0010 0101

c). 7D

d). None of the above

70. In D/A converter, the resolution required is 50mv and the total maximum input is 10v. The number of bits required is –

a). 7

b). 8

c). 9

d). 200

71. On differentiation unit impulse function results in --

a). Unit parabolic function.

b). Unit triplet.

c). Unit doublet.

d). Unit ramp function.

72. Read the following;

i. Routh Hermitz`s criterion is in time domain.

ii. Root locus plot is in time domain.

iii. Bode plot is in frequency domain.

iv. Nyquist criterion is in frequency domain.

a). 2, 3, and 4 are correct

b). 1, 2 and 3 are correct

c). 3 and 4 are correct

d). All four are correct.

73. The maximum phase shift that can be provided by a lead compensator with transfer function.

a). 150

b). 450

c). 300

d). 600

74. The correct sequence of steps required to improve system stability is –

a). Insert derivative action, use negative feedback, reduce gain.

b). Reduce gain, use negative feedback, insert derivative action.

c). Reduce gain, insert derivative action, use negative feedback.

d). Use negative feedback, reduce gain, insert derivative action.

75. Identity slope change at w = 10 of the magnitude v/s frequency characteristic of a unity feedback system with the following open-loop transfer function –

a). –40dB/dec to –20dB/dec

b). 40dB/dec to 20dB/dec

c). –20dB/dec to –40dB/dec

d). 40dB/dec to –20dB/dec

76. In the feedback control system the loop transfer function is given by –

Number of asymptotes of its root loci is

a). 1

b). 2

c). 3

d). 4

77. In a closed – loop transfer function the imaginary axis intercepts of the root loci will be –

78. Considering the following statement :

In a magic tee

1. the collinear arms are isolated from each other

2. one of the collinear is isolated from the E-arm

3. one of the collinear arm is isolated from the H-arm

4. E-arm and H-arm are isolated from each other.

Of these statements

a) 1 and 2 are correct

b). 1 and 3 are correct

c). 1 and 4 are correct

d). 2 and 3 are correct

79. In 1965 first geostationary satellite was launched called -

a). ANIK

b). EARLY BIRD (Intel sat -1)

c). WESTAR

d). MOLNIYA

80. --- watt of power is received from sun per m2 surface area of a geosynchronous satellite

a). 100

b). 500

c). 2000

d). 1000

81. The ripple factor in an LC filter

a). Increases with the load current

b). Increases with the load resistance

c). Remains constant with the load current

d). Has the lowest value

82. In different parts of the country identical telephone numbers are distinguished by their –

a). Language digits

b). Access digits

c). Area codes

d). Central office codes

83. Amplitude modulation is used for broadcasting because

a). it is move noise immune than other modulation systems

b). compared with other systems it requires less transmitting power

c). its use avoids receiver complexity

d). no other modulation system can provide the necessary bandwidth for high fidelity

84. The amplifiers following the modulated stage in a low level modulation AM system be

a). linear amplifier

b). harmonic generators

c). class C power amplifiers

d). class B untuned amplifiers

85. In a radar system maximum unambiguous range depends on

a). maximum power of the transmitter

b). pulse repetition frequency

c). width of the transmitted pulse

d). sensitivity of the radar receiver

86. In composite video waveform the function of the serrations, is to

a). equalize the charge in the integrator before the start of vertical retrace.

b). help vertical synchronization

c). help horizontal synchronization.

d). simplify the generation of the vertical sync pulse

87. The frequency range 30MHz – 300MHz is –

a). medium frequency

b). very high frequency

c). super high frequency

d). Infrared frequency

88. Which wave cannot exist inside wave guide –

a.) TE

b). TM

c). TEM

d). HE

89. Ionosphere layer of earth is situated at –

a). upto 18kms from earth

b). from 18 to 70 km

c). 70 to 500 km

d). above 500 km

90. A two cavity klystron tube is a –

a). velocity modulated tube

b). frequency modulated tube

c). Amplitude modulated tube

d). simple triode

91. As the thermal noise get doubled due to the increase in a resistance the noise power get –

a). doubled

b). quadrupted

c). unchanged

d). halved

92. Which one is a cross field tube –

a). Klystron

b). Reflex Klystron

c.) Magnetron

d.) TWT

93. The degree of coupling depends on –

a). size of hole

b). location of holes

c). size and location of holes

d). not depend on size or location of hole

94. The thermal noise depends on –

a). direct current through device

b.) resistive component of resistance

c). reactive component of impedance

d) load to connected

95. The charge on a hole is –

96. In a radio receiver the IF amplifier

a.) is tuned above the stations incoming frequency

b). amplifies the output of local oscillator

c). is fixed tuned to one particular frequency

d). can be tuned to various isolate frequencies

97. A duplexer is used to

1. ) couple two antennas to a transmitter without interference
2. ) isolate the antenna from the local oscillator
3. ) prevent interference between two antennas connected to a receiver
4. ) use an antenna for reception or transmission without interference

98. Intel's 8085 microprocessor chip contains

a). seven 8 bit registers

b). 8 seven bits registers

c). seven 7

d). eight 8

99. Boolean algebra is based on –

a). numbers

b). logic

c). truth

d). symbols

100. When A = 0, B = 0, C = 1 then in 2 input logic gate we get - - gate

a). XOR

b). AND

c). NAND

d). NOR

101. With the beginnings of space travel, we entered a new - -

a). Era of great history

b). List

c). Book

d). Year

102. An - - though it mourns the death of someone, need not be sad.

a). Funny poem

b). Newspaper article

c). Orthodox talk

d). Elegy

103. If stare is glance so gulp is –

a). Sip

b). Tell

c). Salk

d). Admire

104. He hardly works means –

a). The work is hard

b). He is hard

c). The work is easy

d). He work very little

105. Give the opposite word for pulchritude –

a). antipathy

b). unsightliness

c). inexperience

d). languor

106. Nanometre is - - - - part of a metre.

a). Millionth

b). Ten millionth

c). Billionth

d). Ten billionth

107. Malaria affects

a). Liver

b). Spleen

c). Intestine

d). Lungs

108. Sindhu Rakshak is a/an

a). Aircraft carrier

b). Submarine

c). Multiple-purpose fighter

d). Anti-aircraft gun

109. With which subject is "Dada Saheb Phalke Award" associated?

a). Best film director

b). Best musician

c). Best documentary

d). Best work relating to promotion of Indian film Industry

110. Who developed the branch of mathematics known as Calculus?

a). Aryabhatta

b). Newton

c). Einstein

d). Archimedes

111. In which state is Kanha Park situated?

a). M.P.

b). U.P.

c). Assam

d). W. Bengal

112. Which day is observed as Human Rights Day?

a). 24th October

b). 4th July

c). 8th August

d.) 10th December

113. The Kailash Temple at Ellora is a specimen of

a). Gupta architecture

b). Rashtrakuta architecture

c). Chalukya architecture

d). Chola architecture

114. When the two Houses of Parliament differ regarding a Bill then the controversy is solved by

a). Joint sitting of the two Houses

b). President of India

c). Prime Minister of India

d). By a special committee for the purpose

115. Which of the following is not the work of Kalidasa?

a). Meghdoot

b). Raghuvansha

c). Sariputra Prakarma

d). Ritushamhara

116. Amir Khusro was the famous poet and aesthete of

a). Akbar the Great

b). Mahmud Ghaznvi

c). Shah Jahan

d.) Alauddin Khilji

117. The words 'Satyameva Jayate' have been taken from

a). Vedas

b). Bhagwad Gita

c). Mundaka Upanishada

d). Mahabharata

e). None of these

118. Which of the following countries was the first to develop a neutron bomb?

a). USA

b). USSR

c). China

d). Pakistan

119. "Kathakali" dance is connected with

a). Kerala

b). Rajasthan

c). Uttar Pradesh

d). Tamil Nadu

120. The term "Ashes" is associated with

a). Hockey

b). Cricket

c). Soccer

d). None of these

ICICI Placement Paper (Verbal Analysis, Numerical Reasoning)

2009-06-02T07:24:00.000-07:00

Paper: ICICI Placement Paper (Verbal Analysis, Numerical Reasoning)

Test 1: Verbal Application:

Choose the combination of words which you think will best fit the spaces for each question. Your answers should be grammatical and make the most sense. See how many you can do in 4 minutes.

1.The ______ of the venture might have been predicted if ______ attention had been paid to the report which pinpointed several fundamental problems.
A. failure, no B. failure, less C. failure, more D. success, more E. success, greater

2. The problem is not so ______ the total amount of funding assigned to the department, but rather that this funding has been _____ too thinly amongst individual managers.
A. much, given B. much, spread C. much, focused
D. uniquely, assigned E. Uniquely, distributed

3.The company will provide ______ clothing and equipment where it is required. However, it is up to the _____ to take reasonable care of there own safety by using equipment that is provided.
A. protection, employed B. protective, employment C. protective, employers
D. protective, employees E. precautionary, employees

4. The decision was _____ by the workforce as an important move towards providing a ______ defined career structure.
A. applauded, radically B. greeted, poorly C. criticized, poorly
D. dismissed, well E. welcomed, well

5. Her first step in ______ the problem was to ______ the opinions of those who would actually be involved in the day to day running of the scheme.
A. creating, define B. generating, imitate C. solving, seek
D. enhancing, discredit E. identifying, divulge

6. The job losses came despite _____ pressure to reverse the demand for______ cuts.
A. growing, tax B. decreasing, job C. increasing, sales
D. weakening, spending E. mounting, expenditure

7. ______ are reminded that all the expense _____ should be authorized by their _______ and sent to account with relevant VAT receipt.
A. staff, forms, clients B. staff, allowances, supervisors C. staffs, claims, supervisors D. managers, claims, subordinates E. managers, bills, subordinates

8. _____ recent industrial relations _______, the company hopes that profits will ______ a dividend to be paid to the shareholders.
A. despite, conflicts, allow B. because of, set backs, prevent C. in view of, acrimonies, permit D. in line with, improvements, deter E. due to, difficulties, preclude.

Test 2: Numerical Reasoning

Choose the correct answer from the 5 options given for each question. See how many you can do in 7 minutes. You may use a calculator.

1. If maintenance contract costs $87 per month and a technician call not under a maintenance contract $325, how many call outs per year would make the contract worthwhile?
A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 7 E. 8

2. If every 250 bottles of bleach require 16.25 liters of solvent to produce, how much solvent is required to produce 6500 bottles of bleach?
A. 42.3litres B. 100litres C. 121.9litres D. 422.5litres E. 1219litres

3. Last years sales target was $265000. This years is $328000. By what percentage has this years sales target increased over last years?
A. 17 B. 29 C.43 D.81 E. none of these

4. A total of 5200 analyses last month required 17300 hours of computer time. Approximately how much time would be required to perform an additional 300 analyses if all other factors remain unchanged?
A. 330 hours B. 540 hours C. 660 hours D. 940 hours E. 1000 hours

5. A batch of shampoo requires 510 liters of herbal extract and 13400 liters of water. What is the approximate ratio of water to herbal extracts?
A. 26:1 B. 38:1 C. 1:26 D. 1:38 E. 1:260

6. How many times over the period did branches A, B or C experience a reduction in profit?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 3 D. 4 E. 5

7. By what percentage did the total profit made by branches A, B and C increase from year 1 to year 3?
A. 2% B. 2.2% C.20% D. 22% E. 102%

8.temporary staff are paid $6.00 per hour. If 47 hours were worked last week by each of 7 temporary staff, what was the total bill?
A. $197 B. $282 C. $329 D. $846 E. $1974

9. If 625kg of fruit are required to produce 200 jars of jam, approximately how much fruit is required to produce 450 jars of jam?
A. 144kg B. 531kg C. 864kg D. 1270kg E.1406kg

10.A survey carried out on 1500 people showed that 37% liked a new product, while 32% were indifferent. If the rest said they disliked the product, how many people were in category?
A. 48 B. 237 C. 465 D. 945 E1020

11. In an average week, the computer is down for 2.75 hours. Lost revenue per hour is $425000. What is the approximate total revenue lost in a 52 week year?
A. $0.23m B. $8.04m C. $12.1m D. $47.26m E$60.78m

12. The Operating Profit last year was $7.75m. If there is an increase this year of 13%, what will this years Operating Profit be?
A. $7945000 B. $8126800 C. $8346200 D. $8757500 E. none of these

13. Of a total of 225 employees, 32% are female, 89% of female employees are between the ages of 20 and 35. How many employees are females between the ages of 20 and 35?
A. 12 B. 58 C. 64 D. 89 E. 201

14. If a department makes a profit of 30% on a turnover of $85000, what percentage profit can be expected if overheads increase by $10000 but other factors remain unchanged?
A. 5% B. 10% C.14% D. 18% E.25%

Test 3: Verbal Analysis:

Choose the correct answer to each question by basing you answers on the information contained in the passage only and not on general knowledge. Some questions have 2 options, others have 5. See how many you can do in 8 minutes

Accountants have shown how simple it is to inflate profits artificially by manipulating accounting standards, while the stock market demonstrates that such artificial inflation will be followed by natural deflation: many companies have been humbled by falling profits and share prices. Certainly, accounting standards are as much to blame as accountants, but the heart of the problem is that tension between the interests of management and those of shareholders is almost invariably resolved in favour of management. Share holders notionally have the right to vote against the re-election of auditors, but they never do, and it is the management that signs the cheques. It is desirable for the accounting profession to police itself more effectively and for share holders to take more seriously their responsibility for the election of auditors. However, neither is likely to happen.

1. Which of the following best replaces the word “notionally” (line7)?
A. actually B. theoretically C. figuratively D. legally E. naturally

2. Why is it unlikely according to the passage that the accounting profession will begin policing itself more effectively?
A. the accounting profession has insufficient resources.
B. The management of companies would prevent this.
C. The accounting profession would lose profit.
D. The accounting profession does not want share holders to become involved in electing auditors.
E. Cannot say.

3.Which one of the following summarizes the overall message of the passage?
A. Share holders should become more actively involved in company proceeding than at present.
B. Management should not be more influential than shareholders in the appointment of external advisors.
C. Auditors activities should not be controlled by the purse but by professional ethics.
D. Manipulation of accounting standards is ultimately undesirable and should be prevented.
E. Inflation and deflation are not always caused by legitimate influences.

4.Can it be inferred from the passage that most companies overstate their profits?
A. Yes
B. No

The government has recently attempted to integrate the environmental clean up of industry under one umbrella. To minimized environmental damage, the volume of pollutants emitted from a plant has to be authorized by an official pollution control inspectorate.
Industry has complained repeatedly about the time and cost of getting operations approved under the new system. The inspectors maintain, however, that industry often has itself to blame for delays as many applications provide insufficient data. Industry has also worried about public access to the information it supplies to get authorization. Information can only be withheld from public registers on the grounds of commercial confidentiality, if a company can prove it would be disadvantaged by disclosure.

5. For which two of the following reasons was the new pollutions control system set up?
A. To provide an integrated approach to pollutions control
B. To reduce the number of toxins utilized by industry.
C. To maintain the quantity of contaminants at an acceptable level.
D. To ensure that each industrial company operates competitively.
E. To enable applications to be authorized quickly.

6. Is it true according to the passage that obtaining authorization on operations results in having to divulge confidential information to competitors?
A. Yes
B. No

7.Can it be inferred from the passage that industry has not welcomed the introduction of the official pollution control inspectorate?
A. Yes
B. No

8.According to the passage, how accurate is the statement, “There would be no environmental destruction if there were no pollutants”?

A. Definitely true
B. Likely to be true
C. Likely to be untrue
D. Definitely untrue

Infosys Placement Paper Held On 16th Jan 2008 (Pattern & Question)

2009-06-02T07:23:00.002-07:00

Paper: Infosys Placement Paper Held On 16th Jan 2008 (Pattern & Question)

Infosys conducted there first campus recruitment programme for 2009 batch at our college and i must say the paper was bit difficult ,when compared to there previous papers. English part was normal.

The paper was conducted in two phases

1.) Aptitude : 30 Ques. and we had 40 min.
2.) English : 40 Ques and we had 35 min.

APTITUDE :
Q1.) There r 4 players A,B,C & D who play a game 4 times & each time one player looses and as a punishment he doubles the money of other three players.Each player looses once in alphabetical order while playing the game 4 times.At the end each player is left with 32 Rs.

Now there were 5 questions based on the above data like who started with the maximum amount of money,who had the minimum after second round,who had the maximum after third round,who started with minimum,etc.
Q2.) 5 quest were based on figures in which we have to find the next occuring figure in a given sequence of figures.
Q3.) 5 ques. were based on data suffiency(easy).
Q4.) 5 ques. were on pie charts,percentages of import & export of india to different countries were given in angles so they had to be converted in actual percentages,calculations were lengthy as the options were very close to round of percentages.
Q5.) 5 ques. were based on syllogism.
Q6.) 5 ques. were based on Data Interpretation.
Over all aptitude section was very logical and lengthy.

ENGLISH:
First 2 questions were large passages which were followed by 5 simple questions each.Passages were quiet big but questions followed were very simple.
Q3.) It consisted of 6 questions.There were 4 sentences given in each question and we had to find the best gramatically & logically correct sentence out of those 4.
Q4.) There were 6 incomplete sentences & 4 options were given with each.We had to choose the option which best fits the blank.
Q5.) There were 6 small paragraphs given & each paragraph was followed by a question like what could be the best conclusion of the above paragraph,or which option contradicts with the conclusion of the above para. or what could be the logical continuation of the above para.

There were 2 other main questions which had 6 parts each.Questions were based on simple grammar. Over all English section was easy but lengthy.

TIME was the major factor.Hence ur mind should run fleeter than wind.Joining any kind of coaching class won't help.If u have it in urself than no one can stop u.Just have confidence & be optimistic.

There was sectional cut off which as per my belief was 60% in each section.31out of 188 eligible students were selected in the written test

Second phase consisted of two interviews.It would be ill logical to classify them as technical or H R as both of them had questions related to logic,puzzle,hobbies,sports,etc.

My first interview lasted for about 40 mins.There were two people sitting very much relaxed opposite to me.And I ofcourse was very nervous.They asked me to explain about myself apart from what is mentioned in CV.They asked me about my family.questions were asked regarding my hobbies,my favourite sport(cricket & table tennis),and the role of media in cricket.

A simple question was asked that what would i do if my views start contradicting with rest of my team members.I was also asked that why I want to join INFOSYS.At last there were puzzles.

Puzzle : A bulb is hanging with the help of a string and the other end of the string is attached to the ceiling of a room.Length of the string is such that bulb just touches the top of my head.

I'm not provided with any kind of length measuring device.How can I find the height of the room.(based on oscillations of a simple pendulum).

How can u get 1000 using eight 8s.My first interview was fine as i was able to solve the puzzles.Just have great knowledge regarding your hobbies and never try to fool them.speak effortless & very clear.Have confidence & have faith dear.

Second interview mostly had questions regarding what we had studied in our school time.Eg : what is a Voltaic cell,what is the use of a blast furnace.What is the use of silica.Any 5 properties of metals.Name the 4 protiens present in a human cell.Then i was asked about the best thing & the worst thing which I faced that particular day.

My second interview was excellent as i could answer very well.Person opp to me said very good & finally I had a hand shake with him.His smile just hinted me about my selction Results were announced @ 9:15 pm. 29 students including ME made it for the final selection.I'm very elated just because I'm one among those 29 who r the first one to be recriuted by

INFOSYS Technologies in the year 2008 and it happened on 16th january 2008.We will join INFOSYS probably by oct. 2009.

HP Placement Paper (Technical Section)

2009-06-02T07:23:00.001-07:00

Paper: HP Placement Paper (Technical Section)

1. what is Semaphore and Mutex

2. what is Interrupts and Exception handling

3. What is difference between IDE1 and IDE2

4. What is the main difference between cmm level13,4,5

5. I have a Web Server, Application Server, Servlet Engine, Database - all located on separate systems behind

6. What is meant by Open Source Is Java Open Source or not

7. What are interfaces, abstract classes. What is their purpose and differences

8. What is UseCase What is the template to write UseCases

9. What is the difference between CMM and CMMI

10. What is Open System and Closed System in Computer terminology

11.How do you implement TREE in Java ? How do you implement the same using C or C++ ?

12.What will happen if we give GOBACK instead of STOPRUN in a cobol program which is not called by some other program?

Infosys Placement Paper Held On 21st feb 2008 (Pattern & Interview)

2009-06-02T07:22:00.003-07:00

Paper: Infosys Placement Paper Held On 21st feb 2008 (Pattern & Interview)

Hi friends!!!! This is Subhadeep, student of TECHNO INDIA SALTLAKE. INFY came 2 our college on 21st Feb. It was officially an on-campus (I wonder!!! There were 4 colleges)

Infy as usual had 2 rounds:
1. APTITUDE
2.HR(no technical)

The aptitude had 2 segments
1. Verbal reasoning (30 question-40min)
All were quite easy (of R.S Agarwal standard) --- Just practice those at least once-that’s more than enof There were questions on Blood relation, data sufficiency, puzzle etc-VERY EASY

2. English (40questions-30mins)
This was easy too there were prep. Syllogism, Choosing correct sentence and few others which I cant remember( U just need 2 have some basic English knowledge- I don’t think solving BARRON is reqd) But friends the problem with this section is TIME SCARCITY There were 2 one page comprehensions with 5 questions each There were hardly any time 2 read those properly (though they were easy

The apti was easy & I did attempt the whole lot. Out of about 1100, 220 cleared the apti (probably cutoff was increased)
The HR was really a cakewalk---DAMN EASY the interviewer was extremely friendly & as I entered told me 2 sit down & then onwards

Q1.Tell me about ur weak points
A: answered (Thank god he didn’t asked me the Deadliest question-Introduce yourself

Q2.Tell about ur xperience after u left ur house
A. This is a filler-he was trying 2 tst communication skill, so I started stating every minute details

Q3. What sports do u follow
A. I answered soccer, cricket & F1

Q4.He went on asking Who’s best in EPL, who won F1 last yr, something about the teams blah blah
A: this was my domain & answered easily (Quite surprising a 55yr guy following F1 2 such a xtnt!!!!!)

Q5. Gave 2 puzzles 2 solve
A: Solved the tougher one but narrowly missed the easy one

Q6.Have u ever worked in a group
A. I answered then he asked more about it & THEN told that’s all

I was happy 2 give my best After a long wait 4 about 2 hrs at 9:15pm(praying 4 the best) finally the names were announced & was elated 2 find I was one of about 135 selected. So guys always have faith on yourself & god U CAN DO IT

Cracking INFY is not tough, just b cool during ur HR

Infosys Placement Paper Held On 21st feb 2008 (Pattern & Interview)

2009-06-02T07:22:00.001-07:00

Infosys Campus Placement Paper Held On 29th Dec 2008 (Pattern & Interview)

2009-06-02T07:21:00.002-07:00

Paper: Infosys Campus Placement Paper Held On 29th Dec 2008 (Pattern & Interview)

Hi frnnds R U Going 2 attend infosys exam be cool it z a cool test pattern(If u prepare atleast for aweak). OK coming 2 test pattern it comprises of 2 sections

1. APTITUDE
2. VERBAL

plz do refer d following -----------misssing figure series(5M) , puzzle test(10M--15M) , General aptitude quests
Coming 2 verbal dont leave d reading comprehensions at any cost n practise time cat r icet material

WRITTEN TEST :
1-5..question frm puzzle test--------there r 6 horses n 6 stabs r there n given some hintsn by changing there positons asked which horse is there in 3rd place 6th place etc..
6-10.missing figure series--------practice well
11-16.General Aptitude
16-20.a chart has been given asked some questions based on it.
20-25.puzzle test questions
26-30.

VERBAL
2 Reading Comprehensions (too long but very easy) etc

INTERVIEW
with a lot of fear I entered d room(as ds z my frst mnc interview) the interveiwer z a middle aged person frm Electronis bak grnd
I: opened d door of interview room n asked excuse me sir
HE :yes come in miss
I: am preparing 2 wish him meanwhile he asked me take my seat(I thought oh!this z d first bad impression)
HE: k miss give me ur cv
I: i hav gven it wthout signing he asked me to sign on it
HE: k do u hav mobile
I: yes sir
HE: k do u know how wat is internal process dat happens wen u make a call(as am frm ECE bakgrnd he has his quest)
I: i replied it hardly recollecting my cs(sub)but he z not satisfied n some more questions frm it
HE: I think u r nervous
I: yes sir this my first interview
HE:be cool may r so nervous n asked me will u bring ur parents daily f give job 2 u
I: no sir(with a smiling face wich i tried 2 mange tll d end of interview)
HE: hav shav some fruits(wch r on his table)
HE:asked me tell abt myself
I: coming 2 project he interupted me asking questions ina deeper way even wich we cant expect.I failed 2 answer them
HE: hav u done dis project by urself
I: yes sir .actually i havent brushed up
HE;how how ca u forget shall i say i forgotten to short list ur name
I: (i got tears into my eyes)
HE: talk for 2min on any topic
I: tried max for 1.25min
HE: asked abt my family in a very frndly way that even i hav forgotten that am in d inetrview room stared telling him
HE: asked a puzzle.made a glass with afruit like thing in it with 5 matvh sticks n asked me 2 make any 2 moves bring the fruit out of it(gave me only 10secs of time)
I; tried but he havnt accepted wen he z going 2 ask next quest i saud sir i got it
HE: k leave it next quest(actually i didnt got the puzzle then also)
HE: wat r ur plans abt marriage.how will u manage after gettng married
I: answered in laughable way
HE:k u will geta job in infosys r some other company(like that he zasking something) i interrupted him saying no sir INFOSYS is my dream company.
HE: how can we solve punjagutta traffic prblm
I: by constructing fly over
HE: (had a big smile) n said ktellme simple way other than construction
I: answered but he havnt convnced with that
HE: wat will ur family wen u all meet
I:we will watch tv
HE: thats y u got sight
I:just laughed
HE: k miss
I; do i need 2 wait
He;no need will mail u

I prayed d god waited for results. Finnaly after 20 days of my exam i got mail frm infosys. I hav beeen selected . n going to join infosys traing 0n 28th of jan. So, guys prepare well n do well in the interview(concentrate on how u express rather than wat u express).

Infosys Placement Paper1 (Aptitude Section)

2009-06-02T07:21:00.001-07:00

Paper: Infosys Placement Paper1 (Aptitude Section)

1) A man collects cigarette stubs and makes one full cigarette with every 8 stubs. If he gets 64 stubs how many full cigarettes can he smoke.

Ans: 8+1=9

2) A soldier looses his way in a thick jungle. At random he walks from his camp but mathematically in an interesting fashion. First he walks one mile East then half mile to North. Then 1/4 mile to West, then 1/8 mile to South and so on making a loop. Finally how far he is from his camp and in which direction.

Ans: Distance travelled in north and south directions
1/2 - 1/8 + 1/32 - 1/128 + 1/512 - and so on = 1/2/((1-(-1/4))
Similarly in east and west directions
1- 1/4 + 1/16 - 1/64 + 1/256 - and so on = 1/(( 1- ( - 1/4))
Add both the answers

3) How can 1000000000 be written as a product of two factors neither of them containing zeros

Ans: 2 power 9 x 5 power 9

4) Conversation between two mathematcians:
First : I have three childern. The product of their ages is 36. If you sum their ages, it is exactly same as my neighbour's door number on my left. The second mathematician verifies the door number and says that it is not sufficient. Then the first says " Ok one more clue is that my youngest is really the youngest". Immmediately the second mathematician answers . Can you answer the question asked by the first mathematician? What are the childeren ages?

Ans 1,6 and 6

5) Light glows for every 13 seconds . How many times did it glow between 1:57:58 and 3:20:47 am.

Ans : 383 + 1 = 384

6) 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns according to their heights. Tallest among each row of all are asked to fall out.
And the shortest among them is A. Similarly after resuming that to their original podsitions that the shortest among each column are asked to fall out. And the tallest among them is B . Now who is taller among A and B ?

Ans A

7) A person with some money spends1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of the remaining for food and 1/4 of the remaining for travel. He is left with Rs 100/- . How much did he have with him in the begining ?

Ans: Rs 250/-

8) There are six boxes containing 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 29 balls of either red or blue in colour. Some boxes contain only red balls and others contain only blue.One sales man sold one box out of them and then he says " I have the same number of red balls left out as that of blue ". Which box is the one he solds out ?

Ans: Total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2) = 60/2 = 30
and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30

9) A chain is broken into three pieces of equal lenths containing 3 links each. It is taken to a backsmith to join into a single continuous one . How many links are to to be opened to make it ?

Ans : 2.

10) Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass. How many cows are needed to eat the grass in 96 days.?

Ans : 20
g - grass at the beginning
r - rate at which grass grows, per day
y - rate at which one cow eats grass, per day
n - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days
g + 24*r = 70 * 24 * y
g + 60*r = 30 * 60 * y
g + 96*r = n * 96 * y
Solving, n = 20.

Train Problems : Mathematics Objective Questions

2009-06-02T07:19:00.000-07:00

Train Problems : Mathematics Objective Questions

1. A car runs at the rate of 15kmph during the first 30kms and at 25kmph during the second 50kms. What is the average speed for the entire trip?
a) 15kmph b) 20kmph c) 25kmph d) 30kmph

2. A train covered the first 5 km of its journey at a speed of 30 km/h and the next 15 km/hr at a speed of 45 km/h. The average speed of the train was
a) 35 km/hr b) 40 km/hr c) 32 km/hr d) 42 km/hr

3. A car travels the first 100 km at a speed of 40 km/hr and the next 200 km at 60 km/hr. Find the average speed?
a) 50 km/hr. b) 52.8 km/hr c) 51.4 km/hr d) 51.6 km/hr

4. A man walking at a rate of 9 km per hour crosses a square field diagonally in 18 seconds. The area of the field is
a) 2025 sq .m. b) c) 1012.5 sq. m. d) 2025 sq. m.

5. One man travels at the speed of 64 km/hr. for the first 160 km, then travels the next 160 km at the speed of 80 km/hr. what is the average speed for the 320 km?
a) 35.55 km/hr b) 36 km/hr c) 71.11 km/hr d) 72 km/hr

6. Two trains 121 m and 99 m long are running in opposite direction at speeds of 40 km/hr and 32 km/hr respectively. In what time they completely pass each other from the moment they meet?
a) 8 sec b) 11 sec c) 12 sec d) 10 sec

7. A train running at 30metre/second takes 30 seconds to cross a platform of 600 m long. The length of the train (in metre) is
a) 120 b) 150 c) 200 d) None of these

8. A thief running at a speed of 8 km/hour is chased by a policeman at a speed of 10 km/hour. If the thief is ahead by 100 meters, the police man will catch him after.
a) 2 minutes b) 6 minutes c) 10minutes d) 3 minutes

9. A bus travelled 200 km in 4 hours. The first 125 km was travelled in 2 ½ hours. What is the average speed with which the bus travels the remaining distance?
a) 50 km/hr b) 55 km/hr c) 60 km/hr d) None of these

10. A cyclist travels 10 km with a speed of 5 km/hhour and 15 km with a speed of 7.5 km/hr. What his average speed?
a) 6 km/hr b) 6.25 km/hr c) 6.5 km/hr d) None of these

11. A car runs at the rate of 15 kmph during the first 30 kms and at 25 kmph during the second 50 kms. What is the average speed for the entire trip?
a) 15 kmph b) 20 kmph c) 20 kmph d) 30 kmph

12. A train 270 metres long is moving at a speed of 25 km/hour. It will cross a man coming from the opposite direction at a speed of 2 km/hour in
a) 36 sec b) 32 sec c) 28 sec d) 24 sec

13. How many seconds will a train, 100 m long, running at the rate of 20 km/hr. take to pass a certain telegraph post?
a) 18 sec b) 12 sec c) 20 sec d) 10 sec

14. A man travels 10 km in the first hour, 20 km in the second hour and 30 km in the third hour. Then his average speed for three hours is
a) 25 km/hr b) 35 km/hr c) 20 km/hr d) 15 km/hr

How To Prepare For A Job Interview

2009-06-02T07:18:00.002-07:00

With the global financial crises having a cascading impact on the global economy, the job market too has been gloomy. In such an environment, it is even more important for aspirants to do well in campus interviews to grab the jobs they desire.

And being mentally fit and alert is important to be able to do well in interviews. It will also mean that you will be mentally prepared to handle interviews that have very short notice periods.

A few things to remember

1. Ensure that the resume has been checked for typos and is structured in a way that makes it easy to read. Highlight your skills and experience relevant to the job.

2. Interviews are used as a tool of judging whether you fit the job as well as the company.

3. Know yourself, inside out. Only when you understand yourself completely can you make the panel understand you.

4. Take time to understand how you want to project yourself during the interview.

5. Everything you say or do makes an impression whether positive or negative. Be it the way you sit, the way you talk or your choice of clothing. Everything matters!

6. Remember, an Interview is like a sales pitch in many ways. So ensure that you present yourself well.

Preparing for the unexpected

In some interviews you may be asked to solve a case-study. You can be asked to give an impromptu presentation or recite a poem. Or, you may get the silent treatment from the panel or a stress interview may come your way. You can even be asked to leave the room.

Whatever happens, be mentally prepared for any eventuality. These situations give the panel an opportunity to assess how you behave in stressful or unexpected situations. They just want to get to know the real You. They want to find out if you can handle the job, if you are interested in the company and if you are the person they want to have during tough and stressful times.

Stay calm, remain positive and think logically.

Before the interview

Research the company

Being well informed about the company and industry provides you with a competitive edge. It also conveys a clear message to the interviewer and that is:

1. You are career oriented and want to build a career within the industry

2. You understand the intricacies of the industry

3. You are wholeheartedly interested in working for the company

Read up as much as possible about the company and the industry. You can also talk to people who work in the company or the industry to get a first hand feel about what drives the company and the industry.

Appearance

First impressions are made within the first few minutes and are very important for a successful interview. Most employers prefer candidates wearing formal attire (Indian or western). Dress soberly and neatly. It is better to be conservative in the choice of clothes. Avoid flashy clothes or strong perfumes. Jewellery should be at a bare minimum.

Have your clothes ironed and keep it ready in advance, so that you do not waste time in selecting a dress on the day of the interview. This also avoids last minute problems like a stained shirt, wrinkled tie, missing buttons or unpolished shoes.

Looks matter! Pay a visit to the salon, to get an appropriate haircut. Trim your nails. Remember, a professional look is the first step to making the great the first impression.

The interview tool-kit

The day before the interview, collect all your material and keep them in a file. Keep extra copies of your resume. Carry letters of reference, reference list, transcripts, certificates, other supporting documents, passport size photos, a writing pad, pen and a calculator.

Relax

Ensure that you sleep well the day before the interview. Stay calm and relax; only when you are relaxed will you do well.

During the Interview

1. Stay focused; put away any worries

2. Switch off your cell phone before an interview starts

3. Eye contact conveys confidence

4. Introduce yourself clearly with your first and last name

5. Smile at appropriate times

6. Take time to understand the question and then answer it. It is not a question of how fast you answer but how well you answer

7. Be expressive, talk crisply and slowly. Do not mumble, stammer or use a monotone

8. Keep the answers to the point. Avoid rambling

9. Be forthright and direct. Do not be evasive or beat around the bush

10. Never lie in an interview

11. Never blame or badmouth anyone during an interview

12. Never argue, always give polite responses

13. If you do not know the answer be frank, admit it

At the end of the interview

Generally, the panel will indicate the end of the interview by asking: Do you have any questions for us? Use this opportunity to ask intelligent and relevant questions, to summarize your skills & experience related to the job and indicate your interest in the job.

Conclusion

It is essential to be confident in an interview. If you have practiced your answers and done your homework, most of the questions can be answered without difficulty. Ensure that you take the time to understand what they are looking for by asking the question. Remember to study the relevant topics before the interview. If you have an interview for an equity research position, know what has been driving the markets, who are the major players, etc. If you have an interview for a marketing position in a FMCG company know what has been the recent trend, what new products have been launched recently, etc.

Keep in mind why you want to go into the industry (Telecom, Banking, Auto, etc.), why you are interested in the job and the company. Make sure you have a good grasp of the basic concepts and convince your interviewer that you have the capability and interest to learn the more complex aspects of the job.

Finally, ensure that you dress and act professionally. Show up on time and make eye contact throughout the interview. All the Best!

ORACLE PLACEMENT PAPER-3 FEB 2004 ( TECHNICAL-INTERVIEW)

2009-06-02T07:18:00.001-07:00

PAPER: ORACLE PLACEMENT PAPER-3 FEB 2004 ( TECHNICAL-INTERVIEW)

1st INTERVIEWER:-

1. There is dual switch bulb, we have to write the truth table and also FSM for that dual switch bulb.

2. Write a program to check whether the given comments are nested comments are or not(/*ajsd/*asdh*/asd*/ is nested comment but /*asd*/ /*kjasdh*/ is not a nested comment)-you can write program in any language...

3.Check whether the trees are structurally similar or not....program using linked list

4. What is virtual functions and some question on virtual functions.

5.What are the statements beginning with # mean in C language and how they can be handled by microprocessor and if it comes in the middle of program how it will be handled..

6.Write a program for finding the factorial of a given number.

2ND INTERVIEWER:

1. Write a program to find whether a linked list is circular or not

2. Write a program to reverse a linked list...

3.Write a program to find the mirror image of the given binary tree.

4.Tell something about genetic algorithms and explain ur M.Tech project....

3rd INTERVIEWER:

1. What is a process and a thread

2.Write a algorithm for deleting node in an binary search tree...

3.What is inheritance,virtual function,singleton class and pure virtual function...

4.Write a Unix network program to implement the ftp protocol,,

5. write a algorithm to find a loop in a linked list.

6.he concentrated mainly in Unix.. what is socket and what is binding and how is client server thing works.....

4th INTERVIEWER:

1. What are the various scheduling algorithms and explain the algorithms

2. Write what will happen when you run a program that contains many functions... you have to tell what is stored in stack and what is stored in the heap and other steps how a program is executed...

3. Write a program for quick sort and also merge sort

4.What is the process control block and explain the structure with a diagram...

5.Write a program to insert nodes in a linked list and print them and some modifications after writing the program to write functions for add node.

6.Operating systems.

C Sharp Interview Questions

2009-06-02T07:17:00.002-07:00

C Sharp Interview Questions

1) Explain about C#?

Ans:-C # is also known as c sharp. It is a programming language introduced by Microsoft. C# contains features similar to Java and C++. It is specially designed to work with Microsoft .NET platform.

2) Explain about the rules for naming classes in C#?

These are the rules for naming classes in c sharp.
• Must begin with a letter. This letter may be followed by a sequence of letters, digits (0-9), or ‘_’. The first character in a class name cannot be a digit.
• Must not contain any embedded space or symbol like ? - + ! @ # % & . ( ) { } [ ] , : ; ‘ “ and/. However an underscore _ can be used wherever a space is required.
• Must not use a keyword for a class name.

3) What are the rules to be followed while naming variables in C#.

The following rules are used for naming variables in C#.
• Must begin with a letter or an underscore _ which may be followed by a sequence of letters, digits (0-9), or ‘_’. The first character in a variable name cannot be a digit.
•Must not contain any embedded space or symbol like ? - + ! @ # % & . ( ) { } [ ] , : ; ‘ “ and/. However an underscore _ can be used wherever a space is required.
• Must be unique
• Can have any number of characters
• Keywords cannot be used as variable names.

4) What are the different types of Data?

There are two different types of data supported by C#. They are:-

1) Value types: -They directly contain data. When you declare an int variable, the system allocates memory to store the value.
2) Reference type: -The reference types do not maintain data but they contain a reference to the variables, which are stored in memory. This means that if the value in the memory location is modified by one of the variables, the other variables automatically reflect the changes value

5) Explain about member functions?

Ans:-A function is a set of statements that perform a specific task in response to a message. The functions of a class are called member functions in C-sharp. Member functions are declared inside the class. The function declaration introduces the function in the class and the function definition contains the function code.

6) Explain about comment entry?

Ans:-Comments are a part of the program and are used to explain the code. Compilers ignore comment entries. If a comment entry spans more than one line, it has to be enclosed within ‘/.’ and ‘./’. The symbol ‘//’ treats the rest of code within the same line as a comment.

7) What are operators?

Ans:-Applications use operators to process the data entered by a user. Operators like + and – are used to process variables and return a value. An operator is a set of one or more characters that is used for computations or comparisons. Operators can transform one or more data values, called operands into a new data value.

8) Explain about the break statement?

Ans:-A break statement is used to exit the switch statement. This prevents the execution of the remaining case structures by ending the execution of the switch case construct. Each break statement terminates the enclosing switch statement and the flow of control. If none of the cases match the default case is invoked.

9) Define encapsulation?

Ans:-Encapsulation literally means to enclose in or as if in a capsule. Encapsulation is defined as the process of enclosing one or more items within a physical or logical package. It involves preventing access to nonessential details.

10) Define access specifiers with reference to class?

Ans:-An access specifier defines the scope of a class member. A class member refers to the variables and functions in a class. A program can have one or more classes. You may want some members of a class to be accessible to other classes. But, you may not want some other members of the class to be accessible outside the class.

11) Describe about private access specifier?

Ans:-The private access specifier allows a class to hide its member variables and member functions from other class objects and functions. Therefore, the private member of a class is not visible outside a class. If a member is declared private, only the functions of that class can access the member. Even the instance of the class cannot access its members

12) Explain about protected internal access specifier?

Ans:-This specifier allows a class to hide its member variables and member functions to be accessed from other class objects and functions, except the child class, within the application. The protected internal access specifier becomes important while implementing inheritance.

13) Define parameter by value?

Ans:-Pass by value is the default mechanism for passing parameters to a method. The simplest definition of a value parameter is a data type name followed by a variable name. When a method is called, a new storage location is created for each value parameter. The values of the corresponding expressions are copied into them. The expression supplied for each value parameter must be similar to the declaration of the value parameter.

14) State the methods through which parameters can be passed?

Ans:-Parameters can be passed by using any one of the following mechanism.

Value: -They are sometimes called in or out parameters; therefore, the data can be transferred into the method but cannot be transferred out.
Reference: -Are sometimes called in or out parameters, therefore, the data can be transferred into the method and out again.
Output: -Are sometimes called out parameters, data can be transferred out of the method.

15) Explain about reference parameter?

Ans:-A reference parameter is a reference to a memory location of a data member. Unlike a value parameter, a reference parameter does not create a new storage location. Instead a reference parameter represents the same location in memory as the variable that is supplied in the method call.

16) How do you use a structure?

Ans:-A structure is a value type data type. When you want a single variable to hold related data of various data types, you can create a structure. To create a structure you use the struct keyword.

17) What is an enumerator?

Ans:-Enumeration is a value data type, which means that enumeration contains its own values and cannot inherit or pass inheritance. Enumerator allows you to assign symbolic names or integral constants.

Java 5 SCJP Questions

2009-06-02T07:17:00.001-07:00

Interview Questions : Java 5 SCJP Questions

1. Given:
enum Horse {
PONY(10),
// insert code here
HORSE(15);

Horse(int hands) {
this.height = hands;
this.weight = hands * 100;
}
int height;
int weight;
int getWeight() { return weight; }
void setWeight(int w) { weight = w; }
}

class Stable {
public static void main(String [] hay) {
Horse h = Horse.ICELANDIC;
System.out.println(h.getWeight() + " " + h.height);
}
}

Which, inserted independently at '// insert code here', produces the output:
800 13 ? (Choose all that apply.)

A). ICELANDIC(13) { weight = 800; },
B). ICELANDIC(13) { setWeight(800); },
C). ICELANDIC(13) { this.weight = 800; },
D). ICELANDIC(13) { public int getWeight() { return 800; } },
E). None of the above code will produce the specified output.
F). Because of other code errors, none of the above will compile.

2. Given:
1. class Voop {
2. public static void main(String [] args) {
3. doStuff(1);
4. doStuff(1,2);
5. }
6. // insert code here
7. }

Which, inserted at line 6, will compile? (Choose all that apply.)

A). static void doStuff(int... doArgs) { }
B). static void doStuff(int[] doArgs) { }
C). static void doStuff(int doArgs...) { }
D). static void doStuff(int... doArgs, int y) { }
E). static void doStuff(int x, int... doArgs) { }
F). None of the above code fragments will compile.

3. Given:
class Bird {
{ System.out.print("b1 "); }
public Bird() { System.out.print("b2 "); }
}
class Raptor extends Bird {
static { System.out.print("r1 "); }
public Raptor() { System.out.print("r2 "); }
{ System.out.print("r3 "); }
static { System.out.print("r4 "); }
}
class Hawk extends Raptor {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.print("pre ");
new Hawk();
System.out.println("hawk ");
}
}

What is the result?

A). pre b1 b2 r3 r2 hawk
B). pre b2 b1 r2 r3 hawk
C). pre b2 b1 r2 r3 hawk r1 r4
D). r1 r4 pre b1 b2 r3 r2 hawk
E). r1 r4 pre b2 b1 r2 r3 hawk
F). pre r1 r4 b1 b2 r3 r2 hawk
G). pre r1 r4 b2 b1 r2 r3 hawk
H). The order of output cannot be predicted
I). Compilation fails

4. Which are most typically thrown by an API developer or an application developer as opposed to being thrown by the JVM? (Choose all that apply.)
A). ClassCastException
B). IllegalStateException
C). NumberFormatException
D). IllegalArgumentException
E). ExceptionInInitializerError

5. Given:
class Eggs {
int doX(Long x, Long y) { return 1; }
int doX(long... x) { return 2; }
int doX(Integer x, Integer y) { return 3; }
int doX(Number n, Number m) { return 4; }

public static void main(String[] args) {
new Eggs().go();
}
void go() {
short s = 7;
System.out.print(doX(s,s) + " ");
System.out.println(doX(7,7));
}
}

What is the result?

A). 1 1
B). 2 1
C). 3 1
D). 4 1
E). 1 3
F). 2 3
G). 3 3
H). 4 3

6. Given:
import java.io.*;
class Player {
Player() { System.out.print("p"); }
}
class CardPlayer extends Player implements Serializable {
CardPlayer() { System.out.print("c"); }
public static void main(String[] args) {
CardPlayer c1 = new CardPlayer();
try {
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("play.txt");
ObjectOutputStream os = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
os.writeObject(c1);
os.close();
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("play.txt");
ObjectInputStream is = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
CardPlayer c2 = (CardPlayer) is.readObject();
is.close();
} catch (Exception x ) { }
}
}

What is the result?

A). pc
B). pcc
C). pcp
D). pcpc
E). Compilation fails
F). An exception is thrown at runtime

7. Given:

import java.util.regex.*;
class Regex2 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Pattern p = Pattern.compile(args[0]);
Matcher m = p.matcher(args[1]);
boolean b = false;
while(b = m.find()) {
System.out.print(m.start() + m.group());
}
}
}

And the command line:

java Regex2 "d*" ab34ef

What is the result?

A). 234
B). 334
C). 2334
D). 0123456
E). 01234456
F). 12334567
G). Compilation fails

8. Given:
bw is a reference to a valid BufferedWriter

And the snippet:

15 BufferedWriter b1 = new BufferedWriter(new File("f"));
16. BufferedWriter b2 = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("f1"));
17. BufferedWriter b3 = new BufferedWriter(new PrintWriter("f2"));
18. BufferedWriter b4 = new BufferedWriter(new BufferedWriter(bw));

What is the result?

A). Compilation succeeds
B). Compilation fails due only to an error on line 15.
C). Compilation fails due only to an error on line 16.
D). Compilation fails due only to an error on line 17.
E). Compilation fails due only to an error on line 18.
F). Compilation fails due to errors on multiple lines.

9. Using the fragments below, complete the following code so that it compiles and prints "40 36 30 28". Note, you may use a fragment from zero to many times.

CODE:

import java.util.*;
class Pants { int size; Pants(int s) { size = s; } }
public class FoldPants {
List ________ p = new ArrayList ________ ();
class Comp implements Comparator ________ {
public int ________(Pants one, Pants two) {
return ________ - ________;
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
new FoldPants().go();
}
void go() {
p.add(new Pants(30));
p.add(new Pants(36));
p.add(new Pants(28));
p.add(new Pants(40));

Comp c = new Comp();
Collections. ________ ________;
for( ________ x : p)
System.out.print(________ + " ");
}
}

FRAGMENTS:

Pants FoldPants Comp Comparator
compare compareTo sort order
one.size two.size x.size p.size
c.size (p, c) (c, p) sortList

10. Given the following three source files:
1. package org;
2. public class Robot { }

1. package org.ex;
2. public class Pet { }

1. package org.ex.why;
2. public class Dog { int foo = 5; }

And the following incomplete source file:

// insert code here
public class MyClass {
Robot r;
Pet p;
Dog d;
void go() {
int x = d.foo;
}
}

Which statement(s) must be added for MyClass to compile? (Choose all that apply.)

A). package org;
B). import org.*;
C). package org.*;
D). package org.ex;
E). import org.ex.*;
F). import org.ex.why;
G). package org.ex.why;
H). package org.ex.why.Dog;

11. Given:
1. import java.util.*;
2. public class Fruits {
3. public static void main(String [] args) {
4. Set c1 = new TreeSet();
5. Set o1 = new TreeSet();
6. bite(c1);
7. bite(o1);
8. }
9. // insert code here
10. }
11. class Citrus { }
12. class Orange extends Citrus { }

Which, inserted independently at line 9, will compile? (Choose all that apply.)

A). public static void bite(Set s) { }
B). public static void bite(Set s) { }
C). public static void bite(Set s) { }
D). public static void bite(Set s) { }
E). public static void bite(Set s) { }
F). public static void bite(Set s) { }
G). Because of other errors in the code, none of these will compile.

Answers:

1. D is correct. (objective 1.1)

2. A and E use valid var-args syntax. (objective 1.1)
3. D is correct. Note: you'll probably never see this many choices on the real exam! (objective 1.3)
4. B, C and D are correct. (objective 2.6)
5. H is correct. (objective 3.1)
6. C is correct. (objective 3.3)
7. E is correct. (objective 3.5)
8. B is correct. (objective 3.2)
9. The correct code is:

import java.util.*;
class Pants { int size; Pants(int s) { size = s; } }
public class FoldPants {
List p = new ArrayList();
class Comp implements Comparator {
public int compare(Pants one, Pants two) {
return two.size - one.size;
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
new FoldPants().go();
}
void go() {
p.add(new Pants(30));
p.add(new Pants(36));
p.add(new Pants(28));
p.add(new Pants(40));

Comp c = new Comp();
Collections.sort(p, c);
for(Pants x : p)
System.out.print(x.size + " ");
}
}

(objective 6.5)

10. B, E, and G are required. (objective 7.5)
11. A, E, and F are correct uses of generics with (bounded) wildcards. (objective 6.4)

ZENSAR PLACEMENT PAPER ( MATH & INTERVIEW)

2009-06-02T07:16:00.001-07:00

PAPER: ZENSAR PLACEMENT PAPER ( MATH & INTERVIEW)

MATH:
1 : two liquids A : B in ratio 7:5 and now 24 gallons drain out and b is added the ratio becomes 5:7 what is container capacity ? 30, 48 , 84, none

2 : man has rope of length 660 mtr to fence a area , what is the max area he can fence ?

3 : son is about to celebrate 10th birthday. after 11 years his age will be half the average of his parents. his mother is 17 years older to him. what is the age of the father.

4 : DI question where hotels project are given and no of rooms in each hotels , investment , project yr . and company name were asked to find min cost per room is for which hotel , which avg cost per room etc.

5 : Avg of 6 no is 8 what 7 th no shud be added to make avg 10

6: difference of cube of a no and its square is a perfect square , what is the no. -> 5

7: diff of three consecutive no's square and the no's is 214; find the no's :

Interview

1) Write a minimal C++ program .

2) ( HR )
(a) Talk about yourself
(b) What are your strengths.
(c) Where do you think you have to improve.
(d) Where do you see yourself after 5 years

3) main()
{ int i=2; int a=4; if((i+=3)>a)
{ printf( " TRUE "); }
else
{ printf("FALSE }
What is the output of the program ..

Ans ) TRUE , coz i+=3 becomes incremented and i becomes 5 . So i is greater than a

4) What is an OS ?

5) What is a Data Structure ?
Ans : It is a an abstract data type where some operations can be defined and performed on the data. It makes the task of a programmer easy Bcoz it has all the set of data and operations at a particular place.

6.What is OOP.

7.What is Object Oriented Analysis nad design.

8.how do u communicate between object and class.

9.What is the role Software in the real life in current scenario.

10.what is object and how it is similsr to real life entity.

11.what is extranet,intranet,internet

HR interview..
1. Ok, what do your friends call u???
2. how many friends do u have???
3. Do u talk with girls???
4. How many girl friends do u have???
5. what the difference of a girlfriend from a girl who is a friend???
6. what do u do on sundays???
7. Do u like hyderabad???
8. whatz so special about it???
9. what places have u got to visit in hyd...???
10. how many of them have u gone to?

SATYAM PAPER ON 16th FEBRUARY AT TRIVANDRUM ( WRITTEN AND INTERVIEW)

2009-06-02T07:15:00.000-07:00

PAPER: SATYAM PAPER ON 16th FEBRUARY AT TRIVANDRUM ( WRITTEN AND INTERVIEW)

The recruitment process is of 2 stages:
1.Written
2.Interview

In written test the questions are 15 and duration is 30 min. The aptitude questions are easier than logical reasoning. But there were more reasoning questions & questions were very lengthy. You need little practice beforehand else u find fearful to read them thinking u will loose your time reading them but they are easy ones provided u have worked on them before my experience is to start from last page there u will get some logical question together with 3,4 reasoning question will let u crack it. Don't ever blindly mark the answers but some of my friends out of look blindly got through if u r so lucky u can.

Topics to be learnt:

1. Probability
2.Time & work
3. Pyramids
4. Simple interest & compound interest
5. Profit & loss
6. Paragraph conclusions
7. Data sufficiency
9. Logical reasoning
10. Blood relations.
11. Ages.

NOTE: There is 1/4th negative marking in written test. It doesn’t have sectional cutoff but it has both lower cutoff & higher cutoff, for us it was around 7(lower). The questions were entirely different 4m those earlier papers posted here ,so make sure that u r well prepared. The questions were very lengthy. Time management is very important!!!!! I was able to attempt hardly 9 question . But however I got through.

I felt like I'm so lucky and was not at all prepared for interview now i regret little preparation would have surely made me belong to satyam poor girl don't ever do it some of my close friends didn't got through the aptitude. we all prepared together only seeing the question paper they got tensed never do that .It will be simple me was very cool don't ever get tensed .nothing more.

Below i have spotted the question asked my Answer were not at all good. i knew the concepts and was giving vague answer going around the bush. .so i don't give the answers no use for u all. Before that i would like to tell you something. it will all depend on the panel u get some were so friendly & only HR .some were so long ones mine was a mean person i would say he was yawning all over. AND never looking at face but it taught me a lot overcome the stress sections. i don't know is it because of my answer.

TECH/HR INTERVIEW:
It was nearly 8pm in the evening when my turn came!!! It was very exhausting to wait for such a long time. I entered the room, praying to all kinds of Gods I knew.

HR: So you are Revathi from Amrita

HR: (went thru my resume ) what's the topper of your class score???

HR: Tell me the paper u got highest marks

HR: Then a series of question

1. Virtual function
2. Semaphores
3. Deadlock
4. Inline function
5. Diff b/w structural & procedural language
6. Inheritance ( multiple)
8. Relational DB....Primary key, Foreign key

SO THE KEY IS CONFIDENCE, & LITTLE PREPARATION ON THE BASICS according to me. Be confident and win the race.

ADOBE SYSTEM PLACEMENT PAPER FOR FRESHERS (WRITTEN & INTERVIEW )

2009-06-02T07:14:00.004-07:00

SATYAM PLACEMENT PAPERS, GD AND HR INTERVIEW

2009-06-02T07:14:00.003-07:00

PAPER : SATYAM PLACEMENT PAPERS, GD AND HR INTERVIEW

GD TOPICS ASKED:
LOVE MARRIGE VS ARRANGE MARRIGE,IRAQ WAR, kUINKI SAAS BHI KABHI BAHU THIAND KHANI GHAR GHAR KI( TV SERIALS).THERE WAS NO ESSAY WRITING.

SEC-2
IF rose code as 6786 hot coded as 879 then search will code asin this q there is one no. is assigned t each letter.so take search and letter by letter see the given condition.

2.600,180,54...........complete the series.

3.sedane:pain :: solace:........ans: grief.

4.play:director :: newsans: editor.

5.river:dam :: traffic(a)signal (b)motin (c)vehicle (d)

6.find the greatest no. (a)half 50%of 50 (b)3times 40%of 40see the obtion & place 3times 40% of 40 blindly.

7.find the compound interest of 1000 rs. at the rate of 5% p.a. for 15 years.

8.find the greatest of 1000power of 1000,1001power of 999

9.product of two no is constt. if one no. is increased by 50% then other no is decreased how much.ans: 33.3

10.l.c.m & h.cf of two no is 84 & 21 respectively and the ratio of these two no is 1:4 findthe gretest no ans: 84 place blindly.

11.if x is 90% of y then y is how much % of x.

12.the cost of 15 apples & 20 mangoes is much as equal to the 15 mangoes & 20 apple then what is the relation between their cost..(a)apple is as much equal as mangoes.place blindly (a) obtion.

13.there r 20 men and 5 women then how much maximum couple can be made.....ans: 20c1*5c1=100. place 100 blindly.

14.a bag contains 8 white and 6 black balls find the prob. of drawing a white ball....ans: 4/7 place blindly.

15.if numerator is less than 2 by denominator and then if 1 is subtract from the numerator and 1 is added to the denominator then the ratio becomes half what is the no.....ans: 5/7 place blindly.

16.if a certain money becomes twice in 5 years.then the 300 rs. will become 2400 at the same rate in howmany years........

17.if the average of three numbers is 135.and the difference between others is 25 then find thelowest no.

18.if the thrice of three consecutive odd no is equal to the more three of twice the last no.then find the 3rd (largest odd no).ans: 11.

19.there are 5 questions in each of the two section.three questions must be attempt forpassing the exam how many ways a student will choose the questionans: 100 place blindly.

20.if the lenght of the rectangle is decreased by 4 and breath is increased by 3.then it becomes sqaurewhose areas is equal to that of rectangle.what is the perimeter of the original rectangle.

21.there is a hemisphere of radius of 2 cm how much litre will be occupied in the hemisphere.given 1 litre= 1000 cubic cm.

22.there is a water tank which has enough water to be consumed in 60 days.if there is a leakage water stays there for 40 days.if there are more similar leakage then how lomg water will consumed.

23.a man saves money 1000 in each year.and he gives this amount at the end of year for the compound interest at the rate of 5% how much he will save after 25 years.

24.after giving 35.66% discount. a saler makes a loss of 11.11 rs.

25 there is an intersection question cannot remember it but the answer is b

26.the sides of a rectangle is 100 cm and 60 cm if there is a path of 5 cm around the rectanle.it is included in that given rectangle.find the area of that path.

27.there is a number when diveded by 5 gives a remainder 3 and when divede by 7 gives a remainder of 5 Ans is 33.

Q28.a train when travelling from 2 station A and B when travelling a speed of 50km/hr is late by 10min,and when travelling at 30km/hr arrives a late by 50min. Find the diatance.

29.rational no. is a.........ans: real no. place blindly.

30.a boat is going along the stream and returning in the opposite direction of stream it travels 10 km along stream.the sppeed of stream is 3 km/hr,then find the speed of boat.

31.a boy leaves his home 15 minute before his shedule time.he takes 10 minutes to reach the bus stop.he arrive at the stop at 8:40 am when he leaves the home.

32.A and B runing around a circle of perimeter of 1200meter(may be differ).A is runing at 210 meter/minute and bB is runing190 metre/minute in oppsite direction to each other.at wich time they will meet.

33.a boy start to count from 32 in the descending order.and another boy start counting from 1 at the same time and he count only the odd no.then find which no they will count at the same time.there were 5 questions on syllogism. if inference is true then A is rightif inference is false then B is rightif inference is probably true then cotherwise D

34.all the wives are womenshe is women.inference:she is wife

35.some of the teachers are fool.A is a teacher.inference:A is a fool.

36.there is a ladder and 4 persons (A,B,C,D) on the ladder. A is further up than B and C.D is further up than A.Which is third from the bottom of the ladder? Ans: person A.

37.A person goes to the house of Sita who is the neighbour of Gita. Amar married with Anita who is the sister of Sita.Ashu is the father of Amar.(a) What is the relation between Sita and Amar?(b) What is the relation between Amar and Gita?

38.In an elevator either 12 adults or 20 children can go. If 15 children already occupied the space , how many adults can go with children?ans: 3

39.Amit's D.O.B. is 3rd March 1980. Amit is four day's older than Sumit. The Republic Day of 1980is Thrusday. What is the day of Sumit's D.O.B.?

40.A complete a race of 120m taking 4sec less than B. B takes one sec less than C. How much timetaken by A to complete the race?

41.A person pointing towards a lady says She is the only sister of my father. Find the no. of childs of grandfather?ans: can't say

42.If GEN = 9 , ABOUT = 15 then GENERAL = ?

43.If DUST is called AIR . AIR is called RAIN.RAIN is called WATER. WATER is called COLOUR.COLOUR is called ROAD. ROAD is called DUST.Where the Fish lives?

44.A is richer than B. B is richer than C. C is richer than D. D is richer than E. Then who is the middle of this relation.

45.there is question to find the code of SEARCH the ans is c.There are 5 or 6 questions based on coding and decoding.

46.A to Z. First letter A is swapped with Z, second letter B with Y, and so on. Which letter thetenth from right

MICROSOFT COLLEGE CAMPUS PLACEMENT PAPERS AND HR INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

2009-06-02T07:14:00.001-07:00

PAPER : MICROSOFT COLLEGE CAMPUS PLACEMENT PAPERS AND HR INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Algorithms :
What's the difference between a linked list and an array? Implement a linked list. Why did you pick the method you did? Implement an algorithm to sort a linked list. Why did you pick the method you did? Now do it in O(n) time.

Describe advantages and disadvantages of the various stock sorting algorithms.

Implement an algorithm to reverse a linked list. Now do it without recursion.

Implement an algorithm to insert a node into a circular linked list without traversing it.

Implement an algorithm to sort an array. Why did you pick the method you did?

Implement an algorithm to do wild card string matching.

Implement strstr() (or some other string library function). Reverse a string. Optimize for speed. Optimize for space.

Reverse the words in a sentence, i.e. "My name is Chris" becomes "Chris is name My." Optimize for speed. Optimize for space.Find a substring. Optimize for speed. Optimize for space.

Compare two strings using O(n) time with constant space.

Suppose you have an array of 1001 integers. The integers are in random order, but you know each of the integers is between 1 and 1000 (inclusive). In addition, each number appears only once in the array, except for one number, which occurs twice. Assume that you can access each element of the array only once. Describe an algorithm to find the repeated number. If you used auxiliary storage in your algorithm, can you find an algorithm that does not require it?

Count the number of set bits in a number. Now optimize for speed. Now optimize for size. Multiple by 8 without using multiplication or addition. Now do the same with 7. Add numbers in base n (not any of the popular ones like 10, 16, 8 or 2 -- I hear that Charles Simonyi, the inventor of Hungarian Notation, favors -2 when asking this question).

Write routines to read and write a bounded buffer. Write routines to manage a heap using an existing array.

Implement an algorithm to take an array and return one with only unique elements in it.

Implement an algorithm that takes two strings as input, and returns the intersection of the two, with each letter represented at most once. Now speed it up. Now test it.

Implement an algorithm to print out all files below a given root node. Given that you are receiving samples from an instrument at a constant rate, and you have constant storage space, how would you design a storage algorithm that would allow me to get a representative readout of data, no matter when I looked at it? In other words, representative of the behavior of the system to date. How would you find a cycle in a linked list?

Give me an algorithm to shuffle a deck of cards, given that the cards are stored in an array of ints.

The following asm block performs a common math function, what is it? cwd xor ax, dxsub ax, dx

Imagine this scenario: I/O completion ports are communictaions ports which take handles to files, sockets, or any other I/O. When a Read or Write is submitted to them, they cache the data (if necessary), and attempt to take the request to completion. Upon error or completion, they call a user-supplied function to let the users application know that that particular request has completed. They work asynchronously, and can process an unlimited number of simultaneous requests. Design the implementation and thread models for I/O completion ports. Remember to take into account multi-processor machines.

Write a function that takes in a string parameter and checks to see whether or not it is an integer, and if it is then return the integer value.

Write a function to print all of the permutations of a string. Implement malloc.

Write a function to print the Fibonacci numbers.

Write a function to copy two strings, A and B. The last few bytes of string A overlap the first few bytes of string B. How would you write qsort? How would you print out the data in a binary tree, level by level, starting at the top?

Applications

How can computer technology be integrated in an elevator system for a hundred story office building? How do you optimize for availability?

How would variation of traffic over a typical work week or floor or time of day affect this?

How would you implement copy-protection on a control which can be embedded in a document and duplicated readily via the Internet?

Define a user interface for indenting selected text in a Word document. Consider selections ranging from a single sentence up through selections of several pages. Consider selections not currently visible or only partially visible.

What are the states of the new UI controls? How will the user know what the controls are for and when to use them?

How would you redesign an ATM?

Suppose we wanted to run a microwave oven from the computer. What kind of software would you write to do this?

What is the difference between an Ethernet Address and an IP address?

How would you design a coffee-machine for an automobile.

If you could add any feature to Microsoft Word, what would it be?

How would you go about building a keyboard for 1-handed users?

How would you build an alarm clock for deaf people?

Thinkers How are M&Ms made?

If you had a clock with lots of moving mechanical parts, you took it apart piece by piece without keeping track of the method of how it was disassembled, then you put it back together and discovered that 3 important parts were not included; how would you go about reassembling the clock?

If you had to learn a new computer language, how would you go about doing it?

You have been assigned to design Bill Gates bathroom. Naturally, cost is not a consideration. You may not speak to Bill. What was the hardest question asked of you so far today?

If MS told you we were willing to invest $5 million in a start up of your choice, what business would you start? Why?

If you could gather all of the computer manufacturers in the world together into one room and then tell them one thing that they would be compelled to do, what would it be?

Explain a scenario for testing a salt shaker.

If you are going to receive an award in 5 years, what is it for and who is the audience?

How would you explain how to use Microsoft Excel to your grandma?

Why is it that when you turn on the hot water in any hotel, for example, the hot water comes pouring out almost instantaneously?

Why do you want to work at Microsoft?

Suppose you go home, enter your house/apartment, hit the light switch, and nothing happens - no light floods the room. What exactly, in order, are the steps you would take in determining what the problem was?

Interviewer hands you a black pen and says nothing but "This pen is red."

MICROSOFT INTERVIEW AT HYDERABAD

2009-06-02T07:13:00.003-07:00

INTERVIEW : MICROSOFT INTERVIEW AT HYDERABAD

These are some of the questions asked in Microsoft Interview

X 1)reverse the given n-bit unsigned integer? I mean if 1011 is the i/p then o/p=1101 Time copmlexity should be as small as possible...

X 2)Given 10 points, Asked me to arrange those 10 points so that I have to draw five straight lines and each straight line should have 4-points

X 3) write Open Hashing code with doubly linked list

X 4)To see my coding style asked me to write linked list reversal program

5)Asked About My Project...(about 1hour)

6)Given an Array of integers as the input asked me to find out smallest subset of the array such that the sum of the all the elements of that subset array should be maximum...in all the subsets...

X7)To Give design aspects of writting a software for a car which will be driven by the blind people.

X 8)Given a character array which has one word asked me to reverse that word.

X 9)Given a character array which has "x" no of words, asked me to reverse them

10)Asked me to write all the test cases for the above.

X 11)A Desert has 1000KM legnth, A Camel and 3000 bananas are there at one end problem is you have to get as many bananas as possible to the other end by that camel. camel constraints...

1) It will eat 1 banana for each kilometer even if it is not carrying any bananas(i.e it needs on banana for just to walk 1km)
2) It cannot carry more than 1000 bananas.

12) Given a two dimensional array of size mxn, Problem is to take each and every cell, as there are 8 directions to travel from that cell one right, two left, three up, four down, other four are through four diagnols. except at the boundaries( print all ths words.

13) write all the different test cases for the above....

14) One function which was written by somebody else? that function spec says the following.

Takes a two dimensional array as the input which has "N" no of words and "M" no of non-words...
that function returns the no of words.

given two cases of inputs...
1) array has 32words and 32 non words]
2) array has 30 wrods and 34 non words
out of these two which case is better and why?

15) Given the Robo which has PC interface via the following 3 functions

1) bool is_ther_any_step(bool);
sees any step above if the argument is true and returns true if step exists above ti it. sees any step below to it if the argument is false and returns appropriately..

2) goto_next_step(bool )
Goes to next upper step if the argument is true if the argument is true and no above step then robo gets damaged

Goes to down step if the argument is false...

3) Clean_floor()...
cleans that step by pouring water,cleaning and drying..

write the program to clean a stair case in any building..

CISCO Systems Placement Papers + Sample Papers

2009-06-02T07:13:00.001-07:00

CISCO Systems Placement Papers + Sample Papers

Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco provides end-to-end networking solutions. Cisco sells its products in approximately 115 countries .Cisco is one of America's greatest corporate success stories. Since shipping its first product in 1986, the company has grown into a global market leader that holds No. 1 or No. 2 market share in virtually every market segment in which it participates. Since becoming a public company in 1990, Cisco's annual revenues have increased from $69 million in that year to $12.2 billion in fiscal 1999. As measured by market capitalization, Cisco is among the largest in the world.

Note : Here are some papers and interview procedure, papers on digital section, software section. some questions on aptitude.

CAUTION: There is a -ve marking of +1 & -1 u dont mark blindly.Mark the
answer if u know exactly.cutoff will be 25 marks out of 60.So becareful.

There r 2 sections in CISCO
section 1: Aptitude 20 marks (10 aptitude,10
analogy,oppositewords etc))

section 2:comp sc(data structue,c,theory of
computation,networks,operating systems)

I collected upto 20 questions;

In this setion questions exact numbers I have forgotten.So this will be
useful to the style of the problem only.

SECTION 1:
1: A man went to market with some money.With that money he can buy 15
pencils or 25 pens.He kept 15% of that money for bus fare and with rest of
the money he purchased 5 pencils,and 'x' pens.How many pens he purchased?

2:A man climbing a wall.For every 4 steps go up he will slipdown 2
steps.If he takes 12 min to 3 steps.how much time it takes to climb 48
meters and one step=2meters.

3: Two trains with lengths x and y ,and speeds u and v.Approaching each
other how much time it takes to takes for faster train to cross other
train?
In this question I don't remember the x,y,u,v.U can find formula in
Aggarwal's quantitative aptitude book

4:
there was some question on ages that was easy

Section2:

1.
main()
{ fork();
fork();
fork();
printf("hello");
}
How many times it will print hello?
2:
char A[5,6]
How many bytes it requires?

3:Bridges are used in which layer?

4.Bigendian means
a)lower byte stored in lower address
b)lower byte stored in higher address
one of these is correct.u can verify in Any micro processor book.

5:
#define mmx 10+10

printf"%d",mmx*mmx);

6: main()
{ j=0
for(i=0;i<10;i++)
{
j+=i;
}
}
what is the value of i & j at the end of the loop
ans: 10,46

7: Regular expression with 2 consecutive 1's and all string of 0's and 1's

8:
dead lock conditions 1 question

9:
selective repeat widow size of sender & receiver 1 question.

10;Balanced trees 1 question

L&T ECC INTERVIEW PATTERN -VIZAG

2009-06-02T07:12:00.000-07:00

PAPER : L&T ECC INTERVIEW PATTERN -VIZAG

Selection Procedure:
1. WRITTEN TEST
2. HR & TECHNICAL (COMBINED)

The written pattern is changed. It is fully different from previous pattern.they came to our college on 7th august 2007 and they called only top 20 members from mechanical, civil and EEE and 10 members from instrumentation who are having minimum 160cm height and 50kg weight.

They gave presentation from 9:30am to 10:30am and conducted test from 11:00am to 12:00am.

TEST PATTERN:

They will give 50 questions, each question carries 2 marks and duration of test is one hour.

1. English (approximately 12 qus) like direct & indirect speech, antonyms, fill in the blanks etc and these questions are very easy.
2. Aptitude (10qus) very easy
3. Reasoning
4. Data sufficiency
5. Data interpretation

Results announced at 12:30pm and 21 got selected from 75 and I feel very happy as I am one of them. After announcing results they immediately started interviews with 2panels for each branch.

INTERVIEW:
1.tell me about yourself
2.more questions on project report

L&T ECC INTERVIEW - 10 OCT 2007 - CHENNAI

2009-06-02T07:11:00.000-07:00

PAPER : L&T ECC INTERVIEW - 10 OCT 2007 - CHENNAI

This is Manoj Kumar, from PONDICHERRY ENGINEERING COLLEGE, this is the continuation of my sweet memories, I cleared the written test which was conducted on July 26th, results came on Sep 27, and they called for interview on October 10th in Chennai, at L&T head quarters, I attended for the interview, on Oct 29 they send mail to my college T&P cell, fortunately I am one among L&T engineers.

Now I want to share my interview experiences with you, the interview is very simple for me; it is a matter of ten minutes. For electrical department they allotted 2 panels, my panel consists of 2 persons (their age is 28-35).

Rajeev: Good morning sir,
Interviewer1: good morning take your seat.

I1: tell me about your self
(I2 took my file and he gone through the file.)

P: (I spoke with less volume, I1 told don’t worry, and we are just like u r friends, speak loudly), I gave one minute introduction.
He enquired about my family background.

I2: tell me about u r project
P: I told for two minutes,

I1: Do you know what is the work you are going to do in L&T.
P: errection

I1: u belong to power electronics department; here ur work is power systems. how you will adapt the situation
P: I managed.

I1: what do you know about L&T
P: L&T is an very big construction company, in L&T only without any background we can able to grow up to C.E.O. level.,

I1: who is the C.E.O. of L&T.
P: I think for 10 sec, I told some naik sir.,

I1: Do u know how he came to L&T, and his life and how he grown.
P: I don’t know sir

I1: for ur information I will tell, He joined in L&T as GET, and he crossed many levels and became C.E.O.

I1: how u know about naik
P: in PPT, they mentioned about him, I collected some information from lntecc.com website.

I2: how we will select cables,
P: I told about transmission lines

I2: I am asking about under ground cables.

P: I can’t able to recollect, but those are used in populated areas.

I1: here your work is designing the system, we are having many vendors, they will give products, you have to design, r u having any problem

P: no problem sir,

I1: ok this information is enough.

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 25 AUG 2007 - LUCKNOW

2009-06-02T07:10:00.002-07:00

PAPER : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 25 AUG 2007 - LUCKNOW

Accenture placement process consists of 4 rounds.
1). Written Test(with an essay)
2). Group Discussion
3). PPT 4 gd cleared.
4). i) HR/Technical interview
ii) HR/Technical interview

1)WRITTEN TEST.
It comprised of 55 questions each of 1 mark... The paper, designed by Merittrac, was categorised into 3 sections. Although, there is no sectional cut-off. The cut -off went about 34 marks.

The three sections were:
1.General English
It included simple questions on articles,prepositions etc...nd 2 comprehensions (2 Technical passages here)

2.Quantitave+Reasoning questions
It consisted of basic probability,blood relations, position (standing 4th from left ...)etc..type questions.

3.Concentration questions
Questions like match the the mathematical figures given, * is replaced by / like questions..5 questions were based upon finding out whether a person will be selected 4 this job depending upon certain prerequisites.

So, if plan ur time nd concentrate well, u can clear the written.After our written test,they told us to write an essay on "career in accenture". I just explained what are the core values of this company nd why a fresher like me should prefer joining accenture.

2) GROUP DISCUSSION
We were divided into groups of 12.In my group, 11were boys and one girl. .The moderator said he will select on the basis of comm skills, thought process, nd audibility of voice.In the beginning he told us to jot down points in favour nd against for the topic..It was tough and topic which we got was IT industry in 2016..in our group 6 were selected of which 5 gotinto accenture.

4) (i)HR/TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
My first interview happened 2 be a Technical one. I was asked 2 questions regarding C (since I m frm ECE)...He asked me to explain C++ and then went on to ask about my prefinal year project. He was impressed with my pre final year project and then asked about my family background, and....My Interview almost got to be an HR. The result was declared by the coordinator who wished me all the best and asked me to wait for second interview.

(ii) HR/TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
The interview started as an HR but as the HR lady was of EC background she asked me about Stack Pointers, Diode, opamp Stack and Queues. I almost answeed them correctly. She was impressed with my answers but asked me why my marks have decreased since class 10th. I gave her my answer confidently that since 10th i have been concentrating on subjects other than my subject as well..Then she asked me to wait for the Results.

Come Qusetions Asked in both interviews Were:
1.Introduce urself.
2.Family background.
3.Why i hire U.
4.Why accenture?
5.Ur hobbies
6.Why u prefer Hyderabad.

Interviews lasted for 15 minutes each. The Final result was declared

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 07 SEP 2007 - INDORE

2009-06-02T07:10:00.001-07:00

PAPER : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 07 SEP 2007 - INDORE

The written had 3 section and they were the same as previoius papers so do go through as many papers u can.. and wat i did was i went thru this site that was all and i got all wat i needed.. so check everything here.

GD:-
first and the topic i had was "Should religion be brought in Education"... some other topics were "Cricket or hockey which shud be national game"... "E-Learning Vs. Conventional Learning".. The GD was a round where they notice u alot so be confident.. be alert and active... all u need is a bit of fluent English and confidence... talk the right thing and jus do enough so that u come in notice that shud do it. jus be confident and fluent.. thats wat i found the key point... we were 12 ppl put of which only 3 got thru including ME!

Techincal:-
I had my techincal firsrt and since I am from Computers branch .. he aked me alot frm my subjects... like... Data communication (OSI)... Software Engg(SDLC)... techincal was for real and it was good... he made a Binary unsorted tree on paper and asked me to sort it with the whole procedure... then after that he wrote a matrix 3x3 ka contaning 123456789 and asked me to write the transpose of it.. i was happy at the simple Ques. but jus as i wrote it he said.. now write a C code to do the same...but fortunately i was able to do it... so have some practicle and clear approach.. thats wat they notice.. ur approach to a problem... he also asked abt OOPs concepts and its main points... then abt project and also if u have like a bit less % in ur 10th or 12th .. then be prepared to make up for it.. i had 69% in 12th and 60% in 10th so he siad "why so less in 10 12" ... i said "Sir i was young and not focused... but with time i realised the importance of education and responsibilties and so started improving myself... and so on...

HR:-
he asked abt me.. my background.. if i am ok with any terms and services.... and he asked me abt any year gap.. well ppl i have a Year back in my career after 2nd yr.. so i told him yes i do and gave a valid reason for it too... and it did it all.. before i was worried that a year gap mite lessen my chances.. but Accenture still took me means.. its ur personality and knowledge that matters and not marks.. provided u staisfy them.. and yes after the back my marks always went higher and i have a 70.4% degree in hand now!!... anyways don worry abt gaps and be confided!

Well after 5000 ppl apearing .. hardly 80 go selected

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 12 AUG 2007

2009-06-02T07:09:00.002-07:00

PAPER : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 12 AUG 2007

Well accenture procedure consists of 4 rounds: WRITTEN, GROUP DISCUSSION, TECHNICAL INTERVIEW AND FINALLY HR.. The main problem is that there in take of students is very less dey need perfectionists and ppl who are confident and have good control over English. around 4000 students appeared in pool campus and only 80 gt finally selected... so u ve to b at ur best.

WRITTEN
1) prepositions- for dis u need to know d basic concepts
2) synonyms- no need to study dis words are very basic 4 options are given and u have to choose d rite option
3) articles- again go through the basic concepts from wren n martin
4) 2 passages very very easy dont wory at all.

2nd section and 3rd section: In dis scetion dere were questions from rs agarwal verbal and non verbal do practice following things: venn diagram based questions, syllogism, data sufficiency, decision making, blood realtions and mathematical operations all dese chapters r given in rs agarwal..... no need to practice quants ..... as dey r nt asked directly bt can b askd in data sufficiency questions..... Our result was declared on website and after 1 and a half week we had our remainig rounds

GROUP DISCUSSION,
den we went 4 GD in batches of 12 students dere were around 27 batches. My topic was MEDIA IS UNNECESSARILY HYPING INDIAN CRICKET.. u ve to be LOUD, CLEAR, NOT SO BAD ENGLISH AND PUT UP SENSIBLE POINTS... some maam took our gd she was very strict i spoke in d beginning and she marked me and den i dint open my mouth except at last. she even gt angry wid us and warned us to be careful else she wil dismiss d whole group.. bt finally 3 gt selected 4om 12..... Other topics wich i remember were EDUCATION Vs EXPERIENCE and MBA ABROAD OR IN INDIA donno abt rest of d topics.

TECH INTERVIEW
Questions:
Tel me sumthing about urself
She asked everything from my cv her nxt ques was about my hobby wich is dancing
Explain your project I explained her dont stp or give her time to ask ane questions
What is normalization with all its types
She asked me that why I have chosen bangalore as my first priority how wil I manage myself
Finally she asked me to desgn a database for a project hotel management dont panic jst do ur best
Finally she asked if I have any query I can ask her
in next 1 min my result was out and i was selected in tech and now my hr was on next day.

HR :
Gud morning ISHA so u had ur breakfast...?
Ok so what ur father do?
Tel me about accenture..... I Told him den he said "ok according to u accenture is a mnc and etc etc but what we actually do?
I Told him that they have technologies bpo's and consultancy.
He asked me to explain all three...
His nxt ques was y I should hire u?
I Said accenture is lookin 4 ppl who are confident and hard workin and I believe dat sky is d limit 4 each one of us we jst need to put in our hard work combined wid smatrness and we can achieve anything in life... He seemed quiet impressed....
Den he asked how many comanies I have faced earlier and do I have any other offer letter?
How many students 4om my college have been slected in accenture and do They have nay other offer letters?
Den he asked me whether m ready to work on technologies and ready to sign d bond? I Obviously said yes...
finally after 3 hours our result was declared..

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 19 AUG 2007

2009-06-02T07:09:00.001-07:00

PAPER : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 19 AUG 2007

1. Written Test round (Aptitude + Logical reasoning + English(verbal) + focus on the shorter ones to clear first and then the composition) that is plan n give the paper. As for us it was composed of 54 questions most of them were really easy and the remaining few were also easy but a bit time consuming focus on topics like (Venn Diagram, Coding and Decoding and English section)

Some questions which I remember are like:
a) $ represents 1 and * represents 0 in some code and using that if we want to write 3 we can write it as $$ and for 4 we can use $** and so all nearly five questions from the same pattern!!
b) Few questions from the Venn diagram (5 questions)
c) Sitting arrangement
d) Simple English and comprehension (comprehensions on computer science topics like IBM OS and second one on process and multi processing (nt exactly remember the second one but it was related to multiprocessing).

Once the written exam was finished it was all panic situation although I was confident about clearing the round but finally the result was declared and I was shortlisted along with 1600 other students and it was a great no. of rejections keeping in mind the total no. of 8000 students) from our college their were 119 students shortlisted so it was a great number of students from a single college,

2) GROUP DISCUSSION
This is the main round (Rejection The Maximum) in which all students are short listed to the pick best ones. For the GD We were divided into groups of 15. In my group, and all of them looked confident when I looked at them as we were there in the room. The moderator said he will select on the basis of communications skills, flow of the thought, and audibility of voice and the most important of all Grammar. Topics given to other students along with our groups were spontaneous like "Women Hockey", "Black And White", "Is China a Threat to India in IT". After our topic was told to us he told us to think for a minute as he told the topic I was really confident so I decided to become the moderator and so I started speaking for the topics but after speaking some key points it was like panic and every one latched on the topic and it became a horrible situation so then we were slowly and gradually asked to put our views individually,

After that the result came there were four students shortlisted from our group of students two of them were my classmates and one student of my college engg branch I exactly don't remember which one,So the key point u need to keep in mind when u are in the GD is that don't u look at the HR just look at urs subordinates while u speak, be attentive and try to be initiator or concluder if u think u can speak all relevant points and that's work done,After this round nearly 350 students(approx) were left from the first slot of 1000 students and then it was the turn of the Technical and the hr round!!

3) (i) HR INTERVIEW
This Interview was purely HR taken by a lady HR. and it Is better to take a chill pill and remain calm n it is really cool round so don't worry and it would be cleared if u spoke to her confidently

QUESTIONS WERE:
1.Introduce urself.
2.Top 3 IT companies in India
3.Why accenture?
4.Ur hobbie
5)About the Gap which I had in my academics

(II) TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
This Interview is a bit of works just need to have a good knowledge of basics of programming, databases (SQL), OS(unix) only few questions put and asked to make programs like (sorting a Tree, use of recursion, Data Structures, maintaining the bill of the departmental store, and string handling and few others) just brush up ur programming they would ask u to make a single program (for CS and MCA) and once u have written that its job done.

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 01 SEP 2007 - DELHI

2009-06-02T07:08:00.002-07:00

PAPER : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 01 SEP 2007 - DELHI

It has conducted written test 1 month ago and selected 173 students out of 900(approx)..written consists of quant, english, passge..qstions were repeated so dn't 4get to do the previous papers and gave essay to write...so it gave us enuf time

To prepare for the interview..we have to reprt at 7.30. dere were 3 guys came from Banglore for process.firstly ppt took place and dey told everything about the company.. even they held a small quiz and gave choclates to candidates who gave the right answers..

after the ppt..first round was GD round..dey form batches of 12 students each..the topic for my gd was "can india become superpower in 2020".5 out of 12 students were selcted frm my batch and luckily i was among dem.. other batches topics were

"shoud rahul dravid b d captain of indian team" and "should sachin deserve to be be in the team"

.remeber just dn't sit blank dere and make eye contact wid everyone and listen to others also..dn't make a fish market and its better if u initiate.. dat will highlight you..else say some strong points in between...

After gd was over technical round took place.
some of the Tech qstions are :---
1)What is virtual reality
2)What is polymorphism
3)Define normalisation.1st, 2 and 3 normal form
4)Primary key, foreign key
5)What is redundancy
6)What are 4 generation languages
7)What are cursors
8)What is white box and black box testing
9)What is alpha and beta testing
10)What is scheduling

I answered all the qstions except 1st...and after 5 mint my name was dere in list of cleared candidates den hr round took place...
-firstly I was told to introduce myself
-den what i do in pass time...
-Why i dropped 1 year (should have solid reason)
-gave a situation dat if i have a conflict between my teammate what will i do..
-what are long term plans
-asked about parents

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 24 FEB 2008 - DELHI

2009-06-02T07:08:00.001-07:00

Pattern : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 24 FEB 2008 - DELHI

APTITUDE TEST
The Aptitude test is of 1 hr 10 mins in total this is as usual the first round after the ppt. the aptitude paper consists of three sections.....

1.Verbal Ability:- In this there will be fill in the blanks with the correct words, word meanings (very simple ones), and two passages which will have 5 to 6 questions from it. it is better that before reading the passage you go through the questions as this will save time.

2.Mathematical questions:-very easy only sums frm r s agarwal (quantitative) come

3.Data interpretation and logical reasoning :-
AFTR THE 1 HR 10 MINS ARE OVER u will be given additional 10 minutes to write an essay on any topic for atleast 100 words.. I was given SHLD MOBILE PHONES BE BANNED IN COLLEGE?

Around 50 people cleard the apti frm 500 odd ppl

GROUP DISCUSSION
This is also an imp elimination round. In this i ll advice that you dnt get tensed. watevr b the topic atleast say 2 to 3 points which make sense.. n yes always listen to what others want to say also.... most imp.. thru the entire gd never look at the person who is conducting the gd... just look at the people who r in your group.

aftr the gd around 40 ppl were left

HR+TECH
In this round you may be asked anything from technical or hr or may be both. dnt worry they r very nice ppl and they ll make u feel comfortable.... very basic questions were asked regarding me, my hobbies and my future plans.

IF THEY DO NOT LIKE YOU IN THIS ROUND THEY WILL STRAIGHT AWAY ASK YOU TO LEAVE. SPOKEN ENGLISH IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE IN ACCENTURE. SO TRY TO BE VERY CLEAR AND FLUENT.

This is the final round and this is also same as previous round. In this also tech may be askd or hr or may be both. So they have a two stage process. I was askd bout my favorite movie and y i likd it n y m i shifting frm my stream i.e electronics to IT industry. just prepare good answers for these ques and i m sure u ll b thru.

After this we waited for an hour and then our results were declared..

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 18 AUG 2007 - GAZIABAD

2009-06-02T07:07:00.000-07:00

PAPER : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 18 AUG 2007 - GAZIABAD

There were mainly 4 rounds in accenture's off campus recruitment procedure.
1. Written aptitude test
2. Group discussion
3. Technical Interview
4. HR Interview

On 18th august there was a written exam at KIET Gaziabad, there were approx 8500 students from various collages who gave the written test. Students were divided in 2 slots and written test was held 4 two days.

In this aptitude test there were questions from
1. English comprehension (2 paragraphs related to IT)
2. simple word meanings (2 or 3)
3. Fill in the blank with articles and other grammatical stuff... (5)
4. Simple mathematical questions like age, time, and binary conversions.
5. Puzzle questions (1 problem and 5 to 6 questions on that puzzle)
6. Sets (Venn diagrams) questions. (1 problem and 5 to 6 questions on that)
7. Essay writing (Topic: IT impact in India )

It was a 1 hr paper, after 3 or 4 days, result of written test was declared on site: Alltestresult.com
Out of so many students they selected only about 1600 students. Again these students were divided into 2 slots and we were given Date for rest of the rounds as 1st sep, 1st round was GD round in which students were divided into batches. And every batch had 12 students. Topic for my GD was IMPACT OF MOVIES ON YOUTH. It was a warm discussion!!!!!!!!!

From my group those who spoke well got selected. There were 6 students who cleared GD round from my group including me.

Few other topics that were given to other groups were.....
1. Nuclear deal
2. IT impact in India
3. Is China 's economy is affecting India
4. Sex education in institutes (should it be there or not?

They usually give current affairs topic. GD was over at 11. am at 1'o clock I was called for tech interview.

There were 17 panels and mine was panel no 1. He was really friendly and asked me very simple questions as...
1. Tell me about yourself?
2. Why did ur % fell from 82 %( 10th) and 83% (12th ) to 69% (B.tech)?
3. Do u know anything about JAVA?
4. What about C?
5. What is Inheritance?
6. What are pointers?
7. And other simple basic questions.
8. What do u think, hw well u have performed in this interview?
9. Do u think we shud select u?
10. Do u have any problem in relocation? (He asked 4 Madras )
11. Any questions that u wud like to ask me?

It was fun!! It was more of HR then tech.

The interviewer then asked me to wait outside the cabin and just after 3 to 4 min a volunteer came and told me that I have been selected 4 the HR round.. At around 3:30 my turn for HR round came... He was also toooooo friendly....

Questions that he asked
1. Tell me about yourself?
2. Tell me about ur family?
3. Why do u want to join accenture and why not other IT firms?
4. Which are the companies that u would love to join other than accenture?
5. What do u known about those companies?
6. "we know what it takes to be a tiger" in this punch line of accenture what is the link between "tiger" and "High performance delivered"?
7. What is Best?
8. What do u mean by Success?
9. Who is ur role model and why?
10. Why should we hire u?
11. Why communication skills are needed when u r joining a firm?
12. and may be few more questions...

ACCENTURE PAPER & INTERVIEW - 23 FEB 2008 - KOLKATA

2009-06-02T07:06:00.002-07:00

PAPER : ACCENTURE PAPER & INTERVIEW - 23 FEB 2008 - KOLKATA

It has 4 rounds:
1) Aptitude test along with that essay writing.
2) Group Discussion.
3) Technical / HR Interview.
4) HR / Technical Intervew.

1)APTITUDE TEST:
Questions = 55 ; time limit = 60 minutes...along with that an essay to write in the same sheet in another 10 minutes...
No sectional cut off, no negative marking..

questions were easy.. all u need to do is planning which questions to attempt first and which one to attempt at last and yeah 1 more thing ..you have to be very fast and u can achieve dat only through regular practice.. all u have to do is to solve few chapters from R.S.AGGARWAL (verbal & Non-verbal as well as quantitaive).. I will suggest you some chapters... you jus do those chapters properly and it will be more than sufficient for you...

The Aptitude test paper is divided into 3 sections:
1st section : consist of 20 questions which is completely based on English...
Questions 1 - 10: These are very easy.. its completly based on prepositions and fill in the blanks with correct articles... if u have a gud command in English then do it in the begining else do it some time later on after solving some easier questions which will mention later on...

Questions 11 - 20 :
questions 11 - 15 contains one comprehension followed by another comprehension from ques 16 - 20... I will suggest you all to do the comprehensions at last.. and attempt the first comprehension before than the second one...coz according to my experience first comprehensions are always easier than the second one...

TIPS : DO THE COMPREHENSIONS AT LAST AND ALWAYS READ THE QUESTIONS FIRST AND THEN LOOK FOR THE ANSWERS IN THE PASSAGE...NEVER WASTE YOUR TIME IN READING THE WHOLE PASSAGE..

2nd section : consists of 20 questions which is based on quantitative as well as verbal and non-verbal...
It contains questions from data sufficiency, venn diagram, time and work, percentage, time and distance, directions, blood relations, and the most important topic LOGIC (syllogism) which is the first chapter of the second part of R.S.AGGARWAL (verbal & non-verbal)...prepare these chapters very nicely...

3rd section : consists of 15 questions which is v.v.v.easy, only a difficult portion can be of puzzle types..
questions are like :
Q.41- Q.45 Mark the answers according to the following:
A- If all the three options match
B- If FIRST and SECOND options match
C- If FIRST and THIRD options match
D- If none of the three match

Example:
KKTUJNGDFTSR KKTUJHGDFTSR KKTUJNGDFTSR
Ans: C

Another example:
1896.5738491023 1896.5783491023 1896.5738461023
Ans: D

Q.46-Q.49 were based on the Puzzle-type question. It said:
Following was the criteria decided by the selection committee of Indian Cricket Board:
1) Player's age should be 18-28 years
2) He must be the captain of any cricket team for at least 2 years
3) He must be a Ranji Player for at least 2 years
4) He must have taken at least 20 wickets or made 1000 runs in a calendar year in Ranji

If 1st condition is not fulfilled .. referred to chairman
If 2nd condition is not fulfilled .. he must be an all rounder with at least 500 runs and 15 wickets
If 4th condition is not fulfilled .. referred to VP

Questions were like following example:
Rahul was born on Dec.10,1979 and is a captain of Ranji team since Feb 2005. He won man of the tournament last year for taking 24 wickets last year. He is:
a) Selected b) Rejected c) Referred to Chairman d)Data Insufficient
Ans: a
(These questions are also easy if you draw a table with names of the aspirant in rows and criteria in the columns, and then checking whether he/she fulfils it or not)

Q.50- Q.55 were also a bit easy and were of two types:
Example of type 1:
If * means +, + means -, - means / and / means *, then what is the value of-
8+4-9*7/12+3

Example of type 2:
If * means /, / means -, - means + and + means *, then which of the following is true:
a) 7+43*2/13-7+8 = 22.6 b) 4-9*7/4*2/3-7+2 = 25 .. ..

(The type 1 are easier and less time consuming and type 2 are more time consuming but still can be solved. 3 of the questions were of type 1 and other 3 of type two)..

NOTE: Friends i will suggest you all to start with this section... first do the question 41 - 45 and then do the questions from 50 - 52 and then do whatever u like.... coz these questions are v.v.v.v.easy and so u will gain lots of confidence after solving these 8 questions.. if u can then solve the ques 53 - 55 also else leave it for later on as it is very much time consuming...

IMPORTANT CHAPTERS TO BE DONE FOR THE APTITUDE TEST:

FOR ACCENTURE EMPHASIZE MORE ON VERBAL & VON-VERBAL RATHER THAN QUANTITAVE...

VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL :
1) LOGIC (syllogism).
2) DATA SUFFICIENCY.
3) LOGIACL VENN DIAGRAM.
4) DIRECTION SENSE TEST.
5) BLOOD RELATIONS.
6) PUZZLE TEST.

QUANTITATIVE :
1) TIME AND WORK.
2) TIME AND DISTANCE.
3) RATIO AND PROPORTION.
4) PERCENTAGE.
5) PROBLEMS ON TRAINS.
6) BOATS AND STREAMS.
7) PIPES AND CISTERNS.
8) PROFIT AND LOSS.

Do only these chapters which i have mentioned .... its more than sufficient and once again emphasize more on Verbal and non-verbal rather than quantitative... coz 70% are from verb&non-verb and 30% are from quanti.. in comparision to these two...

After the completion of 60 minutes we were asked to write an essay in 10 minutes time and word limit was atleast 100 words and the topic was "US recession and its impact in the IT industry".... dont bother about the essay much, just make it sure that u have to fill that page with correct grammatical statements... it does not play an role in clearing ur aptitude... It is checked by the HR usually during ur HR interview and it may happen that no one bother to check it also...

2) GROUP DISCUSSION :
The topic which was given to us was "liberalisation"... time limit was 10 minutes... 12 students were there in a group, a topic was thrown and you all have to share your views regarding that given topic...they selected only 5 students from each group of 12...so you can see that you have to give ur best effort and you wont get much chance to speak also coz it so happens sometimes that they make the GD go by person to person clockwise..

TIPS : Initially they may ask you to introduce urself... and u have to hit in this very moment only.. ur introduction shud be very strong...then u will have 2 - 3 chances to speak on the topic.. friends u have to be louder and clear during your GD... with full of passions...

3) HR INTERVIEW :
Questions were like: Tell me sumthing about yourself which is not there in the CV... then what do u do in your leisure time... then how can you prove that you have managerial skills and then few questions were asked which was related to my answers... i m not writng all those things coz answers vary from person to person... all i wanna say is dat u need to be very much confident during your interview, there should be smile on your face, eyes contact with the HR is a must...

4) TECHNICAL INTERVIEW :
First of all HR asked me to introduce myself... then he asked me what do u do in your leisure time..then he asked me what are your favourite subjects...then he gave me a program and asked me 2 answer hm whether this program will run or not...then he told me dat i m giving u 16 seconds..u have to sell urself...then he gav me some situation reaction test which i answered wonderfully...

In situation reaction test they just want to see how good you are as a leader as well as a team member and how hard working, determined and confident you are..

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 26 FEB 2008

2009-06-02T07:06:00.001-07:00

Pattern : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 26 FEB 2008

Aptitude round: It was very easy, nd was conducted by people 4m MERIT TRAC. Max Qns were of Profit n Loss. Some were of type if /stands for *, + stands for - and so on.

English part was extremely easy. In all there were 55 Qns that were 2 b done in 60 min. also there was an essay which has to be written in 10 min and the topic was given after completion of the apti. My topic was "Education sytem in India". Apti's result was out on the same day n rest of the rounds took place on 5th.

GD round : Students were divided in the groups of 12 each. It was a tough round. Topics were easy but the elimination was of about 40%. They were mainly concerned about the communication skills. Some of the topics were Budget-2008, should Cricket be made National Game of India, Red, Economy of India, Will India b superpower by 2020,...

Technical and HR interviews : My interviews took place around 11 in night. firstly I gone through the HR round. My HR was very gud. There were very easy questions like, Tell me about urself which is nt dere in CV, who is ur ideal n why?, Which book u read recently n what did u learn, ny problem in relocation. thankfully I was selected n then appeared 4 Tech. It was a bit tough round but was very easy in my case. As that person was bit impressed vd my academics. He asked me 2-3 simple Questions of sorting, Pointers, n rDBMS. Interviews continued on the 6th also.

ACCENTURE PATTERN INTERVIEW - 05 APR 2008 - NOIDA

2009-06-02T07:05:00.002-07:00

PAPER : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 05 APR 2008 - NOIDA

1. Verbal-20 questions
2. Quantitative-20 questions
3. Analytical-15 questions

It was a 1 hr paper with sectional cutoffs and no negative marking. So, devote ur time properly on each section.

Analytical section was very easy. Try to attend it first.

In verbal, there were two comprehensions. They were little bit difficult. First read questions and then comprehension. Correct use of prepositions and articles were there. I would advice u to go through verbal ability book of any MBA coaching.

Quantitative section was a little bit difficult. Mostly questions were from venn diagram applications, trains, distance and time, time and work, etc.

Next round was Group Discussion. Some of GD topics were as follows:
1.Impact of American elections on India
2.Single-party multiple party system
3.Media crossing limits
4.Alcohol or cigarette-which would u prefer?
5.Domestic companies and multi-national companies
6.ICL VS IPL
7.Reservation
9.Sex education
10.Education system of India
11. Impact of IT on India
12.Casteless society-possibility or myth?
13.Status of women in India

Other topics can be on inflation, economy of India and comparison it with China, and recent events. Results re announced hand to hand on ur face. There is no limit, they can take any no. of students from a group. Then students were divided, some had their technical first, while others had their HR first.

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 08 MAR 2008 - NEW DELHI

2009-06-02T07:05:00.001-07:00

PAPER : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 08 MAR 2008 - NEW DELHI

WRITTEN EXAM
The test consisted of 55 ques to be done in 60 mins.It had three sections i.e. Verbal ability, logical reasoning, and mathematical ability.All the questions were very easy. U just need to have gud speed to clear the exam. There was no -ve marking. So attempt all questions. The paper was very easy.After 1 hour got completed, we were given a topic on which we had write an essay of approx 100-150 words in 10 mins. The topic of essay was "IMPACT OF IT ON INDIA". Beware this essay may be evaluated in ur HR interview. Try to write it in good handwriting.After 1 hour or so result was announced. 122 students out of 244 got selected and immediately after that we were divided in groups and sent for gd.

GROUP DISCUSSION
Well I must tell u tht I didn't had a GD, I had a kind of extempore instead. All of us were given a topic on which we had to speak for 1 min. Then after all hv completed speakin we were told to contradict others or to give a conclusion. Our topic was "Impact of Cell phones-Good or Bad"
Other topics were "Microsoft taking over google" ; "Products, Services and Outsourcing companies".7 students out of 13 got selected in our group.
A total of 80 students out of 122 cleared the gd.

HR Cum TECH ROUND
After waiting for around 1.5 hours I got the chance to appear for interview. In this round I was asked technical as well as hr. The person was really a nice and cool dude. I was asked to talk abt myself for a min. and after that he asked ques on my ans. Some very basic questions were asked regarding C++. They also asked about hw much I knew abt the company etc.. They just checked our confidence level. Just after the interview I was told that I got through with the tech round.

IBM INTERVIEW PAPER 21 NOV 2008 - CHENNAI

2009-06-02T07:04:00.001-07:00

PAPER : IBM INTERVIEW PAPER 21 NOV 2008 - CHENNAI

1) WRITTEN TEST:

a) 3 Matrices will be given each has 5 qns totally 15 qns and time limt:13 mins for tis section (no –ve marking for tis section-so attend all must k)

b) Number series completion total 20 qns time limit:4 mins for tis section (-ve marking of 0.25 is present) as the time is limited on cing the qns answer it else skip and forward BUT TIS IS DAMN EASY I attended 16/20 in tis section very easy

c) Aptitude totally 12 qns and time limit is:15 mins (-ve marking of .25 is there) (qns were from profit and loss, area, percentage, time and distance, age problems and etc but no qns similar to R.S.Aggarwal but similar to tat k so prepare well)

ONE ADVANTAGE NO SECTIONAL CUT OFF HERE. IN TOTAL ONLY THEY CHECK THE RESULT.. GALS NEVER MIND SINCE IF THEY R THRO IN WRITTEN THEY R INTO IBM BUT BOYS MAN OPEN UR MOUTH ELSE PROBLEM ONLY FOR MALE CANDIDATES GUYS..

MATRICES:

1) CLMN1 CLMN 2 CLMN3 CLMN4 CLMN5

ROW 1 J J U V X

ROW 2 U V J 5 6

ROW 3 V U J X 5

ROW 4 5 6 V J U

ROW 5 6 5 X U V

a) which has many maximum number of J s present in the following pairs:

i) row1 and column 1 ii)row2 and column 2 iii)row3 and column3 iv)row4 and column4 v)row5 column5

b) if all j’s are replaced by 3 and u’s replaced by 4 which row or column has d maximum value of 18

c)if all rows and columns are reversed and the diagonal from left bottom to right top corner has been reversed so wats the value in row4 column2

etc many guys cant remember to correct figures since I was in a hurry for answers so cant recollect the questions

NUMBER SERIES COMPLETION: (easiest of all)

1) 22, 34, 35, 23, 36, 37,__

2) 10, 9, 8, 8, 9, 10, 7, 6, 5,__

3) 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 4, 7,__

And etc many it goes on totally 20 qns its damn easy just get the answer on first sight else forward to next qns…

APTITUDE: (a bit tougher tan other sections)

1) if a printer A prints 60 words per minute and printer b prints 80 words in one minute printer A starts at 7.47 and printer b at 8.07 wen ll printer b catch up wit printer A….?

2) a fountain is of length 144cms ten width of 288 cms and depth of 91 cms so how much litres of water ll be there in 46 cms of depth in the same fountain….?

3) there is a printer consisting of color and balck white printer the rate of color toner increases from $33 to $35 and black white toner from $28 to $29 if the total rate is $1600 there is 3/5 color toners wats d hike in price…..?

tats it I can remember friends….

FIRST ROUND STARTED AT 10.30 AND RESULTS WERE ANNOUNCED AT 1.30 AND GD STARTED BY 2PM

2) GROUP DISCUSSION:

Totally out of 500 attended only 30 were short listed for GD and 10 in each batch so from GD 28 of them advanced to next round.

WIPRO PATTERN & INTERVIEW PAPER - 2007 (7 - 8 Year Experience)

2009-06-02T07:03:00.000-07:00

PAPER : WIPRO PATTERN & INTERVIEW PAPER - 2007 (7 - 8 Year Experience)

Package:
2.75 - 3.25 lakhs p.a. for BE/BTech/MCA.
3 - 3.50 lakhs for ME.
Now the thing is there is a 3 months training, then, after a test it will be decided what slot you land up in.

Bonds:
The company will sign a bond of Rs 75000 for commiting a period of 15 months and after that the money will be returned but without the interest applicable on the amount. Finally those who are having trouble arranging the money Wipro has a tie up with SBI that a minimum amount of 5000 is to be paid and rest SBI will pay and ofcourse the installments will be deducted from salary.

Experience:
The PPT (Pre Placement Talks) started at about 9:30 and the team was of about 12 - 15 persons working with Wipro for more than 3 years. Commonly they were for 7-8 years working with Wipro. So it felt good to meet people who have worked for a long time with the company.

If all goes well you will find some part of the ppt as really interesting as ("You pass, We Pay", wisdom schools, their tie up with the reputed higher education institutes. It will get long to explain all this. I found that of the 3 companies only Wipro supports and encourages its employees to undergo certificate cources (java, MCSE, redhat linux, etc) and do MBA or MS or whatever they feel like Wipro will sponser if you pass.

Written test: Though i cleared the written of TCS and Infosys i found the paper of Wipro to be tough.
Not scaring you all
English (15 Questions)
1. Antonyms and synonyms
2. Jumbled (rel easy but if you try it with options)
3. Error finding, speech (active, passive), etc

Overall English was fine but as i haven't read any book about English it was difficult for me to get some words correct. There is no negative marking so it became easy to take chances. Majority part was 'b' and only a few as 'a'

Aptitude (15 Questions)
damn easy but extreme time taking. some required logic and direct answer without solving even
1.trains(distance, speed, etc) find the clock time of approach
2.sorry don't remember much but overall it was fine.

Technical (20 question)
If you remember the concepts and syntax i don't feel it will be a problem. But still fear the worse and try hard on syntax and cram the complexities data of all sorting algos.
1. a*=2 Sol. a=a*a ie a*=n is a=n times a. or a=a^n
2. complexity
3. trees as definition
4. error etection in code
well alot more but were fine. but don't just jump out of your bed and reach there. do all possible things you can do.

Finally you clear the test. Be sure if there is any negative marking. It was not in our case atleast. Hope the same for you.

Interview Technical
It all depends on luck that what panel you get, for me it was so cool person I was feeling like talking to my senior.

WORD OF CAUTION
A suggestion from my friend really worked good that reduce the size of cv to 1page. mine was 1.5 page.
1. remove all details you are not confident of and if you have to mention them then add it to "Areas of interest" so that you can say you have an interest in the subject but as you did it as part of curriculum.
2. Add some extra curricular activities if you haven't done any. As was my case.
I'm a computer
freak and i did everything in computers.

Questions were based on the projects alot. Just explain properly about each detain about the projects you have done. then even if you don't know any answer coolly say "sorry....! I don't know or i don't remember the answer"
If your communication skills are good you will surely get through technical if luck favours you.
Overall tech was fine and it went about 25 mins in mine and in others people were sent back with the HR form in just 5 mins.

HR Interview
The HR round was alot interesting:
1. tell about family and background
2. do SWOT analysis of yourself (strength, weakness, opportunities, threats)
3. you have any problem signing the bond?
4. What is job satisfaction
I hope these are the common questions as i knew that from many she asked the same question. Finally result came at 11PM after a wait of some 9 - 10 hours and I got selected in Wipro.

XANSA PATTERN & INTERVIEW PAPER - 2007

2009-06-02T07:02:00.004-07:00

PAPER : XANSA PATTERN & INTERVIEW PAPER - 2007

[Company has 4 rounds]

1 round - Aptitude round 50 questions 50 marks
The question paper was easy. It contains
General Apps (fill the series,time and work,etc....) 25 questions.
Technical apps.25 questions. Only " C" questions. If u thorough the "Let us c" by Yashwanth Kanithkar, its more than enough..

2 round - Group discussion...
My topic is "Is GD a correct tool in Recruitment process" I was asked to speak that GD is necessary tool. Before discussion, they asked for self introduction.. To get selected, we should speak confidently and clearly.. only 3 out of 10 got selected and i was one among them.

3 round - Technical round..
It was also easy to me... First they asked about my achievements, strength etc and we spoke generally. then he gave a simple program (to get 100 students mark and to display how many students are greater than 150) and he asked to modify the program by displaying the corresponding students name, address etc..)

Some more questions:

achievements

what do you know about IT industry

how do you learn the unknown things.

have u helped others regarding education. if so how?

asked about company and PPT..

Extra courses

It took more than 30 min for me........

4 round - HR
Immediately after tech, I was asked to come for HR......here also some general questions like (tell about yourself, strength etc...) He asked, if there is any question from me i asked "How was my performance till this round" He said "good, i want to discuss with my team and i will announce the result" i was really happy, when i finished my HR.... And finally i got selected. confidence and good communication skill plays a important role..

YAHOO INTERVIEW PATTERN

2009-06-02T07:02:00.003-07:00

PAPER : YAHOO INTERVIEW PATTERN PAPER - 2007

Selection Procedure was:

Written test.

Technical interview 1

Technical interview 2

Programming

HR interview

Written Test:

C

C++

SQL

Regular Expression

Unix commands

Data structures(trees,graphs)

Interview:
The main things u want to be sure to get into yahoo are:
Unix commands - they ask basic commands in unix..
aftter that they give importance to C, C++
If u know perl then its an added advantage..
be sure with hashing too..

Some algo questions which was fired at me where
strcat()
how to count the no of bits set in an no.. he asked me give a soln in O(1).
how to delete the node in the linked list give the pointer to that node?
given two integers a, b how to divde a/b without using /, % operator... (repeted subtraction is not the solution).

In the programming round:

Asked me to implement the dictionary datastucture with features

autocorrect

autocomplete

spellcheck

NTPC Selection Procedure And Paper Pattern (Campus)

2009-06-02T07:02:00.001-07:00

NTPC Selection Procedure And Paper Pattern (Campus)

Company Name : NTPC
Type : Fresher, Job Interview

Nov, 2008 NTPC came to NIT Srinagar for placements. Branches
Eligible: ECE, EE, MECH CTC
Offered: Rs 6.75 lakh p.a. (Due for Revision)

Placement Procedure: ONLY Interview. A six member panel comprising two HR's, three technical persons and the Chairman of the team conducted interviews of each candidate for about 10-12 minutes. As told by H.R's, NIT Srinagar is the only NIT where only interviews are held (this system is of course followed in all IIT's). In other NIT's they take a written test, followed by GD and then the Interview.

I'm from Electrical Engineering.
I was the second person to be interviewed. Some of the questions posed to me were:

Where do you live?

How far is your home from the institute?

Are you a day-scholar or a hosteller?

What is your greatest strength?

How can you justify it?

What is your weakness?

What are the equipments that you would use inbetween when u have to connect a transformer to busbars?

What is the function of an isolator?

Why only 3 phase?

Why not 4 phase & 5 phase?

What are the different types of Circuit Breakers?

Which is the latest one?

Is the voltage distribution on a string insulator same throughout?

If not, then how to equalise it?

How would u decide between whether to use a 2 winding transformer or an autotransformer?

How can u define the efficiency of a transformer?

Why are the generating voltages limited to 33 kV?

If now-a-days we have High voltage insulation systems say XLPE which take up very little space, then why don't we go for higher generating voltages?

What is the symbol of a turbine?

Why is the symbol of that very shape?

Commandments For Personal Interviews

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Commandments For Personal Interviews

You have fared well in the written test and the group discussion. You are just a step away from admission to your dream programme -- the personal interview. A panel of management experts, a battery of questions. Are you perspiring already? Well, a personal interview could actually be challenging and fun if you just relax and remain focused. Think of it as a conversation between the interview panel and yourself, so enjoy it thoroughly. To begin with, there are four main focus areas in any personal interview:

Personal details

Academic details

Your background

Current affairs

Commandments for every personal interview Even after months of preparation, some candidates do not perform well inside the interview room. The trick is to follow the below commandments practice them during mock interview sessions diligently. You are sure to crack the personal interview.

1. Whenever the interviewer asks any questions, listen carefully. Do not interrupt him midway. Ask for a clarification if the question is not clear. Wait a second or two before you answer. And don't dive into the answer!

2. Speak clearly. Don't speak very slowly. Be loud enough so that the interviewers don't have to strain their ears.

3. Brevity is the hallmark of a good communicator. An over-talkative or verbose person is disliked and misjudged instantly, so keep it short.

4. If you don't know an answer, be honest. The interviewer will respect your integrity and honesty. Never exaggerate.

5. Never boast about your achievements. Don't be overconfident -- it is often misinterpreted by interviewers for arrogance.

6. Don't get into an argument with the interviewer on any topic. Restrain yourself, please!

7. Remember your manners. Project an air of humility and be polite.

8. Project enthusiasm. The interviewer usually pays more attention if you display enthusiasm in whatever you say.

9. Maintain a cheerful disposition throughout the interview, because a pleasant countenance holds the interviewers' interest.

10. Maintain perfect eye contact with all panel members; make sure you address them all. This shows your self-confidence and honesty.

ZENSAR PAPER & INTERVIEW - MAR 2008

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Paper : ZENSAR PAPER & INTERVIEW - MAR 2008

I want to start with a quote that I always try to follow in my life that, "If the victory is certain then even a coward can win but the real brave are those who dare to fight even if they know that their defeat is fixed". From the day when I joined my college I had the dream to start my career with a growing company where I could get an opportunity to utilize my abilities & skills. This dream seems to be come true when Zensar Technologies visited our campus, It was 3rd of March, 2008, stage was well set, show was just to begin.

Four people came from Zensar for the recruitment and now it's time for the PPT i.e Pre Placement talk .. in that they have told us about there selection criteria, about Zensar and of course the most important thing the package they are offering us.

They were very strict about their eligibility criteria, and the eligibility criteria was all through 60%, few of our friends are only 1 or 2 marks short of first division in 10th standard but its really mysterious they don't even allow them to sit just for the one odd mark.

The Selection procedure is normal as other companies, we have to under go 3 stages:
1) Aptitude Test
2) Technical Interview
3) Hr Interview

We all were ready for the Aptitude Test and I was really feeling embrace for few of fine friend who were very intelligent but couldn't make it just because of the eligibility criteria.

Aptitude Test begins: (there was no negative marking but there is the sectional cut off of 50%)

The test was divided into 4 categories and each of them contains 20 question and 20 min. are provided for each section, and we were forced to solve a section for 20 min. only and once the 20 mins are over then only we can jump to the next section.

First section was the English section, for me it is the toughest hurdle coz I had prepared the articles, prepositions, tenses, synonyms and antonyms but the pattern of the test was totally different, there was a complete sentence in which a fragment is underlined and we have to replace that fragment with the given options, and it was a real hack when I tried out options one by one every one is perfectly fine. I was really confused and the next five question were like

Prem Chandra was a _______ poet, he has written several ______ with his title and still lots of them _______.

In these question I shooted lots of arrows (I hope some of them might hit the target )

Next 5 question were like Heat: temperature:: _______:_______ I m sure that I haven't answered more then 2 correctly.

And the last five question were based on a passage (I say to me that, "yaar agar English ki sectional cut off cross karna hai to kuch bhikar ke ye sare question thik karne hi padenge") I read the passage twice and I m sure that I must have answered all the question right.

Two mins were still there, I tried to keep myself calm but I was really frustrated.

Next section was Maths no problem for me at all.. I was quite frustrated coz of mine English section that's why I was even unable to remember the table of 18 in one of question. I have to find 18 * 9 nothing came in to mind at that time every thing was like ??????? then I done 180-18 to calculate it again was even unable to subtract I said oh god ..what is happening today. Then after a min I regained my senses and I have done 16 questions 100% correct in just 10 or 11 odd mins. Question were very simple like

1)A can do a work in 31 days and B can do the same work in 8 days ,A alone started the work after few days he was joined by B, and the work completed in 10 days . After how many days A is been joined by B.

2)In an election between 2 candidate one have got 53% votes and won by 1057 votes, how many votes were there ?

3)A spent 3589 Rs. In first four months and 5216 Rs. In next eight months, if he saves 2368 Rs per month then what is his salary ?

4)A man sells a bike and a cow in 14000 Rs., by selling his bike he loses 20% and gained 20% in selling his cow, if the total profit was 200 Rs. Then what was the cost price of cow?

5)Two no. are in 2:3 ratio if the three fifth of the first number is added to two third of the second no then the new ratio will be ?

6)The cp a ltrs of milk is 12 rs, a milk man purchases 20lts of milk and wants to earn 200Rs. in the transaction if he sells 20 ltrs of milk then how much water will be the sp of a ltr milk... (too simple its not allegation)

And simple problem on ages, allegation, time and distance etc.

Next Section, Reasoning was avg. not too easy not too tough, an average person can do almost 65% of the question and rest of the question were quite tough,question were like,

A, B, C, D, and E were 3 guys and 2 girls, each one have the b'day in Jan, Feb,..may;

Each one of them like sweets, ice cream...etc.

Note : verbal as well as non verbal reasoning was there (don't worry it was easy )

Now It's the time for the Technical Section which was the last section of the paper:

Most of the questions were based on the C output and rest of the question were from networking, Computer Architecture, Operating System. Question were like:

1)which is the fastest : FTP, TELNET, TCP, etc.

2)output:
main(){
int x=20,y=35;
x= x++ + y++;
y = ++x + ++y;
printf("%d %d",x,y);
}

3)char *p[]="rachit and devender";
printf("%C",++(p[4]));

4)const char *p[]="abhishek and Ankur";
char k='a';
p[1]=k;
printf("%s",p);

5)main(){
extern int i;
i=5;
printf("%d",i);
}

6) main(){
int i,j=2;
if(i%j !=0)
j=5;
printf("%d",j);
}
For what values if i the output will be 5 : options 1)when i is even 2) odd 3)prime 4) fro all

7)complexity of merge sort .?

8)which sorting also will use to sort {1,2,3,4,5} ?

9)which cpu register holds the address of next instruction?

10)Main(){
Char *p[]="pradeep mani";
Printf("%c%c%c%c",p[i],i[p],(*p+1),*(p+1));
}

11) select * from dual ; output..??

12) we cant typedef (i) pointers (ii) function (iii) double (iv) I and II both

above are some of the question which are been asked in the 4th section of the Aptitude test.

Now they asked us to wait for 30 mins, it was really a tough time our heart was beating at full speed.. 30 mins seems to be 30 years,

Now the result is been declared..

A person came and said that only 5 people are selected every one of us were astonished, we were assuming that at least 15 people will crack this Aptitude but that was really strange, My name was there, but I really feel bad for all my friends who were unable to cross this barrier. They have given us a form to fill up, it's a general details entry form, they take our CVs and ask us for reporting them with in 15 Mins.

It was really tough hurdle coz Zensar mainly focuses on the technical round but I was well prepared for this round coz I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

Now the battle of questions and answer started.

We were in our college at 9:00 am and now it was around 2:30 pm I was the second person to go for the technical round,

They asked me have you taken your lunch I said, "no, I don't even had my break fast", then they ask me are you hungry I have some snacks with me I said, "no thanks, I m just hungry for the job". Then they started bombarding questions,

1)what is pointer to a function ..
2)Explain the working of pointer to a function
3)Difference between char const *p, const char *p,const * char p, const char * const p
4)What Is FILE *fp
5)Write a program to print a file from the last .
6)Write a program to encrypt the file
7)What is abstraction
8)What is run time polymorphism
9)What is register storage class? If a variable is declared as register then is it compulsory that it will be of storage type register?
10)What is interface in java ?
11)What is implementation ?
12)Why java doesn't support multiple inheritance ?
13)Is c++ is pure object oriented?
14)Why we need new operator in java at the time of object declaration and why not in c++?
15)Write a program to implement virtual functions ?
16)What is the difference between file and data base storage ?
17)Difference between hierarchical data model and network data model ?
18)What are the 12 codd's rule ?
19)Gave me a table and asked me to normalize it up to 3 nf ?
20)Difference between BCNF and 4 nf ?
21)Difference between conflict and view serialzability
22)What is batch operating system ?
23)Difference between multiprogramming and multitasking ?
24)What are different types of scheduler ? explain short term scheduler ?
25)What are different scheduling algorithms ?
26)What is a system call?
27)Monitors and Semaphores ?
28)What are different CPU registers ?
29)Object oriented model, Component Assembly model and Waterfall model ? compare them ?
30)Difference between OSI and TCP/IP?
31)X.25 ?
32)CSMA/CD ?
33)IEEE?
34)Heap Sort, Merge Sort ?
35)Hashing Technique ?

I was thinking that, "yaar kintne question poochenge ye log, voh poochte ja rahe the aur main batataja raha tha", there were lots of other question..

This round lasted for around 50 -55 mins and HR round was also attached to this because we were only 5 people selected out there, now came the time for the HR interview:

Normal Questions:

1)Describe Yourself as a person ?(she said I don't want u to repeat the resume, something which in not mentioned in that)
2)Say something about dream.. I said, "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
3)Which is your dream company ? I said that, "I m telling u the truth, my dream company is Google", then she asked me why Google, I was well prepared for that question I said, "God is with them who have the courage to fly, not with them who stand on the ground and watch the sky", then wla wla wla...
4)Then why Zensar ? "One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness", that's what I have done at that time
5)Where do you see yourself after 5 years ?
6)Say something on,"when you are in Rome do what Romans do" And that's it, finally me and three of my friends were selected in the ZENSAR. At last I want to say that, "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

So if you are not selected don't worry coz "after every sad day there comes the glad day"

ZENSAR PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 27 APR 2007 - HYDERABAD

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Paper : ZENSAR PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 27 APR 2007 - HYDERABAD

I attended interview for Zensar Technologies at Holy Mary College S R Nagar Hyderabad on 27 April 2007

First there was written test. It had 4 sections: English, Mathematics, Analytical and Technical 20 min were given for each paper.
Except for maths all section were very easy. There were no -ve markings. out of 180 students only 20 were short listed for the 2nd round by gods grace I was one among them

2nd round was technical he asked me around 30-35 question mostly on C++ some from Unix and RDBMS.

Then the hr round was also easy simple question.

Tell me something about ur self

Where do u see urself 5 years from now

Have u done any prj

Why should i hire u and stuff like that

then i was given an essay is "mnc's coming to india good or bad" ur views

thats it all the best for all of u reading this.

ZENSAR PATTERN & INTERVIEW - JUN 2007 AT MEERUT

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Paper : ZENSAR PATTERN & INTERVIEW - JUN 2007 AT MEERUT

I am Dhruv Agarwal and I appeared in a Zensar placement recruitment drive held in our college "Meerut Institute Of And Technology " from 1-2 June 2007. The selection procedure consists of 2 rounds:

1-Written test
2-Interview(HR+Technical)

The written test comprised of four sections
1-General English
2-Quantitative Aptitude
3-Logical Reasoning
4-Technical (C&C++)
The test was very tough and maximum elimination is done in this round only
total of 200 appox and 76 cleared the written test and shortlisted for the interview. I was one of them

for General English consult (barren)

for Quantitative apti consult r.s.aggarwal and for Technical consult 'test ur c skills'
i don't remember exactly the questions but questions were of higher standard. The time duration for written test was 1.20 hours and there was a time slot for each section of about 20 min to each sections

Student selected for a interview were allowed to appear for both (Hr+Technical). Again interview was very tough and out of 76 only 38 were selected finally. I was one of them. I was asked basically about my project and field of interest subjects. I opt for e-commerce. So i was asked questions on E-Commerce technologies like Encryption etc. In the HR round the hr executive was very friendly and asked a general questions like

1-How was ur day
2-Describe about yourself
3-Family background
4-Aim in life
5-What do you think about Zensar

Be frank in ur answer and never think of bluffing the hr because they know everything about u just by reading your face. my interview lasted for 20 minutes. therefore i would like to say u that just believe in yourself and on your luck. if its ur day then nobody can stop u. this is my personal experience. I was selected in my 10th company. So have some patience and just appear in the interview with great confidence and strong will.

Compaq Placement Paper (OS, Networking & C)

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Paper: Compaq Placement Paper (OS, Networking & C)

1.Why paging is used ?

2.Which is the best page replacement algo and Why ?

3.What is software life cycle ?

4.How much time is spent usually in each phases and why ?

5.What is testing ?

6.Which are the different types of testing ?

7.Which are the different phases in Software life cycle (asked again)

8.Why is analysis and testing phases very important ?

9.Why networks are layered ? What is the advantage of that ?

10.How many layers are there in OSI ? Why is it called OSI model ?

11.network topologies ?

12.Which are the different network toplogies ?

13.an example of bus type network.

14.What is the Bandwidth of ethernet ?

15.Explain the advantage and disadvantage of ethernet ?

16.Which is the protocol used in ethernet. (CSMA/CD) Why is it called so ?

17.What is the advantage of Ring network ?

18.Compare it with ethernet.

19.What is inheritance, encapsulation etc.

20.If there are too many page faults what is the problem?

21.To ensure one pgm. doesnt corrupt other pgm. in a Multi-pgm. enviornment

22.What you should do?

23.Which one you will use to implement critical section? Binary Semaphore

24.Which one is not needed for Multi-pgm. enviornment?

25.options are: virtual memory,security,time sharing,none of the above.

26.Which one is not done by Data link layer ? bit stuffing, LRC,CRC,parity check

27.Which one is not related to Data link layer?

28.Which one is not suitable for client-server application? tcp/ip,message passing,rpc,none of the above.

29.Term stickily bit is related to a)kernel b)undeletable file c) d)none

30.semaphore variable is different from ordinary variable by ?

31.unix system is

a)multi processing

b)multi processing ,multiuser

c)multi processing ,multiuser,multitasking

d)multiuser,multitasking

32.x.25 protocol encapsulates the follwing layers

a)network

b)datalink

c)physical

d)all of the above

e)none of the above

33.TCP/IP can work on

a)ethernet

b)tokenring

c)a&b

d)none

34.a node has the ip address 138.50.10.7 and 138.50.10.9.But it is transmitting data from node1 to node2only. The reason may be

a)a node cannot have more than one address

b)class A should have second octet different

c)classB " " " " "

d)a,b,c

35.the OSI layer from bottom to top for an application which exceeds 64k the memory model should be

a)medium

b)huge

c)large

d)none

36.the condition required for dead lock in unix system is set-user-id is related to (in unix) bourne shell has

37.wrong statement about c++

a)code removably

b)encapsulation of data and code

c)program easy maintenance

d)program runs faster

38.which is true

a)bridge connects dissimiler LANand protocol insensitive

b)router " " " " "

c)gateway " " " " "

d)none of the above

C SKILL SET

1.How do you write a program which produces its own source code as its output?

2.How can I find the day of the week given the date?

3.Why doesn't C have nested functions?

4.What is the most efficient way to count the number of bits which are set in a value?

5.How can I convert integers to binary or hexadecimal?

6.How can I call a function, given its name as a string?

7.How do I access command-line arguments?

8.How can I return multiple values from a function?

9.How can I invoke another program from within a C program?

10.How can I access memory located at a certain address?

11.How can I allocate arrays or structures bigger than 64K?

12.How can I find out how much memory is available?

13.How can I read a directory in a C program?

14.How can I increase the allowable number of simultaneously open files?

15.What's wrong with the call "fopen("c:newdirfile.dat", "r")"?

Testing Questions and Answers

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Testing Questions and Answers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. What makes a good test engineer? 2
2. What makes a good software QA engineer? 2
3. What makes a good QA or Test manager? 2
4. What's the role of documentation in QA? 3
5. What's the big deal about 'requirements'? 3
6. What steps are needed to develop and run software tests? 3
7. What's a 'test plan'? 4
8. What's a 'test case'? 6
9. What should be done after a bug is found? 6
10. What is 'configuration management'? 8
11. What if the software is so buggy it can't really be tested at all? 8
12. How can it be known when to stop testing? 8
13. What if there isn't enough time for thorough testing? 8
14. What if the project isn't big enough to justify extensive testing? 9
15. What can be done if requirements are changing continuously? 9
16. What if the application has functionality that wasn't in the
requirements? 10
17. How can Software QA processes be implemented without stifling
productivity? 11
18. What if an organization is growing so fast that fixed QA processes
are impossible? 11
19. How does a client'server environment affect testing? 11
20. How can World Wide Web sites be tested? 11
21. How is testing affected by object-oriented designs? 13
22. What is Extreme Programming and what's it got to do with testing ? 13

1. What makes a good test engineer?
? A good test engineer has a 'test to break' attitude, an ability to
take the point of view of the customer, a strong desire for quality,
and an attention to detail.
? Tact and diplomacy are useful in maintaining a cooperative
relationship with developers, and an ability to communicate with both
technical (developers) and non-technical (customers, management)
people is useful.
? Previous software development experience can be helpful as it
provides a deeper understanding of the software development process,
gives the tester an appreciation for the developers' point of view,
and reduce the learning curve in automated test tool programming.
? Judgement skills are needed to assess high-risk areas of an
application on which to focus testing efforts when time is limited.
2. What makes a good software QA engineer?
? The same qualities a good tester has are useful for a QA engineer.
? Additionally, they must be able to understand the entire software
development process and how it can fit into the business approach and
goals of the organization.
? Communication skills and the ability to understand various sides of
issues are important.
? In organizations in the early stages of implementing QA processes,
patience and diplomacy are especially needed.
? An ability to find problems as well as to see 'what's missing' is
important for inspections and reviews.
3. What makes a good QA or Test manager?
? A good QA, test, or QA/Test (combined) manager should:
? be familiar with the software development process
? be able to maintain enthusiasm of their team and promote a positive
atmosphere, despite what is a somewhat 'negative' process (e.g.,
looking for or preventing problems)
? be able to promote teamwork to increase productivity
? be able to promote cooperation between software, test, and QA engineers
? have the diplomatic skills needed to promote improvements in QA
processes
? have the ability to withstand pressures and say 'no' to other
managers when quality is insufficient or QA processes are not being
adhered to
? have people judgement skills for hiring and keeping skilled personnel
? be able to communicate with technical and non-technical people,
engineers, managers, and customers.
? be able to run meetings and keep them focused
4. What's the role of documentation in QA?

? Critical. (Note that documentation can be electronic, not
necessarily paper.)
? QA practices should be documented such that they are repeatable.
? Specifications, designs, business rules, inspection reports,
configurations, code changes, test plans, test cases, bug reports,
user manuals, etc. should all be documented.
? There should ideally be a system for easily finding and obtaining
documents and determining what documentation will have a particular
piece of information.
? Change management for documentation should be used if possible.

5. What's the big deal about 'requirements'?

? One of the most reliable methods of insuring problems, or failure,
in a complex software project is to have poorly documented
requirements specifications.
? Requirements are the details describing an application's
externally-perceived functionality and properties.
? Requirements should be clear, complete, reasonably detailed,
cohesive, attainable, and testable. A non-testable requirement would
be, for example, 'user-friendly' (too subjective).
? A testable requirement would be something like 'the user must enter
their previously-assigned password to access the application'.
? Determining and organizing requirements details in a useful and
efficient way can be a difficult effort; different methods are
available depending on the particular project.
? Many books are available that describe various approaches to this task.
? Care should be taken to involve ALL of a project's significant
'customers' in the requirements process.
? 'Customers' could be in-house personnel or out, and could include
end-users, customer acceptance testers, customer contract officers,
customer management, future software maintenance engineers,
salespeople, etc.
? Anyone who could later derail the project if their expectations
aren't met should be included if possible.
? Organizations vary considerably in their handling of requirements
specifications.
? Ideally, the requirements are spelled out in a document with
statements such as 'The product shall.'.
? 'Design' specifications should not be confused with 'requirements';
design specifications should be traceable back to the requirements.
? In some organizations requirements may end up in high level project
plans, functional specification documents, in design documents, or in
other documents at various levels of detail.
? No matter what they are called, some type of documentation with
detailed requirements will be needed by testers in order to properly
plan and execute tests.
? Without such documentation, there will be no clear-cut way to
determine if a software application is performing correctly.

6. What steps are needed to develop and run software tests?

The following are some of the steps to consider:
? Obtain requirements, functional design, and internal design
specifications and other necessary documents
? Obtain budget and schedule requirements
? Determine project-related personnel and their responsibilities,
reporting requirements, required standards and processes (such as
release processes, change processes, etc.)
? Identify application's higher-risk aspects, set priorities, and
determine scope and limitations of tests
? Determine test approaches and methods - unit, integration,
functional, system, load, usability tests, etc.
? Determine test environment requirements (hardware, software,
communications, etc.)
? Determine testware requirements (record/playback tools, coverage
analyzers, test tracking, problem/bug tracking, etc.)
? Determine test input data requirements
? Identify tasks, those responsible for tasks, and labor requirements
? Set schedule estimates, timelines, milestones
? Determine input equivalence classes, boundary value analyses, error
classes
? Prepare test plan document and have needed reviews/approvals
? Write test cases
? Have needed reviews/inspections/approvals of test cases
? Prepare test environment and testware, obtain needed user
manuals/reference documents/configuration guides/installation guides,
set up test tracking processes, set up logging and archiving
processes, set up or obtain test input data
? Obtain and install software releases
? Perform tests
? Evaluate and report results
? Track problems/bugs and fixes
? Retest as needed
? Maintain and update test plans, test cases, test environment, and
testware through life cycle
7. What's a 'test plan'?

A software project test plan is a document that describes the
objectives, scope, approach, and focus of a software testing effort.
The process of preparing a test plan is a useful way to think through
the efforts needed to validate the acceptability of a software
product. The completed document will help people outside the test
group understand the 'why' and 'how' of product validation. It should
be thorough enough to be useful but not so thorough that no one
outside the test group will read it. The following are some of the
items that might be included in a test plan, depending on the
particular project:
? Title
? Identification of software including version/release numbers
? Revision history of document including authors, dates, approvals
? Table of Contents
? Purpose of document, intended audience
? Objective of testing effort
? Software product overview
? Relevant related document list, such as requirements, design
documents, other test plans, etc.
? Relevant standards or legal requirements
? Traceability requirements
? Relevant naming conventions and identifier conventions
? Overall software project organization and
personnel/contact-info/responsibilties
? Test organization and personnel/contact-info/responsibilities
? Assumptions and dependencies
? Project risk analysis
? Testing priorities and focus
? Scope and limitations of testing
? Test outline - a decomposition of the test approach by test type,
feature, functionality, process, system, module, etc. as applicable
? Outline of data input equivalence classes, boundary value analysis,
error classes
? Test environment - hardware, operating systems, other required
software, data configurations, interfaces to other systems
? Test environment setup and configuration issues
? Test data setup requirements
? Database setup requirements
? Outline of system-logging/error-logging/other capabilities, and
tools such as screen capture software, that will be used to help
describe and report bugs
? Discussion of any specialized software or hardware tools that will
be used by testers to help track the cause or source of bugs
? Test automation - justification and overview
? Test tools to be used, including versions, patches, etc.
? Test script/test code maintenance processes and version control
? Problem tracking and resolution - tools and processes
? Project test metrics to be used
? Reporting requirements and testing deliverables
? Software entrance and exit criteria
? Initial sanity testing period and criteria
? Test suspension and restart criteria
? Personnel allocation
? Personnel pre-training needs
? Test site/location
? Outside test organizations to be utilized and their purpose,
responsibilties, deliverables, contact persons, and coordination issues
? Relevant proprietary, classified, security, and licensing issues.
? Open issues
? Appendix - glossary, acronyms, etc.
8. What's a 'test case'?

? A test case is a document that describes an input, action, or event
and an expected response, to determine if a feature of an application
is working correctly.
? A test case should contain particulars such as test case identifier,
test case name, objective, test conditions/setup, input data
requirements, steps, and expected results.
? Note that the process of developing test cases can help find
problems in the requirements or design of an application, since it
requires completely thinking through the operation of the application.
For this reason, it's useful to prepare test cases early in the
development cycle if possible.
9. What should be done after a bug is found?

The bug needs to be communicated and assigned to developers who can
fix it.
After the problem is resolved, fixes should be re-tested, and
determinations made regarding requirements for regression testing to
check that fixes didn't create problems elsewhere. If a
problem-tracking system is in place, it should encapsulate these
processes. A variety of commercial problem-tracking/management
software tools are available . The following are items to be
considered in the tracking process:
? Complete information such that developers can understand the bug,
get an idea of it's severity, and reproduce it if necessary.
? Bug identifier (number, ID, etc.)
? Current bug status (e.g., 'Released for Retest', 'New', etc.)
? The application name or identifier and version
? The function, module, feature, object, screen, etc. where the bug
occurred
? Environment specifics, system, platform, relevant hardware specifics
? Test case name/number/identifier
? One-line bug description
? Full bug description
? Description of steps needed to reproduce the bug if not covered by a
test case or if the developer doesn't have easy access to the test
case/test script/test tool
? Names and/or descriptions of file/data/messages/etc. used in test
? File excerpts/error messages/log file excerpts/screen shots/test
tool logs that would be helpful in finding the cause of the problem
? Severity estimate (a 5-level range such as 1-5 or
'critical'-to-'low' is common)
? Was the bug reproducible?
? Tester name
? Test date
? Bug reporting date
? Name of developer/group/organization the problem is assigned to
? Description of problem cause
? Description of fix
? Code section/file/module/class/method that was fixed
? Date of fix
? Application version that contains the fix
? Tester responsible for retest
? Retest date
? Retest results
? Regression testing requirements
? Tester responsible for regression tests
? Regression testing results
A reporting or tracking process should enable notification of
appropriate personnel at various stages.
For instance, testers need to know when retesting is needed,
developers need to know when bugs are found and how to get the needed
information, and reporting/summary capabilities are needed for managers.

10. What is 'configuration management'?

Configuration management covers the processes used to control,
coordinate, and track: code, requirements, documentation, problems,
change requests, designs, tools/compilers/libraries/patches, changes
made to them, and who makes the changes.

11. What if the software is so buggy it can't really be tested at all?

The best bet in this situation is for the testers to go through the
process of reporting whatever bugs or blocking-type problems initially
show up, with the focus being on critical bugs. Since this type of
problem can severely affect schedules, and indicates deeper problems
in the software development process (such as insufficient unit
testing or insufficient integration testing, poor design, improper
build or release procedures, etc.) managers should be notified, and
provided with some documentation as evidence of the problem.

12. How can it be known when to stop testing?

This can be difficult to determine. Many modern software applications
are so complex, and run in such an interdependent environment, that
complete testing can never be done. Common factors in deciding when to
stop are:
? Deadlines (release deadlines, testing deadlines, etc.)
? Test cases completed with certain percentage passed
? Test budget depleted
? Coverage of code/functionality/requirements reaches a specified point
? Bug rate falls below a certain level
? Beta or alpha testing period ends
13. What if there isn't enough time for thorough testing?

Use risk analysis to determine where testing should be focused.

Since it's rarely possible to test every possible aspect of an
application, every possible combination of events, every dependency,
or everything that could go wrong, risk analysis is appropriate to
most software development projects.
This requires judgement skills, common sense, and experience. (If
warranted, formal methods are also available.)

Considerations can include:

? Which functionality is most important to the project's intended purpose?
? Which functionality is most visible to the user?
? Which functionality has the largest safety impact?
? Which functionality has the largest financial impact on users?
? Which aspects of the application are most important to the customer?
? Which aspects of the application can be tested early in the
development cycle?
? Which parts of the code are most complex, and thus most subject to
errors?
? Which parts of the application were developed in rush or panic mode?
? Which aspects of similar/related previous projects caused problems?
? Which aspects of similar/related previous projects had large
maintenance expenses?
? Which parts of the requirements and design are unclear or poorly
thought out?
? What do the developers think are the highest-risk aspects of the
application?
? What kinds of problems would cause the worst publicity?
? What kinds of problems would cause the most customer service complaints?
? What kinds of tests could easily cover multiple functionalities?
? Which tests will have the best high-risk-coverage to time-required
ratio?

14. What if the project isn't big enough to justify extensive testing?

Consider the impact of project errors, not the size of the project.
However, if extensive testing is still not justified, risk analysis is
again needed and the same considerations as described previously in.
The tester might then do ad hoc testing, or write up a limited test
plan based on the risk analysis.

15. What can be done if requirements are changing continuously?

A common problem and a major headache.
? Work with the project's stakeholders early on to understand how
requirements might change so that alternate test plans and strategies
can be worked out in advance, if possible.
? It's helpful if the application's initial design allows for some
adaptability so that later changes do not require redoing the
application from scratch.
? If the code is well-commented and well-documented this makes changes
easier for the developers.
? Use rapid prototyping whenever possible to help customers feel sure
of their requirements and minimize changes.
? The project's initial schedule should allow for some extra time
commensurate with the possibility of changes.
? Try to move new requirements to a 'Phase 2' version of an
application, while using the original requirements for the 'Phase 1'
version.
? Negotiate to allow only easily-implemented new requirements into the
project, while moving more difficult new requirements into future
versions of the application.
? Be sure that customers and management understand the scheduling
impacts, inherent risks, and costs of significant requirements
changes. Then let management or the customers (not the developers or
testers) decide if the changes are warranted - after all, that's their
job.
? Balance the effort put into setting up automated testing with the
expected effort required to re-do them to deal with changes.
? Try to design some flexibility into automated test scripts.
? Focus initial automated testing on application aspects that are most
likely to remain unchanged.
? Devote appropriate effort to risk analysis of changes to minimize
regression testing needs.
? Design some flexibility into test cases (this is not easily done;
the best bet might be to minimize the detail in the test cases, or set
up only higher-level generic-type test plans)
? Focus less on detailed test plans and test cases and more on ad hoc
testing (with an understanding of the added risk that this entails).

16. What if the application has functionality that wasn't in the
requirements?

It may take serious effort to determine if an application has
significant unexpected or hidden functionality, and it would indicate
deeper problems in the software development process.

If the functionality isn't necessary to the purpose of the
application, it should be removed, as it may have unknown impacts or
dependencies that were not taken into account by the designer or the
customer.
If not removed, design information will be needed to determine added
testing needs or regression testing needs.
Management should be made aware of any significant added risks as a
result of the unexpected functionality.
If the functionality only effects areas such as minor improvements in
the user interface, for example, it may not be a significant risk.

17. How can Software QA processes be implemented without stifling
productivity?

By implementing QA processes slowly over time, using consensus to
reach agreement on processes, and adjusting and experimenting as an
organization grows and matures, productivity will be improved instead
of stifled. Problem prevention will lessen the need for problem
detection, panics and burn-out will decrease, and there will be
improved focus and less wasted effort. At the same time, attempts
should be made to keep processes simple and efficient, minimize
paperwork, promote computer-based processes and automated tracking and
reporting, minimize time required in meetings, and promote training as
part of the QA process. However, no one - especially talented
technical types - likes rules or bureacracy, and in the short run
things may slow down a bit. A typical scenario would be that more days
of planning and development will be needed, but less time will be
required for late-night bug-fixing and calming of irate customers.

18. What if an organization is growing so fast that fixed QA processes
are impossible?

This is a common problem in the software industry, especially in new
technology areas. There is no easy solution in this situation, other than:
? Hire good people
? Management should 'ruthlessly prioritize' quality issues and
maintain focus on the customer
? Everyone in the organization should be clear on what 'quality' means
to the customer

19. How does a client'server environment affect testing?

Client/server applications can be quite complex due to the multiple
dependencies among clients, data communications, hardware, and servers.
Thus testing requirements can be extensive. When time is limited (as
it usually is) the focus should be on integration and system testing.
Additionally, load/stress/performance testing may be useful in
determining client/server application limitations and capabilities.
There are commercial tools to assist with such testing.

20. How can World Wide Web sites be tested?

Web sites are essentially client/server applications - with web
servers and 'browser' clients. Consideration should be given to the
interactions between html pages, TCP/IP communications, Internet
connections, firewalls, applications that run in web pages (such as
applets, javascript, plug-in applications), and applications that run
on the server side (such as cgi scripts, database interfaces, logging
applications, dynamic page generators, asp, etc.).
Additionally, there are a wide variety of servers and browsers,
various versions of each, small but sometimes significant differences
between them, variations in connection speeds, rapidly changing
technologies, and multiple standards and protocols.
The end result is that testing for web sites can become a major
ongoing effort.
Other considerations might include:
? What are the expected loads on the server (e.g., number of hits per
unit time?), and what kind of performance is required under such loads
(such as web server response time, database query response times).
? What kinds of tools will be needed for performance testing (such as
web load testing tools, other tools already in house that can be
adapted, web robot downloading tools, etc.)?
? Who is the target audience? What kind of browsers will they be
using? What kind of connection speeds will they by using? Are they
intra- organization (thus with likely high connection speeds and
similar browsers) or Internet-wide (thus with a wide variety of
connection speeds and browser types)?
? What kind of performance is expected on the client side (e.g., how
fast should pages appear, how fast should animations, applets, etc.
load and run)?
? Will down time for server and content maintenance/upgrades be
allowed? how much?
? What kinds of security (firewalls, encryptions, passwords, etc.)
will be required and what is it expected to do? How can it be tested?
? How reliable are the site's Internet connections required to be? And
how does that affect backup system or redundant connection
requirements and testing?
? What processes will be required to manage updates to the web site's
content, and what are the requirements for maintaining, tracking, and
controlling page content, graphics, links, etc.?
? Which HTML specification will be adhered to? How strictly? What
variations will be allowed for targeted browsers?
? Will there be any standards or requirements for page appearance
and/or graphics throughout a site or parts of a site??
? How will internal and external links be validated and updated? how
often?
? Can testing be done on the production system, or will a separate
test system be required? How are browser caching, variations in
browser option settings, dial-up connection variabilities, and
real-world internet 'traffic congestion' problems to be accounted for
in testing?
? How extensive or customized are the server logging and reporting
requirements; are they considered an integral part of the system and
do they require testing?
? How are cgi programs, applets, javascripts, ActiveX components, etc.
to be maintained, tracked, controlled, and tested?

? Pages should be 3-5 screens max unless content is tightly focused on
a single topic. If larger, provide internal links within the page.
? The page layouts and design elements should be consistent throughout
a site, so that it's clear to the user that they're still within a site.
? Pages should be as browser-independent as possible, or pages should
be provided or generated based on the browser-type.
? All pages should have links external to the page; there should be no
dead-end pages.
? The page owner, revision date, and a link to a contact person or
organization should be included on each page.
21. How is testing affected by object-oriented designs?

Well-engineered object-oriented design can make it easier to trace
from code to internal design to functional design to requirements.
While there will be little affect on black box testing (where an
understanding of the internal design of the application is
unnecessary), white-box testing can be oriented to the application's
objects. If the application was well-designed this can simplify test
design.

22. What is Extreme Programming and what's it got to do with testing ?

Extreme Programming (XP) is a software development approach for small
teams on risk-prone projects with unstable requirements.
It was created by Kent Beck who described the approach in his book
'Extreme Programming Explained' .
Testing ('extreme testing') is a core aspect of Extreme Programming.
Programmers are expected to write unit and functional test code first
- before the application is developed.
Test code is under source control along with the rest of the code.
Customers are expected to be an integral part of the project team and
to help develop scenarios for acceptance/black box testing.
Acceptance tests are preferably automated, and are modified and rerun
for each of the frequent development iterations.

QA and test personnel are also required to be an integral part of the
project team.

Detailed requirements documentation is not used, and frequent
re-scheduling, re-estimating, and re-prioritizing is expected

Pay Scale For Freshers in India IT

2009-06-02T06:57:00.001-07:00

Pay Scale For Freshers in India IT Company- Pay in LPA
Accenture-2.1
Adobe-5.7
Amazon-7.5
Attrenta-4.8
Caritor-2.0
CISCO-4.0
Computer Associates-4.5
CTS-2.1
DE Shaw-6.0
Deloitte-7.0
Fiorano-5.0
Flextronics (HSS)-3.0
Google-12.0
GE-3.0
HCL-2.0
Hexaware-2.1
IBM-2.5
Impulsesoft-4.5
Interra Systems-4.6
Induslogic-4.2
Infosys-1.8
Kanbay-2.25
Kritical-5.6
MBT-2.5
Microsoft-7.8
Mindtree-3.0
Motorola-3.6
Oracle-4.2
Patni(PCS)-1.7
Perot Systems-2.5
Polaris-2.0
SAP Labs-4.0
Samsung-4.6
Satyam-2.25
STM-4.5
Sun Microsystems-5.0
Syntel-2.05
Tata Elxs-1.9
Tavant-3.6
TCS-1.8
T-Mobile-8.0
Trilogy-7.5
Verizon-3.0
Virtusa-2.4
Wipro-2.1

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Microsoft Test Pattern

2009-06-02T06:56:00.002-07:00

Microsoft test paper would have section like databases, C & C++ programming, data structures, and algorithms.

What?
Here is a set of questions that I have with me which software guys have asked at interviews in the past, most of them are actually from Microsoft but a few have been pulled together from other places too. I have collected these from friends and would welcome any additions from you. Do send me your solutions, but the intent of this page is to kindle enough interest in you to try similar logic and programming questions.
PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST ME FOR MORE SOLUTIONS!

Why?

I have grown up reading Martin Gardner's Scientific American columns on Mathematical Games and interesting mathematics olympiad problems in high school. I discovered, to my delight, Bentley's Programming Pearls and David Gries' The Science of Programming in my computer science education. There is underlying beauty in mathematics and computer science. Some find it and others hate the subjects. When I found some of the Microsoft interview questions in graduate school, they were similar to mathematical puzzles that I was interested in. I started collecting them more as an illustration of interesting logic puzzles and algorithms in programming, than as an interview aid. If it has morphed into an interview questions page, that is more due to interest from all interviewees out there.

Some of the programming questions have a basic foundation in mathematics and algorithms. If the given data structure has a specific amount of information and the question asks you to extract/modify the given information, it is possible (though not always obvious) to find optimal solutions, and prove that it cannot be done any better, by quantifying the information content. But, there are always elegant and ugly ways to extract the same information. When you manage to find out the optimal solution to a problem, it usually not only turns out to be elegant, but also has the "aha!" factor to it. Try proving on paper the following question from my undergraduate mid-term:

1. Everyone Loves All Lovers
2. Romeo Loves Juliet
Therefore, prove (i.e. 1 AND 2 => 3)
3. I Love You

How?

To answer one of the more frequent questions that I get: No! I have never interviewed at Microsoft. In fact, I work in a microprocessor company far removed from any software development (though I work mostly in programming). However, I have had two of my roommates and two more housemates eventually working in Microsoft, in addition to a large number of friends. None of them have contributed to this page AFTER they started working at Microsoft. Microsoft itself does not hold any patents and nor has it invented most of the questions. Most of them come from mathematics and physics books, party puzzles, programming lore and standard textbooks. I know many companies ask similar questions, though Microsoft might have made the practice more common (especially with the manhole cover type of questions).

Usage

I have spent some time in collecting with the intention of their value as a practice session. They are not meant to be exact questions that you need to know and answer in an interview. They are supposed to make you think! Discuss with your friends, colleagues, professors for answers (get your tuition money's worth). I have left the page in simple text format so you can print them out and try them on your flight to the interview in case you are pressed for time. One of the strangest phone calls I remember is from a girl, staying up in a Microsoft provided hotel room in Redmond the night before the interview, asking me about the solution for one of the questions from this page. I hope the rest of you are saner (or do not have my phone number).

Puzzles, Riddles, etc.

Programming Questions

Computer Networks, Databases, etc.

Computer Architecture

0. Classic: If a bear walks one mile south, turns left and walks one mile to the east and then turns left again and walks one mile north and arrives at its original position, what is the color of the bear.

ANS. The color of the bear is trivial. The possible solutions to it are interesting. In addition to the trivial north pole, there are additional circles near south pole. Think it out.

* 1. Given a rectangular (cuboidal for the puritans) cake with a rectangular piece removed (any size or orientation), how would you cut the remainder of the cake into two equal halves with one straight cut of a knife?

ANS. Join the centers of the original and the removed rectangle. It works for cuboids too! BTW, I have been getting many questions asking why a horizontal slice across the middle will not do. Please note the "any size or orientation" in the question! Don't get boxed in by the way you cut your birthday cake :) Think out of the box.

2. There are 3 baskets. one of them have apples, one has oranges only and the other has mixture of apples and oranges. The labels on their baskets always lie. (i.e. if the label says oranges, you are sure that it doesn't have oranges only,it could be a mixture) The task is to pick one basket and pick only one fruit from it and then correctly label all the three baskets.

HINT. There are only two combinations of distributions in which ALL the baskets have wrong labels. By picking a fruit from the one labeled MIXTURE, it is possible to tell what the other two baskets have.

3. You have 8 balls. One of them is defective and weighs less than others. You have a balance to measure balls against each other. In 2 weighings how do you find the defective one?

4. Why is a manhole cover round?

HINT. The diagonal of a square hole is larger than the side of a cover!

Alternate answers: 1. Round covers can be transported by one person, because they can be rolled on their edge. 2. A round cover doesn't need to be rotated to fit over a hole.

5. How many cars are there in the USA?

6. You've got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them. The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the end of every day. If you are only allowed to make two breaks in the gold bar, how do you pay your worker?

7. One train leaves Los Angeles at 15mph heading for New York. Another train leaves from New York at 20mph heading for Los Angeles on the same track. If a bird, flying at 25mph, leaves from Los Angeles at the same time as the train and flies back and forth between the two trains until they collide, how far will the bird have traveled?

HINT. Think relative speed of the trains.

8. You have two jars, 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles. A jar will be picked at random, and then a marble will be picked from the jar. Placing all of the marbles in the jars, how can you maximize the chances of a red marble being picked? What are the exact odds of getting a red marble using your scheme?

9. Imagine you are standing in front of a mirror, facing it. Raise your left hand. Raise your right hand. Look at your reflection. When you raise your left hand your reflection raises what appears to be his right hand. But when you tilt your head up, your reflection does too, and does not appear to tilt his/her head down. Why is it that the mirror appears to reverse left and right, but not up and down?

10. You have 5 jars of pills. Each pill weighs 10 gram, except for contaminated pills contained in one jar, where each pill weighs 9 gm. Given a scale, how could you tell which jar had the contaminated pills in just one measurement?

ANS. 1. Mark the jars with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
2. Take 1 pill from jar 1, take 2 pills from jar 2, take 3 pills from jar 3, take 4 pills from jar 4 and take 5 pills from jar 5.
3. Put all of them on the scale at once and take the measurement.
4. Now, subtract the measurement from 150 ( 1*10 + 2*10 + 3*10 + 4*10 + 5*10)
5. The result will give you the jar number which has contaminated pill.

11. If you had an infinite supply of water and a 5 quart and 3 quart pail, how would you measure exactly 4 quarts?

12. You have a bucket of jelly beans. Some are red, some are blue, and some green. With your eyes closed, pick out 2 of a like color. How many do you have to grab to be sure you have 2 of the same?

13. Which way should the key turn in a car door to unlock it?

14. If you could remove any of the 50 states, which state would it be and why?

15. There are four dogs/ants/people at four corners of a square of unit distance. At the same instant all of them start running with unit speed towards the person on their clockwise direction and will always run towards that target. How long does it take for them to meet and where?

HINT. They will meet in the center and the distance covered by them is independent of the path they actually take (a spiral).

16. (from Tara Hovel) A helicopter drops two trains, each on a parachute, onto a straight infinite railway line. There is an undefined distance between the two trains. Each faces the same direction, and upon landing, the parachute attached to each train falls to the ground next to the train and detaches. Each train has a microchip that controls its motion. The chips are identical. There is no way for the trains to know where they are. You need to write the code in the chip to make the trains bump into each other. Each line of code takes a single clock cycle to execute.
You can use the following commands (and only these);
MF - moves the train forward
MB - moves the train backward
IF (P) - conditional that's satisfied if the train is next to a parachute. There is no "then" to this IF statement.
GOTO

ANS.
A: MF
IF (P)
GOTO B
GOTO A
-----
B: MF
GOTO B
Explanation: The first line simply gets them off the parachutes. You need to get the trains off their parachutes so the back train can find the front train's parachute, creating a special condition that will allow it to break out of the code they both have to follow initially. They both loop through A: until the back train finds the front train's parachute, at which point it goes to B: and gets stuck in that loop. The front train still hasn't found a parachute, so it keeps in the A loop. Because each line of code takes a "clock cycle" to execute, it takes longer to execute the A loop than the B loop, therefore the back train (running in the B loop) will catch up to the front train.

Personality

It is best to read some website or a book for questions like these.

1. Tell me the courses you liked and why did you like them.

2. Give an instance in your life in which you were faced with a problem and you tackled it successfully.

3. What is your ideal working environment.

4. Why do you think you are smart.

5. Questions on the projects listed on the Resume.

6. Do you want to know any thing about the company.( Try to ask some relevant and interesting question).

7. How long do you want to stay in USA and why (I guess non-citizens get this)?

8. What is your geographical preference?

9. What are your expectations from the job.

Puzzles, Riddles and Others

Microsoft Company Profile

2009-06-02T06:56:00.001-07:00

Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. They are a veteran software company, best known for their Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, but they have also ventured into hardware with consumer products such as the Zune and Xbox. They have made a presence on the Web with the MSN internet portal and Microsoft Live search, but have been widely criticized for their failure to penetrate this market. Microsoft's ambitions are anything but small. The world's #1 software company provides a variety of products and services, including its Windows operating systems and Office software suite. The company has expanded into markets such as video game consoles, server and storage software, and digital music players. Microsoft has reached settlements to end a slew of antitrust investigations and lawsuits, including agreeing to uniformly license its operating systems and allowing manufacturers to include competing software with Windows. In 2008 Microsoft made repeated efforts to acquire Yahoo! but was rebuffed by that company's board of directors. Microsoft is the world's largest software firm with 50,000 people working in 78 countries and revenues of over US$ 37 billion. Microsoft Corporation provides software products for computing devices worldwide. Its Client segment offers Windows product family that comprises Windows Vista; Windows XP Professional and Home; Media Center Edition; Tablet PC Edition; and other Windows operating systems. The company's Server and Tools segment provides integrated server infrastructure and middleware software that support software applications and tools built on the Windows Server operating system. This segment offers Windows Server operating system; Microsoft SQL Server; Microsoft Enterprise Services; product support services; Visual Studio; System Center products; Forefront Security products; Biz Talk Server; and MSDN. Its Online Services Business provides an on-line advertising platform for publishers and advertisers; personal communications services, such as email and instant messaging; and online information. It offers Live Search; MSN; MapPoint; MSN Internet Access; MSN Premium Web Services; Windows Live; MSN Mobile Services; AvenueA Razorfish media agency services; Atlas online tools for advertisers; and the Drive PM ad network for publishers. The company's Microsoft Business Division provides Microsoft office product set comprising enterprise content management, collaboration, unified communications, and business intelligence products; and Microsoft Dynamics products for financial management, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and analytics applications. Its Entertainment and Devices Division offers the Xbox video game system, including consoles and accessories, third-party games, games published under the Microsoft brand, and Xbox Live operations. This division also provides Zune digital music and entertainment device; PC software games; online games; Mediaroom, an Internet protocol television software; mobile and embedded device platforms; and Surface computing platform. Microsoft was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Our mission is to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. 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Microsoft paper @ DAIICT 26 july

2009-06-02T06:55:00.000-07:00

Selection procedure and interview questions of Microsoft at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)
There were 4 rounds for selection procedure. First round was a written test, second round was group interview and 3rd and 4th rounds were technical interview. Each round had eliminations. Total 143 students were eligible for written test and 16 students were selected for the next round, ie. group interview. Only 8 students were able to go for 3rd round of technical interview. In 3rd round 4 more students were eliminated and remaining 4 students went for final round of technical interview. Only 1 student got an offer finally from Microsoft.
Following is the detail about each round.
Note: All examples which I will give here are just for your understanding. Interviewer was not giving any examples. Hardly 2 – 3 time interviewer gave examples.
Round 1: Written test
Paper style: 3 subjective questions
Time limit: 1½ hour
Question 1: Finding output....
It was string cruncher program. First remove all repeated consecutive substring with length 1, then delete substring of length 2 and so on...
Example : string is “abcabeccced”
After removing repeated substring of length 1: “abcababceccced” --> “abcababceced” (2 'c' are removed)
After removing repeated substring of length 2: “abcababceced” --> “abcabceced” (substring “ab” is removed)
and so on...
Question 2: Writing a program.
Definition: You are given 3 integer arrays A, B and C of length n1, n2 and n3 respectively. All arrays are sorted. We define triplet of these 3 arrays as (x,y,z) where x is any integer from A, y from B and z from C. We define distance of triplet as maximum difference among triplet elements, i.e. Maximum of x – y, y – z or z – x. Write a program to find minimum triplet distance. (means there are n1*n2*n3 number of possible triplets are possible...among all triplets which triplet has minimum distance...Give only distance, but not triplet elements). Your program must be as much efficient as possible.
Question 3: Writing program.
Definition: You are given 2 integer numbers in linked list form. Add those 2 numbers.
Example: First number is 234 and second number is 35. So, you are provided with 2 linked lists 2->3->4 and 3->5. Your answer must be 2->6->9. (Make sure to take care of carry number). This example was given in paper.
Round 2: Group Interview
All candidates who had cleared the written test were called for group interview. Here we were given 3 problems one by one. Time limit was between 15 to 20 minutes. Once they gave problem definition we were supposed to think on it and discuss our ideas and logic about solving that problem with one of the representatives from Microsoft. Once that representative was convinced with our logic then we had to write code for that problem on paper.
Problem 1: You are given a string. Develop a function to remove duplicate characters from that string. String could be of any length. Your algorithm must be in space. If you wish you can use constant size extra space which is not dependent any how on string size. Your algorithm must be of complexity of O(n). Example: Given string is BANANAS. Output must be BANS. All repeated characters are removed.
Problem 2: You have a tree and address of its root. Write an efficient program to test whether a given tree is Binary search Tree or not. (Hint: In-order traversal of binary search tree is sorted in increasing order. Use this property to develop program)
Problem 3: You have 2 sorted lists and a function that merge that 2 lists such that output is again sorted and duplicates are removed. That means output is union of those 2 lists in sorted form.
Example: First list is 2->3->5->6->8 and second list is 4->5->6->7 and output of function is 2->3->4->5->6->7->8.
Develop test cases to test given function such that your test cases ensures that given function works for every situation. That is if inputs are valid then it gives proper output in any case or otherwise it shows error message.
Round 3: First Technical Interview
All those who had cleared group interview were called for first technical interview. They were taking minimum 2 hours for first interview. Some of us also faced interview for 3 or more hours.
Round 4: Second Technical Interview
All those who had cleared first technical interview were called for second interview. This was last round of interview. They took 1½ to 2 hours for this second interview.
I don't remember all the questions which were asked to me in both interviews. But still some of the questions which I can remember (almost 80 to 90% questions) are listed below.
In both interview they ask questions from C/C++, java, OS, Data structure and algorithms, Microprocessors and compiler constructions. With this, they also asked me to develop more than 6 to 8 programs. You can develop all programs in 5 to 7 minutes. But after writing program they asked to find its complexity and try to reduce the complexity and write the program again. In this way it took almost 15 to 20 min for each program. Some took less than 15 minutes also.
Some of the interview questions are as follows:
You are given a linked list and block size k. Reverse block of size k from list.
For example you are given linked list of 1000 nodes and block size is 5 then instead of reversing whole list, reverse first 5 elements, then 6 to 10 elements, then 11 to 15 elements, and so on...You have singly linked list and your algorithm which you will implement must be in space, that is no extra space is allowed.
You are given a tree and any 2 nodes of that tree. Find common parent of both nodes. Develop as much efficient program as you can.
In unix there is a command called “tail”. Implement that command in C.
Some questions about race condition (OS)
Questions related to semaphores.
Questions related to mutex. Applications of mutex. How to implement mutex in OS?
Questions about Critical region (OS).
How to ensure that race condition doesn't occur. Give your view as you are OS designer.
How to ensure that each process lock the critical region before they enter in it. As OS designer How will you force the process to do this?
Questions on IPC
Questions on Shared memory and Message passing mechanism.
Difference between system call and API call
How system call works? What happens when system call is invoked?
Different types of system calls?
Some questions from microprocessor. About Interrupts
Types of Interrupts. What happened when interrupt is called?
You are given a hard copy of a program which contains some errors. Your job is to find all types of errors from it. And discuss why is it an error. Write correct program for the same.
You are given a linked list and a number n. You also have a function to delete all nodes from that list which are at position which multiple of n in the list.
Example: if number is 3 then delete 3rd, 6th, 9th ,...nodes form the list. Develop a program that tests whether given function works properly or not. (In short they are asking me to develop general program for all test cases. By running that program all tests can be performed.)
Questions on java. Exception handling
Need of catch and finally block in java exception handling..
How will you create your own exception.. Explain with example.
Some questions on compiler construction. What is parser? What is input to the parser and what is output of parser? Difference between top down and bottom up parser.
F(1) = 1.
F(2n) = F (n) and F(2n+1) = F(n) + F(n+1).
Develop recursive program.
You are given a string which contains some special characters. You also have set of special characters. You are given other string (call it as pattern string). Your job is to write a program to replace each special characters in given string by pattern string. You are not allowed to create new resulting string. You need to allocate some new memory to given existing string but constraint is you can only allocate memory one time. Allocate memory exactly what you need not more not less.
Assume that your friend is writing a book . He gives you a file that contains that book. Your job is to develop an algorithm for indexing of that book. In every book there is one index at end which contains some words which are not there in normal vocabulary dictionary. It also contains page number for reference. You can use any data structure you want. You need to justify why you have used that data structure and also need to justify your logic.
Question from my B.E. final semester project. Asked me to explain whole project.
Question from everything written on my resume.
Question from my every project I did. They asked me to explain each project and then how to do some modification? That modification will be suggested by interviewer himself.
My experience in Teaching assistantship.
They had my written test answer sheet. They opened it and asked me to explain why I gave that output or why I implement that logic. How did I arrive to that solution which I had written in answer sheet.
In written test, for second question I had implement a program which was not much efficient. During interview they ask me to optimize my program. They also gave hint to optimize it.
During group interview, in second problem I was only able to discuss logic I was unable to develop program in given time limit. Interviewer knew this. She asked me to develop that program during interview.
Which is your favorite software tool? If you are allowed to add any feature in it which feature you will add?
Which is your favorite subject? Some questions from that subject.
Something about yourself , your hobbies, interests, strengths and weakness.
I was unable to clear 4th round that is second technical interview. I hope this will help you in your preparation for Microsoft.

Microsoft Paper @ Ohio College

2009-06-02T06:54:00.000-07:00

1) Coldest planet:Pluto
2) INS Shivali is the first:
3) Which one of the following was NOT indegineously developed?:Prithvi/Akash/Agni
4) Full form of SARS
5) Anthrax is a :Virus/Bacteria/.../...
6) Dakshina Gangothri is:Ganga's origin/Indian camp @ antartica/.../...
7) Which of the following is a chemical weapon:Mustard Gas/Marsh Gas/.../...
8) A question based on Coding and Decoding
9) Another question similar to above
10) Question on series completion
11) Another series completion question
12) Where is Institute of Forensic Science?:Hyderabad
13)A G.K question based on chromosomes in males and females
Sample technical questions asked in test last year in CSE :
1) Banker's algorithm is used for: Deadlock Avoidance
2) A LOT of questions were based on generating strings from a given grammar.
3) A circle(dot) shown in the PCB is:Vcc/Grnd/Pin 1/Pin 14
4) Program Segment Prefix in MS-DOS 5.0 is:
5) Some IP addresses were given and the question was to select the private addess from it(?)
6) 10Base2 and 10Base5 wires refers to:
7) A question on sliding-window protocol
8) Which of the following require a driver?:disk/cache/ram/cpu
9) A LOT of mathematical questions which were asked from calculus,trigonometry...

The questions asked in ECE were mainly from Control Systems, Communications EMT and microprocessor
Make sure that u know the fundas of microprocessors useful in interview also: see if u know these questions
1. Which type of architecture 8085 has?
2. How many memory locations can be addressed by a microprocessor with 14 address lines?
3. 8085 is how many bit microprocessor?
4. Why is data bus bi-directional?
5. What is the function of accumulator?
6. What is flag, bus?
7. What are tri-state devices and why they are essential in a bus oriented system?
8. Why are program counter and stack pointer 16-bit registers?
9. What does it mean by embedded system?
10. What are the different addressing modes in 8085?
11.What is the difference between MOV and MVI?
12. What are the functions of RIM, SIM, IN?
13. What is the immediate addressing mode?
14. What are the different flags in 8085?
15. What happens during DMA transfer?
16. What do you mean by wait state? What is its need?
17. What is PSW?
18. What is ALE? Explain the functions of ALE in 8085.
19. What is a program counter? What is its use?
20. What is an interrupt?
21.Which line will be activated when an output device require attention fromCPU?

Then comes the interview questions asked in ECE interview were fundamental.Qustions asked in my interview were:
Director
1. Which college and university are you coming from?
2. Did you appear for GATE? Why are you not interested in higher studies?
3. Did you appear for IES?
4. Did you appear for any other board interview of public sector?
5. The subjects you have learned in college can be divided into three- basic electronics, communi-cation and digital logic. Tell me any five subjects you like.
(I told radar and navigational aids, electronic warfare, satellite communication, biomedical instrumentation, fuzzy electronics and basic digital electronics as my subjects)
Board member1 (QUESTION LEVEL- MODERATE)
1. Write the truth table for full adder and implement it in NAND gate only.
2. What's the difference between looping 0s and 1s in K map?
3. Difference between microprocessor and micro controller
4. Microprocessors you are familiar with
5. How will you send and receive data to a micro-processor? (One method is I/O mapped I/O which is the other one?)
6. Radar range equation?
7. Does the radar range depend upon the frequency of the signal transmitted?
8. What is Doppler shift? What is its importance?
BOARD MEMBER -2 QUESTION LEVEL- TOUGH)
1. I will make two fuzzy statements. Pencil is long. Table is long. What is the term long signify?
2. What is a membership function?
3. What are the design criteria for very low frequency amplifier?
4. Can you measure distance with the help of CW radar? If so how?
5. How will you design a stable oscillator? (Not with crystal oscillator because temperature affects it)
6. You have designed an amplifier. After few days it is found that its gain have changed. What might be the reason?
BOARD MEMBER-3 (QUESTION LEVEL- MODERATE)
1. A plane is moving in a circular path around the transmitter of the radar. Will there be Doppler shift detected in the radar?
2. State Keplers laws
3. Why there is more geo synchronous satellite?
4. The angular difference between two satellites is 2 degree. What is the maximum number of satellites needed to cover the whole earth?
5. What is the minimum number of satellites needed to cover the whole earth?
BOARD MEMBER-4 QUESTION LEVEL- MODERATE)
1. Which is the law of conservation involved in the second of Keplers?
2. Why do you explain elliptical orbit while stating Kepler's law? Why not circular orbit?
3. What are the advantages of optical communication?
4. What are the invasive and non-invasive methods of instrumentation?

For CS guys they started with this question: What is a key board? Where u will connec? What will happen if you press the keys?..
For maths guys they asked some questions on series.. I don't know muchSome guys were selected just by describing the final year project.

1. How can you design a phase detector using a XOR gate?
2. Questions abt differentiator and integrator. What will happen if we increase/decrease the values of R/C?
3. how will a low/high pass filters behave to different signals –ramp, pulse etc
4. questions on flip flops
5. Johnson counter
6. Questions on microprocessors- what is SIM?
7. Abt your project. What will happen when this/that happens to your project?
8. Radar, antenna and satellite communication.
9. Which is the first/latest communication satellite?
10. What is apogee /perigee?

MICROSOFT PAPER ON 5TH SEPTEMBER,2008

2009-06-02T06:53:00.000-07:00

Question 1. [10]
Find the output of the following program segment
#include
char *c[]={“ENTNG”, “NST”,”AMAZI”,”FIRBE”};
char** cp[]={c+3, c+2, c+1, c};
char ***cpp= cp;
void main() {
printf(“%s”,**++cpp);
printf(“%s “,*--*++cpp+3);
printf(“%s”,*cpp[-2]+3);
printf(“%s”,cpp[-1][-1]+1);
}

Question 2. [5]
Write a function delete(struct node** Head) to delete the linked list node by node by deallocating them from the memory and at the end assign the head pointer to NULL.
void deleteListTest(struct node* headRef) {
struct node* myList=Listonetwothree();
delete(headRef);
}
//write your code here

Question 3. [10]
Write a function Compute(int x) such that it prints the values of x, 2x, 4x, 8x …. till the value doesn’t exceed 20000. After reaching 20000, it again comes back from …8x, 4x, 2x, x and stops there.
Note: (1) You can’t use any local variables in the function
(2) You can’t use any loops (for or while or do..while) or any GOTO statement.

Question 4. [10]
List all data structures you would use for a memory management module.

Question 5. [5]
Share 2 high complexity and 2 low complexity test cases for a coke vending (ATM) machine.

Question 6. [10]
Explain 3 high priority test cases for the performance of MSN search engine.

Answers:
Two of the trickiest questions and the easiest ones:
(1) AMAZING BEST
(3)void Compute (int x) {
coutCompute(x*2);
}
cout<}

MICROSOFT PAPER ON 24TH MAY AT MUMBAI

2009-06-02T06:33:00.000-07:00

For all who r trying for Microsoft or any other company, My one suggestion is that be perfect in basics. If u r perfect in basics u can crack any interview. So Don’t loss u r hopes if u have not got recruited still.
“NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD ,BECAUSE IMPOSSIBLE ALSO SAYS THAT I M POSSIBLE”
Ok coming to the Microsoft Test which I attended.I attended on 24th May 2008. It was in Thakur Polytechnic College. In Mumbai.

It had
1] Written test
2] Group Discussion
3] Followed by Multiple Technical Rounds.

Written test was for 2 hours.
I remember only few question
1.Aptitude
2.C
3.C++
4.Datastructure
5.os
6.Algorithms
7.RDBMS
8..Net

I don’t remember questions, as I had written test a month before .How much I remember I m writing here.
1.There was question on Analytical Reasoning , which had 5 questions
2.They gave a square like this. And told to find total number of squares.

Ans is 55=Sq(5)+Sq(4)+Sq(3)+Sq(2)+Sq(1)

3.Some Questions on Probability.
4.C paper was some what easy. Many Question were on pointers, Strings.
5.In C++ questions were on Inheritance . Some ops
6.In Data Structure they asked to write o/p of very big programs. Which was time consuming.
7.In RDBMS , some questions were on normal forms . And all Basics
8.In Os one question was on LRU Algorithms. Many Basic questions were asked. But it was some what difficult.
9..Net Questions they asked was all basics

I think around 450-500 students appeared for test , and only 50 students were short listed for GD round.

Package was 8.9 Lacks Only.So Work hard ,Be perfect in Basics
All the Best to one & every one.

Microsoft paper - Aptitude

2009-06-02T05:56:00.000-07:00

1. Explain what is DMA?
2. What is pipelining?
3. What are superscalar machines and vliw machines?
4. What is cache?
5. What is cache coherency and how is it eliminated?
6. What is write back and write through caches?
7. What are different pipelining hazards and how are they eliminated.
8. What are different stages of a pipe?
9. Explain more about branch prediction in controlling the control hazards
10. Give examples of data hazards with pseudo codes.
11. How do you calculate the number of sets given its way and size in a cache?
12. How is a block found in a cache?
13. Scoreboard analysis.
14. What is miss penalty and give your own ideas to eliminate it.
15. How do you improve the cache performance.
16. Different addressing modes.
17. Computer arithmetic with two's complements.
18. About hardware and software interrupts.
19. What is bus contention and how do you eliminate it.
20. What is aliasing?
21) What is the difference between a latch and a flip flop?
22) What is the race around condition? How can it be overcome?
23) What is the purpose of cache? How is it used?
24) What are the types of memory management?

Microsoft Interview Questions

2009-06-02T05:51:00.000-07:00

These Are one of the Microsoft Interview Questions

Round 1:

What are your interests? ( as in academics/topics)
Given a string, search it in a set of strings (say among 1000s of string). What data structure would you use to store those 1000 strings and get the results fastest?
Answer:I answered hash tables but he said suggest a better
one.He said suggest a better one and then gave me one
Tree sort of DS and then asked me to compare the two.
Reverse a linked list?
Find if there is a loop in a linked List?
Given two arrays of numbers, find if each of the two arrays have the same set of integers ? Suggest an algo which can run faster than NlogN ?

Validate a Binary search tree? ( as in the left- right child follow the property )

   Well i gave a the some weird eg where the struct was not    a Binary tree but if passed through the test will give    positive results.then he asked me to solve for that too.

Round 2:
The interviewer gets a bit serious with each stage. He will test ur work for all possible set of inputs.

Prologue: Well in my case he started with how they require not only a programmer but a designer and coder who writes perfect code.

Write a routine that takes input as a string such as
```
           "aabbccdef" and o/p "a2b2c2def"       or            "a4bd2g4" for "aaaabddgggg"
```
write it perfectly as if it should ready to be shipped after you code it.
In the same Question (q1) why will u o/p "abc" for the i/p "abc" instead of "a1b1c1" ?
Given a NxN matrix with 0s and 1s. now whenever you encounter a 0 make the corresponding row and column elements 0.
Flip 1 to 0 and 0 remains as they are.
for example
1 0 1 1 0
0 1 1 1 0
1 1 1 1 1
1 0 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1
results in
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 1 0

Round 3:

Some Questions on the projects listed on your resume?
```
      For me some Qs on DB Lock Manager? 
```
Given 2 set of arrays of size N(sorted +ve integers ) find the median of the resultent array of size 2N.
(dont even think of sorting the two arrays in a third array , though u can sort them. Try something better than order N ..order LogN )
Given 1000 bottles of juice, one of them contains poison and tastes bitter. Spot the spoiled bottle in minimum sips?
Whats the difference b/w a thread and a process? are Word and PowerPoint different processes or threads of a single process?
How does a spell checker routine (common to both, word and PowerPoint) used? I mean is the code copied 2 times for each of the processes in the main memory, if they are different processes or how is it used if they are threads.

Microsoft Interview Questions and Answers

1. How could you determine if a linked list contains a cycle in it, and, at what node the cycle starts?

There are a number of approaches. The approach I shared is in time N (where N is the number of nodes in your linked list). Assume that the node definition contains a boolean flag, bVisited.
struct Node
{
...
bool bVisited;
};

Then, to determine whether a node has a loop, you could first set this flag to false for all of the nodes:
// Detect cycle
// Note: pHead points to the head of the list (assume already exists)
Node *pCurrent = pHead;
while (pCurrent)
{
pCurrent->bVisited = false;
pCurrent = pCurrent->pNext;
}

A much better approach was submitted by 4Guys visitor George R., a Microsoft interviewer/employee. He recommended using the following technique, which is in time O(N) and space O(1).

Use two pointers.

// error checking and checking for NULL at end of list omitted
p1 = p2 = head;

do {
p1 = p1-gt;next;
p2 = p2-gt;next->next;
} while (p1 != p2);

p2 is moving through the list twice as fast as p1. If the list is circular, (i.e. a cycle exists) it will eventually get around to that sluggard, p1.

2. How would you reverse a doubly-linked list?

This problem isn't too hard. You just need to start at the head of the list, and iterate to the end. At each node, swap the values of pNext and pPrev. Finally, set pHead to the last node in the list.

Node * pCurrent = pHead, *pTemp;
while (pCurrent)
{ pTemp = pCurrent-gt;pNext;
pCurrent-gt;pNext = pCurrent->pPrev;
pCurrent-gt;pPrev = temp;

pHead = pCurrent;

pCurrent = temp;
}

3. Assume you have an array that contains a number of strings (perhaps char * a[100]). Each string is a word from the dictionary. Your task, described in high-level terms, is to devise a way to determine and display all of the anagrams within the array (two words are anagrams if they contain the same characters; for example, tales and slate are anagrams.)

Begin by sorting each element in the array in alphabetical order. So, if one element of your array was slate, it would be rearranged to form aelst (use some mechanism to know that the particular instance of aelst maps to slate). At this point, you slate and tales would be identical: aelst.
Next, sort the entire array of these modified dictionary words. Now, all of the anagrams are grouped together. Finally, step through the array and display duplicate terms, mapping the sorted letters (aelst) back to the word (slate or tales).

4. Given the following prototype:
int compact(int * p, int size);

write a function that will take a sorted array, possibly with duplicates, and compact the array, returning the new length of the array. That is, if p points to an array containing: 1, 3, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10, when the function returns, the contents of p should be: 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, with a length of 5 returned.

A single loop will accomplish this.

int compact(int * p, int size)
{
int current, insert = 1;
for (current=1; current < size; current++)
if (p[current] != p[insert-1])
{
p[insert] = p[current];
current++;
insert++;
} else
current++;
}