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VERIZON TECHNICAL PAPER
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VERIZON PAPER PATTERN

The test consist 4 sections
For each section there will be specific time limit.
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First section (25 question time 15 min )

It consist 2 types of questions
I. Fill in the blanks.
II. Reading Comprehension

Second section (Mental Ability 20 min)

Third section (Quantitative aptitude and logical reasoning min 35 -25 ques)

Fourth section (Technical) 15 question 20 min


Logical Reasoning Questions.
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One hundred and twenty five small cube of equal size are
arranged in a solid pile of dimension 5*5*5 .Then from one corner
one cube is removed from the top. From the opposite corner 8 cubes
(2*2*2) are removed from the third corner a column of three cubes and
from the fourth corner a column of 4 cubes r removed the remaining
solid are coloured red on all the exposed faces...

1. How many cubes in the second layer from the top do not have any
coloured face
ans : 6

2: How many cubes in the third layer have at least two coloured faces each
ans :8

3: How many cubes in the fourth layer from the top have only one colour face each..
ans :10

4: How many cubes in the bottom layer have at least one coloured face each
ans :16

5: How many cubes in the top four layers taken together have only one coloured
face each
ans:29

6: How many cubes do not have any colour face
ans : 32

7: How many cubes have three colour faces each
ans :12

8: How many cubes have only two colour faces each?
ans :24

9: How many cubes have only one colour faces each?
ans : 41

10: How many cubes are there in the top layer ?
ans : 18


C LANGUAGE TOPICS
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DFS,
Arrays,
Pointer concept,
Linked lists,
Queue,
Stacks,
Structures,
Unions,
File handling commands.

Technical Section
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Which one is not needed for Multi-program environment?

Virtual memory,
Security,
Time sharing,
none of the above.

Which one is not done by Data link layer ?

Bit stuffing,
LRC,
CRC,
Parity check

What is the function of Data link layer?

Which one is not suitable for client-server application?
tcp/ip,
message passing,
rpc,
none of the above.

Term stickily bit is related to
a)kernel
b)undeletable file
c)none

What is the function of Semaphore variable ?

Unix system is

a)multi processing
b)multi processing, multiuser
c)multi processing , multiuser, multitasking
d)multiuser, multitasking

x.25 protocol encapsulates the following layers

a)network
b)datalink
c)physical
d)all of the above
e)none of the above

TCP/IP can work on

a)ethernet
b)tokenring
c)a&b
d)none

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)class B should have second octet different
d)a,b,c

For an application which exceeds 64k the memory model should be

a)medium
b)huge
c)large
d)none

The condition required for dead lock in unix system is _____


INTERVIEW –TECH
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Why paging is used ?

Which is the best page replacement algorithm and Why?

What is software life cycle or SDLC?

Which are the different phases in Software life cycle

How much time is spent usually in each phases and why ?

What is testing of a software?

Which are the different types of testing?

Which are the different phases in Software life cycle ?

Why is analysis and testing phases very important ?

Why networks are layered ? What is the advantage of that ?

How many layers are there in OSI ? Why is it called OSI model ?

What are the network topologies ?

Give an example of bus type network.

What is Ethernet?

What is the Bandwidth of Ethernet ?

Explain the advantage and disadvantage of Ethernet ?

Which is the protocol used in Ethernet. (CSMA/CD) Why is it called so ?

What is the advantage of Ring network ?

Compare it with Ethernet.

What is inheritance, encapsulation etc.

If there are too many page faults what is the problem?

To ensure one program doesn’t corrupt other program in a Multi-program. environment

what you should do?

Which one you will use to implement critical section?

SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER
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There are three sections (Verbal, Quantitative and Critical)
Quantitative-- 15
Verbal --10
Fitting the correct word in the given sentence--4
Fitting the correct sentence in the given paragraph--6
Reasoning--15.


QUESTION PAPER
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I have 20 rupees. I bought 1, 2, 5 rupee stamps. They are different in numbers by the reason of no change, the shop keeper gives 3 one rupee stamps. So how many stamp(s) I have. Ans: 10

An Engine length 1000 m moving at 10 m/s. A bird is flying from engine to end with x kmph and coming back at 2x. Take total time of bird traveling as 187.5 s. Find x and 2x.

All persons know either swimming or rowing. There are 14 persons who know only swimming and 14 persons who know only rowing. 8 tickets sold for rowing. How many people are there for swimming?

One Cigar can be made from 7 bits. If there are 16 Cigars then how many bits collected? Ans: 4

A, B, C, D went to a hotel and planned to share the bill equally. But afterwards they changed their plan and to pay proportional to consumption A paid 240, B & C paid equally, D paid only half the amount that he should have paid based on the first plan. What is the amount paid by B?

There is a point P on the circle. A and B started running in two constant different speeds. A in Clockwise and B in Anti-clockwise. First time 500 m in Clockwise from P then 400 Anti-clockwise. If B is yet to complete one round, What is the circumference of the circle?

There are 5 Sub with equal high marks. Mark scored by a boy is 3:5:6:7:8 (Not sure). If his total aggregate if 3/5 of the total of the highest score, in how many subjects has he got more than 60%?

There are 11 lines in plane. How many intersections (Maximum) can be made?

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS....
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(A panel with 2 people- one HR & one Tech Guy)

Tell me about urself.

Tell us about your projects?

Do you think ur project is saleable?
What rating would you give out of 10?

What is a key in DBMS?
Tell what is a foreign key(DBMS) .

What happens when an application is opened as like an MS Word and u press Tab key then the response seen is the cursor moving a bit on the Word document.So,what r the processes (no jargon,give the proper technical terms) behind this whole thing happening?

What are the things u will do to reduce the processing time of your project?

What can you do to decrease the time taken for processing a file in a batch processing system?

IBM GLOBAL SERVICES
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Sample Paper 3

APTITUDE
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1. Speed of boat in still water is 10kmph..if it travels 24km downstream,16km upstream in the sameamount of time,what is the speed of the stream?
(a)3kmph (b)3.5kmph (c)2kmph (d)none

2. A cube of 3 units is painted on all sides.If this cube is divided into cubes of 1 unit,how many cubehave none of their faces painted?
(a)4 (b)2 (c)1 (d)0 (e)none of these
3. If a person sells a product for rs141/- he suffers a loss of 6%.if he has to have a profit of 10%, at what price should he sell it?
(a) (b)rs.175 (c).. (d)rs.165

4. A ball falls from a height of 8ft ,bounces back to half the distance & continues till it comes to rest.What is the total distance travelled by the ball?
(a)24ft (b)... (c)infinite (d)cannot be determined
5. Which of the following is the sum of 3 consecutive prime nos?
(a)49 (b)59 (c)both a &b (d)none
6. If the area of a square has increased by 69%,by what % has its side increased?

7. In a class the average age is 16yrs.if the teacher who is 40 yrs of age is also included ,the average becomes 17yrs,how many students were there?

8. If 3 houses are to be painted,Mr A can paint a house in 6 days(nos are not same).. Mr B can do the same in 8 days...& Mr.C in 12 days.if Mr A does the work for 8 days & leaves for vacation, & Mr B continues the work for the next 6 days, for how many days should Mr.C work?

9. 4 thieves rob a bakery of the breadone after the other.each thief takes half of what is present ,& half a bread...if at the end 3 bread remains,what is the no of bread that was present initiallly?

10. If the 1rst day of 1999 is a sunday,what is the last day?
(a)sunday (b)monday (c)thursday (d)cannot be determined.
11. If A driver drives a car four times a lap 10,20 30,60 kmph what is his average speed?

In a group there are two kinds of people type A & type B.Type A people Answer for any question as YES &that of type B as NO.If they can not Answer to these question then they remain silent. The mayor asks question to them as follows........
12. If he asks a person are u type A
a.YES b.NO c. Silent d.Can not be determined
13. He asks two persons X &Ysimultaneously whether u of same type
a. YES b. NO c.YES or NO d. Silent e. can not be determined

14. Pointing to a person X he asks Y what is his type
a. YES b. No c. Silent d can not be determined

15. Pointing to a person X he asks Y if I ask him whether r u type A ,will he Ans.wer YES.Y says NO .what typeof B is
a. YES b. NO . c. Silent d. can not be determined

16. Six squares of same dimension are kept side by side to make a rectangle with a perimeter of 182 cm. what isthe perimeter of each square.

17. One student takes 20 mins to reach school if he goes at a speed of 15kmph .At what speed should he go to reach in 15 mins ( nos are not same)

18. How many rational numbers are there between 0 & 5
Ans.:infinite

19. A certain number of bullets were shared by 3 people equally.Each of them fired 4 bullets and the sum of the remaining bullets was equal to the initial share each had got.what was the initial number of bullets?
Ans.:18..( 18/3=6;6-4=2,6-4=2,6-4=2; 2+2+2=6=Ans.)

TECHNICAL SECTION
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20. A trigger is
(a) a statement to enable the start of database..
(b)statements that are executed as a side effect to the modification to the database
(c) to enabl the stopping of a database
(d)none
Ans. (b)

21. What does the following statement mean? int (*a)[4]
(a)'a' is a pointer to an array of 4 integers
(b)'a' is an array of pointers to integer
(c)'a' is a pointer to function returning an integer
(d)none of the above
Ans.:a

22. Best method to find out whether a given array already sorted,is sorted or not in minimum time is_____?

23. A primary key in one table also present in some other table is called
(a)foreign key
(b)secondary key
(c)subordinate key
(d) none of the above
Ans.. foreign key

24. Which of the following is a real time system?
(a)robotics control (b)airline ticket reservation
(Ans.b)

25. A question to convert a big no in decimal to octal
(check only for the last 2 nos in Ans. is sufficient)

26. Which of the following is an example of a spooling device?
(a)keyboard (b)line printer (c) scanner (d) none of the above

27. If in a table:account no,account holders name,account type are the fields,which of them could be the primary key?
(a)account no (b)account holders name (c)account type (d) none of the above

28. If a file is opened in "r+" mode(in C),it means.
(a) write (b)read (c)both (d) none of the above

29. What is the difference between 123 and 0123 in c?
(a)120 (b)40 (c)0 (d) none of the above Ans.:40

30. Software Configuration Management process is -
(a)developing & managing software for .....software....
(b)developing & managing hardware for....software..
(c) none of the above

31. Data Integrity constraint is
(a)to ensure the presence of primary key
(b)ensure the presence of foreign key
(c) none of the above.

32. Which of the following uses the minimum length of cable?
(a)ring (b)star (c)mesh (d)bus (e)all of the above

33. How can u append the ls and who to certain existing file (like that)(i.e.listing & output of who is to be directedto a file
(a)ls;who>filename (b)ls;who>>filename (c)(ls;who)>>filename (d)who;ls>filename

34. Suppose u have a network .users complain of slow .u suspect a problem in network adapter once u find that the data is continuous and erroneous.what device do u use? (a)volt-ohmmeter (b)SNMP (c)protocol... checking (d)all of the above

35. What is vector processing?

36. x-=y+1 is equivalent to what ? (a)x=x-y+1 (b)x=x-y-1(d) none of the above

37. In a student form what is the relationship b/w student and course
(a)one to one (b)many to one (c)one to many (d)many to many

38. ROM is
(a)volatile(b)permanent & fast(c)device containig boot up program & is not accessible

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES
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Sample 4

LOGICAL SECTION
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1. Replace each letter by a digit.
Each letter must be represented by the same digit and no beginning letter of a word can be 0.

O N E
O N E
O N E
O N E
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T E N

Ans: 0 =1, N = 8 ,E = 2, T = 7

2. Ann, Boobie, Cathy and Dave are at their monthly business meeting.
Their occupations are author, biologist, chemist and doctor, but not necessarily in that order.
Dave just told the biologist that Cathy was on her way with doughnuts.
Ann is sitting across from the doctor and next to the chemist.
The doctor was thinking that Boobie was a goofy name for parent,s to choose,but didn,t say anything.
What is each person,s occupation?

Ans: Since Dave spoke to the biologist and Ann sat next to the chemist and across the doctor, Cathy must be the author
and Ann the biologist.
The doctor didn,t speak, but David did, so Bobbie is the doctor and Dave the chemist.

3. Sometime after 10:00 PM a murder took place.
A witness claimed that the clock must have stopped at the time of the shooting.
It was later found that the postion of both the hands were the same but their positions had interchanged.
Tell the time of the shooting (both actual and claimed).

Ans: Time of shooting = 11:54 PM
Claimed Time = 10:59 PM


4. Next number in the series is
1 , 2 , 4 , 13 , 31 , 112 , ?

Ans: 224.
No number has digits more than 4. All of them are 1 , 2, 4, 8 , 16 , 32 , 64 converted to numbers in base 5

5. Shahrukh speaks truth only in the morning and lies in the afternoon, whereas Salman speaks truth only in the afternoon. A says that B is Shahrukh. Is it morning or afternoon and who is A - Shahrukh or Salman.

Ans: Afternoon ; A is Salman.

6. Two trains starting at same time, one from Bangalore to Mysore and other in opposite direction arrive at their
destination 1 hr and 4 hours respectively after passing each other. How nuch faster is one train from other?

Ans: Twice

7. There are 6 volumes of books on a rack kept in order ( ie vol.1, vol. 2 and so on ).
Give the position after the following changes were noticed.
All books have been changed
Vol.5 was directly to the right of Vol.2
Vol.4 has Vol.6 to its left and both weren,t at Vol.3,s place
Vol.1 has Vol.3 on right and Vol.5 on left
An even numbered volume is at Vol.5,s place
Find the order in which the books are kept now.

Ans: 2 , 5 , 1 , 3 , 6 , 4

8. I bought a car with a peculiar 5 digit numbered licence plate which on reversing could still be read.
On reversing value is increased by 78633.Whats the original number if all digits were different?

Ans: Only 0 1 6 8 and 9 can be readupside down.So on rearranging these digits we get the answer as 10968

9. Supposing a clock takes 7 seconds to strike 7. How mlong will it take to strike 10?

Ans: 10 1/2 seconds.

Infosys Placement Paper
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Sample 3

1. Mr. Mathur’s jewels have been stolen from his bank locker .
The bank has lockers of 12 people which are arranged in an array of 3 rows and 4 columns like:
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12

The locker belonging to JONES was to the right of BLACK’s locker and directly above MILLAR’s.
BOOTH’s locker was directly above MILLAR’s
SMITH’s locker was also above GRAY’s (though not directly).
GREEN’s locker was directly below SMITH’s
WILSON’s locker was between that of DAVIS and BOOTH.
MILLAR’s locker was on the bottom row directly to the right of HERD’s.
WHITE’s locker was on the bottom right hand corner in the same column as BOOTH’s.
Which box belonged to Mr.Mathurs?

Ans: Box number 9 belongs to Mr.Mathurs.

2. Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past three o’clock, how many minutes is it to six o’clock?

3. If a clock takes 7seconds to strike 7, how long will the same clock take to strike 10?

Hint: The clock strikes for the first time at the start and takes 7 seconds for 6 intervals-thus for one interval time taken=7/6.

4. Three criminals were arrested for shop lifting.
However, when interrogated only one told the truth in both his statements, while the other two each told one true statement and one lie.
The statements were:
ALBERT :(a) Clive passed the merchandise. (b)Bruce created the diversion.
BRUCE :(a) Albert passed the merchandise. (b)I created the diversion.
CLIVE :(a) I took the goods out of the shop. (b)Bruce passed them over.
Find the exact crimes done by each one of them.

5. Everyday in his business a merchant had to weigh amounts from 1 kg to 121 kg, to the nearest kg. What is the minimum number of weights required and how heavy should they be?

Ans: The minimum number is 5 and they should weigh 1, 3, 9, 27 and 81 kg.

6. A hotel has 10 floors. Which floor is above the floor below the floor, below the floor above the floor, below the floor above the fifth.

7. Seven members sat around a table for three days for a conference.
The member’s names were Abhishek, Amol, Ankur, Anurag,Bhuwan ,Vasu and Vikram.
The meetings were chaired by Vikram.
On the first evening members sat around the table alphabetically.
On the following two nights, Vikram arranged the seatings so that he could have Abhishek as near to him as possible and abesent minded Vasu as far away as he could.
On no evening did any person have sitting next to him a person who had previously been his neighbour.
How did Vikram manage to seat everybody to the best advantage on the second and third evenings?

8. Two trains start from stations A and B spaced 50 km apart at the same time and speed.
As the trains start, a bird flies from one train towards the other and on reaching the second train, it flies back to the first train. This is repeated till the trains collide.
If the speed of the trains is 25 km/h and that of the bird is 100km/h.
How much did the bird travel till the collision ?


9. Four prisoners escape from a prison.
The prisoners, Mr. East, Mr. West, Mr. South, Mr. North head towards different directions after escaping.
The following information of their escape was supplied:
The escape routes were The North Road, The South Road, The East Road and The West Road.
None of the prisoners took the road which was their namesake.
Mr.East did not take The South Road
Mr.West did not The South Road.
The West Road was not taken by Mr.East
What road did each of the prisoners take to make their escape?

Ans: Mr.East took the North Road
Mr.West took the East Road
Mr.North took the South Road
Mr.South took the West Road.

10. Complete the series:
5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, __ ?

Ans: 12 (as 5*4=20, 20+4=24, 24/4=6, 6-4=2, 2*4=8, 8+4=12).

Infosys Placement Paper
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Sample 2
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Logical Section

1) Farmer Jones sold a pair of cows for Rs.210. On one he made a profit of ten percent and on the other he lost ten percent. Altogether he mad a profit of five percent. How many did each cow originally cost him?

2) There are 5 towns - Nalanda, Thrilothika, Rampur, Solanpur and Maninagar. Out of these, 4 are capitals, 3 industrial towns, two hill stations , two towns are on same longitude. Population of two cities is less than five lakhs and that of one city is 20 lakhs, also of other two cities is more than 50 lakhs. Thirlothika is an industrial town. Maninagar’s population is 20 lakhs. There are 4 capitals and two industrial towns. Now some data are given involving longitudes and latitudes such as, one of the hill stations do not lie in the longitude in which the harbour which is also an industrial town lies and so on. Rampur and Thrilothika lies on same longitude. Solanpur and Maninagar lies on same latitude .Also, the population of the towns is involved from which the following four questions should be answered,

a. Which of the following combination has less than 5 lakhs population?

b. The town which is a harbour, industrial town and capital

c. Which of the following combination have more than 50 lakhs population?

d. The town that is not a capital is ____

3) A cow is standing 5 feet from the middle of the bridge. A train is coming towards the cow at speed of 90 miles per hour from the near end and the train is twice as long as the bridge. If the cow had tried to move forward in the same direction as of the train then the cow would have got hit be three ft. But it moved in opposite direction to the train and saved by one ft. Then what is the length of the bridge?

4) A said to B that "now you should have at least 30 clerks in your company". But B said that "if there are twice the number of the female clerks or thrice the number of the male clerks, the number will be 30". Find the total number of clerks?

Hint: 18 Clerks (12 F + 6 M)

5) Ann, Carol, Eve are friends. Ann will wear blue only if Eve wears red. Ann and Carol will wear red but not on the same day. Carol and Eve will wear blue not on the same day. Find Ann’s dress color?

6) John was asked to meet a lady who had a good logic skill. Today is Friday. She asked John to meet her two days after the day before day after the tomorrow. Which day should John meet her?


7) Four persons are there, John, Jacob, Peter and Williams. Four languages are there , English, Italian, German and French.

Following conditions are given,

There is no common language for all.
Except one language, no language is spoken by more than two.
One can know either German or French but not both.
John can’t speak English but John can act as interpreter between Jacob and Peter.
Jacob knows German but he can talk with William who doesn’t know a word of German.
No Common language between John, Peter and Williams
Which two languages do each person speaks?
Hint:make a table and solve......


8) My watch is 2 minutes per hour slow and my husband watch is 1 minute per hour fast. We went together to a marriage but late. We had a difference of 1 hour. Find the number of hours elapsed from the time we set the 2 clocks correctly till now.

9) Another Data interpretation, logical question. Paragraph is given and the conditions?

ENGLISH section

1. Reading Comprehension
2. Tense
3. Idioms
4. Group verb
5. Preposition
6. Vocabulary
7. Analogies
8. Find the incorrect sentence

IBM GLOBAL SERVICES SAMPLE PAPER 2
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Sample Paper 2

Aptitude Paper

Part 1 : Number series.
Part 2 : Figures based questions
Part 3 : Quantitative.

Part 1

Complete the following series with the last number:

1. 19,24,20,25,21,26,?
2. 11,14,12,15,13,16,?
3. 10,2,8,2,6,2,?
4. 8,9,11,14,,18,23,?
5. 25,25,22,22,19,19,?
6. 14,2,12,4,10,6,?
7. 7,16,9,15,11,14,?
8. 40,42,39,44,38,46,?
9. 3,18,4,24,5,30,?
10. 18,20,22,20,28,20,?
11. 18,20,10,12,4,6?
12. 7,6,8,5,3,7,?
13 9,18,21,25,20,?
14 3,3,4,8,10,36,?
15. 30,28,25,20,34,28,?
16. 4,8,16,32,64,128,?
17. 8,16,24,32,40,48,?
18. 13,11,14,12,15,13,?
19. 6,18,36,108,216,648,?
20. 4,4,8,8,16,16,?
21. 2,6,18,54,162,486,?
22. 4,20,35,49,62,74,?
23. 10,18,15,23,20,28,?
24. 4,10,8,14,12,18,?
25 10,15,12,17,14,10,?

Part 2

This part consists of non-verbal reasoning (figures). (25 questions)

Part 3 (Quantitative)

1. A clerk multiplied a number by ten when it should have been divided by ten. The answer he got was 100.what should have been the correct answer?
Ans.1

2. If Rs 20/- is available to pay for typing a research report & typist A produces 42 pages and typist B produces 28 pages. How much should typist A receive?
Ans.Rs12/-

3. The average salary of 3 workers is Rs. 95 per week. If one earns Rs.115 and second earns Rs.65 how much is the salary of the 3rd worker.
Ans.105.

4. A 16 stored building has 12000 sq.feet on each floor. Company A rents 7 floors and company B rents 4floors.What is the number of sq.feet of unrented floor space. Ans..60000

5. During a given week A programmer spends 1/4 of his time preparing flow chart, 3/8 of his time coding and the rest of the time in debugging the programs. If he works 48 hours during the week, how many hours did he spend debugging the program.
Ans.. 18.

6. A company installed 36 machines at the beginning of the year. In March they installed 9 additional machines and then disconnected 18 in August. How many were still installed at the end of the year.
Ans.. 27

7. A man owns 2/3 of the market research survey business and sells 3/4 of his shares for Rs.75000. What is the value of Business?
Ans..150000

8. If 12 file cabinets require 18 feet of wall space, how many feet of wall space will 30 cabinets require?
Ans..45

9. A computer printer produced 176,400 lines in a given day. If the printer was in operation for seven hours during the day, how many lines did it print per minute? Ans..420

10. From its total income, A sales company spent Rs.20,000 for advertising, half of the remainder on commissions and had Rs.6000 left. What was its total income?
Ans..32000

11. On Monday a banker processed a batch of cheques, on Tuesday she processed three times as many, and on Wednesday she processed 4000 cheques. In the three days, she processed 16000 cheques. How many did she process on Tuesday?
Ans..9000

12. The cost of four dozen proof machine ribbons and five dozen accouting machine ribbons was Rs.160/-. If one dozen accounting machine ribbons cost Rs.20/-, what is the cost of a dozen proof machine ribbons?
Ans..Rs.15

13. If a clerk can process 80 cheques in half an hour, how many cheques can she process in a seven and one half hour day?
Ans..1200

14. In a library, there are two racks with 40 books per rack. On a given day, 30 books were issued. What fraction remained in the racks?
Ans..5/8

15. The average length of three tapes is 6800 feet. None of the tapes is less than 6400 feet. What is the greatest possible length of one of the other tapes?
Ans..7600

16. A company rented a machine for Rs.700/- a month. Five years later the treasurer calculated that if the company had purchased the machine and paid Rs.100/- monthly maintenance charge, the company would have savedRs.2000/-. What was the purchase price of the machine?
Ans..Rs.34000

17. Two computers each produced 48000 public utility bills in a day. One computer printed bills at the rate of 9600an hour and the other at the rate of 7800 an hour. When the first computer finished its run, how many bills did the other computer still have to print?
Ans..9000

18. If a salesman's average is a new order every other week, he will break the office record of the year. However, after 28 weeks, he is six orders behind schedule. In what proportion of the remaining weeks does he have to obtain a new order to break the record?
Ans..3/4

19. On a given day, a bank had 16000 cheques returned by customers. Inspection of the first 800 cheques indicated that 100 of those 800 had errors and were therefore the available immediately for data processing. On this basis, how many cheques would be available immediately for data processing on that day?
Ans..14000

20. A company figured it needed 37.8 sq.feet of carpet for its reception room. To allow for waste, it decided to order 20% more material than needed. Fractional parts of sq.feet cannot be ordered. At Rs.9/- per sq.feet, how much would the carpet cost?
a. Rs.324 b) Rs.405 c) Rs.410 d) Rs.414 e) Rs.685
Ans.414

21. A tape manufacturer reduces the price of his heavy duty tape from Rs.30/- to Rs.28/- a reel and the price of a regular tape from Rs.24/- to Rs.23/- a reel. A computing centre normally spends Rs.1440/- a month for tapes and 3/4 of this is for heavy duty tapes. How much will they save a month under the new prices?
Ans..Rs.87

22. In a team of 12 persons, 1/3 are women and 2/3 are men. To obtain a team with 20% women how many men should be hired?
Ans..8

23. The dimensions of a certain machine are 48" X 30" X 52". If the size of the machine is increased proportionately until the sum of its dimensions equals 156", what will be the increase in the shortest side?
Ans.. 6

24. In a certain company, 20% of the men and 40% of the women attended the annual company picnic. If 35% of all the employees are man, what percent of all the employees went to the picnic?
Ans..33%

25. It cost a college Rs.0.70 a copy to produce a Program for the homecoming football game. If Rs.15,000/- was received for advertisements in the program, how many copies at Rs.0.50 a copy must be sold to make a profit of Rs.8000/- ?
Ans.. 35000

HR INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
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1. Why 2+2 is 4 why not 5.

2.How may stones did Hanuman thowned on lanka? ( diffirent but of same type) and one more how many trees are there in u'r campus?

3.Why you decided to write IBM exam?

4.What do you know about IBM as a company?

5.Would you like to be a leader or a follower or a team player?
substantiate your answer?

INFOSYS
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Infosys Technologies Limited is a multinational information technology services company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It is one of India's largest IT companies with over 88,601 professionals , nine development centers in India and over 30 offices worldwide. Its annual revenues for the fiscal year 2007-2008 exceeded US$4 billion.
Chief mentor- N R Narayanamurthy
CEO -Kris Gopalakrishnan

Indian Locations
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Bangalore-HQ
Chennai
Hyderabad
Thiruvananthapuram
Mysore
Gurgaon....



Written Paper Pattern
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The pattern for the off-campus was somewhat like:
1. Logical reasoning (30 questions) in 40 min
2. English section (40 questions) in 35 min

Logical section:
1. 2 puzzle tests
2. 5 figure based questions (like odd figure out)
3. 5 questions on data sufficiency.
4. 5 questions on logical reasoning
5. Data interpretation - 5 questions
6. Series completion.

English section:
1. Reading comprehension-10 questions
2. Paragraph formation -5 questions.
3. Theme detection -7 questions
4. To fill in the blanks with appropriate option. - 8 questions
5. Sentence correction- 10 questions

Interview (Mainly HR only)
Interview is not very tough, just be what you are.
They simply check ones communication skills & confidence.
They may give some puzzles and check how you try to solve it, situational reactions are important, its not necessary that you need to solve the puzzles completely.

Infosys Placement Paper
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Sample 1

Logical Section
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1. Samantha beat Jim. Jack was beaten by Louise and Peter in that order. Jim was not first. Samantha was not last. Jim beat Jack. Who won?

2. An artist has exactly seven paintings --- ,T,U,V,W,X,Y, and Z -- from which she must choose exactly five to be in an exhibit. Any combination is acceptable provided it meets the following conditions:
* If T is chosen, X cannot be chosen
* If U is chosen, Y must also be chosen
* If V is chosen, X must also be chosen

a) Which one of the following is an acceptable combination of paintings for inclusion in the exhibit?
A. T,U,V,X,Y
B. T,U,V,Y,Z
C. T,W,X,Y,Z
D. U,V,W,Y,Z
E. U,V,W,Z,Y

b) If painting T is chosen to be among the paintings included int he exhibit which one of the following cannot be chosen to be among the paintings included in the exhibit?
A. U
B. V
C. W
D. Y
E. Z

c) Which one of the following substitutions can the artist always make without violating restrictions affecting the combination of paintings given that the painting mentioned first was not, and the painting mentioned first was not, and the painting mentioned second was, originally going to be chosen?
A. T replaces V
B. U replaces Y
C. V replaces X
D. W replaces Y
E. Z replaces W

d) If the artist chooses painting V to be included among the paintings in the exhibit, which one of the following must be true of that combination of paintings?
A. T is not chosen
B. Y is not chosen
C. U is chosen
D. W is chosen
E. Z is chosen

3. A cube is painted red. It is then cut into 27 equal cubes with 6 lines. Find no. of cubes with
a) 3 sides painted
b) 1 side painted
c) 2 sides painted
d) No sides painted

4. The temperature readings of 5 consecutive days have to be found out. Given that the product of the temperatures is 12.
ANS:-2,-1, 1, 2, 3


5. The digit 3 comes 61 times in a torn book. Find the no. of pages in the book?

6. In a merry go round , 1\5 of people was behind and 5\6 was in front of me. Find the total no of people?

7. A, B, C are three friends. Only one among them tells the truth.
A: either M or N won
B: either N or O won
C: either P or O won
Who won?

8. Problem on Speed and Time. Trains leaving form A station and B station type.

9. A logical reasoning problem. 5 friends are standing on a row.6 conditions were given. We have to find their positions.

10. A watch’s hands come together after every 65 min. Then is it gaining or loosing time? How much?


ENGLISH section
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1. Reading Comprehension
2. Tense
3. Idioms
4. Group verb
5. Preposition
6. Vocabulary
7. Analogies

More sample question papers
Sample 2
Sample 3
Sample 4

ORACLE CORPORATION
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COMPANY PROFILE
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Oracle Corporation is one of the major companies developing database management systems (DBMS), tools for database development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software.As of 2005 it ranked as the world's second[citation needed] largest software company. Oracle was founded in 1977 and it has offices in more than 145 countries around the world. As of 2008, it employed more than 70,000 people worldwide.

Lawrence J. Ellison (Larry Ellison) is Oracle's CEO.

Oracle in India
----------------
Hyderabad is the main centre of Oracle in India
Bangalore

Technical Paper-Sample 1
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1. The purpose of defining an index is
(A) Enhance Sorting Performance (B) Enhance Searching Performance
(C) Achieve Normalization (D) All of the above

2. A transaction does not necessarily need to be
(A) Consistent (B) Repeatable (C) Atomic (D) Isolated

3. To group users based on common access permission one should use
(A) User Groups (B) Roles (C) Grants (D) None of the above

4. PL/SQL uses which of the following
(A) No Binding (B) Early Binding (C) Late Binding (D) Deferred Binding

5. Which of the constraint can be defined at the table level as well as at the column level
(A) Unique (B) Not Null (C) Check (D) All the above

6. To change the default date format in a SQLPLUS Session you have to
(A) Set the new format in the DATE_FORMAT key in the windows Registry.
(B) Alter session to set NLS_DATE-FORMAT.
(C) Change the Config.ora File for the date base.
(D) Change the User Profile USER-DATE-FORMAT.

7. Which of the following is not necessarily an advantages of using a package rather than independent stored procedure in data base.
(A) Better performance. (B) Optimized memory usage.
(C) Simplified Security implementation. (D) Encapsulation.

8 Integrity constrains are not checked at the time of
(A) DCL Statements. (B) DML Statements.
(C) DDL Statements. (D) It is checked all the above cases.

9. Roll Back segment is not used in case of a
(A) DCL Statements. (B) DML Statements. (C) DDL Statements. (D) all of the above.

10. An Arc relationship is applicable when
(A) One child table has multiple parent relation, but for anyone instance of a child record
only one of the relations is applicable.
(B) One column of a table is related to another column of the same table.
(C) A child table is dependent on columns other than the primary key columns of the parent table.
(D) None of the above.

11.What is true about the following C functions?
(A) Need not return any value. (B) Should always return an integer.
(C) Should always return a float. (D) Should always return more than one value.

12.enum number { a=-1, b=4, c,d,e,} what is the value of e?
(A) 7 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 3

13.Which of the following about automatic variables within a function is correct?
(A) Its type must be declared before using the variable. (B) They are local.
(C) They are not initialized to zero. (D) They are global.

14.Consider the following program segment
int n, sum=5;
switch(n)
{
case 2:sum=sum-2;
case 3:sum*=5;
break;
default:sum=0;
}
if n=2, what is the value of the sum?
(A) 0 (B) 15 (C) 3 (D) None of these.

15.Which of the following is not an infinite loop?
(A) x=0; (B) # define TRUE 0....
do{ While(TRUE){....}
/*x unaltered within the loop*/ (C) for(;;) {....}
....}
While(x==0); (D) While(1) {....}

Output of the following program is
main()
{
int i=0;
for(i=0;i<20;i++)
{
switch(i)
{
case 0:
i+=5;
case 1:
i+=2;
case 5:
i+=5;
default:
i+=4;
break;
}
}
}
(A) 5,9,13,17 (B) 12,17,22 (C) 16,21 (D) syntax error.

16.What does the following function print?
func(int i)
{
if(i%2) return 0;
else return 1;
}
main()
{
int i=3;
i=func(i);
i=func(i);
printf("%d",i);
}
(A) 3 (B) 1 (C) 0 (D) 2

17.What will be the result of the following program?
char*g()
{
static char x[1024];
return x;
}
main()
{
char*g1="First String";
strcpy(g(),g1);
g1=g();
strcpy(g1,"Second String");
printf("Answer is:%s", g());
}
(A) Answer is: First String (B) Answer is: Second String
(C) Run time Error/Core Dump (D) None of these

Consider the following program
main()
{
int a[5]={1,3,6,7,0};
int *b;
b=&a[2];
}
The value of b [-1] is
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) -6 (D) none

18. Given a piece of code
int x[10];
int *ab;
ab=x;

19. To access the 6th element of the array which of the following is incorrect?
(A) *(x+5) (B) x[5] (C) a[5] (D) *(*a+5}.

20. What is the output of the following code
#define sq (a) (a*a)
printf (“%d”, sq (3+2));

TATA CONSULTANCY SEVICES
------------------------------------------------

Company Profile
-----------------
Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is an Asia's No.1 software services and consulting company. It is one of the world's largest providers of information technology and business process outsourcing services. As of 2007, TCS has the largest number of employees among Indian IT companies with strength of over 110,000 employees in 47 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $5.7 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March 2008 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.

TCS is part of one of Asia's largest conglomerates, the Tata Group.

CEO and MD:S.Ramadorai

TCS in India
-----------------
Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Vadodara, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Goa, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pune, Siruseri, and Thiruvananthapuram .

Placement Paper Pattern
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The paper consisted of three sections,

1) Verbal Section.
2) Aptitude Section.
3) Critical Reasoning.

Sample Paper 1
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VERBAL SECTION

References: GRE Book from Barron’s

Synonyms
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1) Frugality
2) Convene
3) Balmy
4) Degraded
5) Intractable
6) Deluge
7) Intrepid
8) Musty
9) Repudiate
10) Plagiarism

Antonyms
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1) Harbinger
2) Adherent
3) Supernal
4) Ungainly
5) Unscathed
6) Boorish
7) Transient
8) Tenuous
9) Incongruous
10) Parsimonious


A passage was given which consisted of 10 blanks and we need to read the passage first and then fill the blanks with appropriate statements, which were given at the bottom of the page.

APTITUDE SECTION

1. If g (0)=1,g (1)=1 and g (n)= g (n-1) + g (n –2). Find g (6).

a) 9 b) 13 c) 21 d) 7

2. A plane moves from 9°N60°E to 9°N60°W. If the plane starts at 2 AM and takes 10 hours to reach the destination, find the local arrival time.

a) 4.30 AM b) 6.00 AM c) 4.00 AM d) 10.00AM

3. Select the odd one out. Java, Lisp, Smalltalk , Eiffel.

a) Lisp. b) Java. c) Eiffel. d) Smalltalk.

4. Select the odd one out Oracle, Linux, Ingress, DB2

a) Linux b) Oracle c) DB2 d) Ingress.

5. Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube

a) 6,8,12 b) 8,12,8 c) 8,6,12 d) 12,8,6

6. If M denotes modulus operation, R denotes round-off, T denotes truncation Find the value of the following expression :T(373.5)+R (3.4)+T (7.7)+R (5.8)

a) 21 b) 16 c) 19 d) 13

7. Which of the following are orthogonal pairs?

a) 5i+3j b) i+j c) 3i-5j d) -7i+j

A) (a)& (c). B) (b)&(d). C) (a)&(d). D) (c)&(d).

8. Given the length of the 3 sides of a triangle. Find the one that is impossible?

a) (5,5,11) b)(6,4,9) c)(4,3,8) d)(5,5,5)

9. Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices?

a) 2 0 b) 5 -3 c) 4 6 d) 3 4

3 5 , - 5 3 , 3 7 , 2 0

a) c b) a c) b d) d
(Hint : For singular matrices det (A)==0)

10. Match the following

a) Sentence Paragraph 1) Not a type of

b) Basmati Wheat 2) Siblings

c) Brother Sister 3) A type of

d) Cow Mammal 4) A part of

A->4, B->1, C->2, D->3

A->2, B->3, C->1, D->4

A->3, B->4, C->1, D->2

A->2, B->1, C->4, D->3

11. Which of the following set of numbers has the highest Standard deviation?

a) 1,0,1,0,1,0 b) -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 c) 1,1,1,1,1,1 d) 1,1,0, -1,0, -1

12. A building with height D shadows up to G ft. A neighboring building with what height shadows C ft.

a) C/D*G b) C+D/G c) C-D*G d) (C*D)/G

13. A bus started from the bus stand at 8 AM and after staying 30 minutes at a destination returns back to the bus stand. The Destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The Speed of the bus is 18mph. In the return journey the bus travels with 50% fast speed.

At what time it is returns to the bus stand.

a) 1 PM b) 12 PM c) 11 AM d) 10.30 AM

14. Complete the series.
5,9,11,15, __, 21,23

a) 18 b) 19 c) 24 d) 17


15. Which shape will be obtained by using these values of x, y?

X, Y

0, 0.00001

10 ,1.02

100 ,1.72

1000 ,3.00

16. If DPYGP is coded as BRAIN then EMXCT is coded as ____________?

a) CHAIR b) COBER c) COVER d) CEGER

17. A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers in 10 hours. Then for how many hours required for B to copy 26 papers?

a) 13 hrs b) 18hrs c) 12hrs d) 15hrs.

18. The size of a program is N and the memory occupied by the program is given by M = 4000sqr_root (N). If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much % increase is there in the memory?

a) 0.22% b) 0.5% c) 0.8% d) 0.35%

19. One year ago Pandit was three times his sister's age. He will be only twice her age next year. How old will Pandit be after five years?

a) 8 b) 12 c) 11 d) 13

20. A car is filled with four and half gallons of fuel for a round trip. If the amount of fuel taken while going is 1/4 more than the amount taken for coming, what is the amount of fuel consumed while coming back?

a) Less than 2 gallons b) 2 gallons c) 2 1/2 gallons d) More than 3 gallons

Questions based on Data Interpretations were asked.

A Venn diagram Problem.

A Bar Chart Problem.

A Pie Chart Problem
Each one of them had 3 to 4 questions.

CRITICAL REASONING

1) There were 3 cities namely A, B, C (California). Distance to each and the expense for taking each route was given. Costs were given in terms of dollars and cents (Relation b/w dollars and cents should be known.100cents=1$).

Four Questions based on this was asked like
Which is the shortest route?
Which is the less expensive etc?


2) There is a big University and a small college beside. Professors from University were M Senior Prof for Mathematics, J HOD of English Dept, L who knows Urdu and Professors from college were N who knows English well, D HOD of Latin Dept, and Y Senior Prof for Mathematics. There was a function to be conducted together by both the colleges and hence some conditions like

Two Professors from the University has to be chosen.
There cannot be Professors related to the same stream.
Team should consist of three members.

Four Questions based on the above part was asked.

3) Six children are selected for the chorus line in the school play: Andrea, Beatrice, Consuelo, Denise, Eve, and Florence. There are six positions in the line; numbered 1 to 6 from left to right. The order of the children in the chorus line is determined by the following rules:

Florence cannot stand in position number 6
Denise must stand immediately to the right of Consuelo
Andrea cannot stand next to Beatrice

Four Questions were based on this arrangements.

INTERVIEW
------------------------------
Tell me about you, your family.

What are your strength and weaknesses?

He explained me the problem I may encounter with my weakness.

So what steps are you taking to overcome that?

So you are the branch 3rd topper last year. Very good.

Which is your favorite subject?

What is the difference between Malloc and Calloc?

What are different types of DBMS?

What are the stages in SE?

Where do you want to work?

If you get selected for TCS, what you want to be in next 5 years?

ANZ India
---------------------------

Company Profile:
----------------------------------

The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited ( ANZ), is the third largest bank in Australia.Australian operations make up the largest part of ANZ's business, with commercial and retail banking dominating. ANZ is also the largest bank in New Zealand. In addition to operations throughout Australia and New Zealand, ANZ also extends to twenty-five other nations across the South Pacific and in Asia.

ANZ has owned a technology business called ANZ Operations and Technology in Bangalore, India since 1989.It has developed a capability to support ANZ's operations functions.ANZ currently employs about 1,800 people in Bangalore, in information technology development roles (about 1,100 people) and back office and support roles (about 700 people).

Placement Paper Pattern
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1. Analogies (from Barrons)- 8 ques.
2. Technical section –OS, DS, DBMS, Networking
3. Analytical/logical section -12 ques
4. Data sufficiency -20 ques.
5. C/C++ - 5 ques

Sample Paper
---------------------------------------------
1. Given an IP address .You have to determine the class?
2. Terminal emulation (OSI LAYER) is done by which OS layer?
3. int a;
scanf("%f",&a);
Is there any error or warning ?
4. Analytical ques. on rectangular table 8 persons sitting and some conditions
5. Marine animals, Terrestrial animals, Amphibians - express it using Venn diagram
6. What are the difference between windows 3.1 and windows 95
7. Some ques. on UNIX OS
8. Question about Concurrency property of C++
12. Question about Ada language.

Interview Questions
---------------------------------------
Questions on OS
Unix versions and Shell scripting questions.
Virtual memories.
Processes and threads,
DBMS based questions
Questions on Data structure
Questions on the candidate’s project works

CAPGEMINI
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Company Profile:
----------------------------------
Capgemini is a major French company, one of the world's largest information technology, management consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies with a staff of over 83,000 operating in 36 countries. It's headquarters is in Paris and was founded in 1967 by Serge Kampf, the current chairman.
CEO -- Paul Hermelin
Capgemini's regional operations include North and South America, Northern Europe & Asia Pacific and Central & Southern Europe.
Core disciplines
------------------
Consulting, Technology, Outsourcing and Local Professional Services.
Capgemini is ranked among the top three outsourcing vendors in the world.

Placement Process Pattern
------------------------------------------
Written Test
Capgemini has generally 2 -3 sets of question booklets
The Paper will be having usually 3 sections.
1.) Quantitative 25 questions
2.) Analytical 30 questions
3.) Verbal 25 questions

Technical Interview
HR Interview


SAMPLE PAPER -1
---------------------------------
Section A
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1. Find min value of function:
|-5-x| + |2-x|+|6-x|+10-x|; where x is an integer
0/17/23/19

2. Unit digit in expansion 2^51 is:
2/4/6/8

3. 2 men at same time start walking towards each other from A n B 72 kms apart. Speed of A is 4kmph.Speed of B is 2 kmph in 1st hr,2.5 in 2nd,3 rd. and so on…when will they meet in
a)7 hrs b) at 35 kms from A c) in 10 hrs d) midway

4. (8*76+19*2-60) / (2*7*12+3-52)-1
5/2/1/3

5. 45 grinders brought @ 2215/-.Transport expense 2190/-.Find SP/piece to make profit of 20%
2585/2225/2670/3325

6. In a 2 digit no unit’s place is halved and tens place is doubled. The difference between the numbers is 37.digit in unit’s place is 2 more than tens place. The original no. is
24/46/42/none

7.If x-y + z = 19 , y + z =20 , x-z=3 , find d value of x+4y-5z
22/38/17/none

8. Find approximate value of 39.987/0.8102+1.987*18.02
72/56/86/44

9. If the ratio of production of 3 diff companies A B & C is 4:7:5 and if overall production last yr was 4lac tons and if each company had an increase of 20% in production level this yr what is the production of Company B this yr?
2.1L/22.1L/4.1L/none

10. If 70% of a no. is subtracted from itself it reduces to 81.what is two fifth of that no.?
108/54/210/none

11. If a certain sum of money at SI doubles itself in 5 yrs then what is the rate?
5%/20%/25%/14.8%

12. If radius of cylinder and sphere are same and volume of sphere and cylinder are same what is the ratio between the radius and height of the cylinder

i. R= H
ii. R= (3/4)H
iii. R = (4/3)H
iv. R=2/3H

13. Which one of the following fractions is arranged in ascending order

i. 9/11,7/9,11/13,13/14
ii 7/8,9/11,11/13,13/14
iii 9/11,11/13,7/8,13/14
iv none


14. A is 4 yrs old and B is thrice A,when A is 12 yrs, how old will B be?
16/20/24/28


15. Boat goes downstream from P to Q in 2hrs, upstream in 6hrs and if speed of stream was ½ of boat in still water. Find distance PQ
6/4/10/none


16. Fresh Grapes contain 90% water by wt. Dried grapes contain 20% water by %age. What will be weight of dried grapes when we begin with 20 kg fresh grapes?
2kg / 2.4kg / 2.5kg /none


17. How many 5 digit no. can be formed wit digits 1, 2, 3,4,5,6 which are divisible by 4 and digits not repeated
144 / 168 / 192 / none


18. Ashish was given Rs.158 in denominations of Rs. 1 each. He distributes these in different bags, such that the sum of money of denomination between 1 and 158 can be given in bags. The min no. of such bags required
10 / 17 / 15 / none


19.There is a rectangular Garden whose length and width are 60m X 20m.There is a walkway of uniform width around garden. Area of walkway is 516m^2. Find width of walkway
1/2/3/4


20. In a race from point X to pt Y and back, Jack averages 30 miles/hr to pt Y and 10 miles/hr back to pr X. Sandy averages 20 miles/hr in both directions. If Jack and Sandy start race at same time, who’ll finish 1st?
Jack/Sandy/they tie/Impossible to tell

21. A man engaged a servant on a condition that he’ll pay Rs. 90 and also give him a bag at the end of the year. He served for 9 months and was given a turban and Rs 65. So the price of turban is
i. Rs 10 / 19 /2 0 / 55


22. Three wheels make 36, 24, 60 rpm. Each has a black mark on it. It is aligned at the start of the rotation. When does it align again for the first time?
14/20/22/5 sec

23. If 1= (3/4)(1+ (y/x) ) then

i. x=3y
ii. x=y/3
iii. x=(2/3)y
iv. none


24. The sum of six consecutive odd nos. is 888. What is the average of the nos.?

i. 147
ii. 148
iii. 149
iv. 146


25. 1010/104*102=10?

i. 8
ii. 6
iii. 4
iv. none

Section B
----------------------------

Direction for Qn 1-8
Data sufficiency questions
Ans A using I only
Ans B using II only
Ans C using both I and II
Ans Can’t be solved using I and II also

1. Raman and Gaurav brought eggs from a vendor. How many eggs were bought by each of them?
i. Raman bought half as many as Gaurav
ii. The dealer had a stock of 500 eggs at the beginning of day
2. What is the age of Ramprakash?

i. Ramprakash was born when his father was 26 yrs old
ii. Ramprakash’s mothers age is 3yrs less than his father’s
3. How much time is reqd for downloading the software?

i. The Data transfer rate is 6 kbps
ii. The size of the software is 4.5 megabytes

4. Sanjay and Vijay started their journey from Mumbai to Pune. Who reached Pune first?

i. Sanjay overtakes two times Vijay and Vijay overtakes Sanjay two times
ii. Sanjay started first

5. Is the GDP of country X higher than Country Y?

i. GDP’s of X and Y has been increasing at a compounded annual growth rate of 5% and 6% over he past 5 yrs
ii. 5 yrs ago GDP of X was 1.2 times Y

6. A boat can ferry 1500 passengers across a river in 12 hrs. How many round trips does it make during the journey?

i. The boat can carry 400 passengers at a time
ii. During its journey, the boat takes 40 mins time each way and 20 mins waiting time at each end.

7. What are the values of m and n?

i. n is an even integer, m is odd integer and m is greater than n.
ii. The product of m and n is 30

8. How much is the weight of 20 mangoes and 30 oranges?

i. 1 orange weighs twice that of 1 mango
ii. 2 mangoes and 3 oranges weigh 2 kg

Direction for Qn 9-12

Five teams participated in Pepsi Cup. Each team played against each other. The top 2 teams played finals. A win fetches 2 pts and a tie 1 pts and a lose 0 pts. The following data are known

1) South Africa were in the finals

2) India defeated SA but failed to reach the finals

3) Australia lost only one match in the tournament

4) The match between India and Sri Lanka was a tie

5) The undefeated team in the league matches lost in the finals

6) England was one of the best teams that did not qualify

9. Who were the finalists?

i. SA & India
ii. Aus & SL
iii. SA & SL
iv. none

10. Who won the finals?

i. Aus
ii. SL
iii. SA
iv. Can’t be determined

11. How many matches did India Win?

i. 0
ii. 1
iii. 2
iv. can’t be determined

12. What was the outcome of the India England Match

i. India won
ii. England won
iii. It was a tie
iv. Can’t be determined

Direction for Qn 13-14

These questions are based on situations given below:

7 Cricket players are to be honoured at a special luncheon. The players will be seated on a dais along one side of a single rectangular table.

A and G have to leave the luncheon early and must be seated at the extreme right end of table, which is closest to exit.
B will receive Man of the Match and must be in the centre chair
C and D who are bitter rivals for the position of Wicket keeper dislike one another and should be seated as far apart as possible
E and F are best friends and want to seat together.

13. Which of the following may not be seated at either end of the table?

i. C
ii. D
iii. G
iv. F

14. Which of the following pairs may not be seated together?

i. E & A
ii. B & D
iii. C & F
iv. G & D

Direction for Qn 15-18

An employer has to allocate offices to 6 staff members. The offices are no. 1-6.The offices are arranged in a row and they are separated from each other by dividers>hence voices, sounds and cigarette smoke flow easily from one office to another

Miss R needs to use the telephone quite often throughout the day. Mr. M and Mr. B need adjacent offices as they need to consult each other often while working. Miss H is a senior employee and his to be allotted the office no. 5, having the biggest window.

Mr. D requires silence in office next to his. Mr. T, Mr. M and Mr. D are all smokers. Miss H finds tobacco smoke allergic and consecutively the offices next to hers are occupied by non-smokers. Unless specifically stated all the employees maintain an atmosphere of silence during office hrs.

15. The ideal candidate to occupy office farthest from Mr. B will be

i. Miss H
ii. Mr. M
iii. Mr. T
iv. Mr. D

16. The three employees who are smokers should be seated in the offices

i. 1 2 4
ii. 2 3 6
iii. 1 2 3
iv. 1 2 3

17. The ideal office for Mr. M would be

i. 2
ii. 6
iii.1
iv.3

18. In the event of what occurrence within a period of one month since the assignment of the offices would a request for a change in office be put forth by one or more employees?

i. Mr. D quitting smoking
ii. Mr. T taking over duties formally taken care of by Miss R
iii. The installation of a water cooler in Miss H’s office
iv. Mr. B suffering from anemia

Direction for Qn 19-20

A robot moves on a graph sheet with x-y axes. The robot is moved by feeding it with a sequence of instructions. The different instructions that can be used in moving it, and their meanings are:

Instruction Meaning

GOTO(x,y) move to pt with co-ord (x,y) no matter where u are currently

WALKX(P) move parallel to x-axis through a distance of p, in the +ve direction if p is +ve and in –ve if p is –ve

WALKY(P) move parallel to y-axis through a distance of p, in the +ve direction if p is +ve and in –ve if p is –ve

19. The robot reaches point (5,6) when a sequence of 3 instr. Is executed, the first of which is GOTO(x,y) , WALKY(2), WALKY(4). What are the values of x and y??

i. 2,4
ii. 0,0
iii. 3,2
iv. 2,3

20. The robot is initially at (x.y), x>0 and y<0.>

i. 2
ii. 1
iii. x + y
iv. 0

Direction for Qn 21-23

Ten coins are distributed among 4 people P, Q, R, S such that one of them gets a coin, another gets 2 coins,3rd gets 3 coins, and 4th gets 4 coins. It is known that Q gets more coins than P, and S gets fewer coins than R

21. If the no. of coins distributed to Q is twice the no. distr. to P then which one of the following is necessarily true?

i. R gets even no. of coins
ii. R gets odd no. of coins
iii. S gets even no. of coins
iv. S gets odd no. of coins

22. If R gets at least two more coins than S which one of the following is necessarily true?

i. Q gets at least 2 more coins than S
ii. Q gets more coins than P
iii. P gets more coins than S
iv. P and Q together get at least five coins

23. If Q gets fewer coins than R, then which one of the following is not necessarily true?

i. P and Q together get at least 4 coins
ii. Q and S together get at least 4 coins
iii. R and S together get at least 5 coins
iv. P and R together get at least 5 coins

Direction for Qn 24-25

Elle is 3 times older than Zaheer. Zaheer is ½ as old as Waheeda. Yogesh is elder than Zaheer.

24. What is sufficient data to estimate Elle’s age?

i. Zaheer is 10 yrs old
ii. Yogesh and Waheeda are both older than Zaheer by the same no of yrs.
iii. Both of the above
iv. None of the above

25. Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the information above

i. Yogesh is elder than Waheeda
ii. Elle is older than Waheeda
iii. Elle’s age may be less than that of Waheeda
iv. None of the above

IBM -COMPANY PROFILE

International Business Machines Corporation, (IBM) nicknamed "Big Blue," is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA.Current CEO- Sam Palmisano.

IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

IBM Global Business Services ---Software Group

This group is one of the major divisions of IBM which provides end 2 end softare solutions to its clients.
The various brands include:
Information Management Softwares
Lotus Software
Rational Software
Tivoli Software
WebSphere Integration and application infrastructure software..

Locations in India

Bangalore-HQ
Hyderabad
Chennai
Gurgaon
Kolkatta
Kochi

Sample Paper 1
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Aptitude Section
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1. In 1978, a kg of paper was sold at Rs25/- If the paper rate increases at 1.5% more than the inflation rate which is 6.5% a year, then what will be the cost of a kg of paper after 2 years?
(a) 29.12
(b) 29.72
(c) 30.12
(d) 32.65
(e) none of these

2. In A,B,C are having some marbles with each of them. A has given B and C the same number of marbles each of them already have. Then, B gave C and A the same number of marbles they already have.Then C gave A and B the same number of marbles they already have.At the end A,B,and C have equal number of marbles.
(i) If x,y,z are the marbles initially with A,B,C respectively. Then the number of marbles B have at the end
(a) 2(x-y-z)
(b) 4(x-y-z)
(c) 2(3y-x-z)
(d) x + y-z
Ans.. (c)
(ii) If the total number of marbles are 72, then the number of marbles with A at the starting
(a) 20
(b) 30
(c) 32
(d) 39 Ans.. (d)

3. If a car starts from A towards B with some velocity. Due to some problem in the engine after travelling 30km, the car goes with 4/5 th of its actual velocity The car reaches B 45 min later to the actual time.If the car engine fails ofter travelling 45km, the car reaches the destination B 36min late to the actual time What is the initial velocity of car and what is the distance between A and B in km Ans.. 20 & 130.

4. A person has Rs 100/- in his pocket, he can as 25 pencils or 15 books. He kept 15% of the money for travelling expenses and purchased 5 pencils. So how many books he can purchase with the remaining money.

5. Ten questions on analogies. eg: chief : tribe :: governor : state
epaulette : shoulder :: tiara : head
guttural : throat :: gastric : stomach
inept : clever :: languid : active
knife : butcher :: soldier:
hammer : carpenter ::

6. The values of shares (in Rs).of A, B and C from January to June are as follows.
Month A B C
January 30 60 80
February35 65 85
March 45 75 65
April 40 75 82
May 55 75 85
June 50 75 80

i) During this period which share has undergone maximum fluctuation?
ii) In which month it is possible to buy B and C selling A?
iii) In which month the share values are very low?
iv) By purchasing one share of A and 4 each of B and C in the beginning of the period, when should these be sold to get maximum profit?

7. In a computer institute 9 languages can be taught. The module is of 6 months duration and of the six languages only one can be taught each month . In addition to that BASIC is always taught and should be in first month itself
WORD PERFECT is to be taught in the preceeding week of WORD STAR.
FORTRAN can not be taught until COBAL is taught prior to that
BINO, FIFO can never be taught in single module

Languages are BASIC, WORD STAR, WORD PERFECT, FORTRAN, COBAL, BINO, FIFO, LOTUS, C

i) If word star is in 3rd month , what could be in 6th month.
ii) If COBAL is in the 2nd month and BINO in 6th month. FORTRAN will be taught in which month.
8. In a class, except 18 all are above 50 years.15 are below 50 years of age. How many people are there

(a) 30
(b) 33
(c) 36
(d) none of these.

Ans.. (d)

9. A square plate of some size is cut at four corners. Equal squares of the same size are cut and is formed as open box.If this open box carries 128 ml of oil. What is the size of the side of the plate?

(a) 17
(b) 14
(c) 13
(d) None of these

10. In a square, all the mid points are joined. The inner square is shaded. If the area of the square is A, what is the area of the shaded area?(Figure given---Basic geometry question)

11. Two questions on basic angles and circles (Figure given---Basic geometry question)


12. If the following statements are given

@(a,b)= (a+b)/2
/(a,b)= a/b
*(a,b)= ab

If a=1, b=2 then find

i) /(a,(@(a,b),*(a,b)))
ii) */(a,@(*(a,b)))

13. If the follwoing statements are given
(x#y) = x + y- xy
(x*y) = (x + y)/2

i) Find the values of x, y will satisfy this equation (x#y)#(x*y) < (x#y)
ii) Find the values of x, y will satisfy this equation (a*b)#(b*c)< (a#b)*(b*c)

Technical Section
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Most question are on UNIX , C ,C++, Windows OS, DBMS and DS.

14. Export PS1 results in(PS1 pwd)

a) primary prompt being your current directory
b) primary prompt and secondary prompts being the current directory
c) primary prompt prompt being your home directory
d) primary prompt and secondary prompts being the home directory
e) None of the above.

15. If you type in the common nohup sort employees > list 2 > error out & and log off ,the next time you log in, the output will be

a) in a file called list and the error will de typed in a file error out
b) there will be no file called list or error out
c) error will be logged in a file called list and o/p will be in error out
d) you will not be allowed to log in
e) none of the above

16. In UNIX a file’s i-node is ____?

Ans. Is a data structure that defines all specifications of a file like the file size, number of lines to a file, permissions etc.

17. The UNIX shell

a) does not come with the rest of the system
b) forms the interface between the user and the kernal
c) does not give any scope for programming
d) does not allow calling one program from with in another
e) all of the above

Ans.. (b)

18. enum number { a= -1, b= 4,c,d,e} What is the value of e ?

(a) 7
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 15
(e) 3

19. The very first process created by the kernal that runs till the kernal process is halts is

a) init
b) getty
c) both (a) and (b)
d) none of these

Ans.. (a)

20. Output of the following program is

main()
{int i=0;
for(i=0;i<20;i++)
{switch(i)
case 0:i+=5;
case 1:i+=2;
case 5:i+=5;
default i+=4;
break;}
printf("%d,",i);
}
}

a) 0,5,9,13,17
b) 5,9,13,17
c) 12,17,22
d) 16,21
e) Syntax error

Ans.. (d)

21.
22. In the process table entry for the kernel process, the process id value is

(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 255
(e) it does not have a process table entry

Ans.. (a)

23. Which of the following API is used to hide a window

a) Show Window
b) Enable Window
c) Move Window
d) SetWindow Placement
e) None of the above

Ans.. (a)

24. What will the following program do?

void main()
{
int i;
char a[]="String";
char *p="New Sring";
char *Temp;
Temp=a;
a=malloc(strlen(p) + 1);
strcpy(a,p); //Line number:9//
p = malloc(strlen(Temp) + 1);
strcpy(p,Temp);
printf("(%s, %s)",a,p);
free(p);
free(a);
} //Line number 15//

a) Swap contents of p & a and print:(New string, string)
b) Generate compilation error in line number 8
c) Generate compilation error in line number 5
d) Generate compilation error in line number 7
e) Generate compilation error in line number 1

Ans.. (b)

25. In the following code segment what will be the result of the function, value of x , value of y
{unsigned int x=-1;
int y;
y = ~0;
if(x == y)
printf("same");
else
printf("not same");
}

a) same, MAXINT, -1
b) not same, MAXINT, -MAXINT
c) same , MAXUNIT, -1
d) same, MAXUNIT, MAXUNIT
e) not same, MAXINT, MAXUNIT

Ans.. (a)

26. PATH = /bin : /usr : /yourhome The file /bin/calender has the following line in it cal 10 1997The file/yourhome/calender has the following line in it cal 5 1997 If the current directory is /yourhome and calender is executed

a) The calendar for May 1997 will be printed on screen
b) The calendar for Oct 1997 will be printed on screen
c) The calendar for the current month( whatever it is) will be printed
d) Nothing will get printed on screen
e) An error massage will be printed

27. What will be the result of the following program ?

char *gxxx()
{static char xxx[1024];
return xxx;
}

main()
{char *g="string";
strcpy(gxxx(),g);
g = gxxx();
strcpy(g,"oldstring");
printf("The string is : %s",gxxx());
}

a) The string is : string
b) The string is :Oldstring
c) Run time error/Core dump
d) Syntax error during compilation
e) None of these

Ans.. (b)

28. What will be result of the following program?

void myalloc(char *x, int n)
{x= (char *)malloc(n*sizeof(char));
memset(x,\0,n*sizeof(char));
}

main()
{char *g="String";
myalloc(g,20);
strcpy(g,"Oldstring");
printf("The string is %s",g);
}

a) The string is : String
b) Run time error/Core dump
c) The string is : Oldstring
d) Syntax error during compilation
e) None of these

29. Which of the following function is used to repaint a window immediatelya) Sendmessage(hWnd,WM_PAINt,......)
b) InvalidateRect(.......)
c) MoveWindow
d) WM_COPY
e) None

30. Which function is the entry point for a DLL in MS Windows 3.1

a) Main
b) Winmain
c) Dllmain
d) Libmain
e) None

Ans.. (b)

31. The standard source for standard input, standard output and standard error is

a) the terminal
b) /dev/null
c) /usr/you/input, /usr/you/output/, /usr/you/error respectively
d) None

Ans.. (a)

32. What will be the result of the following program?

main()
{char p[]="String";
int x=0;
if(p=="String")
{printf("Pass 1");
if(p[sizeof(p)-2]=='g')
printf("Pass 2");
else
printf("Fail 2");
}
else
{
printf("Fail 1");
if(p[sizeof(p)-2]=='g')
printf("Pass 2");
else
printf("Fail 2");
}
}

a) Pass 1, Pass 2
b) Fail 1, Fail 2
c) Pass 1, Fail 2
d) Fail 1, Pass 2
e) syntax error during compilation

33. Which of the choices is true for the mentioned declaration ?

const char *p; and
char * const p;

a) You can't change the character in both
b) First : You can't change the characterr & Second : You can;t change the pointer
c) You can't change the pointer in both
d) First : You can't change the pointer & Second : You can't chanage the character
e) None

34. The redirection operators > and >>

a) do the samefunction
b) differ : > overwrites, while >> appends
c) differ : > is used for input while >> is used for output
d) differ : > write to any file while >> write only to standard output
e) None of these

Ans.. (b)

35. The command grep first second third /usr/you/myfile

a) prints lines containing the words first, second or third from the file /usr/you/myfile
b) searches for lines containing the pattern first in the files
second, third, and /usr/you/myfile and prints them
c) searches the files /usr/you/myfiel and third for lines containing the words first or second and prints them
d) replaces the word first with the word second in the files third and /usr/you/myfile
e) None of the above

Ans.. (b)

More PLACEMENT PAPERS are here

SAMPLE 2
SAMPLE 3
Ssmple 4

MINDTREE CONSULTING LTD
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Company profile
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MindTree Consulting Limited is an international IT consulting company that was started in 1999 by 10 industry professionals who came from Cambridge Technology Partners, Lucent Technologies and Wipro. Currently co-headquartered in Warren, New Jersey and Bangalore, India, it has 3 development centers in India and 15 offices spread across Asia, Europe and the United States. The founding team was led by Ashok Soota, who was at that time vice chairman and president of Wipro.
MindTree crossed USD 100 million in revenues in April 2006; the fastest Indian IT company to achieve the target. MindTree is also the world's youngest company to be assessed at both CMMi and P-CMM.
MindTree has been involved in the creation of Bluetooth technology and is an Associate Member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group . Their Bluetooth protocol stack is licenced to NEC

MindTree Placement Papers and Sample Papers

1. What is not common among threads in a process.?
Code,
stack,
heap,
libraries,
none of the above

2. Process address space includes which of the following components?
Memory heap,
user stack ,
shared libraries,
all of the above

3. Some file transfer is in progress. The connection break s and then
later after some time is restored. then on the file transfer continues
from the point where it left off, which OSI layer handles this?
Presentation,
application,
TCP, IP,
Session

4. Sliding window protocol is best for
Transmission,
reception ,
error and flow control,
Duplication
detection, all

5. FTP works at which layer?
Presentation ,
application,
IP,
Data link,
none

6. Size of '0', "0", '\0',0(stored as an int)?
1,2,1,4;
2,8,1,2;
1,1,1,1;
2,2,0,4;
none

7. Virtual memory depends on
Address Lines,
Data bus,
disk space ,
all , none

8. Which of the following is the fastest IPC mechanism???
Pipes,
FIFO, Semaphores, Shared memories, None

9. Which of the followiun is the fastest IPC mechanism???
Pipes,
FIFO,
Semaphores,
Shared Message queues,
None

10. Semaphores are used for (Synchronisation among)
a. processes
b. threads.
c. Interrupt handlers
d. One more choice

11. if(n & (n-1))
return false;
else
return true;

what does the code snippet above do???
a. check if the no is divisible by 2
b. check if the no is not Divisible by 2
c. check if no is a multiple of 2
d. check if the no is a power of 2
e. none


12. Interrupt latency ==
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MindTree Placement Paper Conducted On 19-Sep-2003
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45 quesitons and 60 mins.
Every wrong answer carried -1 marking and every right question carried +3 marking.

1. A person losses and gains 10% on selling a object for 20

2. Sum of 1 to 100 is divisible by 1. 1,2,4,8 2. 2 & 4 3. 2 4 none

3. 10 consonants and 4 vowels , how many words with 3 consonants and 2 vowels?
1) 720
2)7200 ... complete series

4. How many numbers start and end with 2 b/w 100 and 300?

5. If a sphere of diameter 3 cm is melted & formed into 3 spheres , the diameter of 1st is 1.5cm and that of second is 2.0 cm , what is the diameter of the third?

6. There are 4 novels like thriller , mystery , romance , fiction written by ,a,b,c,d not necessarily in the same order and published by e , f , g , h, not necessarily in the same order...and questions on this

7.. 6 people compete in a race a,b,c,d,e,f b is not in the 1st place there are 2 runners b/w d and e a is ahead of d ( one more condition ) and 2 quesitions
8. If prizes are increased by 25% , by how much should I reduce the consumption to keep the expenditure same??

13. How many factors divide 6400
1)24 ,
2) 25
3)32.

14. "COURTESY" - how many words can be constructed with C in the beginning and Y at the end

15. My mother's husband's father in laws son's child,what is the relation?

16. 3 glasses containing mixture of water and alcohol in ratio 2:3 , 3:4 , 5:9 when all 3 are mixed what is the new ratio?

GD topics.

1. If both husband and wife are working in the same organisation.
2. Co-ordination between educational institutions and companies.
3. Linux Vs Microsoft . Which will perish?.

Programming question

We have to write program(This program will be evaluated if you are qualified for Interview).you will be given choice(ie write one out of two given) both the programs are on files

1. We have to count the 3 letter,4 letter and 5letter words from a file and print the number of 3 letter,4letter and 5letter words. Delimiter is space,tab,hifen.Also we should not consider the line in the file after we encounter # in that line.(ie after # we should not consider the portion of line)

2. In file count the number of characters, number of words, number of line. Delimiter between words is given as command line argument. 1hour 15 min is given for the test. we have to answer both apptitue and program with in this time. some of the apptitue questions.

1. The is a meeting organized, every person shake hands with the other only once .If there are 60 shake hands, how many persons are there in the meeting?.

2. A father has 8 children ,he takes 3 at a time to a zoo.
What is the Probability of a child going to the zoo?

3. A father has six children .all the children are born at regular intervals. If the sum of their ages of all the children and father is 186. Calculate the age of the elder son, when the younger sons age is 3.

4. Count the numbers between 100 and 300, that starts with 2 and ends with 2.

5. Some reasoning questions

1. There are six steps,5 people a,b,c,d,e .
Conditions are , a is two steps below c,no two people are on same step, b is next to d. 4 Questions based on this 2. 5 people participating in the race .conditions are given about the positions.

6. A ball is dropped from a height of 10 feet. Every time it rebounces to half of the height. how many feet it traveled ?

7. There are 3 jars. The ratio of spirit to water in each of these jars is 3:2,4:5,5:7. the three jars are mixed into a single jar. What is the ration of spirit to water in single jar.

8. What is the relation with your mother's sister's brother's wife's child with you.?

9. What is the relation with your mother's husband's father-in-law's son's child with you?

10. Number series, alphabet series questions .

ACCENTURE -Company Profile
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Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company.It is said to be the largest consulting firm in the world and is one of the largest computer services and software companies on the Fortune Global 500 list.

PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT:

1. Written Test(Aptitude + Technical).
2. Group discussion(Optional)
3. HR interview.
4. Final interview. (Tech + HR)

Group discussion
----------------------
The GD will be about general,current topics

eg. "Worm in Cadburys chocolate....whom to blame?"
"Should Cricket be made National game of India?"

Basically to test your
Group behaviour
Communication skills
Don't fight
Listen and Put across your points

HR interview
------------------------
HR interview is just to know
Your confidence
What mindset you have
Your idea about accenture
Your Personality Traits


Technical Topics which ACCENTURE targets
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DBMS
Datastructure
C Programming language
C++ Programming Language
Operating Systems


Technical Questions ...
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1. Data model is
a) Entity b) Constriants c) Entity relationship d) All the above

2. Choise the correct one select emp.name ,emp.age from emp1,emp2 where emp.sno = 456;
a) cluster b) non-cluster c) index d) none of these

3. What is index?

4. Match the following
1- one to one a) manager to employ
2- one to many b) employ to employ
3- many to one c) unique object
4- many to many d) employ to manager
a) 1-a ,2-b ,3-c,4-d b) 1-c,2-d,3-a,4-b c) 1-c,2-a,3-d,4-b d) 1-d,2-b,3-a,4-c

5.Table given Table name-first
sno name age
1 max 22
2 allen 33
3 rony 44

Select first.name from first where first.age = (select first.age from first where first.sno = 3);
a) max b) allen c) rony d) noneof these

6. Different types of keys.Foreign key relationship and relationship with in a single table.

7.What is Primary Memory, Secondary Memory, Virtual Memory?

ACCENTURE specific Subject Topics
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DBMS
----------------
Normalization,1NF,2NF,3NF,BCNF,4NF,5NF with examples
Database architecture
Schema architecture
DDL,DML
Role of system administrator
Concurrency control-(Locking,Timestamps,Deadlocks)

Datastructures
------------------------

Sorting algorithms

Buble sorting,
Selectionsorting,
Insertion sorting,
Quick sorting,
Shell sorting,
Heap sorting
Radix sorting
also C or C++ code for these sortings
Hashing functions etc

C Programming Language
--------------------------
Pointers
Functions
Structures and unions
Bitwise Operation
File handling
Small programs
Link list implimentation
tree,stack,Queue
String manipulation programs

C++ Programming Language
-------------------------------

Basic Concepts
Object Oriented Programming
Classes
Programmes using OOP concepts

Operating system
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Memory management
Paging
Segmentation
Virtual memory
Buddy systems
Page tables
Process sheduling algorithms
Page replacement algorithm
Deadlock
Semaphore
Monotors
Mutex

APTITUDE Test
------------------
Usually following sections will be there:

1)Numerical :
Profit & loss,
Percentages,
Ratio proportion,
Time and distance,
Time and work.
2)Analytical :
Venn diagrams
( if in a class of 40 students, 10 play only cricket,
20 play only hockey,10 play both cricket and hockey...),
Probability,
Drawing conclusions
3)Verbal :
Synonyms
Antonyms
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