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COMPANY PROFILE ..

TEST PATTREN ...

SAMPLE PAPERS..

1. TCS PAPER ON 20th MARCH

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2. TCS PAPER ON 20th MARCH

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3. TCS PAPER ON 15th MARCH ..

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4. TCS PAPER ON 30th NOVEMBER

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5. TCS PAPER ON 25th NOVEMBER

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6. TCS PAPER ON 7th NOVEMBER ..

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7. TCS PAPER ON 15th OCTOBER

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8. TCS PAPER ON 10th OCTOBER

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9. TCS PAPER ON 9th OCTOBER

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10. TCS PAPER ON 7th OCTOBER..

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11. TCS SAMPLE PAPER ..

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12. TCS PAPER ON 29 th SEPTEMBER... 89

13.TCS PAPER ON 8 th SEPTEMBER.

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COMPANY PROFILE
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the world-leading information

technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing
organization that envisioned and pioneered the adoption of the
flexible global business practices that today enable companies
to operate more efficiently and produce more value.
Tata Consultancy Services started in 1968. The early days
marked TCS responsible in managing the punch card operations
of Tisco. The company, which was into management consultancy
from day one, soon felt the need to provide solutions to its
clients as well. TCS was the first Indian company to make forays
into the US market with clients ranging from IBM, American
Express, Sega etc.
TCSs work has spanned a range of activities, from strategy
consulting and system integration services to offshore
development centres for some of the most sophisticated
software development in the world. Consider these facts about
TCS:
Projects for over 1000 clients in more than 55 countries. Our
clients get measurable business results, which is why many
Fortune 500 companies prefer TCS.
More than 100,000 person years of experience in diverse
business domains and technology areas.
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Knowledge accumulation through collaborative research with

industry and academia, and partnerships with global technology
leaders.
Over 28,000 consultants, a range of world-class products,
proven offshore development
capabilities, and multiple SEI CMM Level 5 centers.
Total revenues of Rs 5,012 crore ($ 1.04 billion) in the year
ended March 31, 2003.
TCS believes that IT is a key factor for social change and is
committed to several community development ventures.
If you have the talent and the ambition to grow, there's plenty
of space for you at TCS. Its streams of competence embrace
everything from technology and strategy to research and
teaching
For More info Visit Website : www.tcs.com
Also Visit TCS Recruitment website:
http://www.recruitment.tcs.co.in

TCS Test Pattern:

It was an online exam. Test Consists of 3 Sections +

Psychometric Test
1. Test on Synonyms and Antonyms (40 questions,

20

minutes: Also Qs on Sentence Completion).

2. Aptitude Test (32 questions, 40 minutes: General Questions
on Mathematics).
3. Critical Reasoning (30 Minutes: 3 Analysis Paragraphs and 12
questions Relating them).
4. Psychometric Test (150 Questions, 30 minutes: only if you
qualify in the above tests).
Details about How to prepare for the above tests:
1. Verbal Ability:
This Test contains Synonyms & AntonymsAlmost all of them were
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From GRE BARRONS 12
Edition & upward30-50% of them will
be repeated from previous TCS papers. Few Questions on Sentence
Completion were also there..for these also refer BARRONS.
NOTE: During the Exam..you should be careful..because on the
computer screen the names Synonyms & Antonyms will be placed
side by side so that we may by mistake choose an antonym instead
of a synonymso Be Careful..

2. Aptitude Test:

This test will consist of very general questionsThis is the easiest

section Compared to the Other Two. Almost 70-80% Questions will
be repeated from the Previous TCS Papersjust learn the method
from those papers. same model will be
given..(This happened almost all the times). If you have time
refer to any Aptitude book of your interestit may be
R.S.AGARWAL or any Other
3.Critical Reasoning:
Here Starts your Problems30 Minutes12 questions..dont think
that there is a lot onTime..these will be somewhat tougher those
who has some touch with such kind..and will be Very Tough.. if you
havent seen this kind before..so,you should have some practice
relating this kind of questions3 paragraphs will be given.. 3X4..
12 questions.. first 2 paragraphs will be some twisty questions
like our arrangements questions routes between cities.. like that
and the last one will be on Data Interpretation
You prepare Data Interpretation again from BARRONS. but the
th
remainingfrom R.S.AGARWAL-Reasoning. Or from Barrons 13
Edition
4.Psychometric Test:
This test comes up only if you qualify in the Aptitude test This
test consists of 150 questions which we should answer in 30
minutes (of course, that much time is not required) Dont think
that this test has no weightage.. there is filtering in this test
too this test tests your psychology.. Remember among 150 many
questions were asked again & again in a

variety of ways.. so dont get trapped be honest while attempting

this test.. choose whatyoure your heart says.. it will take you
through the test..
This ends the Tests
INTERVIEWS:
Now if you are Alive Even after All these tests.then you have to
face a Technical Interview
It may be on the same day of the Test.. so be Prepared in
Advance..
The Interview will be done by a Panel of 2 members. No need to
worry.. They will be Very supporting & Friendly.. First they ask us
to Introduce ourselves then theyll go into your project details
dont forget to prepare project. They mainly concentrate on your
project onlyso be confident on every aspect of your project then
you should have some basic knowledge on C language.
There will be some questions like what is the o/p of this code?,
what are the errors in the code? Like that so be prepared for
all the basic concepts.. If needed you have to write some small
codes too.. at the end they will ask some general questios like
Why TCS?, Where do you see yourself in the next five years?,
do you have any questions?, try ask some questions it shows
your interest in the Company..

HR:


Now if Chase this one too. Then comes your Final Attack.. the
HR Round I many times heard that I failed in HR round!..
likewise answers. But you should not fail in it.. because it involves
no technical questions it just dwell into your inner self so, be
confident and frank while facing this roundThey generally ask
questions like Tell about yourself?, Who r your role models?,
What is your weakness?, dont say I Have no weakness!, just
prepare a small weakness for yourself that causes no harm to your
futureO.K.. What is your mother tongue?
if your Academic background is good.. be prepared to face some
Techies here too.
NOW IF YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL HERE TOO.. CONGRATS YOU
ARE IN TCS..

SAMPLE PAPERS

TCS PAPER ON 20th MARCH:

Test Consists of 3 Sections

1. Test on Synonyms and Antonyms (40 questions, 20 minutes:
on Sentence Completion).

Also Qs

2. Aptitude Test (32 questions(may vary), 40 minutes: General Questions

on Mathematics).

3. Critical Reasoning (30 Minutes: 3 Analysis Paragraphs and

12questions Relating them
Written Test pattern:
This is on line test paper. There were three sections. please prepare last
papers too & BARRONS Properly
some of antonyms are
Admonish= usurp
Adhesive = tenacious, sticky, glue, gum, bonding agent
Alienate = estrange
Bileaf = big screen, big shot, big success
Belief = conviction
Baffle = puzzle

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Brim = edge
Covet = to desire
Caprice = whim
Concur = similar, acquiesce
Confiscate = appropriate, to take charge, to annex
Cargo = load, luggage
Dispel = scatter
Divulge = reveal, make known, disclose
Discretion = prudence
Emancipate = liberate
Efface = obliterate
Embrace = hug, hold, cuddle
Furtive = stealthy
Heap = to gather
Hamper = obstruct
Heap = to pile
Hover = linger
Incentive = spur
Instigate = incite
Inert = passive
Latitude = scope
Lethargy = stupor
Lamont = lakes, lamentable
Lament = wail
Latent = potential
Merry = Enjoy
Meager = small, little, scanty
Misery = distress
Momentary = for small time
Merit = to deserve
Miserable = unhappy, sad
Obstinate = stubborn
Overt = obvious, clear, explicit, evident
Pretentious = ostentatious

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Potential = ability
Rinaile = rigorous
Renounce= reject
Solicit = Humble, urge
Subside = wane
Stifle = snits
Tranquil = calm, silent, serene
To merit- to deserve
Volume = quantity
Veer = diverge
Wethargy = well wisher

2. General Aptitude
For this section it is more than enough to solve all the previous papers
available in this site. Then for some concepts refer R.S Agarwal
aptitude book. Most of the problems will be repeated only with the
numbers changed. But u will have the same model.
I could not able to recollect all the questions in my test, but Im just
giving you the models for few questions, what I have in my mind.
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
3. Select the odd one out.
a) Java
b) Lisp
4. Select the odd o

c) Smalltalk

ne out

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d) Eiffel.

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 in a two dimensional array X(9,7) which each element occupying 8
b ytes of memory with address of the first element X(1,1) is 1072, find the
address of X(8,5).

7Which of the following highest Standard deviation

5, -5,5,-5, 5,-5 b) 5,5,5,5,5,5 c) -5,-5,-5,-5,-5,-5 d) -5,5,-5,5,-5,5

Critical Reasoning.
questions were on one passage "politicians attending a party. They are seated
in some way". 4 questions were on the passage "Red and Brown group in a
community and conditions for their marriage". .

Technical& HR Round
In technical question basically on java &c++

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in hr They asked me abt my family background They asked me to tell abt it.
They asked whether I am ready to sign a bond for 2yrs. I said OK. They
asked my strengths, why shud I select u?

TCS PAPER ON 20th MARCH AT AGRA :

I am Yugank Sharma, currently pursuing B-Tech in MECHANICAL Engg from
Anand Engineering College, Agra in 3rd year.TATA CONSULTANCY
SERVICES visited our campus for recruitment on 20th march-2007.By Gods
grace I am selected and want to share my experience with you all.
Whole of the process consisted of 2 rounds-:
1-Aptitude Test
2-Interview Round
APTITUDE TEST
It consisted of three sections, verbal section, quant section and critical
reasoning.

VERBAL SECTION

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Most of the words in this section were repeated from previous year question
papers ,but the some new words were Plainaitive
Pinnacle
Skump
Banal

Irksome
Meager
Goad

Garrulous

Asperity
Dangle
Misanthrope
Other than this there was some paragraph followed by question (you will
easily do it)
QUANT SECTION
All the question in this section was repeated from previous year question
paper, so practice them very well. The entire question are easily available in
other paper thus no need to write them again.

CRITICAL REASONING

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It consisted of 3 paragraphs followed by 4 questions each. All the questions
are from Barrons 12th edition, model test papers. So practice them well.
The questions I got were-:
1-A is north of B
B is south of C
C is west of F
2- Post offices are closed on Saturday in New Wales.
Banks are closed on Sundays.
I was selected in the aptitude test and was called for final interview round
next day. Out of 206 students; those appeared for test 104 cleared it.

INTERVIEW ROUNDS
It consisted of three rounds Technical, H.R and M.R Round
TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
Tell me about yourself?
Your areas of interest?

Tell me about some basic laws of thermodynamics?

What are Air standard cycles?

P-V, T-S Diagrams of Carnot cycle?

Why Carnot cycle is not practical? Its limitations?
What is C.P.M and P.E.R.T?
What is knocking?

What is L.P.P (operations research)?

Basic refrigeration cycle?

Why manholes are circular?

Practical application of factor of safety?

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 Functioning of power plant (summer training)?

What do you about C and C++?

Phases of S/W development?

How mech. Design processes differ from s/w design process?

I cleared it, and then I was called for my H.R interview.

H.R INTERVIEW
Tell me about your self?
Your family background?

Describe your native place (mine sonebhadra)?

How do you rate your college on 1-10 scale?

What did you learned from your summer training (other than

technical)?

Why interested in s/w industry after being a mech engineer?

Are you wiling to re locate?

Are you comfortable with bond and overseas agreement?

Ask something from us? (I asked about companies PCMM and CMMI

certification?
M.R INTERVIEW
Tell me about your self other than mentioned in you resume?
Why willing to join TCS?

Full form of TCS? (I replied total customer satisfaction)

How mech engineers benefit a s/w industry?

Some question relating to design methodology?

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TCS PAPER ON 15th MARCH AT INDORE

hey there.......

EVERY CANDIDATE GOT A DIFFERENT SET OF QUESTIONS... I AM

LISTING DOWN SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WHICH I HAD IN MY
TEST.......OFF COURSE THESE ARE THOSE WHICH I REMEMBER......
'COZ MAN.... THERE WERE 102 DAMN QUESTIONS IN ALL...... AND
THE TIME GIVEN WAS 90 MINS.......
SECTION 1 :- VERBAL:
SYNONYMS:
1. PLAINTIVE
2.MIRAGE
3.MISANTHROPE
4.PROLIXITY
5.AVID
6.MUNDANE
7.PARLEY
8.GARNER
9.DECOROUS
10. DANGLE
ANTONYMS:
1.ASPERITY
2.RETROSPECTION
3.OSCILLATE
4.PLACATE
5.SAGE
6.CASTIGATE
7.CRITICAL
8.INDIGENOUS

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9.TAPER
10. HIGH-HANDED

THERE WERE TWO READING COMPREHENSIONS ON WHICH WERE

BASED 12 QUESTIONS.

SECTION 2: QUANTITATIVE

'CSBWF' IS CODED AS 'BRAVE'.....HOW WUD 'QMFBTF' BE CODED:

ANS: PLEASE
FIND THE MISSING NO. IN SERIES?
9 10 11 13 15 ? 21 28
LARGEST NO. THAT CAN BE STORED IN A 9-BIT COMPUTER.
(A).509 (B) 513 (C) 511 (D) 409 (E) 459
X 0 10 100 1000 9999
Y 0.00001 1.02 1.72 3.00 4.72
THE ABOVE DATA SHOWS WHAT KIND OF RELATION BETWEEN X AND
Y ?
REPRESENT 222 IN -5 BASE NO. SYSTEM.
THE SIDES ARE GIVEN. WHICH TRIANGLE IS NOT POSSIBLE:
(A) (2,3,6) (B) (3,2,4) (C) (3,4,5) (D) (3,3,3) (E) (5,3,5)

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A MAN, A WOMAN AND A BOY CAN DO SOME WORK IN 6 DAYS. MAN
ALONE DOES IT IN 10 DAYS; WOMAN ALONE DOES IT IN 24 DAYS.
HOW MUCH TIME DOES THE BOY TAKE IN DOING IT ALON
IF THE FIRST AND THE SECOND LETTERS IN THE WORD
'CONSTITUTION' ARE INTERCHANGED. THEN THIRD AND
FOURTH....THEN FIFTH AND SIXTH...AND SO ON.... WHAT WUD BE
THE 10TH LETTER FROM RIGHT (IN THE RESULTING WORD).
Y = 4000 X N(raise to power 1/2 i.e under root N)
WHAT WUD BE THE % CHANGE IN Y IF N IS INCREASED BY 1%.
THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT THE ADDRESS CALCULATION OF AN
ELEMENT IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY(FILLED IN COLUMNMAJOR)...... THOSE WHO HAVE DONE IT IN DATA STRUCTURES WILL
UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM....
IF $ STANDS FOR CHANGE IN SIGN AND # REPRESENTS TRIPLING.
WHAT IS THE RESULT OF:
#$#(6) - $#$(6)
ANS:-72
g(0)=1; g(1)= -1;
g(n)= 2 g(n-1) - 3 g(n-2)
Find g(4)
(FORCE X DISTANCE)/(VELOCITY X VELOCITY): WHAT WOULD BE THE
UNIT OF THE GIVEN QUANTITY
ONE BAR GRAPH & AN ACCOMPANYING PIE DIAG. WAS GIVEN ..... 5 or

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6 QUESTIONS WERE ASKED ON IT.

THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE OF THE DATA INTERPRETATION TYPE

QUESTIONS WHICH HAD A SET OF 5 or 6 QUESTIONS.
SECTION 3: LOGICAL REASONING or CRITICAL REASONING:
REFER BARRONS:
THERE WERE 3 CASES GIVEN ON WHICH WERE BASED 12 QUESTIONS
(4 FROM EACH CASE)
1. THE ONE PERTAINING TO ELECTRICIAN AND PLUMBER..... TEAM OF
5........ Mr. PASTONJI.........
2. SERIES QUESTION( I DOUBT U'LL FIND IT IN BARRONS) BUT
YES..... U'LL BE ABLE TO DO IT ......
3. ASHLAND IS TO THE NORTH OF EAST LIVERPOOL & WEST OF
COCHO.....
BOWLING GREEN IS NORTH OF ASHLAND AND WEST OF FO. AND SO
ON........ U'LL FIND QUESTIONS 1 & 3 IN BARRONS MODEL TEST
PAPERS....... M NOT SURE 'BOUT THE 2 QUESTION.......
OVERALL VIEW:
IT WAS A GUD TEST .....WELL...... I WON'T CALL IT A VERY EASY
TEST LIKE THEY SAY FOR TCS TEST PAPERS...... BUT A LITTLE
AMOUNT OF PRACTICE ON PREVIOUS PAPERS CAN DO IT ALL....

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TCS PAPER ON 30th NOVEMBER AT

Hello Friends I am YASEEN.... I got selected to TCS... My written exam

was on 07th October 2006, Interview was held on Nov 26th & 30th... And
finally results came out on 14Dec...Let mepost myexperience with TCS.....
Written test:
I appeared an off campus exam conducted by TCS in on 7th Oct. I wrote
the exam well, the questions in the Aptitude section were mostly from
previous papers. But dont try to remember the answers from previous
papers. They are changing the values in the questions. The paper was easy,
all the Synonyms, Antonyms, passages all were from GRE Barrons 12th
&13th Editions model papers. (And some questions came from Barrons high
frequent words)
Totally there were 3 sets X, Y, Z. and I got the set Code Y. I will give you
the questions that i remember so that you can prepare for the coming exams.
I am doing this because all the previous papers helped me a lot for the
exam.
The paper was as usual 3 sections.

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I. Verbal Ability (32M)
[Synonyms (10M) + Antonyms (10M) + Two passages are there each
carries 6M (2 X 6 = 12)]
GRE Barrons is enough for this section
II. Quantitative & logical (38M)
Most of questions from previous papers but changed values, if you practice
the questions twice or thrice before the exam it is easy to solve

the questions in exam. But dont try to remember the answers from previous
papers. I will try to give some questions i remember. But not in order
1. Complete the series 26, 19, 17, 13, 11,--, 8, 7 (Ans: 9).
Sol: 26,17,11,8 these are decreasing like 9,6,3
19, 13, 9, 7 these are decreasing like 6, 4, 2
2. Convert the decimal number 562 into base 7. (Ans: 1432)
3. If QJFBTF is coded as PLEASE then HBJO can be coded as Ans: GAIN)
4. Find odd one? a) SQL Server b) Ingress c) Oracle d) DB2 e) JAVA (Ans:
Java)
5. Find odd one? a) SMTP b) ARP c)WAP d)HTTP e)BAAN
(Ans: BAAN) because all protocols except BAAN

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6. Which of the following is exact power of 4?

a) 4192 b) 2340 c) 4096 Ans: C)

7. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in a 6 bit register?
Ans :61 Sol: 2^6 ==64 (with in 64 largest prime no: 61)
8. Which will give good standard deviation?
a). 4,0,-4,0,4 b) 4,-4,4,-4,4 c) 4,4,4,4,4

9. Which shape will be obtained by using the following values for X and Y
X 0 10 100 1000 9999
Y 0.000011.02 1.72 3.00 4.72
Ans: Y= log10(X)
10. What are the number of edges, number of vertices and number of faces
of a planar cube among the following options?
a) 6, 6, 6 b) 4,8,12 c) 12, 8, 6 d) 4,6,12 (Ans: C)
11. What is the value of the following expression M(373,5)+T(7.7)+R(4.4)T(3.6)
Where M- MODULAS R- ROUNDOFF T- TRUNCATE (Ans: 11) Sol: 3 + 7+
4 3==11
12. What is the value of the expression % # % (6) + # % # (6)
Where % means DOUBLING and # means RECIPROCAL
13. Match the following (this type of question but not same)
A B
1. Mammal, cow--->a. A type of
2 Snake reptile --->b. A part of
3. Roof - Building --->c. Not a type of
4. Mushroom - Vegetables--->d. A superset of
(Ans: 1-d, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a)

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14. If G(0) = -1 G(1)= 1 and G(N)=G(N-1) - G(N-2) then what is the value
of G(6)?(Ans: -3) Sol: g(2)=g(1)-g(0) ==1-(-1)=2, similarly g(3),g(6);
15. If A= 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
B= 0 0 11 0 0 1 1
C= 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

Then find the value of [A U C] U B and express it in decimal. (Ans: 151)

16.
If A, B, C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the
wastage of fuel by 30%, 40%, 10%.What will be the fuel economy if
they were used combine?
1.68.4
2.62.2 3.58 4.27(Ans: 62.2) sol:
(70/100)*(60/100)*(90/100)*100=37.8 Eco = (100-37.8) =62.2

17. Which of the following straight lines are perpendicular to each other?
1)2x+y=8 2)x=4 3)y=6 4)2y=x+3
a)1, 3 b)2, 3 c)1, 4 d)3, 4 e)None
18. In , temperature at noon varies according to t^2/2 + 4t + 12 (Read is
as: t square /2 + 4t +12), where t is elapsed time. Find how much
percentage of temperature is increased (or decreased) between 5pm and
8pm. (HINT: substitute&subtact values from 5 to 8)
a) 1.0% b) 2.6% c) 0.5% d)1.4% e)2.7%

20. A power unit is there by the bank of a river of 900 meters. A cable is
made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river of
2000mts. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 5/- per meter and cost

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of cable on the bank is Rs. 4/- per meter. Then find out the amount to be
invested to connect those two stations. (Ans8500)
Sol: 900 X 5 == 4500 + 1100 X 4 == 4400 = 8500

21. A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers in
10 hours. Then how many hours required for B to copy 26 papers?(Ans: 13)

22. A sequence of letters is given. Weve to find out how many Vs are there
under the condition that, S should be followed by V and should not be
followed by F
V,S,F,T,W,E,L,B,V,S,L,L,K,S,M,S,V,F,L,S,D,I, Like that.
23. In a two-dimensional array, X (7, 9), with each element occupying 8
bytes of memory, with the address of the first element X (1, 1)=3000; find
the starting address of the element at X (5,8). (Ans: 3172)
Sol: (4 X 9) + 7 = 43 X 4= 172 3000+172 == 3172 ( i.e completely 4 rows
r filled , in fifth row up 7th cell is filled next cell is required address )
24.
In the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first and second, third
and forth, fifth and sixth, etc words are interchanged, what would be
the 12th letter from right? (Ans: A)

25. A Flight takes off at 4 A.M from North-East direction and travels for 7
hours to reach the destination in the North-West direction. Some latitude
and longitude of source and destination given. Find the local arrival time of
destination? (I dont know how to find it)
26.
Four 2X2 matrices were given. Weve to find out which of them
is a singular matrix? (Hint: try for which matrix det (A) becomes zero
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27. (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance)
a) b) Mass c) Force
29. Based on a Venn diagram. 3 problems were given. All are so easy. No
need to worry.
(0nce go through R.S AGGARWAL)
30. A bar chart was been given. Two questions based on this. Easy ones.
Dont fear.
(0nce go through R.S AGGARWAL)
31.
One question on curves.(iam not remembering please go through
previous papers)
III. Critical reasoning (12M)
In critical section there are three passages, each passage carries 4 marks.
Passage one: A group of 5 people A, B, C, D, and E are there.
A knows Telugu and Hindi.
B knows Oriya and Malalayalam
C knows Telugu and Malayalam
D knows English and Oriya.
E knows Telugu and Oriya
With the above conditions four questions are given.

Passage two: and problem of GRE Barrons 13th edition. This can be found in
the model papers.
Passage three: sorry iam not remembering, this also simply one.GRE Barrons

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(12th, 13th &14th edi...) is enough for this sectionThis is end of written
test
If you are perfect in antonyms & synonyms it is very beneficial to maintain
more time on remaining sections. If you practice more number of previous it
is very to do Quantitative & logical section.
My interview was on 26th of November 2006.In my panel one gentleman. He
took the interview to me. My technical was around 30 minutes.
He asked the fallowing questions.
1. Tell me about your self?
2.What are your favorite subjects?
3.He asked two programs? ( i.e. one is on C language(pyramid ) and
other is on java multithreading concepts and I write very well because
I practice all simple programs)
4.What is the difference between C and C++?
5. What is DBMS?
6.What is the difference between DBMS and RDBMS?
7.What is an Index?
8.What is primary key?
9.What is foreign key?
10. What is normalization?
11. He asked some queries, and I write very well?
12. He asked quires on join operation?
13. What are the OOPS concepts?
14. How many types of data structures?
15. How many types of linked lists what are they?
16. What are the different types of sorting & searching techniques?

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17. Difference between over loading and over ridding?
18. Some questions on personal details..
19. Finally he offers me to ask any question you want. I ask one
question he explained very well.
Finally he was given shake hand and say wait out side. The interviewer
was quite impressed by my answers then I went outside with enormous
joy... because I answer all the questions, finally a man came and said you
are selected for next round. At that moment iam very happy.
M.R interview:
My interview was on 30th of November 2006In my M.R panel also one
gentleman I think interviewer was a project Manager. He was very friendly in
nature. Dont think M.R is H.R round. It contains both tech &HR questions.
Be prepared technical questions very well. Prepared your project very well.
Go through each and every step of your project. Really I never forget this
round. In my MR I face fallowing questions.
1.So r u feeling nervous... (Actually I am felling some tension)
2. Tell me about yourself?
3. He asked my strengths?
4. I said one of my strength was good leader ship quality, he asked how you
are good leader and reply well because I am leader in my school
days.
5. What are the phases in s/w developed life cycle?
6. He asks one simple C program? (i.e. fibnoic series)
7. What are different types of testing?
8. What is block box testing?

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9. Questions on my project?
10. Why are you not interest in higher studies?
11. Some questions on academic details?
12. He given a chance to me, finally I asked a question what are

10.
technologies available in TCS, and he replied all technologies
are available in TCS.
I never forget this round because before interview I have lot of tension and
I selected this round. On same day I have my HR interview.
This is my final round in TCS; the interviewer was a young guy around 29-30
yrs of age at first he introduced him self. Next I face fallowing questions.
1. From how long you are waiting for this interview? (Actually my MR was
completed around 3.45pm & my HR was started at 8:00pm)
2. Tell me about your self?(I face this question third time in TCS)
3. What are your strengths?
4. What are your achievements?
5. How you are good leader?
6. What are your weak nesses? How u eliminate your weak ness?
7. Tell me about your project?
8. Have you done any thing for society?
9. What are the advantages of DBMS?
10. Tell about your family?
11. What you know about TCS?
12. Why you prefer TCS?
13. Where I see you after five years?
14. What steps necessary to become a project Manager?
15. How you are different from you are competitors?

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16. What is the vision of TCS?

17. Do you have questions? I asks one question, how TCS giving
performance to the employees and he explained very well.
The key in this round is to maintain confidence and communication skills
are very important, be cool andconfidant.

C &C++ programs:
practice the fallowing programs before the interview:

C (perfect all concepts) , C++ , JAVA(core)

DBMS:
prepare all DBMS concepts and should perfect in Normalization, SQL,
Indexing, Hashing, Cursors, Triggers, Different types of joins.
(Practice sql quires very well)
Networks: OSI, TCP/IP reference models, topologies, Ethernet,
FDDI, Token ring, Routing, ATM, and IP addressing. Switch, hub and
read other protocols.Data structures, Sorting, searching, stack,
queue, Linked lists, tree, BFS, DFS.
Mainly we should read 1. All algorithom 2. Complexities
Software Engineering: software development models, different
strategies of testing (unit testing, integration testing...),ypes of
testing (white or black box),

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Project: It is very important to visit the company site before the
interview Anything can be asked depending on the panel member.
This is all about my written test, Tech, MR and finally miserable HR
interview experiences at TCS. In every round your confidence level and
communication are important for success, be cool comfortable &
confident

TCS PAPER ON 25th NOVEMBER AT HYDERABAD

HI FRIENDS.
THIS IS ANIL..I ATTENDED TCS INTERVIEW ON 25
VERY HAPPY TO SAY THAT I GOT PLACED IN TCS..

TH

NOVEMBER.I AM

My interview is of three rounds

1.technical
2.managerial
3.hr
technical:
my technical round lasted for 30 mins..for my panel it was around the same

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time for everybody..but there are some panels where the interview lasted
for abt two hours also..
inter: good morning anil..how .
me: good morning sir..how .
inter: ok anil tell me abt urself.
me: (i prepaed for this question very much..i explained for abt 5mins.i killed
some time here..)
inter: ok anil tell me abt project

me: (friend please be confident abt project..please know everything abt

project..you must be able to answer every question asked abt the project..be
particular what u have done in the project.) explained for five minutes..he
was satisfied with my explanation

(from now all the technical questions started).

C & ds:

explainabt pointers
what is an array

what is an structure

diff.. b/w array and structure

diff.. b/w structure and
command line arguments
files

program to find all the primes which are les than 100
what is an linked list

difference b/w structure and linked list

doubled linked list

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routine for inserting node

different types of sortings

ifferent types of searchinh methods

c++:
oops concepts

acces specifiers
inhertance and its use

polymorphism and its use

abstraction and its use

diff. b/w over loading and over riding

DBMs:
i said my favourite subject is dbms.. so he concentrated more on this
what is a dbms
what is a primary key
dif.. b/w primary and foreign key
trigger
stored procedures
dml and ddl commands
joins

asked some querieS

he asked some questions in operating systems and some questions in

computer networks(osi reference model.tcp/ip model and all)
i answerd almost all the question..if i didnt remember anything i said i
am unable to recollect ,and in some other forms but not in the same
waybut never say sorry its imporatant
i completed my interview and i was asked to wait outside..after 15 mins a
person came and called my name ..i am very much excited because i was
the first who cleared technical round that day..before me, abt 25 people,

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they sent them back..he gave me a form and asked me to attend the Mr
And HR rounds on 27th..

MR ROUND :
HE ASKED ME ABT PROJECT.. AND AGAIN ALL THE BASIC
QUESTIONS CONCERNED TO ALL AREASI THINK HERE I EXCELLED
VERY MUCH..DURING THE INTERVIEW ITSELF I FELT I WILL
DEFINITELY CLEAR THIS ROUND..BUT FRIENDS ALWAYS BE
CONFIDENT AND SHOW THAT CONFIDENCE ON FACE..BODY
LANGUAGE WILL ALSO BE SEEN HERE..BE CONFIDENT..BUT dont
TAKE MR ROUND CASUALLY..THEY ELIMINATED HERE ALSO.hr
ROUND:
IN TCS HR IS ALSO AN ELIMINATION ROUND.BE CAREFUL..MY
PANEL CONSISTS OD ALADY.SHE WAS VERY COOL..

inter:TELL ME ABT URSELF

me: BLAH BLAH
inter:SAY SOMETHING WHICH WAS NOT THERE IN RESUME
me: I SAID ABT MY EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES WHICH I didnt
MENTIONED IN MY RESUME
inter:HOW WAS IS UR MR ROUND
me: FINE MADAME
inter:WHAT HAPPENED IN UR MR ROUND
me: SIR ASKED ME ABT MY PROJECT
inter:ARE U CONFIDENT ON PROJECT
me: YES(CONFIDENTLY I SAID THIS WITH A LOUD VOICE)
inter:OHH GOOD ANIL..OK HAVE U SUBMITTED ANY PAPERS

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me: YES MAM..I PRESENTED PAPERS ON DATA MINING AND WEB

SPOOFING
inter:WHAT IS MEANT MY DATA MINING

me: (ANSWERED THIS)

inter:WHAT DO U EXPECT FROM TCS
me: AS A FRESHER MAM I NEED GOOD TRAINING WHICH HELPS ME TO
GROW GRADUALLY AND HELP FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MY
COMPANY..AND A VERY GOOD WORKING ENVIRONMENT..
inter:STRENGTHS
me: I AM VERY GOOD TEAM PLAYER AND I HAVE A VERY NICE
CONVINCING ABILITY..MOREOVER I AM VERY WELL DETERMINED TO
TAKE ANY CHALLENGING TASK..I AM SINCIRE AND PUNCTUAL
inter: WHY SHOULD I HIRE U
me: AS I SAID EARLER MAM WHAT MY STRENGTHS WILL DEFINITELY
BE A BIG ASSET FOR ME..
INTER:WHY DID U FEEL U R A GOOD TEAM PLAYER..CAN U EXPLAIN
ANY INCIDENT
ME: (HERE I SAID ABT MY PROJECT EXPERIENCE)
INTER:ARE RELOCATABLE
ME: YES
(SHE ASKED ME SOME MORE QUESTIONS LIKE THIS..I ANSWERED
THEM ALL WITH A OF CONFIDENCE)
SHE ASKED ME FINALLY DO U HAVE ANY QUESTIONS TO ASK..I ASKED
HER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
WHAT ARE THE PLANS THAT WERE TAKEN TO BE IN
THE TOP 10 IN THE WORLD BY 2010?
WHAT ARE THE TECNOLOGIES IN WHICH WE

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TCS PAPER ON 7th NOVEMBER AT CHENNAI

Hai friends,
The general placement procedure of TCS is:
1. Aptitude Test
2. Technical Interview
3. HR
APTITUDE ROUND (Online Test)
I was asked to appear for the TCS Recruitment process for the first
round. I was sent a username and password and asked to log on to the
website and fill in a few more details and then generate a Hall Ticket
(PDF) format. I took 2 prints of the hall ticket and 2 copies of my
resume along with me. A photo identification proof is also required
(Driving License / Voters ID / College ID card / Passport etc)

The Aptitude Test was conducted at SRS College of Multimedia,

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Avadi, Chennai on 12
October. No. of students appeared: Almost 18,000
Since the test was an online test I might not be able to remember some of
the questions.. but heres what I can recall. The section actually consisted of
three sections namely

1) Verbal Section. (20 minutes)

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10 synonyms
10 antonyms
6 fill in blanks
6 reading comprehension
Prepare GRE words as much as possible. But dont waste lot of time
going through this section. Prepare a high frequency GRE Barrons word
thats enough.
2) Aptitude (40 minutes)
38 questions
In this section almost all the questions were from previous year papers. So
for aptitude just practice previous year papers. That alone is enough. Be
thorough with all the aptitude questions and especially the method of doing.
Make sure that u get 35 questions correct out of the 38 questions.
3) Analytical & Critical Reasoning. (30 minutes)
3 passages
This section was exactly from GRE Barrons (12th edition). The questions
order was also not changed. So MUG it up.
4) No Psychometric Test.
Try to get 85% in aptitude, 20% in Verbal and 20% in Analytical &
Critical Reasoning and then u can be confident that you will get short
listed in the first round.

TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
No. of students short listed for Technical Interview: 2937 The Technical
Interview was conducted at St.Joseph College of Engineering, Chennai on

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31 October. Getting short listed in the Technical Interview is quite an

uphill task. If u doesnt know the answers for his questions jus be frank to
tell him that u dont know. Dont try to make up with the answer that
will create a bad impression on you. Before attending the technical round
prepare well about what you have mentioned in your resume.
Also prepare well the basics of C, OOPs Concepts, Data Structures, Core
Java, CPU Scheduling and Memory Management, S/W Engg., RDBMS Basics,
OSI Ref. Model.
If they ask you to write a program dont say u dont know, try writing it and
dont worry about syntax and minor mistakes as dont expect 100% perfection
from us. There were 20 panel of H.R for the technical interview. Majority of
the panel has 2 H.R and remaining has 1. I was send to a panel with single
H.R. These are the questions the interviewer asked me and my answers and
it went around 35min.

1. Market Yourself?
2. Tell me abt your project and the role u played?
Ans: I told him abt my project in detail. As my project was on ATM
n/w he asked me some questions in that and also abt TCP/IP.
3. What is polymorphism? Give examples?
Ans: A OOPs Concept. Its the ability to take more than one form. I
told him abt Method Overloading and Method Overriding.

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4. What are constructor and destructor?

Ans: Constructors are member function with same name as that of
the class and are invoked automatically when an object is created.
Destructors are used to deallocate the resources allocated by the
object.
5. Write a program for Operator Overloading and factorial?
6. So u know Java? Write a program to swap two no. is java without
using temp. Variable?
Ans: When I was trying to write this program he asked me the logic
and proceeded to the next question
7. Do u know SDLC?
Ans: Ya. Software System Development Life Cycle
8. Explain me the phases in detail?
Ans: I told him abt the Requirement, Analysis & Design, Program,
Testing, Operation & Maintenance Phases. As I have mentioned S/W
Testing as my Elective subject he asked me what are the testing
methodologies to be considered before starting a Testing Process and
I told him the 8 testing methodologies.
9. What is CPU Scheduling? Types
Ans: Its used to increase the CPU utilization. Types are preemptive
scheduling and non-preemptive scheduling.

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10. Do u know abt Data structures?

Ans: Yes. (Even though I didnt mention anything abt data structures
in my resume he asked questions from that)

11. What is a Data Structures? Types

Ans: Way to organize data. Linear Data Structure consists of Arrays,
Linked Lists, Stack and Queue. Non- Linear Data Structure consisted
of Tree, Graph and Set.
12. What is diff between Array and Linked list?
Ans: Both are Linear Data Structures. Array is used to store
homogeneous data elements and memory is statically allocated. Linked
list contains no. of nodes each node contains the element and address
of next node and memory is dynamically allocated and so no wastage of
memory.
13. Explain abt Stack and Queue?
Ans: Stack is an ordered collection of data elements and where
insertion and deletion operation takes place in top of stack and it
Follows LIFO methodology. Insertion operation is called PUSH and
deletion is called POP. In Queue insertion takes in back end and
Deletion operation takes place in front end, it follows FIFO
methodology. Insertion operation is called QSTORE and deletion is
called QDELETE.
14. Write a program for POP operation in Stack?

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Ans: I told him it will take some time as the program is long and
asked him, I ll write the pseudo code is it enough ,sir(Actually I dont
know to write a program but I know the logic and algorithm).He said
ok and I wrote the algorithm.
15. Why is sorting used?
Ans: Process of arranging a set of elements in increasing or
decreasing order.
16. Explain some Sorting methods?
Ans: I explained the logic of selection, insertion and bubble sorting.
The result of this technical interview was announced in 1hr and the HR
interview was rescheduled to another day due to lack of time.

HR INTERVIEW
No. of students short listed for HR Interview: 1256
The HR Interview was conducted at St.Joseph College of Engineering,
Chennai on 7th November. We generally tend to take the HR round less
seriously, but beware friendsIts not any rule that they wont ask u
technical questions here. He was knowledgeable and friendly- but u r
subjected to lots of pressure during the whole interview. So be prepared to
handle REAL pressure. U can be subjected to pressure thru small gestures &
even a nod of head can make u pretty nervous at such times When I say
REALPRESSURE, I mean it. (My tip to everyone: Friends, Be thoroughly
prepared. Its not easy at all. But most importantly be EXTREMELY
confident, composed & have a smiling face almost always.).They are mainly
looking for good presence of mind
These are from my personal experience, besides ask the interviewer as many

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questions as u can. Show the interviewer u r dying 2 get in his organization.

1. What is your father doing?
2. Mention some point abt yourself not written in your bio-data?
3. Tell me about the school you studied?

4. Tell me about your project?

5. What is difference between C++ and Java?
Ans: Java is platform independent.
6. Why cant you try job in Technopark? (as my native place was in kerala)
Ans: I tried some companies there but they are encouraging only kerala
based Candidates, those who have finished degree there.
Have u applied to any companies earlier? Why u were rejected?
Ans: Yes. Yes. They've not given me any proper feedback on why I
was rejected. So I don't know. Maybe there were better candidates
than me.
8. Where r u staying here?
9. Do you know what Quality management is?
Ans: Its the management approach of an organization with the
participation of all members of that organization to achieve long term
success through customer satisfaction.
10. Tell some Quality systems?
Ans: I told him abt the ISO: 9001:2000 and ISO: 14000.
11. What are quality awards given to an S/W Company other than
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Ans: Its ISO 9001:2000.Then he asked me other than that, when I

was thinking he asked me have u heard of CMM. Ya, Capability
Maturity Model for Software is to identify best practices useful in
helping them increase the maturity of their processes.
12. Will u switch over to any other company after joining TCS? If NO
then why?
Ans: I don't think so. As a rule, if I join a company, I'll stick with it
for long term. I think that switching companies often is not good for
my career.
13. In what situations would you leave a company?
Ans: When I see lack of growth and career advancement opportunities.
14. Do u have any question?
Ans: I asked him what you think of me, How was my performance? He
told me that Iwill know the result of my performance in 15 days (as
the result will be published in15 days) and also he told he cant judge
me as he has not asked me technical side andI replied to him the hr
who interviewed me during the technical interview went through almost
all the subjects and if you want sir u can very well ask me
technicalquestions and am ready to answer. For this he told me he
likes my confidence.
15. How can I improve myself? For this he told me to read a lot of
books ifdont have a habit of reading frequently.

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TCS PAPER ON 15th OCTOBER AT HYDERABAD

Hello friends
I got placed in TCS after putting in lottsss of hard work and effort n I
would like to share my experience with al of u so that it will b useful 4 u in
your preparation.
I attended the tcs off-campus in the month of october. I cleared the
written test

To clear the written test just go through

1.Gre Barrons(for verbal part)
2.Previous Papers(for aptitude part)
3.GRE Barrons 12th edition (for reasoning part)

Verbal part:
My verbal part consisted of synonymns,antonyms,sentence completion and
reading comprehension
Synonyms and antonyms:
For this part go through Barrons complete wordlist(preferable) or u can go
for the wordlist tests which r given at the end of each wordlist.
Note: Read the instructions properly.Dont get confused with synonyms and

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antonyms. Many people lose marks in this by marking synonyms for antonyms
and vice-versa. Dats why im asking u to be careful.
Sentence completion:
Im sorry i dont know any particular book frm where itis given but im sure
dats very easy u can easily get them correct.

Reading Comprehension:
This section is time taking.So does it at the end. For me only 1 passage was
given 5 times for al the 5 questions dont get confused and dont waste ur
time reading the same passage every time .I think this is given to test the
alertness and sharpness of the candidate. Im not sure whether u wil get only
frm this but it realy helps u increase speed n doing it fast . As we al know
time plays a very important role in clearing the test.
Note:For RC its better if u go through Barrons RC part
Aptitude:
Coming to aptitude part ,its enough if u go through the previous question
papers frm freshers world.
Reasoning:

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Coming 2 reasoning just go through GRE Barrons 12
edition exclusively the
5 model tests. Dats enough 2 clear this section. My written test results were
announced by the end of october n I cleared the test.
Note:This is the stage where most of the candidates get filtered so prepare
wel n be cool .

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Interview Experience
My interview was scheduled in the month of November. I had 3 interviews.
1. Technical
2.Managerial (MR)
3.HR
My technical interview was scheduled in the evening. I was asked the
following questions.
1. Tell me abt urself
Note:This is the time where u need to come up with strengths and
achievements apart 4m educational qualifications and other technical skills.

2. what r favourite subjects(they wil ask most of d questions from fav

subject)
(As I said my fav sub 2 b java most of d questions were posed frm java)
3.Why is java unique?
4. What makes java different 4m other programming languages?
5. What r the differences between C and Java?
6. What is the concept of paging?
7. Why do we use the concept of swapping although it imposes overhead ?
8. Say one real time example for polymorphism
9.What r the types of algorithms used in operating systems?
(As i kept unix,dbms in my cv ,I was asked on these subjects.So plz b gud at
the subjects which u mention in ur resume especially d subject which u say as
ur fav subject)
10.what is d command dat is used to check the IP address in the command

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prompt?

11. He gave me 2 tables and asked to join dem using a query with som
conditions
12.Draw the internal structure of UNIX operating system

My tech interview lasted for nearly half-an-hour and I had to wait 4 the
results for around 20 minutes.In dat mood full of tension 5 minutes seem 2
be 5 hours. My results were announced n i cleared the tech round .I was
asked to come 4 MR and HR
Managerial Round:
On my day of MR I had to wait for nearly two-and-half hours bfore I was
called 4 my interview.It lasted 4 nearly 20 minutes. In MR they mainly
check body language,confidence level, problem solving ability
I was asked technical questions in my MR also. So MR was also elimination
round 4 us .So to get my result I had to wait 4 two hours
With full of tension. My results were announced and I was called for HR .
My HR lasted for nearly 15 minutes and I was asked to explain my project in
HR.
Tell me about urself . I was asked about current affairs as I said im good at
current affairs. I was told about the relocation and medical check up My
results were recently announced and I am very happy to say that I got

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placed in one of the best IT companies in .

smile costs u nothing but fetches u a lot.

HARDWORK+CONFIDENCE = SUCCESS
I would like to thank fresher world for maintaining such a helpful site n

Especially those who take time 2 contribute papers with the intention dat
they might b useful 2 others. Really friends the papers that are posted by
our friends do play a very important n a useful role in getting thro the
selection process. Great job friends
Hi.with the name of GOD here I m Nizam writing these words which may
help you more and give confidence to clear the TCS interview.
First of all make urself clear that u r quite confident that u r going to enter
into TCS when u feel that u r real hard worker.
Online Aptitude test, Direct Technical Interview & Finally MR(Management
round)Dont confuse between MR and HR both r same

The pattern will be as usual u r expecting

Section
Section
Section
Section

1)
2)
3)
3)

Verbal
Quantitative
Critical Reasoning
Critical Reasoning

I got the questions only from theseSo follow this and also if u try to solve

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by ur own it really consumes time more so practice wel here

TCS PAPER ON 10th OCTOBER AT CHENNAI

Synonyms & Antonyms

Here I felt little difficult at this section as basically am poor in

vocabulary..If u have very strong school background its enoughI think so
any how i struggled my best for this section by reading thru same GRE Here
the antonyms may be easy but the synonym only little difficult.
And also u dont expect the High frequency words only wil come they r
changing ther questions frequently only at this sectionSo u cant expect from
previous paper alone but chances are also ther to comSo note this idea
According to me u go thru.
Wordlists that starts with letter

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A,B,C,D,E,F,I,P,S,T,V(Definitely u will get 80% from this if u r thorow)

Dont confuse between synonyms and antonyms differentiate and study so it
may helpful for both.

Sentence Completion
Here I felt easy and I filled correctlyU should not require any high
preparation for this with presence of mind u can solve Read the para by
giving contiguity and analyse the meaning so automatically ur mind feel which
option suits best and make itIf u cant then u dont waste ur time more
herejus mark as u feel.and go They r giving paragraph of certain general
issuea like women rightspolitics like that so it wil be easy only.

Reading Comprehension
Atlast after doing the best leave the left to the almighty definitely u l get
shortlistedYa ofcourse I accept the word Hardwork never fails..As
I had written online test the results r displayed on the screen as soon as I
completed my whole test Really I m happy when I got Congratulations! U
cleared first round in the monitor

Technical Interview
Try to answer more for each question threw over uSo he may satisfy that
realy u hav good technical abilityYaOf course what r al the things abov I
described I had done those.
The tech interview is nominally taks 20-30 minsBut for me he asked for
40mins the reason was we talked some story abt my family peoples,etc
When I finished my interview 100% I m satisfied that I wil b shorlisted for
MR Yes, definitely while u r attending u also feel the same if u r satisfied

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urself def u wil get thru Now here I admit wat r al the quest I got.
Interviewer was a gent with some 35 yrs age I think so
1)Conference starts as usual with common quest like introduce urselfand I
introduced myself in a good mannerwhich I already practicedso u better
practice for expected quest
2)Then he asked my project description

YaI described all my projects clear and in brief manner(and also dont
describe in storydont go in depth of the project alsoif u tel story def it
wil mak them running out of time so they cant put further quest to uand ur
credit wil fall)
3)Then, he asked my programming skills.
I told C and C++.. I know java also but I didnt said it bcos I m not very
much proficient in that and also currently java is in peak they may be
experts in java so we cant tackle all questions

4)After that he asked me rate myself in C

I rated 5 out of 10 then
5) He asked me to put a simple swapping program without temp variable
It is easy
Jus this following stmts
a=a+b
b=a-b
a=a-b
And at the same time this works only for integer range -32767 to 32767
if they ask lik this to swap 50,000 and 60,000..then u just use ^ operator in
the places of + operator it works for all range of values

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6) He asked me to speak out on the data types in C?
Here I explained him all the data types and storage classes of C
7) Then he asked me how much familiar in JAVA?
I told 3 out of 10..the reason is even thou u know java very wel b cool an
gredit less urself bcos wat we studied is academic levelWer as they r
currently ding projects in java so they may b very experts in javaSo they
may ask som critical ques..So better note thisIf u really feel tat u can ans
from anycorner in java then no prblm carry on.

8) He asked y u credited less in Java?

Then I told the reason tat in a single sem we cant cover full java so only hav
basic ideasso he didnt asked any quest..

9) then he asked me to tel d area of Interest in subject?

I told DBMS and datawarehousing
Then he asked me to speak abt DBMSI started from basic introduction wat
is DBMS and wat for it contributes then al types of relationsand al types
of keys which we use to relate the relationsFollow silberscartz if u say
DBMS as ur area of interestthen told abt datawarehousing and datamining
and etc..in a brief manner

10)Atlast the casual and cool quest he askedHow abt TCS and wat u know
abt TCS?
For this ques u better go thru current affairs and news of TCS in ther
website def u get idea plsss dont be very theoretical b very casual in
answering every ques dont ans as if u r muck uped even thou if u muckuped
dont mak him feel tat u r muckuping an ans bcos som peoples use to do lik

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this.

Note one thing answer every quest dont omit as much as u canExplain
every ans short and interactively which readily gives meaninginstead of lik
paper chewing cow

MR Interview
U dont worry abt this round only if u done tech interview pretty wel
th
For me this round was held on nov 7
after 15days of my tech interview
In the Panel.
Here the interviewer was a gigantic and well personality and confidential
person.In beginning am little nervous but after 5mins of our conference I
felt very friendly and coolSo the only thing is u always dont show ur nrvous
even if u r nervous jus stay cool with charming face an ans boldly with little
smile for every quest
He watched my profile for few mins then started raising quest he started
with as usual introduce urself nizam?
I explained abt my edu,family and wat I hav and wat I want to be?
Then he asked me wer u stay?answered
Then he asked will u com from far to here daily if u got job here?answered
Everything cool questso dont worry
Then he asked abt my elder brother profession and my younger brother?

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And asked abt my parents wether they depend on me..?

Then he came slightly tech side..?
Asked me which area am interested..?
For this I told Datawarehousing and Business Intelligence sol
Then he asked the reason?
I explained the reason in a brief manner that BI and datawarehousing was
eternal always and stay with consistent demand wer as the chances of getting
demand in less for other application proj.. wer as this domain stands for
every wer globally every corporate maintain ther own history data and
recordsand som other reasonswhich made good view to interviewer he
appreciated my ans

Then he asked my long term plan?

Ya I told I want to be an entrepreneur of my own IT... he wished me good
and all the best for thisbut for som managers this ans may not be right I
think.If u prepare better ans then say that..But actually its my true aim to
open an own IT in future so I said.
Then he asked me wat r al u researched for IT..?
For this I escaped by saying tat as we r rushing in every sem wit vast
subjects ther is no time for my own projects But even thou I done 2 smal
projects I explained tat to him..Then he was quite calm
Then asked wat type of projects wil u do in IT?
I told first I try to launh a project which makes an identity of my IT to the
whole world He stayed cool on my ans with little smile

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then he wished advancely for my futureand finished my interviewer..

Note a thing as soon as u enter into the Panel room be cool and confident

dont hesitate for anything wat ur heart says do it then as soon as meeting
HR shake ur hands with gentle smile if u r a girl then jus say good morning
sir with little smile
Atlast my result came after a month in December I got selected totally we
all 946 shortlisted wer as som nearly 1000members cleared tech interview
only very few eliminated in MR round So dont worry all things in u Don
worry abt percentage marks its al depends on ur ability an ur level of
confidence in interview so dont loss hope stay cool and fetch ur job No one
can get the job if the job is urs..

TCS PLACEMENT PAPER ON 9th OCTOBER 2006 AT CHENNAI

Hi Friends,
I attended test today. Cleared written & waiting for the interview.
Questions r easy & its a repeated. They conducted an online test
Verbal (30 questions in 20 minutes)
As usual 10 synonyms, 10 antonyms, 5 sentence completion, a reading
comphrension.
i) For synonyms & antonyms refer GRE Barrons any edition. But 12
edition is more preferable.

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ii) Sentence Completion was so tough.

Reading comprehension was easy.

Aptitude(38 questions in 40 Minutes)

More questions were repeated from previous papers. Some of my questions
are

1) Faces, edges & vertices of a cube. Ans : 6,8,12

2) A, B, C are machines some percentage given x%, y%, z%. Find the total
fuel economy.
Methodology
to
be
followed
:
((100-x/100)*(100-y/100)*(100z/100))*100
The resultant should be subtracted by 100
3) In the word prepositional if the first and second, third and fourth, fourth
and fifth, fifth and sixth words are interchanged up to the last letter, what
would be the twelfth letter from right????
Which shape will be obtained by using the values X,Y
XY
00.00001
101.02
100 1.72
1000 3.00
99994.72
Ans: Y= log10(X)
5) Find the value of M(363, 5)+R

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(3.4)+T(7.8)-R(3.8) where M is modulus, R is round-off, T is truncate.

Ans: 9
Which of the following are orthogonal pairs a) 2x+3y=6 b) 2x+5y=0 c)
2y=3x+6 d) 7x+y=4
What is the power of 3? I couldnt able to remind choices

8) b g b d q m b g d m g b g g b q m b g q b g d g b a m g b g m(This is a
just a sample)
how many Bs followed by Gs but not D. I got the ans for the given question
is 4
9) Select odd one out UNIX, Windows NT, MVS, SQL
Ans: SQL
10) Ram 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?

Ans: 13 hours
11) The number (some nos) in decimal system is given by (some nos) x in the
X System of numbers find the value of X
a) 5 b) 6 c) 7 d) 8 e) 9
A series which is easy.

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13)A temperature problem

14)Match the following:
i) Male Boy a superset of
ii) Banda Bear a type of
iii)Mushroom Vegetable not a type of

15) Student get 3 and 3.5 in their class exam And 1.2 and 1.45 in final
exam respectively.
What might be the class marks of 3rd student who have got 0 marks in final
exam?
1. 0.3 2. 0.53. 0.25 4. 0.1
ans: 0.25 Approach: take the diff and find out
16)A Bit problem to find A-(B Intersection C)
17) What is the unit of the following? (power*time) / (velocity*velocity)
1.mass 2.distance 3.velocity 4.speed
Ans: mass Approach: power=work/time
hence numerator=(work*time)/time=work
work=Force*distance
Force=mass*acceleration
accelaration=distance/time^2
now numerator is (mass*distance^2) / (time^2)
denominator is (distance^2) / (time^2) since
velocity=distance/time

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18) Which of the following does not form triangle?

Hint : Add two sides & sum of the two sides must be greater than the 3
side

rd

19) Which of the following is Singular Matix?

Hint: Det of matrix=0
20) The size of the bucket is N kb. The bucket fills at the rate of 0.1 kb
per millisecond.
A programmer sends a program to receiver. There it waits for 10
milliseconds / and
response will be back to programmer in 20 millisecond Some error has
happened while sending. How many much time the program (But this question
in a different way)

21) A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 900 mtr width. a cable
is made from power
unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river and 3000 mtr away from
the power unit.
The cost of the cable bellows water Rs5 / mtr and cost of cable on the bank
is Rs 4/ mtr.
Find the pt where the cable cut through the river.
1.2800 2. 3000 3. 21004.3900
Ans: 2100

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22)Given g(0)=1, g(1)=-1 and g(n)=g(n-1)+g(n-2), find g(6).

23)In two dimensional array X(7,9) each element occupies 8 bytes of

memory. If the address of first element X(1,1)is (some nos) then
what will be the address of the element X(5,8)?

24) The program size is N. The memory occupied by the program is

M=4000sqrt(N),
If the program size is increased by 1%. Then what is the percentage
increase in memory?
1. 0.1% 2.0.4% 3.0.5% 4.2%
Ans: 0.5% Approach: Sqrt of 101

25) What is the largest Prime Number that can be stored in 8-bit memory?
Ans:251
26)Which of the following highest Standard deviation
a) , - 1, 1,-1, 1,-1 b) 1, 1, 1,1,1,1 c) -1, - 1, -1,-1,-1,-1 d) -1,
1, -1, 1,-1, 1 Ans: d)
27)Find value ##+5-++# 5 ,0 where # denotes double and + denotes
Change of sign(This is not the question. This is a model)
28) An aero plane problem.
other questions I couldnt recollect
Last six questions were based on DI
33- 35 A Venn Diagram was given. Based on that v hav to answer. It has
Java, COBOL & C Programmers
35-38 a Bar Chart question. It is very easy.

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Critical Reasoning:
th
Go through all the Model Tests of GRE 12
edition. They are asking from
that only.
I got
i) F is arranging 11 women. They speak French, German, Russian etc.

ii) Refer it in GRE.

ii)A question from Model Test paper only
iii) Also the same
Tips:

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a) For verbal & reasoning refer GRE 12
edition is more preferable
b For apps see only previous question papers. For safer side go thru R.S.
Agarwal
c) Reasoning work out all those Model Test papers frm GRE Book.
d) They are not even changing the order for reasoning. So mug up the
answerz.
e)If atleast one reasoning problem is correct, u will surely shortlisted
f)Note down there is no sectional cut off

TCS PLACEMENT PAPER ON 7th OCTOBER 2006 AT HYDRABAD

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Hi Everyone! . Ive completed my MCA. I've taken my TCS Test on 07
October 2006 at Kohinoor Park, Hyderabad. Its a large recruitment drive.
Im eagerly waiting for results now and confident of making it into TCS in my
first attempt for job itself.
I got SET Y. Almost all the quantitative questions of this set are
same as of previous papers. Only values got changed. Any how here I'm
giving you all of those questions which I got in my paper.

Test Pattern:
As usual, totally three sections
1. Verbal (32 marks Synonyms-10, Antonyms-10, Sentence Completion-6,
Comprehension passage-6)
2. Quantitative and logical reasoning (38 marks)
3. Critical Reasoning (12 marks) (3 problems each having 4 questions)
Totally 82 questions and 90 minutes is the time limit. (Almost 1 min per
question)
Section-1: Verbal
Synonyms: Some are from Barrons high frequency words list
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Antonyms: GRE Barrons 13 edition Model papers (given as it is)
Sentence Completion: A passage has been given with 6 blanks in it. 9 choices
have been given. Weve to fill that passage with appropriate 6 options.
Beware that 3 options were given additionally. Dont get confuse here.

Comprehension passage: Barrons 15

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edition Comprehension passage exercise

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C. page no: 98. (Like her white friends, Eleanor Roosevelt and Aubre
Williams, Mary Bethune believed in the fundamental commitment

of the new deal..). My friends said that the same passage

has been given in SET Z also.

Section-2: Quantitative and Logical Reasoning

1. Complete the series 26, 19, 17, 13, 11,--, 8, 7 (Ans: 10- not sure)
2. Convert the decimal number 562 into base 7. (Ans: 1432)

3. If QJFBTF is coded as PLEASE then HBJO can be coded as -------(Ans: GAIN)

4. a) SQL Server b) Ingress c) Oracle d) DB2 e) JAVA

5. a) SMTP b ARP c)WAP d)HTTP e)BAAN
6. Which of the following is exact power of 4

a) 4192 b) 4096 c) d) e

7. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in a 6 bit

register. Ans: 61

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8. Which will give good standard deviation?
a). 4,0,-4,0,44,-4,4,-4,4 c) 4,4,4,4,4
9. Which shape will be obtained by using the following values for X and Y
X 0 10 100 1000 9999
Y 0.00001 1.02 1.72 3.00 4.72

10. What are the number of edges, number of vertices and number of
faces of a planar cube among the following options?

a) 6, 6, 6 b) 4,8,12 c) 12, 8, 6 d) .. e)..

11. What is the value of the following expression M(373,5)+T(7.7)+R(4.4)T(3.6)
where M- MODULAS R- ROUNDOFF T- TRUNCATE (Ans: 11)
12. What is the value of the expression % # % (6) + # % # (6)
Where % means DOUBLING and # means RECIPROCAL (Ans: 19/6)
13. Match the following
A B
1. GEAR, VEHICLE 1. TYPE OF
2. BASMATI, WHEAT 2. A PART OF
3. BROTHER, SISTER 3. NOT A TYPE OF
4. BREIGAL, DOG 4. SIBLING
ANS: 1-> 2 2->1 3->4 4->3
14. If G(0) = -1 G(1)= 1 and G(N)=G(N-1) - G(N-2) then what is the value
of G(6)?

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(Ans: -3)
15. If A= 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
B= 0 0 11 0 0 1 1
C= 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

Then find the value of [A U C] U B and express it in decimal.

(Ans:

151)

16. Three companies are working independently and receiving the savings
20%, 30%, 40%. If the companies work combinely, what will be their
net savings?

17. Which of the following straight lines are perpendicular to each other?
1)2x+y=8 2)x=4 3)y=6 4)2y=x+3
a)1, 3 b)2, 3 c)1, 4 d)3, 4 e)None
(Solution: Write the equations in x+y+c=0 form. Multiply the coefficients of
x terms and coefficients of y terms of any two given equations and add
them. If the result is zero, then those two lines are
perpendicular. Here in this problem, those two equations are 1 and 4)

18. In Madras, temperature at noon varies according to t^2/2 + 4t + 12

(Read is as: t square /2 + 4t +12), where t is elapsed time. Find how
much percentage of temperature is increased (or decreased) between
5pm and 8pm.
19. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is
given by
M = square root of 100N. If the size of the program is increased by 1%
then how much more memory is required now?
a) 1.0% b)2.6% c)0.5% d)1.4% e)2.7%

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20. A power unit is there by the bank of a river of 900 meters. A cable is
made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river of
2000mts. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 5/- per meter and
cost of cable on the bank is Rs. 4/- per meter. Then find out the
amount to be invested to connect those two stations.

21. A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers
in 10 hours. Then how many hours required for B to copy 26 papers?
(Ans: 13)
22. A sequence of letters is given. Weve to find out how many Vs are there
under the condition that, S should be followed by V and should not be
followed by F
V,S,F,T,W,E,L,B,V,S,L,L,K,S,M,S,V,F,L,S,D,I, Like that.
(I got 4 as answer)
23.
In a two-dimensional array, X (7, 9), with each element
occupying 8 bytes of memory, with the address of the first element X
(1, 1)=3000; find the starting address of the element at X (5,8).

24. In the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first and second, third and
forth, fifth and sixth, etc words are interchanged, what would be the
12th letter from right? (Ans: A)

25. A Flight takes off at 4 A.M from North-East direction and travels for
7 hours to reach the destination in the North-West direction. Some
latitude and longitude of source and destination given. Find the local
arrival time of destination? (I dont know how to find it)

26. Four 2X2 matrices were given. Weve to find out which of them is a
singular matrix? (Hint: try for which matrix det(A) becomes zero (ad-

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bc).

27. (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance)

a) Newton b) Mass c) Force d)..e).

28. Based on a Venn diagram. 3 problems were given. All are so easy. No
need to worry.
29.
30.
31. A bar chart was been given. Two questions based on this. Easy ones.
Dont fear.

Section-3: Critical Reasoning

Questions 1 to 4: Small University and Large University problem of GRE
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Barrons 13 edition. This can be found in the model papers.
Three persons J.K,L belongs to Small University with some subjects
like English, Mathematics and Electronics assigned to them. M,N,O and P
belongs to small university and M deals Maths, N deals Psychology. O and P
have been assigned Latin. Then four questions based on this data. Its so
easy. (Not same data, but names of persons are same and pattern is also
same).
Even no need to do any arrangements with the given data to solve
problems based on this. We need to just write down the given data in a

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conventional form. Thats all. We can answer the questions very easily.

Questions 5 to 8: A group of 5 people A, B, C, D, E are there.

A knows Telugu and Hindi.
B knows Oriya and Malalayalam
C knows Telugu and Malayalam
D knows English and Oriya.
E, who is a native of Andhra Pradesh, also can speak Oriya.
(Not same assignments, but pattern is same)
Q1. If A and B need to communicate, whose help they should take. (Ans: C,
Since C know one language of A and another language of B.. like this)
Q2. Among all of these languages, what are the languages that are known to
many people? (Ans: Telugu-3 and Oriya-3)
The questions are like that. Even there is no need to do any
arrangements are also. So, no need to worry about this section also.
Questions 9 to 12: Sorry. Third passage I didnt remember it. Even I didnt
get time to see it. But it seems to be some what difficult. I didnt have time
to answer this question, so I left it.
Also I want to share a few more details with all of you regarding the
TCS test. I thought of it to be online test. But because it was a large
recruitment drive, they are not capable of conducting online test for that
many numbers of aspirants. It was manual test.
And coming to the test, for verbal section, GRE Barrons of any edition is

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enough. And for Critical Reasoning, Barrons 12
or 13 is enough. Then
finally, for Quantitative section, the same problems will be given with only
changes to the data.

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These problems can be solved by even a 7 class student also. But the thing
here is the Time Factor. How fast we are able to do them is the thing here.
The same problems can be given every time. So dont neglect to solve each
and every problem of previous papers, if you want to crack TCS test. After
that, try to improve the speed ving the problems
If you do so, Im sure that youll be half way into TCS, one of the top IT
firm in the world.

TCS SAMPLE PAPER

Hi Friends,
There are some problems where the numbers are also same. I added some
words and rest all are same.
No. of Students Appeared : 530

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No.of Students Shortlisted from written : 156

No.of Students Shortlisted from Technical : 87

Final List after HR : 68
Section 1
Barron is the best book to follow.
Read the most frequently used words and also the excercises at the end of
every test.

1. WHIMSICAL
2. CENSURE.
3. OPTIMUM.
4. MISAPPREHENSION.
5. CANDID.
6. TORSE.
7. CITE.
8. EFFUSIVE.
9. IRRADIATE.
10.

TENACIOUS.

11.

VOLUBLE.

12.

BANAL.

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RUPTURE.

14.

STANDING.

15.

NASCENT.

16.

TRANSIENT.

17.

CLUTCH.

18.

GENERIC.

19.

EMPIRICAL.

20.

ANOMALY.

21.

CIRCUITOUS.

22.

HAMPER.

23.

SURVEILLANCE.

24.

OBJECTIVE.

25.

RAUCOUS.

26.

VORACIOUS.

27.

PEDIGREE.

28.

FIDELITY.

29.

AUGMENT.

30.

PRECARIOUS.

31.

TRANSIENT.

32.

ALACRITY.

33.

DEROGATORY.

34.

ONUS.

35.

ANALOGUE.

36.

EXPEDIENT.

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ANALOGOUS.

38.

ASSUAGE.

39.

COMPLIANCE.

40.

IRRADIATE.

41.

DIFFIDANT.

42.

PLAINTIVE.

43.

INCINUATE.

44.

MISDEMEANOR.

45.

EXONERATE.

46.

GREGARIOUS.

47.

ANATHEMATIZE.

48.

BENIGN.

49.

ATTENUATE.

50.

SONOROUS

51.

BOLSTER.

52.

DIVERGENT.

53.

DECOLLATE

54.

HETERODOX

55.

RESTIVENESS

56.

IGNONIMOUS.

57.

PLAGARIOUS.

58.

EFFIGY.

59.

TENACIOUS.

60.

RETROGADE.

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SACROSANCT.

62.

DANGLE.

63.

ANOMALY.

64.

CRYPTIC.

65.

DEBILIATE.

66.

DIVULGE.

67.

SCEPTIC.

68.

SPENDTHRIFT.

69.

INDIGENOUS.

70.

ERRONIUS.

71.

RUPTURE.

72.

MINION.

73.

VERACITY.

74.

QUAIL.

75.

DESULTORY.

76.

SAGE.

SECTION 2: QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE

1. In a two-dimensional array, X (9, 7), with each element occupying 4
bytes of memory, with the address of the first element X (1, 1) is
3000, find the address of X (8, 5).
2. In the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first and second, third and
forth, forth and fifth, fifth and sixth words are interchanged up to

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the last letter, what would be the tenth letter from right?
3. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in an 8-bit
memory?
4. Select the odd one out. a. Java b. Lisp c. Smalltalk d. Eiffel.
5. Select the odd one out a. SMTP b. WAP c. SAP d. ARP
6. Select the odd one out a. Oracle b. Linux c. Ingress d. DB2
7. Select the odd one out a. WAP b. HTTP c. BAAN d. ARP
8. Select the odd one out a. LINUX b. UNIX c. SOLARIS d. SQL
SEVER
9. Select the odd one out a. SQL b. DB2 c. SYBASE d. HTTP
10.
The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the
program is given by M = square root of 100N. If the size of the
program is increased by 1% then how much memory now occupied?
11.
A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days.
Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how
many days child can do the same work?
12.

In which of the system, decimal number 384 is equal to 1234?

13.

Find the value of the 678 to the base 7.

14.

Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube

15.

Complete the series 2, 7, 24, 77,__

16.
Find the value of @@+25-++@16, where @ denotes "square"
and + denotes "square root".
17.
Find the result of the following expression if, M denotes
modulus operation, R denotes round-off, T denotes truncation:
M(373,5)+R(3.4)+T(7.7)+R(5.8)
18.
If TAFJHH is coded as RBEKGI then RBDJK can be coded as
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19.

G(0)=-1, G(1)=1, G(N)=G(N-1) - G(N-2), G(5)= ?

20.

What is the max possible 3 digit prime number?

21.
A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 750 meters
width. A cable is made from power unit to power a plant opposite to
that of the river and 1500mts away from the power unit. The cost of
the cable below water is Rs. 15/- per meter and cost of cable on the
bank is Rs.12/- per meter. Find the total of laying the cable.
22.
The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the
program is given by M = square root of 100N. If the size of the
program is increased by 1% then how much memory now occupied?
23.
In Madras, temperature at noon varies according to -t^2/2 + 8t
+ 3, where t is elapsed time. Find how much temperature more or less
in 4pm to 9pm.
24.
The size of the bucket is N kb. The bucket fills at the rate of
0.1 kb per millisecond. A programmer sends a program to receiver.
There it waits for 10 milliseconds. And response will be back to
programmer in 20 milliseconds. How much time the program takes to
get a response back to the programmer, after it is sent?
25.
A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days.
Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how
many days child can do the same work?
26.
If the vertex (5,7) is placed in the memory. First vertex (1,1)
s address is 1245 and then address of (5,7) is ---------27.
hich of the following are orthogonal pairs? a. 3i+2j
c. 2i-3j d. -7i+j
28.

If VXUPLVH is written as SURMISE, what is SHDVD?

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b. i+j

29.
If A, B and C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce
the wastage of fuel by 30%, 20% and 10%. What will be the fuel
economy if they were used combined.
30.

What is the power of 2? a. 2068 b.2048 c.2668

31.

Complete the series. 3, 8, --, 24, --, 48, 63

32.

Complete the series. 4, -5, 11, -14, 22, ---

33.

A, B and C are 8 bit nos. They are as follows:

A 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1
B 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
C 0 1 1 0 11 0 1
Find ( (A-B) u C )=?
Hint :
A-B is {A} {A n B}
34.
A Flight takes off at 2 A.M from northeast direction and
travels for 11 hours to reach the destination which is in North West
direction. Given the latitude and longitude of source and destination.
Find the local time of destination when the flight reaches there?
35.
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?
36.
A is twice efficient than B. A and B can both work together to
complete a work in 7 days. Then find in how many days A alone can
complete the work?
37.
A finish the work in 10 days. B is 60% efficient than A. So how
days does B take to finish the work?

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38.
A finishes the work in 10 days & B in 8 days individually. If A
works for only 6 days then how many days should B work to complete
As work?
39.
Given the length of the 3 sides of a triangle. Find the one that
is impossible? (HINT : sum of smaller 2 sides is greater than the
other one which is larger)
40.
Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices?(Hint
det(A)==0)
41.
A 2D array is declared as A[9,7] and each element requires 2
byte. If A[ 1,1 ] is stored in 3000. Find the memory of A[8,5] ?
42.
Sum of slopes of 2 perpendicular st. lines is given. Find the pair
of lines from the given set of options which satisfy the above
condition?
43. (a) 2+3i (b)1+i (c) 3-2i
orthogonal.

(d) 1-7i .Find which of the above is

44. (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance ) find units.

45.
The number 362 in decimal system is given by (1362)x in the X
system of numbers find the value of X a}5 b) 6 c) 7 d) 8 e) 9
46. Given $ means Tripling and % means change of sign then find the value
of $%$6-%$%6
47.
My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed
10 Hrs later at a place with coordinates 36N70W. What is the local
time when my plane landed.
a) 6:00 am b) 6:40am c)7:40 d)7:00 e)8:00 (Hint : Every 1 deg longitude is
equal to 4 minutes . If west to east add time else subtract time)

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48. Find the highest prime number that can be stored in an 8bit computer.
49. Which of the following set of numbers has the highest Standard
deviation?
1,0,1,0,1,0
-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
1,1,1,1,1,1
1,1,0,-1,0,-1

50. Match the following:

1. Male - Boy ---> a A type of
2. Square - Polygon ---> b. A part of
3. Roof - Building ---> c. Not a type of
4. Mushroom - Vegetables ---> d.A superset of
Ans: 1- d, 2- a, 3- b, 4- c
51.
Match the following.
1. brother sister ---> a. Part of
2. Alsatian dog ---> b. Sibling
3. sentence paragraph ---> c. Type of
4. car - steering ---> d. Not a type of
Ans. 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-d

SECTION 3: CRITICAL REASONING(BRM LOGICAL REASONING

PACKAGE WILL BE VERY HELPFUL)
I.The players G,H,J,K,L,M,N,O are to be felicitated of representing the
county team in Baseball Out of these H,M,O also are in the Football
team and K,N are there in the Basket ball team . These players are
to be seated on a table and no two players who has represented the

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county in more than one game are to sit together.

1.Which one of the orders can they be seated in
2. Which of the orders is not possible

3. If N is seated in the middle then which of the following pairs cannot be

seated near him .
4. If M is seated then which of the following pairs can be seated next to
him.
choices are given for all the questions
II There are 2 groups named Brown and red. They cant marry in the same
group. If the husband or wife dies then the person will convert to
their own group. If a person is married then the husband will have to
change his group to his wifes group. The child will own the mothers
group. From these a set of 4 questions were given .Solve them
Eg;
1.Browns daughter is red (False)
2.If a person is red. Then his/her mothers brother belong to which group if
he is married (Brown)
III 7 people a,b,c,d,e,f,g
Need to make a seating arrangement for them.
Conditions: 1)A should be at the center 2) B,F should be at the right
extreme 3)C,E always in pair 4)D,G as far as possible
Questions from the above were asked?
Eg:

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Which of the following pairs were not possible?

Others questions were similar to the above. More questions were from
Barrons.
The below are the questions which I got.
1. A problem like :
A, B, C, W causes D
B,C,D will cause X

TCS PAPER ON 29 th SEPTEMBER AT GHAZIABAD

Hi everybody...........TCS paper has three sections.
(a) English
(b) Aptitude
(c) Reasoning
Lets see each section in detail. For English study GRE BARRONS(12th or
13th or 16th Edition) if u r not getting 12th or 13th edition , DONT PANIC
and go for 16th edition.i m listing the study material with respect to the
16th edition.
Study.......
(i) Diagonistic Test.............................................(chap-3)

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(ii)Antonym Questions.......................................(chap-4)

(iii) Sentence Completion.....................................(chap-6)

iv) Reading Comprehension(RC)........................(chap-7)
v) Model Test...................................................(chap-15)
(vi) Reviewing Vocabulary(Wordlist)...................(chap-8)

In this section u hav 10 antonyms , 10synonyms , sentence/passage

completion and unread passage
(1) My passage was from chap 7.it
(2) was "Reading Comprehension Exercise C (4th passage) 'Like her white
friends Eleanor Roosevelt.....' "
(2)Passage completion : Reading Comprehension Exercise E (1st passage)
'Observe the delima of fungus.....'
(3) RC is very imp. if u cant read all the passages then remember the
answers atleast.
(4) dont spend much time on antonym & synonyms.rather concentrate on the
other thing as they r both easy & scoring.
Now comes the second section. This is the easiest section as almost all the
questions are repeated from previous papers.learn the METHODS of these
questions. and be carefull while answering b'coz the questions appears to b
the same as given in the previous ppr but actually it is slightly different.
The questions are :
(1) some number series
(2) if g(0)= 1, G(1)= -1 ,G(N) = G(N-1)+G(N-2) , g(6)=?
(3) A plane moves from 9'N45'E to 9'N45'W. If the plane starts at 2 am
and takes 9 hours to reach the destination, find the local arrival time?
hint : 24/360 * (sum if E and W degree i.e 90) = 6. Arrival time 2+9=11.
Sub 6 from 11. ans 5. In case of 9'N45'W to 9'N45'E add 6 to 11 to get

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the answer.

(4) Select odd one : (a) Java , (b) Lisp, (c) Smalltalk, (d) Effiel
(5) Find which is set of faces , vertices and edges belongs to CUBE. Ans
6,8,12
Hint : faces - edges + vertices = 2
(6) Find modulo(373,5)+round(3.4)+truncat(7.7)+round(5.8)
(7) Which of the following are orthogonal pairs a)3i+5j
5j d) 7i+j. Ans (a) & (c)

b) i+j

c)3i-

(8) A set of angles for a triangle were given and they asked to find the
one that represents a triangle.
Hint: sum of all angles should be 180'
(9) Find the singularity matrix from a given set of (2*2)matrices?
Hint : determinent of matrix is 0
(10)
Which of the following set of numbers has the highest Standard
deviation? Ans (a)
(a) -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1 (b)-1,1,0,-1,1,0 (c)1,1,1,1,1,1 (d)
1,0,1,0,1,0
(11) Match the following.
(a) Sentence - paragraph (1) Not a type of
b) Basmti - Wheat(2) Sibling
c) Brother - sister(3) Type of
(d) Caw -Mammel(4)A part of
Ans a4,b1,c2,d3
(12) what shape will be obtained using these values
X Y
0 0.001
101.02

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100 1.72
1000 3.00
Ans Y= log 10 (X)

(13)
The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the
Program is given by M = 4000 square root (N). If the size of The
program is increased by 1% then how much memory now Occupied?Ans
0.5%
(14)A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 900 meters width. A
cable is made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river
and 3000mts away from the power unit. The cost of the cable below water is
Rs. 5/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.9/- per meter. Find
the point where the cable cut through the river.sometimes theyalso ask
thetotal cost of laying the cable.
(15)A cancopy 50pprs in10hrswhile both A & b can copy 70 pprs in 10 hrs.
How many hrsB will take to copy 26 pprs? Ans 13 hrs
(16)

a question on sin and cos curves

(17)
find $%$(9) - %$%(9) where $ means doubling , % means
change of sign.
(18) In a two-dimensional array, X (7, 9), with each element Occupying 2
bytes of memory, with the address of the first Element X (1, 1) is 3000,
find the ending address of X (5,8).
hint 3000 + (4*9*2) + (8*2) -2
somtimes they ask for row and column wist arrangements.
(19)
If A,B,C are the the mechanisms used separately to reduce the
wastage of fule by 30%,40%,10% . what will be the fuel economy if

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(20). A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 Days. Man
only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 Days and in how many days
child can do the same work?
Hint 1\6 - (1\24 + 1\16)

(21). A, B and C are 8 bit no's. They are as follows:

A 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1
B 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
C 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1
Find (A-B) U C.
(22) Find the unit of the following
(a) (power * time) / (velocity * velocity)
(b) (Momemtum * velocity) / (accleration * distance)
(c)(Force * length) / (velocity * velocity)
hint : Work = force * distance
Force = mass * acceleration
Acceleration = distance / (time * time)
Momemtum = Mass * velocity

the number 384 in decimal system is given by (1432)x in the X

system. find x. Ans 5.

(23)

(24)given marks of two students in quaterly and final exam find the marks of
the 3rd student.
(25).
In calcutta, temperature at noon varies according to t^2/6 +
12t + 12, where t is elapsed time from noon.Find how much
temperature more or less in 3pm to 6pm.

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(26) - (28) 3questions on data interpretation
(29)
- (31) 3 questions on pie chart

(32) Largesr prime number stored in :

6 bit is..........61
7 bit is.........127
8 bit is..........251
9 bit is..........509

(33)
4 expressions were given like (6582*21*43) / (68*32). Now find
the one that gives an integer value.
(34)If TAFJHH is coded as RBEKGI then RBDJK can be coded as .....
(35)
In the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first and second, third
and forth, forth and fifth, fifth and sixth words are interchanged up
to the last letter, what would be the 12th letter from right? Ans A
(36)the bucket size is 10KB.it takes 0.0001 KB/milisec to fill bucket.the
bucket takes 1000 milisec to reach to destination.it takes 100 milisec to
pass acknowledgement from dest to source.so calculate how much time will it
take to pass N KB.
Hint ( 10kb/0.0001 + 1000 + 100 ) * N
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Section 3 Reasoning
This section has 3 questions and each questiin has 4 sub questions. so total
12 questions.
(1) Data interpretation question based on languages.
A & B speak hindi , C & D speak French , A & E Speak english.
Some questions based on this.
(2) There are 6 churches every church opens 5 days a week. Questions based
on them.
ROUND 2................TECHNICAL INTERVIEW!!!
Tips..............study ur projects properly , be strong in ur area of
interest.They can ask about any subjectfrom ur resume.
Questions :
(1) Introduce urself
(2) I had a project in Asp.Net with C#so these questions are with respect to
Asp.Net
(i)DataBase Connectivity

(ii) Boxing and Unboxing

iii)Data Set and Data Adaptor
(iv) Manage code (CLR , CLR JIT)
v) Connection String
(3) C++ - OOPs Features
(4) Polymorphism

(5) Postfix and prefix Operator overloading

(6) Inheritance

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(7) Multipath Inheritance

(8) Kernal in OS
(9) Windows Features
(10) Any Question

ROUND 3.................MR INTERVIEW

(1) Introduce urself
(2) Strenghts
(3) What if i dont take u?
(4) Which is ur favourate subject. Ans SQL
(5) How much u know it? Ans : I can grade myself 5 or 6 on a scale of 10.
(6) Difference Between Delete and Truncate.
(7) Commit Command
(8) One question from hobby mentioned in resume.
(9) Any Question.
Interview Tips :
(i) Prepare an impressive introduction
(ii) Have general knowledge about hobby mentioned in cv.
(iii) Strengths and weakness.........important
(iv)Why do u want to join TCS?

(iv) In any question ask a question about compant coz that shows ur
interest in TCS.
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(v) Visit TCS Website.
(vi) Do previous yrs pprs coz mostly questions are repeated.

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TCS PAPER ON 8 th SEPTEMBER 2006

Quantitative Section
1. There are 150 weights .Some are 1 kg weights and some are 2 kg
weights. The sum of the weights is 260.What is the number of 1kg weights?
Ans. 40

2. A is driving on a highway when the police fines him for overspeeding and
exceeding the limit by 10 km/hr.At the same time B is fined for
overspeeding by twice the amount by which A exceeded the limit.If he was
driving at 35 km/hr what is the speed limit for the road?
Ans. 15 kmph
3. A moves 3 kms east from his starting point . He then travels 5 kms
north. From that point he moves 8 kms to the east.How far is A from his
starting point?
Ans. 13 kms
4. A car travels 12 kms with a 4/5th filled tank.How far will the car travel
with 1/3 filled tank?
Ans. 5 kms
5. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When 18 is added to
the number, the digits are reversed. Find the number?
Ans. 35
6. The cost of one pencil, two pens and four erasers is Rs.22 while the cost

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of five pencils, four pens and two erasers is Rs.32.How much will three
pencils, three pens and three erasers cost?
Ans. 27
7. Fathers age is 5 times his son's age. 4 years back the father was 9 times
older than son.Find the fathers' present age.
Ans. 40 years
8. What number should be added to or subtracted from each term of the
ratio 17 : 24 so that it becomes equal to 1 : 2.
Ans. 10 should be subtracted
9. What is the 12th term of the series 2, 5, 8, ....
Ans. 35
10. If 20 men take 15 days to to complete a job, in how many days can 25
men finish that work?
Ans. 12 days
11. In a fraction, if 1 is added to both the numerator at the denominator,
the fraction becomes 1/2. If numerator is subtracted from the denominator,
the fraction becomes 3/4. Find the fraction.
Ans. 3/7
12. If Rs.1260 is divided between between A, B and C in the ratio 2:3:4,
what is C's share?
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13. A shopkeeper bought a watch for Rs.400 and sold it for Rs.500.What is
his profit percentage?
Ans. 25%
14. What percent of 60 is 12?
Ans. 20%
15. Hansie made the following amounts in seven games of cricket in India :
Rs.10, Rs.15, Rs.21, Rs.12, Rs.18, Rs.19 and Rs.17(all figures in crores of
course).Find his average earnings.
Ans. Rs.16 crore

Technical Test
1. The C language terminator is
(a) semicolon
(b) colon
(c) period
(d) exclamation mark
2. What is false about the following -- A compound statement is
(a) A set of simple statments
(b) Demarcated on either side by curly brackets
(c) Can be used in place of simple statement
(d) A C function is not a compound statement.
3. What is true about the following C Functions
(a) Need not return any value
(b) Should always return an integer

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(c) Should always return a float

(d) Should always return more than one value

4. Main must be written as

(a) The first function in the program
(b) Second function in the program
(c) Last function in the program
(d) Any where in the program
5. Which of the following about automatic variables within a function is
correct ?
(a) Its type must be declared before using the variable
(b) Tthey are local
(c) They are not initialised to zero
(d) They are global
6. Write one statement equivalent to the following two statements
x=sqr(a);
return(x);
Choose from one of the alternatives
(a) return(sqr(a));
(b) printf("sqr(a)");
(c) return(a*a*a);
(d) printf("%d",sqr(a));
7. Which of the following about the C comments is incorrect ?
(a) Ccommentscan go over multiple lines
(b) Comments can start any where in the line
(c) A line can contain comments with out any language statements
(d) Comments can occur within comments
8. What is the value of y in the following code?
x=7;
y=0;

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if(x=6) y=7;
else y=1;
(a) 7
(b) 0
(c) 1
(d) 6
9. Read the function conv() given below
conv(int t){
int u;
u=5/9 * (t-32);
return(u);
}
What is returned
(a) 15
(b) 0
(c) 16.1
(d) 29

10. Which of the following represents true statement either x is in the

range of 10 and 50 or y is zero
(a) x >= 10 && x <= 50 || y = = 0
(b) x<50
(c) y!=10 && x>=50
(d) None of these
11. Which of the following is not an infinite loop ?
(a) while(1)\{ ....}
(b) for(;
{
...
}
(c) x=0;
do{

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/*x unaltered within the loop*/

.....}
while(x = = 0);
(d) # define TRUE 0
...
while(TRUE){
....}
12. What does the following function print?
func(int i)
{ if(i%2)return 0;
else return 1;}
main()
{
int =3;
i=func(i);
i=func(i);
printf("%d",i);
} (a) 3
(b) 1
(c) 0
(d) 2

13. How does the C compiler interpret the following two statements
p=p+x;
q=q+y;
(a) p=p+x;
q=q+y
(b)p=p+xq=q+y
(c)p=p+xq;
q=q+y
(d)p=p+x/q=q+y For questions 14,15,16,17 use the following alternatives
a.int

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b.char
c.string
d.float
14. '9'
15. "1 e 02"
16. 10e05
17. 15
18. Read the folllowing code # define MAX 100
# define MIN 100
....
....
if(x>MAX)
x=1;
else if(x<MIN)
x=-1;
x=50;
if the initial value of x=200,what is the value after executing this code?
(a) 200
(b) 1
(c) -1
(d) 50
19. A memory of 20 bytes is allocated to a string declared as char *s
then the following two statements are executed:
s="Entrance"
l=strlen(s);
what is the value of l ?
(a)20
(b)8
(c)9
(d)21
20. Given the piece of code
int a[50];

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int *pa;
pa=a;
To access the 6th element of the array which of the following is incorrect?
(a) *(a+5)
(b) a[5]
(c) pa[5]
(d) *(*pa + 5}
21. Consider the following structure:
struct num nam{
int no;
char name[25];
}
struct num nam n1[]={{12,"Fred"},{15,"Martin"},{8,"Peter"},{11,Nicholas"}};
.....
.....
printf("%d%d",n1[2],no,(*(n1 + 2),no) + 1);
What does the above statement print?
(a) 8,9
(b) 9,9
(c) 8,8
(d) 8,unpredictable value
22. Identify the in correct expression
(a) a=b=3=4;
(b) a=b=c=d=0;
(c)float a=int b=3.5;
(d)int a; float b; a=b=3.5;
23. Regarding the scope of the varibles;identify the incorrect statement:
(a)automatic variables are automatically initialised to 0
(b)static variables are are automatically initialised to 0
(c)the address of a register variable is not accessiable
(d)static variables cannot be initialised with any expression

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24. cond 1?cond 2?cond 3?:exp 1:exp 2:exp 3:exp 4;
is equivalent to which of the following?
(a)if cond 1
exp 1;
else if cond 2
exp 2;
else if cond 3
exp 3;
else exp 4;
(b) if cond 1
if cond 2
if cond 3
exp 1;
else exp 2;
else exp 3;
else exp 4;
(c) if cond 1 && cond 2 && cond 3
exp 1 |exp 2|exp 3|exp 4;
(d) if cond 3
exp 1;
else if cond 2 exp 2;
else if cond 3 exp 3;
else exp 4;
25. The operator for exponencation is (a) **
(b) ^
(c) %
(d) not available
26. Which of the following is invalid
(a) a+=b
(b) a*=b
(c) a=b
(d) a**=b

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y=5;
if (x==10)
else if(x==9)
else y=8;
(a)9
(b)8
(c)6
(d)7

28. What does the following code do?

fn(int n,int p,int r){
static int a=p;
switch(n){
case 4:a+=a*r;
case 3:a+=a*r;
case 2:a+=a*r;
case 1:a+=a*r;}}
(a)computes simple interest for one year
(b)computes amount on compound interest for 1 to 4 years
(c)computes simple interest for four year
(d)computes compound interst for 1 year
29. a=0;
while(a<5)
printf("%d\\n",a++);
How many times does the loop occurs?
(a)infinite
(b)5
(c)4
(d)6
30. How many times does the loop iterated ?
for (i=0;i=10;i+=2)

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printf("Hi\\n");
(a)10
(b) 2
(c) 5
(d) None of these

31. What is incorrect among the following

A recursive function
(a) calls itself
(b) is equivalent to a loop
(c) has a termination condition
(d) does not have a return value at all
32. Which of the following go out of the loop if expn 2 becoming false (a)
while(expn 1)\{...if(expn 2)continue;}
(b) while(!expn 1)\{if(expn 2)continue;...}
(c) do{..if(expn 1)continue;..}while(expn 2);
(d) while(!expn 2)\{if(expn 1)continue;..\}
33. Consider the following program
main()
{unsigned int i=10;
while(i>=0){
printf("%u",i)
i--;}
}
How many times the loop will get executed
(a)10
(b)9
(c)11
(d)infinite

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34.Pick out the add one out
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

malloc()
calloc()
free()
realloc()

35.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
36. # define prod(a,b)=a*b
main(){
int x=2;
int y=3;
printf("%d",prod(x+2,y-10)); }
the output of the program is
(a) 8
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) None

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37.Consider the following program segment
int n,sum=1;
switch(n){
case 2:sum=sum+2;
case 3:sum*=2;
break;
default:sum=0;}
If n=2, what is the value of sum
(a) 0
(b) 6
(c) 3
(d) None of these
38. Identify the incorrect one
1.if(c=1)
2.if(c!=3)
3.if(a<b)then
4.if(c==1)
(a) 1 only
(b) 1&3
(c) 3 only
(d) All of the above
39. The format specified for hexa decimal is
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

%d
%o
%x
%u

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40. Find the output of the following program
main(){
int x=5, *p;
p=&x
printf("%d",++*p);
}
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 0
(d) none of these
41.Consider the following C code
main(){
int i=3,x;
while(i>0){
x=func(i);
i--; }
int func(int n){
static sum=0;
sum=sum+n;
return(sum);}
The final value of x is
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 1
(d) 3
43. Int *a[5] refers to
(a) array of pointers

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(b) pointer to an array

(c) pointerto a pointer
(d) none of these
44.Which of the following statements is incorrect
(a) typedef struct new{
int n1;
char n2;
} DATA;
(b) typedef struct {
int n3;
char *n4;}ICE;
(c) typedef union{ int n5;
float n6;} UDT;
(d) #typedef union {
int n7;float n8;} TUDAT;

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