Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Placement Papers

The paper was as usual 3 sections….

I. Verbal Ability (32M)

[Synonyms (10M) + Antonyms (10M) + Two passages are there each carries
6M (2 X 6 = 12)] GRE Barron’s is enough for this section

II. Quantitative & logical (38M)

Most of questions from previous papers but changed values, if you practice
the questionstwice or thrice before the exam it is easy to solve the questions
in exam. But don’t 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
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 0.00001 1.02 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)
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 1 1 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 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. (HINT: substitute&subtact
values from 5
to 8)
19. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is
given byM =
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%
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. (Ans8500)
Sol: 900 X 5 == 4500 + 1100 X 4 == 4400 =è 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. We’ve to find out how many V’s 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 à 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 don’t know
how to find it)
26. Four 2X2 matrices were given. We’ve to find out which of them is a
singular matrix?
(Hint: try for which matrix det (A) becomes zero (ad – bc).
27. (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance)
a) Newton 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.
Don’t 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: Small University and Large University problem of GRE
Barron’s 13th edition. This can be found in the model papers.
Passage three: sorry iam not remembering, this also simply one. GRE
Barron’s (12th,
13th &14th edi…) is enough for this section This 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 technical interview:
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 following 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?
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 2006 In my M.R panel also one
gentleman I think interviewer was a project Manager. He was very friendly
in nature. Don’t 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?
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
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.
My H.R 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?
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 and confident . Prepare the
fallowing subjects for your technical interview (for CSE & IT students)

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

Factorial, Fibonacci, prime number, palindrome for strings and numbers,
swap with out using temporary variables, string copy, concatenate, matrix
multiplications, single double linked list by using pointers. Fahrenheit to
Celsius conversion program, and practice all simple programs

Operating systems: 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…), Types of testing (white or black
box),

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.

Aptitude round :
1)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?
6:00 am b) 6:40am c) 7:40 d) 7:00 e) 8:00
Sol) The destination place is 80 degree west to the starting place. Hence the
time difference between these two places is 5 hour 20 min. (=24hr*80/360).
When the flight landed, the time at the starting place is 12 noon (2 AM + 10
hours). Hence, the time at the destination place is 12 noon – 5:20 hours = 6:
40 AM
2) 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)
Sol) initial x (1,1) = 3000 u have to find from x(8,1)so u have x(1,1),x(1,2)
… x(7,7) = so u have totally 7 * 7 = 49 elements you need to find for
x(8,5) ? here we have 5 elements each element have 4 bytes : (49 + 5 -1) * 4
= 212 —–( -1 is to deduct the 1 element ) 3000 + 212 = 3212
3) what’s the answer for that : A, B and C are 8 bit no’s. They are as
follows:
A -> 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
B -> 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
C -> 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 ( – =minus, u=union)
Find ((A – C) u B) =?
Sol)To find A-C, We will find 2’s compliment of C and them add it with A,
That will give us (A-C) 2’s compliment of C=1’s compliment of C+1
=11000101+1=11000110 A-C=11000101+11000110 =10001001
Now (A-C) U B is .OR. logic operation on (A-C) and B 10001001 .OR .
00110011 The answer is = 10111011,
Whose decimal equivalent is 187.
4) Which one among have higher deviation:1. 5,0,-5, 5,0,-5 2. -5,-5,-5,-5,-5,-
5
3. 5,-5,5,-5,5,-5 4. 5,5,5,5,5,5
Sol) 3. 5,-5,5,-5,5,-5
whatever number they give you the ans must be either in (+,-,+,-) or in (-,+,-,
+)form
5)Find the physical quantity represented by MOMENTUM *VELOCITY] /
[LENGTH * ACCELERATION]?
Sol) mass
6)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)
Sol) 373/5=rem(3)
3+3+7+6=19.ans
7)Which of the following are orthogonal pairs?
a. 3i+2 b. i+1
c. 3-2i d. -7i+1
Sol)(3i+2)(+i)=2i+3
(3i+2)(-i)= -2i+3
ANS: (A)& (C).
8)Find d Odd one out? ( I m giving u al as dere was 3 ques on dat)
a. LINUX b. WINDOWS 98 c. SOLARIS d. SMTP
b. JAVA b. LISP c. Small talk d. Eiffel
c. HTTP b. ARP c. SMTP d. SAP
d. Linux b.windows NT c. SQL server d. UNIX
e. SAP b. ARP c. WAP d.TCP IP
f. Oracle b. Linux c. Ingress d. DB2
g. SMTP b. WAP c. SAP d. ARP
h. WAP b. HTTP c. BAAN d. ARP
i. SQL b. DB2 c. SYBASE d. HTTP
9)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 ?
Sol) M=sqrt(100N) N is increased by 1% therefore new value of N=N +
(N/100) =101N/100
M=sqrt(100 * (101N/100) )
Hence, we get M=sqrt(101 * N)
10)A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 750 meters width. A
cable is made from power unit to power 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.
sol)750*15+(1500-750)*12=20250
11) Which shape will be obtained by using these values of X & Y?
XY

0 0.00001
10 1.02
100 1.72
1000 3.00
9999 4.72
Sol): Y= log10(X)
12)Find d singularity matrix from a given set of matrices?
a) 2 3 b) 3 9 c) 0 5 d) 9 8
45131545
Sol): b (Hint: det (A) = 0)
13)In d given series {“b v f q q m b v f m g v f f v f m b v f b g d v f a m v f
v f f …) How many v’s are dere such that each v is followed by f next to it,
if the f is not followed by q next to it?
Sol): try it out
14)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.?
Sol): In equation first put t=9,
we will get 34.5……………………… (1)
Now put t=4,
we will get 27………………………… (2)
So ans=34.5-27
=7.5
15)Number of edges,faces, vertices and of a cube
1.12,6,8 2.6,8,12 3.4 ,6, 8 4.8,12,6
sol)1.12,6,8
16)What is d largest prime number that can be stored in a 9 – bit register?
Sol): 2^9=512
509
17) In the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first & second, third & fourth,
forth& fifth are interchanged up to the last letter, what would be the the tenth
letter 4m right?
Sol): I
18)If VXUPLVH is written as SURMISE, what is SHDVD is written as?
Sol): PEASA
19)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.
sol)3000-900=2100Ans
20) A, B and C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the wastage of
fuel by 30%, 40% and 10%. What will be the fuel economy if they were
used combined?
Sol): Method is (70/100*60/100*90/100)*100 = 37.8
So, economy = 100-37.8 = 62.2
21)g[0]=1,g[1]=-1,g[n]=2*g[n-1]-3*g[n-2] then calculate g[4]= ?
Sol): try it out
22) Low temperature at the night in a city is 1/3 more than 1/2 high as higher
temperature in a day. Sum of the low temperature and highest temp. is 100
degrees. Then what is the low temp?
sol)Let highest temp be x
so low temp=1/3 of x of 1/2 of x plus x/2 i.e. x/6+x/2
total temp=x+x/6+x/2=100
therefore, x=60
Lowest temp is 40
23)If log 0.317=0.3332 and log 0.318=0.3364 then find log 0.319 ?
Sol) log 0.317=0.3332 and log 0.318=0.3364, then log 0.319=log0.318+
(log(0.318-0.317)) = 0.3396
24)Match the following
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
Sol): 1-c, 2-d, 3-b, 4-a
25)Find d value of @@+25 – ++@16, where @ denotes “square” and +
denotes “square root”?
Sol): 621
26)Convert the decimal number 310 to d base 6?
Sol): 1234
27) How many positive integer solutions does the equation 2x+3y = 100
have?
sol) There is a simple way to answer this kind of Q’s given 2x+3y=100, take
l. of ‘x’ coeff and ‘y’ coeff i.e. l. of 2,3.2*3=6then divide 100 with 6 , which
turns out 16 hence answer is 16
28)Amal bought 5 pens, 7 pencils and 4 erasers. Rajan bought 6 pens, 8
erasers and 14 pencils for an amount which was half more than what Amal
had paid. What % of the total amount paid by Amal was paid for pens?
sol) Let, 5 pens + 7 pencils + 4 erasers = x rupees
so 10 pens + 14 pencils + 8 erasers = 2*x rupees
also mentioned, 6 pens + 14 pencils + 8 erarsers = 1.5*x rupees
so (10-6) = 4 pens = (2-1.5)x rupees
so 4 pens = 0.5x rupees => 8 pens = x rupees
so 5 pens = 5x/8 rupees = 5/8 of total (note x rupees is total amt paid by
amal) i.e 5/8 = 500/8% = 62.5%
29)A work is done by 2 people in 24 min. One of them can do this work
alone in 40 min. How much time required to do the same work for the
second person?
sol)Two people work together in 24 mins.
So, their one day work is
(1/x)+(1+y)=(1/24)
One man can complete the work in 40mins
one man’s one day work (1/y)= (1/40)
Now,
(1/x)=(1/24)-(1/40)
(1/x)=(1/60)
So, x can complete the work in 60 mins
30)A man has to get air-mail. He starts to go to airport on his motorbike.
Plane comes early and the mail is sent by a horse-cart. The man meets the
cart in the middle after half an hour. He takes the mail and returns back, by
doing so, he saves twenty minutes. How early did the plane arrive?
sol)10min:::assume he started at 1:00,so at 1:30 he met cart .He returned
home at 2:00.so it took him 1 hour for the total journey. by doing this he
saved 20 min.so the actual time if the plane is not late is 1 hour and 20
min.so the actual time of plane is at 1:40.The cart travelled a time of 10 min
before it met him.so the plane is 10 min early.
31,32.Two questions were on graphs . Practice graphs of tanx , logx , e^x.
33.34.35. Three questions were on bar graph. It was simple to attempt dere
only. No need to practice.
36.37.38. Last problem was based on Venn diagram. Figure was given & on
dat basis 3 ques were dere.
Ex: a Venn diagram on no. of people who know only English, only French,
only German, both English and French, French and German, German and
English, know all the three.
->How many know English more than French?
->What % people speak all the three languages?
->What % people speak German but not English?
Reasoning section:
This is also another scoring section. it consist of three passages with four
questions each .Mainly the questions come from 12th edition of Barrons
GRE.I prepared for CAT so it is one the easiest section for me. Dont mug
from Barrons …a little bit sense of logical reasoning is enough to score good
in this section.

Technical & HR round :

1)tell me abt urself..
2)why tcs??
3)recursion-simple programs..
4)what is OOPS?
5)operation of mosfet.
6)what is class?
7)difference between c & c++
8)what is loop antenna?