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In this section we will tell you how easy it is for a fresher to clear a technical
interview stated if he follows the basic tips/rules/mantra:
Technical Interview is part of the recruitment process for almost all the
companies and this is the second biggest elimination round after the written
test.
Well, I will assume here as you are a fresher trying to get into a software

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company (since most does irrespective of their branch).


Any software firm small or big wants their employees to know the basics of

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1. Programming

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Having said that they wont expect you to know every part and parcel of the subjects, rather they would look for
someone who at least knows what they are for.
Now if you are asked to write a C-Program which does check whether a given integer/string is a palindrome or not

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(which is part of lab programs for almost all the universities in the country in the 1st year), he would expect that
you will write it easily and if you fail to do so, please dont expect him to select you.
So what would we suggest is that, you should have basic knowledge on the aforementioned subjects and we will

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also tell you the areas you should concentrate in each subject.
1. Programming
In any technical interview, it is obvious that you would be asked to write some programs and mostly in C,C++ &

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Java .
To be confident at this area, you should know the basic syntax of all these subjects as the semantic or logic

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Start with C, learn variables, operators, control structures, functions & pointers (the most important stuff),
structures and files. Then go for C++ and java, try to understand the differences between all the three precisely.
OOPS is the most important & probable topic, where you might get questions from.

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Below is the list of the most frequently asked programs that you must learn to clear this round.
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Write a C program to swap two numbers without using a third variable.

b)

Write a C program to check whether the given number or a string is palindrome or not.

c)

Write a C program to create a Pascal triangle.

d)

Write a C program to perform matrix multiplication and addition.

e)

Write a C program which performs bit manipulation (&,|,etc) of a given number.

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Also, learn programs which does basic file manipulations (creation, writing data and reading)

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We would post some more programs which are important, with the complete code J in a separate section.
2. Software Engineering

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This is the most important & also a boring subject, since it is mostly theoretical.

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Not many interviewers ask questions on this subject in the technical interview, but it is always better to know the
basics and be on the safer side.

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Questions in this subject would be basically on the following topics,

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a.

Phases of Software Development Life Cycle

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Process Models like Waterfall model, agile model etc.

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Basics of software testing(white box, black box testing)

If you can learn all these, then you could possibly answer all the questions in the interview.
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Define operating system?

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Could be the first possible question in some technical interviews and this subject is one of the core subjects of

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computer science. Students from CS and IT back ground cant take any excuses for not answering questions in
this subject and others may get excuse if you dont answer.
Now in this subject, you have to know the following things:

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The definition of an Operating System, components of an OS(like process management, memory

management , etc)

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Learn the functionality of all the cpu scheduling algorithms like FCFS,SJF, Round-Robbin , etc.

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Learn how process synchronization works, this concept involves semaphore, monitor to achieve process s

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d.

Learn basic memory management techniques like paging, segmentation etc.

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This should do for answering any question in Operating System.

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4. Databases
No application works without a database and so it is must for us to know the basics of the data base management

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a.

and proper guidance. So we know exactly what

Whenever we say DBMS we refer to RDBMS and everything is relational here in this DB. Go through the

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Now learn to implement them with the structured query language shortly called as SQL, learn the basic

operations CRUD(create, insert ,update & delete).


These all should do,but also go through transactions which is also an important concept and might be asked in the
interview.
5 .Computer Networks
Stand alone systems dont do any wonders and that is why the systems are connected through a network.
In computer networks all you need to concentrate is on the OSI reference model which covers everything, do try to
know what each layer does and know about TCP,IP in particular.
This should do for computer networks
Well I have tried my level best to give you the idea about the questions asked in technical interviews in the best
possible scenarios.
Please comment about the quality of the article which will help us to improve the quality of upcoming articles.
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Sowmya Bairy
woww...its a good article...thank u for providing dis valuable info to all
computer graduates..
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6 Like Follow Post February 27 at 8:00pm

Priyanka Basu
Thanks a lot sir...
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Follow Works at I hope to get a good job soon !!!

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1 Like Follow Post April 1 at 12:49am

Raghavendran Sambasivam
Excellent article to boost our confidence level. Can you add what all kinds
of questions comes in oops concept?
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1 Like Follow Post April 1 at 6:34am

Rani Kothuru Avanthi Institute of Engineering and Technology


thanks alot......
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6 Like Follow Post December 12, 2012 at 5:01pm

Deepika Sudheer Kietw


This info is very useful for students like us.
i would thank u very much sir for the concern and for your valuable words ,
I would take it into my count and would work over it.
Once again thank you very much for this article .
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1 Like Follow Post March 1 at 5:15pm

RAma KrIshna Krishna's pragathi institute of technology


super topic...it covers all the aspects wich are very essential to prepare for
trchnical interview.
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1 Like Follow Post February 28 at 6:13pm

Divya Sree Ongole Krishna Chaitanya Jr.College , Nellore


its very very very very useful information for computer graduates thanx for
providing this article..
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7 Like Follow Post October 25, 2012 at 10:10pm

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Research,RAYAGADA
thanx a lot, its a useful information.
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sai
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its useful stufffff.thanks for the info

shashank agarwal
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October 6, 2012 at 6:00 pm #

November 6, 2012 at 1:46 pm #

its really very helpfull and also this post makes me easy not to divert from my path.. thanx
alot sir.

Arun
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November 18, 2012 at 12:18 pm #

Thank you Sir.


Its usefull.

sowmya
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thanqit real more usefull

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December 1, 2012 at 6:07 pm #

December 5, 2012 at 5:44 pm #

Its a great job from your side.


I accept your suggestions and I follow it in the Right Path.
Thanks for your support

kamya
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December 9, 2012 at 2:06 pm #

thanku so much all information are useful for us .i m freshers from btech in information
tech. this year(2012).but i have no job would u plssss guide wht should i do.

AMEYA
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December 12, 2012 at 1:24 pm #

Really really very very helpful info for a fresher.Thanks a lot

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gayatri
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December 13, 2012 at 1:55 am #

this stuff is very very useful for me

Sravan
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January 10, 2013 at 4:26 pm #

u have discussed what are the things to learn for IT cs people but please also send me tips
for ece candidates

shilpa
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February 12, 2013 at 1:20 pm #

Thank you sir.It is really helpful.

Swwaroop
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February 17, 2013 at 5:52 am #

Thanks

sonam tripathy
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April 7, 2013 at 10:50 am #

good article..

abhijeet deshmukh
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April 9, 2013 at 9:03 am #

as i m a fresher ,i must thanks 4 all ur support.

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