WIPRO Question Paper - 1

1) John weighe twice as much as Marcia. Marcia's weight is 60% of Bob's weight.Dave weighs 50% of
Lee's weighs 190% of John's wight. Which of these 5 persons wighs the least?
A) Bob B) Dave C) John D) Lee E) Marcia
Ans) E

2) A trip takes 6 hours to compleate. After traveling 1/4 of an hour,1 3/8hours, and 2 1/3 hours, how much
time does need to compleate the trip?
a) 2 1/12hours
b) 2hours, 2 1/2 minutes
c) 2 hours,5minutes
d) 2 1/8 hours
ANS) B

3) It takes 30 days to fill a laboratory dish with bacteria. If the size ofthe bactiria doubles each day, how long
did it take for the bactiria to fill one half of dish?
Ans) D ( 29days)

4) A car wash can wash 8 cars in 18 minutes, At this rate, how many cars can the car wash wash in 3 hours?
ANS) C ( 80)

5) If the ratio of the areas of 2 queres is 2:1, then the ratio of the perimeters of the squares is
ANS) C ( sqrt(2):1 )

6) There are three types of tickets available for a concert: orchestra, which cost $12 each; balcony, which cost$9
each: and box, which cost $25 each. There were P orchestra tickets , B balcony tickets, and R box tickets sold
for the concert.Which of the following expressions gives the percentage of ticket proceeds due to the sale
of chestra tickets?
Ans) B 100*12P/(12P+9B+25R)

7). In a survey of town of Wasco, it was found that 65% of the people surveyed watched the news on television,
40% read newspaper, and 25% read a newspaper and watched the news on television.What percent of the
people surveyed neither watched the news on the television nor read a newspaper?.
Ans: (E)20%

8). City B is 5 miles east of City A. City C is 10 miles southeast of City B. Which of the following is the closest to
the distancefrom City A to City C?
Ans: (D) 14 miles

9). If the area of a square increases by 69%, then the side of the square increased by
Ans: (B) 30%

10). There are 30 socks in a drawer. 60% of the socks are red and the rest are blue. What is the minimum number
of socks that must be taken from the drawer without looking in order to be certain that atleast two blue socks
have been chosen?
Ans: (E) 20

1) problem on stock, face value, brokerage 4 questions see RS Agrawal, edition 1998, 454page,tabulation(ex 5)
loan disbusrense by 5 banks 6 questions are intermixed.

2) Averages-7( 124page of RS AGrawal) problem on example 3 problem on age

3) page-291- 16th, simple interest-2.5%
4) problem on calculation of cost price, given market price discount on ANS) 270
5) Frequency of the letter in give strings

Reasoning
1) problem on series non verbel series around -12 questions
2) problem on direction test
3) problem on logical venn diagrams - 10 questions refer test of reasonong Agrawal page 239
4) blood relations problem ans) Nephew
5) analogy, bouquet: flower :: chain: link--ans
6) try questions non verbel reasoning 97edition RSAgrawal
Questions: 1,2,4,6,16,14,22,23,24,21
7) pick oddex 2,4,6,5,8,10 ans 8
8) Data intepretation years Vs Banks six questions Freshersworld.com
check in RS Agrawal
Technical
1) OP of the program
main()
{
char a='\123'
printf ("%c \n",a);
return 0;
}
1)ascii value of 121
2)1
3) 3
4) none of these

2) 2 questions were based on GSM Freshersworld.com
(i) which .... is used to by GSM to interact with PSTN
(ii) dont remember

3) Which key in any windows screen is used to invoke file menu
Ans :alt+f

4) Which is layer 3 connection less protocol
a) IP
b) ARP
c) TCP
d) UDP

5) Which is the latest OS
a) XP
b) NT
c) 98
d) 2000

6) stacks and queues are
a) primitive Data strucs
b) Non - primitive data strucs
c) non linear ....
d) data types
7) For mobile comm
a) downlink freq > uplink freq
b) uplink > downlink
c) none
d equal

8) Pipelining : ....
9) Some question based on prototype model (s/w engg)
10 Which is linear model
a) water fall model
b) classical
c) chaos model

11) In queue where do u insert a data
a) front
b) rear
c)middle

IBM Question Paper - 2

1. Speed of boat in still water is 10kmph..if it travels 24km downstream,16km upstream in the same
amount of time,what is the speed of the stream?
(a)3kmph
(b)3.5kmph
(c)2kmph
(d)...

2. A cube of 3 units is painted on all sides.If this cube is divided into cubes of 1 unit,how many cube
have none of their faces painted?
(a)...
(b)2
(c)1
(d)0
(e)none of these

3. If a person sells a product for rs141/- he suffers a loss of 6%.if he has to have a profit of 10%,
at what price should he sell it?
(a)
(b)rs.175
(c)..
(d)rs.165
ans.rs.165 (i think,check)

4. A ball falls from a height of 8ft ,bounces back to half the distance & continues till it comes to rest.
what is the total distance travelled by the ball?
(a)24ft
(b)...
(c)infinite
(d)cannot be determined
ans:(a)

5. Which of the following is the sum of 3 consecutive prime nos?
(a)49
(b)59
(c)both a &b
(d)....
ans:c

6. If the area of a square has increased by 69%,by what % has its side increased?
7. In a class the average age is 16yrs.if the teacher who is 40 yrs of age is also included ,the average becomes 17yrs,how many students were there?

8. If 3 houses are to be painted,mr A can paint a house in 6 days(nos are not same)...mr B can do the same in 8 days...& mr.C in 12 days.if mr A does the work for 8 days & leaves for vacation, & mr B continues the work
for the next 6 days, for how many days should mr.C work?
ans:11 days(check)

9. 4 thieves rob a bakery of the breadone after the other.each thief takes half of what is present ,& half a bread...if at the end 3 bread remains,what is the no of bread that was present initiallly?
ans:63(check)
10. If the 1rst day of 1999 is a sunday,what is the last day?
(a)sunday
(b)monday Freshersworld.com
(c)....
(d)cannot be determined.
11. If A driver drives a car four times a lap 10,20 30,60 kmph what is his average speed.

ans:20kmph

In a group there are two kinds of people type A & type B.type A people answer for any question as YES & that of type B as NO.if they can not answer to these question then they remain silent. the mayor asks question to them as follows........

12. If he asks a person are u type A
a.YES b.NO c. Silent d.Can not be determined

13. He asks two persons X &Ysimultaneously whether u of same type
a. YES b. NO c.YES or NO d. Silent e. can not be determined

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

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

16. Six squares of same dimension are kept side by side to make a rectangle with a perimeter of 182 cm. what is the perimeter of each square.
ans) 52.

17. One student takes 20 mins to reach school if he goes at a speed of 15kmph .At what speed should he go to reach in 15 mins ( nos are not same) ans: 16kmph( check)
18. How many rational numbers are there between 0 & 5
ans:infinite

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

20. A trigger is
(a) a statement ..start of database..
(b)statements that r executed as a side effect to the modification to the database
(c)...
(d)...
ans (b)

21. What does the following statement mean?
int (*a)[4]
(a)'a' is a pointer to an array of 4 integers
(b)'a' is an array of pointers to integer
(c)'a' is a pointer to function returning an integer
(d)...
ans:a

22. Best method to find out whether a given array already sorted,is sorted or not in min. time
ans. insertion sort (check)

23. A primary key in one table also present in some other table is called
(a)foreign key
(b)secondary key
(c)subordinate key
(d)...
ans. foreign key

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

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

26. Which of the following is an example of a spooling device?
(a)..
(b)line printer..
(c)
(d)
(e)...

27. If in a table:account no,account holders name,account type ,.....(something else was given)are the fields,which of them could be the primary key?
(a)account no(ans)
(b)account holders name
(c)account type
(d)..

28. If a file is opened in "r+" mode(in C),it means
(a) write
(b)read
(c)...
(d).....

29. What is the difference between 123 and 0123 in c?
(a)120
(b)40
(c)0
(d)...
ans:40

30. Software Configuration Management process is -
(a)developing & managing software for .....software....
(b)developing & managing hardware for....software.......
(c)...
(d)..

IBM Question Paper - 1

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

2. In A,B,C are having some marbles with each of them. A has giben
B and C the same number of marbles they already have to each of them.
then, B gave C and A the same no. of marbles they have, then C gave
A and B the same no. of marbles they have. At the
end A,B,and C have equal no. of marbles.
(i) If x,y,z are the marbles initially with A,B,C respectively.
then the no of marbles B have at the end
(a) 2(x-y-z) (b) 4(x-y-z) etc.
(ii)If the total no. of marbles are 72, then the no. of marbles with A at the starting
a. 20 b. 30 c. 32

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

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


5. A square plot of some size , at four corners equal squares of
some size are cut and is formed as open box. If this open box carries
128ml of oil. What is the size of the plate i.e. side
a.17 b.14 c.13

6.The very first process created by the kernal that runs
till the kernal process is haltes is
a)init
b)getty
c)
d)
e)none
(Ans is a)

7.Result of the following program is
main()
{
int i=0;
for(i=0;i<20;i++)
{
switch(i)
case 0:i+=5;
case 1:i+=2;
case 5:i+=5;
default i+=4;
break;}
printf("%d,",i);
}
}
a)0,5,9,13,17
b)5,9,13,17
c)12,17,22
d)16,21
e)syntax error
(Ans is d )

8) What is the result
main()
{
char c=-64;
int i=-32
unsigned int u =-16;
if(c>i){
printf("pass1,");
if(c printf("pass2");
else
printf("Fail2");}
else
printf("Fail1);
if(i printf("pass2");
else
printf("Fail2")
}
a)Pass1,Pass2
b)Pass1,Fail2
c)Fail1,Pass2
d)Fail1,Fail2
e)none
(Ans is c)

9) In the process table entry for the kernel process, the process id value is
a) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 255 e) it does not have a process table entry
Ans) a

10) Which of the following API is used to hide a window
a) ShowWindow
b) EnableWindow
c) MoveWindow
d) SetWindowPlacement
e)None of the above
Ans) a

11) what will the following program do?
void main()
{
int i;
char a[]="String";
char *p="New Sring";
char *Temp;
Temp=a;
a=malloc(strlen(p) + 1);
strcpy(a,p); //Line no:9//
p = malloc(strlen(Temp) + 1);
strcpy(p,Temp);
printf("(%s, %s)",a,p);
free(p);
free(a);
} //Line no 15//

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

Group Discussion - Satyam

Group Discussion:

The topic for GD was ‘Privatization of Engineering Colleges’

The other topics were:
1) Tourism in India.
2) India’s performance in the recent Test match against
Australia.
3) Arranged Marriage Or Love Marriage.
In GD groups consisting of 8 people are formed.
The HR himself gave the topic to us. There was no time given after the topic was said. The time for the discussion was 5min.There was a panel of two for the GD.

In other groups the time for the discussion was 10 minutes. They were also given 2mins after the topic was given. Some groups could choose their topic.

Do not worry about the GD, it was the first time I attended a GD.I spoke only 3 to 4 sentences.
Do not remain silent, and when u speak it should be in relevant to the topic.
Do not try to stop someone when he/she is speaking.
Do not dominate, give a fair chance to others.
4 out of 8 people were selected in our batch.


Interview:

There was a panel of three people.2 technical and 1 HR.
Questions asked were:
I was asked in which areas I’m interested in. (like music, sports, writing etc.)
Why Satyam. (see their website before the test)
3) Project
Family Background.
Career Aspirations.

I was asked lot of questions regarding my project. So be thorough with your project and the language(s) in which it is done.

My interview lasted for 20-30 minutes.
Be cool and confident while answering. If u do not know something say it frankly.
Be careful while u answer, do not say something that u do not know.

Before the Interview, the HR Manager told us that they are only seeing whether u have the potential to work in a team or not.