Placement Papers - TCS

TCS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 06 OCT 2007

Hi Friends

I attended written test on 6th Oct 2007. Written test contains 4 parts. prepare from old papers same will be repeated.

1- Verbal (10 synonms, 10 antonyms, reading comprehension 6q, sentence completion 6q)
2- Quant  38 q
3- Critical  12 q

1 Verbal: prepare gre barrons exercises

Synonyms:
furtive=stealthy
twardy=meritricous
incocus=harmless
cleft= split
intrepid=courageous
brackish=salty
equanimity=composure.
sedate=tranquilse

Antonyms:
precipitate : dilatory
proptious  :unfavourable
..........
RC:from gre barrons 12th edition
sentence completion: extracted from rc passages only.(gre barrons 12th edition)

2-QUANT: prepare old question papers only its enough.
topics:
time and distance, time and work, bitwise complements, substitutions, coding and decoding..

3. Critical Reasoning: from gre 12 th edition only.
passages are
1. museum passage,
2. g and h,l and k arrangments
3. both hindi and telugu, from sets.
just thorough with old papers it will be enough.

Tech interview:
sir:tell me about yourself  
(be confident and with a smile)
operating systems: what do u know about os?
1.deadlock, starvation diff
2.resourses of operating system
3.name scheduling algorithms, which is efficient
4.virtual memory, cache diff
5.segmentation, paging, semaphore, monitor definitions and their usage
6.bankers algorithm is used for?
7.fcfs, round robin  
...
computer networks:
1. types os network (lan,wan,man)
2. osi layers (name layers and their uses)
3. transport layers
......
C, C++
1.some programs r given on pointers, arrays. we have to find out output, errors.
2.swapping of variables using third variable, without third variable.
3.increment /decrement operators
4.some programs
5.dyanamic allocation (malloc, realloc...)

data structures:
1.stack, queue definitions, circular queue
2.linked list  uses
3.some questions on trees, bfs, dfs...

MR and HR:
Why TCS?
how long would u stay in this company?

Just be confident and justify ur skills and activities which u have mentioned in resume if u dont know dont blame them be positive attitude with a good smile.

Chinnu