Placement Papers - TCS

TCS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 27 APR 2007 - MANIPAL

Hi Friends

This is Arnab from Manipal. I Got selected in Asia's no. 1 Company. TCS came to our college on 27th April. about 700 students appeared for the test; 450 Cleared the  written.
There were 3 rounds of interview...tech,mr,hr...

At last 273 were placed..

There  were 3 sections........
1. English general (synonym 10,antonym 10, reading comprehension, and sentence completion (quite tough))
2. general aptitude(38 questions) including di and venn diagram(easy ones)
3. critical reasoning 3 questions(everything from gre barrrons 12th edition...

Some of the Synonyms are.....
Banal, deterrent, vacillate, wethargy, baneful, solliloquy, rinaile, revile

Antonyms were.....
Desecrate, cogent, raucous...go thru antonym questions from barrons 12th edition....all will be common

For aptitude...previous years papers are more than sufficient..same thing is almost repeated..very very easy questions. Here are some of the questions I remember

1)  It was a Number series
4, -5, 11, -14, 22, ---
n^2-1 series.........3 8 15 24 ?

2) It was a word SENSATIONAL if you interchange 1st word with 2nd, 3rd with 4th n so on what will be the 10th word from right..?

3)  What is the largest 6 bit prime number ? Ans := 61

4) A = 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
B = 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0
C = 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0
what is (A U B)U C ? ans : = 255

5) 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? Ans = 13

6) Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices?(Hint det(A)==0)

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

8) In a two-dimensional array, X(7,9), 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(5,8)?

9) One curve problem was given ..
x          y
0.99    0.001
9         0.9
99       1.998
999     3
If y = f(x) find f(x)? Ans logx

10) What is the value of M(373, 5) + R(7.8) - T(6.4) + R( 3.4)
M- MODULAS R- ROUNDOFF T- TRUNCATE

11) Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices

12 ) Given the length of the 3 sides of a triangle. Find the one that is impossible?

13) A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 900 meters width. A cable is made from power unit to power plant opposite to that of the river and 3000mts away from the power unit.The cost of the cable below water isRs.4/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.5/-per meter. Find the total of laying the cable ?

14)Match the following:
a. Brake CAR     -> a type of
b mother women -> a superset of
c. Ceagle  DOG  -> A part of
d.mushroom  vegetable  -> Not a
very easy

15)A Flght takes off at 2 A.M from 32 N 40 E and travels for 9 hours to reach the destination which is at 12 N 50 W. Find the local time of destination when the flight reaches there?  ( soln : 1 degree =4 minutes.. Neglect the latitudes .. 40 - (-50) =90 degree = 90 * 4 =360 mins =6 hrs.....time of reaching = 2AM + (9 - 6){substraction as from east to west}hrs =5 A.M ans)

16)3 questions from piechart about subjects passed (easy)...

17)3 questions about a graph about production of resources in varios years..quite easy..

18) find units: (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance )ANS=KG

19) Select the odd one out a. WAP b. HTTP c. BAAN d. ARP e.SMTP
ans = BAAN

20) Select the odd one out a. Java   b. Lisp   c. Smalltalk   d. Eiffel. e. Fortan
ans := Lisp

21) (a) 2+6i (b)1+i (c) 6-2i (d) 1-7i .Find which of the above is orthogonal.

22) which is power of 4 ?
a. 2052 b.  c.4096 d. e.
ans(4096)

23)If VXUPLVH is written as SURMISE, what is SHDVD?

24) Select the odd one out a. SQL b. DB2 c. SYBASE d. HTTP e .Ingress
ans : = HTTP

25)Find the value of the 678 to the base 7.

26)one question like g(0)=1 , g(1)=2) g(n)=g(n-1)-g(n-2)
find g(6)?

REASONING (12 questions from 3 passeges)
also listing questions from my friends sets  ALL WERE FROM BARRONS 12th edition..

TECHNICAL/MR  INTERVIEW
It was a NOT A cakewalk...
1. The guy handed me a piece of paper and asked me to write program to reverse character string and factorial (using recursion)...gave me 10 mins then asked me to explain) which i did gleefully.
2.Asked me the diff between C++ & java..
3.abt dbms...joins and normalization
4.java questions..........quite easy..applets, and few abt awt
5.a program on  bubble sort
6.thread and process differences......
7.if u have a project.....just  get a good knowledge abt it...............

45 mins. interview in my case.. a stress one but just keep ur cool..u will clear it with ease.. thats it no more tech..

MR
What would you do if u are rejected ? ans : said i will look back at my performance and turn my  -ve points into my +ve points)...
Asked me 1-2 questions about family..

here also they asked me abt my project then asked me if i had any questions..its a must..

HR interview
it was cakewalk for me......just  a 2 min stuf. just a formality.. He asked me about my hobbies ..all of which i answered confidently...