Placement Papers - CTS

Cognizant Technology Solutions
CTS PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 04 MAR 2007 - KOLKATA
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Vikas
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Hi Friends

CTS came to our campus (Techno India) on 4th Mar. It has 3 sections:
Verbal, Quantitative & Reasoning.
No -ve marking, no sectional cut-off

Verbal section (Very very tough. I could solve maximum 7-8 questions)
2 reading comprehensions

About a travel agency & about a fantacy story consisting of Alice & a cat
4 questions from each comprehension
4 jumbled sentences
4 sentences were given & we had to find to the incorrect sentence from among them
4 sentences were given & we had to find out the correct sentence

Quantitative section (Really very easy. Some questions colud be solved mentally)
2 questions on Venn diagram
1 question on perm n comb
4-5 ques on binary no conversion
4-5 ques on data sufficiency
3-4 ques on cubes

Reasoning section (Very very easy)
Series completion (both no series & picture series)
Logical reasoning (to be solved by Venn diagram)
1 puzzle

The Technical & HR interviews were held together. It was very cool. Some questions were like:
  * Introduce urself briefly
  * What were ur previous sems subjects?
  * So what is a microprocessor?
  * What does the address bus do?
  * Upon whose instructions does it carry the address bits?
  * What is a clock?
  * What does the read & write signal do?
  * What languages do u know? (I mentioned C, C++, Java)
  * Is C a high-level or a low-level language?
  * What is high-level & a low- level language?
  * Give examples of each.
  * Do u have any interests in sports?
  * Which club? (I had mentioned swimming in my CV)
  * What is a kernel?
  * Why is normalisation done?
  * What is a stack?
  * Do u have any idea abt offshore?
  * What is the latest trend in IT?
  * Do u read newspapers?
  * So what is todays headlines?
  * Can u work outside?

Finally the results were out next day & by god\'s sake I was among the selected candidates.... Wish u all a very very good luck...... hope meet u in CTS.....

Sreeya