Placement Papers - IBM

first of all heartiest thanx to all of you for your gud wishes to me. here i am going to describe my experience with interview pannel of IBM hop sum of you will surely benefit.

round 1-written test (20 apptitude+20 technical)i8n 40 min ,no -ve marking
technical consisted of questions from C/Dbms and few general questions.
apptitutde consisted cat pattern comprehension and logical reasoning questions.
q1) difference between replicated and distributed database
q2) trace the ouput
  struct s{
   int i,char j}
  main()
  {
  struct s s1;
  s.s1=5;
printf("%d",s.s1);
}
q3) condition for empty queue
q4) trace the output
  main()
  {
  int i,j;
  int *p,*q;
  p=&i;
q=&j;
i = 10;
j= 2;
  i = *i++ + --*j;
  j = --i* - ++*j;
printf("%d%d",i,j);
printf("%d%d",*p,*q);
}
q5)you hav to link your prog to a database what kind of dsn you wud prepare on a system having os other than windows
1) user dsn 2)system dsn 3) file dsn 4) all the above
q6) an algo was given and was asked which sorting algorithm was it
these are simplest questions rest i don remember.

tech interview
1) why c++ is called so ?
2)what do tou understand by preprocessor explain in detail
3) why #;
4) opeartor overloading
5) what r differences in multiple inheritance in c++ and java their advantage;
6) what is Data Command Language
7) renamong a table
renaming a coloumn
8) no of files generated in a C source code
9) Components of JVM
10)new features of oracle 9i
11) creating a new database in oracle
12) migrating from access to oracle
13) what is PL
14) which buks do you follow for SQL/PL
questions based on that buk
15)SDLC
16) questions related to my projects coding and database handling.
17) performance tuning of database
18) a) there are 10 nodes conneted to a hub u are a LAN administrator
one of hosts complains for no communication what is your 1st step
b) now all of them start complining what is your first step
19) you hav 8 lt of milk in a jug and u hav two empty jugs for 3 an 5 lt. measure exactly 4 lt. generate a method
there were many other questions the session continued for sum 25 mins
tech wasn\'t easy

HR round
1) fav subject
2) kind of work you prefer
3)if not given your choice of work
4) about shift working
5) choice for relocation why
6) kind of working environment i prefer, collegues
7)again many questions on my projects
many more questions session continued for 20 mins
see there was no hard fast rule that HR people are going to ask HR question and tech people are going to ask tech questions.
any one can ask u anything