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SEBI (Secuties and Exchange Board Of India) Interview Experience - April 26th, 2015 - Kolkata
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SEBI Recruitment For Information Systems Officers (Technical Stream) - April 26th, 2015.
Location: Kolkata.

Questions Pattern:

1) Reasoning - 40 Questions - 50 Marks.
2) Quant - 40 Questions - 50 Marks.
3) English - 40 Questions - 50 Marks.
4) General Awareness - 40 Questions - 50 Marks.
5) Professional Knowledge - 40 Questions - 100 Marks.

Total Marks: 300.
Total Time: 2 Hours.
Note: Negative of 1/4th of the value of the question wrongly answered.

Types of Questions:
1) Reasoning: Syllogism, Coded Inequalities, Seating Arrangements, Data Sufficiency, Blood Relations, Coding Decoding, Cause and Action, Strengthening and Weakening Arguments.

2)Quantitative: Huge emphasis on number systems, Profit and Loss, Speed Time and Distance, Time and Work, Charts-Bar, Table, ie.

3) English: A passage had to be read based on which a few questions were asked. Finding the incorrect part of a given sentence. Arranging jumbled sentences in correct order. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word.

4) General Awareness:
Around 10 Banking-related Questions related to terms: Basis Points, CRR, SLR, Repo Rate, RBI.

The remaining 30 questions based on current affairs/GK: Currency, Capital City, Author, Sports, Chief Ministers of Different States. Awards related to sports and cinema, Committees set up recently.

5) Professional Knowledge:
Networking: 40%.
Databases: 40%.
Project Management Best Practices: 10%.
Others (C++/Java/OS/Unix): 10%.

I) Networking:
DHCP, Denial Of Service, Protocols, Network Security, Cryptography, Abbreviations, Roles of different personnel in cyber security.

II) C++ inline functions, difference between C & C++. Java Inner classes. There were no coding (find the o/p) questions. All theoretical. You just need to know what inline functions, inner classes are to answer the questions.

III) Project Management Best Practices. E.g. What should be done first to create a web app/disaster recovery plan?

IV) Databases & ERP:
Triggers, Joins. Again, no coding questions. Just theoretical knowledge is required to answer the question. Some ERP-related questions. SAP REA, BI basics.

V) Unix commands and basic OS.

VI) Some basic computer awareness.

A strong theoretical grasp is required to answer the questions. No questions related to coding / Find the o/p type. No mathematical calculation is required in professional knowledge. Entirely theory-based.