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TCS QUESTIONS 2007 (Selected Set For Job Placement)
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TCS    QUESTIONS 2007
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This TCS paper is very very easy and all should look at this.

  
Critical  Reasoning.
     
The   players G,H,J,K,L,M,N,O are to be felicitated of representing the county   team in Baseball Out of these H,M,O also are in the Football team and K,N   are there in the Basket ball team . These players are to be seated on a   table and no two players who has represented the county in more than one   game are to sit together.
   1.Which one of the orders can they be seated in
   2. Which of the orders is not possible
   3. If N is seated in the middle then which of the following pairs cannot be   seated near him .
   4. If M is seated then which of the following pairs can be seated next to   him.
  
  
   Choices are given for all the questions:
     
There   are 2 groups named Brown and red. They can?t marry in the same group. If the   husband or wife dies then the person will convert to their own group. If a   person is married then the husband will have to change his group to his   wife? group. The child will own the mothers group. From these a set of 4   questions were given .Solve them
   Eg;
   1.Brown?s daughter is red (False)
   2. If a person is red. Then his/her mother?s brother belong to which group   if he is married (Brown)
  
     
7   people - a,b,c,d,e,f,g Need to make a seating arrangement for them.
   Conditions:
   1)A should be at the center
   2) B,F should be at the right extreme
   3)C,E always in pair
   4)D,G as far as possible
   Questions from the above were asked?
  
   Eg:
   Which of the following pairs were not possible?
   Others questions were similar to the above. More questions were from   Barrons.
    

 
HR Questions
    
Market   urself
     
Why   TCS ?
     
Will   u switch over to any other company after joining TCS? If NO then why?
     
R   u mobile? ( R u ready to go anywhere ?)
     
R   u ready to go to places of extreme temperature. If yes what do u think of ur   safety?
     
Rate   ur good qualities?
     
What   is the difference between hard and smart work?
     
Do   u have a plan of doing higher studies ?
      

  
Technical Questions
The questions were different for different persons and depends on the field of interest that u say.
    
Communication
      
OSI   Layers in n/w with the functionalities
     
TCP/IP   protocol
     
Bridges,   Routers, LAN, WAN, MAN
     
Token   bus, FDDI, Ethernet
  
C Language

     
Datastructures   esp :Linked list and trees
     
Structures   , unions, Kind of variables ( local ,Global)
     
Strrev(   ) program
     
Case   structure (it is not the usual switch case stat)
     
Calloc,malloc
     
Divide   2 number and print the o/p ( NOTE: Check for divide by zero error)
  
 
TECHNICAL QUESTIONS TCS

    
In   a two-dimensional array, X (9, 7), 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 (8, 5).
   ANS: 3212
  
     
In   the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first and second, third and forth, forth and   fifth, fifth and sixth words are interchanged up to the last letter, what   would be the tenth letter from right?
   ANS: I(ROANISATIONALG)
  
     
What   is the largest prime number that can be stored in an 8-bit memory?
   ANS:127
  
     
Select   the odd one out. a. Java b. Lisp c. Smalltalk d.Eiffel.
   ANS: LISP
  
     
Select   the odd one out a. SMTP b. WAP c. SAP d. ARP
   ANS: SAP
  
     
Select   the odd one out a. Oracle b. Linux c. Ingress d. DB2
   ANS:LINUX
  
     
Select   the odd one out a. WAP b. HTTP c. BAAN d. ARP
   ANS:BAAN
  
     
Select   the odd one out a. LINUX b. UNIX c. SOLARIS d. SQL SERVER ANS:SQL SERVER
  
     
Select   the odd one out a. SQL b. DB2 c. SYBASE d. HTTP
   ANS:HTTP
  
     
The   size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M   = square root of 100N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then   how much memory now occupied?
  
     
A   man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do   it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do   the same work?
   ANS:16
  
     
In   which of the system, decimal number 194 is equal to 1234?
   ANS:5
  
     
Find   the value of the 678 to the base 7.
   ANS:1656
  
     
Number   of faces, vertices and edges of a cube
   ANS:6,8,12
  
     
Find   the value of @@+25-++@16, where @ denotes "square" and + denotes   "square root".
   ANS:121
  
     
Find   the result of the following _expression if, M denotes modulus operation, R   denotes round-off, T denotes truncation:
   M(373,5)+R(3.4)+T(7.7)+R(5.8)
   ANS:19
  
     
If   TAFJHH is coded as RBEKGI then RBDJK can be coded as ---------
   ANS:PCCKJ
  
     
G(0)=-1,   G(1)=1, G(N)=G(N-1) - G(N-2), G(5)= ?
   ANS:-2
  
     
What   is the max possible 3 digit prime number?
  
     
A   power unit is there by the bank of the river of 750 meters width. A cable is   made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river and   1500mts away from the power unit. The cost of the cable below water is Rs.   15/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.12/- per meter. Find the   total of laying the cable.
   ANS:20250
  
     
The   size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M   = square root of 100N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then   how much memory now occupied?
  
     
In   Madras, temperature at noon varies according to -t^2/2 + 8t + 3, where t is   elapsed time. Find how much temperature more or less in 4pm to 9pm.
   ANS: 385.8(DB)
  
     
The   size of the bucket is N kb. The bucket fills at the rate of 0.1 kb per   millisecond. A programmer sends a program to receiver. There it waits for 10   milliseconds. And response will be back to programmer in 20 milliseconds.   How much time the program takes to get a response back to the programmer,   after it is sent?
   ANS: 30MILISECOND
  
     
A   man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do   it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do   the same work?
  
     
If   the vertex (5,7) is placed in the memory. First vertex (1,1) ?s address is   1245 and then address of (5,7) is --------
  
     
Which   of the following are orthogonal pairs? a. 3i+2j b. i+j c. 2i-3j d. -7i+j
   ANS: (A)& (C).
  
     
If   VXUPLVH is written as SURMISE, what is SHDVD?
   ANS: PEASA
  
     
If   A, B and C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the wastage of fuel   by 30%, 20% and 10%. What will be the fuel economy if they were used   combined.
   ANS: 20%
  
     
What   is the power of 2? a. 2068 b.2048 c.2668
   ANS: (B). 2048
  
     
Complete   the series. 3, 8, --, 24, --, 48, 63
   ANS: 15,35
  
     
Complete   the series. 3, 8, --, 24, --, 48, 63
   ANS: 15,35
  
     
Complete   the series. 4, -5, 11, -14, 22, ---
   ANS: -27
  
     
A,   B and C are 8 bit no?s. They are as follows:
   A 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1
   B 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
   C 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1
   Find ( (A-B) u C )=?
   Hint : A-B is {A} - {A n B}
   ANS: 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (DB)
  
     
A   Flight takes off at 2 A.M from northeast direction and travels for 11 hours   to reach the destination which is in north west direction.Given the latitude   and longitude of source and destination. Find the local time of destination   when the flight reaches there?
   ANS: 1:00 P.M
  
   

     
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
  
     
A   is twice efficient than B. A and B can both work together to complete a work   in 7 days. Then find in how many days A alone can complete the work?
   ANS: 10.5 DAYS(11)
  
     
A   finish the work in 10 days. B is 60% efficient than A. So hoW days does B   take to finish the work?
   ANS : 4DAYS.
  
     
A   finishes the work in 10 days & B in 8 days individually. If A works for   only 6 days then how many days should B work to complete A?s work?
   ANS : 3.2 DAYS(4)
  
     
Given   the length of the 3 sides of a triangle. Find the one that is impossible?   (HINT : sum of smaller 2 sides is greater than the other one which is   larger)
  
     
Find   the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices?(Hint det(A)=0)
  
     
A   2D array is declared as A[9,7] and each element requires 2 byte.If A[ 1,1 ]   is stored in 3000. Find the memory of A[8,5] ?
   ANS: 3106.
  
     
Sum   of slopes of 2 perpendicular st. lines is given. Find the pair of lines from   the given set of options which satisfy the above condition?
  
     
(a)   2+3i (b)1+i (c) 3-2i (d) 1-7i .Find which of the above is orthogonal.
   ANS : (A) & (C).
  
     
The   number 362 in decimal system is given by (1362)x in the X system of numbers   find the value of X a}5 b) 6 c) 7 d) 8 e) 9
   

     
Given   $ means Tripling and % means change of sign then find the value of $%$6-%$%6
   ANS : -72
  
     
My   flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed 10 Hrs later at a   place with coordinates 36N70W. What is the local time when my plane landed.
   a) 6:00 am b) 6:40am c)7:40 d)7:00 e)8:00 (Hint : Every 1 deg longitude is   equal to 4 minutes . If west to east add time else subtract time)
   ANS: (E) 8:00
  
     
Find   the highest prime number that can be stored in an 8bit computer.
  
     
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