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Campus Placement Papers IBM


Posted Date: 04 Jul 2008    Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing    Category: Placement Papers

Posted By: sunil       Member Level: Diamond
Rating:     Points: 2









IBM QUESTIONS




1. like 3 consecutive prime adds to some no what is that

ans: both 49 and 59.



2. one persont travlled 4 laps with the speed of 10,20,40 ( or 30) and 60 kmph

and what is the average speed.

ans: 20 (sure)

3.like one student takes 20 mins if he go with speed 15kmph and at what speed he

should go to reach in 15 mins ( nos are not same)

ans: 16kmph( but not sure)


9.like from height of 8 mts on ball fell down and each time it bounces half the

distnace back. so what will be the distance travelled

ans: 24 (sure) like 8+4+4+2+2+1+1+0.5+0.5+ and etc ..

10.like 6 cubes are arranged adjacentlay and given the perimeter and aksed to

find the perimeter of one cube.

ans: if x is the total perimeter then (x/14)*4 leads to the answer.

but check it once u will be having plenty of time.

answer is 52 (13*4)



11. some data is given like this 10kmph in still water ship took some x mins
and downstream some y mins in same time what is the stream value ....
(q is not exat)

ans: 3 (not sure)



12.some average problem like 16 students average weight and teacher
joins them ....

ans: 23 (sure) do this (16x+40)/(x+1) will give the value.



13. some probelm on square like to increase area by 69% by
what percent side should be incresed

ans: square root of 169 i.e 13 ( not sure)

14. no of rational nos b/w 0 and 5

ans: infinite

15. First day of 1999 is sunday what day is the last day

ans: monday



16. bullets probel some x no of bullets are shared by 3 people equally .
and each fired 4 bullets then the sum of remaining bullets is equal to
intially divsion value

ans: 18 (sure)



17. bread problem, one come and eat half no of breads and somthing...

ans: 63( check it)


18. like A can do in 6 day and B can do in 8 and C can do in 12 days
but b left after working for 6 days for how many no of day A and C shluld work

ans: 11( i dont think so this is correct)


19) if a person sells a product for rs141/- he suffers a loss of 6%.
if he has to have a profit of 10%,
at what price should he sell it?


ans.rs.165 (i think,check)


20) A ball falls from a height of 8ft ,
bounces back to half the distance & continues till it comes to rest.
what is the total distance travelled by the ball?

(a)24ft

(b)...

(c)infinite

(d)cannot be determined

ans:(a)



21)which of the following is the sum of 3 consecutive prime nos?

(a)49

(b)59

(c)both a &b

(d)....

ans:c



22)if 3 houses are to be painted,mr A can paint a house in 6 days(nos are not same)...
mr B can do the same in 8 days...& mr.C in 12 days.if mr A does the work for 8 days
& leaves for vacation, & mr B continues the work for the next 6 days,
for how many days should mr.C work?

ans:11 days(check)



23)4 thieves rob a bakery of the breadone after the other.
each thief takes half of what is present ,& half
a bread...if at the end 3 bread remains,
what is the no of bread that was present initiallly?

ans:63(check)



24) If A driver drives a car four times a lap 10,20 30,60 kmph what

is his average speed.

ans:20kmph


25) six squares of same dimension are kept side by side to make a rectangle
with a perimeter of 182 cm. what is the perimeter of each square.

ans) 52.



26) one student takes 20 mins to reach school if he goes at a speed of 15kmph .
At what speed should he go to reach in 15 mins ( nos are not same)

ans: 16kmph ( check)

27) how many rational numbers are there between 0 & 5

ans:infinite

28)A certain number of bullets were shared by 3 people equally.
Each of them fired 4 bullets and the sum of the remaining bullets
was equal to the initial share each had got.what was the initial
number of bullets?

ans:18..( 18/3=6;
6-4=2,6-4=2,6-4=2;
2+2+2=6=ans)



Technical:



29)A trigger is

(a) a statement ..start of database..

(b)statements that r executed as a side effect to the modification to the database

(c)...

(d)...

ans (b)



30) what does the following statement mean?

int (*a)[4]

(a)'a' is a pointer to an array of 4 integers

(b)'a' is an array of pointers to integer

(c)'a' is a pointer to function returning an integer

(d)...

ans:a



31) best method to find out whether a given array already sorted,is sorted or not in min. time

ans. insertion sort (check)



32) a primary key in one table also present in some other table is called

(a)foreign key

(b)secondary key

(c)subordinate key

(d)...

ans. foreign key





33)what is the difference between 123 and 0123 in c?

(a)120

(b)40

(c)0

(d)...

ans:40


34)x-=y+1 is equivalent to what?

(a)x=x-y+1

(b)...

(c)x=x-y-1

(d)...

ans:(c)



35. In A,B,C are having some marbles with each of them.
A has given B and C the same number of marbles each of them already have.
Then, B gave C and A the same number of marbles they already have.
Then C gave A and B the same number of marbles they already have.
At the end A,B,and C have equal number of marbles.

(i) If x,y,z are the marbles initially with A,B,C respectively.
Then the number of marbles B have at the end

(a) 2(x-y-z)
(b) 4(x-y-z)
(c) 2(3y-x-z)
(d) x + y-z

Ans. (c)

(ii) If the total number of marbles are 72,
then the number of marbles with A at the starting

(a) 20
(b) 30
(c) 32
(d) 39

Ans. (d)


36. If a car starts from A towards B with some velocity.
Due to some problem in the engine after travelling 30km,
the car goes with 4/5 th of its actual velocity
The car reaches B 45 min later to the actual time.
If the car engine fails ofter travelling 45km,
the car reaches the destination B 36min late to the actual time
What is the initial velocity of car and
what is the distance between A and B in km

Ans. 20 & 130.


37) two clocks meet at 12.Next time they meet again after

Ans 65.45



38) Age of Grandfather is the ages of 4 grandchildren

where their ages are in consective.Find the age of GF

I think 72

39) 3 person waiting for the train Some conditions

given.Finally they ask the time.

Ans is 4.37


40)20 men construct a wall 56m in some days similar one

ans 49 (check aggarwal)


41. which 3 consequtive prime numbers gives the total

ans: 49 (13,17,19)

42. Rational numbers between 1 and 5

1. 3

2. 2

3. 0

4.infinite (ans)

5.finite.


43.A cube of 3 unit has 6 surface is painted.

If u cut the cube of 1 unit each how many cubes remain unpainted on all sides.

ans.1


44 .A person sold an article at Rs.141 at 6% loss,

to gain a profit of 10% at what price the article should be sold.

ans: 165

45. If person 20 min at 12 kmph. then how many Kmph in 15 minutes

Ans.16

46. Three person shared bullets equally.

4 were shot total no of bullets remainin is equal to the no of bullets initially divided

ans : 18

47. 1st day of the year 1999 is sunday and what will be last day of the same year

ans sunday


48. If a ball is dropped from 8ft and it bounces half the height each time.

Then the total distance travelled

ans.24

49. 6 squares of equal size are placed side by side to form a rectangle
whose perimeter is 182. find the perimeter of the single square.

ans 52



50.the average age of students in a class is 16.

when a teacher of age 40 is added , the average becoems 17.

what is the total number of students

ans.23

51. The command grep first second third /usr/you/myfile

a) prints lines containing the words first, second or
third from the file /usr/you/myfile

b) searches for lines containing the pattern first in the files
second, third, and /usr/you/myfile and prints them

c) searches the files /usr/you/myfiel and third for
lines containing the words first or second and prints them

d) replaces the word first with the word second in the files
third and /usr/you/myfile

e) None of the above

Ans. (b)



(52). In A,B,C are having some marbles with each of them.

A has given B and C the same number of marbles each of them already have.

Then, B gave C and A the same number of marbles they already have.

Then C gave A and B the same number of marbles they already have.

At the end A,B,and C have equal number of marbles.

(i) If x,y,z are the marbles initially with A,B,C respectively.
??
? Then the number of marbles B have at the end

(a) 2(x-y-z)

(b) 4(x-y-z)

(c) 2(3y-x-z)

(d)? x + y-z

Ans. (c)


(ii) If the total number of marbles are 72,

then the number of marbles with A at the starting

(a) 20 (b) 30 (c) 32 (d) 39

Ans. (d)

(53). If a car starts from A towards B with some velocity.

Due to some problem in the engine after travelling 30km,

the car goes with 4/5 th of its actual velocity.

The car reaches B 45 min later to the actual time.

If the car engine fails ofter travelling 45km,

the car reaches the destination B 36 min late to the actual time.

What is the initial velocity of car and
what is the distance between A and B in km


Ans. 20 & 130.


(54) In a class, except 18 all are above 50 years.

15 are below 50 years of age. How many people are there?

(a) 30
(b) 33
(c) 36
(d) none of these.

Ans. (d)

(55). The UNIX shell ....

a) does not come with the rest of the system
b) forms the interface between the user and the kernal
c) does not give any scope for programming
d) deos not allow calling one program from with in another
e) all of the above

Ans. (b)

(56). The very first process created by the kernal that runs
till the kernal process is halts is

a) init
b) getty
c) both (a) and (b)
d) none of these

Ans. (a)

(57). Output of the following program is

main()
{int i=0;
for(i=0;i<20;i++)
{switch(i)
case 0:i+=5;
case 1:i+=2;
case 5:i+=5;
default i+=4;
break;}
printf("%d,",i);
}
}

a) 0,5,9,13,17
b) 5,9,13,17
c) 12,17,22
d) 16,21
e) Syntax error

Ans. (d)

(58). What is the ouptut in the following program?

main()
{char c=-64;
int i=-32
unsigned int u =-16;
if(c>i)
{printf("pass1,");
if(c

Ans. (c)

(58). In the process table entry for the kernel process,
the process id value is

(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 255
(e) it does not have a process table entry

Ans. (a)

(59). Which of the following API is used to hide a window
a) ShowWindow
b) EnableWindow
c) MoveWindow
d) SetWindowPlacement
e) None of the above

Ans. (a)

(60). What will the following program do?
void main()
{
int i;
char a[]="String";
char *p="New Sring";
char *Temp;
Temp=a;
a=malloc(strlen(p) + 1);
strcpy(a,p); //Line number:9//
p = malloc(strlen(Temp) + 1);
strcpy(p,Temp);
printf("(%s, %s)",a,p);
free(p);
free(a);
} //Line number 15//
a) Swap contents of p & a and print:(New string, string)
b) Generate compilation error in line number 8
c) Generate compilation error in line number 5
d) Generate compilation error in line number 7
e) Generate compilation error in line number 1

Ans. (b)

(61). In the following code segment what will be the result of the function,
value of x , value of y {unsigned int x=-1;
int y;
y = ~0;
if(x == y)
printf("same");
else
printf("not same");
}
a) same, MAXINT, -1
b) not same, MAXINT, -MAXINT
c) same , MAXUNIT, -1
d) same, MAXUNIT, MAXUNIT
e) not same, MAXINT, MAXUNIT

Ans. (a)



(62). What will be the result of the following program ?
char *gxxx()
{static char xxx[1024];
return xxx;
}
main()
{char *g="string";
strcpy(gxxx(),g);
g = gxxx();
strcpy(g,"oldstring");
printf("The string is : %s",gxxx());
}
a) The string is : string
b) The string is :Oldstring
c) Run time error/Core dump
d) Syntax error during compilation
e) None of these

Ans. (b)



(63). Which function is the entry point for a DLL in MS Windows 3.1

a) Main
b) Winmain
c) Dllmain
d) Libmain
e) None

Ans. (b)

(64). The standard source for standard input,
standard output and standard error is

a) the terminal
b) /dev/null
c) /usr/you/input, /usr/you/output/, /usr/you/error respectively
d) None

Ans. (a)


(65). The redirection operators > and ?

a) do the same function
b) differ : > overwrites, while ? appends
c) differ : > is used for input while ? is used for output
d) differ : > write to any file while ? write only to standard output
e) None of these

Ans. (b)


66. A clerk multiplied a number by ten when it should have been divided by?

ten.The ans he got was 100.what should the ans have been?

a:1

67.If Rs20/- is available to pay for typing a research report & typist A?

produces 42 pages and typist B produces 28 pages.How much should typist A?

receive?

a:Rs12/-

68.The average salary of 3 workers is 95 Rs. per week. If one earns?

Rs.115 and second earns Rs.65 how much is the salary of the 3rd worker.

Ans.105.

69.A 16 stored building has 12000 sq.feet on each floor. Company A rents 7?

floors and company B rents 4 floors. What is the number of sq.feet of?

unrented floor space.?

Ans.60000

70. During a given week A programer spends 1/4 of his time preparing flow?

chart, 3/8 of his time coding and the rest of the time in debugging the?

programs. If he works 48 hours during the week , how many hours did he?

spend debugging the program.

Ans. 18.

71. A company installed 36 machines at the beginning of the year. In March?

they installed 9 additional machines and then disconnected 18 in August.

How many were still installed at the end of the year.?

Ans. 27

72. A man owns 2/3 of the market research beauro business and sells 3/4 of?

his shares for Rs. 75000. What is the value of Business.?

Ans.150000

73. If 12 file cabinets require 18 feet of wall space, how many feet of?

wall space will 30 cabinets require?

Ans.45

74.A computer printer produced 176,400 lines in a given day. If the?

printer was in operation for seven hours during the day, how many lines?

did it print per minute?

Ans.420

75. From its total income, A sales company spent Rs.20,000 for?

advertising, half of the remainder on commissions and had Rs.6000 left.?

What was its total income?

Ans.32000


76. On Monday a banker processed a batch of cheques, on Tuesday she?

processed three times as many, and on Wednesday she processed 4000?

cheques. In




Responses

Author: kinner    24 Aug 2008Member Level: Silver   Points : 1
for question 74 the correct answer is 52000RS.. The revenue of company is 52000..


Author: sunil    24 Aug 2008Member Level: Diamond   Points : 0
Thanks kinner for the correction.


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