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IBM placement paper


Posted Date: 20 Dec 2007    Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing    Category: Placement Papers

Posted By: valenteena       Member Level: Gold
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1. In 1978, a kg of paper was sold at Rs25/- If the paper rate increases at 1.5% more than the inflation rate which is 6.5% a year, then what will be the cost of a kg of paper after 2 years?(a) 29.12
(b) 29.72
(c) 30.12
(d) 32.65
(e) none of these

2. 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)

3. 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.

4. A person has Rs 100/- in his pocket, he can as 25 pencils or 15 books. He kept 15% of the money for travelling expenses and purchased 5 pencils. So how many books he can purchase with the remaining money.
5. Ten questions on analogies. eg: chief : tribe :: governor : state
epaulette : shoulder :: tiara : head
guttural : throat :: gastric : stomach
inept : clever :: languid : active
knife : butcher ::
hammer : carpenter ::

6. The values of shares (in Rs).of A, B and C from January to June are as follows.
Month A B C
January 30 60 80
February 35 65 85
March 45 75 65
April 40 75 82
May 55 75 85
June 50 75 80

i) During this period which share has undergone maximium fluctuation?
ii) In which month it is possible to buy B and C selling A?
iii) In which month the share values are very low?
iv) By purchasing one share of A and 4 each of B and C in the beginning of the period,
when shoudl these be sold to get maximum profit?

7. In a computer institute 9 languages can be taught. The module is of 6 months duration and of the six languages only one can be taught each month . In addition to that BASIC is always taught and should be in first month itself
• WORD PERFECT is to be taught in the preceeding week of WORD STAR.
• FORTRAN can not be taught until COBAL is taught prior to that
• BINO, FIFO can never be taught in single module
Languages are BASIC, WORD STAR, WORD PERFECT, FORTRAN, COBAL, BINO, FIFO, LOTUS, C
i) If word star is in 3rd month , what could be in 6th month.
ii) If COBAL is in the 2nd month and BINO in 6th month. FORTRAN will be taught in which month.
8. 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)

9. A square plate of some size is cut at four corners. Equal squares of the same size are cut and is formed as open box.If this open box carries 128 ml of oil. What is the size of the side of the plate?
(a) 17
(b) 14
(c) 13
(d) None of these

10. In a square, all the mid points are joined. The inner square is shaded. If the area of the square is A, what is the area of the shaded area?
11. Two questions on basic angles i.e given a circle, a few chords or diameter is drawn etc.
12. If the follwoing statements are given
• @(a,b)= (a+b)/2
• /(a,b)= a/b
• *(a,b)= ab
If a=1, b=2 then find
i) /(a,(@(a,b),*(a,b)))
ii) */(a,@(*(a,b)))

13. If the follwoing statements are given
• (x#y) = x + y- xy
• (x*y) = (x + y)/2
i) Find the values of x, y will satisfy this equation (x#y)#(x*y) < (x#y)
ii) Find the values of x, y will satisfy this equation (a*b)#(b*c)< (a#b)*(b*c)

14. Export PS1 results in(PS1 pwd)
a) primary prompt being your current directory
b) primary prompt and secondary prompts being the current directory
c) primary prompt prompt being your home directory
d) primary prompt and secondary prompts being the home directory
e) None of the above.

15. If you type in the comman nohup sort employees > list 2 > error out & and log off ,the next time you log in, the output will be
a) in a file called list and the error will de typed in a file error out
b) there will be no file called list or error out
c) error will be logged in a file called list and o/p will be in error out
d) you will not be allowed to log in
e) none of the above
16. In UNIX a files i-node ......?
Ans.. Is a data structure that defines all specifications of a file like the file size, number of lines to a file, permissions etc.

17. 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)

18. enum number { a= -1, b= 4,c,d,e} What is the value of e ?
(a) 7
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 15
(e) 3

19. 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)

20. 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)

21. 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 printf("pass2");
else
printf("Fail2");
}
else
printf("Fail1);
if(i printf("pass2");
else
printf("Fail2")
}
a) Pass1,Pass2
b) Pass1,Fail2
c) Fail1,Pass2
d) Fail1,Fail2
e) None of these
Ans.. (c)

22. 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)
23. 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)

24. 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)

25. 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)

26. PATH = /bin : /usr : /yourhome The file /bin/calender has the following line in it cal 10 1997The file/yourhome/calender has the following line in it cal 5 1997 If the current directory is /yourhome and calender is executed
a) The calendar for May 1997 will be printed on screen
b) The calendar for Oct 1997 will be printed on screen
c) The calendar for the current month( whatever it is) will be printed
d) Nothing will get printed on screen
e) An error massage will be printed

27. 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)

28. What will be result of the following program?
void myalloc(char *x, int n)
{x= (char *)malloc(n*sizeof(char));
memset(x,\0,n*sizeof(char));
}
main()
{char *g="String";
myalloc(g,20);
strcpy(g,"Oldstring");
printf("The string is %s",g);
}
a) The string is : String
b) Run time error/Core dump
c) The string is : Oldstring
d) Syntax error during compilation
e) None of these

29. Which of the following function is used to repaint a window immediatelya) Sendmessage(hWnd,WM_PAINt,......)
b) InvalidateRect(.......)
c) MoveWindow
d) WM_COPY
e) None

30. 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)

31. 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)
32. What will be the result of the following program?
main()
{char p[]="String";
int x=0;
if(p=="String")
{printf("Pass 1");
if(p[sizeof(p)-2]=='g')
printf("Pass 2");
else
printf("Fail 2");
}
else
{
printf("Fail 1");
if(p[sizeof(p)-2]=='g')
printf("Pass 2");
else
printf("Fail 2");
}
}
a) Pass 1, Pass 2
b) Fail 1, Fail 2
c) Pass 1, Fail 2
d) Fail 1, Pass 2
e) syntax error during compilation
33. Which of the choices is true for the mentioned declaration ?
const char *p; and
char * const p;
a) You can't change the character in both
b) First : You can't change the characterr & Second : You can;t change the pointer
c) You can't change the pointer in both
d) First : You can't change the pointer & Second : You can't chanage the character
e) None
34. 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)
35. 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)
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Aptitude

part 1 : letter series.
part 2 : figures
part 3 : quantities

Technical

Most question are on Unix and some in C and some in
windows 3.1all question in Unix are From Kernighan & pike
________________________________________

Part 1

It consists of number series.In some institutes alphabetical series is given instead of number series.Iam having number series so iam sending that.Please go through tha alphabetical tests also.

1. 19,24,20,25,21,26,? Ans.:22
2. 11,14,12,15,13,16,? Ans.: 14
3. 10,2,8,2,6,2,? a:4
4. 8,9,11,14,,18,23,? a:29
5. 25,25,22,22,19,19,? a:16
6. 14,2,12,4,10,6,? a:8
7. 7,16,9,15,11,14,? a:13
8. 40,42,39,44,38,46,? a:37
9. 3,18,4,24,5,30,? a:6
10. 18,20,22,20,28,20,? a:22
11. 18,20,10,12,4,6? a:0
12. 7,6,8,5,3,7,? a:4
13 9,18,21,25,20,? a:30
14 3,3,4,8,10,36,? a:33
15. 30,28,25,20,34,28,? a:21
16. 4,8,16,32,64,128,? a:256
17. 8,16,24,32,40,48,? a:56
18. 13,11,14,12,15,13,? a:16
19. 6,18,36,108,216,648,? a:1296
20. 4,4,8,8,16,16,? a:32
21. 2,6,18,54,162,486,? a:1458
22. 4,20,35,49,62,74,? a:85
23. 10,18,15,23,20,28,? a:25
24. 4,10,8,14,12,18,? a:16
25 10,15,12,17,14,10,? a:16

part 2 consists of non-verbal reasoning (figures). So it is impossible for me to send those.(25 questions)
________________________________________

Part 3 (quantitative)

1. A clerk multiplied a number by ten when it should have been divided by ten.The Ans. he got was 100.whatshould the Ans. have been?a:1

2. If Rs20/- is available to pay for typing a research report & typist A produces 42 pages and typist B produces28 pages.How much should typist A receive? a:Rs12/-

3. 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.

4. A 16 stored building has 12000 sq.feet on each floor. Company A rents 7 floors and company B rents 4floors.What is the number of sq.feet of unrented floor space. Ans..60000

5. During a given week A programer spends 1/4 of his time preparing flow chart, 3/8 of his time coding andthe rest of the time in debugging the programs. If he works 48 hours during the week , how many hours did hespend debugging the program. Ans.. 18.

6. 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

7. A man owns 2/3 of the market research beauro business and sells 3/4 of his shares for Rs. 75000. What is thevalue of Business. Ans..150000

8. If 12 file cabinets require 18 feet of wall space, how many feet of wall space will 30 cabinets require? Ans..45

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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 the three days, she processed 16000 cheques. How many did she process on Tuesday? Ans..9000

12. The cost of four dozen proof machine ribbons and five dozen accouting machine ribbons was Rs.160/-. If one dozen accounting machine ribbons cost Rs.20/-, what is the cost of a dozen proof machine ribbons? Ans..Rs.15

13. If a clerk can process 80 cheques in half an hour, how many cheques can she process in a seven and one half hour day? Ans..1200

14. In a library, there are two racks with 40 books per rack. On a given dya, 30 books were issued. Whatfraction remained in the racks? Ans..5/8

15. The average length of three tapes is 6800 feet. None of the tapes is less than 6400 feet. What is the greatest possible length of one of the other tapes? Ans..7600

16. A company rented a machine for Rs.700/- a month. Five years later the treasurer calculated that if the companyhad purchased the machine and paid Rs.100/- monthly maintenance charge, the company would have savedRs.2000/-. What was the purchase price of the machine? Ans..Rs.34000

17. Two computers each produced 48000 public utility bills in a day. One computer printed bills at the rate of 9600an hour and the other at the rate of 7800 an hour. When the first computer finished its run, how many bills didthe other computer still have to print?Ans..9000

18. If a salesman's average is a new order every other week, he will break the office record of the year. However, after 28 weeks, he is six orders behind schedule. In what proportion of the remaining weeks does he have to obtain a new order to break the record? Ans..3/4
19. On a given day, a bank had 16000 cheques returned by customers.Inspection of the first 800 cheques indicated that 100 of those 800 had errors and were therefore the available immediately for data processing. On this basis, hwo many cheques would be available immediately for data processing on that day? Ans..14000

20. A company figured it needed 37.8 sq.feet of carpot for its reception room. To allow for waste, it decided toorder 20% more material than needed. Fractional parts of sq.feet cannot be ordered. At Rs.9/- asq.feet, how much would the carpet cost? Ans.. a. Rs.324 b) Rs.405 c) Rs.410 d) Rs.414 e) Rs.685

21.A tape manufacturer reduces the price of his heavy duty tape from Rs.30/- to Rs.28/- a reel and the price of a regular tape from Rs.24/- to Rs.23/- a reel. A computing centre normally spends Rs.1440/- a month for tapes and 3/4 of this is for heavy duty tapes. How much will they save a month under the new prices? Ans..Rs.87

22. In a team of 12 persons, 1/3 are women and 2/3 are men. To obtain a team with 20% women how many menshould be hired? Ans..8

23. The dimensions of a certain machine are 48" X 30" X 52". If the size of the machine is increasedproportionately until the sum of its dimensions equals 156", what will be the increase in the shortest side? Ans.. 6"

24. In a certain company, 20% of the men and 40% of the women attended the annual company picnic. If 35% of all the employees are man, what percent of all the employees went to the picnic? Ans..33%

25. It cost a college Rs.0.70 a copy to produce a Programme for the homecoming football game. If Rs.15,000/- was received for advertisements in the programme, how many copies at Rs.0.50 a copy must be sold to make a profit of Rs.8000/- ?Ans.. 35000
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Aptitude

1. Speed of boat in still water is 10kmph..if it travels 24km downstream,16km upstream in the sameamount of time,what is the speed of the stream? (a)3kmph (b)3.5kmph (c)2kmph (d)...

2. A cube of 3 units is painted on all sides.If this cube is divided into cubes of 1 unit,how many cubehave none of their faces painted? (a)... (b)2 (c)1 (d)0 (e)none of these
3. 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? (a) (b)rs.175 (c).. (d)rs.165
Ans..rs.165 (i think,check)
4. 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)
5. Which of the following is the sum of 3 consecutive prime nos? (a)49 (b)59 (c)both a &b (d).... Ans.:c
6. If the area of a square has increased by 69%,by what % has its side increased?
7. In a class the average age is 16yrs.if the teacher who is 40 yrs of age is also included ,the average becomes
17yrs,how many students were there?
8. 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)
9. 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)
10. If the 1rst day of 1999 is a sunday,what is the last day? (a)sunday (b)monday (c).... (d)cannot be determined.
11. If A driver drives a car four times a lap 10,20 30,60 kmph what is his average speed.Ans.:20kmph In a group there are two kinds of people type A & type B.type A people Ans.wer for any question as YES &that of type B as NO.if they can not Ans.wer to these question then they remain silent. the mayor asks question to them as follows........
12. If he asks a person are u type Aa.YES b.NO c. Silent d.Can not be determined
13. He asks two persons X &Ysimultaneously whether u of same type a. YES b. NO c.YES or NO d. Silent e. can not be determined
14. Pointing to a person X he asks Y what is his typea. YES b. No c. Silent d can not be determined
15. Pointing to a person X he asks Y if I ask him whether r u type A ,will he Ans.wer YES.Y says NO .what typeof B isa. YES b. NO . c. Silent d. can not be determined
16. Six squares of same dimension are kept side by side to make a rectangle with a perimeter of 182 cm. what isthe perimeter of each square.Ans.) 52.
17. 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)
18. How many rational numbers are there between 0 & 5
Ans.:infinite
19. 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.)
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Technical:

20. 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)
21. 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
22. Best method to find out whether a given array already sorted,is sorted or not in min. time
Ans.. insertion sort (check)
23. 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
24. Which of the following is a real time system? (a)robotics control (b)airline ticket reservation(Ans.) (c) (d)...
25. A question to convert a big no in decimal to octal(check only for the last 2 nos in Ans. is sufficient)
26. Which of the following is an example of a spooling device? (a).. (b)line printer.. (c) (d) (e)...
27. If in a table:account no,account holders name,account type ,.....(something else was given)are the fields,which of them could be the primary key? (a)account no(Ans.) (b)account holders name (c)account type (d)..
28. If a file is opened in "r+" mode(in C),it meAns.(a) write (b)read (c)... (d).....
29. What is the difference between 123 and 0123 in c? (a)120 (b)40 (c)0 (d)... Ans.:40
30. Software Configuration Management process is - (a)developing & managing software for .....software.... (b)developing & managing hardware for....software....... (c)... (d)..
31. Data Integrity constraint is (a)to ensure the presence of primary key (b)... (c)... (d)...
32. Which of the following uses the minimum length of cable? (a)ring (b)star (c)mesh (d)bus (e)all of the above
31. How can u append the ls and who to certain existing file (like that)(i.e.listing & output of who is to be directedto a file (a)ls;who>filename (b)ls;who>>filename (c)(ls;who)>>filename (d)who;ls34. Suppose u have a network .users complain of slow ....u suspect a problem in network adapter once u find that the data is continuous and erroneous.what device do u use? (a)volt-ohmmeter (b)SNMP (c)protocol... checking (d)all of the above
35. What is vector processing?
36. x-=y+1 is equivalent to what? (a)x=x-y+1
(b)...(c)x=x-y-1(d)... Ans.:(c)
37. In a student form what is the relationship b/w student and course (a)one to one (b)many to one (c)one to many (d)many to many
38. ROM is(a)volatile(b)permanent & fast(c)device containig boot up program & is not accessible (d)... I have given 38 questions out of 40 q's ...hope it will be useful 2 all of u... they didnt select any ec people 4interview..:( only CS,IS..& 2 from TE. that's all from my side.. here are some hr questions as sent by jagannatha (CS-PESIT)
________________________________________
HR questions:

1. why 2+2 is 4 why not 5.
Ans.: assume u took 2 apples from A and 2 more apples from B and assume u are having 5 and give 2 to X and give 2 more to Y then nothing will be with u i.e u lossed. (give some Ans.wers but dont say that it is like that only )
2.how may stones did hanuman thowned on lanka? ( diffirent but of same type) and one more how many trees are there in u'r campus ...
Aptitude

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)
4. There are 2 type of people group 'yes' who always says yes ( they never say 'no') if they are not sure about
they will remain sailent. and other grou name 'no' where the group of people always say 'no' if they are not sure
theywill remain silent. thats it now quetions are
1. what will be the Ans.wer if i ask are u belong to group 'yes' options are: they remain silent ,say yes, say no, either yes or no, can't be determined
2. Same quetion but if i ask are u belong to group 'no' Ans.wers for both above quetions are not ( not determined)
3. what will the other person say if ask are u belong to grou 'yes' and etc here were 5 quetions first 4 u can do it last one little bit tough. spend some time on this u can do it.
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 .. Ans.wer is not 20
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 Ans.wer. but check it once u will be having plenty of time.
Ans.wer 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. I give a jcl code with Programmer name: smith Jobname:ABC Jobclass=c Message class = a All messages are
to be displaced code it in a JCL.
A) //ABC,smith,class=c,message class=a,message level=(2,1)
B) //ABC,smith,class=c,message class=a,message level =(!,1)
C) //ABC,smith,class=c,message class=a,message level=(0,1)
D) none of these.
20. For a cobol program Move 5 to work-sd. A statement which says that the value of work-st is 0.
perform Para1.
……………
Para1.
Add 3 to work-sd
Add 2 to work-st
If work-st <11 go to main-para.
………………
go to para1.
What would be the value of work-sd?
a) 15
b) 18
c) 10
d) none
21. Given 2 tables T1 and T2.
T1 T2
A 1
B 2
C3
You make a query SELECT * FROM T1,T2.
What is the no: of rows that are fetched frm this query?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 9
22. Who is the data base manager of db2?
a) buffer register
b) runtime suprivisor
c) DBRM
d) None
23. You have a file with DISP=SHR, when u open the file in output mode
a) the records get appended
b) the records gets overwritten
c) the job abbends
d) none of these
24. To exclude some records while sorting which parameter do we use?
a) OMIT
b) EXCLUDE
c) ….d)….
25 You have a dataset TIME.WORK.OCT88, u want to concatenate other datasets likeTIME.WORK
.JUL88,TIME.WORK.APR88, TIME.WORK.MAY88. how do u do that?
a)//DDname DD DSN = TIME.WORK.OCT88, DISP = SHR
DD DSN = TIME.WORK.JUL88, DISP = SHR
DD DSN = TIME.WORK.APR88, DISP = SHR
DD DSN = TIME.WORK.MAY88, DISP = SHR
b)//DDname DD DSN = TIME.WORK.JUL88, DISP = SHR
DD DSN = TIME.WORK.OCT88, DISP = SHR
DD DSN = TIME.WORK.APR88, DISP = SHR
DD DSN = TIME.WORK.MAY88, DISP = SHR
c)//DDname DD DSN = TIME.WORK.APR88, DISP = SHR
DD DSN = TIME.WORK.JUL88, DISP = SHR
DD DSN = TIME.WORK.MAY88, DISP = SHR
DD DSN = TIME.WORK.OCT88, DISP = SHR
e) none of these

26. When db2 entries are made while working in cics, the enteries should be made in
a) TCT
b) PCT
c) DCT
d) RCT
27. Find the odd one out
a) KSDS
b) RRDS
c) LDS
d) PDS
28. Full form of VTOC
29. Question based on SKIP and COUNT parameter

Technical

1. what is vector processing
2. what is data integrity Ans.: option a ( like the range of values is defined by data integrity)
3.which topology takes minimum wiring options: star,bus,ring and complete etc
Ans.: find it from network text book ( may be bus or ring)
4.best sorting if elements are already sorted Ans.: insertion sort(sure)
5.software configuration management ----- Ans.: option a ( but check it from SE text book there are only 2 confusing
Ans.wers)
6.In network the packers are flowing unnecessarly what is the way to controlit and .... options: SNMP, and some i
dont remember.
7.some octal no to decimal conversion for given octal no the last digit was 7 Ans.: the option a ( the decimal last
digit was 1)
8. x-=y+1 is equivalant to Ans.: x=x-y-1 (sure) because it is interpreted as x=x-(y+1)
9. in a student form what is the relationship b/w student and course Ans.: actually it is many to one but they
specified in a student form so think and write.
10.which is correct to append the ouput of ls and who to some file x. Ans.:(who;ls)>>x (check it)
11.what is trigger in DBMS (know what it will do)
12.what happens when we open a file in r+ mode like whether file will be created if it s not there can we write to file 13. what is ROM Ans.: it contains boot up program and it is not accesible that was one Ans.wer and anothe option was it is non volatile ( choose one among these 2)
14. what is int (*a)[4] Ans.: pointer to an array of 4 integer (check it)
15. primary key of anothe table is present and so on.......... Ans.: foreign key
16. what is the diffirenece b/w 0123 and 123 in c? Ans.:40(sure)
17. which among the devices is spooled device
18. if u get error in adapter which device will u use?Ans.: contact electronics student. one of the option was voltometer.
________________________________________
The paper contains total 40 questions. Duration 1 hour.20 ques from apptitude (R.S.Agarwal is more than enough for IBM apps.)20 questions from technical OS, DBMS, C++, Software Engineering etc.
Apptitude

1. If A can do a particular work in 8 days. B can do the work in 6 days. By C joining with them, they can finish the
work in 3 days. If Rs.540 was paid to them, what is the share of C?
2. By selling a product a seller is gaining 10% on selling price. If he sell that product Rs.80 less, he would have
been losing 10%. What is the cost price?
3. If A dricer drives a car four times a lap 10,20 30,60 kmph what is his average speed.
4. If M persons are going for a party, then their share is $D. If three persons were absent, then how much
share will be increased for each individual.(Solution : Average = D/M. Three absent New average = D/M-3
Increase = Newaverage - Average = D/M-3 - D/M )
5. If the radious is increased by 50%. How much will be the volume increased for a circle / Sphere in percentage.
6. One person is wearing Black and White shoes as his pair. If he is having 20 white and 20 Black shoes.
What will be the less number of time he have try to take his correct pair of shoes.
7. The age of the grand father is the sum of his three grandsuns. The second is 2 year younger than first one and
the third one is 2 year younger than the second one. Then what will be the age of the grandfather.
8. In a grass field, If there are 40 cows, they could eat for 40 days. If there are 30 cows, they could eat for
60 days. Than if 20 cows, How much day they could eat?
9. If the size of the fruit is two times the size of the seed. Then what is the volume of the seed. (derive general
equation)
10. Speed of boat in still water 10 kmph.If the boat takes 24hr in up stream and 16hr in down stream to cross
the same distance, then what will be the distance covered.
11. How many times do the hands of the clock coincide in a day?

12. If a person is standing in room, that is having mirrors in all the four walls. How many images of the person will appear.
13. Two clocks meet at 12. Next time they meet again after
Ans.: 65.45

14. Soldiers form a square. Initially 32 soldiers eft. Then 8 .Afterthey could not form a square. Total at the beginning options.100,81,49,67

15. Age of Grandfather is the ages of 4 grand childrenwhere their ages are in consective. Find the age of GF

Ans.: may be 72

16. 3 person waiting for the train Some conditions given.Finally they ask the time.
Ans. is 4.37
17. Some Squirrel qs where it covers 1/4 th distance then 1/2 i could't remember
18. If mpown=121.Then m-1pown+1 is 1000
19. If speed in the ratio 5:4:3 then the time taken to cover the same distance is
20. 20men construct a wall 56m in some days similar one
Ans. 49 (check aggarwal)
________________________________________

Technical
1. main()
{
printf("%u",main);
}
what will be the output?
2. main()
{
int 1,b;
int con;
1=b=2;
con (b==1) ? 1 : 0;
printf("%d",con);
}
what will be the value of con?
3. Software Configuration Management process is --------------
4. Data Integrity constraint is ----------------------
5. Paging is ------------------------
6. What type of memory could be accessed in least time?
7. char *p=(char *)10 op=?
8. Running time of 8T(n/2)+q is ncube
9. Scope of static and automatic var 2qs
10 nodes in binary tree of length 4 is 15(2pown -1)
11 how to convert 2d array to single dimension options are
12. convering a row 2 colunm 3 or both in to o's
13. comments-for documentaion or it increases file size like that .u have toi choose the correct one
14. int i=10;
printf("%d%d%d",i,i++,++i);

Ans.: compiler dependent
15. printf("Enter two values a and b:"):
scanf("%d%d",a,b);
printf("%d+%d=%d",a,b,a+b);

Ans.:core dumped
16. Question on WM_SIZE

Ans.:WM_SIZE
17. When destroy window what message would disply

Ans.:WM_DESTROY
18. MS Windows 3.1 about multitasking

Ans.:nonpreemptive
19. windows 3.1 is

Ans.:application
20. About switch switch statement

Ans.:16,21
24. question paper the first question
Ans. is

Ans.:can't be compiled
25. about send messages and post messages

Ans.: c
26. what is the command to intiate the windows

Ans.:WinMain






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