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Aptitude

1. There were 36 chairs. how many ways can they be placed such that all rows 
have equal no. of chairs and atleast three chairs are there in each row and 
there are atleast three rows.
5 ways.

2. There are 27 balls, of which 1 is heavier. given a balance how many times 
you need to weigh to find out the odd ball. 
3 Weighs.

3. Product of three consecutive nos. 210. What is the sum of two least 
numbers 11 

4. If the area of the sqaure is increased by 69 % how much the length of the 
side will increase?
30%

5. if the sum of five consecutive nos. 35? how many prime nos are there :
2 primes. 

6. if the length of the rectangle is reduced by 20% and breath is increased 
by 20 % what is the net change ?
4 % decrease

7. A question on sets. There are some 20 Basketball players & 30 Football 
players,and 25 cricket players. 1 of them plays all the three games. 8 of 
them plays atleast two games. They are 50 altogether. How many of them plays 
none of the games.

8. A question on directions. B is 20 miles east of A. D is 30 miles east 
of C. E is 10 miles north of D. C is 20 miles north of B. How far E is 
from A? Some 3 questions on Reasoning like,

9. If you say that giving stock options to employees increases the  
productivity of the company, which of the following sentences support it. 
A) Giving stock options increases the morale of the employees


Technical 

1.A Circuit with nand gates. (ans. may be XOR)

2.CMRR. relates to (options not in order)
voltage follower
non invering amplifier
inverting amplifier
integrator

3. Given a circuit , give the ouput.
(ans. may be triangular wave.)

4. o/p of an assembly code.
mulitply by 11.

5. how to handle asynchronous events.
a) polling 
b) interrrupt 
etc.

6. Whether all recusive pgm can be writtten iteratively? 

7. What data structes you will use if you want to go to first record from
the last and vice versa? 
doubly linked circular list

8. Given 10000 nos. and 48MB Memory. What is the complexity of the efficient 
sorting algo.? (the algo. is not mentioned)O(N)

9. Given a C code and ask what it does?
code was something similar to Bubble sort and that
particular code does the sorting in Desending order and the complexity
is O(n^2)(which is the next question).


10. 
A code like this is given.
a. for(i=0;i0;i--)
Assuming no code optimization and assume that the microprocessor
has flags etc. which one is correct.

b will execute faster.

11. If there are too many page faults what is the problem?

12. To ensure one pgm. doesnt corrupt other pgm. in a Multi-pgm enviornment
what you should do?

13. Which one you will use to implement critical section?
Binary Semaphore

14. Which one is not needed for Multi-processing. enviornment?
options are: virtual memory,security,time sharing,none of the
above. 

15. Which one is not done by Data link layer ?
bit stuffing, LRC,CRC,parity check 

16. Which one is not related to Data link layer?

17. Which one is not suitable for client-server application?
tcp/ip,message passing,rpc,none of the above.

18. What is SQL. 
Procedural Relational DB Query Language.

19. Indexing in databases give you options were like 1.efficient deleting and inserting
2.efficient deleting. 
etc.

20. int a=1,b=2,c=3;
printf("%d,%d",a,b,c);
What is the output?

21. Scope of Static Variable ............
in a file.

22. for(i=0; i<=10;i++,printf("%d",i)); +- (+- is there in the questions)

23. Real Time Os should have 
a)fast context switch
b)Virtual memory etc.


24. Messages are transferred in some E71 code, where after 7 bits of data,
1 bit of stopping data is to be transferred. what should be done.
options were like 
a) send directly
b) send after encoding 
etc.

25. There are three processes A, B, C. A sends data to B. B removes the
header stores it and sends the data to C. C returns it to B. B receives the
message, identifies the message and adds the header that was stored and 
sends to A.B receives the messages from C such that atmost 'm' messages 
B are pending. Identify the best Data Structure.

26. A question in compiler about the heap and stack allocation of memory.

27. struct 
{
char a[3];
int b;
}x;
char *cp;

a) size of x is 7.
B
b)
c)
d) cp takes the size of a pointer. 
(d ) is the ans.
 

28.a logic ckt is given and asked to identify the configuration.
ans: XOR.

29.multi vibrator with nor gates is given 
ans: astable multi sqr wave opt.

30.4 stage ripple counter with delay(f/f) 10msec. How much time it takes 
for a state to change. 4*10=40.

31 impedence of a p'lel resonant circiut at resonance:R.

32 .serial to parellel conversion is done by ans:shift register.

33. if the address bus id 20bits.then the memory space is 1Mb.

34.filtering can be done with:capacitor,iductor,both,none.

35.the config that is worst effected by low CMMR
ans:Non inverting amplifier.

36.two progs are given. one satrts counting frm 0 to MAX and the other stars 
frm MAX to 0. which one executes fast.may be Max to 0.Think of.it should be.

37. the fctn of datalink layer is:bit stuffing.

38.which of the following is not fctn of datalink layer: Encription.

39.voltage levels of rs232x:+12,-12.

40.which of the following is not used for client/server. RPC,TCP/IP,
MESSAGEQs None ans:may be none.

41. which of the following is true.
ans:the primary key in DataBAse design is very important.

42. SQL is a Non procedural query langauge.

43.Data structure used to impliment a menu: doubly linked circular linked list.

44. some regular expression is given:WaW'.may be it is context free grammar.

45.the feature of real time os is: fast context swithing.

46.os impliments protection with the help of hardware(like virtual 
addressing in 386/286 etc).

47. what is a real time system.

48. name some real time OS

49. what are the characteristics of Real time OS.

50. is DOS a real time OS.

51. what is a kernel,shell.

52. what is binary search, traversal, hashing etc.

53. given a scenario what is the suitable data structure.

54. write a code to count the no. of 1's in a binary rep. of a number. 
memory taken for char *, int * etc.

55. char *cp; int *ip; cp++,ip++ - what is the result.

56. compare the no. of bytes in unix and Dos for long char short int.

57. how to make programs portable on unix and Dos under such circumstances.

58. in c++, what is a constructor, destructor, friend etc.

59. what is waterfall model, prototype model etc.

60. what is testing. what is unit testing, integration testing etc.

61. What is indexing in databases? 

62. What is atomicity?

63. Can recursive pgms be written in C++, Write a recursive pgm to  calculate factorial in c++.

64. What is best data structure to store the processes info in a real 
time operating system?