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TATA IBM Apptitude: 

part 1 : letter sevies.

part 2 : figures

part 3 : quantitative 

Technical:

Most questions are on Unix and some in C and some in

windows 3.1 all 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.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-verbel reasoning(figures). 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.what should 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 produces 28 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 4 floors. 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 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.

 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 the value 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 day, 30 books were issued. What fraction 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 company had purchased the machine and paid Rs.100/- monthly maintenance charge, the company would have saved Rs.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 9600 an hour and the other at the rate of 7800 an hour. When the first computer finished its run, how many bills did the 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 to order 20% more material than needed. Fractional parts of sq.feet cannot be ordered. At Rs.9/- a sq.feet, how much would the carpet cost?

  1. 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 men should be hired? Ans.8

23. The dimensions of a certain machine are 48" X 30" X 52". If the size of the machine is increased proportionately 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

TATA-IBM few questions extra.

1)int i=10;

printf("%d%d%d",i,i++,++i);

ans: compiler dependent

 

2)printf("Enter two values a and b:"):

scanf("%d%d",a,b);

printf("%d+%d=%d",a,b,a+b);

ans:core dumped

 

3)Question on WM_SIZE

ans:WM_SIZE

 

4)when destroy window what message would disply

ans:WM_DESTROY

 

5)MS Windows 3.1 about multitasking

ans:nonpreemptive

 

6)windows 3.1 is

ans:application

 

7) about switch switch statement

ans:16,21

 

8)question paper the first question ans is

ans:can't be compiled

 

9)about send messages and post messages

ans: c

10)what is the command to intiate the windows

ans:WinMain

 

 

1.const char *

char * const

What is the differnce between the above tow?.

 

2.In Unix inter process communication take place using?.

 

3.What are the files in /etc directory?.

 

4.About i-node numbers

 

5.Max relaxable permisssion value with out giving write permission to others?.

 

6.About ln(linking)

 

7.A question on until

until (who |grep mary)

do

sleep(60)

done

8.Linking across directories?.

9.process id for kernell process

10.very first process created by kernell

11.function to repaint a window immediately?.

12.Function entry for DLL in win3.1

13.win 3.1 is a

14.win 3.1 supports which type of multi tasking?.

15.Message displayed when a window is destroyed

16.About fork()?

17.About send message and post message

18.Message to limit the size of window

19.System call executable binary file intoa process

20.About GDI object?.

21.API used to hide window

22.Initialize contents of a dialog?.

to limit the size of window

19.System call executable binary file intoa process

20.About GDI object?.

21.API used to hide window

22.Initialize contents of a dialog?.

 

1.const char *

char * const

What is the differnce between the above two?.

2.In Unix inter process communication take place using?.

3.What are the files in /etc directory?.

4.About i-node numbers

5.Max relaxable permisssion value with out giving write permission

to others?.

6.About ln(linking)

7.A question on until

until (who |grep mary)

do

sleep(60)

done

8.Linking across directories?.

9.process id for kernell process

10.very first process created by kernell

11.function to repaint a window immediately?.

12.Function entry for DLL in win3.1

13.win 3.1 is a

14.win 3.1 supports which type of multi tasking?.

15.Message displayed when a window is destroyed

16.About fork()?

17.About send message and post message

18.Message to limit the size of window

19.System call executable binary file intoa process

20.About GDI object?.

21.API used to hide window

22.Initialize contents of a dialog?.

 

IBM GLOBAL SERVICES

 

1. In 1978, a kg of paper was sold at Rs25/-. I f the paper rate increases at 1.5% more than inflation rate which is of 6.5% a year, then what wil 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 giben and C the same number of marbles they already have to each of them. then, B gave C and A the same no. of marbles they have, then C gave A and B the same no. of marbles they have. At the end A,B,and C have equal no. of marbles.

(i) If x,y,z are the marbles initially with A,B,C respectively.

then the no of marbles B have at the end

(a) 2(x-y-z) (b) 4(x-y-z) etc.

(ii)If the total no. of marbles are 72, then the no. of marbles with A at the starting a. 20 b. 30 c. 32

3. If a car starts from A towards B with some velocity due to some problem in the engine after travelling 30km.If the car goes with 4/5 th of its actuval velocity the car reaches B 45min 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 15books. 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.

ex: hammer : carpenter ::

knife : butcher.

 

6. The values of shares A,B and C from january to june are as follows. 

month A B C 

JAN 30 60 80

FEB 35 65 85

MAR 45 75 65

APR 40 75 82

MAY 55 75 85

JUNE 50 75 80

 

i) During this period which share has undergone max 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 , to get max profit when this shares should be sold?

v) ? 

7. In a computer institute 9 languages can taught. The module is of 6 months duration and only six languages each of one month can be taught. In addition to that BASIC is always there 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 coarsed prior to that

# BINO, FIFO never be taught in single module

languages are BASIC, WORD STAR, WORD PERFECT, FORTRAN, COBAL, BINO, FIFO, LOTUS, C

i. Of the following which module is possible based on above conditions.

 

ii) If word star is in 3rd month , what could be in 6th month. 

iii) If COBAL is in the 2nd month and BINO in 6th month are there

in addition to the above condition, FORTRAN will be 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.

 

9. A square plot of some size , at four corners equal squares of

some size are cut and is formed as open box. If this open box carries

128ml of oil. What is the size of the plate i.e. side

a.17 b.14 c.13

 

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 shaded area?

 

11. two questions on basic angles i.e given a circle, a few chords or diameter is drawn etc.

 

12. @(a,b)= (a+b)/2

/(a,b)= a.b

*(a,b)= ab , if a=1, b=2 find

i) /(a,(@(a,b),*(a,b)))

ii)

13. (x#y) = x+y-xy

(x*y) = (x+y)/2

i) (x#y)#(x*y) < (x#y), which of the below values of x, y will satisfy this equation

ii) (a*b)#(b*c)< (a#b)*(b*c) , what values of a,b,c satisfy the above.

14. By using the data given below answer the following questions.

 

B.tech M.sc M.A

male 20

female 80

total 60

some thing similar to that question.

i) 40% of females are B.Techs

ii) Half of the students are either from B.Techs or of M.Scs

iii) ...

i. what is the no. of female B.techs

ii....

45Q). PS1 pwd

export PS1 results in

a). your primary prompt being your current directory

b). " " and secondary prompts being the current dir

c). " " prompt being your home dir

d). " " and secondary prompts being the home dir

e). None of the above.

 

8Q). If you type in the command

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

7Q). In UNIX a files i-node

a)is a data structure that defines all specifications

of a file like the file size ,number of lines to a

file ,permissions etc.

b).----

c). - - - --

d). _ _ _

( ans is ---------(a) )

44Q) The UNIX shell is....

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 is (b) )

48Q).enum number { a=-1, b= 4,c,d,e}

what is the value of e ?

 

_OB 7,4,5,15,3

(ans is 7 ) check again

 

3Q).The very first process created by the kernal that runs

till the kernal process is haltes is

a)init

b)getty

c)

d)

e)none

(Ans is a)

 

47 Q) Result 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 is d )

 

1 Q) What is the result

main()

{

char c=-64;

int i=-32

unsigned int u =-16;

if(c>i){

printf("pass1,");

if(c<u)

printf("pass2");

else

printf("Fail2");}

else

printf("Fail1);

if(i<u)

printf("pass2");

else

printf("Fail2")

}

a)Pass1,Pass2

b)Pass1,Fail2

c)Fail1,Pass2

d)Fail1,Fail2

e)none

(Ans is c)

 

2) 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

 

4) 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

 

5) 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 no:9//

p = malloc(strlen(Temp) + 1);

strcpy(p,Temp);

printf("(%s, %s)",a,p);

free(p);

free(a);

} //Line no 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

 

6) 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

 

37) PATH = /bin : /usr : /yourhome

The file /bin/calender has the following line in it

cal 10 1997

The 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

 

38) 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

 

39) 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

Ans) c ( check it )

 

40) which of the following function is used to repaint a

window immediately

a) Sendmessage(hWnd,WM_PAINt,......)

b) InvalidateRect(.......)

c) MoveWindow

d) WM_COPY

e) None

41) 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

 

42) 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

43) 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

 

46) 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

Ans) b ( check it)

 

49) 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

 

50) The command grep first second third /usr/you/myfile

 

a) prints lines containing the words first, second or third

from the file /usr/you/myfil

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