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Test Paper :3
Paper Type : C andidate Experiences
Test Date : 29 August 2010
Test Location : SRMC EM, Lucknow
Posted By : Richa

I received a hall ticket from TCS to attend the off campus drive at SRMCEM, Lucknow on 29th August at 8am. There w as
a crow d of around 250-300 candidates in the morning batch.

It was a Computer Based Test(CBT) for 60 minutes. We w ere to attempt 35 questions. The questions w ere based on
logics; some of them w ere aptitude and a few were analytical.

IMPORTANT: I discussed w ith many friends w ho had appeared for this process recently and also read it on
www.freshersworld.com and www.chetanasinterview.com regarding the experience of other candidates. Many had to say
that if you want to clear the Aptitude Round, then you must attempt somew here around 23-25 questions to make it
through. But this is not the case. What I figured out w as that TCS is selecting candidates based on their accuracy. I
attempted just 16 questions and still made it through, because all 16 questions I answered were correct. I made no
guess. Even one of my friends made through TCS on 28th August by attempting 16 questions and all of them were
right. There w ere a few of my friends who attempted 17 question w ith 1-2 w rong answ ers and some w ho made 2-3
guesses. They couldn't make through the written round. There was one candidate who attempted 15 questions and all
right, and he also made it through. So, all I could make out was that TCS is selecting candidates on 100%
accuracy; ofcourse there must be some lower limit to the question you should answer. Since I saw a candidate
attempting 15 questions and still making through, so I guess 15 would be the minimum out of 35. PLEASE DO NOT
GUESS OR DO NOT ATTEMPT IF Y OU ARE NOT SURE ABOUT Y OUR ANSWER.

The computer based test had questions from:

Area and Perimeter
Probability (Many questions from this chapter).
Problems on Ages (Many questions from this chapter).
Pipes and Cisterns
Ratio and Proportion
and some logical questions

The questions are pretty lengthy but w ith all irrelevant statements. I remember one question where they told about a
romantic story of Alice and Paul and then right at the end after 5-6 lines, they came up w ith a question on ages of Alice
and Paul. I'd rather suggest everyone to start reading the question from w here they find any NUMERICAL DATA.

I don't remember many questions but only a few (and that too not w ith exact numerical value). I'll share with u a few
questions such that you can understand w hat the question asked for.

Question 1: There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective.
What is the probability that same musical sound w ould be produced 5 times consecutively? ( 1 of _____) ?
Answer: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32
32 will be the answ er.
(My friends got similar question with "3 times consecutively"; for that the answ er w ould be 8)

Question 2: Peter and Paul are tw o friends. The sum of their ages is 35 years. Peter is tw ice as old as Paul w as when
Peter w as as old as Paul is now . W hat is the present age of Peter?
Luckily, I had this question twice. Initially I left it because of the confusing statement but when I got the same question
second time with different names of the friends (Pooja and Prasad) then I gave a little extra time and solved it.
Answer: 20 years. I simply substituted the answers in the statement to find the best fit, because the statement in the
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question w as pretty confusing.

Question 3: The ages of tw o friends is in the ratio 5:6. After how many years will the ages be in the ratio 7:8?
Answer: 10 years.

Question 4: (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsalmic, Lemon,
Woody and Mimosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the follow ing conditions are to be follow ed: Lilac and
Balsalmic go together. W oody and Mimosaic go together, W oody and Balsalmic never go together. Lemon can be
added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added w ith how much
quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the follow ing combinations are possible to make a
perfume EXCEPT:
1) Balsalmic and Lilac
2) Woody and Lemon
3) Mimosaic and W oody
4) Mimosaic and Lilac
Answer: Mimosaic and Lilac. I have made the question here really easy to understand. But the actual question w as in
a twisted language and it was difficult to find the answ er. It took me some time to get to the answ er.

Question 5: A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different toppings. In how many ways can
she make pizzas w ith 2 different toppings.
Answer: 8 * 7 = 56

Question 6: A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm. (I do not remember the
numerical value). W hat will be the area of the square made from the same rope?

Question 7: W hat is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz+d=0. (I do not
remember the values of a,b,c,d)

Question 8: An athlete decides to run the same distance in 1/4th less time that she usually took. By how much percent
will she have to increase her average speed?
Answer: 33.33%

Question 9: A horse chases a pony 3 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 4 hours to reach the pony. If the average
speed of the horse is 35 kmph, w hat s the average speed of the pony? (This question was really long with loads of
irrelevant statement)

These are a few questions that I could recall. I made through the aptitude round by attempting 16 questions. Next
was Technical Interview Round.

Technical Interview:
Here I will discuss the technical questions that were asked to me and also the questions asked to my friends.

Question 1: W rite the pointer representation of a[i][j][k].

Question 2: i = 5
i++, ++i, --i, i--, 5
What w ill be the output if it is printed?

Question 3: How w ill you insert a new node betw een any two nodes in a linked list? W rite the code.

Question 4: How w ill you find a particular data in the linked list?

Question 5: W hat is MD5?

Question 6: W hat is RSA? Explain its principle.

Question 7: There is a triangle and 3 ants on each vertex of the triangle. The 3 ants start to move randomly along the
edges of the triangle. What is the probability that two ants w ill collide?

Question 8: W hat is the difference between C and C++?

Question 9: W hat do you mean by polymorphism?

Question 10: Give an example of polymorphism w ith code.

Question 11: What do you mean by OOP?

Question 12: What is inheritance?

Question 13: What is a friend function?

Question 14: What is an abstract class?

Question 15: Suppose there is a number 235 such that sum of first two digits is equal to the third digit. How many
such 3 digits number are possible?

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Question 16: Why is the VIRTUAL keyw ord used in C++?

Question 17: Which keyw ord is w ritten to use a variable declared in one class in the other class?

Question 18: Suppose a code is w ritten in C and you want to use that code in C++. How can you do that?

Question 19 W hat do you mean by DML?

Question 20: Is there any language other than SQL w here DML is used? If yes, then w hich?

Question 21: How many normal forms do we have?

Question 22: Here is a tic-tac-toe game w hich is being played by 2 people:

xo_
o__
xo x

_ represent the blank spaces. Who played the last chance (x or o)?

Technical Questions asked to my friends:

Question 1: W hat is a transaction? Properties of Transaction?

Question 2: W hat "condition" will be written in the if statement such that both Hello World are printed when the
follow ing code is executed.

if(condition)
{
printf("Hello");
}
else
{
printf("World");
}

Question 3: W hat will be the output of the following code?

int i=5;
printf("%d, %d, %d", i++, i, ++i);

Which C compiler do you use? (My friend said TURBO)

What w ill be the output of above code in TURBO compiler? (He said SAME)
No! It will not be the same.

After the technical round, there was an MR i.e. Managerial Round.

It w as just a 2-3 minutes round. The interview er asked me to introduce myself. Then asked about my father. Then core
values and strengths. Your hobbies? W hich latest novel have you read?

Next w as the HR round. This w as a little time taking round as the technical one.

Question 1: Introduce yourself?

Question 2: Your family background; father, mother, siblings.
Question 3: How does TCS earns its revenues? How it does its business?
Question 4: W hat was the need of bringing Information Technology in India?
Question 5: There is a round cake. You have 3 chances to cut the cake. Divide the cake into 8 pieces in these 3
chances.
Question 6: Suppose if I reject you today, what w ill you do next?
Question 7: You have a good communication skill. Why is it so? Is it because of your schooling or family atmosphere?
Whom do you give the credit for this?
Question 8: W hat are your strengths? Give 2 examples of your life incidents that portray this strength in you.
Question 9: W hat are your weaknesses?

This w as it. Out of some 250-300 candidates, only 10 could make it till the HR round and I'm glad to be one of them.
They have asked us to wait for 2 w eeks for the mail.

I'm waiting for my email :)

Wish all you guys a very good luck! :)

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