1. Measures of central tendencies and Dispersions 2. Correlation and Regression Analysis 3. Concepts of variable, universe, population 4.

Concept of sample, probability versus non-probability sample 5. Sampling design methods 6. Sampling and estimation 7. Brief introduction to probability distributions, with focus on Normal and log normal distributions and some of its applications

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What are statements in Java? What is RMI? Explain about RMI Architecture? What are Servelets? What is the use of servlets? Explain RMI Architecture? How will you pass values from HTML page to the servlet? How do you load an image in a Servelet? What is purpose of applet programming? How will you communicate between two applets? What are the basic functions of an operating system? Explain briefly about, processor, assembler, compiler, loader, linker and the functions executed by them. What are the difference phases of software development? Explain briefly? Differentiate between RAM and ROM? What is DRAM? In which form does it store data? What is cache memory? What is hard disk and what is its purpose? Differentiate between Complier and Interpreter? What are the different tasks of Lexical analysis? What are the different functions of Syntax phase, Sheduler?

Here are some Quantitative Aptitude Questions from a previous Placement Test Paper:
1. There are 150 weights .Some are 1 kg weights and some are 2 kg weights. The sum of the weights is 260.What is the number of 1kg weights? Ans. 40 2. A is driving on a highway when the police fines him for overspeeding and exceeding the limit by 10 km/hr. At the same time B is fined for overspeeding by twice the amount by which A exceeded the limit. If he was driving at 35 km/hr what is the speed limit for the road? Ans. 15 kmph 3. A moves 3 kms east from his starting point . He then travels 5 kms north. From that point he moves 8 kms to the east.How far is A from his starting point? Ans. 13 kms 4. A car travels 12 kms with a 4/5th filled tank.How far will the car travel with 1/3 filled tank? Ans. 5 kms 5. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When 18 is added to the number, the digits are reversed. Find the number? Ans. 35

6. The cost of one pencil, two pens and four erasers is Rs.22 while the cost of five pencils, four pens and two erasers is Rs.32.How much will three pencils, three pens and three erasers cost? Ans. 27 7. Fathers age is 5 times his sons age. 4 years back the father was 9 times older than son.Find the fathers present age. Ans. 40 years 8. What number should be added to or subtracted from each term of the ratio 17 : 24 so that it becomes equal to 1 : 2. Ans. 10 should be subtracted

9. What is the 12th term of the series 2, 5, 8, . Ans. 35 10. If 20 men take 15 days to to complete a job, in how many days can 25 men finish that work? Ans. 12 days 11. In a fraction, if 1 is added to both the numerator at the denominator, the fraction becomes 1/2. If numerator is subtracted from the denominator, the fraction becomes 3/4. Find the fraction. Ans. 3/7 12. If Rs.1260 is divided between between A, B and C in the ratio 2:3:4, what is Cs share? Ans. Rs. 560 13. A shopkeeper bought a watch for Rs.400 and sold it for Rs.500.What is his profit percentage? Ans. 25% 14. What percent of 60 is 12? Ans. 20% 15. Harry made the following amounts in seven games of hockey in India: Rs.10, Rs.15, Rs.21, Rs.12, Rs.18, Rs.19 and Rs.17(all figures in crores).Find his average earnings. Ans. Rs.16 crore See more of them under TCS section or in other IT Companies test papers with solutions and answers to problems / programs and objective type or multiple choice questions. More options coming soon..

Previous Placement Paper Aptitude Questions

Posted on Admin on July 15, 2008 // Leave Your Comment TCS Old Placement Paper Aptitude Questions: 1) If 2 pencils cost 8 cents, then how much will 5 pencils cost a) 20 cents 2) A work is done by two people in 24 min. One of them can do this work a lonely in 40 min. How much time is required to do the same work for the second person a) 60 minutes 3) A car is filled with four and a half gallons of oil for full round trip. Fuel is taken 1/4 gallons more in going than coming. What is the fuel consumed in coming up. a) 2 gallons 4) Low temperature at night in a city is 1/3 more than 1/2 hinge as higher temperature in a day. Sum of the low and high temperature is 100 c. Then what is the low temperature? a)40 centigrade 5) A person who decided to go weekend trip should not exceed 8 hours driving in a day. The average speed of forward journey should be 40 kmph. Due to huge traffic on Sundays the return journey average speed is 30 kmph. How far can he select a picnic spot? Given are the aptitude questions for a previous tcs placement paper with answers / solutions. Download free. 6) A sales person multiplied a number and get the answer is 3 instead of that number divided by 3. What is the answer he actually has to get? a) 1/3 7) a ship started from a port and moving with I mph and another ship started from L and moving with H mph. At which place these two ships meet. a) Between I and J and close to J A building with height D ft shadow up to G. A neighbor building with what height shadow C ft is a)B ft

9) a person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10mph.another person was also fined for exceeding the same speed limit by twice the same if the second person was traveling at a speed of 35 mph. find the speed limit a)15mph 10)a bus started from bus stand at 10.00am and after 30 minutes staying at destination it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand the speed of the bus 50 percent faster. At what time it returns to the bus stand. a)1.00pm 11) in a mixture, R is two parts, s is one part in order to make s to 25% of the mixture, how much r is to be added a) one part 12) Wind flows 160 miles in 330min. How much time is required for 80 miles 13) vehicle travels 12 miles with 4/5 full tank, with 1/3 full tank how much distance travels a) 5 miles 14) There are two trees. one tree grows at the rate of 3/5 of the other. In 4 years the total growth of two trees is 8 ft. What growth will the smaller tree will have in 2 years. a) 2 ft 15) A storm will move with a velocity of towards the center in at the same rate. How far will it have gone in hours?