APTITUDE ROUND

1. A tank is filled in 5 hours by three pipes A, B and C. The pipe C is twice as fast as B and B is twice
as fast as A. How much time will pipe A alone take to fill the tank?
A. 20 hours
B. 25 hours
C. 35 hours
D. None of these

2. A train passes a station platform in 36 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 20
seconds. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr, what is the length of the platform?
A. 120 m
B. 240 m
C. 300 m
D. None of these

3. Let N be the greatest number that will divide 1305, 4665 and 6905, leaving the same remainder
in each case. Then sum of the digits in N is:
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 8

4. The angle of elevation of the sun, when the length of the shadow of a tree (3)1/2 times the height
of the tree, is
A. 30
B. 45
C. 60
D. 90

5. If sec 2A =1/sin13A, determine the angle A in degrees.

A. 3
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7

6. A certain amount earns simple interest of Rs. 1750 after 7 years. Had the interest been 2% more,
how much more interest would it have earned?
A. Rs. 35
B. Rs. 145
C. Rs. 85
D. Cannot be determined
7. Gauri went to the stationers and bought things worth Rs. 25, out of which 30 paise went on sales
tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 6%, then what was the cost of the tax free items?
A. Rs. 15
B. Rs. 15.70
C. Rs. 19.70
 D. Rs. 20

8. At 3:40, the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock form an angle of:
A. 120
B. 125
C. 130
D. 135

9. The speed of a boat in still water in 15 km/hr and the rate of current is 3 km/hr. The distance
travelled downstream in 12 minutes is:
A. 1.2 km
B. 1.8 km
C. 2.4 km
D. 3.6 km

10. A cube of side one meter length is cut into small cubes of side 10 cm each. How many such small
cubes can be obtained?
A. 10
B. 100
C. 1000
D. 10000

11. January 1, 2008 is Tuesday. What day of the week lies on Jan 1, 2009?
A. Thursday
B. Monday
C. Wednesday
D. Tuesday

12. There is 60% increase in an amount in 6 years at simple interest. What will be the compound
interest of Rs. 12,000 after 3 years at the same rate?
A. Rs. 2160
B. Rs. 3120
C. Rs. 3972
D. Rs. 6240

13. A cone and a hemisphere have equal bases and equal volumes. Find the ratio of their heights.
A. 1:2
B. 2:1
C. 3:1
D. 1:3

14. A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth". If the
father's age is 38 years now, the son's age five years back was:
A. 14 years
B. 19 years
 C. 33 years
D. 36 years

15. Considering Cosine Rule of any triangle ABC, possible measures of angle A includes
A. Angle A is acute
B. Angle A is obtuse
C. Angle A is right angle
D. All of the above

16. From a point P on a level ground, the angle of elevation of the top tower is 30º. If the tower is
100 m high, the distance of point P from the foot of the tower is:
A. 149 m
B. 156 m
C. 173 m
D. 200 m

17. If tan x = 3/4 and tan b = 2/7 Find tan(a-b)

A. 11/34
B. 12/34
C. 13/34
D. 2/9

18. 12 people {a1, a2, a12} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words,
there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, {a11, a12},
{a12, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken
hands with at least one person in the set is

(a)12
(b) 4
(c) 18
(d) 11

19.If a shopkeeper sell 960 gm sugar in respect of 1000 g at same price, then
what will be the profit?
A. 25/6
B. 22/8
C. 15/6
D. 13/2

20.If 2x – y = 4 then 6x - 3y = ?

a) 15
b) 12
c) 18
 d) 10

21.What will be the maximum value of f(x) = (sin x-cos x)^ 2?

a) 2
b) 3
c) 1
d) 5

22. The angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of a clock when the time is 4.20,
is:
A. 0
B. 10
C. 5
D. 20

23. A boat running downstream covers a distance of 16 km in 2 hours while for covering the same
distance upstream, it takes 4 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
A. 4 km/hr
B. 6 km/hr
C. 8 km/hr
D. Data Inadequate

24. The length of a rectangle is two - fifths of the radius of a circle. The radius of the circle is equal to
the side of the square, whose area is 1225 sq.units. What is the area (in sq.units) of the
rectangle if the rectangle if the breadth is 10 units?
A. 140
B. 156
C. 175
D. 214

25. A bank offers 5% compound interest calculated on half-yearly basis. A customer deposits Rs.
1600 each on 1st January and 1st July of a year. At the end of the year, the amount he would have
gained by way of interest is:
A. Rs. 120
B. Rs. 121
C. Rs. 122
D. Rs. 123

26. On 8th Dec, 2007 Saturday falls. What day of the week was it on 8 th Dec, 2006?
A. Sunday
B. Thursday
C. Tuesday
D. Friday
 27. A and B enter into partnership with capital as 7:9. At the end of 8 months, A withdraws. If they
receive the profits in the ratio of 8:9 find how long B's capital was used?
A. 6 months
B. 8 months
C. 10 months
D. 7 months

28. The number of arrangements that can be made with the letters of the word MEADOWS so that
the vowels occupy the even places?
A. 720
B. 144
C. 120
D. 36

29. The length of the bridge, which a train 130 meters long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30
seconds, is:
A. 245 m
B. 230 m
C. 240 m
D. 225 m

30. A man can row at 5 kmph in still water. If the velocity of current is 1 kmph and it takes him 1
hour to row to a place and come back, how far is the place?
A. 2.4 Km
B. 2.5 km
C. 3 km
D. 3.5 km

TECHNICAL ROUND

1. 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

2. What is the efficiency of merge sort?

a) O(log n)
b) O(n)
c) O(n log n)
d) O(1)

3. Which of the following advantages we lose by using multiple inheritance?

a) Dynamic binding
b) Polymorphism
c) Both Dynamic binding & Polymorphism
d) None of the mentioned

4. Where is the root directory of a disk placed?

a. Anywhere on the disk.

b. At a fixed location on the system disk.
c. At a fixed address in main memory.
d. None of the above.

5. A simple two-pass assembler does which of the following in the first pass?

a) It allocates space for the literals

b) Calculates total length of the program
c) Symbol table is built for the symbols and their value
d) All of the mentioned

6. The friend functions and the member functions of a friend class can directly access the ……………….
data.
A) private and protected
B) private and public
C) protected and public
D) private, protected and public

7. A system program that set-up an executable program in main memory ready for execution is
a) Assembler
b) Linker
c) Loader
d) Text editor

8. If a problem can be broken into subproblems which are reused several times, the problem possesses
____________ property.
a) Overlapping subproblems
b) Optimal substructure
c) Memoization
d) Greedy
9. extern int s;
int t;
static int u;
main()
{

Which of s, t and u are available to a function present in another file?

a) Only s
b) S & u
c) S, t, u
d) None

10. Structures must have

A. Public access type

B. Private access type
C. Protected access type
D. None of them

11. When do you use a sparse array?

a) When there are unique elements in the array
b) When the array has more occurrence of zero elements
c) When the data type of elements differ
d) In all of the mentioned cases

12. Which of the following operators could be overloaded?

A) Size of
B) +
C) +=
D) ::

13. Suppose the contents of an array A are, A = {1, null, null, null, null, 10};
What would be the size of the array considering it as a normal array and a sparse array?
a) 6 and 6
b) 6 and 2
c) 2 and 6
d) 2 and 2

14. What should be added in place of “/*ADD A STATEMENT HERE*/”, so that the function correctly
reverses a linked list.
a) *head_ref = prev;
b) *head_ref = current;
c) *head_ref = next;
d) *head_ref = NULL;

15. If several elements are competing for the same bucket in the hash table, what is it called?
a) Diffusion
b) Replication
c) Collision
d) None of the mentioned

16. What is the search complexity in direct addressing?

a) O(n)
b) O(logn)
c) O(nlogn)
d) O(1)

17. Optimization of program that works within a single basic block is called

1. Local optimization
2. Global optimization
3. Loop un-controlling
4. Loop controlling

18. In disk packs, tracks are divided into smaller block of information containing large amount of
information called

1. blocks
2. cylinder
3. sector
 4. all of above

19. Process of finding some other position when hash address is occupied is classified as

1. collision resolution
2. address space resolution
3. multiple hashing resolution
4. chaining resolution

20. In simple chaining, what data structure is appropriate?

a) Singly linked list
b) Doubly linked list
c) Circular linked list
d) Binary trees