IBM came here in BIT on 9th july .. the questons where very easy ..

there were only 40 questons to be done in 60 minutes .. so enough time ..right!! 20 Aptitude and 20 technical( C , unix , sofwtare engg,computer n/w) the questions which i rememeber are .. 6 equal cubes set line by line there . and the perimeter of the rectangle formedwas given.. and u have to find the area of each square. 2.A man sells some item at some amount to which he losses 3 or 5 % (didn't remmeber much) u have to find to how much amount he should sell the item to gain the profit of 10%. 4 or 5 logical questions. like in certain place there are two kind of official lives type A and type B ,. type A says only yes while type B only says NO. ... answer them carefully . rest of the questions where easy. .. technical .. 1. in C the diff in 123 and 0123 is what (ans -40) 2.in how can u append the ls and who to certain existing file (like that) 3. what si s/w configuraton mgt. 4. which protocol is neede for error in n/w (ans-SNNMP)

IBM 2003 paper The question paper contains 2 sections, totally 40 questions. The time alloted i s one Hr. Section 1 : General Aptitude - 20 questions Section 2 : Technical - 20 questions There is no negative marking. Aptitude section: ================== 1. Time problem - Three persons A,B,C are waiting for Train.A has to wait for so metime twice the time b has to wait.B has to wait till 4:48 and c has to wait 4: 57. What is the time now?(I'm not sure abt the question, but the answer is corre ct). Ans : is 4.39 2.Problem on probability - What is the probablity of two persons among the four having birthday in he same month?

A. 75%. B. 50% C. 33% Ans : I dont know the answer. 3. A's salary is 25% more than B's salary.How much % is b's salary on A's salary ? Ans : It's obviously 80%. 4. A problem on Boats and Streams...There is a river. A boy's house is at the ri ver bank and his school is on the other side of the river. The distance between house and school is 1/4 miles.The boy is going to school by swimming at the rate of 2.5mph.The river's upstream is 2mph.How long will it take him to reach the s chool? Ans : 30min. 5. The diameter of a wheel is 1.26m.If this wheel rotates 500 rotations, how lon g it can travel? Ans : 1.98km. 6. If the ratio of speed of a train is 5:4:6 then what is ratio of the time take n to cover same distance? Ans : 12:15:10 7. If five buds can make a full cigarette, how many cigarettes can we make with 121 buds? Ans : 30 8. The ratio of radii of two cylinders is 2:3 and the ratio of their heights is 5:3. If the volume of the bigger cylinder is 27, then what is volume of the smal ler one? Ans : 20 9. If the sum of the digits of a two digit number is 9 less than the original nu mber, then what is the unit digit of the number? Ans : 1 10. E N D + 5 G --------G A M E --------Here find the value of D?

Ans : 8 11. A squirrel problem : I dont know the problem exactly. Ans : 12. Some people are standing square. From them 32 are removed and then form a sm all square and then 8 more removed. now we cannot form the square. so how many p eople are there at the beginning? Ans : 81 13. A grandpa's age is sum of his four grandsons provided that the grandsons' ag es are consecutive in number. Then what is the age of the grandpa? Ans : 78 14.If 20 men can build a wall 56m long in 6 days, then what length of a similar wall can be built by 35 men in 3 days? Ans : 49 15. If m power n = 121, then what is the value of (m-1) power (n+1)? Ans : 1000 16. What is the condition for a singular matrix? Ans : All values of a row are 0 and all values of a column are 0. Note: For a matrix A, to be singular, The determinant value of that matrix shoul d be 0,ie, |A|=0 17. At 12 noon, Both hands of a clock meet together.After how many minutes can t hey meet again? Ans : 65:45min 18. The average of first 50 natural numbers? Ans : 25.5 19. There is 20 litre solution containing 10% water and 90% spirit. How much wat er should be added to make the solution containing 25% water? Ans : 4 litres. 20. There are 20,6 and 9 rupees notes. you have to form 99 rupees with minimum n umber of notes.At what minimum number of notes you can achieve this? Ans : 8 Technical: ========== 1. An attribute in a table that is related with primary key of the another table is called... Ans : Foreign key

2. The scope of the static varaible is... Ans : function 3. Which of the following has the function scope? A.Automatic B.Static C.Global D.Goto label E.All the above Ans : E.All the above 4. Which one of the following is not related with files? A. B. C. D. E. Ans: D 5. Which one of the following is not a keyword? A. B. C. D. E. volatile inc sizeof default none fopen fclose freopn fftell none

Ans : B 6. Rom is Ans : non Volatile, cannot be changed and it contains boot up program. 7. How many different binary trees can be formed by 4 nodes? Ans : 12 Note:(2 power n) n Jagan- ans: 14 (quetion 25 in 191 page) For 3 nodes ans is 5. 8. char *p = (char *)10 means A.It points to the value at address 10. B.It returns the character whose ASCII value is 10. Ans : A 9. Running time of a function f(n)=8T(n/2)+qn for n>1, where q is a constant... Ans : n power 3. (Check the answer)-correct 10. Order of Bubble sort Ans : O(n power 2)

11. Writing comments A.Increases .exe file size. B.Is a good programming practice. c.Takes more compilation time. Ans : B.Is a good programming practice. 12. Convert the following decimal number into Hex number... 10767 Ans : 2A0Fh 13. Vector processing means Ans : Processing the column vector elements parallelly. 14. Constant member function can be loaded with A. Constant member function. B. Static member function. C. Cannot be overloaded. Ans : C. Cannot be overloaded. 15. By using which of the following functions, we can access the members of the two instances of a same class A. B. C. D. E. Member function. Friend function Both A and B. Neither A nor B. none.

Ans : C. Check the answer 16. Exception specification is in c++ to provide A. Documentation B. Object orientedness C. Error handling Ans : c( jagan) check it 17. Which one of the following is a parse generator? A. B. C. D. E. YaCC Lex Vi Emac none

Ans : YaCC 18. In a communication model, we can communicate in both directions, but only on e at a time. So the system is called A. B. C. D. Simplex Half duplex Full duplex none.

Ans : Half duplex. Notes : Since the question paper is very simple one and there is no 0+ wud be the good mark. All the very Best. ve marking, 3

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hai I wrote IBM paper today ( 29th sep 2003) at PESIT, Bangalore 2 Sections 1. Aptitude 2. Technical Time : 60 mins both papers will be in our hand intially, so we can divide time in what ever way we want. Aptitude : 1. like 3 consecutive prime adds to some no what is that ans: both 49 and 59. 2. one and ans: 3.like persont travlled 4 laps with the speed of 10,20,40 ( or 30) and 60 kmph what is the average speed. 20 (sure) one student takes 20 mins if he go with speed 15kmph and at what speed he

should go to reach in 15 mins ( nos are not same) ans: 16kmph( but not sure) 4. there are 2 type of people group 'yes' who always says yes ( they never say 'no') if they are not sure about they will remain sailent. and other grou name 'no' where the group of people always say 'no' if they are not sure they will remain silent. thats it now quetions are 1) what will be the answer if i ask are u belong to group 'yes' options are: they remain silent ,say yes, say no, either yes or no, can't be determined 2) same quetion but if i ask are u belong to group 'no' answers for both above quetions are not ( not determined) 3) what will the other person say if ask are u belong to grou 'yes' and etc there were 5 quetions first 4 u can do it last one little bit tough. spend some time on this u can do it.

9.like from height of 8 mts on ball fell down and each time it bounces half the distnace back. so what will be the distance travelled ans: 24 (sure) like 8+4+4+2+2+1+1+0.5+0.5+ and etc .. answer is not 20 10.like 6 cubes are arranged adjacentlay and given the perimeter and aksed to find the perimeter of one cube. ans: if x is the total perimeter then (x/14)*4 leads to the answer. but check it once u will be having plenty of time. answer is 52 (13*4) 11. some data is given like this 10kmph in still water ship took some x mins and downstream some y mins in same time what is the stream value .... (q is not exat) ans: 3 (not sure) 12.some average problem like 16 students average weight and teacher joins them . ... ans: 23 (sure) do this (16x+40)/(x+1) will give the value. 13. some probelm on square like to increase area by 69% by what percent side sho uld be incresed ans: square root of 169 i.e 13 ( not sure) 14. no of rational nos b/w 0 and 5 ans: infinite 15. First day of 1999 is sunday what day is the last day ans: monday 16.bullets probel some x no of bullets are shared by 3 people equally . and each fired 4 bullets then the sum of remaining bullets is equal to intially divsion valu e ans: 18 (sure) 17. bread problem, one come and eat half no of breads and somthing... ans: 63( check it) 18. like A can do in 6 day and B can do in 8 and C can do in 12 days but b left after working for 6 days for how many no of day A and C shluld work ans: 11( i dont think so this is correct)

Technical 1. what is vector processing ans: i dont no 2. what is data integrity

ans: option a ( like the range of values is defined by data integrity) 3.which topology takes minimum wiring options: star,bus,ring and complete etc ans: find it from network text book ( may be bus or ring) 4.best sorting if elements are already sorted ans: insertion sort(sure) 5.software configuration management ----ans: option a ( but check it from SE text book there are only 2 confusing wers) 6.In network the packers are flowing unnecessarly what is the way to control it and .... options: SNMP, and some i dont remember. 7.some octal no to decimal conversion for given octal no the last digit was 7 ans: the option a ( the decimal last digit was 1) 8.x-=y+1 is equivalant to ans: x=x-y-1 (sure) because it is interpreted as x=x-(y+1) 9. in a student form what is the relationship b/w student and course ans: actually it is many to one but they specified in a student form so think and write. 10.which is correct to append the ouput of ls and who to some file x. ans:(who;ls)>>x (check it) 11.what is trigger in DBMS (know what it will do) like whether file will be created if it s not there can we write to file ... 12.what happens when we open a file in r+ mode 13. what is ROM ans: it contains boot up program and it is not accesible that was one answer and anothe option was it is non volatile ( choose one among these 2) 14. what is int (*a)[4] ans: pointer to an array of 4 integer (check it) 15. primary key of anothe table is present and so on.......... ans: foreign key 16. what is the diffirenece b/w 0123 and 123 in c? ans:40(sure) 17. which among the devices is spooled device ans: printer(correct) 18. if u get error in adapter which device will u use? ans: contact electronics student. one of the option was voltometer. ans

thats it i remember dont email me for further clarifications because i typed what all i know. but one thing they are changing papers but the quetions will be from previous quetion papers combined. i am in Computer Science Branch take the advantage of branch for CS brach people. -------for girls just get 25 in written for 40. and talk something in tech and HR u will be in best opportunity for girls its like 50% reservation for girls. --------and the pay package is 2.75 lakh per annum. the cut off is 30 final word: dont go blindly with this answers to exam conform all the answers and then share this paper with all of u'r friends. they(IBM) need people badl y so if all of u'r friends do well all of u will be in.

Interview: it depends upon the Panel be perfect with u'r mini project. HR quetions: 1. why 2+2 is 4 why not 5. ans: assume u took 2 apples from A and 2 more apples from B and assume u a re having 5 and give 2 to X and give 2 more to Y then nothing will be with u i.e u lossed. (give some answers but dont say that it is like that) 2. why IBM and etc ......... Best Of LUCK from Jagannatha.M (jagan_pes@rediffmail.com) CS&E PESIT, Bangalore.

1. If A can do a particular work in 8 days. B can do the work in 6 days. By C joining with them, they can finish the work

in 3 days. If Rs.640 was paid to them, what is the share of C? ans: 1/8 :1/6 : 1/24 nothing but 3:4:1 so the answer is 80 Rs (sure)(raju) 2. By selling a product a seller is gaining 10% on selling price. If he sell that product Rs.80 less, he would have been losing 10%. What is the cost price? answer for this is 400(sure)(raju) 3. If A driver drives a car four times a lap 10,20 30,60 kmph what is his average speed. 20 kmph(90% sure but check it) 4. If M persons are going for a party, then their share is $D. If three persons were absent, then how much share will be increased for each individual. shortcut answer: take 2 values for M and D , substitiute and see the reslut . (Solution : Average = D/M. Three absent New average = D/M-3 Increase = Newaverage - Average = D/M-3 - D/M )(The answer for this is option 3 100% sure) 5. The radius of the seed is half the radius of the fruit , by what factor is the volume of the pulp greater than that of the seed? ( i think 7 times )(sure)(raju)

6. One person is wearing Black and White shoes as his pair. If he is having 20 white and 20 Black shoes. What will be the less number of time he have try to take his correct pair of shoes. answer is 20 but not 21(be careful) 7. The age of the grand father is the sum of his three grandsuns. The second is 2 year younger than first one and the third one is 2 year younger than the second one. Then what can be the age of the grandfather. choices:77 , 83 , 81 ,89 ... ( ans 81 , which is divisible by 3 )(sure)(raju)

8. in a grass field, If there are 40 cows, they could eat for 40 days. If there are 30 cows, they could eat for 60 days. Than if 20 cows, How much day they could eat? (ans: for the decrease of each 10 cows , the days increases by 1.5%) answer is 90 days(sure) 9. If the size of the fruit is two times the size of the seed. Then what is the volume of the seed. (derive general equation) (sorry i did not attempt this question)(raju) 10. Speed of boat in still water 10 kmph.If the boat takes 24hr in up stream and 14hr in down stream to cross the same distance, then what will be the distance covered. (ans : speed of stream = 3 km/hr )(correct) (raju) 11. How many times do the hands of the clock coincide in a day? (22) 12. If a person is standing in room, that is having mirrors in all the four walls. How many images of the person will appear. answer is infinite(90 % sure ) but confirm it 13. 5 questions on data interpretation ...very simple a pie chart is given where the angle included by the sector indicates the marks got in each subject . the total marks is 540 , and u have to find the marks secured in each subject. ( ans: to get the marks for each subject , multiply the angle by 540/360 or 3/2 ) ans: refer page no: 510 in r.s.agarwal.(yes all the five questions) 18. 65% of something lost something , 75% of something lost something , 85% of something lost something , how many of them lost all? (sorry jagan i dont know the answer for this and i didnt attempt) 19) If the radius of the sphere is increased by 50% then the increase in volume is answer is choice A(227%) (sure) anser is (237.5) 20) which of the following are sum of consequetive sequece of prime mo's ans:9 (13+17+19) Technical.

1. main() { printf("%u",main); } what will be the output? ans: address of function main

2. main() { int l,b; int con; 1=b=2; con =(b==2) ? 1 : 0; printf("%d",con); } what will be the value of con? ans: 1 3. Software Configuration Management process is -------------( choice a -- very very sure!)(raju)(1 is correct) 4. Data Integrity constraint is ---------------------- option 3 which is very bi g and i think it is correct; 5. Paging is ------------------------ option A; sure 6. What type of memory could be accessed in least time? ( ans:: not magnetic buble but cache ) 7.the operator which is not left associative ( = )(sure)(raju)

8.question on consisting of char * const p1 = "something" char const * p2 = "something " and quesiton on this questioning the validity like p1[0]='a';p2="aaa" ; ans so on ( ans : answer is 2&3(b) ) 9.which of the following cannot interrupt a process? a>ctrl+c b>device c>timer d>IO e> scheduler process (answer may be b or e i dont know exactly confirm it) 10> the processor concurrently switches b/w various processes thru -> a)timesharing

b)multitasking timesharing (ok)(sure) correct(raju) 11> which is best suited for rapid product design ? a>waterfall model b>spiral c>prototype model d>incremental model ans is incremental model (sure)(raju) 11> what is the output of the following program? void main() { printf("%x", -1>>4); } 12> What is the time complexity of gaussain elemination method? please check the time complexity i dont know the answer(ok). 13>There are five files each consisting of 10,20,15,5,25(These numbers are not c orrect but a sample). what are the minimun no of comparisons required to arrange them in order? for merge sort ans: 75 (I dont know the answer.) 14> For sorting a structure which of the following is the best? a> b> c> d> e> storing it in an array and sort. using pointers for soting. using linked list using reference to pointers all the above.

ans: I wrote the answer as (c) but please confirm it. 15. inorder can be implemented as a.dfs b.bfs c.none 16. which of the following is real time system example? ans: robotics control of machine 18. if a system is built with indipendent sub system then a. testing becomes complex b. testing complexity remains same. ans: c. testing becomes easier 19. The binary equivalant of .4375 is 0.111 , 0.0100,0.0111, 0.0101 , none ans: .0111 20. there are n processes with known processing times to be run on a single proc essor machine which results in maximum throughput ?

a.fcfs b.sjf c.rr d. none 21.a alue a. b. c. d. e. ans:

ans:sjf(raju)

complete binary tree such that value at each node is atleast as large as v of its children is binary tree avl tree balanced tree complete tree heap heap.

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thats it i remember dont email me for further clarifications because i typed what all i know. but one thing they are changing papers but the quetions will be from previous quetion papers combined. i am in Computer Science Branch take the advantage of branch for CS brach people. -------for girls just get 25 in written for 40. and talk something in tech and HR u will be in best opportunity for girls its like 50% reservation for girls. --------and the pay package is 2.75 lakh per annum. the cut off is 30 final word: dont go blindly with this answers to exam conform all the answers and then share this paper with all of u'r friends. they(IBM) need people badl y so if all of u'r friends do well all of u will be in.

Interview: it depends upon the Panel be perfect with u'r mini project. HR quetions: 1. why 2+2 is 4 why not 5. ans: assume u took 2 apples from A and 2 more apples from B and assume u a re having 5 and give 2 to X and give 2 more to Y then nothing will be with u i.e u lossed. (give some answers but dont say that it is like that) 2. why IBM

and etc ......... Best Of LUCK from Jagannatha.M (jagan_pes@rediffmail.com) CS&E PESIT, Bangalore.

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I have told U the subjects U need to concentrate. [ WHAT HE TOLD WAS :: C, SE, OS & DS ] Ok now i will give U Precise Description of Test. No of Questions : 40 ( 20 Tech + 20 Apti) Coming to Technical Part : 1) C questions : 6 2) Software engg : 3 3) Operating system : 3 4) Data Structures : 3 5) DBMS : 4 6) last question might be from one of the above section from 2 to 5. Aptitude : All are mathematical questions no Verbal or reasoning 1) Data Interpretation : 5 questions (single Problem which gives U marks obtained by students as sector angles...remember they have given sector angles that ratio of marks .In the question total marks was given so u can get individual marks by using these sector angles.Then it's really easy to solve the 5 questions) 2) on work,days,mens : Ans Rs 80 3) on boats and streams 1 question: Ans 3 km/hr 4) on Profit and loss : 3 to 4 questions 5) on ages of persons : 3 questions I am sending the questions i remember in Tech Section right 1) on main

int main(){ printf("%d",main); } what this code prints 2) on ternary operator ie ? : operator 3)printf(" %x" -1>>4); Ans ffffffff 5) on const char *p and char const *p They given some declaration and done 4 operations on declared variables and asked which are valid ones. 6) guasiaan complexity asked Complexity of guassian elimination method 7) mergesort minimum no of movements for given files with recored given10, 5,6,17,30 records and asked minimum no movements needed (Offcourse numbers are different...) 8) software configuration management given choices to pick correct one 9) which one is quick delivery model (Prototypr model ) 10)on Paging two questions 11)on complete binary tree 12)on data Integrity 13) Depth first can be achieved through which traversal 1)inorder 2)preorder 3)postorder 4)none

14) one more question on Complexity of solving linear equations using Guassian theorm 1) n square 2) n cube 3) n 4) log n

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14) 15) 16) 17) 18) 19) 20) Pass on the Information to all (Especially the ones who are not yet selected ) Thanks and Regards, Chandra Sekhar Reddy. --

1. If A can do a particular work in 8 days. B can do the work in 6 days. By C joining with them, they can finish the work in 3 days. If Rs.540 was paid to them, what is the share of C? ans: 1/8 :1/6 : 1/24 nothing but 3:4:1 so the answer is 67.50 (check) 2. By selling a product a seller is gaining 10% on selling price. If he sell that product Rs.80 less, he would have been losing 10%. What is the cost price? 3. If A dricer drives a car four times a lap 10,20 30,60 kmph what is his average speed. 4. If M persons are going for a party, then their share is $D. If three persons were absent, then how much share will be increased for each individual. shortcut answer: take 2 values for M and D , substitiute and see the reslut .

(Solution : Average = D/M. Three absent New average = D/M-3 Increase = Newaverage - Average = D/M-3 - D/M ) 5. The radius of the seed is half the radius of the fruit , by what factor is the volume of the pulp greater than that of the seed? ( i think 7 times ) 6. One person is wearing Black and White shoes as his pair. If he is having 20 white and 20 Black shoes. What will be the less number of time he have try to take his correct pair of shoes. 7. The age of the grand father is the sum of his three grandsuns. The second is 2 year younger than first one and the third one is 2 year younger than the second one. Then what can be the age of the grandfather. choices:77 , 83 , 81 ,89 ... ( ans 81 , which is divisible by 3 ) 8. in a grass field, If there are 40 cows, they could eat for 40 days. If there are 30 cows, they could eat for 60 days. Than if 20 cows, How much day they could eat? (ans: for the decrease of each 10 cows , the days increases by 1.5%) 9. If the size of the fruit is two times the size of the seed. Then what is the volume of the seed. (derive general equation) 10. Speed of boat in still water 10 kmph.If the boat takes 24hr in up stream and 14hr in down stream to cross the same distance, then what will be the distance covered. (ans : speed of stream = 3 km/hr ) 11. How many times do the hands of the clock coincide in a day? (22) 12. If a person is standing in room, that is having mirrors in all the four walls. How many images of the person will appear. 13. 4 questions on data interpretation ...very simple a pie chart is given where the angle included by the sector indicates the marks got in each subject . the total marks is 540 , and u have to find the marks

secured in each subject. ( ans: to get the marks for each subject , multiply the angle by 540/360 or 3/2 ) ans: refer page no: 510 in r.s.agarwal. 14.65% of something lost something , 75% of something lost something , 85% of something lost something , how many of them lost all?? Technical. 1. main() { printf("%u",main); } what will be the output? 657 (in jagan comp) ans: address of function main

2. main() { int 1,b; int con; 1=b=2; con =(b==1) ? 1 : 0; printf("%d",con); } what will be the value of con? ans: 0 (if 1 in declaration compiler error)

3. Software Configuration Management process is -------------( choice a -- very very sure!) 4. Data Integrity constraint is ---------------------5. Paging is -----------------------6. What type of memory could be accessed in least time? ( ans::magnetic buble ) 7.the operator which is not left associative ( = )

8.question on consisting of char * const p1 = "something" char const * p2 = "something " and quesiton on this questioning the validity like p1[0]='a';p2="aaa" ; ans so on ( ans : none of the operations are valid , because char * s are allocated constant memory area ...refer to c-faq by steve sumeet )

//jagan const char *q="Hello" *q='m'; //error q="bye"; //works same thing for char const *s="Hello" //jagan

9.which of the following cannot interrupt a process? a>ctrl+c b>device c>timer d>IO ( i think it's device , like a monitor obviously cannot interrupt the process ) 10> the processor concurrently switches b/w various processes thru -> a)timesharing b)multitasking .... the choices are very confusing , i feel it's timesharing (ok) 11> which is best suited for rapid product design ? a>waterfall model b>spiral c>prototype model d>incremental model ( not sure confirm it !) I know this much only. ALL THE BEST.