HCL Placement Papers

Sample Test Paper

1. Which of the following involves context switch,

(a) system call

(b) priviliged instruction
(c) floating poitnt exception
(d) all the above
(e) none of the above

Ans: (a)

2. In OST, terminal emulation is done in

(a) sessions layer

(b) application layer
(c) presentation layer
(d) transport layer

Ans: (b)

3. For a 25MHz processor , what is the time taken by the instruction which needs 3 clock
cycles,

(a)120 nano secs

(b)120 micro secs
(c)75 nano secs
(d)75 micro secs

4. For 1 MB memory, the number of address lines required,

(a)11
(b)16
(c)22
(d) 24

Ans. (b)
5. Semaphore is used for

(a) synchronization
(b) dead-lock avoidence
(c) box
(d) none

Ans. (a)

6. Which holds true for the following statement

class c: public A, public B

a) 2 member in class A, B should not have same name

b) 2 member in class A, C should not have same name
c) both
d) none

Ans. (a)

7. Question related to java

8. OLE is used in

a) inter connection in unix

b) interconnection in WINDOWS
c) interconnection in WINDOWS NT

9. Convert a given HEX number to OCTAL

10. Macros and function are related in what aspect?

(a)recursion
(b)varying no of arguments
(c)hypochecking
(d)type declaration

11.Preproconia.. does not do which one of the following

(a) macro
(b) conditional compliclation
(c) in type checking
(d) including load file

Ans. (c)

12. Piggy backing is a technique for

a) Flow control
b) Sequence
c) Acknowledgement
d) retransmition

Ans. (c)

13. In signed magnitude notation what is the minimum value that can be represented with
8 bits

(a) -128
(b) -255
(c) -127
(d) 0

14. There is an employer table with key fields as employer number data
in every n'th row are needed for a simple following queries will get required results.

(a) select A employee number from employee A , where exists from employee B where A
employee no. >= B
employee having (count(*) mod n)=0
(b) select employee number from employe A, employe B where A employe number>=B
employ number
group by employee number having(count(*) mod n=0 )
(c) both (a) &a

HCL TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

HCL System Software Sample Test Paper

NOTE : This is a system paper and not application paper

Section 1- General Computer Concepts

1. Piggy backing is a technique for

a) Flow control
b) Sequence
c) Acknowledgement
d) retransmition
Ans. (c)
2. In OSI, terminal emulation is done in
(a) sessions layer
(b) application layer
(c) presentation layer
(d) transport layer
Ans: (b)
3.Bit parity check,when performed on a byte ,can
catch
a)odd number of errors
b)even number of errors
c)any number of errors
d)none of the above
Ans: (a)
4. In signed magnitude notation what is the minimum
value that can be represented with 8 bits
(a) -128
(b) -255
(c) -127
(d) 0
Ans: (c)

5. For 1 MB memory, the number of address lines

required,
(a)11
(b)16
(c)20
(d) 24
Ans. (c)
6.For a 25MHz processor , what is the time taken by
the instruction which needs 3 clock cycles,
(a)120 nano secs
(b)120 micro secs
(c)75 nano secs
(d)75 micro secs
Ans: (a)
7. Semaphore is used for
(a) synchronization
(b) dead-lock avoidence
(c) both a and b
(d) none
Ans. (c)
8. Which of the following involves context switch,
(a) system call
(b) priviliged instruction
(c) floating poitnt exception
(d) all the above
(e) none of the above
Ans: (a)
9.Virtual address are translated to physical
address by
(a)the process
(b)operating system
(c)MMU
(d)All of the above
(e) None of the above

10.convert the hexadecimal number 0xFEDB to the

octal
(a) 177333
ans: (a)

11. OLE is a mechanism

a)in UNIX for network communication
b)in INTERNET for communication between nodes
c)for communication between processes in a NT system
d)used as a network layer protocol in NT & Windows
systems

12. an internet IP address of a node

a)has to be unique only for the domain of the node
b)has to be unique in the node's sub-network
c)has to be unique in the country in which the node
is present
d)none of the above

13. There is an employee table with key feilds as

employer no.data in every n'th row are needed for a
sample. Which of the following queries will get
required results.
a) select A employe no. from employe A , where
exists (select (max (emp_no)))from employe B
where A employe no. >= B employe having (count(*)
mod
n)=0
b) select employe no. from employe A, employe B
where A.employe no.>=B employ no.group by employe
no.having(count(*) mod n)=0 )
c) both a& b
d)none of the above
ans: (d)

14. Type duplicates of a row in a table customer

with
non unique key feild customer no. can use
a) delete from costomer where customer no. exists(
select distinct customer no. from customer having
count )
b) delete customer a where customer no. in (select
cust_no from customer b where a.cust_no=b.cust_no)
and
a.rowid>b.rowid
c) delete customer a where custermor no. in ( select
customer no. from customer a, customer b group by
a.cust_no
having (count(*)>1) and a.rowid>b.rowid);
d) none of the above

15.which of the following is a feature of the ANSI C

language and not present in Java?
a)forward referencing
b)variable length argument lists
c)volatile modifier
d)none of the above
ans: (b)
section 2 - C Programming
1.which of the following about the following two
declarations is true
i) int *F();
ii)int (*F)();
a)Both are identical
b)the first is a correct declaration and second is
wrong
c) the first declaration is a function returning a
pointer to an integer and the second is a pointer
to
a
function returning int
d)Both are different ways of declaring pointer to a
function
ans : (c)
2.what are the values printed by the following
program?
#define dprintf(expr) printf(#expr=%d\n",expr)
main()
{
int x=7;
int y=3;
dprintf(x/y);
}
a)#2=2 b)expr=2 c)x/y=2 d)none
ans ( c)
3.which of the following is true of the following
program
main()
{
char *c;
int *ip;
c=(char *)malloc(100);
ip=(int *)c;
free(ip);
}
a)the code functions properly by releasing all the
memory allocated
b)results in compilation error as a pointer of
various
types cannot be equated
c)the program ties to free more memory than
allocated
and results in run time error
d) works well except when the machine runs low on
memory and malloc is unabel to allocate the memory
ans : (d)

4.output
main()
{
int I;
char *p;
i=0x89;
p=(char *)i;p++;
printf("%x\n"p);
}
a)0x8c b)0x4566788A c)0x8A d)0x8B e)none
5.which of the following is not an ANSI c language
keyword?
a)volatile b)function c)default d)const e)void
ans; (b)

6.when an array is passed as parameter to a function

,which of the following statement is correct
a)the function can change values in the original
array
b)in c parameters are passed by value . the function
cannot change the original value in the array
c)it results in compilation error.Array cannot be
passed as a parameter to a function
d)results in runtime error when the function tries
to
access the elements in the array

7.the type of the controlling expression of a switch

statement cannot be of the type
a)int b)char c)short d)float e)none
ans (d)

8.value of (3^6)+(a ^a)=?

Ans :value=5

9. x= b>8?b<<3:b>4?b>>1:b;
ans: x=3

10.output:
main()
{
int n=2;
printf("%d %d\n"++n,n*n);
}
a)3,6 b)3,4 c)2,4 d)cannot determine
ans :( b)
11.output:
int x=0x65;
main()
{
char x;
printf("%d\n",x);
]
a)compilation error b)'A' c)65 d)undefined
12.output
main()
{

int a=10;
int b=6;
if(a=3)
b++;
printf("%d %d",a,b++);
}
a)10,6 b)10,7 c)3,6 d)3,7 e)none

13.main()
{

enum months {jan=1,feb,mar,apr};

months x=jan;
if(x==1)
printf("jan is the first month");
}
a)does not print anything
b)prints : jan is the first month
c)generates compilation error
d)results in runtime error

14.what is the output of the following program?

Main()
{
char *src="hello world";
char dst{100];
strcpy(src,dst);
printf("%s",dst);
}
strcpy(char *dst,char *src)
{
while (*src) *dst++=*src++;
}
a)"hello world" b)"hello" c)"world" d)NULL
e)undefined

15.main()
{
int i=6;
switch(i)
{
default: i+=2;
case 4;i=4;
case 5:i++;
break;
}
printf("%d",i);
}
a)8 b)6 c)5 d)4 e)none

16.main()
{
int x=20;
itn y=10;
swap(x,y);
printf("%d %d",y,x+2);
}
swap(int x,int y)
{
int temp;
temp=x;
x=y;
y=temp;
}
a)10,20 b)20,12 c)22,10 d)10,22 e)none

17.#define INC(x) x++

main()
{
int x=4;
printf("%d",INC(x++));

}
a)4 b)5 c)6 d)compilation error e)runtime
error

18.struct node{
char *word;
int count;
struct node left;
struct node right;
};
a)incorrect definiton
b)structures cannot refer to other structrues
c)structures can refer to themselves.Hence the
statement is ok
d)structures can refer to maximum of one other
structure
19.what is the size of the following union
union tag{
int a;
float b;
char c;
};
a)2 b)4 c)1 d)7
ans :( b)

20. main()
{
char s[]="hello world";
printf("%15.10s",s);
}
a)hello,.world...
b).....hello world
c)heloo,.wor.....
d)none of the above
ans: (b)

section C - analysing program segements

1)struct dlink{
int nodeid;
struct dlink *next;
struct dline *prev;
} dlink_t;
A pointer to the head of tha linked list is
maintained
as a global variable whose definition is
dlink_t *head;

The function remove_element(dlink_t*rp), needs to

remove the node pointed to by rp and adjust the head

The first node's prev and the last node's text are
NULL
remove_element (dlink_t *rp)
{
rp->prev->next =rp->next;
rp->next->prev =rp->prev;
if(head ==rp)
head =rp->next;
}
which of the following statement is true about the
function remove_element
a)it works when head is the same as rp;
b)it does not work whe rp is the last element on the
list
c)it sets the head of the list correctly
d)it works in all cases

ans:( b)

2.#define NULL 0
char *
index (sp,c)
register char *sp,c;
{
do {
if(*sp==c)
return(sp);
}while (*sp++);
return (NULL);
}
The first argument sp,is a pointer to a C string.
The
second argument c is a character. This function
searches for the character c in the string . If it
is
found
a pointer to that location is returned ,else NULL is
returned

This function works

a)Always
b)always but fails when the first byte contains the
character c
c)works when c is a non NULL character array
d)works only when the character c is found in the
string

3.main()
{
printf("%d\n",f(7));
}
f(x)
{
if(x<=4)
return x;
return f(--x);
}
a)4
b)5
c)6
d)7

4.on a machine where pointers are 4 bytes long,what

happens when the following code is executed
main()
{
int x=0 ,*p=0;
x++;p++;
printf("%d and %d\n",p);
}
a) 1 and 1 is printed
b) 1 and 4
c) 4 and 4
d) causes an exception

5.which is correct?

a)strcpy(char *dst,char *src)

{
while (*src)
*dst++=*src++;

b) strcpy(char *dst,char *src)

{
while (*dst++=*src++);
}

c) strcpy(char *dst,char *src)

{
while (*src){
*dst=*src;
dst++;src++;
}
}

d) strcpy(char *dst,char *src)

{
while (*++dst=*++src);
}
6. main()
{
int i=20,*j=&i;
f1(j);
*j+=10;
f2(j);
printf("%d and %d ',i,*j);
}
f1(k)
int *k;
{ *k+=15;}
f2(x)
int *x;
{ int m=*x, *n=&m;
*n+=10;
}
The values printed by the program will be
a)20 and 55
b)20 and 45
c)45 and 45
d)55 and 55
e)35 and 35
ans : ( c )

7.int
func(int x)
{
if(x<=0)
return (1);
return func(x-1)+x;
}
main()
{
printf("%d",func(5));
}
a)12 b)16 c)15 d)11

8.consider the following fragments of c code in two

files which will be linked together and executed
a.c
int i;
main()
{
i=30;
f1();
printf("%d",i);
}
b.c
static int f1()
{
i+=10;
}

which of the following is true?

a)a.c will fail in compilation phase because f1() is
not declared
b)b.c will fail in compilation because the variable
i
is not declared
c)will print 30
d)will print 40
d)a & b

9. void
funca(int *k)
{
*k+=20;
}
void
funcb(int *k)
{
int m=*x,*n=&m;
*n+=10;
}
main()
{
int var=25,;
*varp=&var;
funca(varp)
*varp+=10;
funcb(varp);
printf("%d%d,var,*varp);
}
(a) 20,55(b) 35,35(c) 25,25(d)55,55
ans : (d )

9. #include <stream.h>
class x{
public :
int a;
x();
};
x::x() { a=10;cout<< a ;}
class b:public x {
public :
b(); x();
};
b::b() { a=20;cout<<a;}
main()
{
b temp;
}
what will be the output of the following program?
a)10 b)20 c)20 10 d)10 20

section 4 - General Aptitude Section

1. In a murder case there are four suspects

P,Q,R,S.
Each of them makes a statement . They are
P : I had gone to the theatre with S at the time of
the murder
Q: I was playing cards with P at the time of the
murder
R: Q did not commit the murder
S: R is not the murdere

Assuming that only one of the above statement is

false
and that one of them is the murderer,who is the
murderer?
a)p b)Q c)R d)cannot be concluded e)S
2.Mohan earned twice as much and deep.Yogesh earned
Rs.3/- more than half as much as deep.If the amounts
earned by mohan,deep and yogesh are M,D and y
respectively which of the following is the correct
ordering of these amounts?
a)M<D<Y
B)M<Y<D
C)D<M<Y
D)it cannot be determined from the information given
e)D<Y<M

3.Statistics indicate that men drivers are involved

in
more accidents than women drivers.Hence it may be
concluded that
a)sufficient information is not there to conclude
anything
b)men are actually better drivers but drive more
frequently
c)woment certainly drive more cautiously than men
d)men chauvinists are wrong about women's abilities
e)statistics sometimes present a wrong picture of
things

4.convert hex number 0xE78 to radix 7

ans : 13541

5.given that A,B,C,D,E represent one of the digits

between 1 and 9 and that the following
multiplication
holds

ABCDE X4=EDCBA
Which digit does E represent?
a)4 b)6 c)8 d)7 e)insufficient data provided

6.HCL photocopying machine can make 10 copies every

4
seconds.
At this rate,how may copies can the machine make in
6
minutes?
a)900
b)600
c)360
d)240
e)150
ans : ( a)

7. if a=2 , b=4 ,c=5 then

(a+b)/c - c/(a+b)=?
Ans : 11/30

8.10^2 (10 ^8 +10 ^8)/ 10^4=?

Ans : 2(10^6)

9.worker W produces n units in 5 hours.Workers V and

W,working independently but at the same time produce
n
units in 2 hours. How long would it take V alone to
produce n units?
Ans : 3 hr 20 min
10 . If q#0 and k=(rq/2) - s ,then what is r in
terms
of k,q ans s?
ans : 2(k+s)/q

1.A causes B or C ,but not both

2.F occurs only if B occurs
3. D occurs if B or C occurs
4.E occurs only if C occurs
5.J occurs only if E or F occurs
6.D causes G,H or both
7.H occurs if E occurs
8.G occurs if F occurs

11) if A occurs which of the following may occur?

I . F and G
II. E and H
III.D
a)I only
b)II only
c)III only
d) I & II & III
e)I & II or II & III but not both

12. If B occurs which must occur?

a)D
b)D and G
c)G and H
d)F and G
e)J
13. if J occurs ,which must have occurred?
a)E
b) Either B or C
c)both E & f
d)B
e) Both B & C

14. which may occur as a result of a cause not

mentioned?
I.D
II.A
III.F
a) I only
b) II only
c) I & II
d) II & III
e) I , II & III

15. If E occurs which one cannot occur?

a)A
b)F
c)D
d)C
e)J

Qestions 16-20
Six knights - P,Q,R,S,T and U - assemble for a long
journey in two travelling parties. For security,
each
travelling party consists of at least two knights
.The two parties travel by separate routs,northern
and
southern .After one month ,the routes of the
northern
and southern groups converge for a brief time and at
that point the knights can if they wish ,rearrange
their travelling parties before continuing, again in
two parties along separate northern and southern
routes. Throughout the entire trip , the composition
of travelling parties must be in accord with the
following conditions:
P and R are deadly enemies and although they may
meet briefly can never
travel together.
P must travel in the same party with S
Q cannot travel by the southern route
U cannot change routes

16. If one of the two parties of knights consists of

P
and U and two other knights and travels by the
southern route, the other memebers of this party
besides P and U must be
a)Q and S
b)Q and T
c)R and S
d)R and T
e)S and T
17.if each of the two parties of knights consists of
exactly three members,which of the following is not
a
possible travelling pary and route?
a)P,S,U by the northern route
b)P,S,T by the northern route
c)P,S,T by the southern route
d)P,S,U by the southern route
e)Q,R,T by the northern route

18.if one of the two parties of knights consisits of

U
and two other knights and travels by the northern
route,the other members of this party besides U must
be
a)P and S
b)P and T
c)Q and R
d)Q and T
e)R and T

19.if each of the two parties of knights consists of

exactly three members ,S and U are members of
different parties and R travels by the northern
route
then T must travel by the
a)southern route with P and S
b)southern route with Q and R
c)southern route with R and U
d)northern route with Q and R
e)northern route with R and U

20. if when the two parties of knights encounter one

another after a month exactly one knight changes
from
one travelling party to the other travelling party
,that knight must be
a)P
b)Q
c)R
d)S
e)T
HCL Placement Paper

SECTION ONE
A supplier of animals to zoos has the following animals in stock:
three females of L,
one female and one male of R,
one female and three males of T,
and two males of M.
conditions: a male and female of same species cannot be placed
in the same cage.
a male M and male T cannot be placed in the same cage.

1)the supplier can place which of the following combinations of animals

together in a cage?
a one r,two t and two M.
b three t and two r.
c four t and one r.
d five females
e five males
2) the maximum number of animals that could possibly be placed in one
cage together is
a 7 b 6 c 8 d 9 e 10.
3) If the supplier must place the female r and female t in a cage with
three other
animals , which of the following combinations could be used for the
addititonal three animals.
1 two males and one female
2 two females and one male
3 three males
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) 3 only
d) 2 and 3 only
e) 1 and 2 only
4) If the supplier places exactly 5 of the animals in one cage
together,all of the
following statements must be true except:
a) If four species are in the cage, the female t is in the cage.
b) if no T is in the cage, the female r is in the cage.
c) the four t's are not all in the cage.
d) if exactly three females, all of different species ar ein the cage
two m's are in the cage.
e) If there are four males in the cage, no M is in the cage.
5) assuming that there is exactly one male t in the cage, what
is the maximum number of animals in the cage?
a)4 b)6 c)5 d)7 e)8 ans :d
questions 6 to 9:
a,b,c,d,e,f and g are seven consecutive positive integers,
not necessarily in the same order.
1)b is the middle number
2)d is three less than c
3)the difference between f and a is equal in magnitude and
sign to the difference between e and c.
4)neither f nor c lie between e and g.

6)what is the value of b-f?

a)2 b)1 c)-1 d)-2 e)cannot be determined.
7) which number is the greatest of the seven?
a)f b)c c)g d)cannot be determined e)e.
8)Given that both A nd G are primes, what is the lowest possible value
of E?
a)6 b]8 c]9 d]12 e]cannot be determined
9)which of the given classes is redundant?
a)1 b)2 c)3 d)none of the above e)4.
questions 10 to 14:
a causes b or c, but not both
f occurs only if b occurs
d occurs if b or c occurs
e occurs only if c occurs

j occurs only if e or f occurs

d causes g,h or both
h occurs if e occurs
g occurs if f occurs

10) if a occurs, which of the following may occur

I. f and g
II. e and h
III. d
a] I only b]II only c]IIIonly d]I,II and III
e]I&IIIor II&III,but not both.
11) if b occurs,which must occur
a]f and g b]d and g c]g and h d]d e]j
12)if j occurs,which must have occured
a]e b]either b or c c]both e&f d]b e]both b and c
13) which may occur as a result of a cause not mentioned
I]d II]a III]f.
a]I only b] II only c]II&IIIonly d]I&II e]I,II&III
14)if e occurs,which one cannot occur
a]a b]f c]d d]c e]j
15)In a murder case there are four suspectsP,Q,R and S. Each of
them makes a statement. they are
P: "i had gone to theatre with S at the time of murder"
Q: "I was playing cards with P at the time of murder"
R: "Q did not commit murder"
S: "R is not the murderer"
Assuming that only one of the above statement is false and that one
of them is the murderer, who is the murderer?
a]P b]Q c]R d]cannot be determined e]S
16)Mohan earned twice as much as deep.Yogesh earned rs 3/ more than
half as much as deep.If the amounts earned by mohan, deep and yogesh
are M,D and Y respectively,which fo the following is the correct
ordering of these amounts.
a]M<D<Y b]M<Y<D c]D<M<Y d]It cannot be determined e]D<Y<M.
17)If you present a blue pass, then you may enter the compound.
If the above,statement is true,which of the following must be true?
I if you do not present a blue pass,then you may not enter the
compound.
II if you may enter the compound,then you must have presented a blue
pass
IIIif you may not enter the compound,then you did not present a blue
pass.
a]I b]II c]I&II d]III e]I,II&III.
18) what does the hex number E78 correspond to in radix 7?
a]12455 b]13541 c]14256 d]14153 e]13112
19) Statistics indicate that men drivers are involved in motre
accidents than women drivers.Hence it may be concluded that
a] Men chauvinists are wrong about women's abilities.
b]men are actually better drivers but drive more frequently
c]women certainly drive more cautiously than men
d]sufficient information is not there to conclude anything.
e]statistics sometimes present a wrong picture of things.
20)given that A,B,C,Dand E each represent one of the digits
between 1&9,and that the following multiplication holds:
ABCDE
*4
------
EDCBA.
what digit does E represent?
a]4 b]6 c]8 d]7 e]insufficient data provided.
-------------------------------------------------------------
SECTION II-UNIX,DOS,WINDOWS
-------------------------------------------------------------
1) which of the following is not a file type under unix
a]named pipe b]character special c]link d]symbolic link
2)which of the following information about a regular file is
not contained in a unix disk inode?
a]the directory it belongs it to
b]the size of the file
c]the number of links
d]the last modification time
3)which of the following is a system call under unix
a]fopen[] b]gets[] c]getpid[] d]fprintf[]
4)which unix system call should be used to get a signal after a
specified amount of time
a]pause() b]alarm() c]stime() d]wait()
5)which of the following about the fork() system call is false in unix
a)fork[]returns the child's pid to the parent
b)fork[]returns -1 when it fails
c)fork[]returns zero to the child
d)fork[]returns the parent's pid to the child
6)which of the following cannot return a file descriptor in unix?
a]open[] b]create[] c]link[] d]dup[]
7)which of the following system call is used to change the ownership
of a file to root in unix?
a] chmod[] b] chgrp[] c]chroot d]chown[]
8)which is not a process state in Unix?
a)zombie b]sleep c]run d]closed
9)which of the following is not a IPC mechanism in UNIX?
a)named pipe b)unnamed pipe c)shared library d)message queues
10)which signal cannot be traped by an application in UNIX
a]SIGSEGV b]SIGQUIT c]SIGILL d]SIGKILL
11)DLLs in windows are
a)used for linking b]static libraries c]shared libraries
d]used for communication.
12)Windows enhanced mode requires
a)80286 or above
b)80386 or above
c)8086 or above
d)80486 or above
13)TSRs can be accessed through
a]software interrupt b]hardware interrupt
c]farcells d]all of the above
14) the SET command of DOS
a)assigns MSDOS environment variables
b)allocates memory in environment
c)sets upper memory limit
d)none of these
15)XXX.SYS file loaded through CONFIG.SYS file is a
a]DOS system boot file b]installable device driver
c]DOS executable d]configuration file.
16)In windows the clipboard is used for
a]sharing data between applications
b]drawing and painitng
c]desktop publishing
d]none of the above.
17)The symbol used for redirecting output to another
program in DOS
a]'>' b]'<' c]'|' d]none of the above
18)the basic DOS interupt vector
a]0x21 b]0x10 c]0x13 d]0x09
19)the essential property required by an operating system to
be a real-time operating system is
a]time sharing b] fair scheduling c] preemptable d]re-entrant
20)for a given machine with only 3 physical pages,and page replacement
algorithm being LRU (least recently used),find the number of page faults
that will occur for the following of virtual page references(assume that
no page present in memory to begin with : 1,2,3,2,5,3,2,4,2,1,5.
a] 7 b] 8 c] 9 d] none of these.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
SECTION-III ("C"Language Fundamentals)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1)two variables cannot have the same name if they are
a] in the same function b] in the same file c] in the same block
d] across two files
2)a static function,say s(), in a file f.c can be invoked from
a] all functions in f.c after the definition of s
b] all functions in f.c after the declaration of s
c] all functions in f.c
d] all of the above
3)the values printed by the following program when executed are
int a;
main()
{ a=6;
f();
}
f()
{ int a=5;
printf("%d\n",a++);
{ int a=8;
printf("%d\n",a++);
}
}
a] 6and9 b] 5and9 c] 6and8 d] 7and8
4)the values printed by the following'c'program
#define VALUE 1+2
main()
{ printf("%d and %d\n", VALUE/VALUE, VALUE*3);
}
a] 1and9 b] 5and7 c] 1and7 d] 5and9
5) Macros and functions do not differ in the following respects
a] type checking b] vqariable number of arguments c] recursion
d]declaration of local variables
6]what is the value assigned to a and b when the following piece of 'C'
code is executed
a=(10,15);
b= 10,15;
a] 10and10 b] 10and15 c] 15and10 d] 15and15
7)which of the following is not a bit operator
a] ! b] | c] ~ d] ^
8)which is the value assigned to the variable a if b is 7.
a=b>8?<<2:4?b>>1:b;
a] 7 b] 28 c] 3 d] 14
9)the value of the following expression(2^3)+(a^a) when evaluated is
a] 1 b] 2 c] 3 d] insufficient data
10) which one of the following operators has the highest precedence?
a] << b] || c] ++ d] %
11)if a is 10 and b is 5,then the value of the expression a++ + --b is
a] 15 b] 16 c] 14 d] 13.
12)which of the following is not a basic data type?
a]char b] char * c] double d] float.
13)consider the following c program
main()
{ int x=5,y=7,z=6;
if(x>y)
if(y<z)
printf("1");
else
printf("2");
if(y>x)
printf("3");
}
what is printed when this program is executed
a] 1 3 b] 2 3 c] 3 d] 2
14)the declaration of a variable does not result in one of the following
a] knowing the type of the variable
b] knowing the size of the variable
c] knowing the scope of the variable
d] allocation of storage space for the variable
15)a goto statement can reference a label
a] in another function within the same file
b] in another function in a different file
c] within the same function
d] none of the above
16)the body of the loop of which of the following loop constructs
executes
at least once
a] for construct b] while do construct c] do while construct d] none of
the above
17) which of the following can change the flow of execution of a program
a] break b] continue c] return d] all of the above
18)the type of the controlling expression of a switch statement
cannot be of the type
a] int b] char c] short d] float
19)in c parameters are passed by
a] value only b] reference only c] name only d] value and reference.
20)assuming a pointer takes up 4 bytes what is the size of the following
structure
struct x {
char a[8];
struct x *forw;
struct x *back;
};
a] 8 b] 10 c] 24 d]16
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SECTION - IV ("COMPUTER CONCEPTS")
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. How many bytes does an array A(1:8,2:2,1:5) require for storage if
each
location of array is of 24 bits long?
a] 200 b] 480 c] 600 d] 800 e]none of these.

2. For a function to be reentrant which of the following must be true?

a. All var that it uses must be on stack.

b. It should have a single entry point.
c. it should not be recursive.
d. It should not modify itself.
e. both a&d.

3. Stack as a data structure is not a must for recursion- state whether

this
is true or false
a] true. b] false.

4. The avg case time complexity of the lexical analyser is (n is the

size of
the input string to be analysed)
a.O(log n) b.O(n) c.O(nlogn) d. (n**2) e O(n**3).

5. The lexical analyser can be implemented as

a. NFA with empty transitions
b. A NFA without empty transitions
c. A DFA
d. a & b
e All the above.

questions 6 & 7.
x=1;
a=0; b=1; c=0;
if((x) || (c=a+b)){
b=2;
c=c+b;
}

6. The value of c in the above code, assuming strict evaluation is

a.0 b.1 c.2 d.3. e. None of the above.

7. Assuming lazy evaluation is

a.0 b.1 c.2 d.3 e. None of the above.

8. In the complete binary tree of n nodes, how many nodes have a parent
as
well as children?
a] [n+1]/2-1 b] [n-1]/2-1 c][n-1]/2+1 d] [n-1]/2 e][n+1]/2

9. Macro expansion is performed in the second pass of a two pass

assembler
a. True b. False

10. Which of the following is not a necessary property of ooprogramming?

a. data abstraction b. operator & function overloading
c. inheritance d. Polymorphism.

11. Which of the following method definitions will give error in

compilation
in c++?
i) void class1::method1(int a=10,short b,char *c)
ii)void class1::method1(int a=10,short b,char *c=NULL)
iii)void class1::method1(int a,short b=0, char *c)
a. i b. ii c. all the above d i&iii

12. Which one of the following is true about friendship in c++?

a.friendship is transitive
b.friendship is inherited
c.friendship is both transitive & inherited
d.friendship is neither transitive nor inherited.
13. HDLC refers to family of protocols at the
a] transport layer b] data link layer c] network layer d] physical layer

14. If four channels are being multiplexed by a time division

multiplexor(TDM) then.
a]every second slot in the aggregate is for the same channel
b]the slot allocation is independent of the multiplexor
c]every fourth time slot in the aggregate is for the same channel
d]none of the above.

15. Which of the following stmts, ragarding datagram subnetis false?

a] it can handle node failure better than a virtual circuit subnet
b] it requires more bits of address information in each packet than
a virtual circuit subnet.
c] The packets always reach the destination in correct seq.
d] it can work on both connection oriented and connection less networks.
e] none of the above.

16. What is the networking protocol on NetWare Lans?

a] TCP/IP
b] IPX/SPX
c] ODI
d] none of the above

17. Which of the following is a network management protocol?

a] SNMP. b] NNTP c] SMTP d] none of the above.

18 Given two relations and their tables

A|B|CC|D|E
---|------|-------- ------|-------|-----
a|m|pq|x|m
b|m|qq|y|n
b|n|rr|x|n
[R] [S]

the number of tuples in the natural join of R and S is

a]2 b] 3 c]4 d]5 e]6

19. The outer joins are used to?

a] join tbles fron multiple data bases
b] To select the difference between tables.
c] join tables without loss of rows.
d] for none of these.

20. Assume a table exam has a column marks. Which of the following
queries
will return the second highest mark in the table.
a] select marks from exam where marks <> (select max(marks)from exam)
b] select max(marks)-1 from the exam
c] select max(marks)from exam where marks<>(select max(marks) from exam)
d] select max(marks)from exam where marks<(select max(marks)from exam)
e] c and d.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SECTION - V ("ANALYSING " C" PROGRAM SEGMENTS)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1) Consider the following program
main()
{ int y=7;
if(y++>6 && y++!=8 && y++>7)
printf("%d\n",y);
else
printf("%d\n",y);
}
what is printed when this program is executed?
a] 7 b] 8 c] 9 d] 10.
2)consider the following program
main()
{ int i=4;
switch(i) {
case 1: i++;
default: i +=2;
case 2: i++;
break;
case 3: i++;
}
printf("%d\n",i);
}
what is the value printed when the above program is executed.
a] 5 b] 6 c] 7 d] 8.
3)what is printed when this program is executed?
main()
{
printf("%d\n",f(7));
}
f(x)
{
if (x <= 4)
return x;
return f(--x);
}
a] 4 b] 5 c] 6 d] 7.
4)on a machine where pointers are 4 bytes long,
what happens when the following code is executed?
main()
{ int x = 0, *p = 0;
x++; p++;
printf("%d and %d\n",x,p);
}
a] 1and1 are printed b] 1and4 are printed c] 4and4 are printed
d] causes an exception.
5)which of the following is the wrong code for strcpy,that is
used to copy the contents from src to dst
(a) strcpy(char *dst, char *src)
{ while (*src)
*dst++ = *src++;
}
(b) strcpy(char *dst,char *src)
{
while(*dst++ = *src++);
}
Simillarly some segements for (c) and (d) were given.
the choices for answers were 1] a only 2] a and b only 3] a,b and c
4]all of the above

**********FIVE MORE QUESTIONS ARE THERE IN THIS LAST SECTION,

BUT I DON'T HAVE THEM, IF I COULD GET THEM BY TOMORROW I WILL
SEND THEM TO YOU********************************************
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**ANSWERS**
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Section1:

HCL TECHNOLOGIES

Q)Piggy backing is a technique for

a) Flow control b) sequence c) Acknowledgement d) retransmition
ans: c

Q)The layer in the OST model handles terminal emulation

a) session b) application c) presentation d) transport
ans: b application
Q)In signed magnitude notation what is the minimum value that
can be represented with 8 bits
a) -128 b) -255 c) -127 d) 0

Q)There is an employer table with key feilds as employer no.

data in every n'th row are needed for a simple following queries
will get required results.
a) select A employe no. from employe A , where exists from employe B
where A employe no. >= B employe having (count(*) mod n)=0
b) select employe no. from employe A, employe B where
A employe no.>=B employ no.grouply employe no.having(count(*) mod n=0 )
c) both a& b
d) none of the above

Q)Type duplicates of a row in a table customer with non uniform

key feild customer no. you can see
a) delete from costomer where customer no. exists
( select distinct customer no. from customer having count )
b) delete customer a where customer no. in
b rowid
c) delete customer a where custermor no. in
( select customer no. from customer a, customer b )
d) none of the above

Q)long int size

a) 4 bytes b) 2 bytes c) compiler dependent d) 8 bytes
ans: compiler dependent

Q)x=2,y=6,z=6
x=y==z;
printf(%d",x) ?

Q}what does the hexanumber E78 in radix 7.

(a) 12455 (b) 14153 (c) 14256 (d) 13541 (e) 131112
ans: (d)

Q) Q is not equal to zero and k = (Q x n - s)/2 find n?

(a) (2 x k + s)/Q (b) (2 x s x k)/Q (c) (2 x k - s)/Q
(d) (2 x k + s x Q)/Q (e) (k + s)/Q

(from GRE book page no:411)

data:
A causes B or C, but not both
F occurs only if B occurs
D occurs if B or C occurs
E occurs only if C occurs
J occurs only if E or F occurs
D causes G,H or both
H occurs if E occurs
G occurs if F occurs
NOTE: check following answers.

Q). If A occurs which of the following must occurs

I. F & G
II. E and H
III. D
(a) I only (b) II only (c) III only (d) I,II, & III
(e) I & II (or) II & III but not both
ans: (e)

Q). If B occurs which must occur

(a) D (b) D and G (c) G and H (d) F and G (e) J
ans: (a)

Q). If J occurs which must have occured

(a) E (b) either B or C (c) both E & F (d) B (e) both B & C
ans: (b)

Q). which may occurs as a result of cause not mentioned

(1) D (2) A (3) F
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) 1 & 2 (d) 2 & 3 (e) 1,2,3
ans: (c)

Q). E occurs which one cannot occurs

(a) A (b) F (c) D (d) C (e) J
ans: (b)

*****

HCL-TECH (MADURAI)

Ordering is changed this time.So don't byheart by

a,b,c,d. Byheart
the
answers. Pls check answer once again

Don't hesitate to answer all. Ever HR knows that

Students have
this qp.

Ist section of the Question is as such in the

placement
papers.com

Section II - C Programming

1. Which of the following about the following two

declaration is
true
i ) int *F()
ii) int (*F)()

Choice :
a) Both are identical
b) The first is a correct declaration and the second
is wrong
c) The first declaraion is a function returning a
pointer to an
integer and the second is a pointer to function
returning int
d) Both are different ways of declarin pointer to a
function

Answer : c) The first de...

2. What are the values printed by the following

program?

#define dprintf(expr) printf(#expr "=%d\n",expr)

main()
{
int x=7;
int y=3;
dprintf(x/y);
}

Choice:
a) #2 = 2 b) expr=2 c) x/y=2 d) none

Answer: c)x/y=2

3. Which of the following is true of the following

program
main()
{
char *c;
int *p;
c =(char *)malloc(100);
p=(int *)c;
free(p);
}

ans: The code functions properly releasing all the

memory
allocated

4.output of the following.

main()
{
int i;
char *p;
i=0X89;
p=(char *)i;
p++;
printf("%x %x\n",p,i);
}
*
ans:0X8A

5.
which of the following is not a ANSI C language
keyword?

ans:Function.

6. When an array is passed as parameter to a function,

which of
the following statement is correct

choice:
a) The function can change values in the original
array
b) In C parameters are passed by value. The funciton
cannot
change
the original value in the array
c) It results in compilation error when the function
tries to
access the
elements in the array
d) Results in a run time error when the funtion tries
to access
the elements
in the array

Answer: a) The fu...

7. The type of the controlling expression of a switch

statement
cannot be of
the type

a) int b) char c) short d)float e) none

Answer : d)float

8.What is the value of the expression (3^6) + (a^a)?

a) 3 b) 5 c) 6 d) a+18 e) None

Answer : 5

9. What is the value assigned to the variable X if b

is 7 ?
X = b>8 ? b <<3 : b>4 ? b>>1:b;

a) 7 b) 28 c) 3 d) 14 e) None
ans: 3;

10. Which is the output produced by the following

program
main()
{
int n=2;
printf("%d %d\n", ++n, n*n);
}

a) 3,6 b) 3,4 c) 2,4 d) cannot determine

Answer : b) 3,4
11. What is th output of the following program?
int x= 0x65;
main()
{
char x;
printf("%d\n",x);
}

a) compilation error b) 'A' c) 65 d)

unidentified

12. What is the output of the following program

main()
{
int a=10;
int b=6;

if(a=3)
b++;
printf("%d %d\n",a,b++);
}

a) 10,6 b)10,7 c) 3,6 d) 3,7 e) none

Answer : d) 3,7

13. What can be said of the following program?

main()
{
enum Months {JAN =1,FEB,MAR,APR};
Months X = JAN;
if(X==1)
{
printf("Jan is the first month");
}
}

a) Does not print anything

b) Prints : Jan is the first month
c) Generates compilation error
d) Results in runtime error

Answer: b) Prints : Jan..

14. What is the output of the following program?

main()
{
char *src = "Hello World";
char dst[100];
strcpy(src,dst);
printf("%s",dst);
}
strcpy(char *dst,char *src)
{
while(*src) *dst++ = *src++;
}

a) "Hello World" b)"Hello" c)"World" d) NULL e)

unidentified

Answer: d) NULL

15. What is the output of the following program?

main()
{
int l=6;
switch(l)
{ default : l+=2;
case 4: l=4;
case 5: l++;
break;
}
printf("%d",l);
}
a)8 b)6 c)5 d)4 e)none

Answer : c)5

16. What is the output of the following program?

main()
{
int x=20;
int y=10;
swap(x,y);
printf("%d %d",y,x+2);
}
swap(int x,int y)
{
int temp;
temp =x;
x=y;
y=temp;
}

a)10,20 b) 20,12 c) 22,10 d)10,22 e)none

Answer:d)10,22

17. What is the output of the f

ollowing problem ?
#define INC(X) X++
main()
{
int X=4;
printf("%d",INC(X++));
}

a)4 b)5 c)6 d)compilation error e) runtime error

Answer : d) compilation error

18. what can be said of the following

struct Node {
char *word;
int count;
struct Node left;
struct Node right;
}

a) Incorrect definition
b) structures cannot refer to other structure
c) Structures can refer to themselves. Hence the
statement is OK
d) Structures can refer to maximum of one other
structure

Answer :c)

19. What is the size of the following union.

Assume that the size of int =2, size of float =4 and
size of char
=1.
Union Tag{
int a;
flaot b;
char c;
};

a)2 b)4 c)1 d) 7

20) What is the output of the following program? (.

has been used
to
indicate a space)
main()
{
char s[]="Hello,.world";
printf(%15.10s",s);
}

a)Hello,.World...
b)....Hello,.Wor
c)Hello,.Wor....
d)None of the above

(1) The combined length of the longer two pieces of

rope is 12
metres.
(2) The combined length of the shorter two pieces of
rope is 11
metres.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

10) A certain company paid bonuses of Rs. 125 to each

of its
executive
emplyees and Rs 75 to each of its nonexecutive
employees. If 100
of the employees were nonexecutive, how many were
executive?
1) The company has a total of 120 employees
2) The total amount that the company paid in bonuses
to its
employees was
Rs.10,000

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

11. What fraction of his salary did Mr. Johnson put

into savings
last week ?

1) Last week Mr.Johnson put Rs 17 into savings.

2) Last week Mr.Johnson put 5% of his salary into
savings.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

12. Each M-type memory unit will increase the base

memory
capacity
of a certain computer by 3 megabytes. What is the base
memory
capacity,
in megabytes, of the computer ?

1) 2 M-type memory units will increase the computer's

base memory
capacity
by 300%

2) The memory capacity of the computer after 2-M type

memory
units
are added to the base memory capacity, is 1.6 times
the memory
capacity
of the computer after 1 M-type unit is added to the
base memory
capacity.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

13. What fractional part of the total surface area of

cube C is
red?

1) Each of 3 faces of C is exactly 1/2 red

2) Each of 3 faces of C is entirely white
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

SECTION C

Instructions ALL NUMBER USED ARE REAL NUMBERS

FOLLOWING
EACH QUESTIONS ARE FIVE POSSIBLE ANSWERS LABELED
A).B).C).D)&E).TICK THE BEST CHOICE.

14. How many of the integers between 25 and 45 are

even ?
(A)21 (B)20 (C)11 (D)10 (E)9

Answer:d)10

15. If taxi fares were Rs 1.00 for the first 1/5 mile
and Rs
0.20
for each 1/5 miles thereafter. The taxi fare for a
3-mile ride
was

(A)Rs 1.56 (B)Rs 2.40 (C)RS 3.00 (D)Rs 3.80 (E)Rs 4.20

Answer :d)Rs 3.80

16. A computer routine was developed to generate two

numbers
(x,y)
the first being a random number between 0 and 100
inclusive, and
the second being less than or equal to the square root
of the
first.
Each of the following pair satisfies the routine
EXCEPT

(A) (99.10) (B) (85.9) (C) (50.7) (D) (1.1) (E)

(1.0)

Answer : A) (99.10)

17. A warehouse had a square floor with area 10,000

sq.meters. A
rectangular addition was built along one entire side
of the
warehouse
that increased the floor by one-half as much as the
original
floor.
How many meters did the addition extend beyond the
original
buildings ?

(A)10 (B)20 (C)50 (D)200 (E)500

Answer: c)50

18. A digital wristwatch

HCL technologies paper { MANIT , bhopal ( 25th -26th july) }

Application software

Two section were there one section is aptitude ( 35 questions 35 minutes ) and other is
general technical awareness ( 25 qus-25 min)

Each qus have 1 mark for correct and -1/4 for incorrect answer .
General technical awareness is very very simple need not to be
send .It was based on c, c++ and computer awareness.

Q1. In a island there are people of two community type 'A' and type 'B'.
people of this island can ask question only. Questions asked by type 'A'
have correct answer YES and question asked by type 'B' have correct
answer 'NO'.

Five question are based on this paragraph.

1) One person asked another person "am I a type of 'B'"? what is type of
person who asked question.
a) type 'A'
b) type 'B'
c) either 'A' or 'B'
d) such question can not be asked.
2) person of type 'A' asked to his wife " are we of same type" . What is
type of his wife?
Three more question were there of same type read this paragraph
carefully so that this does not take much time.

Q2 . There are six people A,B,C,D,E,F and five cars .cars are stand in
sequence numbered 1 to 5 and each car can be share by two persons
only.and conditions are
'A' will share car
'B' will sit alone
'F' will not share car with 'D' and 'E'
'D' will drive car 3rd or 4th car
'E' will drive a car which is behind
the car with vacant seat.

Following are the qus based on this para

6) if 'D' are sit on the 3rd car how many different

arrengment will be there.

total 7- 8 question asked from this paragraph search this qus. in

GRE book. I don't remember the qus. And there ans because this was very
tough

Q3

DATA SUFFICIENCY

Direction:Read the following instructions carefully and answer questions

11-15 given below:

Each question below is followed by two numbered facts. You have to

determine whether the data given in the statement is sufficient for
answering the question. Choose one of the following choices best
fitting the question and mark A,B,C,D or E as explained below.
(A) if statement 1 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but
statement 2 is not sufficient.
(B) If statement 2 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but
statement 1 is not sufficient.
(C) If both statements together are needed to answer the question, but
neither statement alone is sufficient.
(D) If either statement by itself is sufficient to answer the question.
(E) If enough facts are not available to answer the question.

13. Is X =Y?
(1) X-Y=X^2-Y^2 ans:( )
(2) X and Y are greater than 1.
14. Is CAB a code word in language Q?
(1) ABC is the base word.
(2) If c immediately follows B, then C can be moved to the front of
the code word to generate another word?
ans:( )
15. A dress was initially listed at a price that would have given the
store a profit of 20 percent of the wholesale cost. What was the
wholesale cost of the dress?
(1) After reducing the asking price by 10 percent, the dress sold for a
net profit of 10 dollars.
(2) The dress sold for 50 dollars.
ans:( )
16. If X and Y do not equal 0, is X/Y an integer?
(1) X is prime
(2) Y is even ans:( )
17. What is the price of a banana?
(a) 14 banana and 35 oranges cost Rs. 84
(b) with a 50% discount on banana, Rs. 12 can buy 4 bananas and 5
oranges.
ans:( )

two deadly questions on series.

Some qus on fill in the blanks .

6.A+B=C+D;A+C=B+D ;2A>B+D;2C<B+D; Find the arrangements of the

letters
like
e.g:A>B>C>D> etc and all.

Q.NO.1&2
A FACTORY produces a product (measured in cubic feet) over seven days as
per the following schedule:

Day1 Day2 Day3 Day4 Day5 Day6 Day7

150 180 120 250 160 120 150

The finished goods are to be transported to the market by a truck having

a capacity of 2000 cubic feet. Any finished goods (ready at the end of
the day) retained overnight at the factory will incur a storage cost of
rs.5 per cubic foot for each night of storage. The hiring cost for the
truck is rs.1000 per day.

1.If the total cost of transportation and storage is to be minimized,

the truck should operate on
(a) 2nd,4th,6thand 7th days
(b) only the 7th day
(c) 2nd,4th,5th and 7th days
(d) only on 4th and 5th days
(e) none of these
ans:( )
2.if the storage cost reduces to re.0.80per cubic foot per night,the
truck should operate on
(a)2nd,4th,5thand 7th days
(b)only the 7th day
(c)2nd,4th,5th and 7th days
(d)only on 4th and 5th days
(e)none of these
ans:( )

6.if a+d=b+c,a+e=c+d,2cb+d,then
(a) a>b>c>d>e
(b) b>a>d>c>e
(c) d>b>c>a>e
(d) b>c>d>e>a ans:( )
(e) none of these

Q21. three students appear in a test but no one write there name on
answer sheet .and they submitted their sheet to teacher . when teacher
distributed their answer sheet . what is probability that no one get
their own answer sheet.

HCL Sample Paper

Sample Test Paper

1. Which of the following involves context switch,

(a) system call
(b) priviliged instruction
(c) floating poitnt exception
(d) all the above
(e) none of the above
Ans: (a)

2. In OST, terminal emulation is done in

(a) sessions layer
(b) application layer
(c) presentation layer
(d) transport layer
Ans: (b)

3. For a 25MHz processor , what is the time taken by the instruction

which needs 3 clock cycles,
(a)120 nano secs
(b)120 micro secs
(c)75 nano secs
(d)75 micro secs

4. For 1 MB memory, the number of address lines required,

(a)11
(b)16
(c)22
(d) 24
Ans. (b)

5. Semaphore is used for

(a) synchronization
(b) dead-lock avoidence
(c) box
(d) none
Ans. (a)

6. Which holds true for the following statement

class c: public A, public B
a) 2 member in class A, B should not have same name
b) 2 member in class A, C should not have same name
c) both
d) none
Ans. (a)

7. Question related to java

8. OLE is used in
a) inter connection in unix
b) interconnection in WINDOWS
c) interconnection in WINDOWS NT
9. Convert a given HEX number to OCTAL

10. Macros and function are related in what aspect?

(a)recursion
(b)varying no of arguments
(c)hypochecking
(d)type declaration

11.Preproconia.. does not do which one of the following

(a) macro
(b) conditional compliclation
(c) in type checking
(d) including load file
Ans. (c)

12. Piggy backing is a technique for

a) Flow control
b) Sequence
c) Acknowledgement
d) retransmition
Ans. (c)

13. In signed magnitude notation what is the minimum value that can be
represented with 8 bits
(a) -128
(b) -255
(c) -127
(d) 0

14. There is an employer table with key fields as employer number data
in every n'th row are needed for a simple following queries will
get required results.
(a) select A employee number from employee A , where exists from
employee B where A employee no. >= B
employee having (count(*) mod n)=0
(b) select employee number from employe A, employe B where A employe
number>=B employ number
group by employee number having(count(*) mod n=0 )
(c) both (a) &a

HCL TECHNOLOGIES

Ist section of the Question is as such in the

placement papers.com

Section II - C Programming
1. Which of the following about the following two
declaration is true
i ) int *F()
ii) int (*F)()

Choice :
a) Both are identical
b) The first is a correct declaration and the second
is wrong
c) The first declaraion is a function returning a
pointer to an integer and the
second is a pointer to function returning int
d) Both are different ways of declarin pointer to a
function

Answer : c

2. What are the values printed by the following

program?

#define dprint(expr) printf(#expr "=%d\n",expr)

main()
{
int x=7;
int y=3;
dprintf(x/y);
}

Choice:
a) #2 = 2 b) expr=2 c) x/y=2 d) none

Answer: c

3. Which of the following is true of the following

program

main()
{
char *c;
int *p;
c =(char *)malloc(100);
ip=(int *)c;
free(ip);
}
ans: The code functions properly releasing all the
memory allocated

4.output of the following.

main()
{
int i;
char *p;
i=0X89;
p=(char *)i;
p++;
printf("%x\n",p);
}
ans:0X8A

5.
which of the following is not a ANSI C language
keyword?

ans:Function.

6. When an array is passed as parameter to a function,

which of the following
statement is correct

choice:
a) The function can change values in the original
array
b) In C parameters are passed by value. The funciton
cannot change the original
value in the array
c) It results in compilation error when the function
tries to access the
elements in the array
d) Results in a run time error when the funtion tries
to access the elements in
the array

Answer: a
7. The type of the controlling statement of a switch
statement cannot be of the
type

a) int b) char c) short d)float e) none

Answer : d

8.What is the value of the statement (3^6) + (a^a)?

a) 3 b) 5 c) 6 d) a+18 e) None

Answer : b

9. What is the value assigned to the variable X if b

is 7 ?
X = b>8 ? b <<3 : b>4 ? b>>1:b;

a) 7 b) 28 c) 3 d) 14 e) None
ans: c

10. Which is the output produced by the following

program
main()
{
int n=2;
printf("%d %d\n", ++n, n*n);
}

a) 3,6 b) 3,4 c) 2,4 d) cannot determine

Answer : b

11. What is th output of the following program?

int x= 0x65;
main()
{
char x;
printf("%d\n",x)
}

a) compilation error b) 'A' c) 65 d) unidentified

12. What is the output of the following program

main()
{
int a=10;
int b=6;

if(a=3)
b++;
printf("%d %d\n",a,b++);
}

a) 10,6 b)10,7 c) 3,6 d) 3,7 e) none

Answer : d

13. What can be said of the following program?

main()
{
enum Months {JAN =1,FEB,MAR,APR};
Months X = JAN;
if(X==1)
{
printf("Jan is the first month");
}
}

a) Does not print anything

b) Prints : Jan is the first month
c) Generates compilation error
d) Results in runtime error

Answer: b

14. What is the output of the following program?

main()
{
char *src = "Hello World";
char dst[100];
strcpy(src,dst);
printf("%s",dst);
}
strcpy(char *dst,char *src)
{
while(*src) *dst++ = *src++;
}

a) "Hello World" b)"Hello" c)"World" d) NULL e)

unidentified

Answer: may be d

15. What is the output of the following program?

main()
{
int l=6;
switch(l)
{ default : l+=2;
case 4: l=4;
case 5: l++;
break;
}
printf("%d",l);
}
a)8 b)6 c)5 d)4 e)none

Answer : c

16. What is the output of the following program?

main()
{
int x=20;
int y=10;
swap(x,y);
printf("%d %d",y,x+2);
}
swap(int x,int y)
{
int temp;
temp =x;
x=y;
y=temp;
}

a)10,20 b) 20,12 c) 22,10 d)10,22 e)none

Answer:d

17. What is the output of the following problem ?

#define INC(X) X++
main()
{
int X=4;
printf("%d",INC(X++));
}

a)4 b)5 c)6 d)compilation error e) runtime error

Answer : d

18. what can be said of the following

struct Node {
char *word;
int count;
struct Node left;
struct Node right;
}

a) Incorrect definition
b) structures cannot refer to other structure
c) Structures can refer to themselves. Hence the
statement is OK
d) Structures can refer to maximum of one other
structure

Answer :c

19. What is the size of the following union.

Assume that the size of int =2, size of float =4 and
size of char =1.
Union Tag{
int a;
flaot b;
char c;
};

a)2 b)4 c)1 d) 7

may be b

20) What is the output of the following program? (.

has been used to indicate a
space)
main()
{
char s[]="Hello,.world";
printf(%15.10s",s);
}

a)Hello,.World...
b)....Hello,.Wor
c)Hello,.Wor....
d)None of the above

may be c

9)
(1) The combined length of the longer two pieces of
rope is 12 metres.
(2) The combined length of the shorter two pieces of
rope is 11 metres.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

10) A certain company paid bonuses of Rs. 125 to each

of its executive emplyees
and Rs 75 to each of its nonexecutive employees. If
100 of the employees were
nonexecutive, how many were executive?
1) The company has a total of 120 employees
2) The total amount that the company paid in bonuses
to its employees was
Rs.10,000

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

11. What fraction of his salary did Mr. Johnson put

into savings last week ?

1) Last week Mr.Johnson put Rs 17 into savings.

2) Last week Mr.Johnson put 5% of his salary into
savings.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

12. Each M-type memory unit will increase the base

memory capacity of a certain
computer by 3 megabytes. What is the base memory
capacity, in megabytes, of the
computer ?

1) 2 M-type memory units will increase the computer's

base memory capacity by
300%

2) The memory capacity of the computer after 2-M type

memory units are added to
the base memory capacity, is 1.6 times the memory
capacity of the computer after
1 M-type unit is added to the base memory capacity.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

13. What fractional part of the total surface area of

cube C is red?

1) Each of 3 faces of C is exactly 1/2 red

2) Each of 3 faces of C is entirely white

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

SECTION C

Instructions ALL NUMBER USED ARE REAL NUMBERS

FOLLOWING
EACH QUESTIONS ARE FIVE POSSIBLE ANSWERS LABELED
A).B).C).D)&E).TICK THE BEST CHOICE.

14. How many of the integers between 25 and 45 are

even ?
(A)21 (B)20 (C)11 (D)10 (E)9

Answer:d

15. If taxi fares were Rs 1.00 for the first 1/5 mile
and Rs 0.20 for each 1/5
miles thereafter. The taxi fare for a 3-mile ride was

(A)Rs 1.56 (B)Rs 2.40 (C)RS 3.00 (D)Rs 3.80 (E)Rs 4.20

Answer :d

16. A computer routine was developed to generate two

numbers (x,y) the first
being a random number between 0 and 100 inclusive, and
the second being less
than or equal to the square root of the first. Each of
the following pair
satisfies the routine EXCEPT

(A) (99.10) (B) (85.9) (C) (50.7) (D) (1.1) (E) (1.0)

Answer : A

17. A warehouse had a square floor with area 10,000

sq.meters. A rectangular
addition was built along one entire side of the
warehouse that increased the
floor by one-half as much as the original floor. How
many meters did the
addition extend beyond the original buildings ?

(A)10 (B)20 (C)50 (D)200 (E)500

Answer: c

18. A digital wristwatch was set accurately at 8.30

a.m and then lost 2 seconds
every 5 minutes. What time was indicated on the watch
at 6.30 p.m of the same
day if the watch operated continuously that time ?

(A)5:56 B)5:58 (C)6.00 (D)6.23 (E)6.26

Answer :E

19) A 5 litre jug contains 4 litres of a salt water

solution that is 15 percent
salt. If 1.5 litres of the solution spills out of the
jug, and the jug is then
filled to capacity with water, approximately what
percent of the resulting
solution in the jug is salt?

(A)7.5% (B)9.5% (C) 10.5% (D)12% (E)15%

Answer :A

20) A plane travelled K miles in the first 96 miles of

flight time. If it
completed the remaining 300 miles of the trip in 1
minute, what was its average
speed in miles per hour for the entire trip ?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)

Answer :(300+k)/97 * 60

21) A merchant sells an item at a 20 percent discount.

but still makes a gross
profit of 20 percent of the cost. What percent of cost
would be gross profit on
the item have been if it had been sold without the
discount?

(A)20% (B)40% (C)50% (D)60% (E)66.6%

Answer :c

22) A millionaire bought a job lot of hats 1/4 of

which were brown. The
millionaire sold 2/3 of the hats including 4/5 of the
brown hats. What fraction
of the unsold hats were brown.

(A)1/60 (B)1/15 (C)3/20 (D)3/5 (E)3/4

Answer :c

23) How many integers n greater than and less than 100
are there such that, if
the digits of n are reversed, the resulting integer is
n+9 ?

(A)5 (B)6 (C)7 (D)8 (E)9

Answer :D

24) An investor purchased a shares of stock at a

certain price. If the stock
increased in price Rs 0.25 per share and the total
increase for the x shares was
Rs 12.50, how many shares of stock had been purchased
?
(A)25 (B)50 (C)75 (D)100 (E)125

Answer :B

25) At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for

the price of 3 tickets. If
5 tickets are purchased at the sale, the amount saved
will be what percent of
the original price of the 5 tickets?

(A)20% (B)33.3% (C)40% (D)60% (E)66.6%

Answer :c

26) Working independently, Tina can do a certain job

in 12 hours. Working
independently, Ann can do the same job in 9 hours. If
Tina works independently
at the job for 8 hours and then Ann works
independently, how many hours will it
take Ann to complete the remainder of the jobs?

(A)2/3 (B)3/4 (C)1 (D)2 (E)3

Answer :E

27) A decorator bought a bolt of d

m number of red
chips in any one stack ?

(A)7 (B)6 (C)5 (D)4 (E)3

Answer :C

SECTION III - ANALYSIS PROGRAM SEGMENTS

1) Here is the structure declaration of a doubly
linked list

struct dlink {
int nodeid;
struct dlink *next;
struct dlink *prev;
} dlink_t;

A pointer of the head of the linked list is maintained

as a global variable,
whose definition is
dlink_t *head;

The funtion remove_element(dlink_t *rp), needs to

remove the node pointed to
the rp and adjust the head.

The first node's prev and the last node's next are
NULL.

remove_element(dlink_t *rp)
{
rp->prev->next = rp->next;
rp->next->prev = rp->prev;
if( head == rp)
head = rp->next;

Which of the following statement is true about the

function remove_element

A) It work when head is the same as rp

B) It does not work when rp is the last element on the
list
c) It sets the head of the list correctly
D) It works in all cases

Answer :B

2) Consider the following function written in c:

#define NULL 0

char *
index(sp,c)
register char *sp,c;
{
do {
if(*sp == c)
return (sp);
} while (*sp++);
return NULL;
}

The first argument sp, is a pointer to a C string. The

second
argument, c, is a character. This function scarches
for the character
c, in the string. If it is found a pointer to that
location is returned
else NULL is returned.
This function works
a) Always
b) Always, but fails when the first byte contais the
character c
c) works when c is a non NULL character only
d) Works only when the character c is found in the
string
answer: a

03) What is printed when this program is executed

main()
{
printf ("%d\n",f(7));
}
f(X)
{
if (x<= 4)
return x;
return f(--x);
}

a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7
answer: a

04) On a machine where pointers are 4 bytes long, what

happens when the
following code is executed.
main()
{
int x=0,*p=0;
x++; p++;
printf ("%d and %d\n",x,p);
}
a) 1 and 1 is printed
b) 1 and 4 is printed
c) 4 and 4 is printed
d) causes an exception

05) Which of the following is the correct code for

strcpy, that is
used to copy the contents from src to dest?

a) strcpy (char *dst,char *src)

{
while (*src)
*dst++ = *src++;
}
b) strcpy (char *dst,char *src)
{
while(*dst++ = *src++)
}
c) strcpy (char *dst,char *src)
{
while(*src)
{ *dst = *src;
dst++; src++;
}
}
d) strcpy(char *dst, char *src)
{
while(*++dst = *++src);
}
answer:b

6) Consider the following program

main()
{
int i=20,*j=&i;
f1(j);
*j+=10;
f2(j);
printf("%d and %d",i,*j);
}
f1(k)
int *k;
{
*k +=15;
}
f2(x)
int *x;
{
int m=*x,*n=&m;
*n += 10;
}

The values printed by the program will be

a) 20 and 55
b) 20 and 45
c) 45 and 45
d) 45 and 55
e) 35 and 35
7) what is printed when the following program is
compiled and executed?

int
func (int x)
{
if (x<=0)
return(1);
return func(x -1) +x;
}
main()
{
printf("%d\n",func(5));
}

a) 12
b) 16
c) 15
d) 11

08) COnsider the following of c code in two files

which will be linked together
and executed .

a.c
___
int i;
main()
{
i = 30;
f1();
printf("%d\n",i)
}

b.c
___
static int f1()
{
i+=10;
}

which of the following is true ?

a) a.c will fail in compilation phase because f1() is
not declared
b) b.c will fail in compilation because the variable i
is not declared
c) will print 30
d) will print 40
e) a & b

answer: e

9) Consider the following prg

void funca (int *k)
{
*k += 20
}
void funcb (int *x)
{
int m=*x,*n = &m;
*n+=10;
}
main()
{
int var = 25,*varp=&var;
funca(varp);
*varp += 10;
funcb(varp);
printf ("%d and %d\n",var,*varp);
}
The values printed when the above prg is complied and
executed
are:
a) 20 and 55
b) 20 and 45
c) 45 and 55
d) 55 and 55
e) 35 and 35
answer: d

10) consider the following program:

# include
class x {
public:
int a;
x();
};
x::x() { a=10; cout<< q if 10) d ans: min 20 hr 3 e) 30 d) 2 c) 53 1 b)
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then a="20;" 7) 150 240 360 600 900 min.? 6 make machine can copies many
How rate, this At seconds. 4 every 10 prototyping HCL 6) Answer: 7 8 ?
represent E does digit what -------------- A B C D X holds:
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5)Given answer:d 13112 13541 14256 14153 12455 radix correspond E78
number hex What 04) things picture wrong present sometimes Statistics
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Certainly Women frequently drivers better actually anything conclude
there not is information sufficiently concluded be may Hence drivers.
women accidents involved men indicate 03) M Y given from determined
cann?t It amounts? these ordering correct Which respectively, M,D,Y
Mohan,Deep,Yogesh by earned amounts If deep. as much half rs.3 Yogesh
Deep. twice Mohan 2) S Cann?t R Q P murderer? who murderer, them false
statement above only Assuming murderer?. ?R s: murder?. commit didn?t ?Q
r: time with cards playing was ?I q: theatre gone had p: They statement.
makes Each P,Q,R,S. suspects four case murder In 1) Section Aptitude
General IV 1020 2010 prg? output will } temp; { () main cout< 0 and k =
qr -s, then what is r in terms
of k,q,s?

a) 2k+s
----
q
b) 2sk
----
q
c) 2(k-s)
-----
q
d) 2k+sq
-----
q
e) 2(k+s)
------
q

answer: e

11-15 is the reasoning Questions:

Occurs and Causes available in placement papers.com

Six knights - P,Q,R,S,T and U - assemble for a long

journey in two
travelling parties. For security, each travelling
party consists
of at least two knights. The two parties travel by
separate routes,
northern and southern. After one month, the routes of
the northern
and southern groups converge for a brief time and at
that point the
knights can, if they wish, rearrange their travelling
parties before
continuing, again in two parties along separate
northern and southern
routes. Throughout the entire trip, the composition of
travelling
parties must be in accord with the following
conditions

P and R are deadly enemies and, although they may meet

briefly,
can never travel together.
p must travel in the same party with s
Q cann't travel by the southern route
U cann't change routes

16) If one of the two parties of knights consists of P

and U and
two other knights and travels by the southern route,
the other members
of this party besides P and U must be
a) Q and S
b) Q and T
c) R and S
d) R and T
e) S and T
answer: e

17) If each of the two parties of knights consists of

exactly three
members, which of the following is not a possible
travelling party
and route?
a) P,S,U by the northern route
b) P,S,T by the northern route
c) P,S,T by the southern route
d) P,S,U by the southern route
e) Q,R,T by the southern route

ans: b

18) If one of the two parties of knights consists of U

and two other
knights and travels by the northern route, the other
memnbers of this party
besides U must be
a) P and S
b) P and T
c) Q and R
d) Q and T
e) R and T

answer: c

19) If each of the two parties of knights consists of

exactly three
members of different parties, and R travels by the
northern route,
then T must travel by the
a) southern route with P and S
b) southern route with Q and R
c) southern route with R and U
d) northern route with Q and R
e) northern route with R and U

answer: a

20) If, when the two parties of knights encounter one

another after
a month, exactly one knight changes from one
travelling party to the
other travelling party, that knight must be
a) P
b) Q
c) R
d) S
e) T

answer: e

HCL TECH interview qp

Technical interview is held for 30 min to 1 hr 20min depending upon

the stuff. Concentrated areas are

1) OS Concepts
2) C Programming skill
3) OOPs concepts
4) Basics of Networking
5) Data structures
Only basic QP like
1) What is fragmentation? How do overcome?
2) What is semaphore?
3) What are the IPC Mechanism available? Illustrate
with example
4) What is structure and union in c? write the code
and explain
how they are storing in the memory?
5) They will ask to write one c program ?
6) Explain the data struture (code) for the data
structures
i) Double linklist
ii) Minimum spanning tree
iii) BFS and DFS
iv) AVL tree
v) Reverse the linklist
7) Difference between malloc and calloc?
8) write a prg in macro in c?
9) Write a simple MFC program to create a window?
(They aaked me
write a prg to create a window)
10) Tell about the existing scheduling algorithm?
11) what are all E.F.Codd rule?
12) what is bit slice processor?
13) what is a deadlock? explain it?
14) what is virtual memory?
15) what is circuit switching and packet switching
16) What is the significance of friend keyword in C++?
17) Different types of inheritance?
18) do u want to ask anything from us?

HR interview
This ranges from 20 min to 45 min. They expecting ur
i) Focussing towards the technology
ii) Adaptability
iii) Family Background
iv) Team spirit

i) Tell abt yourself?

ii) what are all ur hobbies?
iii)why did u prefer your area of interest?
iv) why did u wanna be in HCL?
v) why did u choose MCA?
vi) howz interview is going on?
vii) Some general technical qp from ur area of
interest?
viii) how'll u react if u r assigned in the non area
of interest?
(adaptability)
ix) how're getting information abt the company?
(weightage is given to communciating with the seniors)
x) In which project do u want to work in HCL?
xi) do u want to ask anything from us?

There'll be no HR interview for some shortlisted

candidates.
70+ and no current arrear is the criteria.
The shortlisted student should have more than 73%.
Aptitude

Setion I ( 25 ques 30 mins apttitude type)

1. There were four questions based on the data .

5.Five students has appeared for the test on Calculus.The lowest
possible
score was 0, and the highest score was 100.aparna ,rahul rohit,shijit,
and
shana.Shahana got 8 more marks than Aparna, Shigit got 2 more marks
than aparna, rohit got 3/2 of rohit or 10 more than aaparna.The
second highest
score was 89.What were the score of each students.
6.A+B=C+D;A+C=B+D ;2A>B+D;2C<B+D; Find the arrangements of the
letters
like
e.g:A>B>C>D> etc and all.
7.MBC=(BE)2; where M,B,C,E represent different numbers What does M
represent.
8.There was a question on number series.

9.
20 ? 15
0 18 11
Ans(6)

Five questions were on data sufficiencies all of them I can^Òt recall

the ones
can remember I have written them.
A) The first condition is sufficient and the second condition is not
necessary.
B) The second condition is sufficient and the first condition is not
necessary
C) Both the conditions are necessary but alone is not sufficient
D) Both the conds. Are necessary and any one alone is sufficient
condition.
E) Insufficient conditions
10.X =Y;
a)X2-Y2=0 is the sufficient conditions
b)X-Y =0 is the sufficient condition

11.28 bananas and 35 orange scost Rs 84.After a deduction of 10 % Rs

12 can
buy 4 bananas and 5 oranges.Find the cost of each items.

12 The distance between two pts is 335 kms.A car starts from a point
A towards
B with a speed of 65 km/hr at 8.00 am.Another car started from B
towards A at
9.00 am at a speed of 70km/hr.When will they meet each other.
a)11.00 am(ans) b)11.30am c)12.00 pm d)1.00 pm e)10.30 am
A,B,C,D,E are travelling in a car.Three of them are drivers.there is
one
couple,B is wife of D and is a Driver. A is the brother of D .Of them
only one
lady can drive.A drove for a while followed by A and then by E.

24.Which among of the following pairs are brothers,

a)AD(ans)
b)CD
c)EA
d)BA
e)ED

25.Which is the other lady present there?

a)B b)A c)D d)C(ans) e)E

Four question were based on the logical reasining.given below:

There are six inverted cups below which there are one ball each under
each
cup.colored by solid colours.-red,orange
,magenta,purple,yellow,green.The
arrangements was such that one can tell which ball is under a
particular
cup.The green ball was under the 5thcup,
The purple ball at a number lower than the orange ball.the red ball
and magenta
ball are kept side by side.

16.Find the arrangement of the balls

ans:---------,-----------,-----------,-----------,green,orange
(I don^Òt remember the other options but the correct pattern
consisits of
green and orange at the last)

17.Which ball is under the 6th cup?

21.In a clock how many times does the hands of a clock are at right
angle in a
day?
Ans(44 times)

23.A man said to a woman ^ÓYour brother^Òs son^Òs sister is my wife^Ô

What is
the relation between the man and the lady?

Those who qualified from section I were shortlisted to sit for the
second test
on techinal questions.The second test consists of two parts Section I
consists
of Only Operating system and the Section II consists of only Cand C++
fundamentals

I got HCL full paper. I am mailing it. The quetions are in order.
So you no need to prepare answers and mugging that quetions. Just
Jyou mug that answers which are in order or you write all these
answers on the hand compactly while you are going to exam.

Paper Model:

Section I: computer awareness(i.e general things about computer)

Q.15
-ve marks -1/4

Section II: Simple C- language Q. 15 & -ve marks: -1/4

Section III: On pointers & structures
C++,JAVA( only 1 on this) Q.10 each quetion ->2 marks

-ve marks: -1
Section IV: Analytical Q.20 each quetion -> 2 marks.

-ve marks: -1/4

VIJAYA from each section Iam giving one are to quetions also because
for checking whether the same paper or not. And for doubtful
answers also I am writing quetions but not writing
answers for these quetions.

SECTION-I

1). Piggy backing is a technique for

a) Flow control b) sequence c) Acknowledgement d) retransmition

ans: c piggy backing

2). The layer in the OST model handles terminal emulation

a) session b) application c) presentation d) transport

ans: b application

3) ans: a odd numbers of errors

4)Q. In signed magnitude notation what is the minimum value that

can be represented with 8 bits

a) -128 b) -255 c) -127 d) 0

5) c 20

6) a 120

7) b synchronise the access

8) a system call

9) b the operating system

10) a 177333

11) d used as a network layer protocall in network and

windows system
12) b has to be unique in the sub network

13)Q. there is an employer table with key feilds as employer no.

data in every n'th row are needed for a simple following queries
will get required results.

a) select A employe no. from employe A , where exists from employe B

where A employe no. >= B employe having (count(*) mod n)=0
b) select employe no. from employe A, employe B where
A employe no.>=B employ no.grouply employe no.having(count(*) mod n=0 )
c) both a& b
d)none of the above

14)Q. type duplicates of a row in a table customer with non uniform

key feild customer no. you can see

a) delete from costomer where customer no. exists

( select distinct customer no. from customer having count )
b) delete customer a where customer no. in
b rowid
c) delete customer a where custermor no. in
( select customer no. from customer a, customer b )
d) none of the above

15) c Volatile modifier

Section I over with 15 quetions

SECTION-II

Section II is not covered completly But it is very very easy

. You can do it very easely.
1) ans: recursion
2) long int size
a) 4 bytes b) 2 bytes c) compiler dependent d) 8 bytes
ans: compiler dependent
note: order of a,b,c,d are doubt but answer is correct.

3) x=2,y=6,z=6
x=y==z;
printf(%d",x) ?

4) if(x>2)?3:4

5)

6)

7) ans: c 6 ( quetion on enum )

8) ----
---
---
--
14) c : class A,B and C can have member functions with same name.

15) ans: d none of the above

SECTION-III

1) ans: b It does not work when rp is the last element in the

linked list

2) ans: a always

3) ans: b 13

4) ans: b 16

5) ans: d 55,55

6) ans: c 5,10,10,3

7) ---

8) ans:d 4

9) ans: c 5

10)ans: c semicolon missing

SECTION-IV

following are not in order:

2. M > D > Y ans: (a)

6. 10 in 4 seconds,
? in 6 minutes = 10x6x60/4 = 900 ans: (a)

7. a=2, b=4, c=5

(a+b)/c - c/(a+b) = 11/30 (ans).

8. 100(100000000+100000000)/10000 = 2x1000000 (ans).

9. what does the hexanumber E78 in radix 7.
(a) 12455 (b) 14153 (c) 14256 (d) 13541 (e) 131112 ans: (d)

10. Q is not equal to zero and k = (Q x n - s)/2 find n?

(a) (2 x k + s)/Q (b) (2 x s x k)/Q (c) (2 x k - s)/Q
(d) (2 x k + s x Q)/Q (e) (k + s)/Q

(from GRE book page no:411)

data:
A causes B or C, but not both
F occurs only if B occurs
D occurs if B or C occurs
E occurs only if C occurs
J occurs only if E or F occurs
D causes G,H or both
H occurs if E occurs
G occurs if F occurs

NOTE: check following answers.

11. If A occurs which of the following must occurs

I. F & G
II. E and H
III. D

(a) I only (b) II only (c) III only (d) I,II, & III
(e) I & II (or) II & III but not both ans: (e)

12. If B occurs which must occur

(a) D (b) D and G (c) G and H (d) F and G (e) J ans: (a)

13. If J occurs which must have occured

a) E (b) either B or C (c) both E & F (d) B (e) both B & C ans: (b)

14. which may occurs as a result of cause not mentioned

(1) D (2) A (3) F

(a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) 1 & 2 (d) 2 & 3 (e) 1,2,3 ans: (c)
15. E occurs which one cannot occurs

(a) A (b) F (c) D (d) C (e) J ans: (b)

11 to 15:- ----------- e , a , b , c , b ---------------

Below are in order:

16. to 20. answers:

e
a
c
a

HCL SYSTEM SOFTWARE PAPER: 60 qs; 90 min. (4 sections)

NOTE : Please check answers once again.

only this much i got , which is available here in iit-kgp

section 1.

1.which of the following involves context switch,

a) system call b)priviliged instruction
c)floating poitnt exception
d)all the above
e)none of the above
ans: a

2.In OSI, terminal emulation is done in

a)semion b)appl.. c)presenta... d)transport
ans: b

3....... 25MHz processor , what is the time taken by the instruction

which needs 3 clock cycles,
a)120 nano secs b)120 micro secs
c)75 nano secs d)75 micro secs

4. For 1 MBmemory no of address lines required,

a)11 b)16 c)22 d) 24
ans: 16

5. Semafore is used for

a) synchronization b0 dead-lock avoidence
c)box d) none
ans : a

6. class c: public A, public B

a) 2 member in class A,B shouldnot have same name

b) 2 member in class A,C " '' '' ''
c) both
d) none

ans : a

7. question related to java

8. OLE is used in

a)inter connection in unix

b)interconnection in WINDOWS
c)interconnection in WINDOWS NT

9.No given in HEX ---- write it in OCTAL

10.macros and function are related in what aspect?

a)recursion b)varying no of arguments
c)hypochecking d)type declaration

11.preproconia.. does not do one of the following

a)macro ...... b)conditional compliclation
c)in type checking d)including load file

ans: c

SECTION B

1.enum day = { jan = 1 ,feb=4, april, may}

what is the value of may?
a)4 b)5 c)6 d)11
e)none of the above

2.main
{
int x,j,k;
j=k=6;x=2; ans x=1
x=j*k;
printf("%d", x);

3. fn f(x)

{ if(x<=0)
return; ans fn(5) ....?
else f(x-1)+x;
}

4. i=20,k=0;
for(j=1;j<i;j=1+4*(i/j))
{
k+=j<10?4:3;
}

printf("%d", k); ans k=4

5. int i =10
main()
{
int i =20,n;
for(n=0;n<=i;)
{
int i=10
i++;
}
printf("%d", i); ans i=20

6. int x=5;
y= x&y
( MULTIPLE CHOICE QS)
ans : c

7. Y=10;
if( Y++>9 && Y++!=10 && Y++>10)
printf("........ Y);
else printf("".... )

ans : 13

8. f=(x>y)?x:y
a) f points to max of x and y
b) f points to min of x and y
c)error
d) ........

ans : a

9. if x is even, then

(x%2)=0
x &1 !=1
x! ( some stuff is there)

a)only two are correct

b) three are correct
c), d) ....

ans : all are correct

10. which of the function operator cannot be over loaded

a) <=
b)?:
c)==
d)*

ans: b and d

SECTION.C (PRG SKILLS)

(1) STRUCT DOUBLELIST
{ DOUBLE CLINKED
INT DET; LIST VOID
STRUCT PREVIOUS; BE GIVEN AND A PROCEDURE TO DELETE
STRUCT NEW; AN ELEMENT WILL BE GIVEN
}
DELETE(STRUCT NODE)
{
NODE-PREV-NEXT NODE-NEXT;
NODE-NEXT-PREV NODE-PREV;
IF(NODE==HEAD)
NODE
}
IN WHAT CASE THE PREV WAS
(A) ALL CASES
(B) IT DOES NOT WORK FOR LAST ELEMENT
(C) IT DOES NOT WORK FOR-----
(2) SIMILAR TYPE QUESTION
ANS: ALL DON'T WORK FOR NON NULL VALUE

(3) VOID FUNCTION(INT KK)

{
KK+=20;
}
VOID FUNCTION (INT K)
INT MM,N=&M
KN = K
KN+-=10;
}
SECTION D

(1) a=2,b=3,c=6 c/(a+b)-(a+b)/c=?

(2) no.rep in hexadecimal, write it in radiv 7
(3) A B C D E
*4
---------- find E ANS: 13
EDCBA
------------
(4) GRE-MODEL TEST-1, SECTION-6(19-22)
(5) M HAS DOUBLE AMOUNT AS D, Y HAS RS. 3 MORE THAN HALF OF
AMOUNT OF D
THE ORDERING A,B,C M C D C Y
ANS:DATA INSUFFICIENT D C M C Y
(6)IN STASTIC MEN CAUSE MORE ACCIDENTS THEN ONE CONCLUSION
(A) MEN DRIVE MORE THAN ONCE
(B) STASTICS GIVE WRONG INFORMATION
(C) WOMEN ARE CAUTION THAN ME ANS; C(VERIFY)
(D)-----ETC
(7) P,Q,R,S,T,U -SECURING GRANT;TWO TOURIST PARTIES AND THEN TWO
SECURITY
GAURDS SHOULD GO WITH EACH PARTY

_______________________________________________________________________
_
P AND R-ARE ENEMIES, Q DOES NOT GO SOUTH
P&S-ARE WILLING TO BE TOGETHER
______________________________________________________________________

THE TWO PARTIES MAY GO SOUTH&NORTH RESPECTIVELY

AT ONE POINT EACH MAY PASS EACH OTHER THEN GAURDS CAN
EXCHANGE
6 Q BASED ON THIS
(8)pq-r/s =2 what is q inference a,n&d
(a) a can do n units of work in strs,a&b can do n units of work in 2
hrs
in how many hrs n units of work ans:3 hr 30 min p = (2s+r)/q
____________

main()
{
int var=25,varp;
varp=&var;
varp p = 10;
fnc(varp)
printf("%d%d,var,varp);
}
(a) 20,55(b) 35,35(c) 25,25(d)55,55

[ c++,c,dbms interview]
[fundamentals]
this is new paper

application -software

part-1:
28-questions
(5)ingless ans:RDMS
(1)bit program-ans d
(2)c ans
(3)+ 0 ans
(4)00p--ans linking
(5)------
(6)-------
(9)25--45 even no. ans--10
(10) >10 <100 ---ans=n+9