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IBM Placement Paper Held on 22nd August 2010 IBM Placement Paper Pattern 1.Data matrices 2.Number Series 3.Reasoning (Quantitative Aptitude) Each paper is different no option of working as you like, the order is followed strictly and we can go for other paper only after one another. Each section has its own time limit. Time duration for different sections is: 1.Data matrices ( 15min) 2.Number Series ( 4min ) 3.Reasoning ( 15 min) Initially we have to start with Data matrices when the invigilator says start. It contains 15 questions and we should answer them in 15min. No negative marking in this section. When time ends invigilator says stop. Each question has its own arrangement and does not depend on the previous one. Just take care of it and perform as fast as possible. And again he says start then we should start Number series. It contains of 20 questions and should be answered in 4min. This section requires high accuracy and speed. This section too has no negative marking. Series from R S Agarwal is more than sufficient. If u can’t find the logic then skip to next one and don’t waste time on working out with one question. Next when the invigilator says start we have to start Reasoning. It consists of 12 questions and not so easy and requires lot of calculation. So don’t keep hope on this section and do better in the above rounds. That’s hold your qualifying mark. Time for this section is 15min. Categories: IBM Papers, ibm latest placement paper, ibm paper, ibm placement paper, ibm placement papers download, ibm placement solved paper, ibm recent placement paper, latest ibm placement paper, recent ibm placement paper

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IBM Placement Paper Held on 22nd August 2010 IBM Placement Paper Pattern1.Data matrices2.Number Series3.Reasoning (Quantitative Aptitude)Each paper is different no option of working as you like, the order is followed strictly and we can go for other paper only after one another. Each section has its own time limit.Time duration for different sections is:1.Data matrices ( 15min)2.Number Series ( 4min )3.Reasoning ( 15 min)Initially we have to start with Data matrices when the invigilator says start. It contains 15 questions and we should answer them in 15min. No negative marking in this section. When time ends invigilator says stop. Each question has its own arrangement and does not depend on the previous one. Just take care of it and perform as fast as possible.And again he says start then we should start Number series. It contains of 20 questions and should be answered in 4min. This section requires high accuracy and speed. This section too has no negative marking. Series from R S Agarwal is more than sufficient. If u can’t find the logic then skip to next one and don’t waste time on working out with one question.Next when the invigilator says start we have to start Reasoning. It consists of 12 questions and not so easy and requires lot of calculation. So don’t keep hope on this section and do better in the above rounds. That’s hold your qualifying mark. Time for this section is 15min.Categories: IBM Papers, ibm latest placement paper, ibm paper, ibm placement paper, ibm placement papers download, ibm placement solved paper, ibm recent placement paper, latest ibm placement paper, recent ibm placement paper

Selection Procedure:1.First is the Wrtten Test2.GD3.Technical Interveiw4. HRTest PatternSECTION-1: matrix test 15 question – 13 min. [ No negative marks for this section]

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SECTION-2:Number series test 20 question 4 min. 15 mins mathematical[Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section.SECTION-3:Analytical type(Apti) 12 question 15 min.[ Negative marking(1/4) is there for thissection.1.WRITTEN TEST: This is the new pattern of IBM. this new pattern has been implemented. it contains 3 sections. SECTION 1, some information is given in the form of matrices, with headings for rows as row1,row2 …. Etc.For columns with headingsas column1,column 2…. Etc.those matrices r as follows.

Column1 column2 column3 column4Row1 @ * 2 ZRow2 S K ? $Row3 I P Z +Row4 # 8 F Q

Questions are as follows ( not same questions but same type) 1.if column1 , Column 4 r interchanged and row3 , row4 r interchanged and diagonal elements from top left to bottom right r written in reverse order then what is the element in row1 and column 1?2.if Z’s in odd numbered rows r replced with 7’s and S’s in odd numbered columns r replaced with 5’s then which column elements sum equals to 9?

3.After giving similar type of conditions , what is the element left to H? In this section they gave around 4 matrices of this type and gave some questions for each matrix.Total No. of Questions r 15. these r multiple choice questions.5 answers were given for each question.No negative marks for this section. Time Limit is 13 minutes.SECTION-2 All questions in this section r from number series. Total number of questions are 20.time limit is 4 minutes.these are also multiple choice questions( 5 options).Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section.2. NUMBER SERIES (20 qs -4 mins-20 marks- negative 1/4) simple but v shud b very quick….time is very very very imp 4this section frnds dont get confused really very simple section and 1more thing is the invigilaor signals time 4 every 30 secs dont feel tensewth tht just

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go wth ur work..1. 17,18,19,34,35,19,20,___Ans….212. 22,21,34,33,45,____Ans……443.40,41,41,42,42,42,44,44,____Ans…..44here usually two number series will be mixed it very easy but should identify it

SECTION-3 Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section. Analytical type Questions . this secton is little bit tough.u must have practice to do this section. questions 12.time 15 minutes. Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section.1 If a company produces 15 different model of tv sets, 2 inchs screen and 4 different model of 4 inch screen size then how many model should vendor has for all the model.2 If a team consists 20 members in which 20% are mathematician then how many member should they hire sothat the ratio would become 10/11.3 The rate of color toner increases $33 to $35 and rate of black&white toner increases $28 to $29 if company spend $1540 in which 3/5 is color toner how much is total expenditure.4 A computer shop consists 3 brand’s alptop .Laptop of brand A is sold 3/16, B is sold 1/16 and c is sold ? then what fraction is sold by the shop in all.Ans 1/165 Printer A prints 8192 character per min and printer B prints 13862 character per min four character are equal to one word. Printer A starts at 7:15 am while Printer B starts at 7:29 am then at what time both will have same no of words printed6 In a library there are 5 cluster and each is having 44 books(module). In first weak 75 books are used, in second 95, in third 95 and in fourth 160 books are used.then tell how much fraction of books are used7 We have 171 kg rice custing 7 rs/kg.we have rice at 11 rs/kg and 2 rs/kg .then after mixing 11 rs/kg and 2 rs/kg rice. What is quantity of 11 rs/kg rice ..Ans : 76.008 rectangular room has width half of its length. When 6 is decreased from both length and width then its area is differed by 108 so find the width.Ans : l =8W=49 rectangular room has width twice of its length. When 6 is decreased

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from both length and width then its area is differed by 108 so find the width.L=4W=8Here questions will be almost simillar to above but data will be changed.ROUND-2GDROUND-3TechnicalRound:4HR

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IBM Placement Paper Pattern

1.Data matrices

2.Number Series

3.Reasoning (Quantitative Aptitude)

Each paper is different no option of working as you like, the order is followed strictly and we can go for other paper only after one another. Each section has its own time limit.

Time duration for different sections is:

1.Data matrices ( 15min)

2.Number Series ( 4min )

3.Reasoning ( 15 min)

Initially we have to start with Data matrices when the invigilator says start. It contains 15 questions and we should answer them in 15min. No negative marking in this section.

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When time ends invigilator says stop. Each question has its own arrangement and does not depend on the previous one. Just take care of it and perform as fast as possible. And again he says start then we should start Number series. It contains of 20 questions and should be answered in 4min. This section requires high accuracy and speed. This section too has no negative marking. Series from R S Agarwal is more than sufficient. If u can’t find the logic then skip to next one and don’t waste time on working out with one question. Next when the invigilator says start we have to start Reasoning. It consists of 12 questions and not so easy and requires lot of calculation. So don’t keep hope on this section and do better in the above rounds. That’s hold your qualifying mark. Time for this section is 15min

Selection Criteria: Minimum of 70% in B.Tech Selection Procedure:         1. Written Test         2. Technical Interview         3. HR Interview

Each section is knock out one s .

Written Test:

No. Of Questions: 55 Time Limit: 1 hour

The test is basically very simple. It consists of 4 sections         1. Verbal Ability         2. Mathematical Ability         3. Miscellaneous Questions         4. Computer Fundamentals

Verbal Ability:

Simplest than any one could imagine. It consists of three types of questions    1. Articles     2. Preposition     3. Comprehension

It consists of 10 Questions to be completed in 10 minutes. They gave simple sentences and asked to fill appropriate articles and prepositions. The comprehension is about Data and Information and relation between them. What is needed to crack this section is simple practice of reading.

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Mathematical Ability:

It consists of 25 questions and time to be taken is 30 minutes. Questions are like + is replaced by * , * is replaced by -, - is replaced by /, / is replaced by + then what is the value of the expression 24/2+7*3-5*4 ( The Expression is not exact I have given it just as an example there are nearly 5 questions like this )

If $ = 1 and * = 0, A number system consisting of just these two digits and all the higher numbers are represented using only these two digits $ and *. The value of $ will be doubled on going right side in the number. Then given questions like $**$ : $**( $** X $**$ - $*$ ) = ?

What is the GCD of $$**$ and $$$**$ and questions based on simple addition and multiplication of these numbers. 5 questions of this type are given. Hint: If you have idea on fundamentals you can easily find they are nothing but binary numbers.

Direction problems to find out distance etc., They are 5 in number.

Questions test basic level of understanding and grip on fundamentals. Cracking this Section is easy if you brush up your basics on mathematics.

Miscellaneous Questions:

This is fun section and very simple. Questions are 10 in numbers are time to take is 10 minutes. Questions consist of Data Recognition of very simple kind. They will give out 4 numbers like

1. 34323333 2. 34323333 3. 34323333 4. 34332333

Then options are given to choose between A, B, C, D. A if 1 and 2 are alike, B if 123 are alike and in the similar manner.

They also gave 4 English words whose spellings are similar as the above numbers and options are similar to the above questions. 5 of this kind of questions are given.

Second kind of questions in this section are about data sufficiency and hypothesis and assumptions type of questions. Number of questions of this kind of questions are 5.

Expression: L > M Statement 1: L2 = 81 Statement 2: M3=1331

Can we judge the above expression based on the given statements.

Questions are similar and 5 in number.

Cracking this section is simply being cool and keeping calm. Just think and you will crack this very easily. You don t need big big calculations.

Computer Fundamentals

This section consists of 10 questions to be completed in 10 minutes. Questions are based on C, Unix, file permissions, etc., this section is easy computer students but

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quite hard for other branch students. It just consists of 1 or 2 C questions. All the remaining are also including General Knowledge regarding computer also. One question is what is the World s Fastest Super Computer. http://www.ChetanaSinterview.com Almost 50% percentage of students are able to cross this section. I m one of them. Total 322 students are able to crack this section. Out of all those 120 students are interviewed on the same day when the test is conducted. The interview for remaining students is on the next day. I m on the first day list.

I need not wait so much time for my interviews. Interviews started at 3:45 PM after pre-placement talk of IBM people. The demo is very nice.

Technical Interview:

Just for the name sake it s a technical interview, but all the things happened is just a sort of HR interview. The questions he asked and the way he treated me just shows that. Keep in mind that, most of the questions are just a result of my previous answer. The questions are:

Tell me about yourself. A normal beginning questions in almost all the interviews, as I already know that this would be the first question, atleast it s the most probable first question, I prepared well for this. I started self dabba, of course I didn t say any lies, still I feel embraced to say that but didn t let it out. Answer goes like, I m a good communicator, I participated in paper presentations, debates, quizzes and seminars, .... I won so and so prizes, I initiated this this this.. etc., etc.,

What do you know about IBM? Why do you want to join IBM? If you say so ( I have just praised a lot), Any one can prepare such information in just 2 days. You have also done the same and you are saying as if you always wanted to join in IBM since you born. Haven t you? I said No sort of answer of course not this short.

IBM needs people those who are genuine, sincere, and frank, not liars like you tell me frank If you lied, I will not consider it, as you finally told the truth and I will select you.What do you have to say for that? I didn t change my stand even then.

You are a mechanical engineer and you want to come to IT then why you have taken mechanical, you should have taken CSE or CSIT? I said that my parents insisted me to join in this branch as we had some relatives have been earned a lot after taking MECHANICAL.

So you can t make other people agree with your point of view, are you so weak? You said that you are a good communicator? I said we have given a minimum respect to those who are spending lots of money on us and to those who gave birth. (Infact I couldn t get any word to put in place of respect and he handed me the word.)

So you are not doing B.Tech Mechanical whole heartedly. Are you? No sir. I don t think I could have managed to get a percentage of 77 if I didn t do this whole heartedly. Even I have been doing some mechanical related projects and paper presentations also. I don t agree with you if you say so. (After saying this I was afraid if he may get anger as I said in some rash manner. But he just ignored with just a disgusted look and proceeded.)

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What are the projects you have been doing? I explained about my solar desalinator and distillator and solar tracker I was doing at the time of selections, of course I stopped doing later.

What is the relevance of your project and mechanical engineering? I explained the relevance.

If you say that you are equally interested in your mechanical field also, why do you want to come to IT sector? I m more interested towards IT and said there are more chances and challenges to learn.

What are your career aspirations? My long term objective is to become an enterprenuer. ( Actually I was said not to reveal this but I thought I didn t thought It is not so important to hide that we want to be an enterprenuer. )

Not the long term objective, what do you want to achieve in short term i.e., right now. I want to get a job. What I feel is those who want to be an enterprenuer should be an employee first.

Then you do one thing, I know lots of people in BHEL, and MRF tyres, I ll help you to get a job over there. You go to your branch side. No, I m interested towards IT only. ( Discussion again came to this point I feel. Let s see where it takes me to. )

Not only interest, It s good for you. I know the field and even I worked for 15 years in the field of mechanical. Which company you have worked in sir? (Generally this is unorthodox, to ask a question before allowed. But then I have asked already and I can t do anything except to wait. I feel that It showed my openness. What do you feel? )

MRF tyres, so, I m telling you with the experience, don t leave your field. No sir, I ll not go that side. ( I wanted to ask him why he left MRF tyres and entered into IT field. But controlled the urge and waited for the next question for him to ask. He waited a bit before asking me a question, may be he expected some what longer answer than this. )

You are not clear, think clearly after this interview, why you lost, any way let s get into other details. Say you are in a group working on a project and you are the best performer and the remaining people are not performing well. What do you do in that scenario? Data inadequate sir, are they interested in the project or not? Am I the leader or just a parallel to them? Answer varies accordingly. ( Still Unorthodox. )

I don t know all the details and you are not the leader. Just tell me what you are going to do. First thing I should not do is criticizing them as this simply worsen the relations and situation. I ll just find out what are the areas they are lagging behind and find out what their interests are and where they are strong and I ll try to orient the project sections towards their strengths and interests. ( I think I should have added with the help of boss at the end of my answer that would have shown my concern to Team leader. )

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You are the poor performer in the group and all the remaining are excellent performers. What will you do then? If I m a poor performer, I will be lagging in certain things and I ll spot those and find out reasons for those and find out reasons for those lags and I ll improve in those areas. ( I should have also said that I will also take suggestions of the colleagues. )

Again, you are not a bad performer means you are good performer, not excellent. Even then other team members are just criticizing you. What do you do? If they are criticizing means I ll definitely have things to develop at least in their view. I ll ask them what are my lags and ask them to suggest for the same and I again try to develop. ( I simply followed this simple principle, to show him that I want to develop my self at any cost.)

You are given a work of 10 days and you, being fast completed the work in just 6 days, what will you do in the remaining time? Days are left means, I was left with a lot of time to make my module better and try to learn something.

If you look on the roads, the traffic is very, what do you propose to solve the problem? Providing alternative routes i.e., building more flyovers.

Flyovers and others are very time taking ones to construct, tell me instant solutions. ........( I ran out of ideas. )

If you look at the manhole covers, why do you find them only circular in shape. Why not any rectangular or square? ..........( This time I know the answer. I wanted to play a still unorthodox move time and waited till he asks me the next question. I showed myself as I m thinking. )

You read thermal engineering?, Can I ask you a question? Yes sir. ( Still looked as if I m thinking for the question. )

Diesel engines and such things? Sure sir. ( Still seemed thinking. )

In what condition of running of an engine, I mean Overload, low load, idling or rated load, the engine consumes more power? Over load ( Answered instantly.)

No, it s wrong No, sir, It s correct.

........................( may be he is thinking about what question to ask ) (This is the right time for me to conclude my unorthodox move) Sir, can I answer the previous question,... May be, if we make the shape as rectangular or square, the diagonal will be longer than the side. So we get a chance to push the cover inside the hole, but for circular shape, diameter is the only dimension. So it can t be pushed into hole in any angle.

What will you do if you are not selected? If you don t select me, I may not get another chance to get recruited in your company so I ll get selected for another company and I ll again come for your company after 2 to 3 years with added momentum.

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Thank you. You need not go back and all the best for next round.

All the time in the interview, I m very confident. He tried to put me under stress by saying that I m not fit for their company and asking me to go for other fields. Even his body language is as if he is having head ache by my words. He used to tap his forehand to show sign of distress, He used to look into vacuum, His lips curled to show a sign non acceptance, of course all that is simple acting, that is to just test us how we perform under stress. I m well prepared for any sort of interview. I manged to get through this level. All through this interview, I got a doubt whether I m in technical interview round or HR interview round as all he tested is my personality and stress coping characteristics. May be my mechanical branch didn t need to be tested technically in an interview for an IT job. The next one is HR interview round. I waited for almost 20 minutes.

HR Interview:

Hello, I m Annapoorna , Good evening. Good Evening xxx

Well Mr. Sanjay, tell me about yourself. (Same old question, should I write it again? I started the same song)

Have you ever worked in teams? Like projects etc. Yes madam, lots, I played team games like softball, etc., etc., I did that project and this project. I presented that paper and this paper with my friends. (The answer is lengthy and no need to be typed.)

What is molecular manufacturing? (That is the topic of my paper.) I explained using the water bottle on the table, how it differs from the conventional manufacturing

Good. Do you watch movies? Yes, I watch movies, but from one or two months I m not seeing any movies and I purely concentrated on improving my communication skills and personality development to get selected in a company, I read books. ( I was told before the interview by those who are already interviewed by that madam, that she is asking movie reviews, so Purposefully I diverted the topic.)

So you read books. What books you read? I mainly concentrated on personality oriented books only. I read How to win friends and Influence People, You Can Win, How to speak Quickly and Effectively etc., The book I like most is How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. (Again, the only book I remembered is that one, so I bring the topic on to that book only.)

What are the techniques you learned from that book? Never Criticizing People, Being a Good listener, Appreciating People when needed, ...... ( I told lot more techniques. )

People say that Listening is a Passive mode of learning, why do you say that it should be learned. ( I explained the importance of listening.)

If you are selected in our company, do you have any problem to relocate from your original place?

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No, I can work any where.

Do you have any problem to go for other countries? Certainly not, madam, Infact I don t have any problems of cold or any other things, I m adaptable to new place. To say it in other words, I love doing that.

Well, that s all, do you have any questions to ask? You are recruiting people from mechanical engineering branch. Do they have any specific work to do, because you can get well learned people of some Programming languages, which you need from computer branches?

No, Sanjay, we actually need more in numbers, which we are not getting from just those branches. that s the reason we are recruiting from mechanical branch also. What sort of work we are assigned to do when we join?

You will have to undergo a training program of 6 weeks. Then you will be allotted to work. No madam, I m asking about the nature of work, after the training.

You will be doing coding at the beginning, so you are going be code writers, that is you will be converting the code given to you as a program.. That s all madam, I don t have any more questions.

So, Thank You Mr. Sanjay, you may leave, All the best. Thank you madam.

My interview is completed so early at nearly 4:30 PM, but we had to wait till 8 '0 clock as other person s interviews were completed. Finally I was selected.

Part 1 : Letter Sevies. Part 2 : Figures Part 3 : Quantitative

(Technical)

Most question are on Unix and some in C and some in Windows 3.1 All question in Unix

(TISL)

Part 1

It consists of number series. In some institutes alphabetical series is given instead of number series. I am having number series so i am sending that. Please go through the alphabetical tests also.

1. 19,24,20,25,21,26,? Ans:22

2. 11,14,12,15,13,16,? Ans: 14

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3. 10,2,8,2,6,2,? Ans: 4

4. 8,9,11,14,,18,23,? Ans:29

5. 25,25,22,22,19,19,? Ans:16

6. 14,2,12,4,10,6,? Ans8

7. 7,16,9,15,11,14,? Ans13

8. 40,42,39,44,38,46,? Ans37

9. 3,18,4,24,5,30,? Ans6

10. 18,20,22,20,28,20,? Ans22

11. 18,20,10,12,4,6? Ans0

12. 7,6,8,5,3,7,? Ans4

13 9,18,21,25,20,? Ans30

14 3,3,4,8,10,36,? Ans33

15.30,28,25,20,34,28,? Ans21

16. 4,8,16,32,64,128,? Ans256

17. 8,16,24,32,40,48,? Ans56

18. 13,11,14,12,15,13,? Ans16

19. 6,18,36,108,216,648,? Ans1296

20. 4,4,8,8,16,16,? Ans32

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21. 2,6,18,54,162,486,? Ans1458

22. 4,20,35,49,62,74,? Ans85

23. 10,18,15,23,20,28,? Ans25

24. 4,10,8,14,12,18,? Ans16

25 10,15,12,17,14,10,? Ans16

Part 2 Consists of Non-Verbel Reasoning (figures)Part 3 (Quantitative)

1.A clerk multiplied a number by ten when it should have been divided by ten.The ans he got was 100.what should the ans have been? Ans: 1

2.If Rs20/- is available to pay for typing a research report & typist A produces 42 pages and typist B produces 28 pages.How much should typist A receive? AnsRs12/-

3.The average salary of 3 workers is 95 Rs. per week. If one earns Rs.115 and second earns Rs.65 how much is the salary of the 3rd worker. Ans.105.

4.A 16 stored building has 12000 sq.feet on each floor. Company A rents 7 floors and company B rents 4 floors. What is the number of sq.feet of  unrented floor space. Ans. 60000

5. During a given week A programer spends 1/4 of his time preparing flow chart, 3/8 of his time coding and the rest of the time in debugging the programs. If he works 48 hours during the week , how many hours did he spend debugging the program. Ans. 18.

6. A company installed 36 machines at the beginning of the year. In March they installed 9 additional machines and then disconnected 18 in August. How many were still installed at the end of the year. Ans. 27

7. A man owns 2/3 of the market research beauro business and sells 3/4 of his shares for Rs. 75000. What is the value of Business. Ans.150000

8. If 12 file cabinets require 18 feet of wall space, how many feet of wall space will 30 cabinets require? Ans. 45

9.A computer printer produced 176,400 lines in a given day. If the printer was in operation for seven hours during the day, how many lines did it print per minute? Ans.420

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10. From its total income, A sales company spent Rs.20,000 for advertising, half of the remainder on commissions and had Rs.6000 left. What was its total income?  Ans.32000

11. On Monday a banker processed a batch of cheques, on Tuesday she processed three times as many, and on Wednesday she processed 4000  cheques. In the three days, she processed 16000 cheques. How many did  she process on Tuesday? Ans. 9000

12. The cost of four dozen proof machine ribbons and five dozen accouting machine ribbons was Rs.160/-. If one dozen accounting machine ribbons  cost Rs.20/-, what is the cost of a dozen proof machine ribbons?  Ans. Rs.15

13. If a clerk can process 80 cheques in half an hour, how many cheques can she process in a seven and one half hour day? Ans.1200

14. In a library, there are two racks with 40 books per rack. On a given day, 30 books were issued. What fraction remained in the racks? Ans.5/8

15. The average length of three tapes is 6800 feet. None of the tapes is less than 6400 feet. What is the greatest possible length of one of the other tapes? Ans.7600

16. A company rented a machine for Rs.700/- a month. Five years later the treasurer calculated that if the company had purchased the machine and paid Rs.100/- monthly maintenance charge, the company would have saved Rs.2000/-. What was the purchase price of the machine? Ans. Rs.34000

17. Two computers each produced 48000 public utility bills in a day. One computer printed bills at the rate of 9600 an hour and the other at the rate of 7800 an hour. When the first computer finished its run, how many bills did the other computer still have to print? Ans. 9000

18. If a salesman s average is a new order every other week, he will break the office record of the year. However, after 28 weeks, he is six orders behindschedule. In what proportion of the remaining weeks does he have to obtain a new order to break the record? Ans. 3/4

19. On a given day, a bank had 16000 cheques returned by customers. Inspection of the first 800 cheques indicated that 100 of those 800 had errors and were therefore the available immediately for data processing. On this basis, hwo many cheques would be available immediately for data processing on that day? Ans. 14000

20. A company figured it needed 37.8 sq.feet of carpot for its reception room. To allow for waste, it decided to order 20% more material than needed. Fractional parts of sq.feet cannot be ordered. At Rs.9/- a sq.feet, how much would the carpet cost?

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a. Rs.324 b) Rs.405 c) Rs.410 d) Rs.414 e) Rs.685

21. A tape manufacturer reduces the price of his heavy duty tape from Rs.30/- to Rs.28/- a reel and the price of a regular tape from Rs.24/- to Rs.23/- a reel. A computing centre normally spends Rs.1440/- a month for tapes and 3/4 of this is for heavy duty tapes. How much will they save a month under the new prices? Ans. Rs.87

22. In a team of 12 persons, 1/3 are women and 2/3 are men. To obtain a team with 20% women how many men should be hired? Ans. 8

23. The dimensions of a certain machine are 48" X 30" X 52". If the size of the machine is increased proportionately until the sum of its dimensions equals 156",what will be the increase in the shortest side?  Ans. 6"

24. In a certain company, 20% of the men and 40% of the women attended the annual company picnic. If 35% of all the employees are man, what  percent of all the employees went to the picnic? Ans. 33%

25. It cost a college Rs.0.70 a copy to produce a Program for the homecoming football game. If Rs.15,000/- was received for advertisements in the program, how many copies at Rs.0.50 a copy must be sold to make a profit of Rs.8000/- ? Ans. 35000 

Hi... this is Gouthamibm global service visited our college NIE,Mysore  on 16th jan 2010i got selected to ittotally 36 were selectedits a one day process cuttoff is 65%package is off 3.23l pa-first is the wrtten test-gd-technical interveiw-hr     the process is very simple ibm peoples are very sopportive . RS agarwal is good to studyfor wriitten round  i am an electronics and communication students basics off c and c++ is must don get afraid onlybasics is enougheven i don know how to write  programs. be confident have faith in god...The pattern wasSECTION-1 [  matrix test] 15 question – 13 min.[ No negative marks for this section]

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 SECTION-2  [ Number series test]  20 question  4 min. 15 mins mathematical[Negativemarking(1/4) is there for this section.]SECTION-3[Analytical type(Apti)]12 question 15 min.[ Negative marking(1/4) is there for thissection.]1.WRITTEN TEST:  This is the new pattern of IBM. this new pattern has been implemented. it contains 3 sections.SECTION 1, some information is given in the form of matrices, with headings for rows asrow1,row2 …. Etc.For columns with headings as column1,column 2…. Etc.those matrices r as follows.                      Column1           column2           column3           column4Row1                   @                    *                      2                      ZRow2                    S                      K                     ?                      $Row3                    I                       P                      Z                      +Row4                    #                      8                      F                      QQuestions r as follows ( not same questions but same type)  1.if column1 , Column 4 r interchanged and row3 , row4 r interchanged and diagonal elementsfrom top left to bottom right r  writtenin reverse order then what is the element in row1 and column 1?              2.if  Z’s in odd numbered rows r replced with 7’s and S’s in odd numbered columns r replacedwith 5’s then which column elements sum equals to 9? 3.After giving similar type of conditions , what is the element left to H? In this section they gave around 4 matrices of this type and gave some questions for eachmatrix. Total  No. of  Questions r 15. these r multiple choice questions.5 answers were given for eachquestion.No negative marks for this section. Time Limit is 13 minutes.SECTION-2  All questions in this section r from number series. Total number of questions  r 20.time limitis 4 minutes.these r also multiplechoice questions( 5 options).Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section. 2. NUMBER SERIES (20 qs  -4 mins-20 marks- negative 1/4)simple  but v shud b very quick....time is very very very imp 4this section frnds dont getconfused really very simple sectionand 1more thing is the invigilaor signals time 4 every 30 secs dont feel tensewth tht just gowth ur work..EX:     17,18,19,34,35,19,20,___Ans....21EX: 22,21,34,33,45,____Ans......44EX: 40,41,41,42,42,42,44,44,____Ans.....44here usually two number series will be mixed it very easy but should identify it SECTION-3 

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Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section. Analytical type Questions . this secton islittle bit tough.u must have practice to do this section. questions 12.time 15 minutes. Negative marking(1/4) is there for thissection. 1  If a company produces 15 different model of tv sets, 2 inchs screen and 4 different model of4 inch screen size then how many modelshould vendor has for all the model. 2  If a team consists 20 members in which 20% are mathematician then how many member shouldthey hire sothat the ratio would become 10/11. 3  The rate of color toner increases $33 to $35 and rate of black&white toner increases $28 to$29 if company spend $1540 in which 3/5 iscolor toner how much is total expenditure.4   A Computer shop consists 3 brand’s alptop .Laptop of brand A is sold 3/16, B is sold 1/16and c is sold ? then what fraction is soldby the shop in all. Ans 1/16 5   printer A prints 8192 character per min and printer B prints 13862 character per min fourcharacter are equal to one word.  PrinterA starts at 7:15 am while Printer B starts at 7:29 am then at what time both will have same noof words printed 6   In a library there are 5 cluster and each is having 44 books(module). In first weak 75books are used, in second 95, in third 95and in fourth 160 books are used.then tell how much fraction of books are used 7   We have 171 kg rice custing 7 rs/kg.we have rice at 11 rs/kg and 2 rs/kg .then after mixing11 rs/kg and 2 rs/kg rice. What isquantity of 11 rs/kg rice ..Ans        76.00 8  rectangular room has width half of  its length. When 6 is decreased from both length andwidth then its area is differed by 108 sofind the width.Ans   l =8W=4 9 rectangular room has width twice of  its length. When 6 is decreased from both length andwidth then its area is differed by 108 so find the width.L=4W=8--here questions will be almost simillar to above but data will be changed.ROUND-2-the results off first round was announced ot arround 1:30 afternoonI was shortlisted next is the gd round in this be confident put up your points in a polite waybe confident its very easy to crack thisround.have confidance in your self

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ROUND-3there were two members in each pannel i was called at arround 3:30 i was full nervous this wasmy second interveiw previouw wasin hp were i failed in this round .so i motivated myself to be confidentme:may i come in sirsir:oh sure goutham have a seatme:good afternoon sirsir:tell me about your self?me:told about my parents my acedemics blah blah......sir:which branch are you from?me:electronics and communication sir.sir:so tell me how does mobile technology works? tell me in general?me:i told some thing but he was not convincedsir:,ok now tell me why does a call go to you when i dail your number?me: I told one method about itsir: sir told one more method. and asked which one is better?me: sir ur idea is goodsir: this is not in ur curriculum but you should know the latest technology . which are yourfavorite subjects?????me: i had prepared to tell two subjects but he was not convinced so i told eight subjectsname...........         i was full tensed but fortunatly he didnt ask any question off my subjectsir : have you done any projects or given any paper presentationme: sir i have done one project in previous semsir : explain itme: i explained it roughly it was very small project . i just pointed out its practical applications think he was impressed by itsir:which is the project you are doing in 8th sem?me: toldsir: do you know any software lang??????me: sir i know basic off c c++ and datastructuressir: why didnt you learn itme: each sem is off only 16weeks there are 8 subjects and 2 labs so i didint get enough timesir.sir:do you on which software lang we work onme: java , dot net .........sir: what is file in cme: sir donosir: tell me how to write a  c programe?me: told the format off c programesir:tell about loops??me: for loop , do loop , while loop. explained a littlesir:if i offer you three companies which is your favorite???me: told some company name including ibm.sir:laughed , hobbies?me: i watch lots off movies , listen to musicsir: interupted and asked which is your latest movieme: sir rocky 5  day before yesterday i saw it sirsir: do you know to speak hindi?me: s

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sir: which is latest hindi movie??me: 3 idiotssir : like it?me: very much sirsir :both laughed. wht about sports?me: sir i like criket i am not a good player bout i play lots off tennis ball criket.sir: batsman or bowllerme: laughed and said all rounder.sir: y didnt u become a good playerme:  gave some reasonssir: if we put you to chennai will you gome: ssir: how will you adjust thereme: told somethingsir: saw my resume and asked few question on my extra curricular activitiesme : explained itsir: study well and enjoyme: thank u siri came out i thought i will not be selected because i said no to software langbut finally i got selected it was my happiest movement . i got selected only because off myproject it saved me .panels was veryimpressed by my projectsguys the recruitment process is easy be confidentif you have any doubt mail me [email protected] the best frens.........

1. Where is your résumé? Sir invigilator stapled it with my ans sheet. 2. Introduce yourself. 3. Why do you want to switch to S/W industry? More opportunities. 4. Write a program in C to sort a list of numbers in descending order. 5. What is static & dynamic logic? 6. Differentiate b/w analog & digital communication. 7. What’s Bi-CMOS? 8. Why do you think we should recruit you? 9. Which is the last book that you have read? 10.  Tell me something about the book? 11. Which is your preferred location? 12. Are you ready to relocate? 13. Do you have any questions for us?

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There were 3 rounds : Aptitude test, GD, interview. (Pls keep your college ID card with u, else they won?t let u sit for the test.)  APTITUDE TEST :55 ques, 60 min time, followed by 15 mins for essay writing. R.S. Agarwal is more than enough. But if u r confident & have practiced enough of apti from any standard book, that will certainly do (I did from TIME materials for placement). But direction test, data sufficiency, venn diagram etc were common from R.S. Agarwal. AT LEAST GET FAMILIAR WITH THE TYPES OF QUES AS TIME MANAGEMENT IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN THIS SECTION.  Section 1- Verbal partShe performed _ the opera house.(in/at/on etc)Another qs on preposition-easy.Synonym-apathetic _ clown of that circus became famous for his antics.(article)Article again-easy.Then a RC on some plants, pollen grains etc. Do it at last if u get time.  Section 2 ?Well guys I don?t remember the problems, but it was very easy. Just stay cool and keep pace with time.Data sufficiency- about 5 qsVenn diagram- easy, 5 qs. Problem was like- of 600 people,576 use credit cards (VISA,AMEX etc).Direction sense- 2 or 3 easy qsSome more qs were there. Follow any standard book & u can definitely do them.  Section 3 ? Attention to detailsEg: CBCBCCBBC  CBCBCCBBC  CBCBCCBBC ?find who are alike or not.4 or 5 qs like above.Then 4 or 5 qs like-  if * represents +,- rep. * etc, find value of 12* 5-7?.etc  Section 4 ? TechnicalQs from UNIX, DBMS etc.Eg: which normal form is only and completely key dependent? Which command to use for seeing detail of a command in UNIX (man,info,display,help).  Essay topic- MONEY BRINGS IRRESPONSIBILITY

Be fast but stay calm. Apti is the easiest round- trust me. 129 cleared it.

  GROUP DISCUSSION :13 candidates in a group, 15 mins time, followed by 30 sec for summing up the GD for each candidate. Our topic was- ?HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY?. Everyone, even

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who sat silent was specifically asked to speak. But it is better that u speak spontaneously. The round carries lot of marks.94 cleared the round. (Usually GD isn?t elimination round but since too many had cleared apti, they eliminated some in GD in order to shorten the i/w round.)  INTERVIEW :I won?t go into detail of it. A panel of two was there, extremely polite, approachable and friendly.In technical, they asked about-C(call by value & ref. etc)UNIX,OS (shell, kernel etc)JAVA (exception handling, features of OOP)DS (linked list)NETWORKING (http, port etc)& some more qs on diff subjects. I answered well & confidently, tried to keep a smile on my face to make myself look confident and well-prepared.Then there were some HR qs like about myself, my results, a prize which I won for writing on cloning, why IBM, what?s the difference b/w IT & CSE and like that.( JUST GO THROUGH THEIR WEBSITE & prepare standard qs like why IBM etc.)

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IBM PAPER ON 15th FEBRUARY AT HYDERABAD

ROUND 1It consisted of 4 sections :

Section 1  Verbal :

This section contains only 10 ques: out of which 5 are to be solved from a passage....( approx 100 words ) Try to do at last The  remaining 5 ques will be based on Preposition or sentence completion

Section 2 : Aptitude :It consisted of 25 ques :: Ques on binary conversion were there :

If $ represents 1 and * represents 0  , then evaluate , $$$+$**-$*$ Ques based on ProbabilityQues baseed on If 10 can speak Hindi and Eng , 20 can speak hindi and Telegu , 25 can speak Telugu and Bengali ..Find how many can speak only HInd 

Section 3 :: Attention To Detail ( 10 Ques )Find are these alike or notXXXLUJIJK , XXXLUJIJK , XXXLUJJIKBe carefull for these ques as person in a hurry tend to do these scoring ques wrong

Section 4 Computers and Fundamentals ( 10 Ques)Small C prog will be given and tell its outputQues on ER DiagramQues on chmod 755

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some more on Unix and DBMSOut of 55 ques , try at least 35 ques should be correc

ROUND  2After that they Called for Tech Interview and in that they will ask from ur Project if u r an experienced candidate .. otherwise they will stick to ur basics

ROUND 3  HRTell abt urself which is not mentioned in ur resumeWhy IBM ?Sell urself , Why should we recruit you when so many candidates are therWhy do u wanna leave ur previous company ? ?Dont mention any negative comments abt ur previous companyWhat do u expect from IBM ?List all 48 subjects throughout ur engg ? ?Tell any three good things abt ur college ..They will ask u abt relocation .........Initially say anywhere through out the globe and u can speak ur prefernce once u smell the victory

Company profile

IBM India Limited, a subsidiary of IBM Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation), was set up in September 1999. Before that IBM was present in India since 1992, through a joint venture. Today, the company has established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry. IBM Solution Partnership Centre, Bangalore: (One among 10 facilities worldwide) Independent Software Vendors are encouraged to port their solutions on IBM platforms at this centre and develop Web based applications for Indian customers. Linux Solution Centre, Bangalore: (One among 7 facilities worldwide) The centre supports Business Partners and Independent Service vendors across the ASEAN / South Asia region. IBM Linux Competency Centre, Bangalore: (One among only 4 facilities in Asia) This centre develops standards and embedded software for open source, undertaking high-end research in the area for IBM Worldwide. India Software Labs at Bangalore and Pune: The two labs develop, enhance and support key IBM products & technologies in collaboration with other IBM labs across the globe. India Research Laboratory, Delhi: (One among 8 facilities worldwide) This laboratory located in the sprawling campus of Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, has research initiatives underway covering areas like e-Commerce, Knowledge Management, Bio-Informatics, Grid Computing, Autonomic Computing etc. Global e-business Software Centre, Gurgaon: This state-of-the-art center combines IBM's global experience and technology expertise to deliver e-business solutions for Indian organisations and also the government through the e-Governance Centre.

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 Manufacturing Facility, Pondicherry: Set up in 1999, the plant currently manufactures commercial desktops, low and mid-range servers. Local manufacturing has helped in reaching products to customers faster, besides giving the flexibility to configure the systems to specific customer requirementsSpecialties

IT, hardware, mainframe, consulting, BI, CRM, ERP, financial management, product lifecycle management, security, sensors, actuators, strategy, change, storage, collaboration, disaster recovery, DR, enterprise architecture, virtualization

Headquarters     Greater New York City AreaIndustry     Information Technology and ServicesType     Public CompanyStatus     OperatingCompany Size     386,558 employees2007 Revenue     $98,787 mil (8%)Founded     1911

IBM IndiaIBM shares the belief that India can unleash its true potential only through making IT available to and usable for large numbers of people. IBM's Community initiatives focus on education and children and leverage its expertise in technology to address societal issues. IBM has partnering relationships in India with a number of educational institutions.

IBM has also set up an IT Center in Mumbai in association with Victoria Memorial School for the Blind to impart IT education to visually impaired people. IBM KidSmart Early Learning program was launched to further strengthen IBM’s commitment to community in India. This is the only program in India aimed at introducing technology at the pre-school level in disadvantaged sections of society to get a head start on their academic development through the use of age-appropriate software developed by IBM. Tryscience is another community related programme launched, which reinvents science learning, recreates the interactive experience of onsite visits, and provides science projects as well as multimedia adventure field trips for museum visitors - primarily children, their parents and teachers.

IBM values talented young minds and promises them a melange of challenging opportunities, intellectually inspiring workspace, best minds in the industry to work with and much more along with a truly rewarding personal life.

ContactRegistered OfficeIBM India Private LimitedNo.12,Subramanya Arcade,Bannerghatta Road,Bangalore - 29.

For more details please visit www.ibm.com

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Written Test

The written test consists of two sections each of 45 minutes duration

Section#1

This is the aptitude section consisting of 45 questions to be attempted in 45 minutes. As is in all the exams, this section is based on the MBA pattern of examination.

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Section#2

This is the technical section. There is a separate paper for hardware and software. Candidates have to mention beforehand whether they want to write the software or the hardware paper.This section also carries 45 questions to be completed in 45 minutes.

Interview

There are two rounds of interviews, viz., the technical and and the HR round

Technical and Personal Round for Software Candidates

Mainly subjective questions in C, Operating Systems, DBMS, Data Structures are asked interspersed with some on the candidate's personal background.

.Typical questions in C and Data Structures

1.  WAP to interchange 2 variables without using the third one2.  Explain quick sort and merge sort algorithms amn derive the time-constraint relation for these.3.  Explain binary searching, fibonacci search4.  General questions on binary trees, transversals5.  General questions on graphs and their representation.

Typical Questions on Operating Systems

1.  Demand paging, page faults, replacement algos, thrashing, etc2.  Paged segmentation and segment paging

In this section, case studies are presented are presented before the candidate to percieve his reaction and his/her communication skills are tested. IBM expects teamwork and teamspirit from the candidates and their answers should reflect this attitude

Typical question is

You are a project manager of a big multinational project. There is a person X, assigned to you who has the best technical skills required for the project, even better than you. But he wishes to be the project manager ,which the management does not permit, due to which he threatens to quit. All others in the group are not as competent. Talk yourself out of this situation pretending that the interviewer is the disgruntled employee and explain the necessary action.

IBM Technical Pattern

(Technical)

1. what does vector processing do?

2. What is the use of software configuration management?

3. what command is used to append two files using who that is listed by ls;

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4. if there is a problem in a network during transmission which is used to detect that?

a. Protocol Analyzer,b. S N M P

5. In C, x-=y+1 how will u represent it.. a.x=x+y+1,b.-x-y-1,c.-x+y+1....

6. What does Trigger do?

7. In which topology we use less amount of cables.?Ring, Bus, Star, Mesh

8. Which sorting techniques is best for already sorted array...?. Ans: bubble sort

9. Which is said to be a realtime system.?     1. Credit card systen     2. Online flight reservation system     3. Bridge control systen...not sure

10. decimal to octal conversion problem?Ans A

11. A person having a/c number, a/c name,bank name, a/c type.. which is the primary among the above?

12. Why data integrity is used?

13. if a primary key is an attribute of another one table means........     1. candidate key     2. foreign kryey     3. seconda

14. int (*a)[4]. Explain this expression

15. Difference between 0123 and 123 in c Ans : 40

16, in c r+ is used for     1. read only     2. writing only     3. both 1 and 2

(Aptitude)

1. which 3 consequtive prime numbers gives the total Ans: 49 (13,17,19)

2. Rational numbers between 1 and 5     1. 3     2. 2     3. 0     4. Infinite (Ans)     5. Finite.

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3.If boat travels in 10km/hr in still water. it travels 14kmhr in upstream and 26km/hr downstream what is speed of stream?

4. .A cube of 3 unit has 6 surface is painted. If u cut the cube of 1 unit each how many cubes remain unpainted on all sides. Ans: 1

5 one questions in profit and loss a person sold an article at Rs.141 at 6% loss,to gain a profit of 10% at what price the article should be sold. Ans. 165

6. If person 20 min at 12 kmph. then how many Kmph in 15 minutes Ans.16

7. Three person shared bullets equally. 4 were shot total no of bullets remaining is equal to the no of bullets initially divided Ans : 18

8.1st day of the year 1999 is sunday and what will be last day of the same year Ans: Sunday

9. 4 thieves entere a bakery and stoled bread one after the other.Each one took half of the total number of breads+half a loaf.If 3 breads were remaining what is the total number of breads.

10. If a ball is dropped from 8ft and it bounces half the height each time. Then the total distance travelled Ans.24

11. 6 squares of equal size are placed side by side to form a rectangle whose perimeter is 182. find the perimeter of the single square. Ans 52

12.the average age of students in a class is 16.when a teacher of age 40 is added , the average becoems 17. what is the total number of students Ans.23  

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Questions 1. 5 men or 8 women do equal amount of work in a day. a job requires 3 men and 5 women to finish the job in 10 days how many woman are required to finish the job in 14 days.

a) 10

b) 7

c) 6

d) 12

Ans 7

Questions 2. A simple interest amount of rs 5000 for six month is rs 200. what is the anual rate of interest?

a) 10%

b) 6%

c) 8%

d) 9%

Ans 8%

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Questions 3. In objective test a correct ans score 4 marks and on a wrong ans 2 marks are ---. a student score 480 marks from       150 question. how many ans were correct?

a) 120

b) 130

c) 110

d) 150

Ans 130.

Questions 4. An artical sold at amount of 50% the net sale price is rs 425 .what is the list price of the artical?

a) 500

b) 488

c) 480

d) 510

Ans 500

Questions 5. A man leaves office daily at 7pm  A driver with car comes from his home to pick him from office and bring back home   One day he gets free at 5:30 and instead of waiting for driver he starts walking towards home.  In the way he meets the car and returns home on car  He reaches home 20 minutes earlier than usual. In how much time does the man reach home usually??

Ans. 1hr 20min

Questions 6. A works thrice as much as B. If A takes 60 days less than B to do a work then find the number of days it would take to  complete the work if both work together?

Ans. 22½days

Questions 7. How many 1's are there in the binary form of  8*1024 + 3*64 + 3

Ans. 4

Questions 8. In a digital circuit which was to implement (A B) + (A)XOR(B), the designer implements (A B) (A)XOR(B)   What is the probability of error in it ?

Questions 9. A boy has Rs 2. He wins or loses Re 1 at a time  If he wins he gets Re 1 and if he loses the game he loses Re 1. He can loose only 5 times. He is out of the game if he earns Rs 5.  Find the number of ways in which this is possible?

Ans. 16

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Questions 10. If there are 1024*1280 pixels on a screen and each pixel can have around 16 million colors   Find the memory required for this?

Ans. 4MB

Questions 11. On a particular day A and B decide that they would either speak the truth or will lie.  C asks A whether he is speaking truth or lying?  He answers and B listens to what he said. C then asks B what A has said  B says "A says that he is a liar"   What is B speaking ?

(a) Truth

(b) Lie

(c) Truth when A lies

(d) Cannot be determined

Ans. (b)

Questions 1. The price of a product is reduced by 30% . By what percentage should it be increased to make it 100%  

Ans: 42.857%

Questions 2. There is a square of side 6cm . A circle is inscribed inside the square. Find the ratio of the area of circle to square.

Ans. 11/14

Questions 3. There are two candles of equal lengths and of different thickness. The thicker one lasts of six hours. The thinner 2 hours less than the thicker one. Ramesh lights the two candles at the same time. When he went to bed he saw the thicker one is twice the length of the thinner one. How long ago did Ramesh light the two candles .

 Ans: 3 hours.

Questions 4. If M/N = 6/5,then 3M+2N = ?

Questions 5. If p/q = 5/4 , then 2p+q= ?

Questions 6. If PQRST is a parallelogram what it the ratio of triangle PQS & parallelogram PQRST .

Ans: 1:2

Questions 31. The cost of an item is Rs 12.60. If the profit is 10% over selling price what is the selling price ?

Ans: Rs 13.86/-

Questions 7. There are 6 red shoes & 4 green shoes . If two of red shoes are drawn what is the probability of getting red shoes

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Ans: 6c2/10c2

Questions 8. To 15 lts of water containing 20% alcohol, we add 5 lts of pure water. What is % alcohol.

Ans : 15%

Questions 9. A worker is paid Rs.20/- for a full days work. He works 1,1/3,2/3,1/8.3/4 days in a week. What is the total amount paid for that worker ?

Ans : 57.50

10. If the value of x lies between 0 & 1 which of the following is the largest?

(a) x

(b) x2

(c) -x

(d) 1/x

 Ans : (d)

Questions 11. If the total distance of a journey is 120 km .If one goes by 60 kmph and comes back at 40kmph what is the average speed during the journey?

Ans: 48kmph

Questions 12. A school has 30% students from Maharashtra .Out of these 20% are Bombey students. Find the total percentage of Bombay?

Ans:  6%

Questions 13. An equilateral triangle of sides 3 inch each is given. How many equilateral triangles of side 1 inch can be formed from it?

Ans: 9

Questions 14. If A/B = 3/5,then 15A = ?

Ans : 9B

Questions 15. Each side of a rectangle is increased by 100% .By what percentage does the area increase?

Ans : 300%

Paper: IBM Campus Placement Paper (Technical-C C++,Unix, Aptitude)

1. In 1978, a kg of paper was sold at Rs25/-. If the paper rate increases at 1.5% more than the inflation rate which is 6.5% a year, then what will be the cost of a kg of paper after 2 years?

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(a) 29.12(b) 29.72(c) 30.12(d) 32.65(e) none of these

2. In A,B,C are having some marbles with each of them.A has given B and C the same number of marbles each of them already have.Then, B gave C and A the same number of marbles they already have.Then C gave A and B the same number of marbles they already have.At the end A,B,and C have equal number of marbles.

(i) If x,y,z are the marbles initially with A,B,C respectively.Then the number of marbles B have at the end

(a) 2(x-y-z)(b) 4(x-y-z)(c) 2(3y-x-z)(d) x + y-zAns. (c)

(ii) If the total number of marbles are 72, then the number of marbles with A at the starting(a) 20(b) 30(c) 32(d) 39Ans. (d)

3. If a car starts from A towards B with some velocity. Due to some problem in the engine after traveling 30km, the car goes with 4/5 th of its actual velocityThe car reaches B 45 min later to the actual time. If the car engine fails after traveling 45km, the car reaches the destination B 36min late to the actual time What is the initial velocity of car and what is the distance between A and B in kmAns. 20 & 130.

4. A person has Rs 100/- in his pocket, he can as 25 pencils or 15 books. He kept 15% of the money for traveling expenses and purchased 5 pencils. So how many books he can purchase with the remaining money.

5. Ten questions on analogies.eg: chief : tribe :: governer : stateepaulette : shoulder :: tiara : headguttural : throat :: gastric : stomachinept : clever :: languid : activeknife : butcher ::hammer : carpenter ::

6. The values of shares (in Rs).of A, B and C from January to June are as follows.Month A B CJanuary 30 60 80February 35 65 85March 45 75 65April 40 75 82

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May 55 75 85June 50 75 80

i) During this period which share has undergone maximium fluctuation?ii) In which month it is possible to buy B and C selling A?iii) In which month the share values are very low?iv) By purchasing one share of A and 4 each of B and C in the beginning of the period,when should these be sold to get maximum profit?

7. In a computer institute 9 languages can be taught. The module is of 6 months duration and of the six languages only one can be taught each month . In addition to that BASIC is always taught and should be in first month itself

WORD PERFECT is to be taught in the preceding week of WORD STAR. FORTRAN can not be taught until COBOL is taught prior to that BINO, FIFO can never be taught in single module languages are BASIC, WORD STAR, WORD PERFECT, FORTRAN, COBAL, BINO, FIFO, LOTUS, C

i) If word star is in 3rd month , what could be in 6th month.ii) If COBAL is in the 2nd month and BINO in 6th month. FORTRAN will be taught in which month.

8. In a class, except 18 all are above 50 years. 15 are below 50 years of age. How many people are there

(a) 30(b) 33(c) 36(d) none of these.Ans. (d)

9. A square plate of some size is cut at four corners. Equal squares of the same size are cut and is formed as open box.If this open box carries 128 ml of oil. What is the size of the side of the plate?(a) 17(b) 14(c) 13(d) None of these

10. In a square, all the mid points are joined. The inner square is shaded.If the area of the square is A, what is the area of the shaded area?

11. Two questions on basic angles i.e given a circle, a few chords or diameter is drawn etc.

12. If the following statements are given

@(a,b)= (a+b)/2/(a,b)= a/b*(a,b)= abIf a=1, b=2 then find

i) /(a,(@(a,b),*(a,b)))

ii) */(a,@(*(a,b)))

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13. If the following statements are given

(x#y) = x + y- xy(x*y) = (x + y)/2i) Find the values of x, y will satisfy this equation (x#y)#(x*y) < (x#y)ii) Find the values of x, y will satisfy this equation (a*b)#(b*c)< (a#b)*(b*c)

14. Export PS1 results in(PS1 pwd)

a) primary prompt being your current directoryb) primary prompt and secondary prompts being the current directoryc) primary prompt prompt being your home directoryd) primary prompt and secondary prompts being the home directorye) None of the above.

15. If you type in the command nohup sort employees > list 2 > error out & and log off ,the next time you log in, the output will be

a) in a file called list and the error will de typed in a file error outb) there will be no file called list or error outc) error will be logged in a file called list and o/p will be in error outd) you will not be allowed to log ine) none of the above

16. In UNIX a files i-node ......?

Ans. Is a data structure that defines all specifications of a file like the file size,number of lines to a file, permissions etc.

17. The UNIX shell ....

a) does not come with the rest of the systemb) forms the interface between the user and the kernalc) does not give any scope for programmingd) deos not allow calling one program from with in anothere) all of the aboveAns. (b)

18. enum number { a= -1, b= 4,c,d,e}What is the value of e ?(a) 7(b) 4(c) 5(d) 15(e) 3

19. The very first process created by the kernal that runs till the kernal process is halts is

a) initb) gettyc) both (a) and (b)d) none of theseAns. (a)

20. Output of the following program is

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main(){int i=0;for(i=0;i<20;i++){switch(i)case 0:i+=5;case 1:i+=2;case 5:i+=5;default i+=4;break;}printf("%d,",i);}}

a) 0,5,9,13,17b) 5,9,13,17c) 12,17,22d) 16,21e) Syntax errorAns. (d

21. What is the output in the following programmain(){char c=-64;int i=-32unsigned int u =-16;if(c>i){printf("pass1,");if(c printf("pass2");elseprintf("Fail2");}elseprintf("Fail1);if(i printf("pass2");elseprintf("Fail2")}

a) Pass1,Pass2b) Pass1,Fail2c) Fail1,Pass2d) Fail1,Fail2e) None of theseAns. (c)

22. In the process table entry for the kernel process, the process id value is(a) 0(b) 1(c) 2(d) 255(e) it does not have a process table entryAns. (a)

23. Which of the following API is used to hide a window

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a) ShowWindowb) EnableWindowc) MoveWindowd) SetWindowPlacemente) None of the aboveAns. (a)

24. What will the following program do?void main(){int i;char a[]="String";char *p="New Sring";char *Temp;Temp=a;a=malloc(strlen(p) + 1);strcpy(a,p); //Line number:9//p = malloc(strlen(Temp) + 1);strcpy(p,Temp);printf("(%s, %s)",a,p);free(p);free(a);} //Line number 15//

a) Swap contents of p & a and print:(New string, string)b) Generate compilation error in line number 8c) Generate compilation error in line number 5d) Generate compilation error in line number 7e) Generate compilation error in line number 1

Ans. (b)

Paper: IBM Placement Paper (Technical)

Technical

1. what does vector processing do?

2. What is the use of software configuration management?

3. what command is used to append two files using who that is listed by ls;

4. if there is a problem in a network during transmission which is used to detect that?

a. protocol analyzer,  b. SNMP....

5. In C, x-=y+1 how will u represent it..

a. x=x+y+1,b.-x-y-1,c.-x+y+1....

6. What does Trigger do?

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7. In which topology we use less amount of cables.

a. ring, b. bus, c. star, d. mesh

8. Which sorting techniques is best for already sorted array...?.

Ans: bubble sort

9. Which is said to be a real-time system.?

a. credit card system

b online flight reservation system

c bridge control system...not sure

10. decimal to octal conversion problem? ans A

11. A person having a/c number, a/c name, bank name, a/c type.. which is the primary among the above?

12. why data integrity is used?

13. if a primary key is an attribute of another one table means........

a. candidate key

b. foreign key

c. super key

d. composite key

14. int (*a)[4]. Explain this expression

15. Difference between 0123 and 123 in c

Ans : 40

16. in c r+ is used for

a. read only

b. writing only

c. both 1 and 2

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My Experience In IBM:

There were 4 Rounds:

1) Aptitude Test (Remember in Aptitude, IBM checks your speed). Again 3 Sections- Time Limit 15 min.

Matrices -15 QuestionsThere were 4-5 Matrices given to us and 3 to 4 questions on each matrix

Question::A 1 E 5 B 4 E A 1 C2 B 4 4 C4 A B C 2B 4 A 2 C

1) replace A with 1,B with 2, C with 3,D with 4 and E with 5. 

what are the diagonal elements starting from Right-top to Left Dwn ??

Numbering system-20que time limit 4min

Ques like:Find odd number in series: 7,28,63,124,215.

Which is 6th number3,5,18,30,36,?

Math-12 que time limit 15minQuestions on percentage, Partnership, Profit and loss, Time and work etc... Some questions were easy and some were hard.

2) Technical Test: Again 2 section i.e. Programming 20que time limit 25 min, Questions on C programming and flow charts. Like find out correct option which will print output 99? and 4 Programs were given, (tips no need of checking all programs, find out syntax error u will easily find out correct soln) same in case of flow chart, find out out of given flow chart?? and some theoretical question on string and array.

Aection 2 ques on OS, N/W, Database... 15 questions time limit 15 min.Questions like which is B class IP address? 3 - 4 questions on OSI model like: which devices comes under 2nd layer of OSI model? MAC address is having how many Bytes? what is dirty Bit??

3) Technical Interview:In tech. interview, he asked me abt myself, family background, then abt subjects i have been learned in MCA. after that he started asking ques on each sub whatever i told him. c programming: declare a pointer to function which will take argument as pointer to int, then return pointer to another function which again will take argument as pointer to int and return int.???

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C++: oops concept, what is polymorphism? Function overloading overriding, early binding late binding,,

Java: Multithreading

OS: Multi processing, virtual memory, virtual computer, cloud computing , paging, RAID

Database: DDBMS, fragmentation, replication, ACID property

SQL: Write a query on a student table having two columns of name and marks to find out student name having max marks, using max function, without using max function, using join and some general questions on project and area of interest.

3) HR Interview: (Please be confident and try to make eye contact)

HR interview was little bit easy, Question asked to me are,

Tell me abt urself, About ur project Which field do u like most? (my ans was oops programming and database) Again he askd which will u prefer most, i replied database.(bcaz the job was for

storage area and file system) What do u knw abt IBM?? Recent IBM innovations?

That was my experience in IBM, I request u to submit ur exp online so that other may get help from it, Wish u a Great Success In Life.

Exam/Interview Date: 24-Jul-2010

No of Rounds:

Aptitude Test Technical Round-1 Technical Round-2 Client/Manager Interview

Data Matrix Questions (no negative marking) : 15 questions in 12 minutes Number Series (1/4th negative) : 20 questions in 4 minutes Arithmetic Questions (1/4 negative): 12 questions 15 minutes

I have not remembered the exact question but i can give you the sample type that will certainly help you.

DATA MATRIX

Col 1 Col 2 Col3 Col4Row 1 @ % $ #Row 2 % + # &

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Row 3 @ & % #Row 4 * + $ &

Interchange Row3 with col3 , Row1 with Row4 and reverse the diagonal elements from top left to bottom right:Quest; which is the 4th element of row2;Quest; which is the second diagonal element from top;

NOTE: change in the matrix is applied only for the particular questions only , it is not reflected in to another question.SERIES: Series questions are very very simple. You must manage your time in such a way that you can go across all the questions in 4 minutes.1: 11,22,23,11,24,25, ?2: 1,4,9.64, ?3: 2,3,5,7, ? (prime numbers)

MATHEMATICS:After the Written Test , There is a GD round in which they mainly concentrate on your communication skills. GD topic on"MONEY MAKES PEOPLE IRRESPONSIBLE".

IBM Paper At Mysore

1.WRITTEN TEST: This is the new pattern of IBM. this new pattern has been implemented. it contains 3 sections. SECTION 1, some information is given in the form of matrices, with headings for rows as row1,row2 …. Etc.For columns with headings as column1,column 2…. Etc.those matrices r as follows.

Column1 column2 column3 column4Row1 @ * 2 ZRow2 S K ? $Row3 I P Z +Row4 # 8 F Q

Questions r as follows ( not same questions but same type) 1.if column1 , Column 4 r interchanged and row3 , row4 r interchanged and diagonal elements from top left to bottom right are written in reverse order then what is the element in row1 and column 1?

2.if Z’s in odd numbered rows r replced with 7’s and S’s in odd numbered columns r replaced with 5’s then which column elements sum e quals to 9?

3.After giving similar type of conditions , what is the element left to H?  In this section they gave around 4 matrices of this type and gave some questions for each matrix.

Total No. of Questions r 15. these r multiple choice questions.5 answers were given for each question. No negative marks for this section. Time Limit is 13 minutes.

SECTION-2 All questions in this section r from number series. Total number of questions r 20.time limit is 4 minutes.these r also multiple choice questions( 5 options).Negative marking(1/4) is there for

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this section.

2. NUMBER SERIES (20 qs -4 mins-20 marks- negative 1/4)

Simple but v shud b very quick....time is very very very imp 4this section frnds dont get confused really very simple section and 1more thing is the invigilaor signals time 4 every 30 secs dont feel tensewth tht just go wth ur work..

EX: 17,18,19,34,35,19,20,___Ans....21

EX: 22,21,34,33,45,____Ans......44

EX: 40,41,41,42,42,42,44,44,____Ans.....44

Here usually two number series will be mixed it very easy but should identify it

SECTION-3 :Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section. Analytical type Questions . this secton is little bit tough.u must have practice to do this section. questions 12.time 15 minutes. Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section.

1 If a company produces 15 different model of tv sets, 2 inchs screen and 4 different model of 4 inch screen size then how many model should vendor has for all the model.

2 If a team consists 20 members in which 20% are mathematician then how many member should they hire sothat the ratio would become 10/11.

3 The rate of color toner increases $33 to $35 and rate of black&white toner increases $28 to $29 if company spend $1540 in which 3/5 is color toner how much is total expenditure.

4 A computer shop consists 3 brand’s alptop .Laptop of brand A is sold 3/16, B is sold 1/16 and c is sold ? then what fraction is sold by the shop in all. Ans 1/16

5 Printer A prints 8192 character per min and printer B prints 13862 character per min four character are equal to one word. Printer A starts at 7:15 am while Printer B starts at 7:29 am then at what time both will have same no of words printed   6 In a library there are 5 cluster and each is having 44 books(module). In first weak 75 books are used, in second 95, in third 95 and in fourth 160 books are used.then tell how much fraction of books are used  7 We have 171 kg rice custing 7 rs/kg.we have rice at 11 rs/kg and 2 rs/kg .then after mixing 11 rs/kg and 2 rs/kg rice. What is quantity of 11 rs/kg rice .. Ans 76.00

8 rectangular room has width half of its length. When 6 is decreased from both length and width then its area is differed by 108 so find the width.Ans: l =8, W=4

9 rectangular room has width twice of its length. When 6 is decreased from both length and

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width then its area is differed by 108 so  find the width.L=4 W=8 here questions will be almost simillar to above but data will be changed.

 Latest Sample Placement Paper Of IBM For Year-2009-10  ( Reasoning) 

Directions (Q. 1-8): Read the following information carefully and answer the given questions: Following are the criteria for appointing a Personnel Manager for a company. The candidate must...A) not be more than 35 year as on 1.6.2000.B) be a postgraduate in personnel management.C) have work experience as personnel officer/manager of at least five years.D) have good command over English. In the case of a candidate-(i) who satisfies all the criteria expect at (A) above but has work experience as personnel manager for at least 10 years, his/her case may be referred to Director (Personnel) for consideration.(ii) who satisfies all the other criteria except at (C) above but has obtained Ph.D. degree in Personnel Management, his/her case may be referred to Managing Director for consideration.You are given the following cases on 1.6.2000. Depending upon the information provided in each case in each of the questions given below and based on the criteria mentioned above, recommend your decision. You are not to assume anything. Mark your answer as per the following:Mark answer (1): if the candidate is to be selected.Mark answer (2): if the candidate is not to be selected.Mark answer (3): if the case to be referred to Director (Personnel).Mark answer (4): if the case is to be referred to Managing Director.Mark answer (5): if complete information is not provided.

1) Kamini Gadgil is a post-graduate in Personnel Management and was born on 15th August 1967. She has been working in a company for the last 10 years as personnel Officer.

2.) Aditi Sahay is a doctorate (Ph. D.) in Personnel Management. She has been working in a company as personnel officer for the last two years. She has good command over English and was born on 2nd November, 1964.

3.) Vijay Kulkarni is a graduate in Personnel Management. He was 32 years old as on 1st December 1999. He has good command over English and has been working in a company as Personnel Manager for the last 12 years.

4.) Pradeep Sarkar is post-graduate in Personnel Management and has been working in a company as a Personnel Manager for the last 15 years. He has good command over English and his date of birth is 13th April, 1964.

5.) Praveen Chopra is post-graduate in Personnel Management and has been working in a company as Personnel Officer for the last 7 years. He has good command over English and his date of birth is 20th March, 1967.

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6.) Priya Karkhanis was born on 25th January, 1968. She has been working in a company as Personnel Manager for the last three years. She has good command over English. She has done Ph. D. in Personnel Management.

7.) Nirmala Pandey has passed post-graduation examination in Personnel Management. She has good command over English and she has been working in a company as Personnel Officer for the last five years. She was born on 17th May, 1969.

8.) Anees Ahmad is Post-graduate in Personnel Management. He has been working a Personnel Officer for the last seven years. He has good command over English.

Directions (Q. 9-14):In each question below is given a statement followed by two courses of action I and II. A course of action is a step or administrative decision to be taken for improvement, follow-up or further action in regard to the problem, policy, etc. on the basis of the information given in the statement. You have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then decide which of the given suggested courses of action (5) logically follows for pursuing.Give answer (1): if only I follows.Give answer (2): if only II follows.Give answer (3): if either I or II follows.Give answer (4): if neither I nor II follows.Give answer (5): if both I and II follow.

9.) Statement: Severe drought is reported to have set in several parts of the country.Courses of action: I. Govt should immediately make arrangement for providing financial assistance to those affected.II. Food, water and fodder should immediately be sent to all these areas to save the people and cattle.

10.) Statement: A larger number of lower-ranked politicians are murdered by antisocial elements in city A.Courses of action: I. All those in the city with criminal records should immediately be arrested.II. The city police should keep a close vigil on the movements of anti-social elements so as to prevent future attacks.

11.) Statement: It is reported that though Vitamin E present in fresh fruits and fresh vegetables is beneficial for human body, capsuled Vitamin E does not have same effect on human body. Courses of action: I. The sale of capsuled Vitamin E should be banned.II. People should be encouraged to take fresh fruits and fresh vegetables to meet the body requirement of Vitamin E.

12.)Statement: India has been continuously experiencing military threats from its neighboring countries. Courses of action: I. India should engage in an all-over war to stop the nagging threats.II. India should get the neighbors into a serious dialogue to reduce the tension at its borders.

13.) Statement: India has now been recognized by the Western world as a vast resource of knowledge and the latter is eager to use the same. Courses of action: I. India should exploit this opportunity to hasten its economic growth.

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II. India should bargain effectively with the Western world and become a super power in South Asia.

14.)Statement: It is estimated that about twenty lakh people will visit the city during the ensuing festival. Courses of action:  I. The civic authority should make adequate arrangements to tackle the situation.II. All the hospitals in the city should be put on high alert in case of any eventuality.

15.)In a certain code language watch is called book, book is called pen, pen is called air, air is called fire, fire is called water, water is called yellow and yellow is called green. Then what is the colour of fire in that language? 1) Yellow2) Water3) Green4) Air5) None of these

Directions (Q. 16-22): In the following questions an expression has been given for which you have to give a one-word substitute as your answer from the given alternatives. If none of the alternatives are correct your answer will be 5), ie None of these.

16.)A tale in literature not having true incidents1) Fable2) Allegory3) Novel4) Fantasy5) None of these

17.)Liable to commit mistake or error1) Superficial2) Fallible3) Buffoon4) Humane5) None of these

18.)Wandering in search of adventure1) Gypsy2) Gyrate3) Expedite4) Errant5) None of these

19.)Incapable of being satisfied1) Greedy2) Nomadic3) Insatiable4) Devilish5) None of these

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20.)Not having made a will1) Generous2) Intestate3) Munificent4) Voluntary5) None of these

21.)Rakhi starts from point Q and moves in southward direction for 25 metres; then she turns left and moves 30 metres; then she turns right and moves 15 metres to reach point P. What is the distance and direction of P from Q?1) 50 metres South-West2) 50 metres South-East3) 45 metres South-East4) 40 metres South5) None of these

22.)Two brothers Kanhaiya and Kishore are in a habit of passing comments on their friends, which they somehow also use as passcode for e-mail. Kanhaiya's comment is 'Don't live always in a fool's paradise' and his passcode is 'fool's live in paradise a don't always'. If Kishore's comment is 'Listen time and tide waits for none', then what will be his passcode by the same rule?1) for time tide none waits listen and2) for time none tide waits listen and3) for time tide waits none listen and4) for time tide none listen waits and5) None of these

23.)If 'grey' means 'yellow'; 'yellow' means 'white'; 'white' means 'blue'; 'blue' means 'red'; 'red' means 'black’; and 'black' 'violet’; then what is the colour of clear sky?1) red2) white3) violet4) black5) yellow

24.)Among M, N, D, P and W, D is taller than M and W. P is taller than D and N. Who among them is shortest?1) M2) W3) D4) Data inadequate5) None of these

25.)Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?1) Wheat2) Paddy3) Jowar

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4) Corn5) Sesame

ANSWERS 1.(5)   2.(2)   3.(2)    4.(3)    5.(1)    6.(4)    7.(1)    8. (5)    9.(2)    10.(2)    11. (2)    12. (2)    13.(5)    14. (1)    15.(3)    16. (1)   17.(2)   18.(4)   19.(3)   20.(2)   21.(2)    22. (1)    23.(1)   24. (4)   25.(5)

(INFO+JOB+PATTERN) IBM Global Software India  

[INFO+JOB+PATTERN]2006 IBM Global Software India Private Ltd. pull campus

hi group members,I have selected in IBM conducted on 4 & 5 feb, 2006. Thanks to allwho helps me. After 13 unsuccessful try I got my dream job. Its my1st aptitude clear. Don't worry, keep patience. U will definetelyget success. What I faced in interview & apptitude given here forassitance who don't get the job till now.-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Profile:

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an informationtechnology (IT) company. The Company's major operations comprise aGlobal Services segment, a Systems and Technology Group, a PersonalSystems Group, a Software segment, a Global Financing segment and anEnterprise Investments segment. The majority of the company'senterprise business, which excludes the company's original equipmentmanufacturer (OEM) technology business, occurs in industries thatare broadly grouped into six sectors: financial services, public,industrial, distribution, communications, and small and mediumbusiness (mainly companies with less than 1,000 employees). InDecember 2004, the Company acquired Danish companies Maersk Data andDMdata. In January 2005, IBM acquired SRD, a provider of identityresolution software.----------------------------------------------Keywords: Group work, team work, adaptability, . . .

----------------------------------------------------Official IBM advice:------------------------------------------------------Preparation for the interview is imperative:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------* Find out as much information as you can about IBM and the businessunits you might be interested in.* Prepare questions that you would like to ask the interviewer aboutcareer opportunities in IBM.* Role play an interview session with a friend.* Understand your own strengths and weaknesses and what you might be

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able to bring to IBM.* Run through commonly asked questions. Prepare for subjectivequestions that only you can answer eg. What are your careeraspirations?* Prepare a suitable outfit for the day which presents you well.* Find out where the interview will be held, the time, place, theinterviewer's name and their position in the organisation. Ensureyou are punctual.

At the interview:------------------------------* Appear confident even if you are not feeling it.* Don't worry if you need a moment to think through your answer.Most interviewers will understand if you need a little time tocollect your thoughts.* Interviewers are looking to evaluate certain qualities, so try togive specific answers with examples if possible.* Be honest in your answers. The Interviewer is trying to place youin a role that will develop your potential.

Common questions include:------------------------------------------------------* Over the next 3-5 years, what sort of role do you see yourself in?* What are your most significant achievements to date?* Where do you see your strengths on the technical and personalfronts?* How could you add value to IBM if you got this job?* Why would you want to join IBM?* Could you relate an incident when you were had a difference ofopinion with a colleague and tell me how you resolved it?----------------------------------------------------------------------------4th & 5th feb, 2006 IBM Global Software India Private Ltd. pullcampus questions in Saltlake.----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apptitude:----------------------

No. of Ques. -- 40Total marks -- 40Time limit -- 40 minutesno -ve marksFemale candidates get extra preference, they have lower cut off-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Comprehension -- 5 ques (5 marks)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Quantitative -- 20 ques (20 marks)--------------------------------------------------------------------------easiest ques from Agarwaltime & workhight & dist.

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data sufficiency(4)Prob) is the no a perfect square, if R is integer?1) R+1 is a square2) no is divisible by 16ques on cube(7)venn probif 3 hundred 33 is 333 then 120 hundred 12 is ?-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Technical -- 15 ques (15 marks)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------prob on C, SQL, DBMS, ...(some ques from Test your C skills)ques are easy but difficult to answer for ECE student.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------some questions had wrong ans, but dom't confused.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Interview------------------------------------------------------------------------Technical+HRduration 10 -- 40 minutes---------------------------------------------------------------------------------common HR ques.what is link list?how many loops are there?what is the difference bet do loop & do while loop?how many bits make a byte?what is binary division?oop conceptwhat is polimorphism & inheritance property?how to define structure?what is macro & its advantage?how many bytes take char?how string is stored in array?ques on projectsome ques on networking: they showed a wire & asked what is this &specificationwrite a prog to print -ve to +ve integer/ content of array/fibonaccy series etc.

1). int i=10;

printf("%d%d%d",i,i++,++i);

ans: compiler dependent

2). printf("Enter two values a and b:"):

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scanf("%d%d",a,b);

printf("%d+%d=%d",a,b,a+b);

ans:core dumped

3). Question on WM_SIZE

ans:WM_SIZE

4). when destroy window what message would disply

ans:WM_DESTROY

5). MS Windows 3.1 about multitasking 

ans:nonpreemptive

6). windows 3.1 is

ans:application

7). about switch switch statement

ans:16,21

8). question paper the first question ans is

ans:can't be compiled

9). about send messages and post messages

ans: c

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10). what is the command to intiate the windows

ans:WinMain

More Questions:

1. const char *

char * const

What is the differnce between the above tow?.

2. In Unix inter process communication take place using?.

3. What are the files in /etc directory?.

4. About i-node numbers

5. Max relaxable permisssion value with out giving write permissiontoothers?.

6. About ln(linking) 

7. A question on until

until (who |grep mary)

do

sleep(60)

done

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8. Linking across directories?.

9. process id for kernell process

10. very first process created by kernell

11. function to repaint a window immediately?.

12. Function entry for DLL in win3.1

13. win 3.1 is a 

14. win 3.1 supports which type of multi tasking?.

15. Message displayed when a window is destroyed

16. About fork()?

17. About send message and post message

18. Message to limit the size of window

19. System call executable binary file intoa process

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20. About GDI object?.

21. API used to hide window

22. Initialize contents of a dialog?.

Paper: IBM Campus Placement Paper (Technical-C C++, Aptitude)

1.Difference between 123 and O123 in c language

2.The command used to count the number of lines in UNIX:

3.The commands like cat, date are stored in___________ directory:a)/dev,b)/temp,c)/prog

4.The attribute of one table is used as the key address of another table. this kind of address is calleda) foreign addressb) primary addressc) secondary address

5.A container contains pure milk. if 20% is replaced by water and then the same processes is repeated twice then what will b the % of milk remaining?

6.A can fill a tank in 6 hours and B can fill the tank in 4 hours. if both the pipes are opened alternatively for an hour with A as the first then in how many hours will the tank b filled?

7.In 50 coins 1 is defective (more weight) .in how many weighs can u find the defective coin?

8.In a km race A beats B by 28metres or 7 sec. find A’s time over the course?

9.A frog can climb a distance of 12m and then falls back by 5m. in how much time will it climb a well of 63m?

10.If a square piece is cut into 27 parts in 6 cuts and is coated with cake in all its outer surfaces than find the number of pieces without cake?

11.the number of multiplications done in square matrix of order n?

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12.If 1st Jan is a Sunday then find the number of Sundays in that year?

13.If there r 20 black and 20 white socks, then find the number of chances which will help to collect three pair of socks?

14.There r 180 coins totally comprising of 10p and 25p coins. contributing to 36.90 rs. Find the number of 10p coins?

15.there r three persons A,B,C.out of which one says always the truth. other 2 always speaks false. each one makes a statement?1.i am not A2.I am not B.3.I am C.

16.int cwhile(c!=getchar()!=#)putchar();} if the input is ABCD# ,what will b the output?

17.Inline function is used for?

18.comment:

{float a,b,c;if(b*b-4*a*c)=0.0printf(“the roots r equal”);}

19.int x=14,y=10,z=3;x*=y+1+z;printf(“%d”,x);}what is the value of x

20.40% of the people read newspaper A,50% B,10% both A&B. how many % doesn't read any of the both?

21.relation between class and structure…(something like public ,private..)

22.which operator cannot be overloaded? ?:

23.which of the given statements is true ‘but overloading?

24.If a flight ticket is to be booked and attributes like flight number, ticket number,destination,arrival,sat number are given. which of the above is the primary key?

25) If one man do a job of two boys. If 12 men’s and 15 boys can do a work in 25 days

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working 7.5 hrs a day. How many boys are required along with 21 men’s to complete a work twice the first one in 50 days.

26) If 200m and 150m long trains moving in the same direction at a speed of 40kmph and 45kmph, what is the time taken by the trains to cross each other.

27. If the radius of the circle is decreased by 50% then the area will be reduced by what percentage. Ans 25%

28) If average age of a five member group is same as three years ago. When a old man is replaced by a young man. What is the diff. between their ages.

29) 3 step of a ladder is immersed in water .if thickness of the steps is 1.5” and distance between the steps is 8” .the tide raise at the rate of 16” per hour for first 6 hrs and then it ebbs at the rate of 8” per hour .after 8 hrs how many steps will be immersed in water.

Paper: IBM Campus Placement Paper (Technical-C C++, DS, SQL, Aptitude)

1.7^253. last digit?ans. 7

2.10^10^10 how much time will it take to write this number, if it takes 1 sec to write 1 digit.a.1000 secs.b.10 year.c. more than 1 million years.d. a few days.ans. more than 1 million years.

3. starting from 2 upto how many numbers we need to check whether 907 is prime or not?

4. a persons age is similar to the year he was born (last two digits is counted as age). ans. 80.

5. what is YACC? ans. yet another compiler compiler.

6. flop is a unit of ? ans. processing speed.

7.#define hello(x,y) printf(#expr"%d",expr);main(){float x=1,y=2;expr=x/y;hello(expr);}ans. x/y=1;

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8.time and work and days. 

9.A&B fill 3 litres and 5 litres of oil in the car. C pays Rs. 8/- to A7B. How much will A get?

10. a question on "set" theory. it was given that less than 30 persons in class. (Ans . cannot be determined.).

11. 4 cows are there at the four corners of a square. if the radius of the rope is 1 and lenth of one side of the square is 14, find the area along the square which the cow cannot gaze.ans. 14*14-pi*r*r;

12. two glasses were filled with 1/3 and 1/4 milk. they were filled with water &then mixed in tumbler. what is the percentage of milk in the resultant.

13 average speed 2xy/x+y.

14. A belongs to the truther tribe " who says yes". B belongs to the liers tribe " who says no always".when A&B were asked to which group do they belonged to both of them replied "yes".when a third person C was asked whether A&B belong to same group,he notified groups he answered "No".to which group do A,B and C belong? ans.LLL or LTT.

15.There were three clocks they gave alarm after 24secs, 12secs and 36 secs.if they rang simultaneously at 8:20, then at what time they again rang simultaneously? (something like this but numbers may differ). ans. 8:27:12

16.a plane starts from a place A , it goes 1000 kms south then 1000km east then 1000 km north and 1000km west, what is it distance from the starting place?

 ans. same starting place.

17.question on Bipartite graph (definition).

18.heap-sorting algorithm time complexity. (Ans: nlogn)

19.white-box testing.

20.postfix evaluation of: (A+B)*C(Ans: AB+C*)

21.question on catch-throw? c++

22.parity bit?(Ans: as error detection).

23.main(){main();}ans.stack overflow.

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24.main(){ char a,b;printf("%d%d%d%d",sizeof('a');sizeof(NULL),sizeof(b),sizeof(main));}Ans(1,1,1,2)

25.five file sizes given . what should be the order of their access so that least time is taken.ans. least size first.

26. SQL query does what?

27. 5 questions on reasoning

PAPER: IBM PLACEMENT PAPER ( APTITUDE C C++)

1. In 1978, a kg of paper was sold at Rs25/-. If the paper rate increases at 1.5% more than the inflation rate which is 6.5% a year, then what will be the cost of a kg of paper after 2 years?

(a) 29.12(b) 29.72(c) 30.12(d) 32.65(e) none of these

2. In A,B,C are having some marbles with each of them. A has given B and C the same number of marbles each of them already have. Then, B gave C and A the same number of marbles they already have. Then C gave A and B the same number of marbles they already have. At the end A,B,and C have equal number of marbles.

(i) If x,y,z are the marbles initially with A,B,C respectively. Then the number of marbles B have at the end

(a) 2(x-y-z)(b) 4(x-y-z)(c) 2(3y-x-z)(d) x + y-z

Ans. (c)

(ii) If the total number of marbles are 72, then the number of marbles with A at the starting

(a) 20(b) 30(c) 32(d) 39

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Ans. (d)

3. If a car starts from A towards B with some velocity. Due to some problem in the engine after traveling 30km, the car goes with 4/5 th of its actual velocity The car reaches B 45 min later to the actual time. If the car engine fails after traveling 45km, the car reaches the destination B 36min late to the actual time What is the initial velocity of car and what is the distance between A and B in km

Ans. 20 & 130.

4. A person has Rs 100/- in his pocket, he can as 25 pencils or 15 books. He kept 15% of the money for traveling expenses and purchased 5 pencils. So how many books he can purchase with the remaining money.

5. Ten questions on analogies.

eg: chief : tribe :: governor : stateepaulette : shoulder :: tiara : headguttural : throat :: gastric : stomachinept : clever :: languid : activeknife : butcher ::hammer : carpenter ::

6. The values of shares (in Rs).of A, B and C from January to June are as follows.

Month A B CJanuary 30 60 80February 35 65 85March 45 75 65April 40 75 82May 55 75 85June 50 75 80

i) During this period which share has undergone maximum fluctuation?ii) In which month it is possible to buy B and C selling A?iii) In which month the share values are very low?iv) By purchasing one share of A and 4 each of B and C in the beginning of the period,when should these be sold to get maximum profit?

7. In a computer institute 9 languages can be taught. The module is of 6 months duration and of the six languages only one can be taught each month . In addition to that BASIC is always taught and should be in first month itself

WORD PERFECT is to be taught in the preceeding week of WORD STAR. FORTRAN can not be taught until COBAL is taught prior to that BINO, FIFO can never be taught in single module languages are BASIC, WORD STAR, WORD PERFECT, FORTRAN, COBAL, BINO, FIFO, LOTUS, C

i) If word star is in 3rd month , what could be in 6th month.ii) If COBAL is in the 2nd month and BINO in 6th month. FORTRAN will be taught in which

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month.

8. In a class, except 18 all are above 50 years. 15 are below 50 years of age. How many people are there

(a) 30(b) 33(c) 36(d) none of these.

Ans. (d)

9. A square plate of some size is cut at four corners. Equal squares of the same size are cut and is formed as open box. If this open box carries 128 ml of oil. What is the size of the side of the plate?

(a) 17(b) 14(c) 13(d) None of these

10. In a square, all the mid points are joined. The inner square is shaded. If the area of the square is A, what is the area of the shaded area?

11. Two questions on basic angles i.e given a circle, a few chords or diameter is drawn etc.

12. If the follwoing statements are given

@(a,b)= (a+b)/2/(a,b)= a/b*(a,b)= abIf a=1, b=2 then find

i) /(a,(@(a,b),*(a,b)))

ii) */(a,@(*(a,b)))

13. If the follwoing statements are given

(x#y) = x + y- xy(x*y) = (x + y)/2i) Find the values of x, y will satisfy this equation (x#y)#(x*y) < (x#y)ii) Find the values of x, y will satisfy this equation (a*b)#(b*c)< (a#b)*(b*c)

14. Export PS1 results in(PS1 pwd)

a) primary prompt being your current directoryb) primary prompt and secondary prompts being the current directoryc) primary prompt prompt being your home directory

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d) primary prompt and secondary prompts being the home directorye) None of the above.

15. If you type in the command

nohup sort employees > list 2 > error out & and log off ,the next time you log in, the output will be

a) in a file called list and the error will de typed in a file error outb) there will be no file called list or error outc) error will be logged in a file called list and o/p will be in error outd) you will not be allowed to log ine) none of the above

16. In UNIX a files i-node ......?

Ans. Is a data structure that defines all specifications of a file like the file size, number of lines to a file, permissions etc.

17. The UNIX shell ....

a) does not come with the rest of the systemb) forms the interface between the user and the kernalc) does not give any scope for programmingd) does not allow calling one program from with in anothere) all of the above

Ans. (b)

18. enum number { a= -1, b= 4,c,d,e} What is the value of e ?

(a) 7(b) 4(c) 5(d) 15(e) 3

19. The very first process created by the kernal that runs till the kernal process is halts is

a) initb) gettyc) both (a) and (b)d) none of these

Ans. (a)

20. Output of the following program is

main()

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{int i=0;for(i=0;i<20;i++){switch(i)case 0:i+=5;case 1:i+=2;case 5:i+=5;default i+=4;break;}printf("%d,",i);}}

a) 0,5,9,13,17b) 5,9,13,17c) 12,17,22d) 16,21e) Syntax error

Ans. (d)

21. What is the output in the following program

main(){char c=-64;int i=-32unsigned int u =-16;if(c>i){printf("pass1,");if(c<u)printf("pass2");elseprintf("Fail2");}elseprintf("Fail1);if(i<u)printf("pass2");elseprintf("Fail2")}

a) Pass1,Pass2b) Pass1,Fail2c) Fail1,Pass2d) Fail1,Fail2e) None of these

Ans. (c)

22. In the process table entry for the kernel process, the process id value is

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(a) 0(b) 1(c) 2(d) 255(e) it does not have a process table entry

Ans. (a)

23. Which of the following API is used to hide a window

a) ShowWindowb) EnableWindowc) MoveWindowd) SetWindowPlacemente) None of the above

Ans. (a)

24. What will the following program do?

void main(){int i;char a[]="String";char *p="New Sring";char *Temp;Temp=a;a=malloc(strlen(p) + 1);strcpy(a,p); //Line number:9//p = malloc(strlen(Temp) + 1);strcpy(p,Temp);printf("(%s, %s)",a,p);free(p);free(a);} //Line number 15//

a) Swap contents of p & a and print:(New string, string)b) Generate compilation error in line number 8c) Generate compilation error in line number 5d) Generate compilation error in line number 7e) Generate compilation error in line number 1

Ans. (b)

25. In the following code segment what will be the result of the function,

value of x , value of y{unsigned int x=-1;int y;

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y = ~0;if(x == y)printf("same");elseprintf("not same");}

a) same, MAXINT, -1b) not same, MAXINT, -MAXINTc) same , MAXUNIT, -1d) same, MAXUNIT, MAXUNITe) not same, MAXINT, MAXUNIT

Ans. (a)

26. PATH = /bin : /usr : /yourhomeThe file /bin/calender has the following line in it

cal 10 1997

The file /yourhome/calender has the following line in it

cal 5 1997

If the current directory is /yourhome and calender is executed

a) The calendar for May 1997 will be printed on screenb) The calendar for Oct 1997 will be printed on screenc) The calendar for the current month( whatever it is) will be printedd) Nothing will get printed on screene) An error massage will be printed

27. What will be the result of the following program ?

char *gxxx(){static char xxx[1024];return xxx;}

main(){char *g="string";strcpy(gxxx(),g);g = gxxx();strcpy(g,"oldstring");printf("The string is : %s",gxxx());}

a) The string is : stringb) The string is :Oldstringc) Run time error/Core dump

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d) Syntax error during compilatione) None of these

Ans. (b)

28. What will be result of the following program?

void myalloc(char *x, int n){x= (char *)malloc(n*sizeof(char));memset(x,\0,n*sizeof(char));}

main(){char *g="String";myalloc(g,20);strcpy(g,"Oldstring");printf("The string is %s",g);}

a) The string is : Stringb) Run time error/Core dumpc) The string is : Oldstringd) Syntax error during compilatione) None of these

29. Which of the following function is used to repaint a window immediately

a) Sendmessage(hWnd,WM_PAINt,......)b) InvalidateRect(.......)c) MoveWindowd) WM_COPYe) None

30. Which function is the entry point for a DLL in MS Windows 3.1

a) Mainb) Winmainc) Dllmaind) Libmaine) None

Ans. (b)

31. The standard source for standard input, standard output and standard error is

a) the terminalb) /dev/nullc) /usr/you/input, /usr/you/output/, /usr/you/error respectivelyd) None

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Ans. (a)

32. What will be the result of the following program?

main(){char p[]="String";int x=0;if(p=="String"){printf("Pass 1");if(p[sizeof(p)-2]=='g')printf("Pass 2");elseprintf("Fail 2");}else{printf("Fail 1");if(p[sizeof(p)-2]=='g')printf("Pass 2");elseprintf("Fail 2");}}

a) Pass 1, Pass 2b) Fail 1, Fail 2c) Pass 1, Fail 2d) Fail 1, Pass 2e) syntax error during compilation

33. Which of the choices is true for the mentioned declaration ?

const char *p;andchar * const p;

a) You can't change the character in bothb) First : You can't change the characterr & Second : You can;t change the pointerc) You can't change the pointer in bothd) First : You can't change the pointer & Second : You can't chanage the charactere) None

34. The redirection operators > and >>

a) do the same functionb) differ : > overwrites, while >> appendsc) differ : > is used for input while >> is used for outputd) differ : > write to any file while >> write only to standard outpute) None of these

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Ans. (b)

35. The command grep first second third /usr/you/myfile

a) prints lines containing the words first, second or third from the file /usr/you/myfileb) searches for lines containing the pattern first in the files second, third, and /usr/you/myfile and prints themc) searches the files /usr/you/myfiel and third for lines containing the words first or second and prints themd) replaces the word first with the word second in the files third and /usr/you/myfilee) None of the above

Ans. (b)