TCS WHOLE Test Paper Test Pattern

It had 4 Rounds. 1. Aptitude test(35 questions 1) Aptitude Test

in 80 min)

35 questions - 80 minutes Negative Marking - 1/3rd 2) Calculators can be allowed. For each wrong question 0.33 marks will be deducted. Easy questions. Just practice the previous year questions. Lots of unnecessary data. Take care of negative marking and attempt a question only if you are sure. Take your time for each question and move on if you don't know any.

Areas to concentrate Probabality , Time and work, Average,Pipes and cistersns Puzzles
.1 36 people {a1, a2, ., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3},...., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is 12 13 18 11 Solution: for at least one person & for exactly one person =36/3 for at least two person & for exactly two person =36/2 2. In the reading room of a library, there are 23 reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a roundtable with 9 chairs placed around it. There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spotthere are different numbers of readers. If in all there are 36 readers, how many reading spots do nothave even a single reader?a)8 b)none c)16 d)15 Solution: 23 reading spots, Each reading spot consists of 9 chairs placed around it so There are somereaders such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers. For each tabledifferent no of persons are sat,so for first table 1 person is sit,2nd table 2 persons are sit 36 readersmeans(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 so 8 tables are filled so 23-8=15 reading spots does not have single reader. 3 A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is hisaverage speed for the journey?

a) 2.4 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4 mph d) 5 mph Solution: Average speed=(2*x*y)/(x+y) .4. A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different toppings. In how many ways can she make pizzas with 2 different toppings ? a )16 b)56 c)112 d)28 Solution: 8c2 .5. There is 7 friends (A1, A2, A3....A7).If A1 have to have shake with all without repeat. How many handshakes possible? a)6 b)21 c)28 d)7 Solution :For handshakes type question i am confirming u that if the there are n members are there Handshakes are given in linear manner =n-1(last person cannot give hand shake to first person)Handshakes are given in cyclic manner =n(last person can give hand shake to first person)But i do not know perfectly for repetition it is nc2 6 20 men handshake with each other without repetition. What is the total number of handshakes made? a) 190 b) 210 c) 150 d)2502. 42. If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very little he will die within 14hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, how many mices are required to find the poisonedcan? a) 3 b) 2 c) 6 d) 1 7 In a hotel we can order two types of varities,but we can make 6 more variteis in home.One can choosethe four varities with two from hotel as must.Find how many ways one can order. a)14 b)15 c)56 d)28 44. Thebacteria has the probability of split into 3 and probability to die is 1/3rd of the total bacteria.Let theprobability is P.Some of them survived with probability 1/5.Then which among the following relation istrue? solution : P=1/3+1/5*3 b)P=1/5*(1/8-3) 8 How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if therepetition is allowed? a)57 b)56 c)59 d)58 . 46.Which is the smallest no which divides 2880 and gives a perfect square? a)4 b)9 c)3 d)5 Solution: for answer solve via options. 9. Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the restby a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in theplane in general position(.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) isa)3 b)5 c) 2 d) Ans:For the minimum value the answer is 3 whatever the given no . of points. And for the maximum value the answer is the no. of points given in the question. 10.Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One friend suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of cards numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulating a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 11. Which total would be likely to appear more often 8,9 or 10? a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10

12. A research lab in Chennai requires 100 mice and 75 sterilized cages for a certain set of laboratory experiments . To identify the mice, the lab has prepared labels with numbers 1 to 100 , by combining tags numbered 0 to 9. The SPCA requires that the tags be made of toxin-free material and that the temperature of the cages be maintained at 27 degree Celsius. Also , not more than 2 mice can be caged together and each cage must be at least 2 sq.ft in area. The 5 experiments to be conducted by lab are to be thoroughly documented and performed only after a round of approval by authorities. The approval procedure takes around 48 hours. How many times is the tag numbered '4' used by the lab in numbering these mice? a) 9 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21 13. rancois Pachet , a researcher at Sony Computer Science laboratories is also a jazz musician. He decided to build a robot able to improvise like a pro. Named Continuator, the robot can duet with a live musician in real- time. It listens to a musical phrase and then computes a complementary phrase with the same playing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided between and then computes a complementary phrase with the same playing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided between materials , labour and overheads in the ratio of 4:6:2.If the materials cost $108. the cost of the robot is a) $270 b) $324 c) $216 d) $ 648 14. Spores of a fungus, called late blight, grow and spread infection rapidly. These pathogens were responsible for the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. These seem to have attacked the tomato crops in England this year. The tomato crops have reduced and the price of the crop has risen up . The price has already gone up to $45 a box from $27 a box a month ago. How much more would a vegetable vendor need to pay to buy 27 boxes this month over what he would have paid last month? a) $27 b) $ 18 c) $45 d) $ 48 15. Given a collection of 36 points P in the plane and a point equidistant from all points in P, which of the following are necessarily trueA. The points in P lie on a circle. B. The distance between any pair of points in P is larger than the distance between X and a point in P a) A and B b) Neither A nor B c) B only d) A only 16. In the year 2002, Britain was reported to have had 4.3m closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras one for every 14 people in the country . This scrutiny is supposed to deter and detect crime. In one criminal case, the police interrogates two suspects . The ratio between the ages of the two suspects is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 55 years. After how many years will the ratio be 8:7.? a) 11 b) 6 c) 10 d) 5 17.Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm volume to make a block 3 small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide and 5 small cubes deep. She realizes that she has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realized that she could have glued a fewer number of cubes together to lock like a block with same dimensions, if it were made hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she needs to make the block? a) 114 b) 135 c) 21 d) 71 18. The dynamics of crowd behaviour are hard to study because usually people are not reliable witnesses of their own behaviour. Now consider 4 people standing in the queue of a supermarket. You want to predict their behaviour based on their age group. You get to know from the supermarket records that their average age 4 years ago was 43 years. After a while, another person joins the queue and the present average of all

the 5 is 40 years. The present age of the last person in the queue is : (a) 28 years (b) 12 years (c) 32 years (d) 24 years 19 The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has one of the most extra-ordinary and idiosyncratic collections in French impressionist art. Dr. Barnes who put together this collection has insisted that the paintings be hung in a particular manner specified by him at a museum designed by the French architect Paul Philippe Cret who also designed the Rodin Museum. The museum has, say, seven galleries Eugene Boudin, Cassatt, Boudin, Forain, Gonzales, Manet and Monet. Visitors reach the main Eugene Boudin by an elevator, and they can enter and leave the exhibition only through Eugene Boudin gallery. Once inside, visitors are free to move as they choose. The following list includes all of the doorways that connect the seven galleries: There is a doorway between Eugene Boudin and Cassatt, a doorway between Eugene BoudinandBoudin, and a doorway between Eugene Boudin and Gonzales galleries. There is a doorway between Cassatt and Boudin galleries. There is a doorway between Gonzales and Forain and a doorway between Gonzales and Manet galleries. There is a doorway between Manet and Monet galleries. Which of the following rooms CANNOT be the third gallery that any visitor enters ? (a) Monet (b) Boudin (c) Forain (d) Cassatt 10. Mr. Beans visited a magic shop and bought some magical marbles of different colours along with other magical items. While returning home whenever he saw a coloured light, he took out marbles of similar colours and counted them. So he counted the pink coloured marbles and found that he has bought 25 of them. Then he counted 14 green marbles and then 21 yellow marbles. He later counted 30 purple coloured marbles with him. But when he reached a crossing, he looked at a red light and started counting red marbles and found that he had bought 23 Red marbles. As soon as he finished counting, it started raining heavily and by the time he reached home he was drenched. After reaching home he found that the red, green and yellow marbles had magically changed colours and became white, while other marbles were unchanged. It will take 1 day to regain its colours, but he needs to give atleast one pair of marbles to his wife now. So how many white marbles must be choose and give to his wife so as to ensure that there is atleast one pair of red, yellow and green marbles ? (a) 46 (b) 35 (c) 29 (d) 48 21. A greengrocer was selling watermelon at a penny each, chickoos at 2 for a penny and peanuts at 3 for a penny. A father spent 7p and got the same amount of each type of fruit for each of his three children, Jane, Joe and Jill. Jane is three years older than Jill and Joe is exactly half the age of Jane and Jill together. What did each child get ? (a) 1 watermelon, 3 chickoos, 2 peanuts (b) 1 watermelon, 1 chickoo, 1 peanus (c) 1 watermelon, 2 chickoos, 2 peanuts (d) 1 watermelon, 2 chickoos, 1 peanut 22. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/3 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/4 of the distance. By what factor should be hare increase its speed so as the win the race? (a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 12 (d) 5.00 60. Subha Patel is an olfactory scientist working for International Flavors and Fragrances. She specializes in finding new scents recorded and reconstituted from nature thanks to Living Flower Technology. She has extracted fragrance ingredients from different flowering plants into bottles labeled herbal, sweet, honey,

anisic and rose. She has learned that a formula for a perfume is acceptable if and only if it does not violate any of the rules listed: If the perfume contains herbal, it must also contain honey and there must be twice as much honey as herbal. If the perfume contains sweet, it must also contain anisic, and the amount of anisic must equal the amount of sweet. honey cannot be used in combination with anisic. anisic cannot be used in combination with rose. If the perfume contains rose, the amount of rose must be greater than the total amount of the other essence or essences used. Which of the following could be added to an unacceptable perfume consisting of two parts honey and one part rose to make it acceptable? (a) Two parts rose (b) One part herbal (c) Two parts honey (d) One part sweet 23. A schoolyard contains only bicycles and 4 wheeled wagons. On Tuesday, the total number of wheels in the schoolyard was 134. What could be possible number of bicycles? (a) 16 (b) 15 (c) 18 (d) 14 24. Consider two cans, the first containing one litre of water and the second containing one litre of Pepsi. Suppose you take one cup of water out of the first can and pour it into the second can. After mixing you take one cup of the mixture from the second can and pour it back into the first can. Which one of the following statements holds now? (a) There is less Pepsi in the first can than water in the second can. (b) There is more Pepsi in the first can than water in the second can. (c) None of the statements holds true. (d) There is as much Pepsi in the first can as there is water in the second can 25. A greengrocer was selling orange at a penny each, olives at 2 for a penny and grapes at 3 for a penny. A father spent 7p and got the same amount of each type of fruit for each of his three children, Jane, Joe, and Jill. Jane is three years older than Jill and Joe is exactly half the age of Jane and Jill together. What did each child get? (a)1 orange, 2 olives, 2 grapes (b) 1 orange, 3 olives, 2 grapes (c) 1 orange, 1 olive, 1 grape (d) 1 orange, 2 olives, 1 grape 26. Recent report have suggested that sportsmen with decreased metabolic rates perform better in certain sports. After reading one such report, Jordon, a sportsperson from Arlington decides to undergo a rigorous physical training program for 3 months, where he performs Yoga for 3 hours, walks for 2 hours and swims for 1 hour each day. He says: I began my training on a Wednesday in a prime number month of 2008. I lost 1% of my original weight within the first 30 days. In the next two months combined, I lost 1 Kg. If he walks at 5 mph over a certain journey and walks back the same route at 8 mph at an altitude of 200 meters, what is his average speed for the journey? (a) 6.15 (b) 3.08 (c) 6.50 (d) 26.67 27. The question is followed by two statements, A and B. Answer the question using the following instructions: Choose1: if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone but not by using the other statement alone. Choose2: if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone. Choose3: if the question can be answered by using both statements together but not by either statement alone. Choose4: if the question cannot be answered on the basis of the two statements. Zayed spends 30% of his income on his childrens education, 20% on recreation and 10% on healthcare. The corresponding percentage for Sandeep are 40%, 25% and 13%. Who spends more on childrens education? A: Zayed spends more on recreation than Sandeep B: Sandeep spends more on healthcare than Zayed. (a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) 1

29. The question is followed by two statements, A and B. Answer the question using the following instructions: Choose1: if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone but not by using the other statement alone. Choose2: if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone. Choose3: if the question can be answered by using both statements together but not by either statement alone. Choose4: if the question cannot be answered on the basis of two statements. Tarun is standing 2 steps to the left of a green mark and 3 steps to the right of a black mark. He tosses a coin. If it comes up heads, he moved one step to the right, otherwise he moves one step to the left. He keeps doing this until he reaches one of the two marks, and then he stops. At which mark does he stops? A: he stops at 21 coin tosses. B: he obtains three more tails than heads. (a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 2 30. (1/2) Of A Number Is 3 Times More Than The (1/6) Of The Same Number? Solution:1/2x=3+1/6x =>x=9 It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color 31. There was a grand mother in a village who had a grand child.Upon asking her grand childs age she told that she is as older as many days old as her daughters age in weeks and as many days as her own age in years.The sum of the three is 130.then how old is the child.? ( 32. In a school, for a student out of 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79 marks in the 8th subject. what is the average of all the subject? Ans. 74.625 33 research lab in Chennai requires 100 mice and 75 sterilized cages for a certain set of laboratory experiments . To identify the mice, the lab has prepared labels with numbers 1 to 100 , by combining tags numbered 0 to 9. The SPCA requires that the tags be made of toxin-free material and that the temperature of the cages be maintained at 27 degree Celsius. Also , not more than 2 mice can be caged together and each cage must be at least 2 sq.ft in area. The 5 experiments to be conducted by lab are to be thoroughly documented and performed only after a round of approval by authorities. The approval procedure takes around 48 hours. How many times is the tag numbered '4' used by the lab in numbering these mice? 34. In the year 2002, Britain was reported to have had 4.3m closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras one for every 14 people in the country . This scrutiny is supposed to deter and detect crime. In one criminal case, the police interrogates two suspects . The ratio between the ages of the two suspects is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 55 years. After how many years will the ratio be 8:7.? 35. Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm volume to make a block 3 small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide and 5 small cubes deep. She realizes that she has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realized that she could have glued a fewer number of cubes together to lock like a block with same dimensions, if it were made hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she needs to make the block? Interview questions
2. Technical & Managerial Round a)In technical round basicaly they ask about my B.tech project and they asked some logic about c prog, matlab, and basicaly they asked wht evr u wrtten in ur resume.

jsp is a language? Justify,What are the types of Collision Resolution Techniques and the methods used in each of the type?
Difference b/w c nd java?,Is

What are DDks? Name an operating system that includes this feature.

What has triggered the need for multitasking in PCs?

What is page cannibalizing? What is SLIP (Serial Line Interface Protocol)? What are the possible ways of data exchange? Find the n-1th maximum salary. What is DML (Data Manipulation Language)?
projects i had made. about c++,what is oops?? featurs of oops??? about my favourite subject? logic gates i2 design any software and how will it be marketed? Write a program to swap the value two variables without using third variable.( wrote by simple logic but he wants different one.) WAP to swap two variables with XOR ing of two variables(Wrote after giving hint by him). What are ranges of int, unsigned int, float,long ? What is Data structure,java OSI Layers lfive queries and also about normalization , anamolies, ACID properties , joins. What is array? (Explained in deep...he said now I`ll not ask the technical

basics like joins,normalisation ,sorting ,etc....

draw circuit diagram of 8085 microprocessor? the electron motion in transistor. noise ratio explain AWT,OS,sWING, what is meaning of Designing Oracle, function overloading,

in SDLC?

DBMS and RDBMS, What is normalization

4. HR Round. Market yourself. Why TCS? Mention five uses of a pen other than writing

In order to achieve your goals, you may be required to use unfair means, will you do so? Will you be happy with your decision?
do you know about bond? are you ready to sign the bond? what is your ambition,weakness and strength?asked me one by one?

hobbies Tell about your family background. Why should we select you? What are your expectations from society? Some puzzles
What is IT industry? Who are famous personalities of IT industry? Why should we Hire u? Why TCS? Schooling. Strength, Weakness. Why do u want to join us ? What do u know about TCS? Do u know about the bond (2 years) ? Will you have any problem going to other places? ---Prepare your resume well. Just prepare for the aptitude seriously and clear it. Rest is the game of confidence.

Keep smiling during the interview and be confident in what you say and keep eye contact with the interviewer.