TCS,Mumbai Paper & Interview Questions

TCS,Mumbai Paper & Interview Questions September 2005

*TCS walkin, Mumbai *

*Date: 10 & 11 sept 2005*

*Venue: **Thakur** **College**, Kandivali*

Hi friends,

I am Abhay Bhattad. I attended the TCS, Mumbai drive & sending u the full
pattern of questions & the whole experience. Hope it will be useful for all.
Best wishes.

Appeared: 9000-9500 (approx)

Short listed after apti on 10th sept: 515 (Including the one's whose
interviews r "to be scheduled")

Short listed after technical: around 150 (Doesn't include the one's whose
interviews r "to be scheduled")

Short listed after HR/Managerial: 101

The"Appeared" fig is approx. One of my friends got the form at
around 8.30amon 10
th sept. & his form no. was series D-660. Considering at least 4 more series
with a thousand candidates in each as the process was on up till the noon,
the appeared candidates were approx around the figure I mentioned. At last
the mgmt had to close the main gate after 2 pm as a big crowd was still
waiting outside.

The crowd had started pouring in from around 4 am in the morning, not caring
even for the torrential rains in Mumbai. I myself reached the venue in
Kandivali at around 5 am wading my way thru Knee deep water on the road &
drenched in heavy rains. The process started at around 7 AM with the
distribution of forms and after all the formalities, we were taken for the
apti. The TCS volunteers were friendly & efficient & there was no chaos at
all despite there being such a large crowd.

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*Apti pattern: *

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There were 5 series of papers : v,w,x,y,z. The paper had the usual 3
sections:

*1. Verbal :*

10 antonyms,10 synonyms, passage,fill in the blank with sentences. The
synonyms were really tough (& were not a repeat of earlier ones except 1/2)
& so was the fill in the sentences passage.The passage was on a vague topic.
It took lots of my time but finally I solved it.

Tip to everyone: Plz prepare this section the most & allot it a bit more
time too. It is even harder than the CAT verbal section actually. Go thru
Barrons 13th repeatedly.

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*2. Quanti & Logical :*

This was easier. Around 50% questions were repeated. There were the
problems of the latitude & longitude, temperature, probability, highest std
deviation amongst the given, etc.

Some questions which I remember:

* 1*. If a student scores GPA in his semester & year as given below then
calculate his GPA for 3 year:

Sem: 2.4,3.14….

Year: 1.3,1.9……

(the figures r not exact.)

2.Match the following: Cow 1. a type of

Mammal 2. a superset of

2 more cases given

3. In a mixture, R is 2 parts and S is 1 part. In order to make S to 25%
of the mixture, how much of R is to be added?

Ans.One part of R

4. With a 4/5 full tank a vehicle can travel 12 miles, how far can it
travel with a 1/3 full tank Ans. 5 miles

5. A moves 3 kms east from his starting point . He then travels 5 kms
north. From that point he moves 8 kms to the east.How far is A from his
starting point? Ans. 13 kms

6. 3 angles or 3 sides r given.Which will form a triangle?

7. units of basic quantities :

(energy * time * time )/(mass * dist) = distance

8."$" is for doubling the value "%" is for change of sign then what is the
value

$%5-%%$3+$6…….A long expression similar to this one.

9. R-rounding off, M-modulus, T-truncate M(893,10)+r( )+t( ) is asked

10.vertices edges and surfaces of a cube Ans-8,12,6

11.Questions on General computer awareness

Pick the odd one…..

1.http 2.arp 3.snmp 4.baan Ans-baan

1.linux 2.windows NT 3.sql server 4.Unix Ans-Sql server

( 2 more)

12.how many Y's r followed by F and not preceded by Z

13. largest prime no. in 8 bit computer. Ans: 251

14.e power x curves : note that the values were changed.

15. Coding decoding of words like if something is coded as this then how
will u code this(like that)

16. In the word organizational, if the first and second ,
third and forth ,forth and fifth, fifth and sixth
words are interchanged up to the last letter, what
would be the tenth letter from right?

17. In a two-dimensional array, X(9,7), with each
element occupying 4 bytes of memory, with the address
of the first element X(1,1) is 3000, find the address
of X(8,5).

18. A FILE IS TRANSFERRED FROM A PLACE TO ADESTINATION CAPABLE OF 10 KB. THEY
GIVEN SOME RATE OF TRANSFER. U HAVE FIND A EQUATION THAT BEST SUIT THIS-
there were a lotsa twists given in this question unlike in the previous
question papers.

Tip: Keep Ur cool.

19. G (0) =1 G (1)= -1 IF G (N)=G (N-1) + G(N-2) THEN WHAT IS THE VALUE OF
G (6)?

20. WHICH ONE WILL BE THE EXACT POWER OF 2? Ans: 2048

21 .A power unit is there by the bank of the river 750 mts. A cable is made
from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river at 1500mts.
The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 15/- per meter ansd cost of cable
on the bank is Rs. 12/- per meter. Then where they will cut ?

22. There were 2 series as well.

23. A Venn diagram & questions on it were asked in %. Some students just
went for simple figures given but actually we have to take out % of it in
almost all questions. SO read the quests carefully.

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*Critical Reasoning:*

The passages were written repeatedly before asking each question. I think
that was a trap to waste some time of the examinees before they realize the
actual thing.

* A) *One syllogisms kinda passage:

All reds r greens

All blues r white

No yellow is a white.

Some blues r reds

Etc.

& then questions were asked like: which of the following is true: a red can
be a blue but not yellow. And like that

*B)* The red & brown marriage passage:

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There are 2 groups named Brown and red. They can't marry in the same group.
If the husband or wife dies then the person will convert to their own group.
If a person is married then the husband will have to change his group to his
wife's group. The child will own the mothers group.

From these a set of 4 questions were given like:

1.If the person doesn't change his group even after he is a widower or
divorcee then which of the following is necessarily true? Some sentences for
checking here.

2.Brown's daughter is red (False)

3. If a person is red. Then his/her mother's brother belong to which group
if he is married

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*There was no psychometric.*

After the apti they declared the results for all the batches together
after around 4 hours. They put the students in 3 parts according to their
apti scores. The group of students with higher apti scores were called for
technical on the next day itself, while the ones with lower scores were told
that their schedules for interviews will be declared afterwards (the "to be
scheduled candidates").The people with still lower scores were told to check
www.recruitment.tcs.com <http://www.recruitment.tcs.com/> so that if
requirements exist they will be called in further batches.

*About Technical interview: *

My technical was scheduled on the next day (11 September) at 9 am. But I
had to wait until around 4.30 pm when I was called in for it… My panel
consisted of two people. They were very friendly & cheerful & made me
comfortable. Questions were:


1. So abhay, tell us something about urself excluding the things
mentioned in the CV ( I spoke at length about myself)
2. Which r Ur fav subjects?

I: told 2/3 subjects. But they wanted more. They don't consider c & c++ as
different subs. So u have to tell 3 more subjects besides c, c++ & OOP
(everyone of us loves these 3, right? But they too know it very well….. &
hence do prepare more subs)

1. then there were some drilling questions on OS,DS,SE etc
2. demand paging,mem allocation
3. virtual mem
4. virtual functions
5. various sorting methods
6. explain bubble sort. (gave me an array to sort) .What is it's
efficiency
7. "O(n)" notation
8. explain bucket sort
9. Proxmap
10. polymorphism
11. software lifecycle
12. some questions on TOC
13. Some more questions on OS which I can't remember now.
14. Explain Ur project. (He also suggested me some improvements I
could have done in my project. Since my project was about language
translation, he asked me about NLP (natural Lang processing), Artificial
Intelligence, Google's foray into NLP research etc. I think he was strong in
that area. But I managed to give him pretty satisfactory answers.)

The technical lasted for around 35 mins. Then I was told to wait outside.
After 2 minutes a volunteer came & informed me that I was short listed for
the HR & was taken to a room for waiting. My turn for the HR round came at
around 8 pm.

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*About HR/MR round:*

It was a combined HR/MR round & was the toughest ….. (Surprised? So was I…
We generally tend to take the HR/MR round less seriously, but beware
friends…It's not any rule that they wont ask u technical questions here.)

There was a panel of 3 members for taking my HR. They were very
knowledgeable and friendly- but u r subjected to lots of pressure during the
whole interview. So be prepared to handle REAL pressure. U can be subjected
to pressure thru small gestures & even a nod of head can make u pretty
nervous at such times…….When I say REAL PRESSURE, I mean it…….

Questions were:


1. How was Ur day today (I said: a bit tough.)
2. Why tough? ( I said: I had to wait since morning….oops,I realized I
shouldn't have told this)
3. So u don't like waiting? (No sir, it's not like that…… I did the
cover up in an honest manner.)
4. meaning of ur name: Abhay
5. So Abhay, Ur hairstyle is inspired by which actor? ( since I have
got long hair) This quest was really a bouncer & at this point of time, in
my mind, I had bid adieu to my chances…..obviously cursing my long locks
6. So when r u cutting ur hair short? (I: at the earliest possible
date…)
7. What is keeping u busy these days? ( Preparations etc)
8. Why TCS?
9. Have u applied to any companies earlier?
10. Apart from tcs, which companies will u like to work for?
11. Then they started asking technical quests. A completely grueling
session of questions on OS, memory allocation, runtime changes in the source
code, SE, s/w process mgmt,dirty page, thrashing, address translation etc

(My tip to everyone: Friends, Be thoroughly prepared. It's not easy at all.
But most importantly "be EXTREMELY confident", composed & have a smiling
face almost always.)

1. R u ready to sign a service agreement for 2 years? Do u think it's
not OK for a company to get the service agreements signed considering the
globalization etc etc...
2. What if we send u for a posting at Assam? Will u be prepared to go
to some remote place?

The HR round lasted for around 25-30 minutes. & I have successfully made
it to TCS

Hope this is useful to all the TCS aspirants.

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Regards,
Abhay B.
+91-9822226830
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Thanx for giving such a good info........