Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Satyam Aptitude Technical Papers Latest

1> What is a file?
2> WHat is a pointer?
3> What is data and information?
4> Steps of Software Engineering.
Waterfall model.
5> Paging concept.
6> Queue?
7> Whatz the other name can we use instead of FIFO in Queue (Ans: LILO)
8> What is Primary Memory, Secondary Memory, RAM, Working memory etc.
9> Connection of VB and MS Access.
I did not answered many questions. Luckily i was asked the basic concepts only. It
is beneficial to appear for the PI in the first lot itself.
HR:
Very very simple. All the candidates who have appeared for Tech Interview was to
appear for the HR. And then finally the results came. HR was very simply. They asked
about my 1 year gap. And next question,
"Work environment of Satyam" which I had written in "Why do u want to join Satyam"
in their PI Sheet. It was very sinple. Mainly they chekd our communications.
Well friends, just beleive in urself. Its very easy, simple. If ur communication is
good, u can talk in front of 10 people and have some knowledge about the main
subjects like OS, C etc u get through. All the Best. U can do it.

30 min. 15 ques. Aptitude

1.From a total of 10 bulbs 6 bulbs are working.One has to choose 3 bulbs out of
them. what is the probability that all the 3 bulbs will be glowing.
a) 1/6 b) 1/29 c) 1/29 d) 30/29 e) None of these.

2. A sum at a given rate of intrest becomes 1200 in 4 yrs. 2000 in 5 yrs.what was
that sum.
a) 2000 b) 1500 c)2500 d) 1800 e) None of the above.
Ans… e) None of the above. (sum ….800)

3.Three teams J,K,L . some conditions like J is in the left of K , L is in the
middle of K and L and so on.

4.Students fail in at least 2n-p subjects. n is the number of subjects.p is an
integer. If total number of failures is 63. what is the number of students.

5.if STRONG is written as ——. Then ENERGY will be written as ——.

6.G,R,S are three towns. If G is North west of S. R is east of S.which city is
north most.

7.Side of cube add to 4 feet. what is the volume of cube.
i) 64 inch^3 ii) 128 inch^3 iii) 512 inch^3 iv) None
Ans i) 64 inch^3.

8.Logical reasoning …If battery is down Razor will not work. ….

9.If tomato price is hiked by 65%. Apple price by 10%. Tomato is now dearer than
apple. Some conclusions…..

10.In a chessboard of 64 squares. Pearls are to be decorated such that each
corner has 1 pearl.And each side has three pearls. How many pearls will be required.

11.A number plate has 3 digits. If first digit is always 1. And rest two digits
are in ascending order. Total number of differnt numbers that can be given the
number plate.

12.Data interpretation. 3 pie charts and a histogram were given. What is the
average ?

13.

Number generator… If a given sequence was given to the number generator ,it
processes the sequence as….
step 1: Multiply each number by 2.
step 2: sort the numbers in ascending order.
step 3: increase 1st, 3rd and 6th number by 6.
step 4: again sort.
step 5: add 1 to 1st, 2 to 2nd , 3 to 3rd , 5 to 4th, 7 to 5th, 11 to 6th .
( Pattern was not given only output sequence was given, you have to identify this
pattern.)
If given sequence is input of the number generator. What will be it's state in
step 4.

14.Odd one out. Very simple, 4 were geometric figures and last one was a zig-zag.

15.Average of 8 scores is 85. After removing the "maximum" score and next to
maximum which is "maximum-2″.The average comes out to be 83.What is the maximum.

16.Higher education in India or abroad.

17.Mercy Killing.

18.Positive impact of Wstern culture on India.

19.Younger man should marry a elder woman or not. (absolutely not…).

20.Love marriage or Arrange marriage.

21.Banning new year party safe or not.

22.Dress code in colleges.

23.Copying the west.

24.Working woman Vs House wife.

25.Should mobile phones be banned or not ?

26.Current education system.

27.Should follow western culture or not.

28.Effect of Extra marital affairs on marriage life.