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This time he has not given the number series.

Apptitude:

part 1 : letter sevies.
part 2 : figures
part 3 : quantitave


Technical:

        Most question are on Unix and some in C and some in 
windows 3.1
        all question in Unix are From Kernighan & pike

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part 1

it consists of number series.In some institutes 
alphabetical series is 
given instead of number series.Iam having number series so 
iam sending 
that.Please go through tha alphabetical tests also.
1. 19,24,20,25,21,26,?   ans:22
2. 11,14,12,15,13,16,?   ans: 14
3. 10,2,8,2,6,2,?       a:4
4. 8,9,11,14,,18,23,?   a:29
5. 25,25,22,22,19,19,?  a:16
6. 14,2,12,4,10,6,?     a:8
7. 7,16,9,15,11,14,?    a:13
8. 40,42,39,44,38,46,?  a:37
9. 3,18,4,24,5,30,?     a:6
10. 18,20,22,20,28,20,? a:22
11. 18,20,10,12,4,6?    a:0
12. 7,6,8,5,3,7,?       a:4
13 9,18,21,25,20,?      a:30
14 3,3,4,8,10,36,?      a:33
15.30,28,25,20,34,28,?  a:21
16. 4,8,16,32,64,128,?  a:256
17. 8,16,24,32,40,48,?  a:56
18. 13,11,14,12,15,13,?         a:16
19. 6,18,36,108,216,648,? a:1296
20. 4,4,8,8,16,16,?     a:32
21. 2,6,18,54,162,486,? a:1458
22. 4,20,35,49,62,74,? a:85
23. 10,18,15,23,20,28,? a:25
24. 4,10,8,14,12,18,? a:16
25 10,15,12,17,14,10,? a:16


part 2 consists of non-verbel reasoning(figures).So it is 
impossible for 
me to send those.(25 questions)

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?
a: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?
a:Rs12/-
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

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 
dya, 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

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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 behind schedule.  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?
Ans.
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 Programme 
for the 
homecoming football game.  If Rs.15,000/- was received for 
advertisements 
in the programme, how many copies at Rs.0.50 a copy must be 
sold to make 
a profit of Rs.8000/- ?
Ans. 35000

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In the first section there are 40 question's on letter 
series.
Very easy upto 25 and then slightly involved after that 
again
last 10questons are easy.

For example:

1. aa , bb, cc, --
2. a,c,e,g,-
etc.,
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TATA-IBM few questions extra.
1)int i=10;
printf("%d%d%d",i,i++,++i);
ans: compiler dependent
2)printf("Enter two values a and b:"):
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
10)what is the command to intiate the windows
ans:WinMain

paper
        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 permission
        to others?.
        6.About ln(linking) 
        7.A question on until
                until (who |grep mary)
                        do
                        sleep(60)
                        done
        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
        20.About GDI object?.
        21.API used to hide window
        22.Initialize contents  of a dialog?.
        The technical comprises of 50 questions on C,Unix 
and windows.
The interview for us is on a later date.If the questions 
come for you
also,then intimate me.

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the right answer for part 1 q.no 10 is 36 not 22 because it 
has two series simultanously one is increasing by +4,+6 so 
on each time 18,22,28 & second is static 20,20,20.... . So 
in such a way the answer would be 36.

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