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HP Placement Papers

HP Technical Test Procedure

Section A. ------50qns(general appitude,english etc):
Section B. ------ 10 Questions on Computer concepts.
Section C. ------ 30 Questions on C

HP Technical Test questions

1. WAP find and replace a character in a string.
2. WA function to perform the substraction of
two .Eg:char N1="123",N2="478",
N3=-355(N1-N2).
3. WAP dynamically intialize a 2 dimentional array
Eg:5x20,accept strings and check
for vowels and display the no.finally free the space
allocated .
4. WAP read a line from file from location N1 to N2 using
command line agruments
Eg:exe 10 20 a.c
5. WAP find the largest of 4 no using macros.

HP Interview Questions and Java Questions

General section
Computer science general, c/c++ section, Java
section ,The question paper had 48
questions to be answered in 1hr. Time will be quite
sufficient. They have different
sets of question papers. .

1 General section : computer science general knowledge
2. Computer science general: simple questions

1. HP acquired this company in 2002. Which is the company
a) Compaq b) Dell c) option 3 d) Option4
Ans: a

2. What does 3G denote
a) 3rd generation mobile communication b) 3rd
generation computer languages
c) option 3 d) option4
Ans: a

3. An application program that is used by the users to get
the inofrmation from the
backend of some application like databases:
a) application server b)proxy server c)
database server d)option 4
Ans: database server

4. Which of the following is not true about the e-mail
a) It can be accessed by a client program using POP
b) It can be accessed by a client program using imap
protocol
c) option 3
d) option 4
Ans: I don't remember the answer but first 2 are true.

5. Some quesion regarding the company and who developed it
( the thing to remember
is that Apple produce Macintosh computers).

C Questions and C++ questions

c/c++ section: questions on c/c++, programs o/p
etc.



1 main( )
{
unsigned int i=3;
while( i >=0)
printf( "%d", i--);
}
how many times will the printf stmt be executed?
a)0 b)3 c)4 d)infinite
Ans: I think the answer is infinite, b'cos 'i' is an
unsigned integer and it will not
decrement below '0' and hence end up in an infinite
loop.(yes, i checked and it
is getting stuck in an infinite loop)

2. main( )
{
int x,y, z;
x=2;
y=5;
z= x+++y;
printf("%d %d %d", x, y z);
}
a)3 5 7 b)option 2 c)option 3 d)option 4
Ans: a

3 # define swap(a,b) temp=a; a=b; b=temp;
main( )
{
int i, j, temp;
i=5;
j=10;
temp=0;
if( i > j)
swap( i, j );
printf( "%d %d %d", i, j, temp);
}
Ans: On compiling i got ans 10, 0, 0. I did not
understand the concept. Please
expalin this to me.

4. Java section: questions on java related stuff.
1) Java was initially code named as:
a)Oak b)green c)miller d)option4
Ans: Oak

5. What is not true about the following statements about
java.
a) it is compiled using javac compiler
b) the compiled files have .class extension.
c) such files cannot be transfered from one comp to
another.
d) they use the java interpreter
Ans: c

6. Why is the synchronize used?
a) to initialize multiple objects b)to lock an object c)
option3 d)option 4
Ans: b (probably)

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What kind of Issues/bugs arise in ETL projects? I would like to know few issues (critical to somewhat bugs ) normally occur in ETL process especially when testing? Domains can be banking, retail or any.

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printf("%d",printf("%d",printf("%d",printf("%s","ILOVECPROGRAM")))); whats the output

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HI SIR I WANT PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPER OF HPCL I M CHEMICAL ENGG.

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aptitude

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why didn't get placed so far?

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my question is : reverse a string in COBOL program (please write a code asap) input file: 1234abcdef output file: 8765_____ abc*$#1___ 1_2_3_4__ cdef____ghi h_k_z_a__ a_z_k_h___ ihg____ghi 4_3_2_1___ 1#$*cba__ ______5678 fedcb4321

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what you will do when you struck in traffic ?

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speak 1min on topic Travelling,memorable moment ,memorable day?

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how did you celebrate your last birthday?

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what is bidirectional?

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my question is : reverse a string in COBOL program (please write a code asap) input file: 1234abcdef abc*$#1___ cdef____ghi a_z_k_h___ 4_3_2_1___ ______5678 output file: 8765_____ 1_2_3_4__ h_k_z_a__ ihg____ghi 1#$*cba__ fedcb4321

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what is the use of air in gc

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Recently conducted Apptitude test

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Do we have vacancy for HR RECRUITER ?

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