On occasion, the Report Manager status for a report will be inconsistent with the Process Monitor status resulting with the inability for the user to view the report.  How can this be resolved?

  You want to move all the data from table X in environment 1 to environment 2 and replace all existing data in environment 2.  How would you do this?

When viewing server status, you see programs, group names, and ID numbers.  How can you use these when administrating the domain?

What is a decision tree? When would you want to use one? What are its performance characteristics? How can you generate a decision tree automatically from a pre-existing data set? Is it feasible to do this at runtime, and has it been done in a commercial game before? When and why would you want to do this, and how would the data need to be organized to make this possible?

In one room in your game, there's an elevator that AIs will need to use to escape from the player. In order to use the elevator, they have to walk over to a special button on the wall, press it to summon the elevator, then walk into the elevator and press another button to tell it to ascend. How would you design a system to make sure AIs can do all of these things in the proper order? If you have 3 AIs in the room, how would you design the system to make sure they can all escape in the elevator at the same time? What happens if one of them dies while they're trying to do this, and how do you make sure the other AIs don't get stuck waiting for that dead AI?

TCS,

You're in charge of implementing a stealth game similar to Thief: The Dark Project, and you need guards in your game that have imperfect vision and hearing and inhabit dimly-lit castles, and they can search the area for the player if they think there's an intruder around. How do you model the sensory systems of these guards, and how do you aggregate auditory, visual, and other kinds of stimuli in this system? How do you implement the various alert states for the guards, and why?

You're working on a game that involves enemy wizards dueling each other. Each wizard has at least a dozen different spells at his disposal -- some of them simply inflict damage, while others will temporarily stun or immobilize an enemy, slow him, prevent him from casting spells for a brief duration, teleport the caster a short distance, or give the caster a temporary shield. A wizard can only cast one spell at a time, but each spell has a fixed cooldown (time before it can be cast again) and an associated mana cost (assume no mana regeneration). Describe some ways you might implement a competent AI system for a wizard.

You're tasked with implementing a computer player for a real-time strategy (RTS) game. Assuming that there is no fog-of-war, how do you implement a system to allow the computer player to determine what parts of the map are controlled by enemy players, and which parts are open to easy exploitation? How do you identify the choke points on the map? How do you find the boundary between the parts of the map under your control and the parts of the map controlled by enemy players? How do you detect an impending enemy attack or a change in an enemy's offensive posture?

You have an AI player in an RTS game that occasionally needs to send scouts out onto the map to perform reconaissance. Designers want each scout to move around semi-randomly, exploring various parts of the map, particularly those that have been seen the least recently. Assume that the game is grid-based and has a fog-of-war feature. Also assume that the scouts are very cheap and dispensable, and it's OK for them to walk into the enemy base or other dangerous areas. How would you implement the system to decide where the scouts should go? What sort of data structure do you need to support this? How can you ensure that the scouts do a good job of exploring the map thoroughly? What are the performance characteristics of your approach? Is there any risk of scouts getting stuck trying to go somewhere that isn't even accessible?

As you're starting work on your game, one of your colleagues suggests avoiding pathfinding completely, and just using potential fields for pathfinding and navigation. He suggests that you just overlay a big 2D grid over the world, with each cell indicating the distance to the nearest obstacle. Is his idea feasible? Why or why not? When would it cause problems? Regardless of the answer to that question, what are some of the other ways that such a system could be used?

You're implementing a medieval strategy game in which pikemen should always walk in front of archers, and catapults should always be behind the archers. Explain how you could implement the movement system to ensure that you keep pikemen in front and catapults in the rear as much as possible. Explain how your answer might be different depending on whether or not the units simply need to end up in that configuration when they reach that destination, or if they need to maintain that formation while moving.

You're tasked with implementing a crowd that walks around the streets of a city. Describe some ways you could implement this in a fast and efficient manner. How do you ensure that crowd members don't touch each other while moving? How do you get crowd members to get out of each others way, and ensure that no two crowd members can get stuck trying to get around each other?

What is considered as more significant, creating content or building backlinks?

when keeping postings in fi, how it will reflect in mm? can anyone pls explain

Wipro,

What is the name of the search engine technology due to which a query for the word actor will also show search results for related words such as actress, acting or act? ► a. Spreading ► b. Dilating ► c. RSD (real-time synonym detection) ► d. Stemming ► e. Branching