BirlaSoft placement paper 1

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BirlaSoft placement paper 1

BirlaSoft Placement Paper and Sample Paper

Date - 20 Dec 2004
Paper consist of 45 questions (multiple choice) to be

done in 30 mins

there were two sections

1.technical qs -20

2.apptitude qs –25

1. Largest integer can be written from 8 bits is

a. 256

b. 255

c. 8

d. 10

2. Change a hexadecimal no to octal

3. How many address lines needed to pass 1MB of data.

*4. What is the function of the modulus operator in

most language?

a) Sets a system environmental value to either base

10, base 8 or base 16

b) Returns the remainder after dividing one number by

another

c) Returns the first argument raised to the second

argument power

d) Prints out the actual code written to standard

output rather than executing the code

*5. class professor{}

class teacher: public virtual professor{};

class researcher: public virtual professor {}

class myprofessor :public teacher,public

researcher {};

Referring to the sample code above, if an object of

class "myprofessor" were created, how many instances

of professor will it contain?

a) 0

b) 1

c) 2

d) 3

*6. Modern RDBMS's perform the following the following

function except ______________.

a) Force column values in one table to match any of

the values in a column of another table

b) Automatically replicate data on another server

c) Automatically create new indexes based on query

history

d) Prevent unauthorized users from accessing data at

the first level

*7. Which are not the characteristics of a view?

a) Consumes Disk space for data

b) Multiple tables

c) Multiple rows

d) Updateable



*8. RDBMS triggers are typically bound to a

_____________and one or more _____________

a) Table, SQL statement types

b) SQL statement type, user

c) Column, rows

d) User, table

*9. What relationship is resolved by an "intersecting"

or "associative" entity?

a) Recursive

b) Mandatory one to one

c) Many to Many

d) One to One

*10. Make a copy of file "upper" in the directory two

levels up.

a) Jump -2 upper

b) Cp upper. /. (Answer)

c) Cp upper -2/

d) None of the above

*11.

i = 0;

j = 0;

for(j=1;j<10;j++)

i=i+1;

In the (generic) code segment above what will be

the value of the variable i at completion?

a) 0

b) 1

c) 3

d) 9

e) 10

*12. Which of the following statements is true when a

derivation inherits both a virtual and non-virtual

instance of a base class?

a) Each derived class object has base objects only

from the non-virtual instance

b) Each base class object has derived objects only

from the non-virtual instance

c) Each derived class object has base objects only

from the virtual instance

d) Each derived class object has a base object from

the virtual instance and a base object from

non-virtual instance.

*13. class Word

{

public:

Word(const char*,int = 0);

};

Referring to the sample code above what is the

minimum number of arguments required to call the

constructor ?

a) 0

b) 1

c) 2

d) 3

Aptitude section

1. A Question like A is engg. B is doctor C is artist

etc then few condition related to them

you have give answer to 4 or 5 qs on these conditions.

2. Same as above with different data and conditions.

I suggest you must go for these questions coz in 3 or

4 mins you can answer 7 or 8 qs

3. About 4 to 5 questions on arranging 4 sentences to

form a paragraph.

4. 3 qs on finding error in English sentences (two or

three sentences given any one is incorrect which is

underlined) you have to choose correct sentence from 4

options.

5. If father is three times as old as son. 5 years ago

he was 4 times age of his son what is son age.

6. Same as above but now daughter and mother joined in

and age in question is that of daughter.

7.a figure is given find no of triangles in this

figure

8. Same as above but figure is different and find no

of squares and triangles.

9. Sum of a series of n numbers is n+8. Find second

(or second last) no.

Compulsory to clear both sections. Cut off is about 15

qs in each section