Sunday

Nucleus Placement Paper

4 sections each of 15 minutes having 15 questions...
1. Quantitative aptitude
2. Logical reasoning
3. General English
4. Technical aptitude


English Section:

gruesome=? (4 choces were given)
ans:frightful

barbarian=?
ans:uncivilized

serene=?
ans:calm

4 sentences were given,they asked u to choose right senctence.
ans: How's the weather

Mirror on the wall.They asked to replace on word with meaningful option.
ans: mirror at the wall. (Plz check.)

He sometimes works________night.
a)all
b)at
c)all of the above
d)none of above
ans: c(check)

The document______delivered.
ans: has been(plz check)

____ is it from manchaster to london.
ans: How far

I have______my car.
ans: driven

Correct the sentence....They have been doing it since 12 months.
ans: replace 'since' with 'for'

Logical reasoning

if 1234567573 is coded as xxxxxxxxxx and 563423is coded like xxxxxx the 3512 will be coded as? (only format of question, i m mentioning, question is very easy..even a class 3 student will answer)
ans: RATION

Same as previous question with different data.
ans: MEAT
Some analogy questions were given....

dawn:twilight::day:evening/night

Mosquito:maleria::infection:deasease

Writer:book::composer:song

Cloth:scissor::wood:axe

Friend:good::enemy:bad

John and David....Age of both is asked.
ans: the option in which age of John is 40.

Analogy question...
ans: Saturday: Monday (check it)

nalogy question...if 20:21 then what is the appropriate choice
ans:20:21::m:n

Quantitative Aptitude

if a jug evaporates 1/3 rd in first day and 3/4 th of remaining water in the second day.What percentage of water will be
remaining? ans:20%(check it)ans may be 16.6 viz not given

what is the angle between hands of hour and minute in a clock when the time is 8:30? ans:75 degree

In 10 minutes how many degrees hour hand rotates? ans:5 degree

if 17xy+7 =19xy then 14 xy=?
a) 2xy-x
b) 2y
c) x-2y
d) don't remember
ans:8/0.8

Saturday

Novel Placement Paper

1.Max value of SIGNED int
a. b. c. d.
2.One questin is given, long one, to find the answer U should be
femiliar
with the operation as follows

int *num={10,1,5,22,90};
main()
{
int *p,*q;
int i;
p=num;
q=num+2;
i=*p++;
print the value of i, and q-p, and some other operations are there.
}
how the values will change??
3. One pointer diff is given like this:
int *(*p[10])(char *, char*)
asked to find the meaning.
4. char *a[4]={"jaya","mahe","chandra","buchi"};
what is the value of sizeof(a)/sizeof(char *)
a. 4 b.bytes for char c-- d.--
( we don't know the answer)

5. void fn(int *a, int *b)
{
int *t;
t=a;
a=b;
b=t;
}
main()
{
int a=2;
int b=3;
fn(&a,&b);
print the values os a and b;
}
what is the output--- out put won't swap, the same values remain.

a. error at runtime
b. compilation error
c.2 3
d. 3 2
6.
#define scanf "%s is a string"
main()
{
printf(scanf,scanf);
}
what is the output.

ANS : %s is string is string

7. i=2+3,4>3,1;
printf("%d"i);

ans is 5 only.
8. char *p="abc";
char *q="abc123";

while(*p=*q)
{
print("%c %c",*p,*q);
}

a. aabbcc
b. aabbcc123
c. abcabc123
d. infinate loop ( this may be correct)
9. printf("%u",-1)
what is the value?
a. -1 b. 1 c. 65336 d. --


(maxint value-1 I think, check for the answer)

10. #define void int
int i=300;
void main(void)
{
int i=200;
{
int i=100;
print the value of i;
}
print the value of i
}
what is the output?


may be 100 200
11.

int x=2;
x=x<<2;
printf("%d ",x);


ANS=8;
12.

int a[]={0,0X4,4,9}; /*some values are given*/

int i=2;

printf("%d %d",a[i],i[a]);

what is the value??? (may be error)

13.
some other program is given , I can't remember it
U can get it afterwads,

the answer is 3 3

Novartis Placement Paper

About Company: NOVARTIS is a Swiss based MNC and world number one in Pharmaceutical. It has a very good brand name. It's having around 80,000 employees. It's entering IT insustry now to handle the large number of their in-house projects. As of now, the only development center in India is in Mumbai.
The interviews are held for more than 3 years experience in JAVA, J2EE.

There are 3 rounds :

1. Technical Test (25 questions in 45 minutes time)
2. Group Discussion (30 minutes)
3. Technical & HR interview (30 minutes to 90 minutes)
I wrote here all the questions I remember. I think I almost covered most of them.
______________________
Technical Test
______________________
All are multiple choice questions.
1) Question on Static Methods, whether they can be overloaded or not
2) A java program on nested (inner) loops and it is asked what is the output of the program.
3) Once a Servlet is initialized, how do you get the initialization parameters ?
(a) Initialization parameters will not be stored
(b) They will be stored in instance variables
(c) using config.getInitParameters()
ANS: I think answer is (c)

4) A question on functionality of <forward> tag in JSP
5) If the cookies are disabled, how can you maintain the Session.
ANS: URL rewriting
6) If there are strict timelines and if you want to get high performance for JSP to DB access, what method you suggest ?
(a) Moving application server in to same manchine as Database
(b) By storing results in Cache
(c) By implementing Connection Pooling
ANS: I think answer is (c)

7) A question on MVC architecture and the functionality of Controller and View.
8) Question on Design Pattern. (I don't remember it)
9) Which Design Pattern hides the complexities of all sub-systems ?
(I don't remember the options and also don't know answer.)
10) In CMP bean, which method executes only once in life time
(a) setEntityContext()
(b) create()
(c) remove()
(d) find()
ANS: I think answer is (b)
11) Which bean can be called as Multi-Threaded bean ?
(a) Entity beans
(b) Stateless Session beans
(c) Stateful Session beans
(d) Pooled Stateless Session beans
ANS: I think answer is (d)

12) A question on Threads in Java, whether we need to mention the word "Daemon" explicitly to make a thread as Daemon.
13) A question on Transactions of EJB. I think the question is something similar to - "Which is faster ?"
(a) TRANSACTION_UNREPEATABLE_READ
(b) TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ
(c) TRANSACTION_COMMIT_READ
(d) TRANSACTION_UNCOMMIT_READ
(I don't know answer and also I am not sure of options. but the options are something similar to this.)
14) Question on EJB Home Object, Remote Object and what functionalities will be performed by each.
15) What is the difference between Server and Container
(a) A Container can have multiple Servers
(b) A Server can have multiple Containers
(c) A Server can have only one Container
ANS: I think answer is (b)
16) ejbStore() method is equivalent to
(a) SELECT
(b) INSERT
(c) UPDATE
(d) DELETE
ANS: I think answer is (c)
17) A question on where the garbage collection is done. I think the answer is : "finalize()" method
18) A question properties of Primary key in Entity Beans (I don't remember the options exactly.)
(a) Primary key consists of only basic data types in java
(b) Primary key can contain composite data types
Remarks on Technical Test : It's a bit difficult and lot of questions are on EJBs, JSPs and Design Patterns.
Group Discussion
Topics:
1. Development of India
2. Qualities to become a successful manager

Technical & HR Interview

1) Tell about yourself ?

2) Explain your projects and what design patterns they follow !

3) Questions on Project management, Team management, Defect prevention, Quality procedures (These, questions are in detail and on each aspect. This went on for around 1 hour.)

4) Tell something about your current company

5) Reasons for leaving current company.

6) Current salary & Expected salary !

6) Any Questions ?

NFL Placement Paper

Pattern: aptitude+technical
50% 50%
aptitude: vocabulary english+verbal,nonverbal reasoning+quantative
technical: c,oops,operating system,compiler,dbms,network,computer graphics,compuiter organisation in this exam 170 questions & time allotted for this exam only 2:00hrs/120min negative marking in this exam:on 1 wrong ans 0.5 mark will be deducted right ans contain 1 mark

some confirm question on this exam:

[1] the process of transforming 1 bit pattern into another is called a masking b bitting c prunning d chopping

[2] lint is a compiler b a interactive debugger c a cinterpreter d a tool for analysing c++ program

[3] header files used in c programs usually found in a /bin/include b /usr/bin/include c /dev/include d /usr/include

[4] dijstra banking algorithm used in the problem a dead lock avoidance b deadlock recovery c mutual exclusion d none

[5] which is following service is not supported by operating system a compilation b accounting protection d i/o operation

[6]which is the following sheduling policy is suited in time sharing o/s a sjf b fcfs c round robin d none

[7] a top down parser genrates a left most derivation b right most derivation c right most derivation in reverse
[8] a bottom up parser genrates a left most derivation b right most derivation c right most derivation in reverse

[9] which is the following symbol table implementation is based on principal of locality of referencea linear list b searchtree c hash table d self organisation list

[10] let * be a boolean operation defined by a a*b =a*b+a'b' then a*a a A b B c 0 d 1

[11]the number column in a state table for a sequential circuit with m flip flops and n inputs a m+n b m+2n c 2m+n d 2m+2n

[12] the minimum time delay between the initiation of two memory operations a access time b cycle time c transfer rate d latency time

[13] the way a card player game arranges his cards as he picks them up one by onea bubble sort b insertion c selection d merge sort

[14] phenomenon of having a continuous glow of a beam on the screen even aftera removed a called a a flouresence b persistence c phospherence d incadence

[15] which display device is suited for cad system a a crt with vector referesh monitor b crt with raster scan monitor
c plasma panel display d led display

[16] the basic elements of a picture in volume graphics a pixel b voxel c volsel d none

[17] which of the following system resides in memory always a text editor b assembler c linker d loader

[18] for a weak entity set to be meaningful it must be a part of a one to many relationship b one to one c many to many d none

[19] c front is a a is front end of a c compiler b is preprocessor of a ccompiler c translates a c++ code to its equivalent code d none

[20] files in a structure of ac++ are by default a public b private c protected d none

[21] end to end connectivity is provided from host to host in a the network layer b the transport layer c the session layer d data
link layer

[22] how many characters persec (7bit+1) can be transmitted per over a 2400 bps line in the transfer is synchronous]
a 300 b 240 c 275 d 250

[23] which is the following is more closely related to the physical communication facilities
a application b session networkn d datalink

aptitude
quantative

1partnership
2time and work
3average
4 arithmatic
5 boat
6profit & loss
7 ratio
8 si & ci

verbal
analogy
sequnce arrangement
puzzle
direction sence
calender
ven diagram