Tata consultancy services 2005 chennai

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Tata consultancy services 2005 campus papers***Chennai***Dated 9/07/2005

Paper set:- F
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Verbal
There were 10 synonyms and 10 antonyms
Mitigate
Diligent
Crave
Harbinger
Cogent………..

I could not remember all(mostly repeated from old paps..2003and 2004)
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After this ther e was a big passage which had missing sentences(this was tough) to be identified….many options given(this passage was abt the power of the brain to recollect and associate incidents)

Next there was some 5 paras given and 5qs based on the 5 paras(this was very easy)
(this passage was about investing in share market)

Quantitative
Mostly all were repeated qs from old papers…..

1. a number series qs 5,6,7,8,10,11,14,? Ans:18

2. . In a two-dimensional array, X (9, 7), with each element occupying 4 bytes of memory, with the address of the last element
X(1, 1) is 1245, find the address of X (8, 5).

Ans: 7rows*7cols*4+5*4

4. Select the odd one out.
a. Java b. Lisp c. Smalltalk d.Eiffel.
ans: lisp

5. Select the odd one out
a. SMTP b. WAP c. SAP d. ARP
ans:sap

6. Select the odd one out
a. Oracle b. Linux c. Ingress d. DB2
Ans. Linux

7. In the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first and second, third and forth, forth and fifth, fifth and sixth words are
interchanged upto the last letter, what would be the tenth letter from right?
Ans I

8. . What is the largest prime number that can be stored in an 8-bit memory?
Ans 251


9. . The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M == 4000square root of N. If the
size of the program is increased by 1% then how much memory now occupied?
Ans (4000sqr1.1N-4000sqrN)/(4000sqrN) *100
10. the ques on a man,a woman and a boy finish worktogether in 6 days.man takes 10 days, woman takes 24days then how much boy will take? ans---40 days


11.identify which one of the following is a planer cube given by (vertices,edges,sides)
Ans: (8,12,6)

12. Find the result of the following expression if, M denotes modulus operation, R denotes round-off,
T denotes truncation: M(373,5)+R(3.4)+T(7.7)+R(5.8)
Ans 19

13. some encrypted letters were given we have to decode a given word
Ans: quick

14. G(0)== 1, G(1)==-1, G(N)==G(N-1) - G(N-2), G(2)== ?
Ans 2

15. . A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 900 meters width. A cable is made from power unit to power a plant
opposite to that of the river and 3000mts away from the power unit. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 15/- per meter and
cost of cable on the bank is Rs.12/- per meter. Find the place were the water and land meets.

16. The size of the bucket is N kb. The bucket fills at the rate of 0.1 kb per millisecond.

A programmer sends a program to receiver. There it waits for 10 milliseconds. And response will be back to
programmer in 20 milliseconds. How much time the program takes to get a response back to the programmer, after it
is sent?write a formula for it?

Ans: I think it is N/10 *30(check)

`17. Which of the following are orthogonal pairs?
a. 3i+2j b. i+j c. 2i-3j d. -7i+j
Ans a,c

18. Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices?
(Hint det(A) = 0)

19. A plane moves from 9?N40’?E to 9?N40’?W. If the planestarts at 10 am and takes 8 hours to reach thedestination, find the local arrival time? Q like this one. just know the methodAns:-----The time is calculated on the basis of longitude.(Based on sunrise)Sun rises earlier in calcutta than in Mumbai.The 40 degrees east and 40 degress west are calculatedform 0 degrees.The plane has travelled westwards by 40+ 40 = 80Degrees. (WEST)For each degree there is a difference of 4 Minutes.The difference in timings is 320 Minutes behind.As per the starting point time 10.00 AM the flightshould have reached at 6.00PM.Reducing 320 Minutes from it we get 12.40 PM localtime at the destination

20. . Given $ means Tripling and % means change of sign then find the value of $%$6-%$%6

21 Which of the following set of numbers has thehighest Standard deviation?7,0,7,0,7,0-7,-7,-7,-7,-7,-7.7,-7,7,-7,7,-7(ans)-7,-7,-7,-7,-7,-7

22 Match the following:

1. Male - Boy ---> a. A typeof
2. Square - Polygon ---> b. A part of
3. Roof - Building ---> c. Not a type of
4. Mushroom - Vegetables ---> d. A superset of
Ans: 1- d, 2- a, 3- b, 4- c
23. they asked the temperature problem.it was same asprevious papers.the ratio was -t*t/6+4t+12. it is likeif t is the diff in temp. then find % change in tempfrom 4to 9 pm.[ans:substitute 4and 9 for t and get the difference)

24. A 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1B 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0C 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0(AuB)nC = ?ansu is OR, n in AND

25, what shape will be obtained using these valuesX Y0 0.00110 1.02100 1.721000 3.009999 4.72ans---log x

26. some BAR CHART and pie chart given & 2 or 3question were asked fairly easy.bar was about poeple joining each yr and pie chartabout % of poeple.about which yr had max growth %, like that.

27. based on deg, minutes and radians Q. just remember 1 deg = 60 min and 1 min = 60 sec.6oclock------7’5’’45’’’80clock------8’34’’5.5’’’Find for 7oclock

28. graph given and asked 2 write equation. it wassome y=-x+2 (check). <29>which of the following is perfect power of 3Ans divide the sum of the digits thrice by 3..u must get a multiple of 3


Critical

1.there are 3(A,B,C) buisness analyst and 5 programmers(D,E…)….a team of 5 should be selected based on some conditions… Like: team must comprise 2 BA and 3progs A&c should not be same….and so on F and d must not go together and so on Qs were like wat r the possible combinations…etc

2.ther r 8 swimmers a,bc……. O or J comes last in the race,L finishes after k , n comes after m, there are no tie positions…Based on the above qs like possible combinations,who came first etc….

3. interview conducted on all days of a week,only 2 days has more than 1 interview…pqrstv….sre the candidatesP is interviewd after kQ is interviewed after 3 days of s like that and so on

4.this is a gardener trying to plant various varieties of flower of diff colors in 4 rows….the flower names were given….one row must not contain same color and must be height order……qs were on the possible combinations and orders of color..

The paper was damn easy but many were rejected based on upper cutoff….Try to do well in verbal..quants are repeated and easy..follow barrons for verbal……mainly see old papers that’s very much imp for verbal and quants…try to even mug the verbal qs from 2003 and 2004 paps it sthe same…All the best