TCS PAPER ON 3rd AUGUST 2006 AT NITTE
There were 2 rounds
1. Aptitude
2.Technical &HR
General Aptitude had 3 parts
1.Verbal(30 quetion,20 marks)
2.Quantitative Aptitude(38 quetion,40 marks)
3.Critical and Analytical reasoning(12 question,30 marks)
Technical had 3 rounds
1.Technical(CS students please concentrate on this part)
2.Management
3.HR


Aptitude was Online. Do not worry. They give all the instructions to be followed.


VERBAL

Synonyms(10 Questions)
Antonyms(10 Questions)
Comprehension reading(5 questions)
paragraph reading(5 Question)

Please refer GRE BARRON'S 12th edition .............................

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE

1.In the word ORGANIZATION if we exchange first with the second ,second with the third ,third with fourth and so on......till last then what will be the 10 letter from right?

1.G 2.N 3.A 4.R

Ans: A

2.What is the largest prime no that will fit in 6 bit memory?

1.65 2. 61 3. 67 4.63

Ans: 61
Approach: 2^6-1=63which is not prime
and the no less than 63 is 61 which is a prime......

3.The program size is N. The memory occupied by the program is M=4000sqrt(N). If the program size is increased by 1%. Then what is the percentage increase in memory?

1. 0.1% 2.0.4% 3.0.5% 4.2%

Ans: 0.5%
Approach: Sqrt of 101


4.In two dimensional array X(7,9) each element occupies 2 bytes of memory.If the address of first element X(1,1)is 1258 then what will be the address of the element X(5,8) ?

1.1460 2.1365 3. 1356 4.1370

Ans: 1365
Approach:1258+(4*9*2)+(8*2)

5.Find the value $%$(9) - %$%(9) Where $ means doubling and % means change of sign........

1.38 2. -2 3. 50 4.-54

Ans:-54
Approach: (2)(-1)(2)(9) -(-1)(2)(-1)(9)

6.Which of the following highest Standard deviation
a.7, 0, 7,0, 7,0 b) 7, 7, 7,7,7,7 c) -7, - 7, -7,-7,-7,-7 d) -7, 7, -7, 7,-7, 7

Ans: d)

7..g(0)= 1, G(1)=-1 ,G(N) = G(N-1)+G(N-2) , g(5)=?
1. -2 2. 3 3. 1 4 0

Ans: -2

8.A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 900 mtr width. a cable is made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river and 3000 mtr away from the power unit. The cost of the cable bellows water Rs5 / mtr and cost of cable on the bank is Rs 4/ mtr. Find the pt where the cable cut through the river.
1.2800 2. 3000 3. 2100 4.3900

Ans: 2100

9.In madras, temperature at noon varies according to -t^2/6 + 4t + 12, where t is elapsed time. Find how much tem more or less in 6 pm to 9 pm.
didn't get the correct ans........
Approach: substitute the given values....
( -6^2+4*6+12)-(-9^2+4*9+12)

10.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 millisecond. How many much time the program takes to get a response back to programmer, after it is sent?
Ans: 30 millisecond
11.Which of the following are orthogonal pairs a) 3i+2j b) i+j c) 2i-3j d) 7i+j

1.a&d 2.a&c 3.c&d 4.b&d
Ans: a&c

12.Which of the following do not form triangle? a)5,4,7 b) 3,4,7, c) 3,4,5 d) 1,8,5
Ans: d)

13.If A, B, C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the wastage of fuel by 30%, 40%, 10%. What will be the fuel economy if they were used combine?
1.68.4 2.62.2 3.58 4.27
Ans: 62.2
Approach: ( 70/100)*(60/100)*(90/100)*100=37.8
Economy=(100-37.8)=62.2

14.My flight takes of at 2pm from a place at 18N 40E and landed 10 Hrs later at a place with coordinates 36N40W. What is the local time when my plane landed?
1.8.00pm 2.6.00pm 3.12.00am 4.6.40pm
Ans: 6.40 pm

15.The number 384 in decimal system is given by (1432) x in the X System of numbers find the value of X a} 5 b) 6 c) 7 d) 8 e) 9
Ans: a)

16.What is the unit of the following?
(power*time) / (velocity*velocity)
1.mass 2.distance 3.velocity 4.speed

Ans: mass
Approach: power=work/time
hence numerator=(work*time)/time=work
work=Force*distance
Force=mass*acceleration
acceleration=distance/time^2

now numerator is (mass*distance^2) / (time^2)
denominator is (distance^2) / (time^2) since velocity=distance/time

17.WHICH SHAPE WILL BE OBTAINED BY USING THESE VALUES OF X ,Y
X Y
0 0.00001
10 1.02
100 1.72
1000 3.00
9999 4.72
Ans: Y= log10(X)
18. Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube
1.12,6,8 2.6,8,12 3.4 ,6, 8 4.8,12,6
Ans: 6,8 , 12
19.A, B and C are 8 bit no's. They are as follows:
A -> 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
B -> 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
C -> 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 ( - =minus, u=union)
Find ((A - C) u B) =?

1.55 2.64 3.32 4. 53
Ans:55
hint: A-C is A intersection C bar first do negation of C then do A intersection C

20.2 student get 3 and 3.5 in their class exam And 1.2 and 1.45 in final exam respectively . What might be the class marks of 3rd student who have got 0 marks in final exam?

1.0.3 2.0.5 3.0.25 4.0.1
ans: 0.25
Approach: take the diff and find out

TCS PAPER - 24 JUL 2006 - RANCHI

Written:-
Verbal: 20 min
Comprehension
14th edition:- like her white friends (page no :- 106)
for comprehensive it is better 2 learn or go through all the passage of the comprehensive part. 14th edition page no 97 to 113

fill in the blank
set y:-observe the dilemma of fungus of the comprehensive part
set z:- some university problem.

Antonyms
Comply
Cavil
Repugnance
Desultory
Assuage
Vouchsafe
Protract
Revile

Reasoning: 30 min
Verbal :-
All words i.e. synonyms(10) was from gre model test paper and antonym exercise. so verbal section was very easy for me

Aptitude:-
Nothing new all the questions was from previous paper some of those r as:--

1. the bit operation question was given
A 10010010
B 01110010
C 10100010
Find Au(BnC) , (A-B)uC all value were in decimal value?

2. find odd one out:-1. Sybase 2.DB2 3.Oracle 4.Unix

3. 5 quest. Was based on DI

7. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in an 8-bit

8. Base of 1234 which is 194 in decimal.

9. g(0)=1 g(1)= -1 g(n)=3*g(n-1)-2*g(n-2) find g(4)

10. one coding was given

11. one number series has to fill

12. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square root of 4000N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much memory now occupied?

13. In Calcutta, temperature at noon varies according to t^2/6 + 12t + 12, where t is elapsed time from noon. Find how much temperature more or less in 3pm to 6pm.

14. A 2D array is declared as A[9,7] and column wise each element requires 8 byte. If A[ 1,1 ] is stored in 1200. Find the memory of A[8,5] ?
(Note:- all set contain column wise)

15. 3 Venn - diagram was given related to bangla ,Punjabi,&gujarati questions were asked
Ans, 17.4, 1, 6

21. recognize the equation of curve related to cosx and sinx curve

22. Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube 6 8 12

23. A and B do a work in 7 days. If A does double as B the how many days take A to do?

24. find the result of the following expression if , M denotes modules operation, R denotes round-off, T denotes truncations M(363,5)+R(5.8) +T(7,7)-R(3.8)

25. The size of the bucket is 10kb. The bucket fills at the rate of 0.0001 kb per millisecond to fill bucket it takes 100 millisecond to reach to destination it takes 100 millisecond to packsack so calc. how much time will it take to pass n kb write formula (I don't know the exact figure)

26. Which of the following are orthogonal pairs a) 2x+3y=6 b) 2x+5y=0 c) 2y=3x+6 d) 7x+y=4

27. If A, B, C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the wastage of fuel by 25%, 20%, 10%. What will be the fuel economy if they were used combine? Ans :-46

28. WHICH SHAPE WILL BE OBTAINED BY USING THESE VALUES OF X ,Y
X Y
0 0.00001
10 1.02
100 1.72
1000 3.00
9999 4.72
Ans: Y= log10(X)

29. Find the value of <@<4-<@4, where < denotes "square" and @ denotes "change in sign".

30. What is the power of 2? a. 2068 b.2048 c.2668 ANS: (B). 2048

31. My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 45E and landed 9 Hrs later at a place with coordinates 36N45W. What is the local time when my plane landed.

32. 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. 5/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.2/- per meter. Find the length where the cable is to be cut. ANS: 2100m

33. Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices?

34. Which of the following set of numbers has the highest Standard deviation?
5,0,5,0,5,0
-5,-5,-5,-5,-5,-5.
5,0,5,0,5,0
-5,5,-5,5,-5,5

35. Match the following:
1. Mammal, cow ---> a. A type of
2. Snake reptile ---> b. A part of
3. Roof - Building ---> c. Not a type of
4. Mushroom - Vegetables ---> d. A superset of

36. a , b, c can do a work in 4 days. if a does twice as much as work in 12 and b can work in 18 in how many days c can do?

37. b g b d q m b g d m g b g g b q m b g q b g
d g b a m g b g m
How many b 's are such that each b is followed by g next to it, if the g is not followed by d next to it.

Reasoning:-

1.model test 3-section 6 Quest 1-4
2. model test 1- tunnel-bridge- highway problem
3. model test 1- red and brown problem
All the reasoning was from GRE sets