IBM Paper1

IBM Placement Papers 
  
 
  
This time he has not given the number series.
  
 
  
Apptitude:
  
part 1 : letter series.
  
part 2 : figures
  
part 3 : quantitave
  
 
  
Technical:
  
        Most question are on Unix and some in C and some in windows 3.1
  
        all question in Unix are From Kernighan & pike
  
 
  
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Part 1
  
 
  
It consists of number series. In some institutes alphabetical series is given instead of number series.Iam having number series so iam sending that.Please go through tha alphabetical tests also.
  
 
  
1. 19,24,20,25,21,26,?   ans:22
  
2. 11,14,12,15,13,16,?   ans: 14
  
3. 10,2,8,2,6,2,?       a:4
  
4. 8,9,11,14,,18,23,?   a:29
  
5. 25,25,22,22,19,19,?  a:16
  
6. 14,2,12,4,10,6,?     a:8
  
7. 7,16,9,15,11,14,?    a:13
  
8. 40,42,39,44,38,46,?  a:37
  
9. 3,18,4,24,5,30,?     a:6
  
10. 18,20,22,20,28,20,? a:22
  
11. 18,20,10,12,4,6?    a:0
  
12. 7,6,8,5,3,7,?       a:4
  
13 9,18,21,25,20,?      a:30
  
14 3,3,4,8,10,36,?      a:33
  
15.30,28,25,20,34,28,?  a:21
  
16. 4,8,16,32,64,128,?  a:256
  
17. 8,16,24,32,40,48,?  a:56
  
18. 13,11,14,12,15,13,?         a:16
  
19. 6,18,36,108,216,648,? a:1296
  
20. 4,4,8,8,16,16,?     a:32
  
21. 2,6,18,54,162,486,? a:1458
  
22. 4,20,35,49,62,74,? a:85
  
23. 10,18,15,23,20,28,? a:25
  
24. 4,10,8,14,12,18,? a:16
  
25 10,15,12,17,14,10,? a:16
  
 
  
 
  
Part 2 consists of non-verbal reasoning(figures).So it is 
  
impossible for me to send those.(25 questions)
  
 
  
Part 3  (quantitative)
  
 
  
 
  
1.A clerk multiplied a number by ten when it should have been divided by ten. The ans he got was 100.what should the ans have been?
  
a:1
  
2.If Rs20/- is available to pay for typing a researchreport & typist A produces 42 pages and typist B produces 28 pages.How much should typist Areceive?
  
a:Rs12/-
  
3.The average salary of 3 workers is 95 Rs. per week.  If one earns Rs.115 and second earns Rs.65 how much is the salary of the 3rd worker.
  
Ans.105.
  
4.A 16 stored building has 12000 sq.feet on each floor. Company A rents 7 floors and company B rents 4 floors. What is the number of sq.feet of unrented floor space. 
  
Ans.60000
  
5. During a given week A programer spends 1/4 of his time preparing flow 
  
chart, 3/8 of his time coding and the rest of the time in debugging the programs. If he works 48 hours during the week , how many hours did he spend debugging the program.
  
Ans. 18.
  
6. A company installed 36 machines at the beginning of the year. In March they installed 9 additional machines and then disconnected 18 in August. How many were still installed at the end of the year. 
  
Ans.  27
  
7. A man owns 2/3 of the market research beauro business and sells 3/4 of 
  
his shares for Rs. 75000. What is the value of Business. 
  
Ans.150000
  
8. If 12 file cabinets require 18 feet of wall space, how many feet of wall space will 30 cabinets require?
  
Ans.45
  
9.A computer printer produced 176,400 lines in a given day.  If the printer was in operation for seven hours during the day, how many lines did it print per minute?
  
Ans.420
  
 
  
10. From its total income, A sales company spent Rs.20,000 for advertising, half of the remainder on commissions and had Rs.6000 left. What was its total income?
  
Ans.32000
  
11. On Monday a banker processed a batch of cheques, on Tuesday she processed three times as many, and on Wednesday she processed 4000 cheques.  In the three days, she processed 16000 cheques.  How many did she process on Tuesday?
  
Ans.9000
  
12. The cost of four dozen proof machine ribbons and five dozen accouting 
  
machine ribbons was Rs.160/-. If one dozen accounting machine ribbons 
  
cost Rs.20/-, what is the cost of a dozen proof machine ribbons?
  
Ans.Rs.15
  
13. If a clerk can process 80 cheques in half an hour, how many cheques 
  
can she process in a seven and one half hour day?
  
Ans.1200
  
14. In a library, there are two racks with 40 books per rack.  On a given 
  
dya, 30 books were issued.  What fraction remained in the racks?
  
Ans.5/8
  
15. The average length of three tapes is 6800 feet. None of the tapes is less than 6400 feet.  What is the greatest possible length of one of the other tapes?
  
Ans.7600
  
 
  
16. A company rented a machine for Rs.700/- a month.  Five years later the treasurer calculated that if the company had purchased the machine and paid Rs.100/- monthly maintenance charge, the company would have saved Rs.2000/-. What was the purchase price of the machine?
  
Ans.Rs.34000
  
17. Two computers each produced 48000 public utility bills in a day.  One computer printed bills at the rate of 9600 an hour and the other at the rate of 7800 an hour.  When the first computer finished its run, how many bills did the other computer still have to print?
  
Ans.9000
  
 
  
18. If a salesman's average is a new order every other week, he will break the office record of the year.  However, after 28 weeks, he is six orders behind schedule.  In what proportion of the remaining weeks does he have to obtain a new order to break the record?
  
Ans.3/4
  
19. On a given day, a bank had 16000 cheques returned by customers.  Inspection of the first 800 cheques indicated that 100 of those 800 had errors and were therefore the available immediately for data processing.  On this basis, hwo many cheques would be available immediately for data processing on that day?
  
Ans.14000
  
20. A company figured it needed 37.8 sq.feet of carpot for its reception room.  To allow for waste, it decided to order 20% more material than needed.  Fractional parts of sq.feet cannot be ordered.  At Rs.9/- a sq.feet, how much would the carpet cost?
  
Ans.
  
a. Rs.324 b) Rs.405 c) Rs.410 d) Rs.414 e) Rs.685
  
21. A tape manufacturer reduces the price of his heavy duty tape from Rs.30/- to Rs.28/- a reel and the price of a regular tape from Rs.24/- to Rs.23/- a reel.  A computing centre normally spends Rs.1440/- a month for tapes and 3/4 of this is for heavy duty tapes.  How much will they save a month under the new prices?
  
Ans.Rs.87
  
22. In a team of 12 persons, 1/3 are women and 2/3 are men.  To obtain a 
  
team with 20% women how many men should be hired?
  
Ans.8
  
23. The dimensions of a certain machine are 48" X 30" X 52".  If the size 
  
of the machine is increased proportionately until the sum of its dimensions equals 156", what will be the increase in the shortest side?
  
Ans. 6"
  
24. In a certain company, 20% of the men and 40% of the women attended 
  
the annual company picnic.  If 35% of all the employees are man, what 
  
percent of all the employees went to the picnic?
  
Ans.33%
  
25. It cost a college Rs.0.70 a copy to produce a Programme for the 
  
homecoming football game.  If Rs.15,000/- was received for advertisements 
  
in the programme, how many copies at Rs.0.50 a copy must be sold to make 
  
a profit of Rs.8000/- ?
  
Ans. 35000
  
 
  
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In the first section there are 40 question's on letter 
  
series.
  
Very easy upto 25 and then slightly involved after that 
  
again
  
last 10questons are easy.
  
 
  
For example:
  
 
  
1. aa , bb, cc, --
  
2. a,c,e,g,-
  
etc.,
  
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TATA-IBM few questions extra.
  
1)int i=10;
  
printf("%d%d%d",i,i++,++i);
  
ans: compiler dependent
  
2)printf("Enter two values a and b:"):
  
scanf("%d%d",a,b);
  
printf("%d+%d=%d",a,b,a+b);
  
ans:core dumped
  
3)Question on WM_SIZE
  
ans:WM_SIZE
  
4)when destroy window what message would disply
  
ans:WM_DESTROY
  
5)MS Windows 3.1 about multitasking 
  
ans:nonpreemptive
  
6)windows 3.1 is
  
ans:application
  
7) about switch switch statement
  
ans:16,21
  
8)question paper the first question ans is
  
ans:can't be compiled
  
9)about send messages and post messages
  
ans: c
  
10)what is the command to intiate the windows
  
ans:WinMain
  
 
  
paper
  
        1.const char *
  
         char * const
  
                What is the differnce between the above 
  
tow?.
  
        2.In Unix inter process communication take place 
  
using?.
  
        3.What are the files in /etc directory?.
  
        4.About i-node numbers
  
        5.Max relaxable permisssion value with out giving 
  
write permission
  
        to others?.
  
        6.About ln(linking) 
  
        7.A question on until
  
                until (who |grep mary)
  
                        do
  
                        sleep(60)
  
                        done
  
        8.Linking across directories?.
  
        
  
        9.process id for kernell process
  
        10.very first process created by kernell
  
        11.function to repaint a window immediately?.
  
        12.Function entry for DLL in win3.1
  
        13.win 3.1 is a 
  
        14.win 3.1 supports which type of multi tasking?.
  
        15.Message displayed when a window is destroyed
  
        16.About fork()?
  
        17.About send message and post message
  
        18.Message to limit the size of window
  
        19.System call executable binary file intoa process
  
        20.About GDI object?.
  
        21.API used to hide window
  
        22.Initialize contents  of a dialog?.
  
        The technical comprises of 50 questions on C,Unix 
  
and windows.