Tata InfoTech placement paper-1

TATA INFOTECH
Aptitude Paper

Verbal Section

Directions: Give the synonyms for the following words

1. Depreciation: deflation, depression, devaluation, fall, slump

2. Deprecate : feel and express disapproval,

3. Incentive : thing one encourages one to do (stimulus)

4. Echelon : level of authority or responsibility

5. Innovation : make changes or introduce new things

6. Intermittent : externally stopping and then starting

7. Detrimental: harmful

8. Conciliation : make less angry or more friendly

9. Orthodox: conventional or traditional, superstitious

10. Fallible : liable to error

11. Volatile : ever changing

12. Manifest: clear and obvious

13. Connotation : suggest or implied meaning of expression

14. Reciprocal: reverse or opposite

15. Agrarian : related to agriculture

16. Vacillate : undecided or dilemma

17. Expedient : fitting proper, desirable

18. Simulate : produce artificially resembling an existing one.

19. Access : to approach

20. Compensation: salary

21. Truncate : shorten by cutting

22. Adherence : stick

23. Heterogeneous: non similar things

24. Surplus : excessive

25. Assess : determine the amount or value

26. Cognizance : knowledge

27. Retrospective : review

28. Naive : innocent, rustic

29. Equivocate : tallying on both sides, lie, mislead

30. Postulate : frame a theory

31. Latent : dormant, secret

32. Fluctuation : wavering,

33. Eliminate : to reduce

34. Affinity : strong liking

35. Expedite : hasten

36. Console : to show sympathy

37. Adversary : opposition

38. Affable : lovable or approachable

39. Decomposition : rotten

40. Agregious : apart from the crowd, especially bad

41. Conglomeration: group, collection

42. Aberration: deviation

43. Augury : prediction

44. Creditability : ability to common belief, quality of being credible

45. Coincident: incidentally

46. Constituent : accompanying

47. Differential : having or showing or making use of

48. Litigation : engaging in a law suit

49. Moratorium: legally or officially determined period of delay before
fulfillment of the agreement of paying of debts.

50. Negotiate : discuss or bargain

51. Preparation : act of preparing

52. Preponderant : superiority of power or quality

53. Relevance : quality of being relevant

54. Apparatus : appliances

55. Ignorance : blindness, in experience

56. Obsession: complex enthusiasm

57. precipitate : speed, active

Series Section

Directions: In the following questions complete the series.

NOTE: This section is quite tough and consists of 26 questions to be done in 10 minutes. Please keep track of time.

1. A C B D E F G I - I H K J L

Ans. H


2. A I Z B E Y C I X D I - G E N J W

Ans. W


3. A D G J M P - R W T S

Ans. S


4. A B C E F G I J K - M L O N P

Ans. M


5. A B F G K L P Q - T S V U W

Ans. U


6. J W X U V S T - Q P S E T

Ans. Q


7. A R H X Y T D T W S T - N P T K R

Ans. P


8. F M B I P Z V I E V - I R Y O U


9. N Z I Y C X KW F - J F V M Y

Ans. V


10. A A S A S P A S P K A - R Q T S U

Ans. S


11. A E C P S - T R U E

Ans. U


12. B B P R D D L N F F I K - H Q J I K

Ans. H


13 A Z E X I V M T - R Q N S O

Ans. Q


14. A B D G K P - L I W U X

Ans. U


15. B C D A E G H I F J L M N L K N M O

Ans. K


16. X W E F G V U H I J K - P N S R T

Ans. T


17. O D J T O P Q N O E R T - Q O U V W

Ans. O


18. P R N U U P E J R B B - H V U N E

Ans. E


19.L U L M G M N F N P S - O N Q P S

Ans. P

Numerical Ability

1. 420% OF 7.79 = ?

Ans. 32.718


2. 3427 / 16.53 = ?

Ans. 202

3. 10995 /95 = ?

Ans.115.7365

4. 43+557-247 =?

Ans. 353

5. 3107*3.082= ?

Ans. 9591

6. 48.7 + 24.9 - 8.7 = ?

Ans. 64.90

7.525.0/47.8 = ?

Ans. 11

8. (135-30-14)*7 - 6 +2 = ?

Ans. 3

9. 3/8 * 5.04=?

Ans. 1.89

10. 697 /219 = ?

Ans. 3.18

11.8/64 +64/16 =?

Ans. 4.14

12. 298 * 312 / 208 = ?

Ans. 453.54

13. 0.33 *1496 /13 = ?

Ans. 37.98

14.0.26 + 1/8 = ?

Ans. 0.385

15. 66.17+1/3= ?

Ans. 67.03

16. 2.84+1/4= ?

Ans. 3.09

17. 33% OF 450 = ?

Ans. 148.5

18. 907.54 / 0,3073= ?

Ans.3002

19.There are two categories of persons in ratio A:B = 2:3. A type earns 2.5 dollars/hr and B type 1 dollar/hr total money earned by both is 24dollars. Then what is the total number of persons

Ans. 15

20. Total balls are z, the number of red balls is n and the remaining are blak balls,then the % of black balls equal to ?

Ans. (z - n) / z*100

21. If A = C, B = 2D what should be done to make the ratio same. i.e.a/b = c/d

Ans. Multiply A by 2

22. If P=Total number of components, Q = number of defective components. What is the % of non defective components?

Ans. (p-q) / p*100

23. If the cost of an article is x , first discount given is y% of cost, second discount given is z% of cost. The selling price of x is

Ans. x (1-y / 100) (1- z / 100)

24.Which of the following are prime numbers

(a) 119
(b) 115
(c) 127
(d) none

Ans. (c)

25. A / B = C; C D then

(a) A is always greater than D
(b) C is always greater than D
(c) B is always less than D
(d) None of these

Ans. (a)

26. If BC and A

Ans. ( A + B )C

27. If for H hours of work the salary is S and the employee gets x hours of medical leave, then what is the salary/hr ?

Ans. s/H-x

28. ( 1/6 of 596) / (0.695) = ?

Ans. 142

29. 35-30 + 4/7 - 5 + 1 = ?

Ans. 3

30. 10995 + 95 = ?

Ans. 11090

31. If on a salary of Rs."S" per month,one has to pay one tax of x Rs. and a second type of tax of y Rs
then % of salary taken home is?

Ans. s-(x+y)/s * 100

32. BA then which expression will be highest value

(a) A-B
(b) AB
(c) A+B
(d) Can't Say

Ans. (b)

33. K, L are men who take home a salary of x, y respectively.The total amount taken home is

Ans. Kx + Ly


34. If out of X bulbs y bulbs are broken;The % of non broken bulbs

Ans. (x-y) / x*100


35. If on a salary s per month, a tax of x% of the salary and another of r% of the salary is deducted what
is the income.

Ans. s*(1-(x+r)/100

36. 0.512 * 18902358 =?

Ans. 9678007.296

37. If the % of defective balls is 10% balls,and the number of defective balls is 5.The number of balls is

Ans.50


38. 6.29% of 2.8 =?

Ans. 0.18

39. 0.398 * 456= ?

Ans. 181.49


40. 0 < x < 1 which is greater (a) 1/x2 (b) 1/x (c) x (d) x2 Ans. (a)

41. If c = a/b; a-1 = c, what is the relation between a and b? Ans. b = a/a-1

42. What is the sum of 7 consecutive odd numbers with 27 as the fourth number Ans.189 Flow

Flow Chart Section Directions: There are 7 flow charts and each has 5-6 blank rectangles/diamonds with sub question number in the rectangle/diamond. You have to fill the blank from the 5 options given against respective question number NOTE: These types of questions are not at all tough. You have to understand the logic and then it is very easy to fill the blanks. Some information is provided for getting to the answers. There will be blanks which have to be filled. Examples of flow charts asked to be filled :

(1) There are 3 boxes of 3 balls each. you have to select the heaviest among all.

(2) There are red and black balls in a box. You select some balls from the blocks. If the ball chosen is red then you get one point. If the chosen ball is ball black and previous ball is red then you get two points. For winning u have to get seven points. No point for selecting consecutive balls of the same color.

(3)Classify objects in class A, class B and scrap. for classing you have to do different tests such as weight test, material test etc.

(4)There is production process in which action depends on temperature and pressure and we have some temperature and pressure controls. Draw a flowchart to complete the process.

(5)Find max. and min. of the 12 nos. in an array. Arrange the array in ascending order and find the maximum and minimum value in the array

(6)Different age group are given and also different salary slabs are given. Depending on the salary group as well as his group you have to classify the group of people in particular class. UNIX & C -----------

19. What does chmod 654 stand for ans. -rw-r-xr--

20. Which of following is used for back_up files? a. compress b. tar c. make d. all the above ans. d 21. What does find command do? ans. search a file

22. What does "calloc" do? ans. A memory allocation & initialising to zero.

23. What does exit() do? ans. Came out of executing program.

24. What is the value of the 'i'? i= strlen("Blue") + strlen("Purple")/strlen("Red") - strlen("green") ans. 1

25. i = 2; printf("%ld %ld %ld %ld ", i, i++, i--, i++); ans. chck out answer is wrong.

26. Using pointers, changeing A to B and B to A i.e., swapping the function using two addresses and one temporary variable, How will be the function look like? ans. swap (int *, int *, int)

27. In '^' how are the arguments are passed by befault? ans. by value.

28. Find the prototype of Sine function ans. extern double sin(double);

29. Scope of a global variable which is declared as static? ans. File.

30. ASCII problem, i = '^'-... ans. 6 31.What is the output of, printf("Helow \0 is the world"); ans. Hello is teh world.

32. Clarifying the concept addresses used ever arrays, i.e., changing the address of a bare element production. What is error?

33. Child process ---- fork, child shell ---- sh. 34. read about yacc, awk, man, etc.

Tata Infotech placement Paper-2

Aptitude Paper



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-verbel 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 research report & typist A
produces 42 pages and typist B produces 28 pages.How much should typist A
receive?
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 didshe 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

TATA INFOTECH Placement paper-3

TATA INFOTECH
Aptitude Paper



Written Test

The test consists of two parts.

Part A: Aptitude -- 100 questions 100 marks subdivided as:
Verbal Section
Letter series (alternately number series can be given)
Numerical Problems Figures & Flowcharts

Part B: Computer knowledge test (purely technical) -- 50 questions 50 marks
The normal topics incl. C, Operating Systems (both Windows and UNIX),DBMS etc are covered.
A different paper is held for EE students.

The pattern of the test is known to vary from time to time.

Interview

The interview questions were mainly on data structures, computer architecture, operating systems and computer network etc.



VERBAL SECTION

Directions: Give the synonyms for the following words

1. Depreciation: deflation, depression, devaluation, fall, slump

2. Deprecate : feel and express disapproval,

3. Incentive : thing one encourages one to do (stimulus)

4. Echelon : level of authority or responsibility

5. Innovation : make changes or introduce new things

6. Intermittent : externally stopping and then starting

7. Detrimental: harmful

8. Conciliation : make less angry or more friendly

9. Orthodox: conventional or traditional, superstitious

10. Fallible : liable to error

11. Volatile : ever changing

12. Manifest: clear and obvious

13. Connotation : suggest or implied meaning of expression

14. Reciprocal: reverse or opposite

15. Agrarian : related to agriculture

16. Vacillate : undecided or dilemma

17. Expedient : fitting proper, desirable

18. Simulate : produce artificially resembling an existing one.

19. Access : to approach

20. Compensation: salary

21. Truncate : shorten by cutting

22. Adherence : stick

23. Heterogeneous: non similar things

24. Surplus : excessive

25. Assess : determine the amount or value

26. Cognizance : knowledge

27. Retrospective : review

28. Naive : innocent, rustic

29. Equivocate : tallying on both sides, lie, mislead

30. Postulate : frame a theory

31. Latent : dormant, secret

32. Fluctuation : wavering,

33. Eliminate : to reduce

34. Affinity : strong liking

35. Expedite : hasten

36. Console : to show sympathy

37. Adversary : opposition

38. Affable : lovable or approachable

39. Decomposition : rotten

40. Agregious : apart from the crowd, especially bad

41. Conglomeration: group, collection

42. Aberration: deviation

43. Augury : prediction

44. Creditability : ability to common belief, quality of being credible

45. Coincident: incidentally

46. Constituent : accompanying

47. Differential : having or showing or making use of

48. Litigation : engaging in a law suit

49. Moratorium: legally or officially determined period of delay before
fulfillment of the agreement of paying of debts.

50. Negotiate : discuss or bargain

51. Preparation : act of preparing

52. Preponderant : superiority of power or quality

53. Relevance : quality of being relevant

54. Apparatus : appliances

55. Ignorance : blindness, in experience

56. Obsession: complex enthusiasm

57. precipitate : speed, active

SERIES SECTION

Directions: In the following questions complete the series

NOTE: This section is quite tough and consists of 26 questions to be done in 10 minutes. Please keep track of time.

1. A C B D E F G I - I H K J L

Ans. H


2. A I Z B E Y C I X D I - G E N J W

Ans. W


3. A D G J M P - R W T S

Ans. S


4. A B C E F G I J K - M L O N P

Ans. M


5. A B F G K L P Q - T S V U W

Ans. U


6. J W X U V S T - Q P S E T

Ans. Q


7. A R H X Y T D T W S T - N P T K R

Ans. P

8. F M B I P Z V I E V - I R Y O U

9. N Z I Y C X KW F - J F V M Y

Ans. V

10. A A S A S P A S P K A - R Q T S U

Ans. S


11. A E C P S - T R U E

Ans. U


12. B B P R D D L N F F I K - H Q J I K

Ans. H

13 A Z E X I V M T - R Q N S O

Ans. Q


14. A B D G K P - L I W U X

Ans. U

15. B C D A E G H I F J L M N L K N M O

Ans. K


16. X W E F G V U H I J K - P N S R T

Ans. T

17. O D J T O P Q N O E R T - Q O U V W

Ans. O


18. P R N U U P E J R B B - H V U N E

Ans. E

19.L U L M G M N F N P S - O N Q P S

Ans. P

NUMERICAL ABILITY



1. 420% OF 7.79 = ?

Ans. 32.718


2. 3427 / 16.53 = ?

Ans. 202

3. 10995 /95 = ?

Ans.115.7365

4. 43+557-247 =?

Ans. 353

5. 3107*3.082= ?

Ans. 9591

6. 48.7 + 24.9 - 8.7 = ?

Ans. 64.90

7.525.0/47.8 = ?

Ans. 11

8. (135-30-14)*7 - 6 +2 = ?

Ans. 3

9. 3/8 * 5.04=?

Ans. 1.89

10. 697 /219 = ?

Ans. 3.18

11.8/64 +64/16 =?

Ans. 4.14

12. 298 * 312 / 208 = ?

Ans. 453.54

13. 0.33 *1496 /13 = ?

Ans. 37.98

14.0.26 + 1/8 = ?

Ans. 0.385

15. 66.17+1/3= ?

Ans. 67.03



16. 2.84+1/4= ?

Ans. 3.09

17. 33% OF 450 = ?

Ans. 148.5

18. 907.54 / 0,3073= ?

Ans.3002

19.There are two categories of persons in ratio A:B = 2:3. A type earns 2.5 dollars/hr and
B type 1 dollar/hr total money earned by both is 24dollars. Then what is the total number of persons

Ans. 15



20. Total balls are z, the number of red balls is n and the remaining are blak balls,then the % of black
balls equal to ?

Ans. (z - n) / z*100



21. If A = C, B = 2D what should be done to make the ratio same. i.e.a/b = c/d

Ans. Multiply A by 2



22. If P=Total number of components, Q = number of defective components .What is the % of non defective components?

Ans. (p-q) / p*100



23. If the cost of an article is x , first discount given is y% of cost, second discount given is z% of cost .
The selling price of x is

Ans. x (1-y / 100) (1- z / 100)



24.Which of the following are prime numbers

(a) 119
(b) 115
(c) 127
(d) none

Ans. (c)



25. A / B = C; C > D then

(a) A is always greater than D
(b) C is always greater than D
(c) B is always less than D
(d) None of these

Ans. (a)



26. If B>C and A

Ans. ( A + B )C



27. If for H hours of work the salary is S and the employee gets x hours of medical leave, then what is the salary/hr ?

Ans. s/H-x



28. ( 1/6 of 596) / (0.695) = ?

Ans. 142



29. 35-30 + 4/7 - 5 + 1 = ?

Ans. 3



30. 10995 + 95 = ?

Ans. 11090



31. If on a salary of Rs."S" per month,one has to pay one tax of x Rs. and a second type of tax of y Rs
then % of salary taken home is?



Ans. s-(x+y)/s * 100



32. B>A then which expression will be highest value

(a) A-B
(b) AB
(c) A+B
(d) Can't Say

Ans. (b)



33. K, L are men who take home a salary of x, y respectively.The total amount taken home is

Ans. Kx + Ly


34. If out of X bulbs y bulbs are broken;The % of non broken bulbs

Ans. (x-y) / x*100


35. If on a salary s per month, a tax of x% of the salary and another of r% of the salary is deducted what is the income.

Ans. s*(1-(x+r)/100



36. 0.512 * 18902358 =?

Ans. 9678007.296



37. If the % of defective balls is 10% balls,and the number of defective balls is 5.The number of balls is

Ans.50


38. 6.29% of 2.8 =?

Ans. 0.18

39. 0.398 * 456= ?

Ans. 181.49


40. 0 < c =" a/b;" 1 =" c," b =" a/a-1">