iGate Placement Paper - Technical Questions from previous years
iGate Placement Paper - Technical Questions from previous years
The written test paper consists of 2 sections:
1. Technical
2. Non Technical
Technical Questions:
1. What do you understand by 1 nibble?
2. Represent 1024 in hexadecimal and octal terms.
3. What is the role of a compiler?
4. Is Fortran used as a scientific language? - True/ False
5. In windows NT what does NT stand for?
6. Which of these cannot be considered as an input device?
A. Keyboard
B. CD Disk
C. Mouse
D. Light pen
7. Which of these cannot be considered as a pointing device?
A. Mouse
B. Light pen
C. Joystick
D. None
8. Who is considered as the father of computer?
9. Power PC is a product of? (Multiple options correct)
A. Microsoft
B. IBM
C. Motorola
D. Intel
E. Apple
10. Name the first supercomputer built in India.
11. Which of the following companies does not manufacture chips?
A. Intel
B. HP
C. Motorola
D. Microsoft
12. Give the abbreviations for the following:
LAN –
WAN –
FDD –
BIT –
DMA –
13. Information may be considered as?
A. Message
B. Data
C. Processed Data
D. None of the above
14. Which of the following cannot be considered as networking?
A. Internet
B. Ethernet
C. Arcnet
D. None
15. One gigabyte is the measure of what?
A. 2^30 bytes
B. 2^20 bytes
C. 2^10 bytes
D. None
16. Oracle is a relational Data base ____________ system.
17. In oracle what does a table mean?
18. What do you mean by a Queue?
19. What do you mean by Stack?
20. What processor was used in the first IBM powered PC?
A. 8086
B. Zig4
C. Intel
D. 8088
21. List 2 differences between 80286 and 80287.
22. In bubble sort what is the number of comparisons required?
23. In binary comparison what is the total number of comparisons of an item in 100 items?
A. 25
B. 50
C. 100
D. 10
24. What are the numbers of entry values present ideally in a subroutine?
25. Which of these does not form a storage device?
A. Printer
B. CD ROM
C. Disk
D. None of these
26. Char S;
Char S[6] = “Hello”;
Printf(“%s”,S[6]);
What is the output of this program?
27. How many times will the loop of the below program run?
28. What is the output of the following program?
29. What is the output of the following program?
30. What is the output of the following program?
31. Find (int x, int y)
{return ((x call find(a, find (a,b))}
Is used to find
A. Maximum of a,b
B. Minimum of a,b
C. Positive difference of a,b
D. Sum of a,b
32. An integer needs 2 bytes, the maximum value of that unsigned integer can be?
A. 2^16 – 1
B. 2^15 – 1
C. 2^8 – 1
D. 2^16
33. If y is an integer type, then the given expressions
3 * (y-8)/9 and (y-8)/9*3 will give rise to
A. Same value
B. Different values
C. May or may not yield same values
D. None of these
34. 5 – 2 – 3 * 5 – 2 will give its output as 18 if and only if
A. – is considered as left associative and * has a positive precedence over –
B. –is considered as right associative and – has precedence over *
C. – is considered as right associative and * has precedence over –
D. None
35. Printf(“%f”9/5)
Will print
A. 1.8
B. 2.0
C. 1.0
D. None of the above
36. The process by which one bit pattern is submerged into another by means of bit wise operation is called
A. Chopping
B. Pruning
C. Biting
D. Masking
37. What does scanf function do?
A. Compilation of error
B. Terminates reading input in many lines
C. Both
D. None
38. Ceil(-2.8) = ?
A. 0
B. -3
C. -2
D. 2
39. Main ()
{
Printf(“%u”,main());
}
A. Infinite loop
B. Execution Error
C. Print garbage
D. None
40. Consider two functions scanf and sscanf.
A. In C there is no traditional function called sscanf
B. Sscanf is equivalent to scanf() except input characters are made from sting s
C. Sscanf is totally comparable to scanf
D. None of the above
