Technical questions from past in Accenture placement paper

Technical questions from past in Accenture placement paper

In the technical round, the candidate is mostly asked about the project undertaken by them in the final year. This helps them to judge the candidates technical expertise and how good he/she can be with explaining the project and the technology involved in developing it.

The candidates are screened through a technical round of questioning, post which successful candidates advance to the final HR round of the interview.

Following are some of the questionnaires which have been asked in the technical round.

• What is a compiler?

• What are the data structures used in RDBMS, Network data model & Hierarchical data model?

• Name the areas in which you can apply data structures extensively?

• Explain the different kinds of frameworks in automation?

• Explain binary semaphore and its functionality.

• List the difference between a While & Do While loops?

• Briefly explain thrashing.

• Tell us the size of a float variable.

• How can you draw circles in C?

• Explain the FOR loop with a help of a code.

• To generate the Fibonacci Series write a program.

• What do you mean by stack?

• What do you mean by response time and turnaround time?

• Explain data structure

• Name a few tree data structure application.

• List out few of the applications that make use of Multi linked Structures?

• To solve the 8 Queens problem, which algorithm is used?

• Which type of efficient data structure is used in the internal storage representation in RDBMS?

• In C++ what do you mean by Inheritance?

• Is Linked List “linear” or “Non-linear” data structure?

• In C language what is a “dangling pointer”?

• Explain the difference between method overriding and method overloading in C++?

• In Java list the methods that can be overridden?

• What are the fundamental features of an object-oriented language?

• Write a program that can take input from 3 to 8 and calculate the average?

• List the difference between a "copy constructor" and a "assignment operator"?

• Explain the difference between C and C++.

• What are the popular strategies used for multiprocessor thread-scheduling?

• Explain briefly what is meant by trap and a trapdoor?

• Explain time-stamping?

• Find the Factorial of a number using a program.

• Without using third variable write a code to swap two numbers.