IBM Test paper late 2006 for job employment

IBM Test paper late 2006



Section 1(Verbal Ability):

Consisted of 10 questions.

5 questions were fill in the blanks. They were quite easy n were mainly based on prepositions

n use of articles



I got _______ in traffic & so got late (stuck / stuck up)



Mr. Banerjee was questioned __________ (for / with / to) his connection regarding the murder

case.



__ Apple, ____ Bananna,___Egg



what is the meaning of therapeutically ?

& more



There was a passage, a technical one (explaining Bank ATM's working), followed by 5 questions

which were easy.



Section 2(Apti):

Consisted of 25 questions.

Some questions were on Venn Diagrams (easy ones)



In a party 10 ate fruits, 15 ate cereals & 8 both. What is the number of people who ate at least one?



In a college students can play cricket or basketball. 500 play cricket. 220 played both & 600 played

basketball. What is the total strength of college?



In a school 10 can play cricket but only 5 can play both cricket & foot ball 8 can play only football .

what is the number of students.

Some were on data sufficiency. They were also quite easy ones.

Question on cube: there is 3 cube of each placed side by side. Each cube is subdivided into 64 parts

each. 16 cubes from the top layer of 2nd cube was taken out & 32 cubes from the top 2 layers of









3rd cube. Then the whole object was painted.

Qs

1)what is the no. of cubes painted in 1 side alone?

2)what is the no.of cubes painted on 3 sides?

3)what is the no. of cubes painted on all 4 sides?

Etc

Some questions were on the following pattern:

In a binary system 1 is written as $ & 0 is written as *. In this system as 1 moves to the left the

value of the number doubles itself. (Clearly this was the problem of binary conversions.

You just needed to put $ n *s in place of 1s n 0s after doing proper conversions).



Questions were how would nos like 65,252 would be written in the given system.(Just convert

them to binary) & what is the LCM of 6,4,8?

Section 3(Attention to detail):

10 questions

Very easy section.

Questions were as to which of the following sets of alphabets, numbers, roman numerals were similar.

They were quite easy to pick out the correct ans

XXXIIV 2.XXXIVI 3.XXXVII

I & II r same

I & II r same

All r same

None r same.

Same model for numbers & alphabets.

Other set of questions were: If + is replaced by *, - is replaced by /, * is replaced by +, / is replaced by

* then calculate 2/65*3+65-23 & so on. (Just hold on patiently & calculate to check which of the

given options is correct)



A set of questions were based as:

There were conditions given as to how a marketing executive would be selected & in the following

questions individuals with their qualifications were given. Based on the previous conditions given u

have to decide whether each one can qualify or not. (Easy set again)

Refer Verbal Reasoning of RS Agarwal









Section 4(Technical Interview):

10 ques

Sum questions on C,database, unix etc

O/p of printf("%d",printf("sum"));



Question on cardinality relationship in a ER diagram(Given)



Question on relationship in Hierarchical database

files can be accessed by_________ (library funs, sys calls, both, none)



Unix is _______(Mutiuser & Multitasking)



Files in Bourne shell can be checked by( test -f, if(file), switch(file)



what is the time complexity of quick sort.



Interview (HR "human resource" & Technical interview ):



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