TCS Aptitude test :
1.if the word 'ddosszm' is changed to 'central' then what
will be the change for 'rtjbl' ?
ans:quick
2.what is the
largest prime number in 8 digit number?
3.the word
unimpressive was given.they asked us to do change 1st &
2nd,3rd & 4th,so on.then they asked what will be 10th
letter from right?
ans:m
4.the plane question was
asked.it took off from 7 degree 53' 6.1'' and landed at 8
degree 6' 43.5''.it takes 12 hours to travel between these
points.then what will be local time at destination ?[just
follow previous ques paper the problem was
same]
5.g[0]=1,g[1]=-1,g[n]=2*g[n-1]-3*g[n-2] then
calculate g[4]= ?
6.the series was asked :
5,6,7,8,10,11,14,..?
7.they asked the temperature
problem.it was same as previous papers.the ratio was
-t*t/6+4t+12.
8.the ques on a man,a woman and a boy finish
work together in 6 days.man takes 10 days,woman takes 24 days
then how much boy will take?
ans:40 days
8.the
matrix of a(7,9) was given.the address of the first byte of
a(1,1)=1258.it takes 4 bytes to store the nuymber.then
calculate the address of the last byte of a(5,8).
9.the
program requires 4000(n)1/2 [ie square root of n].if size of
program was increased by 1% then calculate the percentage
change in size of
program.
10.modulo(373,7)+round(5.8)+truncat(7.2)-round(3.4)
= ?
i exactly don't remember the truncate function.but the
function was where we skip the '.' part.
ans : 12
11.the
bucket size is 10KB.it takes 0.0001 KB/milisec to fill
bucket.the bucket takes 100 or 1000 milisec to reach to
destination.it takes 100 milisec to pass acknowledgement from
dest to source.so calculate how much time will it take to pass
N KB ,write formula.
[i don't remember the exact figures of
bucket transmission time from source to dest]
12.the graph
was given.the x and y axes were there.the line is intersecting
them.the points of intersection were y=3,x=0 and
x=-2,y=0.write the equation of line.
13.the decimal number
was given.it was converted to other system.they asked to
identify the
system.i.e.
octal,hexadecimal.
14.they asked us to match the pairs.they
were like,
A B
basmati-wheat not type of
15.the
paragraph was given.it was on associations and the example of
lecturer was there in para.
SECTION I
1. If VXUPLVH is
written as SURMISE, what is SHDVD ?
Ans. PEASA (hint: in
the first
word, the alphabets of the jumbled one is
three
alphabets after the corresponding alphabet in the
word
SURMISE. S = V-3, similarly find the one for
SHDVD)
2. If DDMUQZM is coded as CENTRAL then
RBDJK can be
coded as ---------
Ans. QCEIL (hint: Write
both the
jumbled and the coded word as a table, find
the
relation between the corresponding words, i.e C=
D-1,
N=M+1 & so on
3. In the word ECONOMETRICS,
if the first and second ,
third and forth ,forth and fifth,
fifth and sixth
words are interchanged up to the last
letter, what
would be the tenth letter from right?
Ans.
word is CENOMOTEIRSC tenth word is R
4. Find the result
of the following __expression if, M
denotes modulus
operation, R denotes round-off, T
denotes truncation:
M(373,5)+R(3.4)+T(7.7)+R(5.8)
Ans. 19
5. What is the
largest prime number that can be stored
in an 8-bit
memory?
Ans.
6. Find the physical quantity in
units from the
equation:
(Force*Distance)/(Velocity*Velocity)
Ans. Ns2/m
7. Find
the value of @@+25-++@16, where @ denotes
"square" and +
denotes "square root".
Ans: 621
8. If f(0)=1 and
f(n)= f(n-1)*n, find the value of
f(4).
Ans:
24
9. Convert the decimal number 310 to the base
6.
Ans: 1234
10. Find the missing number in the
series: 2, 5,
__ , 19 , 37, 75
Ans: 9
11.
In a two-dimensional array, X(9,7), with each
element
occupying 4 bytes of memory, with the address
of the first
element X(1,1) is 3000, find the address
of
X(8,5).
Ans.
12. Find the fourth row, having the bit
pattern as an
integer in an 8-bit computer, and express the
answer
in its decimal value.
A 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
B 0 0
1 1 0 0 1 1
C 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
(AU(B-C)) ?
Ans.
29
13. Complete the series 2, 7, 24, 77,__ (hint:
2*12=
24, 7*11= 77, therefore 24*10= 240)
Ans:
240
14. Consider the following diagram for answering
the
following questions:
A. Find the
difference between people playing
cricket and tennis
alone.
Ans: 4
B. Find the percentage of
people playing
hockey to that playing both hockey and
cricket.
Ans:
C. Find the percentage of people
playing all
the games to the total number of
players.
Ans: 6%
15. One more question of the same
type (Same type of
diagram; of course in a different
set)
1. How many more or less speak English
thanFrench?
2. What % people speak all the three
languages?
3. What % people speak German but not
English?
{In another set cricket, hockey and tennis are
changed
with the name of some computer languages, such
as
Java, Cobol, Fortran (may be some other
name)}
16. Select the odd one out
a. Oracle
b.
Linux c. Ingress
d. DB2
17. Select
the odd one out
a. SMTP b. WAP
c. SAP
d.
ARP
18. Select the odd man out.
a. Java b.
Lisp
c. Smalltalk
d. Eiffel
19. Which of the
following are orthogonal pairs?
a. 3i+2j
b. i+j c.
2i-3j
d. -7i+j
20. Number of faces, vertices
and edges of a cube
a. 12,8,6
b. 4,6,8 c.
6,8,12
d. 6,12,8
21. Given a Bar Chart showing
the sales of a company.
(In Figure) The sales in years as
shown in the figure
are (in crores) 1998-1999 - 130,
1997-1998 - 90,
1996-1997 - 90, 1995-1996 - 70
1.
The highest growth rate was for the year
Ans.
1998-1999
2. The net increase in sales of the company
in the
year span of 1995-1999
Ans. 60
crores.
3. The lowest growth rate was for the
year
Ans. 1997
22. Find the value of the decimal
number to the base
7.
Ans. 1436.
23. Complete the
series:5,6,7,8,10,11,14,__.
Ans. 15
24. If the
vertex (5,7) is placed in the memory. First
vertex (1,1) s
address is 1245 and then address of
(5,7) is
----------
Ans.
25. In which of the system,
decimal number 384 is
equal to
1234?
Ans.
26. A man, a woman, and a child can
do a piece of work
in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24
days. Woman can do
it in 16 days and in how many days child
can do the
same work?
Ans.
27. In Madras,
temperature at noon varies according to
-t^2/2 + 8t + 3,
where t is elapsed time. Find how
much temperature more or
less in 4pm to 9pm.
Ans.
28. The size of the bucket
is N kb. The bucket fills
at the rate of 0.1 kb per
millisecond. A programmer
sends a program to receiver.
There it waits for 10
milliseconds. And response will be
back to programmer
in 20 milliseconds. How much time the
program takes to
get a response back to the programmer,
after it is
sent?
Ans.
29. The size of a program
is N. And the memory
occupied by the program is given by M
= square root of
100N. If the size of the program is
increased by 1%
then how much memory now occupied
?
Ans.
30. A power unit is there by the bank of the
river of
750 meters width. A cable is made from power unit
to
power a plant opposite to that of the river
and
1500mts away from the power unit. The cost of
the
cable below water is Rs. 15/- per meter and cost
of
cable on the bank is Rs.12/- per meter. Find the
total
of laying the cable.
Ans. Rs. 22,500 (hint: the
plant
is on the other side of the plant i.e. it is not
on
the same side as the river)
{There are two
questions, both showing a curve. In the
first one, you have
to identify the curve. In the
second one you have to Write
the equation of the
curve. In }
SECTION
II
1. If A can copy 50 pages in 10 hours and A
and B
together can copy 70 pages in 10 hours, how much
time
does B takes to copy 26 pages?
a. b.
c.
d.
2. Match the following:
1. Male - Boy
--->
a. A type of
2. Square - Polygon --->
b.
A part of
3. Roof - Building --->
c. Not
a type of
4. Mushroom - Vegetables ---> d.
A
superset of
Ans: 1- d, 2- a, 3- b, 4- c
3. Match the
following.
1. brother sister --->
a. Part
of
2. Alsatian dog --->
b. Sibling
3.
sentence paragraph ---> c.
Type of
4. car -
steering --->
d. Not a type of
Ans. 1-b, 2-c,
3-a, 4-d
Questions 20- 24 are based on the following
passage:
The office staff of the XYZ
corporation
presently consists of three bookkeepers
(A, B and C) and
five secretaries (D, E, F, G and H).
Management is planning
to open a new office in another
city using three
secretaries and two bookkeepers of
the current staff. To do
so they plan to separate
certain individuals who do not
function well together.
The following guidelines were
established to set up
the new office:
I. Bookkeepers A
and C are
constantly finding fault with one another and
should
not be sent as a team to the new office.
II. C
and E function well alone but
not as a team. They should be
separated.
III. D and G have not been on
speaking terms
for many months. They should not go
together.
IV. Since
D and F have been competing
for promotion, they should not
be a team.
Ans.
4. If A is to be moved as one of the
bookkeepers,
which of the following cannot be a possible
working
team?
(a) ABDEH (b) ABDGH
(c) ABEFH (d)
ABEGH (e) ABFGH
5. If C and F are moved to the new
office, how many
combinations are possible?
(a) 1 (b)
2
(c) 3 (d) 4
(e) 5
6. If C is sent
to the new office, which member of the
staff cannot go with
C?
(a) B (b) D
(c) F (d) G
(e)
H
7. Under the guidelines developed, which of
the
following must go to the new office?
(a) B (b)
D
(c) E (d) G
(e) H
8. If D goes to
the new office which of the following
is (are) true?
I.
C cannot go.
II. A cannot go.
III. H must also go.
a.
I only. b. II only.
c. I and II only. d. I and III
only.
e. I, II and III.
9. Two stations
A & B are 110 km apart. One train
starts from A at 7
am, and travels towards B at
20kmph. Another train starts
from B at 8 am and
travels towards A at 25kmph. At what
time will they
meet?
a. 9 am b. 10 am
c. 11 am
d. 10.30 am
10. If a man can swim downstream at 6kmph
and upstream
at 2kmph, his speed in still water is:
a.
4kmph b. 2kmph
c. 3kmph d. 2.5kmph
Answer the
following three questions based on the
paragraph:
A
student applying at a college should take three
courses.
There are altogether four courses, namely,
Science, Maths,
Social Sudies and Economics. (The
names may vary, but the
pattern is the same)
One can take a Science course onty if
he has taken a
Maths course.
One can take a Maths course
only if he has taken a
Science course.
One can take a n
Economics course only if he has taken
a Social Studies
course.
11. Which of the following is a possible
course?
a. Two Science courses and a Social
Studies
Course.
b. Two Maths courses and an
Economics
course.
c. One Mats course, one Science course
and
a Social Studies course.
d. One Maths course, one
Science course
and an Economics course.
12. Which of
the following courses a student can take?
I. One Science,
one Social Studies,
one Economics
II. Two Science, one
Social Studies
III. Two Science, one Maths.
a. I
only
b. III only c. I and II only
d. II and
III only
13. Which of the following is not a possible
course?
a. Two Science courses and a Maths course.
b.
Two Maths course and a
Science course.
c. One Maths
course, one Science course
and a Social Studies
Course.
d. One Maths course, one Science course
and an
Economics course.
Syno:
Pillage steal ,
loot , plunder
Cleft - split , crack
Incesment
Brazen - bold , shameless
Awry - skewed ,
twisted , crooked
Remiss careless ,
negligent
Defection - desertion
Ensue - follow
Avid -
keen , eager
Rupidiate Repudiate - reject,deny
Gauche -
clumsy, vulgar
Intrinsic - essential
Gaudy flashy ,
showy
Hidebound narrow minded
Incognitent
-
Intermittent irregular,broken
Clastrophobia -
fear
Contraband illegal trade
Pagm concealed
rapt
Voracious avid,hunger,greedy
Seedy
sleazy,seamy
Omniscience knowing all
Diatribe
attack,criticism
Slack - loose, relaxed
Felicitous
fortunate,luck
Relish enjoy,savor
Aloofness
unfriendliness, remoteness
Ambiguity -
unknown
Pattry
Baleful threatening,
malevolent
Odium hatred, disgust
Lapidarian
Gambol
- skip
High handed dominant,imperious
Retrospection -
perception
Antithe
Pagan
Genuflect
kneel,bow
coerce force,compel
Indubitably
undoubtedly, certainly
Extraneous irrelevant ,
unrelated
Corpulent fat,pump
Transient
momentary
Spurious false,fake
Whimsical -
fancy
Braggadocio -
Chimerical
Callow
inexperience,naive
Menial unskilled,boring
Indigenous
native,original
Ambiguity
Foil
frustrate,halt
Anto:
Awry
Consensus *
disagreement
Retrograde * forward
looking
Galleon
Chide * praise
Depravity *
goodness,righteousness
Paradox * consistency
Stilted *
natural
Levity *
gravity
Fritty
Genry
Syno:
Pillage
steal , loot , plunder
Cleft - split , crack
Incesment
Brazen - bold , shameless
Awry - skewed ,
twisted , crooked
Remiss careless ,
negligent
Defection - desertion
Ensue - follow
Avid -
keen , eager
Rupidiate Repudiate - reject,deny
Gauche -
clumsy, vulgar
Intrinsic - essential
Gaudy flashy ,
showy
Hidebound narrow minded
Incognitent
-
Intermittent irregular,broken
Clastrophobia -
fear
Contraband illegal trade
Pagm
Voracious
avid,hunger,greedy
Seedy sleazy,seamy
Omniscience
knowing all
Diatribe attack,criticism
Slack - loose,
relaxed
Felicitous fortunate,luck
Relish
enjoy,savor
Aloofness unfriendliness,
remoteness
Ambiguity unknown
Pattry
Baleful
threatening, malevolent
Odium hatred,
disgust
Lapidarian
Gambol - skip
High handed
dominant,imperious
Retrospection -
perception
Antithe
Pagan
Genuflect
kneel,bow
coerce force,compel
Indubitably
undoubtedly, certainly
Extraneous irrelevant ,
unrelated
Corpulent fat,pump
Transient
momentary
Spurious false,fake
Whimsical -
fancy
Braggadocio -
Chimerical
Callow
inexperience,naive
Menial unskilled,boring
Indigenous
native,original
Ambiguity
Foil
frustrate,halt
Anto:
Awry
Consensus *
disagreement
Retrograde * forward
looking
Galleon
Chide * praise
Depravity *
goodness,righteousness
Paradox * consistency
Stilted *
natural
Levity * gravity
Fritty
Genry
PSG
Tech 07.06.2004 - Some Verbal
(Analyticals were from 13th edition Barrons GRE Guide,
mainly from the 5 model test papers at the last. There were no
alterations in the questions or the choices and was simply
replicated from the book. But there were only 4 questions
under each annals problem in the TCS test there are 5 in
book. Which 4 of these 5 will appear is not predictable). Some
of these words are not correctly spelt. Bear
with!
Synonym
1. Insimate
2. Banal
3. misdemeanour
4.
bombastic
5. tenacious
6. repellent
7. ensue
8.
reprobate
9. acerbity
10. gambol
11.
ameliorate
12. confiscate
13. quixotic
14.
foray
15. fidelity
16. inimical
17. stoic
18.
haggard
19. cacophony
20. discord
21.
fledgling
22. incongruous
23. ingenious
24.
estrange
25. clandestine
Antonym
1.
loutish
2. prevaricate
3. Hilary
4. admonition
5.
boonish
6. dangle
7. spur
8. apex
9. aplomb
10.
veracious
11. clichι
12. muggy
13. bouillon
14.
incocus
15. proximity
16. indement
17.
whimsical
18. distal
19. transient
20.
predominant
21. mockish
22. misanthrope
23.
miscanprehencia
24. doltish
25. mullet
26.
gadfly
27. ignominious
28. hidebound
29.
reticence
30. tantamount
31.
estrange