Here are some HCL Placement Papers (march 3,2008) and Sample question

Papers that will be useful to you..

Aptitude

1. How many of the integers between 25 and 45 are even ?

(A)21 (B)20 (C)11 (D)10 (E)9
Ans:d)10

2. If taxi fares were Rs 1.00 for the first 1/5 mile and Rs 0.20 for each 1/5 miles
thereafter. The taxi fare for
a 3-mile ride was
(A)Rs 1.56 (B)Rs 2.40 (C)RS 3.00 (D)Rs 3.80 (E)Rs 4.20
Answer :d)Rs 3.80

3. A computer routine was developed to generate two numbers (x,y) the first being
a random number between 0 and 100 inclusive, and the second being less than or
equal to the square root of the first. Each of the followin pair satisfies the routine
EXCEPT
(A) (99.10) (B) (85.9) (C) (50.7) (D) (1.1) (E) (1.0)
Answer : A) (99.10)

4. A warehouse had a square floor with area 10,000 sq.meters. A rectangular

addition was built along one entire side of the warehouse that increased the floor by
one-half as much as the original floor. How many meters did the addition extend
beyond the original buildings ?
(A)10 (B)20 (C)50 (D)200 (E)500
Ans: c)50

5. A digital wristwatch was set accurately at 8.30 a.m and then lost 2 seconds every
5 minutes. What time was indicated on the watch at 6.30 p.m of the same day if the
watch operated continuously that time ?
(A)5:56 B)5:58 (C)6.00 (D)6.23 (E)6.26
Ans :E) 6.26

6. A 5 litre jug contains 4 litres of a salt water solution that is 15 percent salt. If 1.5
litres of the solution spills out of the jug, and the jug is then filled to capacity with
water, approximately what percent of the resulting solution in the jug is salt?
(A)7.5% (B)9.5% (C) 10.5% (D)12% (E)15%
Ans :A)7.5%

7. A plane travelled K miles in the first 96 miles of flight time. If it completed the
remaining 300 miles of the trip in 1 minute, what was its average speed in miles per
hour for the entire trip ?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
Ans :(300+k)/97 * 60

8. A merchant sells an item at a 20 percent discount. but still makes a gross profit
of 20 percent of the cost.What percent of cost would be gross profit on the item
have been if it had been sold without the discount?
(A)20% (B)40% (C)50% (D)60% (E)66.6%
Ansr :c) 50%

9. A millionaire bought a job lot of hats 1/4 of which were brown. The millionaire
sold 2/3 of the hats including 4/5 of the brown hats. What fraction of the unsold hats
were brown.
(A)1/60 (B)1/15 (C)3/20 (D)3/5 (E)3/4
Ans :c)3/20

10. How many integers n greater than and less than 100 are there such that,if the
digits of n are reversed, the resulting integer is n+9 ?
(A)5 (B)6 (C)7 (D)8 (E)9
Ans :D)8

11. An investor purchased a shares of stock at a certain price.If the stock increased
in price Rs 0.25 per share and the total increase for the x shares was Rs 12.50, how
many shares of stock had been purchased ?
(A)25 (B)50 (C)75 (D)100 (E)125
Ans :B)50

12. At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets
are purchased at the sale, the amount saved will be What percent of the original
price of the 5 tickets?
(A) 20% (B) 33.3% (C) 40% (D) 60% (E) 66.6%
Ans :c)40%

13. Working independently, Tina can do a certain job in 12 hours. Working

independently, Ann can do the same job in 9 hours. If Tina Works independently at
the job for 8 hours and then Ann works independently, how many hours will it take
Ann to complete the remainder of the jobs?
(A) 2/3 (B) 3/4 (C) 1 (D) 2 (E) 3
Ans :E)3

14. A decorator bought a bolt of d m number of red chips in any one stack ?
(A) 7 (B) 6 (C) 5 (D) 4 (E) 3
Ans :C) 5

15. A sink has 12 lits of water some quantity of water is taken out. if the remainng
water is 6 litres less then the
water taken out then quantity of water taken out is.
a. 3
b. 6
c. 9
d. 1

16. which is the 4 digit number whose second digit is thrice the first digit and 3'rd
digit is sum of 1'st and 2'nd and last digit is twice the second digit.
1.2674
2.1349.
3.3343
4.3678

17. In a straight highway 2 cars starts from the same point in opposite directions
each travels for 8 Kms and takeleft turn then travel for 6 Kms what is the distance
between them now.
1.16
2.20
3.25
4.10

Technical Section

1. In ANSI C which is such thing is not in Java.

typedef struct node
{
int
NODEPTR * NODE
}

2. Q. In signed magnitude notation what is the minimum value that can be

represented with 8 bits
a) -128 b) -255 c) -127 d) 0

3. Q. there is an employer table with key feilds as employer no. data in every n'th
row are needed for a simple followingqueries will get required results.
a) select A employe no. from employe A , where exists from employe B where A
employe no. = B employehaving (count(*) mod n)=0
b) select employe no. from employe A, employe B where A employe no. = B employ
no.grouply employe no. having (count(*) mod n=0 )
c) both a& b
d) none of the above

4. Piggybacking is done for, Ans=>Acknowledgement.

5. WHICH IS NOT BASIC data type ans.Char*

6. which of the following statement is valid for string copy

char *srt,*ptr;
a) while(*str) {
*str=*ptr;
++str=++ptr;
}
b ) while(*str)
{*++str=*++ptr};
c)

7. Two variable cannt have the same name in

a)function b) block c) file d)--- C Section

8. #define inc(x) x++

main()
{
int t=1;
printf("%d",inc(t++));
}

9. one or two que for the complicated declaration.

10. Const char *a="Abcd"; char const *a="lmno"; base do this,Two que were there.

11. char *p ;
char q[20];

12. int i,*p=&i;

p=malloc(10);
free(p);
printf("%d",p);
ans : garbage

13. int i=20,*j=&i

f(i)
printf("%d",i);
14. #define val 1+2
printf("%d%d",val/val,val^3)
ans : 3 9

15. #define "this" "#"

#define (x,y) x##y
printf("this","this is")
ans: compilation error (tested)

16. 2^2)+(a^a)

17. int a ,b=7

a=b<4?b<<1:b>4?7>>1:a
ans.3

18. one que on c++ class member function

ans.d

19. work of memory management unit.

20. who relate virtual memory to physical memory ans.os

21. memory is allocated to variable

a)when declared b)when define c)...

22. Question on double linked list

23. Define success 1

define failure -1
if(condition)
printf(success);
else
printf(failure);
ans success

24. main()
{
int var=25,varp;
varp=&var;
varp=10;
fun(varp);
printf(%d%d",var,varp);
ans a)45,45 b)55,55 c) 20,55;
25. u r given two statements
a=(10.15);
b=10,15;
if they are executed what is the output printf("%d%d",a,b);
a)10,15 b)15,10 c)10,10 d)15,15 ans a

26. #define inc(x) x++

main()
{
int t=1;
printf("%d",inc(t++));
}
ans.error

27. main
{int x=1,y=2,z=3;
x=y==z;
printf(x);
}

ANOTHER QUESTION PAPER

1. Which of the following involves context switch,

(a) system call

(b) priviliged instruction
(c) floating poitnt exception
(d) all the above
(e) none of the above

Ans: (a)

2. In OST, terminal emulation is done in

(a) sessions layer

(b) application layer
(c) presentation layer
(d) transport layer

Ans: (b)
3. For a 25MHz processor , what is the time taken by the instruction which needs 3
clock cycles,

(a)120 nano secs

(b)120 micro secs
(c)75 nano secs
(d)75 micro secs

4. For 1 MB memory, the number of address lines required,

(a)11
(b)16
(c)22
(d) 24

Ans. (b)

5. Semaphore is used for

(a) synchronization
(b) dead-lock avoidence
(c) box
(d) none

Ans. (a)

6. Which holds true for the following statement

class c: public A, public B

a) 2 member in class A, B should not have same name

b) 2 member in class A, C should not have same name
c) both
d) none

Ans. (a)

7. Question related to java

8. OLE is used in

a) inter connection in unix

b) interconnection in WINDOWS
c) interconnection in WINDOWS NT

9. Convert a given HEX number to OCTAL

10. Macros and function are related in what aspect?

(a)recursion
(b)varying no of arguments
(c)hypochecking
(d)type declaration

11.Preproconia.. does not do which one of the following

(a) macro
(b) conditional compliclation
(c) in type checking
(d) including load file

Ans. (c)

12. Piggy backing is a technique for

a) Flow control
b) Sequence
c) Acknowledgement
d) retransmition

Ans. (c)

13. In signed magnitude notation what is the minimum value that can be
represented with 8 bits

(a) -128
(b) -255
(c) -127
(d) 0

14. There is an employer table with key fields as employer number data
in every n'th row are needed for a simple following queries will get required results.

(a) select A employee number from employee A , where exists from employee B
where A employee no. >= B
employee having (count(*) mod n)=0

(b) select employee number from employe A, employe B where A employe

number>=B employ number group by employee number having(count(*) mod
n=0 )
(c) both (a) &a

Aptitude

1. a=2, b=3, c=6 Find the value of c/(a+b)-(a+b)/c

Ans. 11/30
2. What does the hexa number E78 in radix 7.
(a) 12455
(b) 14153
(c) 14256
(d) 13541
(e) 131112
Ans. (d)

3. 10 : 4 seconds :: ? : 6 minutes
Ans. 90

4. Q is not equal to zero and k = (Q x n - s)/2.What is n?

(a) (2 x k + s)/Q
(b) (2 x s x k)/Q
(c) (2 x k - s)/Q
(d) (2 x k + s x Q)/Q
(e) (k + s)/Q

5. From the following statements determing the order of ranking

M has double the amount as D Y has 3 rupess more than half the amount of D
Ans. Data insuffiecient

Questions 6 - 10 are to be answered on the following data

A causes B or C, but not both
F occurs only if B occurs
D occurs if B or C occurs
E occurs only if C occurs
J occurs only if E or F occurs
D causes G,H or both
H occurs if E occurs
G occurs if F occurs

6. If A occurs which of the following must occurs

I. F and G
II. E and H
III. D
(a) I only
(b) II only
(c) III only
(d) I,II, & III
(e) I & II (or) II & III but not both
Ans. (e)

7. If B occurs which must occur

(a) D
(b) D and G
(c) G and H
(d) F and G
(e) J
Ans. (a)

8. If J occurs which must have occured

(a) E
(b) either B or C
(c) both E & F
(d) B
(e) both B & C
Ans. (b)

9. Which may occurs as a result of cause not mentioned

I. D
II. A
III. F
(a) I only
(b) II only
(c) I & II
(d) II & III
(e) I,II & III
Ans. (c)
10. E occurs which one cannot occurs
(a) A
(b) F
(c) D
(d) C
(e) J
Ans. (b)

11. A 5 litre jug contains 4 litres of a salt water solution that is 15 percent salt. If 1.5
litres of the solution
spills out of the jug, and the jug is then filled to capacity with water,approximately
what percent of the
resulting solution in the jug is salt?
(A)7.5% (B)9.5% (C) 10.5% (D)12% (E)15%

12. Working independently, Tina can do a certain job in 12 hours. Working

independently, Ann can do
the same job in 9 hours. If Tina Works independently at the job for 8 hours and then
Ann works
independently, how many hours will it take Ann to complete the remainder of the
jobs?
(A)2/3 (B)3/4 (C)1 (D)2 (E)3
Answer :E)3

13. In a murder case there are four suspects P,Q,R,S. Each of them makes a
statement. They are p:
"I had gone to the theatre with S at the time of the murder".q: "I was playing cards
with P at the time
of the murder".r: "Q didn't commit the murder".s: "R is not the murderer".Assuming
the only one of the
above statement is false and that one of them is the murderer, who is the
murderer?
a) P
b) Q
c) R
d) Cann't be concluded
e) S
Ans: E

14. Mohan earned twice as much as Deep. Yogesh earned rs.3/- more than half as
much as deep.
If the amounts earned by Mohan,Deep,Yogesh are M,D,Y respectively, Which of the
following is
the correct ordering of these amounts?
a) M < D < Y
b) M< Y < D
c) D< M < Y
d) It cann't be determined from the information given
e) D< Y < M

15. Statistics indicate that men drivers are involved in more accidents than women
drivers. Hence
it may be concluded that
a) sufficiently information is not there to conclude anything
b) Men are actually better drivers but drive more frequently
c) Women Certainly drive more cautiously than Men
d) Men chauvinists are wrong about women's abilties.
e) Statistics sometimes present a wrong picture of things

16. Given that A,B,C,D,E each represent one of the digits between 1 and 9 and that
the following
multiplication holds:
ABCDE
X4
--------------
EDCBA
-------------- what digit does E represent ?
a) 4
b) 6
c) 8
d) 7
Ans: c

17. HCL prototyping machine can make 10 copies every 4 seconds. At this rate,
How many copies
can the machine make in 6 min.?
a) 900
b) 600
c) 360
d) 240
e) 150
Ans: a

18. If a=2,b=4,c=5 then

a+b c
- ---- =
c a+b
a) 1
b) 11/30
c) 0
d) -11/30
e) -1
Ans: b

19. 10^2(10^8+10^8) =-------------- 10^4

a) 2(10)^4
b) 2(10)^6
c) 10^8
d) 2(10)^8
e) 10^10
Ans: b

20. Worker W produces n units in 5 hours. Workers V and W, workers independently

but at the
same time, produce n units in 2 hours.how long would it take V alone to produce n
units?
a) 1 hr 26 min
b) 1 hr 53 min
c) 2 hr 30 min
d) 3 hr 30 min
e) 3 hr 20 min
Ans: d

Six knights - P,Q,R,S,T and U - assemble for a long journey in Two ravelling parties.
For security, each travelling
party Consists of at least two knights. The two parties travel by separate routes,
northern and southern. After one
month, the routes of the northern and southern groups converge for a brief time
and at that point the knights can, if
they wish, rearrange their travelling parties before continuing, again in two parties
along separate northern and
southern routes. Throughout the entire trip, the composition of traveling parties
must be in accord with the following
conditions P and R are deadly enemies and, although they may meet briefly,can
never travel together. p must travel
in the same party with s
Q cann't travel by the southern route U cann't change routes

21. If one of the two parties of knights consists of P and U and two other knights and
travels by the southern route,
the other members of this party besides P and U must be
a) Q and S
b) Q and T
c) R and S
d) R and T
e) S and T
Ans: e

22. If each of the two parties of knights consists of exactly three members, which of
the following is not a possible
travelling party and route?
a) P,S,U by the northern route
b) P,S,T by the northern route
c) P,S,T by the southern route
d) P,S,U by the southern route
e) Q,R,T by the southern route
Ans: b

23) If one of the two parties of knights consists of U and two other knights and
travels by the northern route, the
other memnbers of this party besides U must be
a) P and S
b) P and T
c) Q and R
d) Q and T
e) R and T
Ans: c

24) If each of the two parties of knights consists of exactly three members of
different parties, and R travels by the
northern route,then T must travel by the
a) southern route with P and S
b) southern route with Q and R
c) southern route with R and U
d) northern route with Q and R
e) northern route with R and U
Ans: a

25. If, when the two parties of knights encounter one another after a month, exactly
one knight changes from
one travelling party to the other travelling party, that knight must be
a) P
b) Q
c) R
d) S
e) T
Ans: e

26. A gambler bets on the team of seven players ABCDEFG whose winning a-4 to 1
against b-4 to 1 against c-4
to 1 against d-4 to 1 against e-5 to 1 against f-6 to 1 against g. how should he bet
on g to set 20% profit.
27. If a person buy radio worth Rs 2468 and pay 7% sales .how much price of radio
should reduce to pay
only Rs 2468.
28 What is vasu salary if salary of vasu is more than rajan salary working in same
company
i)vasu salary is 100 more than rajan salary.
ii)rajan found 2000 allowns which is 50 less than vasu.
(iii)basic salry of rajan is 1000.
(i)only i is required
(ii)i & ii is required
(iii)i& iii is required
(iv)i&ii&iii is required
(v)none of these

29 If in 100 miles race 8 person is running winner take 9.8sec and fifth man takes
10.4 sec the time of 8 man is
in AP if in 4*100 meters realy of onside is 1,4,5,8 position then win by.
a).3 sec b).1 sec c).7 sec d).5 sec e)none

30. How many sons X have qwe based on relation

i)
ii)
iii)
ans(data i,ii,iii is insufficient)

31. A sink has 12 lits of water some quantity of water is taken out. if the remainng
water is 6 litres less then the
water taken out then quantity of water taken out is.
a.3
b.6
c.9
d.1
32 .which is the 4 digit number whose second digit is thrice the first digit and 3'rd
digit is sum of 1'st and 2'nd and
last digit is twice the second digit.
1.2674
2.1349.
3.3343
4.3678
33. In a straight highway 2 cars starts from the same point in opposite directions
each travels for 8 Kms and take
left turn then travel for 6 Kms what is the distance between them now.
1.16
2.20
3.25
4.10
34. A problem based on house numbers.
35. Five students compare their test and quiz marks.some datas given.5 questions
based on this.

C Programming
1. Which of the following about the following two declaration is true
i ) int *F()
ii) int (*F)()
Choice :
a) Both are identical
b) The first is a correct declaration and the second is wrong
c) The first declaraion is a function returning a pointer to an integer and the second
is a pointer to function returning
int
d) Both are different ways of declarin pointer to a function Answer : c) The first de...

2. What are the values printed by the following program?

#define dprint(expr) printf(#expr "=%d\n",expr)
main()
{
int x=7;
int y=3;
dprintf(x/y);
}
Choice:
a) #2 = 2 b) expr=2 c) x/y=2 d) none
Answer: c)x/y=2
3. Which of the following is true of the following program
main()
{
char *c;
int *p;
c =(char *)malloc(100);
ip=(int *)c;
free(ip);
}
ans: The code functions properly releasing all the memory allocated
4.output of the following.
main()
{
int i;
char *p;
i=0X89;
p=(char *)i;
p++;
printf("%x\n",p);
}
ans:0X8A
5 which of the following is not a ANSI C language keyword? ans:Function.
6. When an array is passed as parameter to a function, which of the following
statement is correct choice:
a) The function can change values in the original array
b) In C parameters are passed by value. The funciton cannot change the original
value in the array
c) It results in compilation error when the function tries toaccess the elements in
the array
d) Results in a run time error when the funtion tries to access the elements in the
array
Answer: a) The fu...
7. The type of the controlling expression of a switch statement cannot be of the
type
a) int b) char c) short d)float e) none
Answer : d)float
8. What is the value of the expression (3^6) + (a^a)?
a) 3 b) 5 c) 6 d) a+18 e) None
Answer : 5
9. What is the value assigned to the variable X if b is 7 ?
X = b>8 ? b <<3 : b>4 ? b>>1:b;
a) 7 b) 28 c) 3 d) 14 e) None
ans: 3;
10. Which is the output produced by the following program
main()
{
int n=2;
printf("%d %d\n", ++n, n*n);
}
a) 3,6 b) 3,4 c) 2,4 d) cannot determine
Answer : b) 3,4
11. What is th output of the following program?
int x= 0x65;
main()
{
char x;
printf("%d\n",x)
}
a) compilation error b) 'A' c) 65 d) unidentified
12. What is the output of the following program
main()
{
int a=10;
int b=6;
if(a=3)
b++;
printf("%d %d\n",a,b++);
}
a) 10,6 b)10,7 c) 3,6 d) 3,7 e) none
Answer : d) 3,7
13. What can be said of the following program?
main()
{
enum Months {JAN =1,FEB,MAR,APR};
Months X = JAN;
if(X==1)
{
printf("Jan is the first month");
}
}
a) Does not print anything
b) Prints : Jan is the first month
c) Generates compilation error
d) Results in runtime error
Answer: b) Prints : Jan..
14. What is the output of the following program?
main()
{
char *src = "Hello World";
char dst[100];
strcpy(src,dst);
printf("%s",dst);
}strcpy(char *dst,char *src)
{while(*src) *dst++ = *src++;
}
) "Hello World" b)"Hello" c)"World" d) NULL e) unidentified
Answer: d) NULL
15. What is the output of the following program?
main()
{
int l=6;
switch(l)
{ default : l+=2;
case 4: l=4;
case 5: l++;
break;
}
printf("%d",l);
}
a)8 b)6 c)5 d)4 e)none
Answer : c)5
16. What is the output of the following program?
main()
{
int x=20;
int y=10;
swap(x,y);
printf("%d %d",y,x+2);
}
swap(int x,int y)
{
int temp;
temp =x;
x=y;
y=temp;
}
a)10,20 b) 20,12 c) 22,10 d)10,22 e)none
Answer:d)10,22
17. What is the output of the following problem ?
#define INC(X) X++
main()
{
int X=4;
printf("%d",INC(X++));
}
a)4 b)5 c)6 d)compilation error e) runtime error
Answer : d) compilation error
18. what can be said of the following
struct Node {
char *word;
int count;
struct Node left;
struct Node right;
}
a) Incorrect definition
b) structures cannot refer to other structure
c) Structures can refer to themselves. Hence the statement is OK
d) Structures can refer to maximum of one other structure
Answer :c)
19. What is the size of the following union. Assume that the size of int =2, size of
float =4 and size of
char =1.
Union Tag{
int a;
flaot b;
char c;
};
a)2 b)4 c)1 d) 7
20. What is the output of the following program? (. has been used to indicate a
space)
main()
{
char s[]="Hello,.world";
printf(%15.10s",s);
}
a )Hello,.World...
b)....Hello,.Wor
c)Hello,.Wor....
d)None of the above

HCL Latest Placement Paper 2010

(Aptitude Test, Technical Round-1, Client/Manager Interview)

- ->1. A millionaire bought a job lot of hats 1/4 of which were brown. The millionaire sold
2/3 of the hats including 4/5 of the brown hats. What fraction of the unsold hats were
brown.
(A)1/60 (B)1/15 (C)3/20 (D)3/5 (E)3/4
Ans :c)3/20

- ->2. A merchant sells an item at a 20 percent discount. but still makes a gross profit of 20
percent of the cost. What percent of cost would be gross profit on the item have been if it
had been sold without the discount?
(A) 20% (B) 40% (C) 50% (D) 60% (E) 66.6%
Ans :c) 50%

- ->3. How many integers n greater than and less than 100 are there such that, if the digits
of n are reversed, the resulting integer is n+9 ?
(A)5 (B)6 (C)7 (D)8 (E)9
Ans )8

- ->4. An investor purchased a shares of stock at a certain price. If the stock increased in
price Rs 0.25 per share and the total increase for the x shares was Rs 12.50, how many
shares of stock had been purchased ?
(A)25 (B)50 (C)75 (D)100 (E)125
Answer :B)50

- ->5. At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are
purchased at the sale, the amount saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5
tickets?
(A)20% (B)33.3% (C)40% (D)60% (E)66.6%
Ans :c)40%

- ->6. Working independently, Tina can do a certain job in 12 hours. Working

independently, Ann can do the same job in 9 hours. If Tina works independently at the job
for 8 hours and then Ann works independently, how many hours will it take Ann to
complete the remainder of the jobs?
(A)2/3 (B)3/4 (C)1 (D)2 (E)3
Ans :E)3

- ->7. A decorator bought a bolt of d m number of red chips in any one stack ?
(A)7 (B)6 (C)5 (D)4 (E)3
Ans :C) 5
- ->1) In a murder case there are four suspects P,Q,R,S. Each of them makes a statement.
They are
p: “I had gone to the theatre with S at the time of the murder”.
q: “I was playing cards with P at the time of the murder”.
r: “Q didn’t commit the murder”.
s: “R is not the murderer”.
Assuming the only one of the above statement is false and that one of them is the murderer,
who is the murderer?
a) P
b) Q
c) R
d) Cann’t be concluded
e) S

Ans: E r and s are true as first two statements are contradictory. thus either P or S is murderer. as
q is not murderer, he is telling truth that P was with him. hence S is murderer.

- ->2) Mohan earned twice as much as Deep. Yogesh earned rs.3/- more than half as much
as deep. If the amounts earned by Mohan,Deep,Yogesh are M,D,Y respectively, Which of
the following is the correct ordering of these amounts?
a) M < D < Y
b) M < Y < D
c) D < M < Y
d) It cann't be determined from the information given
e) D < Y < M

Ans : d

- ->3) Statistics indicate that men drivers are involved in more accidents than women
drivers. Hence it may be concluded that
a) sufficiently information is not there to conclude anything
b) Men are actually better drivers but drive more frequently
c) Women Certainly drive more cautiously than Men
d) Men chauvinists are wrong about women’s abilities.
e) Statistics sometimes present a wrong picture of things

- ->4) What does the hex number E78 correspond to in radix 7 ?

a) 12455
b) 14153
c) 14256
d) 13541
e) 13112

Ans :d
- ->5)Given that A,B,C,D,E each represent one of the digits between 1 and 9 and that the
following multiplication holds:
ABCDE
X4
EDCBA

what digit does E represent ?

a) 4
b) 6
c) 8
d) 7
Ans: c

- ->6) HCL prototyping machine can make 10 copies every 4 seconds. At this rate, How
many copies can the machine make in 6 min.?
a) 900
b) 600
c) 360
d) 240
e) 150

Ans: a

- ->7) if a=2,b=4,c=5 then a+b c c a+b

a) 1
b) 11/30
c) 0
d) -11/30
e) -1

Ans: b

- ->8) 10^2(10^8+10^8) =10^4

a) 2(10)^4
b) 2(10)^6
c) 10^8
d) 2(10)^8
e) 10^10

Ans: b

- ->9) Worker W produces n units in 5 hours. Workers V and W, workers independently

but at the same time, produce n units in 2 hours. how long would it take V alone to produce
n units?
a) 1 hr 26 min
b) 1 hr 53 min
c) 2 hr 30 min
d) 3 hr 30 min
e) 3 hr 20 min

Ans: d (e)

- ->10) if q <> 0 and k = qr/2 -s, then what is r in terms of k,q,s?

a) 2k+s q
b) 2sk q
c) 2(k-s) q
d) 2k+sq q
e) 2(k+s) q
Ans: e

Six knights – P,Q,R,S,T and U – assemble for a long journey in two traveling parties. For
security, each travelingparty consists of at least two knights. The two parties travel by separate
routes, northern and southern. After one month, the routes of the northern and southern groups
converge for a brief time and at that point theknights can, if they wish, rearrange their traveling
parties before continuing, again in two parties along separatenorthern and southern routes.
Throughout the entire trip, the composition of traveling parties must be in accord with the
following conditions:
P and R are deadly enemies and, although they may meet briefly, can never travel together. p
must travel in the same party with S Q can’t travel by the southern route U can’t change routes

- ->11) If one of the two parties of knights consists of P and U and two other knights and
travels by the southern route, the other members of this party besides P and U must be

a) Q and S
b) Q and T
c) R and S
d) R and T
e) S and T
Ans: e

- ->12) If each of the two parties of knights consists of exactly three members, which of the
following is not a possible traveling party and route?
a) P,S,U by the northern route
b) P,S,T by the northern route
c) P,S,T by the southern route
d) P,S,U by the southern route
e) Q,R,T by the southern route
Ans: b
- ->13) If each of the two parties of knights consists of exactly three members of different
pX-Mozilla-Status: 0009by the northern route, then T must travel by the
a) southern route with P and S
b) southern route with Q and R
c) southern route with R and U
d) northern route with Q and R
e) northern route with R and U
Ans: a

- ->14) If one of the two parties of knights consists of U and two other knights and travels
by the northern route, the other members of this party besides U must be
a) P and S
b) P and T
c) Q and R
d) Q and T
e) R and T
Ans: c

- ->15) If, when the two parties of knights encounter one another after a month, exactly one
knight changes from one traveling party to the other traveling party, that knight must be
a) P
b) Q
c) R
d) S
e) T

Ans: e

PAPER – II

- ->1. How many of the integers between 25 and 45 are even ?

(A)21
(B)20
(C)11
(D)10
(E)9
Ans:d)10

- ->2. If taxi fares were Rs 1.00 for the first 1/5 mile and Rs 0.20 for each 1/5 miles thereafter.
The taxi fare for a 3-mile ride was
(A)Rs 1.56
(B)Rs 2.40
(C)RS 3.00
(D)Rs 3.80
(E)Rs 4.20
Answer :d)Rs 3.80
- ->3. A computer routine was developed to generate two numbers (x,y) the first being a
random number between 0 and 100 inclusive, and the second being less than or equal to the
square root of the first. Each of the following pair satisfies the routine EXCEPT
(A) (99.10)
(B) (85.9)
(C) (50.7)
(D) (1.1)
(E) (1.0)
Answer : A) (99.10)

- ->4. A warehouse had a square floor with area 10,000 sq.meters. A rectangular addition
was built along one entire side of the warehouse that increased the floor by one-half as
much as the original floor. How many meters did the addition extend beyond the original
buildings ?
(A)10
(B)20
(C)50
(D)200
(E)500
Ans: c)50

- ->5. A digital wristwatch was set accurately at 8.30 a.m and then lost 2 seconds every 5
minutes. What time was indicated on the watch at 6.30 p.m of the same day if the watch
operated continuously that time ?
(A)5:56
(B)5:58
(C)6.00
(D)6.23
(E)6.26
Ans :E) 6.26

- ->6. A 5 litre jug contains 4 litres of a salt water solution that is 15 percent salt. If 1.5
litres of the solution spills out of the jug, and the jug is then filled to capacity with water,
approximately what percent of the resulting solution in the jug is salt?
(A)7.5%
(B)9.5%
(C) 10.5%
(D)12%
(E)15%
Ans :A)7.5%

- ->7. A plane travelled K miles in the first 96 miles of flight time. If it completed the
remaining 300 miles of the trip in 1 minute, what was its average speed in miles per hour
for the entire trip ?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
Ans 300+k)/97 * 60

- ->8. A merchant sells an item at a 20 percent discount. but still makes a gross profit of 20
percent of the cost. What percent of cost would be gross profit on the item have been if it
had been sold without the discount?
(A)20%
(B)40%
(C)50%
(D)60%
(E)66.6%
Ansr :c) 50%

- ->10. How many integers n greater than and less than 100 are there such that,if the digits
of n are reversed, the resulting integer is n+9 ?
(A)5
(B)6
(C)7
(D)8
(E)9
Ans )8

- ->10. A millionaire bought a job lot of hats 1/4 of which were brown. The millionaire sold
2/3 of the hats including 4/5 of the brown hats. What fraction of the unsold hats were
brown.
(A)1/60
(B)1/15
(C)3/20
(D)3/5
(E)3/4
Ans :c)3/20

- ->11. An investor purchased a shares of stock at a certain price.If the stock increased in
price Rs 0.25 per share and the total increase for the x shares was Rs 12.50, how many
shares of stock had been purchased ?
(A)25
(B)50
(C)75
(D)100
(E)125
Ans :B)50

- ->12 At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are
purchased at the sale, the amount saved will be What percent of the original price of the 5
tickets?
(A) 20%
(B) 33.3%
(C) 40%
(D) 60%
(E) 66.6%
Ans :c)40%

- ->13. Working independently, Tina can do a certain job in 12 hours. Working

independently, Ann can do the same job in 9 hours. If Tina Works independently at the job
for 8 hours and then Ann works independently, how many hours will it take Ann to
complete the remainder of the jobs?
(A) 2/3
(B) 3/4
(C) 1
(D) 2
(E) 3
Ans :E)3

- ->14. A sink has 12 lits of water some quantity of water is taken out. if the remainng water
is 6 litres less then the water taken out then quantity of water taken out is.
a. 3
b. 6
c. 9
d. 1

- ->15. A decorator bought a bolt of d m number of red chips in any one stack ?
(A) 7
(B) 6
(C) 5
(D) 4
(E) 3
Ans :C) 5

- ->16. which is the 4 digit number whose second digit is thrice the first digit and 3′rd digit
is sum of 1’st and 2′nd and last digit is twice the second digit.
1.2674
2.1349.
3.3343
4.3678

- ->17. In a straight highway 2 cars starts from the same point in opposite directions each
travels for 8 Kms and take left turn then travel for 6 Kms what is the distance between
them now.
1.16
2.20
3.25
4.10

HCL C Interview Questions

1. Which of the following about the following two declaration is true

i ) int *F()
ii) int (*F)()

Choice :
a) Both are identical
b) The first is a correct declaration and the second is wrong
c) The first declaraion is a function returning a pointer to an integer and the second is a pointer to
function returning int
d) Both are different ways of declarin pointer to a function

Ans : c)

2. What are the values printed by the following program?

#define dprintf(expr) printf(#expr “=%d\n”,expr)
main()
{
int x=7;
int y=3;
dprintf(x/y);
}
Choice:
a) #2 = 2 b) expr=2 c) x/y=2 d) none

Ans : c)x/y=2

3. Which of the following is true of the following program

main()
{
char *c;
int *p;
c =(char *)malloc(100);
p=(int *)c;
free(p);
}

Ans : The code functions properly releasing all the memory allocated

4.output of the following.

main()
{
int i;
char *p;
i=0X89;
p=(char *)i;
p++;
printf(“%x %x\n”,p,i);
}

Ans : 0X8A

5. Which of the following is not a ANSI C Langauge keyword?

Ans : Function

6. When an array is passed as parameter to a function, which of the following statement is

correct choice:
a) The function can change values in the original array
b) In C parameters are passed by value. The funciton cannot change the original value in the
array
c) It results in compilation error when the function tries to access the elements in the array
d) Results in a run time error when the funtion tries to access the elements in the array
Ans : a)

7. The type of the controlling expression of a switch statement cannot be of the type
a) int b) char c) short d)float e) none

Ans : d) float

8.What is the value of the expression (3^6) + (a^a)?

a) 3 b) 5 c) 6 d) a+18 e) None

Ans : 5

9. What is the value assigned to the variable X if b is 7 ?

X = b>8 ? b <<3 : b>4 ? b>>1:b;
a) 7 b) 28 c) 3 d) 14 e) None
Ans : 3;
10. Which is the output produced by the following program
main()
{
int n=2;
printf(“%d %d\n”, ++n, n*n);
}
a) 3,6 b) 3,4 c) 2,4 d) cannot determine

Ans : b) 3,4

11. What is th output of the following program?

int x= 0×65;
main()
{
char x;
printf(“%d\n”,x);
}
a) compilation error b) ‘A’ c) 65 d) unidentified

12. What is the output of the following program

main()
{
int a=10;
int b=6;
if(a=3)
b++;
printf(“%d %d\n”,a,b++);
}
a) 10,6 b)10,7 c) 3,6 d) 3,7 e) none

Ans : d) 3,7

13. What can be said of the following program?

main()
{
enum Months {JAN =1,FEB,MAR,APR};
Months X = JAN;
if(X==1)
{
printf(“Jan is the first month”);
}
}
a) Does not print anything
b) Prints : Jan is the first month
c) Generates compilation error
d) Results in runtime error
Ans : b)

14. What is the output of the following program?

main()
{
char *src = “Hello World”;
char dst[100];
strcpy(src,dst);
printf(“%s”,dst);
}
strcpy(char *dst,char *src)
{
while(*src) *dst++ = *src++;
}
a) “Hello World” b)”Hello” c)”World” d) NULL e) unidentified

Ans : d) NULL

15. What is the output of the following program?

main()
{
int l=6;
switch(l)
{ default : l+=2;
case 4: l=4;
case 5: l++;
break;
}
printf(“%d”,l);
}
a)8 b)6 c)5 d)4 e)none

Ans : c)5

16. What is the output of the following program?

main()
{
int x=20;
int y=10;
swap(x,y);
printf(“%d %d”,y,x+2);
}
swap(int x,int y)
{
int temp;
temp =x;
x=y;
y=temp;
}
a)10,20 b) 20,12 c) 22,10 d)10,22 e)none

Ans : d)10,22

17. What is the output of the f

ollowing problem ?
#define INC(X) X++
main()
{
int X=4;
printf(“%d”,INC(X++));
}
a)4 b)5 c)6 d)compilation error e) runtime error

Ans : d) compilation error

18. what can be said of the following

struct Node {
char *word;
int count;
struct Node left;
struct Node right;
}
a) Incorrect definition
b) structures cannot refer to other structure
c) Structures can refer to themselves. Hence the
statement is OK
d) Structures can refer to maximum of one other structure

Ans : c)

19. What is the size of the following union. Assume that the size of int =2, size of float =4 and
size of char =1.
Union Tag{
int a;
flaot b;
char c;
};
a)2 b)4 c)1 d) 7

20. What is the output of the following program? (has been used to indicate a space)
main()
{
char s[]=”Hello,.world”;
printf(%15.10s”,s);
}
a)Hello,.World…
b)….Hello,.Wor
c)Hello,.Wor….
d)None of the above
(1) The combined length of the longer two pieces of rope is 12 metres.
(2) The combined length of the shorter two pieces of rope is 11 metres.
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

21. A certain company paid bonuses of Rs. 125 to each of its executive emplyees and Rs 75 to
each of its nonexecutive employees. If 100 of the employees were nonexecutive, how

many were executive?

1) The company has a total of 120 employees
2) The total amount that the company paid in bonuses to its employees was Rs.10,000
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

22. What fraction of his salary did Mr. Johnson put into savings last week ?
1) Last week Mr.Johnson put Rs 17 into savings.
2) Last week Mr.Johnson put 5% of his salary into savings.
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

23. Each M-type memory unit will increase the base memory capacity of a certain computer by 3
megabytes. What is the base memory capacity, in megabytes, of the computer ?
1) 2 M-type memory units will increase the computer’s base memory capacity by 300%
2) The memory capacity of the computer after 2-M type memory units are added to the base
memory capacity, is 1.6 times the memory capacity of the computer after 1 M-type unit is

added to the base memory capacity.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

24. What fractional part of the total surface area of cube C is red?
1) Each of 3 faces of C is exactly 1/2 red
2) Each of 3 faces of C is entirely white
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Section-C

Instructions ALL NUMBER USED ARE REAL NUMBERS FOLLOWING EACH

QUESTIONS ARE FIVE POSSIBLE ANSWERS LABELED
A).B).C).D)&E).TICK THE BEST CHOICE.

14. How many of the integers between 25 and 45 are even ?

(A)21 (B)20 (C)11 (D)10 (E)9
Ans : d)10

15. If taxi fares were Rs 1.00 for the first 1/5 mile and Rs 0.20 for each 1/5 miles thereafter. The
taxi fare for a 3-mile ride was
(A)Rs 1.56 (B)Rs 2.40 (C)RS 3.00 (D)Rs 3.80 (E)Rs 4.20

Ans : d)Rs 3.80

16. A computer routine was developed to generate two numbers (x, y) the first being a random
number between 0 and 100 inclusive, and the second being less than or equal to the

square root of the first. Each of the following pair satisfies the routine EXCEPT
(A) (99.10) (B) (85.9) (C) (50.7) (D) (1.1) (E) (1.0)

Ans : A) (99.10)

17. A warehouse had a square floor with area 10,000 sq.meters. A rectangular addition was built
along one entire side of the warehouse that increased the floor by one-half as much as the
original floor. How many meters did the addition extend beyond the original buildings ?
(A)10 (B)20 (C)50 (D)200 (E)500

Ans : c) 50