CTS Questions
CTS Questions
25 PER
QUESTION
1. If [x] indicates integral of x i.e is the largest integer less than x and |x| indicates
absolute value of x then what is the maximum value of [x]/|x|.
A. 1 B. 0 C.-1 D. None of these Ans: A
7. Avinash takes 15 days to complete a work and Bada takes 12 days to complete the
same work. If they work in alternate days, In how many days they finish the
work.
A. 13 days B. 13 1/4 days C. 6 1/4 days D. None Ans:
8. There is a circular track of length 400 mts. If A and B Starts at the same point but
in opposite direction with a speeds of 8 m/sec and 12 m/s respectively.Then at
what time after the begining they will meet for the second time.
A. 1hr 40 sec B. 20 sec C. 40sec D. 3hr 20 sec Ans: C
9. In the above question when will they meet for the first time at the starting point.
A. 1hr 40 sec B. 20 sec C. 40sec D. 3hr 20 sec Ans: A
10. If the vertices of the triangle are A(1,2), B(-2,-3) and C(2,3) then which is the
largest angle?
A. Angle(ABC) B.Angle(BAC) C.Angle(ACB) D.None Ans:B
11. If (-1,0), (0,-1) and (-1,-1) are three vertices of a square then what is the 4th
vertex.
12. If [x] indicates integral of x i.e is the largest integer less than x and |x| indicates
absolute value of x then find the value of
[1.99]+[-2.99]+[1.03]+[2.50]
A. 2 B.1 C.-2 D. -5
Ans: A
Step1: Add all the numbers
Step2: If it is less than 10 STOP, else go to Step1.
13. If X=6724 then what is the end result after applying the above algorithm.
A. 19 B.10 C.1 D. None Ans:C
14. If the 4 numbers are arranged in all possible orders then how many solutions are
possible.
A. ONE B. TWO 3.THREE 4. NONE Ans A
15. A trader frauds by 10% while buying and 10% while selling the same. What is the
total gain he obtained during the transaction?
A. 13 B.221/4 C.20 D.None of these Ans.
16. There are three cylinders with same height and surface area. If a new cylinder is
created by melting these three with the same height as before what is the surface
area of the new cylinder when compared to that of the previous.
A. 25% more B.50% more C.100% more D.None
17. If x=a then y=b except when x=b and y=a. If x=a, then p,q,r,s but when x not
equal to a then p,q,r,s=e,f,g,h. If x=m or n then both charecters preeciding it and
following it also equals the same with the precedence to the preceding charecter.
There r 5 questions based on the above.
2. Use of DFT.
4. Storage class in C ?
HR Questions
1. Using the digits 1,5,2,8 four digit numbers are formed and the
6. There are 1000 doors that are of the open-close type. When a
person opens the door he closes it and then opens the other. When
the first person goes he opens-closes the doors ion the multiples of 1
i.e., he opens and closes all the doors .when the second goes he opens
and closes the doors 2, 4 6 8 resly. Similarly when the third one goes
he does this for 3 6 9 12 15th doors resly. Find number of doors that
are open at last.666
7. There are 9 balls of these one is defective. Find the minimum no.
of chances of finding the defective one.2
8. There are coins of Rs.5, 2, 1,50p, 25p, 10p, 5p. each one has got
a weight. Rs 5 coin weighs 20gms.find the minimum number of coins
to get a total of 196.5gms.
11. A man sells apples. First he gives half of the total apples what he
has and a half apple. Then he gives half of the remaining and a half
apple. He gives it in the same manner. After 7 times all are over. How
many apples did he initially have?
Ans:127
12. In a club there are male and female members. If 15 female quit
then the number of males will become double the number of males. If
45 males quit no. of female becomes five times the number of males.
Find the number of females.Ans: 160/3, 83/3
13. When I was married 10 years back my wife was the sixth
member of my family. Now I have a baby. Today my father was dead
and I had a new baby. Now the average age of my family is the same
as that when I was married. Find the age of my father when he was.
60
14. I and two of my friends were playing a game. For each win I get
Rs 3. Totally I had three wins. Player 2 got Rs9 and player 3 got Rs
12. How many games had been played? 10
17. I had Rs100 and I play. If I win I will hav Rs110 and if I lose I
will have Rs90. at the end I have 2 wins and 2 lose. How much do I
have? Ans: Rs. 100
Eg: There are two identical islands. Same tribe lives in the islands. But their
receptiveness
varies.
This is the question. There were four choices and we have to select the most
appropriate
one.
For the abov one the answer is ----- because of climatic changes There was a
question in
which they
gave a polygon with all the external angles. We have to calculate the asked
interior
angle
At least one is telling truth and atleast one is lying. tell the colour of horse?
Answer : grey
20. A son and father goes for boating in river upstream . After rowing for mile son
notices the hat
of his fathefalling in the river.After 5 min. he tells his father that his hat has
fallen. So they
turn round and are able topick the hat at the point from where they began
boating after 5min.
Tell the speed of river? Ans...6 miles/hr
22. Argentina had football team of 22 player of which captain is from Brazilian team
and goalki from
European team. For remainig palayer they have picked 6 from argentinan and 14
from european.
Now for a team of 11 they must have goalki and captain so out of 9 now they plan
to select 3
from rgentinian and 6 from European. Find out no of methods avilable for it. (2
marks)
Ans : 160600 ( check out for right no. 6C3 * 14C6)
23 Three thives were caught stealing sheep, mule and
camel.
A says " B had stolen sheep "
C says " B had stolen mule"
B says he had stolen nothing.
The one who had stolen horse is speaking truth. the one who had stolen
camel is lying . Tell who
had stolen what? Ans. A- camel ;B- mule ;C- horse
24 A group of friends goes for dinner and gets bill of Rs 2400 . Two of them
says that they have
forgotten their purse so remaining make an extra contribution of Rs 100 to
pay up the bill. Tell the
no. of person in that group. Ans - 8 person
25 In acolony there are some families. Each of them have children but
different in numbers.Following
are conditions:
A) No of adult no of sons no of daughters no of families.
B) Each sister must have atleast one brother and should have at the
most 1 sister.
C) No of children in one family exceeds the sum of no of children in
the rest families.
D) Tell the no of families.(5 marks)
Ans : 3 families
26 There are 6 people W,H,M,C,G,F who are murderer , victim , judge , police,
witness, hangman.
There was n eye witness only circumtancial witness. The murderer was
sentenced to death.
read following statement and determne who is who.
3. There r two jars. In the first jar there is 25%Milk and in the second jar there is
50% milk. What ratio of milk should be added to get 12 lit of milk from the two
jars such that we get 62.5% Milk in the whole mixture. [Ans: 6lit : 6lit]
4. There r 8 envelops and 8 letters. What is the probability that the all the letters will
be inserted in the correct envelop.
5. There r two bridges at a distance of 1Km. A person starts rowing upstream from
1st bridge and when he reaches the second bridge he losses his cap. After 15mins
he realises it and turns bach and rows downstream and catches his hat at the
bottom of 1st bridge. Find : The speed of boat in still water
7. There are 1000 doors that are of the open-close type. When a person opens the
door he closes it and then opens the other. When the first person goes he opens-
closes the doors ion the multiples of 1 i.e., he opens and closes all the doors.
when the second goes he opens and closes the doors 2, 4 6 8 respectively.
Similarly when the third one goes he does this for 3 6 9 1 2 15th doors resly. Find
number of doors that are open at last. [Ans: 31]
8. 40 people can do a work in 60 days. After every 10 days 5 persons keeps leaving
the job. In how many days will the job be completed.
10. x=2 + 2^(1/3) + 2^(2/3). Find the value of x^3 -6x^2 - 8x. Something like this we
have to find the answer was 8.
12. A person starts from A to B. After 1hr his tyre gets punctured and he repairs it for
10 mins and travels the rest of the distant with 30km/hr and arrives 30 min late.
had the puncture occured 30 Kms earlier he wud been only 15 mins late. Find the
ditance betn. A & B and his intila speed.
13. What is the co-efficient of the term independent of x in the series [ (1/2)(1/x)^1/3
+(1/x)^(-1/5)]^8. where ^ denotes "to the power of".
14. In an examination a student must answer 65% of the questions correctly. But it
was found that after answer 7 questions corretly out of the first 14, the student
qualified. What is the min no. of questions in the paper.
(a) 22 (b) 18 (c) 20 (d) Can't say
15. There r two jars. In the first jar there is 25%Milk and in the second jar there is
50% milk. What ratio of milk should be added to get 12 lit of milk from the two
jars such that we get 62.5% Milk in the whole
mixture. [Ans: 6lit : 6lit]
16. There r 8 envelops and 8 letters. What is the probability that the all the letters will
be inserted in the correct envelop.
17. There r two bridges at a distance of 1Km. A person starts rowing upstream from
1st bridge and when he reaches the second bridge he losses his cap. After 15mins
he realises it and turns bach and rows downstream and catches his hat at the
bottom of 1st bridge. Find : The speed of boat in still water
18. There are 1000 doors that are of the open-close type. When a person opens the
door he closes it and then opens the other. When the first person goes he opens-
closes the doors ion the multiples of 1 i.e., he opens and closes all the doors. when
the second goes he opens and closes the doors 2, 4 6 8 respectively. Similarly
when the third one goes he does this
CTS Interview Question.
My interview lasted about 1 hour.they gave me a yellow form.in that form they asked
about my skill set.I mentioned "C,C++,OS,Datastructures,Computernetworks".one cool
guy interviewed me.He asked questions in all main subjects.but he asked only basics in
all subjects.the questions are
C++
1. OOPS concepts
2. Inheritence concepts.
3. Access specifiers particularly about Protected access specifier
4. friend functions.
5. about constructors
6. virtual constructor.
7. can we have more than one constructor.
8. how can we call diff constructors.
9. About destructors
10. memory leaking.
OS
11. what is OS?
12. memory mangement concepts.
13. Virtual memory concpets.
14. in virtual memory paging concepts.
15. Mutual exclusion concept.
16. Semaphore concepts
Data structures
17. What is linear & non-linear data structures.
18. Asked about linked list basics(no programs)
19. About stacks and queues.
20. various sorting algorithms
21. asked to explain quick sort with an example.
22. asked to explain binary search algorithm with example.
Software engineering
23. various process models.
24. asked to explain the waterflow model
25. various testing methods.
Computer networks
26. OSI layer.
27. Asked about presentation layer
28. various topologies.
29. asked to explain about the ring topology
30. asked about the hardware address.
31. ARP
DBMS
32. difference b/w DBMS and RDBMS
33. asked about the keys
34. particular about the foreign key.
35. asked an example for Where and having clause query.
HR
36. tell about CTS
37. I am ME graduate.so why you studied ME
38. are you ready to work in mainframe
39. Are you willing to relaocate.
CTS PAPER IN N.I.T. JAMSHEDPUR
7. How many nos. are there between 100 and 200 both inclusive and divisible by 2
or 3?
a) 67 b) 68 c) 84 d) 100
8. Find the greatest no. that will divide 964, 1238 and 1400 leaving
remainder of 41, 31 and 51 resp.
a) 58 b) 64 c) 69 d) 71
9. If all 6’s get inverted and become 9’s, by how much will the sum of all nos.
between 1 and 100 both inclusive change?
a) 300 b) 330 c) 333 d) none of these
10.If all the picture cards are removed from a pack of cards, the sum of the
values of the remaining is
a) 55 b) 220 c) 54 d) 216
11. What is the min. no. of weighing operations required to measure 31 kg of rice if
only one stone of 1 kg is available?
a) 31 b) 6 c) 5 d) 16
12.The ratio of the no. of white balls in a bag to that of black balls is 1:2. If 9
grey balls are added the ratio of nos. of white, black and grey become
2:4:3. How many black balls were in the bag?
a) 6 b) 9 c) 12 d) 8
13. There are 2 toy cars facing each other at a distance of 500 cm from each
other. Each car moves forward by 100 cm at a speed of 50 cm/s and then
moves backward by 50 cm at a speed of 25 cm/s. How long will it take for
the cars to
collide?
14.It takes 8, 12 and 16 days for A, B and C resp. to complete a task. How
many days will it take if A works on the job for 2 days then B works on it
until 25% of the job is left for C to do, and C completes the work?
15.A and B run in opposite directions from a pt. P on a circle with different
but constant speeds. A runs in clockwise direction. They meet for the first
time at a distance of 900 m in clockwise direction from P and for the
second time at a distance of 800 m in anticlockwise direction from P. If B
is yet to complete one round, the circumference of the circle is
16.Bird A starts flying from P to Q at 9.00 A.M. and bird B starts flying from
Q to P at 10.00 A.M. B is 50% faster than A. What is the time at which
they meet if P and Q are 300kms apart and A’s speed is 50kmph.
17.There are 6 cities, of which each is connected to every other city. How
many different routes can one trace from A to B, such that no city is
touched more than once in any one route
a) 48 b) 60 c) 65 d) 72
18.In a group of 80 coins, exactly one is counterfeit and weighs less than the
others. U are provided a scale to weigh to coins. The min. no. of
weightings req. to determine the counterfeit coin is
a) 4 b) 1 c) 5 d) none of these
Directions for questions 19 to 23 Mark a if the ans. Can be obtained using 1 and 2
independently Mark b if the ans. Can be obtained by using only one of the two
statements. Mark c if the ans. Can be obtained by using both statements 1 and 2 but
not either of them alone. Mark d if the ans. cannot be obtained by using 1 and 2
1. When the cart moves 5m, the rear wheel moves R rotations less
than the front wheel
24. A cube of 12cm sides is painted red on each side. It is cut into cubes of 3cm side
each. How
many of the smaller cubes do not have any side painted red?
a) 8 b) 12 c) 16 d) 0
Directions for questions 25 to 28. Kamal Babu came home just after judging a beauty
contest where there were four semi-finalists: Ms.Uttar Pradesh, Ms.Maharashtra,
Ms.Andhra Pradesh and Ms.West Bengal. His wife was very keen on knowing who the
winner was and kamal Babu replied immediately that it was the one wearing the yellow
saree. When his wife asked for more details, he gave the following information:
The four girls were wearing saris of different colors (yellow, red, green, white) and the
runner-up was wearing green. The four girls were sitting in a row, and Ms.West
Bengal was not sitting at either end. There was only one runner-up and she was sitting
next to Ms.Maharashtra. The girls wearing yellow and white saris occupied the seats at
either end. Ms.West Bengal was neither the winner nor the runner-up. Ms.Maharashtra
was wearing white. The winner and the runner-up were not sitting next to each other.
The girl wearing the green sari was not Ms.Andhra Pradesh. Answer the following
questions based on the above information.
27. What was the color of the sari that Ms.Uttar Pradesh was wearing?
a) White b) Green c) Red d) Yellow
28. What was the color if the sari that Ms.Andhra was wearing?
a) White b) Yellow c) Red d) Indeterminate
Directions for questions 29-31. Shweta, Tina, Uma and Vidya were playing a game. The
rule of the game is that the loser doubles the amount of money that each of the other has.
They play four games. A different girl loses each game-in reverse alphabetical order. At
the end of the fourth game, each girl has Rs.32/-.
31. How much did Uma have at the end of the second game?
Directions for questions 32-33. Abel, Lucky, Bingo are three T.V. channels. A survey
shows that 30%, 20%, and 85% of the people watch Abel, Lucky, and Bingo
respectively. 20% of the people watch exactly two of the three channels and 5% watch
none.
33. If another survey indicates that 20% of the people watch Abel and Bingo, and
16% watch Lucky and Bingo, then what % of the people watch only Lucky?
a) 0 b) 5 c) 10 d) 20
Unused wall spaces cannot occur within groups. G and J are paintings from different
centuries. J, K and L are all paintings from the same century. Space no. 5 is always
empty. F and M are 18th century paintings. N is a 19th century painting.
35. If the paintings are hung in reverse chronological order by century, the unused
wall spaces could be
a) 1, 5 and 10 b) 1, 6 and 10
c) 4, 7 and 8 d) 5, 8 and 12
36. Which of the following is a space that cannot be occupied by a 19th century Painting?
a) Space 1 b) Space 6 c) Space 8 d) Space 11
37. If J hangs in Space 11, which of the following is a possible arrangement for
spaces 8 and 9?
a) F in 8 and M in 9 b) K in 8 and G in 9
c) N in 8 and G in 9 d) 8 is unused and H in 9
38. If the 20th century paintings are hung in spaces 1-4 which of the following cannot
true?
a) Space 8 is unused b) Space 9 is unused
c) F is hung in space 6 d) N is hung in space 9
39. If the first paintings in numerical order of spaces are F, O, M, N, G which of the
Following must be
true?
a) Either space 1 or space 4 is unused
b) Either space 7 or space 12 is unused
c) H hangs in space 11
d) Two unused spaces separate the 18th and 19th century paintings
40. You have reached Utopia where you find two kinds of precious stones, rubies and
emeralds. The
worth of a ruby and that of an emerald is Rs.4 lakhs and Rs.5 lakhs respectively
while their
weights are 0.3 kg and 0.4 kg respectively. You have a bag that can carry maximum
of 12 kgs.
How many rubies and emeralds would you carry such that their total value is
maximized?
a) 20 rubies and 15 emeralds b) 8 rubies and 24 emeralds
c) 0 rubies and 30 emeralds d) none of the above
CTS ( Connizant) Question Pattern
For CTS you will first face an aptitude test of 60 mins having 40 questions.Correct
answer carry one mark and wrong answer carry 0.25 marks. Do prepare well for
this test as this is where the main competition is. study general aptitude, some basic
geometry, logical reasoning, time & distance etc.
Questions were from :Quantative (ratio & proportion, inequalities, quadratic etc)-
Aptitude (puzzles)
- English(para followed by deductions, filling blanks with correct words)
TIPS - Practice quantative and puzzles. Refer- R.S.Agarwal, CAT material
next you will be called for a technical interview. the interview is not so difficult if
your technical is good. they ask very basic technical questions, and you will clear it
very easily if your basic concepts are clear. my interview lasted for 20 mins.
questions on Data structures, networks, C (he also asked me to write a small
program). answer confidently and clearly say if you dont know the answer.