Cognizant Sample Question Paper.

Got this one from one of my friend who joined cognizant after completing B.Sc computers. Hope this is helpful for you guys.

What is the smallest number which when decreased by 5 is divisible by 21, 27, 33, and 55?
A] 1490 b] 10400 c] 15490 d] none
Ans:B


How many distinct car numbers can be formed using two letters and three digits? The two letters must be distinct and first digit should be non zero?
468000 b] 676000 c] 608400 d] 585000

If k+1 represent a three digit even number then which of the following must be necessarily odd number
A] (k+1)/2 b] k(k+1) c](k+1)(k-1) d]k(k-2)

A cavalcade of cars is travelling such that the average distance between them is 9 ft. and 40 percent of the cars have average length of 5 ft, the rest have an average of 3 ft. if the cavalcade has 80 cars. Find the length of cavalcade.
A] 1015ft b] 1024ft c] 1040ft d]720ft


The sum of mo0ther and sons age is 1.1 times fathers age . 10years later this ratio will worsen to 1.25 . if the father is 5 years older than the mother. What is the age of son
A] 8 b]12 c]10 d]14


The two digit number is 3 more than seven times sum of its digits also twice the number formed by reversing its digits is 1 more the number. What is the original number?
A]63 b]83 c]73 d]82
Ans:C

Post cards costing 15 paise each and inland letter costing 75 paise each were purchased for rupees 33. total number of items purchased were 60. find the change in the costr if number of post cards and letter are interchanged?
A] no change b] Rs 18 more c] Rs 18 less d] Rs 12 less.

In a racs guninder was not first. Joginder came in after harinder, indrajeet was not ahead of mahinder. Gunoinder was not in front of joginder. Indrajeet was not fourth or fifth.
Mahinder was not first. Who finished first and second in the race?
A] harinder followed by maninder b] harinder followed by joginder
C] harinder followed by guninder d] cant find
Ans:B(check)


A child is solving a jigsaw puzzle with 306 pieces. Each day that he fits pieces together, there are fewer pieces left to sort. So he is able to fit an extra piece as each day goes by. On the first day he fits 30 pieces. How many days does it take him to complete the puzzle.
A]10 days b]9 days c]8 days d]none


In three coloured boxes Red, Green and Blue – 108 balls are placed. There are twice as many in the green and red boxes combined as there are in the blue box and twice as many in the blue box as they are in the red box. How many balls there in the green box.
A]18 b]36 c]45 d]none

If a man and a half can build a wall and a half in a day and a half, how many walls do 6 men in 6 days ?
A]3 b]6 c]12 d]none

A octagonal table is marked A to H consecutively and clockwise. A black ball is in corner A , while the white ball is in corner E. the black ball moves one corner at a time clockwise, while the white ball moves anti-clockwise. First it goes to the next corner. Then it misses one and goes to the next corner. Then it misses two, then three, and so on. In how many moves and in which corner will the two balls be together.
A]3 moves, corner D b]4 moves, corner Cc]5moves,cornerF d]none

A shop keeper used only 4 weights to weigh any article between 1 kg and 40 kgs.What r the weights?
A]1,3,9,27 b]2,3,7,28 c]7,8,10,15 d]several r possible
Ans:A

Rashmi leaves office at 6.00Pm and catches a 6.30 pm local train that arrives in her town at 7.00 pm . Her father leaves home to pick up her at 7.00pm from the station as she gets off the train. Yesterday , Rashmi left her office early and took a 6.00 pm train and arrived at 6.30 pm .As her father was not there to pick her up,she started walking towards home. Her father left home at the usual time , saw her daughter walking, picked her up and drove home arriving there 10 mins earlier than usual. For how ling did rashmi walk before her father picked her up?
A]10min b]15 min c]20 min d]25 min
Ans:D

125 aliens descended on a set of film on extra terrestrial beings. 40 had 2 noses,30 had 3 legs,20 had 4ears,10 had four ears and 3 had all the three unusual features. How many were there without any of these unusual features?
A]59 b]35 c]80 d]none

COGNIZANT IS HIRING FRESHERS

This is not a fake one. This announcement is not even one week old. Try this and don't miss your chance.


COGNIZANT IS HIRING FRESH TALENTS. Nice Opportunity for freshers to enter the top most software company.

So freshers please upload your resumes to http://careers.cognizant.com/

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Only students who have passed out in 2007

Consistent first class (60 percent and above) academic record in X, XII, Graduation and/or Post Graduation

Students should have a degree in B.Sc (Computer Science /Computer Technology/ IT/ Physics/ Mathematics/ Statistics/ Chemistry/ Electronics) or in M.Sc (Mathematics/ Physics/ Chemistry/ Statistics)


Hope this helps atleast one person.
I will keep all the freshers updated with more openings now in the software industry in this blog. Please feel free to leave your comment on any doubt you have in getting a job.

Fresh Job Seekers

My main aim is to blog on any topic under the sun on which I have good knowledge.But I want to make sure that it should help someone in some way in their life.

So to start with I am planning to talk on fresher’s job search. When I was in college I use to wonder what people are doing in software industry sitting all the time before a computer and was always awestruck with the salary they earn. I did my engineering in computer science and to be honest, I never coded even a single program on my own in my college. Not only me there are couple of my best friends who belong to my category. Even the 10 line program we code will throw 100 errors. So we were very confident that unless otherwise some miracle happens we will not get a job in software industry.

But today I am working in one of the top MNC’s in INDIA. So my dear fresher friends I would say nothing is impossible in this world and I didn’t get this job by luck. It is true that I didn’t learn about the technology when I was in college but after I wrote my final semester exams fear started to take hold of me. The fear of future and the hard work of my parents and their anticipations made me to work on getting a job.

I am not saying that I without putting any effort to learn the technology in my college days, got my job easily after my college. This cannot happen even in dreams. There is a famous phrase “AS YOU SOW SO SHALL YOU REAP”, the seed which I sow during my college days made me to suffer later for almost 10 months without a job. All my other friends got settled quickly and every interview I attended failed. Those days I use to feel if GOD will give me one more chance to study my engineering I would do it properly. I started to regret for my deeds. But as all of us know Time will not wait for any one. Instead of worrying about the past I started asking my friends the secrets behind their success and used those in my life.

So my dear college goers and freshers here is the thumb rule to get a job.

1) Be confident with at least one of the software languages. Be a Master of it. You need not necessarily master every subjects like operating system, data structures, C, JAVA, etc... But be a master of one language AND jack of all the other subjects in your syllabus.
2) Try to speak with your friends in English only. It might be funny when you start it in the beginning. I knew many of us are from villages where we don’t get any opportunity to talk in English. Don’t feel shy that other friend in your class might make fun of you. After of all it is not an Indian language to feel bad and we don’t feel bad if we don’t know any of the other Indian languages like hindi or kannada, so why to feel bad if we don’t know a foreign language. But respect it and learn it as it feeds 90% of the Indians.
3) Prepare well for the interviews. Learn about the company interviewing you before attending the interview. Take mock interviews before going for the real one.
4) Take care of your body language. Learn the DO’s and DONT’S you should follow in your interview.
5) Last but not the least believe in you. Even mountains can be moved if we believe.

I will discuss in detail about each of them in my future posts and am planning to start a tutorial for C in the upcoming posts. In the interim, if you feel that this blog is useful you can leave your comment. Also I would be happy if you can ask me any technology related queries. I had worked on C, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, UNIX, AN ERP, PRO*C, ORACLE AND SQL. If you want me to start a tutorial for any of these other languages which they use in your college I would be pleased to do it.

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