Java Interview Questions

1. What is the difference between an Abstract class and Interface?
2. What is user defined exception?
3. What do you know about the garbage collector?
4. What is the difference between java and c++?
5. In an HTML form I have a button which makes us to open another page in 15 seconds. How will you do that?
6. What is the difference between process and threads?
7. What is update method called?
8. Have you ever used HashTable and Directory?
9. What are statements in Java?
10. What is a JAR file?
11. What is JNI?
12. What is the base class for all swing components?
13. What is JFC?
14. What is the difference between AWT and Swing?
15. Considering notepad/IE or any other thing as process, What will happen if you start notepad or IE 3 times ? Where three processes are started or three threads are started?
16. How does thread synchronization occur in a monitor?
17. Is there any tag in HTML to upload and download files?
18. Why do you canvas?
19. How can you know about drivers and database information ?
20. What is serialization?
21. Can you load the server object dynamically? If so what are the 3 major steps involved in it?
22. What is the layout for toolbar?
23. What is the difference between Grid and Gridbaglayout?
24. How will you add panel to a frame?
25. Where are the card layouts used?
26. What is the corresponding layout for card in swing?
27. What is light weight component?
28. Can you run the product development on all operating systems?
29. What are the benefits if Swing over AWT?
30. How can two threads be made to communicate with each other?
31. What are the files generated after using IDL to java compiler?
32. What is the protocol used by server and client?
33. What is the functionability stubs and skeletons?
34. What is the mapping mechanism used by java to identify IDL language?
35. What is serializable interface?
36. What is the use of interface?
37. Why is java not fully objective oriented?
38. Why does java not support multiple inheritance?
39. What is the root class for all java classes?
40. What is polymorphism?
41. Suppose if we have a variable 'I' in run method, if I can create one or more thread each thread will occupy a separate copy or same variable will be shared?
42. What are virtual functions?
43. Write down how will you create a Binary tree?
44. What are the traverses in binary tree?
45. Write a program for recursive traverse?
46. What are session variable in servlets?
47. What is client server computing?
48. What is constructor and virtual function? Can we call a virtual function in a constructor?
49. Why do we use oops concepts? What is its advantage?
50. What is middleware? What is the functionality of web server?
51. Why is java not 100% pure oops?
52. When will you use an interface and abstract class?
53. What is the exact difference in between Unicast and Multicast object?
54. Where will it be used?
55. What is the main functionality of the remote reference layer?
56. How do you download stubs from Remote place?
57. I want to store more than 10 objects in a remote server? Which methodology will follow?
58. What is the main functionality of Prepared Statement?
59. What is meant by Static query and Dynamic query?
60. What are Normalization Rules? Define Normalization?
61. What is meant by Servelet? What are the parameters of service method?
62. What is meant by Session? Explain something about HTTP Session Class?
63. In a container there are 5 components. I want to display all the component names, how will you do that?
64. Why there are some null interface in JAVA? What does it mean? Give some null interface in JAVA?
65. Tell some latest versions in JAVA related areas?
66. What is meant by class loader? How many types are there? When will we use them?
67. What is meant by flickering?
68. What is meant by distributed application? Why are we using that in our application?
69. What is the functionality of the stub?
70. Explain about version control?
71. Explain 2-tier and 3-tier architecture?
72. What is the role of Web Server?
73. How can we do validation of the fields in a project?
74. What is meant by cookies? Explain the main features?
75. Why java is considered as platform independent?
76. What are the advantages of java over C++?
77. How java can be connected to a database?
78. What is thread?
79. What is difference between Process and Thread?
80. Does java support multiple inheritance? if not, what is the solution?
81. What are abstract classes?
82. What is an interface?
83. What is the difference abstract class and interface?
84. What are adapter classes?
85. what is meant wrapper classes?
86. What are JVM.JRE, J2EE, JNI?
87. What are swing components?
88. What do you mean by light weight and heavy weight components?
89. What is meant by function overloading and function overriding?
90. Does java support function overloading, pointers, structures, unions or linked lists?
91. What do you mean by multithreading?
92. What are byte codes?
93. What are streams?
94. What is user defined exception?

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CTS Placement Papers - 13

Hi Everybody,
I'm sharing my interview experience of Cognizant and I will give a brief about aptitude test.
They gave a paper in which following questions were given.

i) Hobbies

ii) Strengths and weakness
iii) Long term and short term goal
iv) Expectation from Cognizant
v) Software orientation
vi) What are qualities requried for software professional and why do you think that you are qualified for software professional. List reasons

Do prepared for this questions and this question in important for interview a good answer of this important.
First they gave us paper of analytical section there were 30 questions time given was 30 minutes.

Analytical section:

* 30 questions.
* Time: 30 minutes.
* No negative marking.

i) 5 questions from data interpretation.
ii) 5 questions from Blood relation i.e family problem.
iii) Statement conclusion i.e statements will be given you have derive conclusion.
iv) 5 questions from coding & decoding.
R.S Aggarwal is more than enough for this section.
Then they took away question paper of analytical question paper.

Verbal section:
* 25 questions.
* Time: 25 minutes.
* No negative marking.

i) Two paragraphs ecah containing 5 question.
ii) Find correct sentence among 4 sentence
iii) Find incorrect sentence among 4 sentence
iv) 5 question from para jumble i.e 4 or 5 sentence will be given you have to assemble them and form a paragraph.

Interview:

Me: Good Afternoon.
Int: Good Afternoon.
Int: Ok, sit.
Int: What is your name?
Me: Told
Int: When did you pass class 10 and 12
Me: Told.
Int: Where do you live?
Me: Told.
Int: Why your class 10 percentage is low ( He asked me because my class 10 percentage was only 60%.
Me: I told I didn't get the right competitive environment
Int: Why do you want to join Cognizant?
Me: I told that I want to join any industry because until now I have only academic knowledge by joining industry I want to gain practical knowledge.
Int: Tell me your favorite subject in last year.
Me: Just told the names of subjects in my 7th semester and told I haven't read properly my last semester because of campusing.
Int: What did you read for campusing?
Me: Aptitude.
Int: Then he asked me to write logic of a C program which was swapping between two variable without using third variable.
Me: I done this properly
Int: Write the logic to reverse a string without using strrev
Me: Done but not properly but he was convinced
Int: Any question from your side

Me: I have 3 to 4 months time then which topic I should prepare
Int: He told me some topic like object oriented programming.
Me: How was my interview sir?
Int: Its ok but other things will also be taken into consideration like your semester marks your 10 & 12 marks and aptitude marks
Me: Ok thank you sir.
On 7th I was selected in Cognizant have fun Guys.
Just be cool and calm during interview.

Cognizant Technology Solutions arranged a campus recruitment program in our college (HIT, Haldia) on 27th December, 2010. Our reporting time was at 6.45 am. Around 650 students appeared in that recruitment process. But, only 316 students were able to qualify the first round i.e, Aptitude test. The question pattern of Cognizant is totally different from other companies. So, you should be well prepared to qualify. And there is no negative marking, so, attempt all questions.

In the answer sheet, there are some questions like follows.

1. Your software exposure.
2. Your hobbies and interests.
3. What do you expect from Cognizant?
4. What is your long term and short term plan?
5. Which skills one should have to be successful in software industry?
6. Which skills among them do you have?

Answer these questions properly, because these answers are very important even than your CV. This answer sheet will be forwarded to the interviewer and they can discuss about these answers with you while PI or personal Interview.

At 2.30 pm result of aptitude. Test published and thank god, my name was in the list. And the next round was PI (Technical+HR) at 7.30 pm, I went to the interview room from a waiting room (In that room we waited for interview).

Me: May I come in sir?


Sir: Oh, Mr. Kallol, can you give me 5 minutes more, please?






Me: Yes, of course. (I was very nervous)
[Sir was giving marks to the previous candidate] After 5 minutes,
Sir: Ok, come in. [ I came inside]






Sir: Mr. Kallol. Baithiye Sir. [Sit down]


Me: Thank you, Sir. [Now, he started reading my answer sheet in front of me and with a smiling face]


Sir: Why your score in graduation is so poor?
[ I scored 84% in Madhyamik, 74% in HS, 59% in B.Sc. and 80.02 in MCA]
I told the reason but, he was not satisfied.
Sir: So, you know Hypertext Preprocessor [PHP]?
Me: Yes sir, actually I have done my minor project in PHP and MySQL.
[I brought my Project report with me, because I was very much confident with my project and I wanted the interviewer to ask me from that project]
Sir: What are you doing in major project?
Me: I haven't decided till now.
Sir: And, what about minor project?
[I was waiting for this moment]
Me: I have built an "Internal mail Server" using PHP and MySQL.
Sir: Ok, Draw and discuss about your project. Why you have used PHP, which protocol you have used, which ports you have used, etc.
[He gave me a pen and paper]

I discussed about every detail of the whole project. And after that I told that I have bought my project report. And he wanted to see it. And I had to explain again while showing the snapshots of my project. And we discussed about jsp and php. He asked some codes of PHP. Some basic queries from SQL.
Sir: Have you remembered C [with a smiling face]?
[I surprised because of this question, How can a MCA student forget C?]
Me: How can I forget it sir? It is the first programming language I have learned.
Sir: So, You have learned C first? I have learned PASCAL, COBOL, FORTRAN first [ In a chatty mood ]. I have done my MCA from NIT, Rourkela. My all india rank was 8. Ok, Kallol say something about you, your family. [I told my name, address, father's name, occupation, my strength, weakness, why they should take me ]
Sir: Thank you, Mr. Kallol, you may go now. Thanks for giving your time. Wish you a happy new year.
[After hand-shake]
Me: Sir, I have some questions, if you don't mind.
Sir: Ok, carry on.
Me: Sir, How was my interview?
Sir: Good, good.
Me: Which degree you prefer the most, B.Tech, MCA or M,Tech?
Sir: Quality matters, if we get a B.Sc student with that quality we will take him.
Me: What we have to do after being selected in cognizant? If we can of-course.
Sir: A continuous training will be provided to you, and after that an exam will be taken. If you can not qualify you will be thrown out. Not only you, everyone have to qualify that test.
Me: Whats the current project going on in Kolkata?
Sir: [Smiling] At this moment 6000 project are going on. Which one among them, I will tell?
Me: Sir, my last question, which technology is used the most in Cognizant?
Sir: Almost everything. Which will bring money, we will do that.
Me: Ok Sir. Thank you.
[ After wishing happy new year and shaking hands again I came out]

My interview was going on for 1 hour. But, I was so much tensed that I thought, it was perhaps for 20-25 mins. After 9 days, on 6th January, 2011 the final result published. 209 students were selected. And My name was in the list again. And, believe me friends, getting a job in your dream company is an wonderful feeling.

So, don't be tensed, just go and crack the interview. And remember some points.
Don't cay CTS in the interview..Just say cognizant.
Always keep a smile on your face.
Always tell the truth.
Be conscious about your spoken English.
Don't try to be over-smart.


Best of luck guys!

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CTS PLACEMENT PAPERS-11

Hi Folks,
This is Jakka Prasad Sir C.R.Reddy College M.C.A 2010. Finally CTS in Hyderabad.
Total Marks :55

Paper consists of two sections.

* Analytical Ability and English offline paper no negative marks.

Time 30 questions 25 mins ability 25 questions 30 mins English. There was a sectional cut-off we don't know how much they will give a form where we need to write the strengths, weakness, software skills long term and short term goals etc be careful about writing these they will ask in interview.

Don't follow gossips predictions
Analytical Pattern:

* Figure sequence
* Syllogims
* Puzzle test
* Coding decoding
* Data interpretation
* Data sufficiency(logical sentence formation)
* Time is crucial

First do what ever you know, may be coding decoding fig sequence etc.

English:
Two passages consists of 10 marks you can score max marks in this section sentence formation 5 marks
pick Correct, incorrect sentences from a list. About 10 questions (2*5).
Guys be careful about time first section kills time you can't even study the whole paper unless you are quick enough results will be with in one day.

R.S Aggarwal enough
All the best!


Hello!

I am Abhinav Mukherjee from st. Thomas' college of Engineering and Technology. My department is Electronics and Communication.

This is my first experience of a campus recruitment process!

Cognizant visited our campus on 6th January, 2011.

Out of 255 eligible candidates 219 cleared the first round (written test). Finally 175 were selected as finalist after the interview.

Written Test:

This consisted of 2 papers

1. Verbal Ability (25 marks 30 mins)

This consisted of 2 comprehension passages, choosing the grammatically correct sentences, syllogisms and finding the odd in a group. The question patterns were repetitve. My suggesstion would be to try and attempt the passages correctly.

2. Logical Resoning (30 marks 30 mins)

This section was not very easy. I remember one puzzle based on blood relation which I couldn't do. This puzzle was not of the type which you will readily find in R.S Aggarwal. The rest consisted of the type coding-decoding, simple puzzles on sitting arrangement and data sufficiency. The last question was on finding out various pecentage based on data provided in two tables. Sincerely solving problems from R.S aggarwal will suffice.

During the test we were provided a form where we had to fill in the required details. Separate time was provided for this.

After about 1 hour 15 mins the result of the test was declared and I was through. Then I had to sit for more than 3 long hours when I was called for my Interview at about 5.30 pm.

Me: May I come in sir?
Int: Yes come in
 Me: Good Evening sir
Int: Good Evening! Please take your seat.
Me: Thank you sir. (He was about 45. He was neither smiling nor very serious.)
Int: Is this your first interview?
Me: Yes sir.
Int: So, where is your school located?
Me: Told
Int: And your house?
Me: Told (He seemed to know the place and so he asked me in some details)
Int: In which area are you comfortable?

Me: 'C' and Basic Electronics
Int: While programming which one will you prefer array or pointer?

Me: Sir, Pointer
Int: Why?

Me: Told (Pointers works with addresses and bla bla bla. He was busy with his own work)


Int: How do you initialize and array?

Me: Told
Int: Can you tell me what is the difference between a structure and a union?

Me: Told
Int: Are you involved in any project work?

Me: Told and described somewhat
Int: OK Abhinav tell me 3 points why I will hire you and 3 points for which I will not hire you?

Me: Sir, I am hardworking, sincere and have the ability to accept challenges so you can definitely hire me. If I don't get selected, I will think that something must have gone wrong in my interview process and not in my aptitude level since I have already cleared the written round. In that case I will try to improve my body language, communication skills and my confidence level.

Int: Ok, Abhinav! I'm done. Glad to meet you. (And he shook hands with me)
Me: Thank you sir (And I walked out quietly)

This was my interview process. It was about 10-12 mins. I was pretty sure I will get through.
Next day when results were announced I was delighted to here my name announced as this was my first job.

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CTS Placement Papers-12

Hi Friends,

This is debasis from B.P.Poddr Institute Of Management & Technology. CTS had visited our college on 13th January, 2011. So I'm sharing a bit of my experience with you.

The events of the day were like this.

1) A ppt by jonal hr head of CTS at 9 am.
2) Aptitute test consisting of 35 non verbal questions 35 mins were provided for this part (R.S Agarwal verbal-non verbal book is enough for this one) and 30 verbal questions for which 30 mins were alloted(barrons or R.S.Aggarwal verbal book is good enough. English was a bit tough acording to me. But if you are preparing for CAT then it would not be a matter of concern. You will be given a form to be filled up during this time.

It contains questions like strenghts & weaknessesYour hobbies, why CTS what qualities you have to join the it industry. Prepare this question before going in the interviewer will be watching all this after the aptitude test 251 people were selected out of . 359 people who sat for the aptitute test. My name was there.

3) Interview (Technical+HR)

I entered the interviewing hall at near about 7.30 pm
Me: Good evening sir, may I have the seat? (manners & showing respect do count a lot over here)
Int: Yeah, have the seat. (he had an age of 40-45 was quite serious always have a little bit of smile on your face. It shows that you are not nervous.
Int: So you have done a summer training isn't it?
Me: Yes sir, I did a training from BSNL on telecommunication and also from microsoft it academy on asp.net
Int: So what were you taught in your BSNL training?
Me: We were actually taught about the working of optical fibre will broadband. etc etc
Int: So what is a broadband?(and he also asked a lot of question regarding this ne)
Me: I told (although I had little knowledge on this one. But still I told everything I knew about it. Just tell confidently)
Int: Are you sure? (he always tried to mis guide me. But never move away from your point)
Me: Yes Sir
Interviewer: Derive a nor gate using two and gate (This is a confidence-breaker question making "nor" with two "and" is not possible. He just wants to check weather you crumble under pressure or not)
Me: Initially I told yes. I will try but after 2 mins of trying I told Sorry sir, but I am not able to do this.
Int: What is the job of "void" in C?

Me: I told.
Int: What will occur if we dont write main() in C.
Me: Compiler error will occur
Int: What type of compiller error
Me: Pardon me sir, but I cant remember it right now
Int: What is function overloading in C?
Me: Actually this was again a confidence breaker question as beacause function overloading was not there in C. It was in C++ or Java. Which were in our ECE syllabus. But still I told whatever I knew about it.
Int: Look debasis, your communication skill is very good. But technical knowledge is quite low.
Me: This was again done to break my confidence. Although I had a avg cgpa was below 7.0 but still I knew that my interview questions correctly.
Me: May be sir that I am lagging in some technical parts. I can definitely work on them & cope up very quickly. I am no less than any other person over here. I am dying to get into Cognizant.
Int: Suppose you were in my chair & you had two candidates infront of you. One is technically very sound the other one is potential like you are but technically weak. Whom you would have selected.
Me: I would have selected both of them
Int: Ok thank you. Do you have any questions (always ask questions this shows your eagerness to know. But don't ask foolish questions like "how was my interview" this looks unprofesional)
Me: I asked "how the recent policies of barrack obama will be affecting the Indian it industry"?
Int: He told, any other question?
Me: No Sir.
Int: Thank you. you may leave.
Me: Thanks a lot sir, have a nice day
Int: You too.
Out of 251 candidates who appeared for the interview 179 were selected & my name was there in the list.
Wish you all the best!
Hope to see you soon in Cognizant.

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CTS Placement Papers - 10

Dear Friends,

Hi I just wrote the CTS test paper at Cochin. This company tests students eqally and doesnot have any technical questions in its priliminary stage, as I felt glad because I am from Instrumentation background.

Here is my experience:

There were 2 papers separately given. The first one was analytical reasoning and the othe paper was English. The test was of 55 minutes total. Before these papers are given we were provided with a form to fill up which included "write your software orientation","your strength and weaknesses" so I urge you all to better be prepared for these things before the exam as they are examined in the end when you qualify the written paper.

Then the first paper of reasoning was given which had questions from syllolisms (easy), find the odd figure out (I found them tough, don't take them lightly), find the next figure, statement and conclusion questions.

There were statement and conclusion questions of two forms.
Type-1 statement 1: All boys are good. 2: Some good are girls. Then we need to find the correct conclusion.

Type-2 statement: When I take the umbrella and go out it rains.
conclusions: a) It rains. b) I do not go out. c) It does not rain. d) I go out.

Answer options: A) ab and cd B) da and bc C) ac and bd D) None follow.
Answer: (b)

Then there was this second section of English. It had 8 questions of sentence correction and two lengthy paragraphs which had 5 questions each. Then there were 4 questions from jumbled sentences. We were asked to form a meaningful paragraph out of it. It was time consuming. Practice reading fast as paragraphs consumed time.

Time is the most important factor in this test. So friends do take note of time. I am waiting for my results as they'll b declared tommorow. Please pray for me.

Wish you all good luck. Belive in God
Any querries do mail me @ piyushsinhaa@gmail.com

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CTS Placement Papers -8

Hi Friends,

This is Shyamananda Sarkar from GCELT. Cognizant visited our college on 19th January. With us there was GCECT also to sit for the selection procedure. I gonna share my experience with you.
Firstly, we were told to come college within 8:30 am. As registration purpose. Then after waiting for about 30-35 minutes it was the time for PPT which was given by a HR of CTS, I don't know who he was but atleast not Nilangsu Ghosal.
Any way he told about the company bla..bla...bla.
After about 45-50 minutes of PPT our main selection procedure started.
It was consisted of 2 parts:

1) Aptitude Test

2) Technical+HR Interview.

1) The aptitude section was of 2 sections.

a) Logical reasoning: 30 marks, questions were very easy, just need to practice little bit from R.S Aggarwal and the foremost needy thing is to be cool and try to solve as soon as possible.
There was no quantitive part.

b) Verval: Two passage one was very easy and another one was long but if you can manage time for all other part you'll surely be able to answer the questions from that passage.

Cut-off was about around 30-35 % in English and 50 % for logical.
Any way total around 180-185 students sat for the exam.
From that 57 GCELT and 45 GCECT students were selected for the next round. Any way there were 10 panels and I was selected for 6th panel and my interview time was 2:50 pm any way I was very tensed but ultimately around 5:10pm I was called for interview.
The person who take my interview was a non-bengali and very cool and was in fancy mood.
My interview was like the following.
Me: Good Afternoon sir.
Int: Good Afternoon. pls have a sit.
Me: Thank you sir.
Int: So, sarkar, will you be able work in Mumbai?
Me: (I was totally shocked, for this question, that too at the very beginning) offcourse sir, I can adjust any where in the world, after all I'm going to join a MNC.
Int: Ok, so Sarkar tum bara sarkar yeah chhota sarkar?
Me: (I thought if I ans in Hindi or any others language rathar than English I may not get chance) no sir, my name only just sarkar and I'm also not like that. I also about the history of our title but a very few.
Int: (He smiled) so who changed surname?
Me: Told
Int: What does you father do?
Me: Told
Int: Where do u father and grandfather live?
Int: What do you in computer domain.
Me: I told Java and Dbms
(but I surprised he didn't ask me not even a single question from Java)
Int: Do you know C?
Me: Yes sir.
Int: So write a simple C code for the output of (a-b)^2. I was so lucky to have this.
Me: I did it promptly
Int: Then he gave me to write the sql query for joining two table as directed by him.
Me: I also did it
Int: Very good.
Then he asked what are you doing in 4th year project.

Me: Told
Int: Then he asked will u be able to work in testing dept. from the very beginning?
Me: Told bla...bla..

Then he told that's all have you any question?
I asked about the Cognizant 2.0
He told.

Then I also asked about the mission Cognizant do for orphans in India.

He told.
That was all of my interview.

It was around 15 minutes.

The result was declared on the next day. I got selected, thank God. it was really impossible for me to crack without my parents, elder sister and as well as my near and dear friends of school and college. I will be always with them.

Totaly 63 got selected. 31 from our college and 32 from ceramic.

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CTS Placement Papers - 9

Hello Friends,
Myself Ankur, I appeared for CTS on campus recruitment on 13th Janunary. Aptitude paper was really really hard.
Specially verbal portion. So be prepare 4 it. Then it was my PI session.
Me: May I come in sir?
Int: Yes please.
Me: Good Evening sir.
Int: Good Evening, take your seat.
Me: Thank you sir.
Int: So, Ankur tell me something about yourself.
Me: Told.
Int: Tell me something about your family.
Me: Told
Int: Do you have any such preference of location?
Me: No sir. I didn't have any such preference of location. I can go anywhere for our company.
Int: Have you done any project?
Me: Yes sir, I have completed a project of loan management system on Oracle PL/SQL. (I wrote DBMS (Oracle PL/SQL) as technical expertise in my CV)
Int: Ok, means you know PL/SQL.
Me: Yes sir.
Int: What is procedure?
Me: Told
Int: Can procedure return the value of any parameter?
Me: Yes sir.
Int: How?
Me: Told
Int: What is RDBMS?
Me: Told
Int: What is trigger?
Me: Told (explained it in the paper)
Int: Write down structure of a PL/SQL program.
Me: Wrote.
Int: How many types of exception are there in DBMS?
Me: Told
Int: Give me an example of pre-defined exception.
Me: Told
Int: Explain 2NF.
Me: Explained with an example.
Int: BCNF.
Me: Told
Int: What is cursor? what is the function of it?
Me: Told and wrote the decalration of cursor.
Int: How many types of cursor are there?
Me: Told
Int: How many types of keys are in DBMS?
Me: Told
Int: Difference between primary key and unique key.
Me: Told
Int: If a cursor opened bt it is not closed. What will happen?
Me: I didn't had proper idea of that question, but I was thinking.
Int: Ok, didn't need to worry, nice to meet you. (formal handshake)
Me: Can I ask you a question sir?
Int: Yes
Me: What is the role of freshers in Cognizant?
Int: Told so many things, one point was. You have to face a lot of challege.
Me: Yes sir, I'm ready to face the challenges.
Int: Ok, then told so many things.
Me: Sir, can I ask you another questions?
Int: Yes.
Me: How'z my interview?
Int: Good, if this is good for you, then also good for me(then laughed)
Me: Also laughed.
Me: Nice to meet you sir, thank you sir (again handshake)

Out of 358. 251 cleared aptitude and out of them 179 was selected. I was really tensed at the time result announcement. Thank god I was selected.

Best of luck!

Hope to see you in Cognizant.

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CTS Placement Papers 7

Hi Friends,
I am siddhartjha das from FIEM. I am from computer science Dept. I am going to share my CTS experience with you. CTS visited our campus on 17th Jan, 2011.

It was three stages.

1. ppt presented by mr. Nilangshu ghosal
2. Aptitude test
3. HR and Technical

There were 480 students appeared for CTS in our collage, friends the ppt was very good, now I want to tell you something about aptitude test.

It had two part, logical reasoning and English, for logical part do R.S Aggarwal. It is more than enough.
Do
1. Puzzles (very important)
2. Picture puzzles (very important)
3. Syllogism (very important)
4. Relations (very important)
5. Odd man out
6. Cubes and dies
7. Data sufficiency (very important)
8. Data interpretation (very important)
9. Statement conclusion.

For English part, do cat material (ims, time etc) just take care of grammatical rules, sentence correction, rapid fast reading ability that's enough for English.

Friend please note that in 2011, the aptitude standard of CTS is most difficult compared to TCS, Infosys.

Before appearing for Written test we have to fill up the below form format. Some Q,s are listed below.

1. Name.__________________
2. Gender__________________
3. Current address:__________________
city:__________________
pin code:__________________
tel.phno:__________________
mobile no.__________________
4. Permanent address.__________________
5. E-mail__________________
6. Nationality__________________
7. Academic details (10th %, 12th or diploma%)__________________
8. Each Semester percentage and year of passing.__________________
9. Have u cleared all your arrears (backlogs)?__________________
10. Do u have any standing arrears (presently do u have any backlogs)?__________________
11. Software orientation:__________________
12. Extra curricular, Hobbies and Interests.______________________________________________________
13. Strengths and weakness.__________________
14. Expectations from cognizant.______________________________________________________
15. Your short term plan and long term plan with cts.____________________________________
16. What are the qualities a software professional need to excel in his field?_________________

Now in technical interview part, people from cse please do prepare C (pointers, functions, array, basic concept, do sorting, gcd, fibo, factorial, prime, call by value, by reference, array of ptrs, ptrs to array etc.), Java(oops, thread, exception), data structure (linked list, tree, sorting, recurtion, stack, queue), DBMS (normalization, rules of entity, transaction) very carefully.

Else prepare C, data structure plus departmental subjects.
Please do prepare for final year project, my HR told me to draw whole E-R diagram of my final project, triggered so many technical questions in a random way.
Please note that, the technical part is most important in third round. As a cse people you should have good technical knowledge.
Some sample answer of HR questions are given bellow.

1. Why do you want to join our company?
Cognizant is a well known prestigious IT company. It is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. With over 50 global delivery centers and more than 100,000 employees as of December 1, 2010, CTS combine a unique global delivery model leading to customer satisfaction. A member of the NASDAQ-100 Index and S&P 500 Index, Cognizant is a Forbes Global 2000 company and a member of the Fortune 1000 and is ranked among the top information technology companies in BusinessWeek’s Hot Growth and Top 50 Performers listings. Its estimated revenues for 2010 is $4.55 bill
Hence, for a young, hard working IT graduate like me, CTS is one of the best company to join.

2. Why should I recruit you?
Ans: I am honest, hard working person and have performed well in my academic carrier. I have got first class marks through out my carrier. More over, I am a good team player who can play important role in the success of the organization. This is a win – win situation where I will get a chance to utilize my skills and grow which will in turn help this company to grow.

3. Do you have any question?
Ans: I have nothing much to ask at this point of time. Well, a quick question came in my mind. Could you please tell me about the initial training programs for the fresh candidates like me? This is because I have heard that your company offers very good training to the freashers.

I shall wait for the interview results. Thanks!
That's all about apti part.

Please prepare questions "why CTS","tell me about yourself" these two is most common, and I also face just these two, after two days CTS created a history at fiem. They took 244 after around 340 cleared aptitude, and I was one of them, hope to meet in CTS.

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CTS Placement Papers - 6

Hello Friends,
I would like to share my interview experiance in Cognizant.
Myself Ramana Reddy MCA-2010, I appeared for CTS Off campus recruitment on 16th Janunary, MLR Engineering College, Hyderabad. The Aptitude paper was little bit easy and little bit hard.

Total question: 55
Total marks: 55
No negative mark, but sectional cut-off is there.
The exam consists of two sections.
1) Analytical Pattern:
Figure sequence (very easy)
* Syllogims (easy)
* Puzzle test (easy but time taken take care about time here)
* Coding decoding (very easy no preparation required)
* Data interpretation (Difficult)
* Data sufficiency (logical thinking apply here)
* First complete coding, decoding, fig sequence and then follow remaining.
Note: In this section we have to secure min 16 marks for qualifying, otherwise may be disqualified.
2) English:
Two passages (one easy, one difficult) (10 marks).
Sentence formation (5 marks).
Pick Correct, Incorrect sentences from a list.
Note: In this section we have to secure min 12 marks for qualifying, otherwise disqualified.

After 30 mins they collect the first section paper (analytical) and give second section paper(English).
First section kills time, you can't even study the whole paper unless you are quick enough results will be with in one day. I got the mail from Cognizant on that day at 11pm.

My technical and HR on Jan-18th at 8.30am in CTS company, VBIT park, Madhapur.
Technical round:
Totally 30 panels were there for technical interview.
Don't call like CTS, try to call it Cognizant at each and every time.

Me : Excuse me sir.
Int : Yes
Me : Good Morning Sir.
Int : Very good morning, take a seat.
Me :Thank you sir.
Int : So, Ramanareddy tell me some thing about you from your schooling to college life
Me : Told
Int : Tell me something about your project?
Me : Told
Int : What is your role in the project? (this Q was very imp and common Q for everybody)
Me : Told
Int : So, you are came from Andhra University
Me : Yes, sir.
Int : What is topology?
Me : Told
Int : What is AI (Artificial Intilgence)?
Me : Sorry I did’t recall right now.
Me : At that time I requested sir please ask me Q’s on C, C++, Java, SQL, DS, I am strong in technical wise.
Int : Ok, write a program on arithmetic exception?
Me : Blah blah.
Int : Write a program on Double LinkedList?
Me : Blah blah.
Int : Write a program for Selection Sort?
Me : Blah blah.
Int : Ok, good, what is Normalization?
Me : Told upto 3rd Normal form only and told to him, sir I don’t know about remaining forms.
Int : Ok, take 3 tables and do the normalization.
Me : I completed this task fastly (on emp, dept, location).
Int : Can you write 'where' clause in 'group' By function?
Me : No sir, we have to use 'having' instead of 'where'
Int : Tell me about your family?
Me : Told
Int : You have any questions?
Me : Sir, you didn't terminate atleast one employee from our company at the ressision time, how did you faced this difficulty complexity problem with effectively .
Int : Told
Int : Ok, Ramanareddy all the best, wait outside for sometime.
Me : Thank you sir.
Within 5 min one employee came and told to me. You have qualified in 'Technical round' and wait 5 more mins for HR round.
HR round:

Me : Excuse me sir,
Int : Yes, take your seat.
Me : Thank you sir, good morning sir.
Int : Tell me something about ur project?
Me : Again told.
Int : Tell me something about you?
Me : Told
Int : Tell me what u r doing in free time?
Me : Told
Int : He saw my OMR sheet and asked me, did you clear all the subjects from schooling to PG?
Me : Yes sir
Int : Show your original marks memos.
Me : I showed to him. He watched my marks memos for 5-10 mins
Int : Ok you can leave now, If you have qualified we will mail back to you later.
Me : Thank you sir.
On 20th at 9.15 pm I got mail from CTS, wow I got job in CTS. Now I am CTS family, my joining date is Jan-27th in Hyderabad.
Ok, prepare well and Best Of Luck.

I hope to see you in our Cognizant family.

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CTS Placement Paper - 5

Hello Friends,
M Gareema Bhandari from Orient group of Institutes Bhopal. CTS was the first company in our Institute. i.e on 14th and 15th January 2011.
CTS process was in 2 steps
Written test
* Reasoning section
* Verbal section
Interview:
Both HR and Technical were taken together as 1 round.
Written
Reasoning section: All the questions of syllogism were asked. Tricky questions of syllogism were asked in this our english ability is also checked 30 questions were their. For half an hour.

Verbal section: In verbal section simple basic grammar skills were checked. No antonym or synonym were asked. Only the person with, clear concept of english grammar can attempt. All the questions correctly.

Please do practice the questions of similar relations. Verbal was also for 30 minutes 30 questions.
Both the papers were given seperately for 30-30 minutes.
Interview
My interview was the longest in my pannel. For everyone it was 20 to 25 mins mine was 30 mins.
My technical is not that strong. But I have very good communication skills. Thus, I went in very confidently. He asked me. To tell him about myself. Seriously this is the answer when you can actually drive your interview. I spoke so elligently that he was very impressed.
Than he asked me some technical questions I think 3 he asked of which I gave none answer. But I convince dhim by saying that." sir its not luck I dont know the answer. Yesterday when result was announce. My neighbours and relatives were all at ma room and I was already nervous and I didn't got the time to browse through ma notes"
He smilled at me then I said that sir ma technical is not dat good but if I will revise ma notes than definitely I can handle the questions.
So, he then stated asking me situational questions some of tham are
(1) Say you and your best friend made a project but it was rejected by the customer. You know that it was becuse your friend made a mistake in the project. Now, your boss is asking you to tell him who made the mistake. Will you tell your boss about the mistake done by your friend?

(2) Your boss gave you a project. To be done in 10 day. But it is impossible for you to complete it in 10 day. What will you do?
(3) Your friends birthday is let us say in January 1989 but you don't know your frrends date and day. How can you calculate it. By just asking him 1 questions. You cannot ask him directly his b"day?
Like this 9 situational questions were asked to me. I gave all the answers very confidently. With possitive attitude and very good communication skills.
He even asked me technical questions practically. like, if there is a car say"CIVIC" than what will be the object and what will be the function and what will be the class.
I just spoke out whatever was cuming into ma mind. Because i'm not good in technical. But I said with confidence after 30 minutes he asked me do you have any questions to asked
I asked him 2 questions about there logo "GO GREEN" and "HOW SOCIALLY INTACT IS CTS"
after asking the questions
He said that "Gareema you have a very impressive approach have a nice day"
I was selected in CTS. So, the conclusion is, be confident. Written is very easy and one should be very confident in front of the HR.
All the very best!

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CTS Placement Paper - 4

Hi Friends,
I would like to share my interview experience with Cognizant.

Myself G Parmesh B Tech-2010, I had appeared for CTS Off-campus recruitment on 5th February, 2011 at MLR Engineering College, Hyderabad.

The Aptitude paper was easy but is time consuming.
Total question: 55
Total marks: 55
No negative marking but there is a sectional cut-off.

The exam consists of two sections.
1) Analytical Pattern:(30Q)
1) Figure sequence
2-4) Syllogisms
5-9) Data Sufficiency
10-13) Puzzle Test
14-17) Coding decoding (Pattern some what different from previous papers)
18-23) Figure Sequence
24-28) Data interpretation
29-30) Data sufficiency
Minimum : 50% i.e, 15+
2) English:(25Q)
1-3) Pick 2 Correct Sentences from 4 Sentences
4-8) Passage1 Regarding "Nelson Mandela" (Got In my Paper but there are 4 sets)
9-13) Passage2 Regarding "Fossilized remains of pterosaurs" (Got In my Paper but there are 4 sets)
14-15) Pick Incorrect Sentences
16-17) Pick Correct Sentences
18-22) Jumbled Sentence Arranging
23-25) Pick Incorrect Sentences

Minimum : 35-50% i.e, 12+
After 30 mins they will collect the first section paper (analytical) and give the second section paper(English).
First section kills your time, you can't even study the whole paper unless you are quick enough.
Results will be displayed in cognizant website i.e., Login with your Application ID and DOB regularly and check status. Me waiting 4 the results.
Don't rely on mail.
Prepare well guyzzz.
All the Best!

Reasoning / Analytical: 30 Minutes, 30 Questions
Verbal English: 25 Minutes, 25 Questions
Reasoning/Analytical:

1. Figure
2. Syllogism
3. Logic(unless u....,only if....)
4. Data interpretation
5. 3x3 matrix with some condition-like a puzzle
6. Coding-decoding

Verbal English:
1. Reading comprehension-2 paragraphs
2. Rearrangement of jumbled sentences in paragraph
3. Which one is most gramatically correct from a set of sentences
4. Other 5 questions-I couldn't remember
Actually there was 1 interview including both technical & HR

Technical Interview:
Me: may I come in sir?
Sir: Yes, please take your seat
Me: Thanks
Sir: What's your favorite subject?
Me: Java
Sir: Why is Java so important?
Me: Told its features
Sir: What's the difference of Java with other object orientd language?
Me: Told
Sir: What is DBMS?
Me: Told
Sir: What's Relation in RDBMS?
Me: Told
Sir: What's Normalization & func.dependency?
Me: Explained
Sir: What's 2NF and 3NF?
Me: Explained with examples
Sir: Give sum real example (i.e attributes like emp_name etc.)
Me: Gave
Sir: What's your final year project?
Me: Told
Sir: How are you storing data?
Me: Told
Sir: Tell me its features
Me: Told
HR Interview:
Sir: Tell me about yourself?
Me: Told
Sir: What's your body weight?
Me: Told
Sir: How long will you take to complete 100 m race?
Me: Told
Sir: How will you manage 3-4 hours of journey to/from Bantala, kolkata (CTS' new campus in Kolkata)
Me: Told bt he was not satisfied
Sir: Asked again the same question
Me: Told that in that case I have to shift to a place nearer to Bantala
Sir: Ok, that's a better alternative
Sir: Nice to meet you & a warm hand-shake with me.
Appeared in Aptitude: 358
Cleared Aptitude: 251
Finally selected: 179
1. Prepare 1/2 subjects very well
2. Follow R.S Aggarwal's Verbal-Nonverbal reasoning, Objective General English
3. Follow company's aptitude questions from various sites
4. In interview never try to be over-smart or very straight-forward

Best of luck!

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CTS Placement Paper - 3

Hey,
There I'm Sourav Podder from B.P. Poddar Institute Of Management & Technology, Kolkata. I'm currently doing final year of B.Tech, Computer Sc. Engineering (4 years). I am very happy that I'm placed in my dream company, Cognizant. Cognizant came to my college for recruitment on January 13th, 2011 (Written Test, Technical & HR). I wanna share my experiance to FW users as it might help them to figure out what Cognizant's selection process actually is.
On the Day,
1) A ppt.
2) A written test. Before actually start writing the test, you will be asked to fill a form & give the following info:
1. Name, Date of Birth, Sex, Age, Permanent Address, Current Address.
2. 10th percentage and 12th percentage, year of passing etc.
3. Cumulative and individual percentage of the semesters.
4. Software Orientation (Programming languages known)
5. Hobbies and extra curricular activities
6. Strengths and weakness
7. Expectations from Cognizant
8. Long term and short term goals in Cognizant.
9. Qualities required for a software professional.
10. Why do you think that you are qualified for IT companies?
(Note: This info is more powerful than your resume. Please, prepare it well and write things very very clearly. Because, this info will be forwarded to your HR!)
The written test comprised of 2 sections: Analytical and Verbal. The details are given below:

* Analytical Section (30 questions, 30 minutes)

1) Figure(finding odd figure,finding similiar figure,figure completion).


2) Logic(Syllogisms/Logical deduction & Binary Logic/Logical Connectives).
3) Puzzle.
4) Data Interpretation.
5) Coding Decoding.

* Verbal Section (25 questions, 25 minutes)
1) 2 passages.
2) Find correct sentences.
3) Find incorrect sentences.
4) Jumbled sentences & you have to choose their correct orders.
(Note: Totally 55 questions. You gotta finish it in 55 minutes. This pattern is very new. This pattern may be valid for the next two years. For section 1, refer R.S. Aggarwal's Verbal & Non-verbal Reasoning and R.S. Aggarwal's Quantitative Apptitude only for DI.
For section 2, you need to be more thorough in English Grammar. This section would be tough for those who aren't good in English.
358 students sitted in the aptitude test & 251 cleared & I was one of them. (They also declred the panel no. of the selected candidates also)
3) Interview (Technical+HR)
Me: Good evening sir.
Int: Good evening, have the seat. (he had an age of around 30 was quite friendly, smiling always have a little bit of smile on your face. It shows that you are not nervous.)
Int: So you are Sourav? (in the mean time he is going through my aptitude marks, the afforesaid forms)
Me: Yes sir.
Int: Sourav tell me about yourself.
Me: I started & after a some time he stopped me.
Int: So what are your interests & hobbies?
Me: Sir, it's listening to music, surfing the internet, playing cricket & I also love to travel many places.
Int: What type of music?
Me: Sir, soulful music.
Interviewer: What is soulful music?
Me: Something touches my heart.
Int: (with a smile)That is very difficult to say which type of song touches which one's heart. But what type of song touches your heart?
Me: Sir, I like Rahat fateh ali khan's song very much & I also like sonu nigam's meledious song as well & these types of songs but I don't like those hiphop & hard rock.
Int: What are Rahat's recent song?
Me: From Salman khan's movie Dabbang "tere mast mast do nain" & prior to this I also like the song"dil to bachha hai ji" from Ishqiya.
Int: The movie Dabbang is also famous for another song (he is soo friendly)
Me: Yes sir, "Munni Badnam Hui".
Int: Do you like any recent Bengali song?
Me: Yes sir,from movie "autograph" I like Anupam Roy's song "amake amar maton thakte dao" & also I like Rupam's song from dat movie "beche thakar gaan".
Int: Do you study Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any time of your semestar?
Me: Yes sir, in the last semester.
Int: Then you are in trouble (with a smile) ok do you like AI?
Me: No sir, I didn't like the subject but for the sake of semester i've to go through it.
Int: Ok what is theorem? (I even don't remember the name of the theorem) no problem, if you don't know it.
Me: No sir, I didn't know it.
Int: Ok,what is B-Tree & B+ Tree?
Me: I answered (he was fully impressed with my answer & when I tried to elongate it he said "dis is enough I have found what i want")
Int: What is Weak Entity Set?
Me: Again I satisfied him with my answer.
Int: Now coming to networking what is the difference between a switch & a bridge?
Me: (This is a shocker for me as I didn't expect a question from networking because I mentioned C & Java as s/w orientation in the form) I tried to say something & went on saying bla bla bla.
Int: No,this is not correct
Me: Sir, actually I'm not in touch with networking because I studied it in 5th semester & after that I'm not in touch with it.
Int: But I will try to touch all the subjects & you will have to give atleast one correct answer from that subject otherwise I will ask questions from dat subject.
Me: Ok sir.
Int: What is packet switch routing & circuit switch routing?
Me: (after a bit of pause & thinking) No sir, I cann't remember it right now.
Int: Ok you write down the 7 layers of OSI model? (he gave me pen & paper)
Me: After giving some try I only manage to write only 5 layers (at this moment I started to panic a little bit)
Int: Ok you write a valid ip address & say which class it belongs?
Me: 127.0.0.1 & after some pause I said it's in class A.
Int: Ok now we can move to other subject.
Me: I released a huge sigh of relief actually I made wild guess about the class of the IP address.
Int: Java?
Me: Yes sir.
Int: How can you create threads in Java?
Me: I answered & satisfied him with my answer.
Int: So, what is the best choice extending Thread class or implementing Runnable interface & why?
Me: Implementing the Runnable interface & also explained the reason (but he is not fully satisfied with the reason)
Int: Now OS?
Me: Yes sir (with a fear in my mind because I'm even not in touch with OS)
Int: What is Virtual Memory?
Me: The memory which doesn't exist physically.
Int: (with a smile) you are trying to tell me the dictionary meaning.
Me: No sir, actually I'm not comfortable in memory management part but i'm comfortable in semaphore etc in process management part.
Int: (with a smile) I didn't ask you that ok tell me what is deadlock?
Me: I told & satisfied him.
Int: How you can detect deadlock?
Me: I told dat by using RAG, WFG & by some Deadlock detection algorithm.
Int: What is RAG & WFG?
Me: Resource Allocation Graph & Wait for Graph.
Int: What are the differences between them?
Me: I told that RAG involves Resource but WFG don't involves Resources it only involves processes & I also draw an eg. of both RAG & WFG.
Int: Are you sure in WFG there is no resource?
Me: Yes sir.
Int: No it's not correct. (he was checking my confidence)
Me: Sir, as far as I know there is no resource in WFG.
Int: Ok, I think i'm done. Do you have any questions?
Me: Yes sir, What are the improvements I have to make to be successful in the organisation?
Int: I cann't tell you that seeing you such a short period. But as a fresher you must have the mentality to learn, effective communication skills & good team work capability.
Me: Ok sir & one more what are the expectations of the company from me as a fresher?
Int: As I already told mentality to learn, communication skill & team work capability.
Me: Yes sir, according to me i'm a quick learner & good team man & I also have effective communication skills. So I think I will be successful. I have some problem in some subjects like networking because I'm not in touch with these subjects recently. But I have full command & confidence in my subject C & Java etc.
Int: Ok, thank you.
Me: Thank you sir.
Our result was announced on the evening of 15/01/2011 as Infosys was sharing 0 slot with Cognizant.

Out of 251 candidates who appeared for the interview 179 were selected & my name was there in the list.

Wish you all the best!

Hope to see you soon in Cognizant.

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CTS Placement Paper -2

Hello Friends,
This is DHIVYA recently i attended the cts aptitude test on 30 jan '11. At the beginning they give a paper called "DATA SHEET" in which u have to fill all details like NAME ; PERSONAL INFORMATION ; ACADEMIC DETAILS ; STRENGTH WEAKNESS ; SOFTWARE PROFESIONAL ; SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM PLAN ; EXPECTATIONS FROM CTS . They just give only 10-15 min to fill all these details suddenly without telling the time duration they ask us to start writing the exm so be careful we have to write as fast as we can... after completing the exm we can write these fill up form... as i got 10 min time after completing my exm so i used my time by writing fill up form.

Paper was easy it contains the following pattern.

* Analytical Section (30 questions, 30 minutes)
Q(1) : Choose the different figure
Q(2-3) : Logic
Q(4-5) : Logic
Q(6-7) : Logic
Q(8-9) : Logic
Q(10-13) : Puzzle
Q(14-17) : Encoding & Decoding
Q(18-21) : Figure Sequence
Q(22-24) : Choose the similar figure
Q(25-28) : Data Intrepretation
Q(29-30) : Logic

* Verbal Section (25 questions, 20 minutes) (15) , (10)
Q(31-32) : Identify correct sentence
Q(33-37) : Reading Comprehension I
Q(37-42) : Reading Comprehension II
Q(43) : Identify the correct sentence
Q(44-46) : Identify the incorrect sentence
Q(47-51) : Sentence re-arrangement
Q(52) : Identify the correct sentence
Q(53-55) : Identify the incorrect sentence

This blue print is the same as how they asked in exam... And i would like to give some tips regarding the exam... first to attend encoding and decoding ; figure sequence ; similar figure ; logical deductions and connectives ;correct incorrect sentence and then to passage finally end the exm with interpretation... as bcoz interpretation questions are very tough and we could not able to solve as the calculations to be done are more.. so what i suggest u to attend it at last... This is the way i followed in my exam where i saved 10 min time...
Books: R.S.AGGARWAL (VERBAL AND NON VERBAL)
TIME BOOK For LOGICAL CONNECTIVES
These two books are more than enough to study for clearing the exam.
And at one week later i got mail stating i cleared Aptitude and asked me to come for Technical in MEPZ on 5 FEB 2011 at 11.00 A.M.
To my surprise there was GD round... All batch consists of 10 members... My HR was very Cool ... He gave comfort by talking in general and he also told that its enough of talking atleast one line but to talk bravely and loudly this was his criteria for selecting candidates but other HR insisted on GRAMMATICAL USAGE it completely depends upon each HR ... and to our surprise again he asked us as each and every person can talk their own topic... And we all got cleared in our Batch.

Next is TECHNICAL HR ... I attended where at the beginning he asked generally about my college and my family... and
INT : he asked why my 10 , 12 , UG was reduced by 1 % ...
ME : I explained
INT : he was satisfied .... He then asked Why u came for IT field as u where from E.C.E. background...
ME : I explained... He asked me did u attend any Core Company ... I said attended got selected also....
INT : Asked why u didnt proceed with that company...
ME : I explained.
INT :He started asking what all languages (S/W) u knw...
ME : Told (He cross checked the DATA SHEET) I told i knw DATA STRUCTURES also ...
INT : He told good.. Started asking questions from that...
INT : wat is bubble sort
ME : explained
INT : quick sort , Linked list types and explain..
ME : explained
INT : wat is other name for queue and stack
ME : explained
INT :asked to draw and explain Circular linked list
ME: explained
INT : asked to write prog
ME : i told confidently i dont knw prog as i ididnt prepare for it but i knw all the logics...
INT : He said ok ! asked to explain Stack and Queue.
ME : explained
INT: finally told nice to meet u ... Thank u and asked me to wait for results.
ME : thank u Sir.
After a long gap of 1 hour my Results came "I GOT SELECTED" ... After 5 mins they asked me to attend THE FINAL ROUND i.e., HR ROUND....
HR : he greeted me
ME : me too
HR : Asked me to show my certificates of 10 ,12 UG (This is nothing but to cross check the %)
ME : showed
HR : Told ur eligible
ME : felt happy
HR : Asked to TELL ABOUT YOURSELF
ME : told
HR : asked about my college
ME : told
HR : finally told ur eligible and also iam meeting all the criteria for CTS and he asked me to proceed ... He also added to check mail for my HR results.... Finally told Nice meeting you
ME : told thank you Sir...
After 3 days on 15 Feb 2011 ... GOT MY HR RESULTS STATING THAT IAM SELECTED... IAM SO HAPPY TO BE A PART OF COGNIZANT... SEE YOU THERE SOON... IF FEEL THIS PAPER IS USEFUL AND IF YOU HAVE DOUBTS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO MAIL ME ... MY ID dhivya.monster@gmail.com .... ONLY ONE POINT I WISH YOU TO REMEMBER IS
* THAT PREPARE WELL
* BE COOL
* BE COMFORTABLE
* JUST SAY IF YOU KNW THE ANSWERS I KNW OR ELSE TELL I DONT KNW ... BE STRAIGHT FORWARD BCOZ CTS PEOPLE LIKES ONLY STRAIGHT FORWARD PEOPLE... SEE YOU SOON THERE... BYE.... TAKE care.

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CTS Placement paper-1

Hi Everyone,

Mine was a morning 7:45 batch. Around 150 were there in my batch. There were more batches on the same day so i'm not sure about the total number of students who all attended that day. The paper was conducted by MERITRACK and they said they would announce the result on this Tuesday that is on 21st September on CTS website.

When i started giving test i was really amazed, the pattern had completely changed. There were only 50 questions in all and two sections Verbal and Analytical. The paper was damn easy. This was my 12th interview so was bit nervous asusual. I can give you an idea on how the paper was but i'm sorry I can’t remember any questions.

1.) Verbal Section

There were questions like

A) Two huge passages were given and there were 5 questions for each passage. I would recommend you to attempt these passages at the end.

B) Around 5-6 questions on finding which part of the sentence had an error.EX-

He thought (a)/he might (b)/not be able (c)/to do a job (d)

We had to find which part of the sentence had errors.

C) Around 5-6 questions on arranging sentences in the order in which they might have occurred.EX-

a) The third calls for high aces to channel updrafts.

b) Some paleontologists are of the opinion that the pterosaurs jumped from s dropped from trees or perhaps rose into the light winds from the crests of waves in order to become airborne.

c) The second hypothesis seems unlikely because large pterosaurs could not have landed in trees without damaging their wings.

d) Each theory has its associated difficulties.

e) The first makes a wrong assumption that the pterosaurs hind feet resembled a bat's and could serve as hooks by which the animal could hang in preparation for flight.

OPTIONS

1) a,e,d,b,c

2)b,d,e,c,a

3)d,a,e,c,b

4)a,b,e,d,c

D) Around 5-6 questions on finding the wrong sentence from a set of given sentences.

2) Analytical Part

This part to my amazement didn't have anything from R.S Aggarwal quantitative aptitude. There we not even a single formal question from percentages or ratio proportions or ages anything u could ever imagine the whole paper was kind of non verbal reasoning. The questions were like

a) Around 4-5 questions were like finding the odd figure out of given figures. Very Very Simple.

b) Around 4-5 questions were like three figures were given and we had to find the fourth one based on some pattern.(Was a bit tough)

c) I had some login problem in my system before beginning the test, so i was sitting idle for 15 mins in the beginning and at that time, i was just gazing at the systems of students who were giving the test. Many of them had a question based on pie chart. A pie chart was given and 5-6 questions were based the pie chart.

On the other hand when i started giving test i had a question based on a table. I had to take some percentages based on the given data. I didn’t get any questions from pie charts.

d) Some 5-6 questions based on syllogism. Eg: Some dogs are cats. All cats are cows.

e) Around 5-6 question were based on logic like if it rains, then he will dance.(These questions were in the form of data sufficiency.

This is all i can remember. Make sure you prepare from R.S Aggarwal Verbal and Non Verbal reasoning very thoroughly. Be very calm and take the paper very carefully because it full of logical questions, you need to have a free mind while giving the test. I'm still waiting for the results that are to be announced on 21st September on www.congnizant.com and i'm really very very scared. Please do pray for me.

Most important All the best may God be with you all..

Hope this article helps.

Take care all.

Hi Friends, I am Subhasish Mondal student of FIEM from CSE department. I am going to share my CTS experienced with you. CTS visit our college on 17-Jan-11.

CTS recruitment going through in 3 steps

PPT(Pre Placement Talk)

Aptitude Test

HR-Technical Round.

Before appearing for Written test we have to fill up the below form format. Some Q,s are listed below.

1. Name.__________________

2. Gender__________________

3. Current address:__________________

city:__________________

pin code:__________________

tel.phno:__________________

mobile no.__________________

4. Permanent address.__________________

5. E-mail__________________

6. Nationality__________________

7. Academic details (10th %, 12th or diploma%)__________________

8. Each Semester percentage and year of passing.__________________

9. Have u cleared all your arrears (backlogs)?__________________

10. Do u have any standing arrears (presently do u have any backlogs)?__________________

11. Software orientation:__________________

12. Extra curricular, Hobbies and Interests.______________________________________________________

13. Strengths and weakness.__________________

14. Expectations from cognizant.______________________________________________________

15. Your short term plan and long term plan with cts.____________________________________

16. What are the qualities a software professional need to excel in his field?_________________

In case of Aptitude test you should prepare for this area. Aptitude consists two parts verbal & reasoning part. There 30 question from reasoning and 25 questions from verbal and there are 60 minutes to solve this(30 minutes each).

Statement conclusion

Odd man out

Figure puzzle

Puzzles

Syllogism

Data sufficiency

Data interpretation

R.S Aggarwal verbal reasoning books is enough for it.after 1hrs from aptitude our tpo declare the name of students who cleared aptitude test.340 students out of 450 students cleared in aptitude test. I was one of them.

Next the interview first the interviewer greeting me with a warm handshake. then he asked this questions.

Why CSE?

what are the subjects you read last semester?

what is the favorite subjects?

What is referential integrity?

what is foreign key? draw a table and show foreign key.

What is deletion anomaly?

what is lock? how many lock you ever heard?

where you use read lock and shared lock?

what is deadlock?

what is deadlock presentation?

tell me some procedure to detect deadlock.

what is distributed deadlock?

what are functions of local distributed and global distributed manager?

how you solve deadlock in distributed system?

then he asked do you know C? i answered yes then he asked how well like dbms or more than that? i answered like C. then he asked four more questions

from C.

What is union?

What are the differences between structure and union?

What is pointer?

Tell me some practical application of pointer.

what is link list?

I answered all of questions more or less correctly and full confidently. after asked so many questions he satisfied (i think). then he asked do you have any questions? please asked any questions related to their company. please don't asked anything regarding your interview please. then he told me nice to meet you.If you are CSE/IT students then you should technically sound(c,c++,ds,dbms,java at least).you also prepare for this type of questions like

why CTS?

why should I recruit you?

Tell me about yourself. etc

one thing you should remember that you don't tell that you are preparing for CAT,MAT,GRE or any other exams.In interview room you keep yourself be cool, confident, fluent in English, smile on your face.Don't act like a over smart.CTS declared the name of student who got the job on 19th Jan '11. 244 students got the jobs and i was one of them.

I wish all the best.

Cognizant Campus Recruitment Process on 25.02.2011

Eligibility Criteria: 60% throughout (X, XII, UG/PG)

No year Gap

Only 2011 Pass out

Venue: FIEM, Sonarpur (it was not an on Campus Process)

Reporting Time: 8:00 am

My experience

I was 15 mins late, but it did not create any issue

An auditorium sought of place was given to us so that it can accommodate at least 400 students, 452 were eligible. Cognizant came at around 9am, and when I saw the entire team I was simply stunned, more than 35 people came, out of which 33 were interviewer (I came to know about them before the interview). The T.P.O of the FIEM introduced Mr. N Ghosal, the HR Manager of Cognizant.

Mr. N Ghosal, introduced himself and started off with the ppt session, it was damn good and inspiring

After 30-45 mins of ppt session we were asked to get ready for the Aptitude test, a consultancy named Meritrake came in with a team of more than 20 people and divided the entire group of students into several rooms, they had taken every possible measure so that no unfair means occur.

A form (data sheet) was given to fill-up, followed by two question papers (2-sections)

Total 55 questions were there, 60 mins time, 2 sections, 1-logical and quantitative 2-Based on English, no Negative marking but sectional cut-offs were there.

Aptitude result was declared by 1.30 pm, and panels were allotted to the selected candidates, there were 33 panels, and 5-6 students were allotted to each

I was in panel 1.

The interview session began, 1:1 interview, Technical and HR was combined, and the single man that was sitting on the other side was more than enough to make us realize that he was from CTS and the questions won’t be as smooth as we were thinking

I was waiting for my turn to come; seriously, I was quite tensed and nervous though my face did not reflect that. At that moment of time I was completely blank, I could not even remember the syntax for inheritance in C++, anyways I had to wait till 5.30pm, as the interviewer was taking a lot of time with a single candidate, so you can imagine how sweet the interview session could be, sitting with the interviewer for than 30mins, minimum, gradually I started to make up my mind that I have to face the person on the other side of the desk, and if I get tensed then everything would be in a mess, actually I was not tensed, neither was i nervous, it was a different feeling, which you can only feel when your waiting outside that ROOM.

When my name was called, it was near about 5.40pm

Me : Sir, may I come in

X: yah, sure (he had a smiling face)

Me: Good Afternoon sir (I was standing with my bag on one shoulder, and a file in my hand)

X: yah, have your seat, be comfortable

(I took my seat, kept my bag on the floor, and the file on my lap)

X: (with a smile on his face) so you are Shyam, from JISCE?

Me: yes sir

X: (he called out two names, they were also from my college and asked me) who is the topper?

Me: sir all are unique in their own way, but if you talk about academics I have topped the last 5 semesters

X: so you are the topper? (smiled again)

Me: yes sir till the 5th semester

X: show me your certificates, class X and XII (I gave him the original), make sure that you put back all the certificates safely

(He started calculating my percentages, one by one) and said all are perfect

X: you have passed out class XII from CBSE? I am also from CBSE

Me: which school sir?

X: Kendriya Vidyalay, Alipore, (smiled) I have passed out class 10 in 2000, so where do you stay?

Me: Naihati

X: hmm nice place, so what are your hobbies Shyam?

Me: (told) (and he continued writing everything in his evaluation sheet)

X: (going through the data sheet that I have filled up in the morning) you like data structure

Me: yes sir, we had DS in our 3rd sem

X: ok (he gave a blank A4 sheet and wrote an array of 6 elements) sort the array

Me: which technique sir?

X: anything of your choice

Me: (after sorting the array by Bubble sorting technique) sir done

X: ok let me see (going through my code) no this will not work!! (returned the paper back to me)

Me: (surprisingly) why sir? (I went through my code,….but couldn’t find any mistakes) (Gave it back to him) sir it will work

X: (again going through my code) no it won’t, ok let us do a dry run

Me: (eagerly waiting for him to point out my mistake) yes sir

X: oh! My mistake, I didn’t notice the other loop (he overlooked my outer loop) it will work (gave a positive smile)

X: Can you tell me its time complexity?

Me: (told, a complete wrong guess, I was not sure) (he did not say anything)

X: what projects have you done?

Me: (told)

X: do you know Linked lists?

Me: yes sir

X: ok, have you heard of circular, doubly, circular-doubly linked lists?

Me: yah sir, sure

X: how can I search an element from the linked list? (Passed that paper to me again)

Me: shall I write the code?

X: your choice, I just need to understand

Me: (I wrote the code, defined a structure for linear linked list, and defined a function for searching the element) ( I was taking a bit time and I looked up once to see what was he doing)

X: take your time (gave a pleasant smile)

(I continued with my ‘searching’ function)

(After completing, I looked up again, found him busy writing something, so I started checking my code, if there are some errors)

Me: sir I have done it

X: oh , let me have a look (going through my code) yah good

X: what changes would you make if I ask you to do the same for doubly linked list?

Me: (made the changes)

X: (with a impressive smile) your code is ok but it could have been much simpler. What is recursion?

Me: (told)

X: write down a recursive function to print the fibonacci series in Java

Me: (feeling a bit tensed, started off)

(Finished writing the code, I didn’t print the a and b as 0 in the beginning, I took a=-1 and b=1, and gave him the sheet back) sir done.

X: (checked out my code) why did you take a= -1 and b=1?

Me: (explained him)

X: (he looked impressed) (he took the paper back, wrote a small code snippet) what will be output of the following? (The code was written in C++, a bit tricky)

Me: (I started solving it, wrote few steps) (suddenly he took back the paper and said)

X: what is string?

Me: (answered him)

X: how can you copy one string in another?

Me: (I told him about the strcpy function)

X: without strcpy?

Me: bla bla…. (could not answer properly)

X: ok can you relocate outside Kolkata?

Me: (butterflies in my stomach) YES ! sir

X: ok last question I’ll ask you, if you can answer you are through

(I was excited)

X: ( wrote 3 statements: x=1+2+3; y=”1”+2+3; z=2+4+”6”;) if I write System.out.println(x) and in the same way SOP for y and z what will be the output?

Me: x=6; y=123 (as ‘+’ will act as a concatenation operator), and z= (he took back the paper)

X: you are through, you can go

Me: Thank you sir

(I saw him writing the marks, he gave me 9/10) ( before getting in I heard, that, 6 is the cut-off, so any one getting 6 will get the job)

Came out of the room, I was quite satisfied and eagerly waiting for the result

They announced the result around 7.30pm,

And they gave me the offer letter.

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