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Cognizant technology solutions paper 5
1) 5 years back father’s age is 9 times than his daughter’s age. Now, father’s age is 5 times than daughter. Find the age of daughter.
2) A man can not remember the seven digit phone number. He only remember that the first three digits either 637 or 673, remaining 4 digit consist a nine (9).what should be the number of trial to find the correct telephone number.
3) In your cricket team, you have 16 players, among them 5 bowlers and 11 batsmen. You have to make a team of 11 players consisting of at least 3 bowlers. How many combination of team is possible? Ans: 11c8 *5c3+ 11c7*5c4 +11c6*5c5
4) A cycle makes 1000 revolution per minute. It travels 10 Km in 11 hours. Find the radius of the wheel.
5) a –b = 1, a3 –b3 =61, find out a2 –b2=? Ans: 9
6) Three people Ju, Lu and Ku live in an island. Each them speak one truth and one lie when they speak. One of them is a Footballer. Ju says “I am the footballer. Ku is the footballer”. Lu says” I am the footballer. Ju is the footballer”. Ku says” I am the footballer. Ju is the footballer”. Who is the footballer? Ans Ju
7) There are two people A and B. Ratio of their income is 4:3 and ratio of their expenditure is 3:2.both A and B save Rs 6000 at the end of the year. What is their annual income? A=24000, B=18000
8) I have visited an island in search of an author. The inhabitant of that island speaks in two sentences, one is true and other is false. I meet three people Diya, Siya and Jiya. Diya has a pencil, Siya wears a cap and Jiya has a book in his hand. Diya says” Jiya is the author; She is not wearing a cap”. Siya says” I am the author, I wear cap”. Jiya says “I am author, I have no book”. Who is the author? Ans: Jiya
9) A shopkeeper gives 10% discount and makes a profit of 20%.A person buys a product from that shop at Rs. 6000. What is the cost price?
10) Given a three digit number 123.Now using this three digit 1,2 and 3 you have to make three digits number where any of these digits will not in its correct place wrt 123.( Hint: you cant take 132 as 1 in its correct place, you cant take 213 also as 3 is in its correct place)find the number of such three digits number.
11) In Bombay, the price of anything is 15% less than pune. One person buys an article at Rs. 110 from Bombay and sells at Rs.150 at pune. What is His profit on pune’s price list….(cant remember exactly)
12) A tank can be filled with a cold water pipe in 12 minutes .It can be filled with a hot water pipe in 9 minutes. Now we open the both pipe. Again we visit the tank when it is expected to fulfill, we find that drainage pipe is left open. We close the drainage pipe and after 3 minutes the tank becomes fulfill. What is the time taken by that drainage pipe to empty a full tank?
13) Which one is the power of 2…. 1) 2096 2)2048 Ans. 2048
Now friends it is the time to say big Thanks to our juniors who recall all those question:
Tapas Shankhari (CST 2005)
Manoj Mondal (CST 2005)
Goutam Das (IT 2005)
Joydeep Dey (ECE 2005)
Biswajit Mohanta (CST 2005)
ORANGE SET
1) A triangle has three sides 2x, 2x + 1 and 2x -1. Find out the area of Triangle.
2) A can do a work in 8 days. B can do a work in 6 days. A, B and C can do the same work in 4 days. They got total 750. What is the share of C?
3) There is a cube whose each side is 12 cm. We paint the cube and then break it into small cubes whose each side is 3cm. Find out the number of unpainted cube. Ans.8
4) There is a cube with each side of 12cm.The cube is painted and break into some smaller cube of side 4 cm. Find out the number of small cube which has more than one painted face. Ans. 32
5) There is a disc with radius 12 cm. We cut a small disc of radius 3 cm from that disc. Find out the ratio of small disc and remaining portion of main disc after cutting.
6) We have a square of side 10 cm. We cut four circle of radius 3 cm. from that square. Find out the ratio of total area of four circles to the remaining portion of square.
7) Sachin drives his car from Bandra to Churchgate at a speed of 85 km. per hour and returns from there at a speed of 95 km per hour. What is his average speed?
a) 90km/hr b)90.3 Km /hr c) 89.7 km / hr d) can’t determine
8) P, Q, R, S, T, W do a job from Monday to Saturday. W does the job on Thursday.
S and T do the job on consecutive days. Q never does the job before P.
There are 5 questions on this passage…..there are 4 sequence given, u have to
Find correct sequence
Say P does the work on Tuesday then what is the correct sequence. Bla …bla …bla
9) S1 and S2 are two series. S1 is the series of first six prime numbers; S2 is the series of first six even numbers. Omitting the common number from both the series, find out the average.
10) Leander and Mahesh both start driving from Mumbai towards lonavela. Leander
drives at a speed of 20 km /hr and Mahesh drives 25 km/hr .On returning from
Lonavela to Mumbai Mahesh meets Leander at Honululu.The distance between
Mumbai and Lonavela is 180 km. what is the distance of Honululu from
Mumbai? Ans. 160
11)Interior and Exterior angles of a triangle has a ratio of 5: 7.Find the sum of the
other two angles of triangle.
11) -8,-4, 0…….. sum of the series is 52 . Find the total number of term in the series.
12) Laloo Yadav, a mango seller brings mango from Mumbai and sells it in Bihar.
On his way to Bihar from Mumbai, he gives 10% of total mangoes to ticket collector (he don’t have a valid ticket). Then he gives 10% of remaining mangoes to co passengers and 50% of remaining mangoes are found rotten. At last he has 810 mangoes for sale. What is the number of mangoes purchased from Mumbai?
Ans. 2000
13)11 is divided in sum of two numbers, Find the maximum product of them.
Ans. 30
14) English: In an airline company the total revenue is decreased but their number of passenger is increased, how can it be possible?
Four option…. Ans. Passenger are starting to go a shorter distance (verify yourself)
This orange set is mainly contributed by:
Subir Upadhyay (ECE 2005)
With helps of : Anirban Bhattacharya (ECE2005)
Syamalendu Sarkar (ECE 2005)
INTERVIEW SECTION:
In interview they ask maximum question on Database: 1) difference between file system and DBMS
2) Difference between inner joint and outer joint
3) Distinct
4) Natural join
5) Cartesian product
6) What is Normal form?
7) What is BCNF ?
8) Give the example of a table which is in BCNF but not in 3NF
9) In oracle what u uses RDBMS or DBMS?
10) What is redundancy? Is redundancy causing any problem to make new entry? Can we remove redundancy using normal form?
Other questions are asked from operating system: what is belady’s anomaly?
Question from Best fit, Worst fit and First fit with example.
To somebody they even ask what is Ur text in os and tell something writer Galvin
( they really ask it)
From C and programming concept:
1) What is algorithm? What is flow chart?
2) Write a function of string reverse.
3) What is the difference between #include and # include “filename.h”
2) A man can not remember the seven digit phone number. He only remember that the first three digits either 637 or 673, remaining 4 digit consist a nine (9).what should be the number of trial to find the correct telephone number.
3) In your cricket team, you have 16 players, among them 5 bowlers and 11 batsmen. You have to make a team of 11 players consisting of at least 3 bowlers. How many combination of team is possible? Ans: 11c8 *5c3+ 11c7*5c4 +11c6*5c5
4) A cycle makes 1000 revolution per minute. It travels 10 Km in 11 hours. Find the radius of the wheel.
5) a –b = 1, a3 –b3 =61, find out a2 –b2=? Ans: 9
6) Three people Ju, Lu and Ku live in an island. Each them speak one truth and one lie when they speak. One of them is a Footballer. Ju says “I am the footballer. Ku is the footballer”. Lu says” I am the footballer. Ju is the footballer”. Ku says” I am the footballer. Ju is the footballer”. Who is the footballer? Ans Ju
7) There are two people A and B. Ratio of their income is 4:3 and ratio of their expenditure is 3:2.both A and B save Rs 6000 at the end of the year. What is their annual income? A=24000, B=18000
8) I have visited an island in search of an author. The inhabitant of that island speaks in two sentences, one is true and other is false. I meet three people Diya, Siya and Jiya. Diya has a pencil, Siya wears a cap and Jiya has a book in his hand. Diya says” Jiya is the author; She is not wearing a cap”. Siya says” I am the author, I wear cap”. Jiya says “I am author, I have no book”. Who is the author? Ans: Jiya
9) A shopkeeper gives 10% discount and makes a profit of 20%.A person buys a product from that shop at Rs. 6000. What is the cost price?
10) Given a three digit number 123.Now using this three digit 1,2 and 3 you have to make three digits number where any of these digits will not in its correct place wrt 123.( Hint: you cant take 132 as 1 in its correct place, you cant take 213 also as 3 is in its correct place)find the number of such three digits number.
11) In Bombay, the price of anything is 15% less than pune. One person buys an article at Rs. 110 from Bombay and sells at Rs.150 at pune. What is His profit on pune’s price list….(cant remember exactly)
12) A tank can be filled with a cold water pipe in 12 minutes .It can be filled with a hot water pipe in 9 minutes. Now we open the both pipe. Again we visit the tank when it is expected to fulfill, we find that drainage pipe is left open. We close the drainage pipe and after 3 minutes the tank becomes fulfill. What is the time taken by that drainage pipe to empty a full tank?
13) Which one is the power of 2…. 1) 2096 2)2048 Ans. 2048
Now friends it is the time to say big Thanks to our juniors who recall all those question:
Tapas Shankhari (CST 2005)
Manoj Mondal (CST 2005)
Goutam Das (IT 2005)
Joydeep Dey (ECE 2005)
Biswajit Mohanta (CST 2005)
ORANGE SET
1) A triangle has three sides 2x, 2x + 1 and 2x -1. Find out the area of Triangle.
2) A can do a work in 8 days. B can do a work in 6 days. A, B and C can do the same work in 4 days. They got total 750. What is the share of C?
3) There is a cube whose each side is 12 cm. We paint the cube and then break it into small cubes whose each side is 3cm. Find out the number of unpainted cube. Ans.8
4) There is a cube with each side of 12cm.The cube is painted and break into some smaller cube of side 4 cm. Find out the number of small cube which has more than one painted face. Ans. 32
5) There is a disc with radius 12 cm. We cut a small disc of radius 3 cm from that disc. Find out the ratio of small disc and remaining portion of main disc after cutting.
6) We have a square of side 10 cm. We cut four circle of radius 3 cm. from that square. Find out the ratio of total area of four circles to the remaining portion of square.
7) Sachin drives his car from Bandra to Churchgate at a speed of 85 km. per hour and returns from there at a speed of 95 km per hour. What is his average speed?
a) 90km/hr b)90.3 Km /hr c) 89.7 km / hr d) can’t determine
8) P, Q, R, S, T, W do a job from Monday to Saturday. W does the job on Thursday.
S and T do the job on consecutive days. Q never does the job before P.
There are 5 questions on this passage…..there are 4 sequence given, u have to
Find correct sequence
Say P does the work on Tuesday then what is the correct sequence. Bla …bla …bla
9) S1 and S2 are two series. S1 is the series of first six prime numbers; S2 is the series of first six even numbers. Omitting the common number from both the series, find out the average.
10) Leander and Mahesh both start driving from Mumbai towards lonavela. Leander
drives at a speed of 20 km /hr and Mahesh drives 25 km/hr .On returning from
Lonavela to Mumbai Mahesh meets Leander at Honululu.The distance between
Mumbai and Lonavela is 180 km. what is the distance of Honululu from
Mumbai? Ans. 160
11)Interior and Exterior angles of a triangle has a ratio of 5: 7.Find the sum of the
other two angles of triangle.
11) -8,-4, 0…….. sum of the series is 52 . Find the total number of term in the series.
12) Laloo Yadav, a mango seller brings mango from Mumbai and sells it in Bihar.
On his way to Bihar from Mumbai, he gives 10% of total mangoes to ticket collector (he don’t have a valid ticket). Then he gives 10% of remaining mangoes to co passengers and 50% of remaining mangoes are found rotten. At last he has 810 mangoes for sale. What is the number of mangoes purchased from Mumbai?
Ans. 2000
13)11 is divided in sum of two numbers, Find the maximum product of them.
Ans. 30
14) English: In an airline company the total revenue is decreased but their number of passenger is increased, how can it be possible?
Four option…. Ans. Passenger are starting to go a shorter distance (verify yourself)
This orange set is mainly contributed by:
Subir Upadhyay (ECE 2005)
With helps of : Anirban Bhattacharya (ECE2005)
Syamalendu Sarkar (ECE 2005)
INTERVIEW SECTION:
In interview they ask maximum question on Database: 1) difference between file system and DBMS
2) Difference between inner joint and outer joint
3) Distinct
4) Natural join
5) Cartesian product
6) What is Normal form?
7) What is BCNF ?
8) Give the example of a table which is in BCNF but not in 3NF
9) In oracle what u uses RDBMS or DBMS?
10) What is redundancy? Is redundancy causing any problem to make new entry? Can we remove redundancy using normal form?
Other questions are asked from operating system: what is belady’s anomaly?
Question from Best fit, Worst fit and First fit with example.
To somebody they even ask what is Ur text in os and tell something writer Galvin
( they really ask it)
From C and programming concept:
1) What is algorithm? What is flow chart?
2) Write a function of string reverse.
3) What is the difference between #include
Cognizant technology solutions paper 4
1.Train A starts from station A at 11.am.Train B starts from station B at 12 noon.the speed of train A is 4 kmph,train B is 1 kmph for the first hour,2 kmph for the 2nd hour,3 kmph for the 3rd hour etc.At what time do the two trains meet? ans:2 PM
2.There is a coin collection.100 coins in all.4 peopke collect coins.Each collects a minimum of 10 coins.and each has different number of coins.the numbers are even. (4 questions based on this)
3.Moped problem based on time and distance
4.Find the number of integers divisible by either 3 and 12 from 1 to 999.
5.Find the number of integers divisible by either 3 or 2 from 100 to 200 including both,
6.There is a cube of side 4 cm.The faces are coloured in red.the cube is cut into pieces of size 1 cm.How many cubes have no colour Ans:8
7.There are 80 coins.One coin is counterfeit in weight.How many minimum weighings are required to find out the counterfeit coin? Ans 4
8.There are 31 kgs of rice .With a 1 kg weight,Find out the minimum number of weighings required to weigh 31 kgs.
9.there are four contestants in a beauty contest.they aer Ms.UP,Ms. MP,
Ms.AP and Ms.WB.each is wearing a different colour saree(red,blue,green and white).They are seated in a row.The winner and runner are not sitting near each other.Ms.WB is noehter the winner nor the runner.the green and white saree contestans are sitting in either end and the green color saree contestant is the runner up.
4 questions based on this
10.there is a pack of cards.Find the sum of integers excluding all the picture cards. Ans.216
11.Two questions based on figure. Given at the end.
12.There are 2 cars moving in opposite directions.the distance between them is 300cm.They move forward for 100cm with a speed of 50 cm/s,and omes back 50 cms at 25cm/s.after how many seconds will the cars collide?
2.There is a coin collection.100 coins in all.4 peopke collect coins.Each collects a minimum of 10 coins.and each has different number of coins.the numbers are even. (4 questions based on this)
3.Moped problem based on time and distance
4.Find the number of integers divisible by either 3 and 12 from 1 to 999.
5.Find the number of integers divisible by either 3 or 2 from 100 to 200 including both,
6.There is a cube of side 4 cm.The faces are coloured in red.the cube is cut into pieces of size 1 cm.How many cubes have no colour Ans:8
7.There are 80 coins.One coin is counterfeit in weight.How many minimum weighings are required to find out the counterfeit coin? Ans 4
8.There are 31 kgs of rice .With a 1 kg weight,Find out the minimum number of weighings required to weigh 31 kgs.
9.there are four contestants in a beauty contest.they aer Ms.UP,Ms. MP,
Ms.AP and Ms.WB.each is wearing a different colour saree(red,blue,green and white).They are seated in a row.The winner and runner are not sitting near each other.Ms.WB is noehter the winner nor the runner.the green and white saree contestans are sitting in either end and the green color saree contestant is the runner up.
4 questions based on this
10.there is a pack of cards.Find the sum of integers excluding all the picture cards. Ans.216
11.Two questions based on figure. Given at the end.
12.There are 2 cars moving in opposite directions.the distance between them is 300cm.They move forward for 100cm with a speed of 50 cm/s,and omes back 50 cms at 25cm/s.after how many seconds will the cars collide?
Cognizant technology solutions paper 3
Diamond\’s value is proportional to its weight2 .When the diamond broke wts of pieces in ratio 1:2:3;4:5.
Total loss in value is 85,000.What is the value of the diamond twice the wt of the original diamond.
Ans : 45,000
3)Person X join a job at 20 yrs.First 3 years sal =10,000 p.a. Afterwards every year inc of 2,000 per year for 10 year. Then sal become const till retirement. at retirement avg sal is 25,000. ( thro’out career) what age he retires.?
4)In an island there r tribals who speak lang of atmost 4 words.Lang consists of 4 alphabets.How many words can be formed in that language? Ans 340
5) It was found that the cause for the malaria was the swamp marsh and so r swamps were drained .Mosquito the real cause for malaria due to lack of breeding grounds (Swamps) also was wiped out. What does this illustrate?
(Ans : (Possible) when many conditions form a result eradication of one cause also eradicates the result)
6)An officer kept files on his table at various times in the order 1,2,3,4,5,6 .Typist can take file from top whenever she has time and type it.What order she cann’t type.?
(Ans : 4,5,6,2,3,1)
7)A and B r fighting .B fires 3 times as many missiles as A. Total hits: total misses = 1/7 .B’s misses 357.B’s hits – A’s hits = 66.A’s hits?
8)40 shots taken.50p for a hit.10p for a miss.(he have to give).Finally he has Rs.5.How many hits.? Ans 15
9)Find avg of a,b,c,d,e .Given data : avg of any 4 num =avg of any 3 num 2)(a+b)² = 36
Which of the abv are sufficient?
10)What is the difference in times btwn clk 1 & clk2.
1) both show same time 6 hrs back 2 ) 1 clk gains 1 min an hr,clk2 gains 2 min an hour.
Like abv….
11)A takes 9 strides to B’s 7 strides. A stride = 1meter.B stride =1.2m B gets the start of 24m.What dist should A travel to overtake B?
12) Tortoise gets 100 m head start. Hare is 10 times faster as tort. What is the dist traveled by hare to catch up tort.?
13)4 weights r weighed in pairs. Weights of pairs are determined as 103,105,106,106,107,109 What is the min wt?
Ans 51
14) Constant cost = 300
and 1.75 / copy. How many copies should he sell at 7.75 /copy to make a profit.
15)
Find the perimeter ? ANs 28
16) 20 members avg =10.5. 3 memb of 11.5,12.5,13.5 left and 3 memb of 10.5,12.5,14.5 joined along with a teacher of 21 yr.Now avg = ….Ans 11.
17)
Find the area of shaded. Radius of circle = 1cm…..Arcs r drawn with center at circumference.
18)
Find the area of the shaded portion?
19) Solid cube of 6 * 6 * 6. This cube is cut into to 216 small cubes.(1 * 1 * 1).the big cube is painted in all its faces. Then how many of cubes are painted at least 2 sides. (Ans 56)
20) A Bacteria is doubling at every 4 min. After 40 min 1024 bact. Then 256 when>…..? Ans : 32 min
21) A bag contains 3 balls of 11 different colors each. Find the min no of chances to find at least 3 balls of same color?
Ans : 23
22) If x² < 4 then 100/x is….? Ans : 100/x > 50 & 100/x < -50.
23) If [x] is the int less than x and |x| is the abs val of x.Then max of [x]/|x| is Ans d)none
24) A work in 12 days b in 15 days. Find the no of days if they work on alternate days. Ans 13 ¼
25) A,B,C r positive int.Out of them 2 r odd. Then 5²a + ( b-5)3 (c-3)² = ? Ans : always odd.
26) A squarer side is 5cm.If a square of side 10cm is hinged @ the center of the prev square. when they r rotated common area to both squares (Ans : Does not change)
27) 3p² + pq + 5q² is even. If
a) If p is odd, q is odd
b) If p is even, q is odd
c) If p is odd ,p is even
d) Atleast one of p and q is odd.
Choices are given. Ans : 4) None of these
28) A lady has to feed a dog for the one week from Monday to Sunday .She has food types M,N,O,P,Q,R,S .
MNOP à protein enriched RS -à vitamin enriched. Vitamin enriched cannot be fed on consecutive days.
Conditions given : M should be fed before S.
M should be fed before Q.
R Should be fed before S.
Before N and Q there should be four types.
Based on this 3 ?s are asked.All r easy to answer…
29) A man bought at the cost of 5 plums a rupee and 2 oranges a rupee.He sells 10 plums and 6 oranges at the selling price of 4 plums a rupee and 3 oranges a rupee.What is his gain or loss? Ans loss of 50p.
30) Out of 32 books the cost of 10 books is Rs. 50 each and he got a profit of 4%. He sells 15 books at a profit of 3.8461% on the selling price of Rs 70. The remaining cost is 576. The remaining books are sold at Rs 74. What is his total profit.
31) Two solutions have milk & water in the ratio 7:5 and 6:11.Find the proportion in which these two solutions should
Be mixed so that the resulting solution has 1 part milk and 2 parts water?
a)35:3 b)21:36 c)not possible Ans :c
Total loss in value is 85,000.What is the value of the diamond twice the wt of the original diamond.
Ans : 45,000
3)Person X join a job at 20 yrs.First 3 years sal =10,000 p.a. Afterwards every year inc of 2,000 per year for 10 year. Then sal become const till retirement. at retirement avg sal is 25,000. ( thro’out career) what age he retires.?
4)In an island there r tribals who speak lang of atmost 4 words.Lang consists of 4 alphabets.How many words can be formed in that language? Ans 340
5) It was found that the cause for the malaria was the swamp marsh and so r swamps were drained .Mosquito the real cause for malaria due to lack of breeding grounds (Swamps) also was wiped out. What does this illustrate?
(Ans : (Possible) when many conditions form a result eradication of one cause also eradicates the result)
6)An officer kept files on his table at various times in the order 1,2,3,4,5,6 .Typist can take file from top whenever she has time and type it.What order she cann’t type.?
(Ans : 4,5,6,2,3,1)
7)A and B r fighting .B fires 3 times as many missiles as A. Total hits: total misses = 1/7 .B’s misses 357.B’s hits – A’s hits = 66.A’s hits?
8)40 shots taken.50p for a hit.10p for a miss.(he have to give).Finally he has Rs.5.How many hits.? Ans 15
9)Find avg of a,b,c,d,e .Given data : avg of any 4 num =avg of any 3 num 2)(a+b)² = 36
Which of the abv are sufficient?
10)What is the difference in times btwn clk 1 & clk2.
1) both show same time 6 hrs back 2 ) 1 clk gains 1 min an hr,clk2 gains 2 min an hour.
Like abv….
11)A takes 9 strides to B’s 7 strides. A stride = 1meter.B stride =1.2m B gets the start of 24m.What dist should A travel to overtake B?
12) Tortoise gets 100 m head start. Hare is 10 times faster as tort. What is the dist traveled by hare to catch up tort.?
13)4 weights r weighed in pairs. Weights of pairs are determined as 103,105,106,106,107,109 What is the min wt?
Ans 51
14) Constant cost = 300
and 1.75 / copy. How many copies should he sell at 7.75 /copy to make a profit.
15)
Find the perimeter ? ANs 28
16) 20 members avg =10.5. 3 memb of 11.5,12.5,13.5 left and 3 memb of 10.5,12.5,14.5 joined along with a teacher of 21 yr.Now avg = ….Ans 11.
17)
Find the area of shaded. Radius of circle = 1cm…..Arcs r drawn with center at circumference.
18)
Find the area of the shaded portion?
19) Solid cube of 6 * 6 * 6. This cube is cut into to 216 small cubes.(1 * 1 * 1).the big cube is painted in all its faces. Then how many of cubes are painted at least 2 sides. (Ans 56)
20) A Bacteria is doubling at every 4 min. After 40 min 1024 bact. Then 256 when>…..? Ans : 32 min
21) A bag contains 3 balls of 11 different colors each. Find the min no of chances to find at least 3 balls of same color?
Ans : 23
22) If x² < 4 then 100/x is….? Ans : 100/x > 50 & 100/x < -50.
23) If [x] is the int less than x and |x| is the abs val of x.Then max of [x]/|x| is Ans d)none
24) A work in 12 days b in 15 days. Find the no of days if they work on alternate days. Ans 13 ¼
25) A,B,C r positive int.Out of them 2 r odd. Then 5²a + ( b-5)3 (c-3)² = ? Ans : always odd.
26) A squarer side is 5cm.If a square of side 10cm is hinged @ the center of the prev square. when they r rotated common area to both squares (Ans : Does not change)
27) 3p² + pq + 5q² is even. If
a) If p is odd, q is odd
b) If p is even, q is odd
c) If p is odd ,p is even
d) Atleast one of p and q is odd.
Choices are given. Ans : 4) None of these
28) A lady has to feed a dog for the one week from Monday to Sunday .She has food types M,N,O,P,Q,R,S .
MNOP à protein enriched RS -à vitamin enriched. Vitamin enriched cannot be fed on consecutive days.
Conditions given : M should be fed before S.
M should be fed before Q.
R Should be fed before S.
Before N and Q there should be four types.
Based on this 3 ?s are asked.All r easy to answer…
29) A man bought at the cost of 5 plums a rupee and 2 oranges a rupee.He sells 10 plums and 6 oranges at the selling price of 4 plums a rupee and 3 oranges a rupee.What is his gain or loss? Ans loss of 50p.
30) Out of 32 books the cost of 10 books is Rs. 50 each and he got a profit of 4%. He sells 15 books at a profit of 3.8461% on the selling price of Rs 70. The remaining cost is 576. The remaining books are sold at Rs 74. What is his total profit.
31) Two solutions have milk & water in the ratio 7:5 and 6:11.Find the proportion in which these two solutions should
Be mixed so that the resulting solution has 1 part milk and 2 parts water?
a)35:3 b)21:36 c)not possible Ans :c
Cognizant technology solutions paper 2
1. If all the 6 are replaced by 9, then the algebraic sum of all the numbers from 1 to 100(both inclusive) varies by Ans: 330
2. The total no. of numbers that are divisible by 2 or 3 between 100 and 200(both inclusive) are Ans:67
3. From a pack of cards Jack, Queen, King & ace are removed. Then the algebraic sum of rest of the cards is Ans:216
4. The average temperature of days from Monday to Wednesday is 37 degree Celsius and that of from Tuesday to Thursday is 34 degrees. The temperature of Thursday is 4/5th of Monday. Then the temperature of Thursday is
Ans: 36 degrees
5. Swetha, Tina, Uma and Vidya are playing a gambling. In this different people lose in different games-in the reverse alphabetical order. The rule is that if one loses she should double the amount of others. At the end of 4th game each of them have same amount of money (Rs.32). Which one of them started with the least amount? (6) Which one of them started with the largest amount of money? (7.) At the end of the 2nd game what is the amount of money with uma?
Ans: Vidya, Swetha, Rs.8
8. A cube of 12 mm is painted on all its side. If it is made up of small cubes of size 3mm. If the big cube is splitted into those small cubes, the number of cubes that remain unpainted is Ans: 8
9. B is 50% faster than A. If A starts at 9 A.M. and B starts at 10 A.M. A travels at a speed of 50 km/hr. If A and B are 300 kms apart, The time when they meet when they travel in opposite direction is Ans:12 noon
10. A graph will be there. Inside the graph sheet there will be a Quadrilateral. We have to count the number of squares in the Quadrilateral.
11. You are having 31kg of rice. You are provided with a 1kg stone for weighing. In how many weights the 31kg of rice can be weighed. Ans: 5
12. A starts at 11:00AM and travels at a speed of 4km/hr. B starts at 1:00PM and travels at 1km/hr for the first 1hr and 2km/hr for the next hr and so on. At what time they will meet each other. Ans:
13. There are 80 coins, among them one coin weighs less compared to other. You are given a physical balance to weigh. In how many wieghings the odd coin can be found. Ans:
14. Dia of the circle 4cm. The shaded part is 1/3 of the square area. What is the side of the square. Ans: root of 3pi
15. A,B,C, can do a work in 8,14,16 days respectively. A does the work for 2 days. B continues from it and finishes till 25% of the remaining work. C finishes the remaining work. How many days would have taken to complete the work Ans:
16. Raja went to a beauty contest .his wife was eager to know the result he told that the lady wear a yellow sari was winner. Miss. Andhra Pradesh Miss. Utter Pradesh, Miss. Maharashtra, Miss. West Bengal were the participants all the participants sat in a row. The conditions are (A) The woman wore yellow sari won the competition. (B) Miss. West Bengal was neither the runner-up or winner.(C) Miss. West Bengal was not at either ends.(D) Miss. Maharastra wore the white sari.(E) The women wore white sari and yellow sari sat at extreme ends.(F) The runner-up and winner did not sit together. [This was the passage given and the questions were easy]
17. The ratio of white balls and black balls is 1:2. If 9 gray balls is added it becomes 2:4:3. Then what is number of black balls. Ans:12
18. There are 10 coins. 6 coins showing head. And 4 showing tail. Each coin was randomly flipped (not tossed) seven times successively.after flipping the coins are 5 heads 4 tails one is hided the hided coin will have what.
19. Two cars are 500 cm apart. each is moving forward for 100 cm at a velocity of 50 cm/s and receding back for 50 cm at 25 cm/s at what time they will collide with each other.
20. People near the sea shore are leading a healthy life as they eat fish.but people at other part of the city are also healthy. Inference.
21. It is found from research that if u r a drunken then u have a less chance for chronic heart diseases. Inference.
22. A-B+c>A+B-C i) B is +ve, ii) B is –ve when it will hold true.
23. i) C.P is Rs 120 and profit is 30%
ii) C.P is Rs 210 and profit is 20%
we can find the S.P by using
i)only ii)only both i &ii neither i&ii
24. How will u find distance between Nagpur and Mumbai?
I took one hour more when I travel at 80 km/hr than at 90 km/hr.
25. 100 coins were collected by four persons each collected more than 10 each collected a different number each was an even number find what is the max possible no of coins, two more questions based on the same passage.
26. A car travels from B at a speed of 20 km/hr. The bus travel starts from A at a time of 6 A.M. There is a bus for every half an hour interval. The car starts at 12 noon. Each bus travels at a speed of 25 km/hr. Distance between A and B is 100 km. During its journey , The number of buses that the car encounter is
27. The ratio of the ages of the father and the son is 5:3, After 10 years it will be in the ratio 3:2. What will be their ages.
28. There was a Island. In that Island there was Rubys and Emeralds. Those were available in plenty. 0.3 kg of ruby is 4 lakhs and 0.4 kg of emeralds is 5 lakhs. Jayanth is buying 12 kg of Ruby and emerald. Choices will be given . Jayanth has to carry both ruby and emerald to the maximum profit.
29. Varun buys 8 books,10 pens and 2 pencils and Babu buys 6 books, 5pens and 5 pencils. Babu pays 50% more than Varun. What is the amount Varun spends in buying pencils.
30. Prakash and Revathi rent a fancy shop. Prakash imposes the following restrictions on Revathi for buying clips,stickers and lip sticks. The number of clips is twice the no. of stickers. The no. of lipsticks should be more than the sum of clips and stickers. Cost of clip is 1 rupee. Cost of lipstick is twice the clips. Cost of 1 lipstick is the cost of four stickers. Then What is the amount that Prakash spents for Revathi. Answer choices will be given
2. The total no. of numbers that are divisible by 2 or 3 between 100 and 200(both inclusive) are Ans:67
3. From a pack of cards Jack, Queen, King & ace are removed. Then the algebraic sum of rest of the cards is Ans:216
4. The average temperature of days from Monday to Wednesday is 37 degree Celsius and that of from Tuesday to Thursday is 34 degrees. The temperature of Thursday is 4/5th of Monday. Then the temperature of Thursday is
Ans: 36 degrees
5. Swetha, Tina, Uma and Vidya are playing a gambling. In this different people lose in different games-in the reverse alphabetical order. The rule is that if one loses she should double the amount of others. At the end of 4th game each of them have same amount of money (Rs.32). Which one of them started with the least amount? (6) Which one of them started with the largest amount of money? (7.) At the end of the 2nd game what is the amount of money with uma?
Ans: Vidya, Swetha, Rs.8
8. A cube of 12 mm is painted on all its side. If it is made up of small cubes of size 3mm. If the big cube is splitted into those small cubes, the number of cubes that remain unpainted is Ans: 8
9. B is 50% faster than A. If A starts at 9 A.M. and B starts at 10 A.M. A travels at a speed of 50 km/hr. If A and B are 300 kms apart, The time when they meet when they travel in opposite direction is Ans:12 noon
10. A graph will be there. Inside the graph sheet there will be a Quadrilateral. We have to count the number of squares in the Quadrilateral.
11. You are having 31kg of rice. You are provided with a 1kg stone for weighing. In how many weights the 31kg of rice can be weighed. Ans: 5
12. A starts at 11:00AM and travels at a speed of 4km/hr. B starts at 1:00PM and travels at 1km/hr for the first 1hr and 2km/hr for the next hr and so on. At what time they will meet each other. Ans:
13. There are 80 coins, among them one coin weighs less compared to other. You are given a physical balance to weigh. In how many wieghings the odd coin can be found. Ans:
14. Dia of the circle 4cm. The shaded part is 1/3 of the square area. What is the side of the square. Ans: root of 3pi
15. A,B,C, can do a work in 8,14,16 days respectively. A does the work for 2 days. B continues from it and finishes till 25% of the remaining work. C finishes the remaining work. How many days would have taken to complete the work Ans:
16. Raja went to a beauty contest .his wife was eager to know the result he told that the lady wear a yellow sari was winner. Miss. Andhra Pradesh Miss. Utter Pradesh, Miss. Maharashtra, Miss. West Bengal were the participants all the participants sat in a row. The conditions are (A) The woman wore yellow sari won the competition. (B) Miss. West Bengal was neither the runner-up or winner.(C) Miss. West Bengal was not at either ends.(D) Miss. Maharastra wore the white sari.(E) The women wore white sari and yellow sari sat at extreme ends.(F) The runner-up and winner did not sit together. [This was the passage given and the questions were easy]
17. The ratio of white balls and black balls is 1:2. If 9 gray balls is added it becomes 2:4:3. Then what is number of black balls. Ans:12
18. There are 10 coins. 6 coins showing head. And 4 showing tail. Each coin was randomly flipped (not tossed) seven times successively.after flipping the coins are 5 heads 4 tails one is hided the hided coin will have what.
19. Two cars are 500 cm apart. each is moving forward for 100 cm at a velocity of 50 cm/s and receding back for 50 cm at 25 cm/s at what time they will collide with each other.
20. People near the sea shore are leading a healthy life as they eat fish.but people at other part of the city are also healthy. Inference.
21. It is found from research that if u r a drunken then u have a less chance for chronic heart diseases. Inference.
22. A-B+c>A+B-C i) B is +ve, ii) B is –ve when it will hold true.
23. i) C.P is Rs 120 and profit is 30%
ii) C.P is Rs 210 and profit is 20%
we can find the S.P by using
i)only ii)only both i &ii neither i&ii
24. How will u find distance between Nagpur and Mumbai?
I took one hour more when I travel at 80 km/hr than at 90 km/hr.
25. 100 coins were collected by four persons each collected more than 10 each collected a different number each was an even number find what is the max possible no of coins, two more questions based on the same passage.
26. A car travels from B at a speed of 20 km/hr. The bus travel starts from A at a time of 6 A.M. There is a bus for every half an hour interval. The car starts at 12 noon. Each bus travels at a speed of 25 km/hr. Distance between A and B is 100 km. During its journey , The number of buses that the car encounter is
27. The ratio of the ages of the father and the son is 5:3, After 10 years it will be in the ratio 3:2. What will be their ages.
28. There was a Island. In that Island there was Rubys and Emeralds. Those were available in plenty. 0.3 kg of ruby is 4 lakhs and 0.4 kg of emeralds is 5 lakhs. Jayanth is buying 12 kg of Ruby and emerald. Choices will be given . Jayanth has to carry both ruby and emerald to the maximum profit.
29. Varun buys 8 books,10 pens and 2 pencils and Babu buys 6 books, 5pens and 5 pencils. Babu pays 50% more than Varun. What is the amount Varun spends in buying pencils.
30. Prakash and Revathi rent a fancy shop. Prakash imposes the following restrictions on Revathi for buying clips,stickers and lip sticks. The number of clips is twice the no. of stickers. The no. of lipsticks should be more than the sum of clips and stickers. Cost of clip is 1 rupee. Cost of lipstick is twice the clips. Cost of 1 lipstick is the cost of four stickers. Then What is the amount that Prakash spents for Revathi. Answer choices will be given
Cognizant technology solutions paper 1
The criterion was above 65 with no current arrears. They also saw the 10th and 12th marks along with the entrance marks. They opened only for cse and ece. This does not contain full paper. Actually the test is for an hour. There was quantitative , annalytical, reading comprehension, logical reasoning. The problems were more of R.S Agarwal. The others were just like in GRE.
1. Using the digits 1,5,2,8 four digit numbers are formed and the sum of all possible such numbers.
ans:106656
2. Four persons can cross a bridge in 3,7,13,17 minutes. Only two can cross at a time. find the minimum time taken by the four to cross the bridge.
ans:20
3. Find the product of the prime numbers between 1-20
ans..9699690
4. 2,3,6,7--- using these numbers form the possible four digit numbers that are divisible by 4. ans.----8
5. Two trains are traveling at 18kmph and are 60 km apart. There is fly in the train. it flies at 80kmph. It flies and hits the second train and then it starts to oscillate between the two trains. At one instance when the two trains collide it dies. Distance traveled by the fly when both trains collide is Ans.---12km
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 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:square numbers
7.There are 9 balls of this one is defective. Find the minimum no. of chances of finding the defective one.Ans 3times
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.
9.A can do a work in 8 days, B can do a work in 7 days, C can do a work in 6 days.
A works on the first day, B works on the second day and C on the third day resly.that is they work on alternate days. When will they finish the work.(which day will they finish the work)
Ans: 7 7/168 days
10.A batsman scores 23 runs and increases his average from 15 to 16. find the runs to be made if he wants top inc the avg to 18 in the same match.
ans: 39runs.
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 apples.
12.In a club there are male and female members. If 15 female quit then the number of females 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: females:175,males:80
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 I was married.
ans:50
14.I and two of my friends were palying 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.
15.A person gives a secret to two other persons in 5 minutes. How long will he take to tell the secret to 768 people.
16.There are 40 seats in a bus. People agree to share the money for the number of seats. The total money comes to 70.37. how many seats were free.
9 seats.Rs.2.27
17.I had Rs100 and I play. If I win I will hav Rs110 and if I lose I will hav Rs90. at the end I hav 2 wins and 2 loses. How much do I hav.
18.There were sums related to diagrams. They asked to calculate the areas of the circle, rectangle that were enclosed in other objects. They were simple.
20. In a village, there is flood. In one village causalities were less than the other. Why?
Ans : There were better health care centres(HCC).
21. A question on Pythagoras Theorem. Ans. 20
23. The distance between Mumbai & Calcutta is 25000 Km. Train goes from Mumbai to Culcutta for which Speed & Time are given. From C->M Speed alone is give. Of the above conditions which is not required. (Not Complete)
ans: The distance 25,000Km is not required. Because, Speed * Time = Distance. So only two conditions are required.
24. m < n & x>y Which is false?
Ans: x-m < y-n
25. A person has Rs.100. If he wins he gains 10%. If he loses the game, he loses 10%. He wins twice and loses twice. How much he has at the end?
Ans: Always less than 100.
26. Area of Shaded portion is ?
Ans : 115.5
Verbal
27. In A tribal group two groups live in different climatic conditions. Ear Sensitivity is tested and found that one has more when compared to other. What is the reason.
Ans. Depends on the physical place and condition he is living.
There were many questions on logical reasoning.
Eg:
There are two identical islands. Same tribe live 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 above 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
1. Using the digits 1,5,2,8 four digit numbers are formed and the sum of all possible such numbers.
ans:106656
2. Four persons can cross a bridge in 3,7,13,17 minutes. Only two can cross at a time. find the minimum time taken by the four to cross the bridge.
ans:20
3. Find the product of the prime numbers between 1-20
ans..9699690
4. 2,3,6,7--- using these numbers form the possible four digit numbers that are divisible by 4. ans.----8
5. Two trains are traveling at 18kmph and are 60 km apart. There is fly in the train. it flies at 80kmph. It flies and hits the second train and then it starts to oscillate between the two trains. At one instance when the two trains collide it dies. Distance traveled by the fly when both trains collide is Ans.---12km
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 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:square numbers
7.There are 9 balls of this one is defective. Find the minimum no. of chances of finding the defective one.Ans 3times
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.
9.A can do a work in 8 days, B can do a work in 7 days, C can do a work in 6 days.
A works on the first day, B works on the second day and C on the third day resly.that is they work on alternate days. When will they finish the work.(which day will they finish the work)
Ans: 7 7/168 days
10.A batsman scores 23 runs and increases his average from 15 to 16. find the runs to be made if he wants top inc the avg to 18 in the same match.
ans: 39runs.
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 apples.
12.In a club there are male and female members. If 15 female quit then the number of females 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: females:175,males:80
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 I was married.
ans:50
14.I and two of my friends were palying 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.
15.A person gives a secret to two other persons in 5 minutes. How long will he take to tell the secret to 768 people.
16.There are 40 seats in a bus. People agree to share the money for the number of seats. The total money comes to 70.37. how many seats were free.
9 seats.Rs.2.27
17.I had Rs100 and I play. If I win I will hav Rs110 and if I lose I will hav Rs90. at the end I hav 2 wins and 2 loses. How much do I hav.
18.There were sums related to diagrams. They asked to calculate the areas of the circle, rectangle that were enclosed in other objects. They were simple.
20. In a village, there is flood. In one village causalities were less than the other. Why?
Ans : There were better health care centres(HCC).
21. A question on Pythagoras Theorem. Ans. 20
23. The distance between Mumbai & Calcutta is 25000 Km. Train goes from Mumbai to Culcutta for which Speed & Time are given. From C->M Speed alone is give. Of the above conditions which is not required. (Not Complete)
ans: The distance 25,000Km is not required. Because, Speed * Time = Distance. So only two conditions are required.
24. m < n & x>y Which is false?
Ans: x-m < y-n
25. A person has Rs.100. If he wins he gains 10%. If he loses the game, he loses 10%. He wins twice and loses twice. How much he has at the end?
Ans: Always less than 100.
26. Area of Shaded portion is ?
Ans : 115.5
Verbal
27. In A tribal group two groups live in different climatic conditions. Ear Sensitivity is tested and found that one has more when compared to other. What is the reason.
Ans. Depends on the physical place and condition he is living.
There were many questions on logical reasoning.
Eg:
There are two identical islands. Same tribe live 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 above 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