IGate Placement Paper

                                                 IGate Placement Paper

For technical there were 20 multiple choice questions: Out of which about 6 was
electronics and 14 was from computer related areas

1. Full form of TTL and CMOS
2. Which is a good conductor (Extrinsic or Intrinsic)
3. What are the different types of capacitors (Electrolytic, dielectric...etc)
4. Select a passive component from the following (four choices were there)
5. Minimum no. of lines required for communication using RS232 (Ans: i think its 2)
6. To convert 1's complement to 2's complement and vice versa
7. During which time we use 'size of' command. (ans: runtime)
8. Out of four choice we have to identify which is a macro.
9. There was one pointer expression related question.
10. To find post fix expression.
11. What type of operating system is unix (ans: pre-emptive,[not sure])
a)pre-emptive b)non-preemptive c)batch
12. Defnition of turing machine.
13. Where we use DFD(Data flow design)
a)structural languages b)object oriented languages c)UML d)all of the above
14. Name the error which occurs when we write on a page
a) segment fault b)permission fault c) page fault
15. A question based on the representation of an array in C
An array whose elements are fn pointers which inturn returns a character

Sonata Aptitude test (IGate's aptitude test is very similar to this test)....
...Actually there were almost 25 questions repeated from this........
1. Last month of an year
(a) January (b) February (c) December (d) November
2. Select the odd one
(a) January (b) February (c) Wednesday (d) November
3. Select the antonym of capture from the following
(a) attack (b) Release (c) condemn (d) None of the above
4. Find the antonym of autumn
(a) Spring (b) Winter (c) Summer (d) None of the above
5. One skirt requires 3.75 yards of cloth. How many skirts you can make from 45 yards?
Ans: 12 skirts
6. How can you make a square from two triangles?
7. Is the meaning of Client and Customer,
(a) same (b) contradictory (c) no relation
8. Is the meaning of It's and Its,
(a) same (b) contradictory (c) no relation
9. Is the meaning of Canvas and Canvass,
(a) same (b) contradictory (c) no relation
10. Is the meaning of Ingenious and Ingenuous,
(a) same (b) contradictory (c) no relation
11. Is the meaning of Credible and Credulous,
(a) same (b) contradictory (c) no relation
12. Select the odd one out.
(a) 1/4 (b) 1/3 (c) 1/6 (d) 1/18
13. Select the least from the following.
(a) 0.99 (b) 1 (c) 81 (d) 0.333
14. Find the next number in the series. 1, 0.5, 0.25, 0.125
Ans: 0.0625
15. One dollar is saved in one month. Then how much dollar is saved in one day?
Ans: 1/30 =0.0333$
16. Y catches 5 times more fishes than X. If total number of fishes caught by X
and Y is 48, then number of fishes caught by X?
Ans: 8
17. Y catches 5 times more fishes than X. If total number of fishes caught by X
and Y is 42, then number of fishes caught by X?
Ans: 7
18. If a train covers 600m in 0.5 seconds, how long it will cover in 10 seconds?
Ans: 3000m = 3km
19. The girl's age is twice that of boy, if the boy is four years old. After four
years the age of the girl is
Ans: 12 years
20. Sister's age is twice than that of the brother. If the brother's age is six,
what is the sister's age after two years?
Ans: 14 Yrs.
21. Two lemons cost 10 cents. Then one and a half dozen cost
Ans: 90 cents
22. A clock is late by 1 minute 27 seconds in a month. Then how much will it be
late in 1 day?
Ans: 2.9 seconds
23. Which of the following figures together will make a triangle?
Ans: a,b,c,d
24. Make a square by drawing only one line
Ans: line 2-5, square 2-3-4-5-2
25. Which of the following is the odd one? crew, constellation, companion,
league, participants.
Ans: companion
26. Opposite of Remote?
(a) Far (b) Near (c) Huge (d) Village
27. Statement A: All great men are ridiculous;
Statement B: I am ridiculous ;
Inference : I am a great man;
(a) True (b) False (c) Not clear
28. Statement: Normal children are active;
Inference: All children are active;
(a) True (b) False (c) Uncertain
29. Next number in the series 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 ?
Ans: 1/16
30. In 6 seconds a light flashes once. In one hour how many times it will flash?
Ans: 601 times
31. At 20% discount, a cycle is sold at a selling price of 2500 Rs. What is the
actual price?
Ans: Rs. 3125
32. Statement A: A & B have same age;
Statement B: B is younger than C;
Inference : A is younger than C;
(a) True (b) False (c) Uncertain
33. All chickens lay eggs (True/False)
Ans: False
34. A invests $12000, B invests $8000, C invests $6000 and they got a profit of $1200. How much share A got more than B
and C?
Ans: 2/13 and 3/13