Way 2 Freshers

SECTION I - 8 questions.

Series.

1. Interchange of letters in a word and the adjacent letters are also to
be changed. given letters series like [also few condotions]
AAABBB=
ABABAB=
LET QUESTION IS ABBAAB
If we apply 25 on this it means we have to interchange the letters
at positions 2 and 5, and we have to change the adjacent letters 2 and 5
from A to B and B to A.
That is q’s A B B A A B
after Step 1 i.e interchange 2 and 5.

now change adjacent elements of 2 and 5…finally answer becomes
Ans: B A A B B A

//Hint: As per question papers 5 questions above like but numbers
change.

REMAINING 3 QUESTIONS:
6. To get AAABBD from BBBAAA what ot apply:-
a) 25 b) 34 c)25 & 34 d) none

SECTION II

1. Given the function f(n a b c ) = ac if n=1
f(n a b c) = f( n-1 a b c) + f( 1 a b c) + f( n-1 b a c )
if n > 1
f( 2) = ?
Ans: f( 2 a c b ) = ab + ac + bc.

2. similar question in functions.
3. [ based on function in 1.] f( 4 a b c ) the number of terms is…?
Ans: f( 4 a b c ) = f( 3 a c b ) + f( 1 a b c ) + f( 3 b a c ) etc.
= 5ab + 5ac + 5bc.
4. f( 5 a b c ) = ?

SECTION III

Permutations and Combinations.
8 questions.

1. r = number of flags;
n = number of poles;
Any number of flags can be accommodated on any single pole.

i) r=5,n=5 The no. of ways the flags can be arranged ?
ii) to iv) are based on this.

6. r= 5 n = 3 . If first pole has 2 flags ,third pole has 1 flag
how many ways the remaining can be arranged?
7.& 8. same as above.

SECTION IV

Question consising of figures consist of 4 small squares and every square
having an arrow pointing in one Direction.

GRE test of reasoning.
hint: What is the next sequence if we tilt the figure by 90 degrees like
that( clockwise and mirror images ? ).

SECTION V

In this section first part of compound word is given. Select meaning of
the second part from the choice given:
1. Swan
2. Swans
3. Fool
4. Fools
5. Stare
6. Lady
For all above 4 choices are given…..
Eg. Swan
a) category b) music c) — d) none
Ans: Swansong is compound word. But song is not given as option. so
b) music is answer.

TS 99 PAPER .
*This paper contains 40 questions and time is 60mts.*/

CTS -REC’99(TRICHY)

SECTION-1:

Find the sequence:
( d is always NONE )

1. BC CE EG GK ?
a)KN b)KU c)KM d)
2. AA AB BC CE?
a)EG b)EH c)EI d)
3. AB EF JK QR ?
a)YZ b)ZA c)AB d)
4.ACD EGL IKT MOB?
a)QST b)QSZ c)QSY d)
5.AC CG GO OE?
a)EJ b)EI c)EL d)
6.AE BH CM DU?
a)EH b)EZ c) EB d)
7. AD DP PL LV
a)VS b)VK c)VI d)
8. SE QU EN TI?
a)CN b)BM c)AI or AZ d)

SECTION-II:

FIND THE VALUES FOR FOLLOWING PROBLEM:
F(X)= 2X-1 + f(X-1) if X NOT EQUAL TO ZERO
if f(X=0)=0
9. f(5) VALUE
a)15 b)24 c)22 d)NONE
10.f(f(2))

11.f(16)- f(15)

12.f(16)+f(15)-480

13.f(f(x))=81 THEN VALUE OF X=

14.f(X)=4f(X-1) THEN VALUE OF X=

15.f(X)= f(X-1)+f(X-2) FOR X>1 THEN X=

16.f(X)-f(X-1)=f(X-8) FOR X>5 THEN X=

SECTION -III:

###In the follwing questins we r giving ‘aword’ which may not have any
meaning.Find differnet possible words or palandrams for the word as per que.
I. for the following find no of distinct words that can be formed.
17. TYGHHTT
A).420 B)1540 C)840 D)NONE
18. TYGHHTY
19. TYGHHTT
20. TYGHHTT
21. TYGHASD
22. TYGHHTY
II Find NO OF POSSIBLE PALANDRAMS for following
23. TYGHHTY
24. TYHHHTYH.
/*dEAR FRIENDS DON,T CONFUSE WITH THE WORDS REPEATED.Iam sure.Words are
same.They might have changed the questionsfor20,21,22.Concentrate on that
respect*/
25 to 32 are figures.Uhave to analyse them.He will give five figs.One is not
correct

SECTION IV:
It having complete of figs.(26 -32)

SECTION -V:

For following first find out the anagram and then note the corresponding
meaning.
33.TABLET(anagram means first u arrange the letters in correct order like
(TABLET===BATTLE . so ans is FIGHT i.e. B)
34.RUGGED
35.GORE.
36.STASSI.
For all above choices are.
A) resentment B)Fight c)Help d) Monster
37. ENFOLD
38. LAMB
39. RECEDE.
40. PLEASE.
For above 4 choices are same
A)cuddle B)sleeping c)proclamination d)ointment.

COGNIZENT - Part 2

1. In a triangle ABC AB=AC then all the following are correct

exept one. Find that.

a) ABAC+BC

2. Ten years ago the father’s age is seven times the son’s

age. Two years later father’s age is twice the son’s. Then the

find the ages.

3. The father’s age is 3 times the son’s. After 15 years its age

becomes twice the son’s. Find the son’s age now.

4. Two times which are started from stations A and B which are

seperated by 110 km. One train leaves station A at 7 am. and

travels 20 kmph. The other train leaves station B at 8 am. will

speed of 25 kmph. Then at what time will they meet if they are

travelling in opposite direction.

a) 7 am. b) 10 am. c) 12 noon. d) 11 am.

5) x+2y=2 , 2x-y=4 then

i)x=2 ii)x=0 y=0 iii) x-y=2

a)i only b) ii only c) none d)i and ( ) only

6) In a family E is the father of two sons and a daugher who is

unmarried. Daugher in-law is an officer whose brother_in_law A

is Engineer. C is doctor. The sister of B is Violenist who learnt

Violin from B’s wife. Then

6) What is the relationship between A&B. (ans. brothers)

7) Who is the wife of B (ans. officer)

8) What is the relation between E&B. (ans. father and son)

9) In a word COINCIDENCE the 1st letter is interchanged with

3ed letter and 2nd letter with 4th and so on. So what is the

seventh letter from the right after interchanging.

ans is D.

10) Minmise 123658/234586= (ans is 0.52)

11) A and B can do a work in 6 days. B alone can do in 16 days.

After 3 days B withdraws. Then how many days can be needed by A

to do the work alone.

12) Two men and Three boys can do a work in 6 days. 3 men and 5 boys

can do that work in 4 days. Then 8 men and 8 boys can do in how many

days.

13)

123 means LITTLE BRIGHT BOY and 435 means GIRL IS BRIGHT and 267

means LITTLE THING LLOGAL . Then LITTLE is represented by_______.

ans is 2.

14 to 17 ( R.S Agarwal suggested )

On same relation like HELMET-HEAD then

HIDE _ ? ( BOUND ans.)

18to 22

Assertion and reason following (R.S Agarwal suggested)

23 to 25

Having the opposite meaning of relation given (ENGLISH)

25 TO 30

Statements

30 to 35 —> Figuring NON VERBAL

36 TO 38 —-> A simillarity between two figures is given.

You have to find the same simillar figure from the choice.

39 to 41 —-> Correction of sentences.

42. How many times a minute & hours hands will meet together in a

day. ans. 22 times.

43. In a total of 36 vehicles after one car there is one scooter.

After 2nd car there will be two scooters and after 3ed car there

will be 3 scooters so on . then find the number of scooters in

the right half of arrangement. ans. 13 check.

44. All Hoopes are Dupes

All fears are liars so

i) All hoopes are fears ii) All dupes are liars

45. & 46. like above.

47). Find the statement which gives correct explanartion to

the contradictory statements.

i). doctor told that “Drug adicts can not have their habit

ii). some surveys indicate that all the drug addicts left their

drug habit.

a) . Doctor do not know about drug addicts.

b). servays does not include every drug addict

c). Drug addiction is a bad habit.

d). will power make people leave their habbit.

48 to 54.

- - a - b b a - b - c like this.

[ simple Qns from R.s.agarwal]

55. A shop keeper selling a product for 10% discount to the market

price . but by bourgaining he got 10% profit of the costprice.

Market price is 300Rs. Find the cost price.

56. Customer needs 30% discount . But shopkeeper give 20% and 10%

succesively. Then

a). Whether customer got less profit than what he needed.

b).will he got more.

c). no loss

d). none

57. Cost price of two articles is 800. If he sells one article at

3/4 th of cost price and another article at 4/3 rd of cost price

Then he will loss 12 Rs. Then SP of article is.

a). 600,400 b). 500, 400 c). 500,500 d). none

58 What is the longest four digit numbr which when divided by 12,17,35

leavining same remainder 5

a) 8825 b)8725 c) 8025 d) none

59) If travels 300 meters in first two hours and next 200 mts in 3 hours

and 150 meters in 2.5 hours. Find the avg speed.

a) 56 b) 58 c)50 d) 60

ans) 60

CTS - COLOUR: VIOLET | DATE: 06/06/2004

The paper contains a total of 40 questions, there is

negative marking also. Total time is ONE HOUR . Following are some

questions that I remember.

1.x==2+2^(2/3)+2^(1/3) .Then what is the value of x^3-6X^2+x?

here X^Y indicates X to the power of Y.

a. -3 b. 0 ….

2.A circle is inscribed in a Triangle of side 6cm. And a square is

inscribed in the Circle. What is the area of square?

(3-4) There are two bridges running parallel over river Kauvery, and

they are 1 KM apart. A man started rowing the boat upstream under

first bridge, his hat fell into river while he was exactly under

second bridge. He realized that after 15 mts, and started rowing in

opposite direction, he eventually caught his hat under First Bridge.

What is the speed of river Kauvery?

What is the speed of boat in still water?

(5-10) There are five traders Timber, Steel, Cotton, Boots, Wood .

Each sent a Collection of items between them. No two traders have

sent the items among themselves. i.e., The Trader who had received

items from X can’t send items to X. Steel sent Wood a collection of

boots. Boots sent wood to the sender of Timber. One more condition

is there I don’t remember. But the puzzle was little bit tough. One

can get easily confused because the trader names and trading item

names are same. Try to rename them and solve u can come up with an

answer, otherwise it might be difficult to untangle the puzzle.five

questions on this like

Who received cotton?

Who sent Timber?

What did Timber receive? Etc.,

11. A train is moving at a speed of 25kmph, and another train moving

in the same direction at a speed of 49kmph crossed a man in first

train in 10 sec? What is the length of second train? (These are not

actual values but model is important).

12.A cube has a surface area of 864sqcms. It is divided into smaller

cubes of equal size and their surface area is 216sqcms. Find the

number of smaller cubes?

a.4 b.8 c.12 d 16 ANS: b

13.There are two milk cans. First can contains water and milk in the

ratio 1:3 and the second contains milk and water in the ratio 2:2.

Some milk from first can and some from second can is mixed in another

can. New can has 12 liters of mixture in the ratio 3:5(water to

milk). How much milk is taken from first and second can.

A 6,6 B 7,5 C 5,7 D 4,8 ANS:A

14.A person pays a tax of 10%,if his salary increases by 10% he need

to pay a tax of 15%.The total gain he obtains after increment in

salary is 350Rs .What is his salary?

a.12000 b 10000 c.8000 d.14000 Ans:b

15.Rajesh walks on pavement around the garden of size 60*40.The

pavement width is 1 meter. What is the area of Pavement?

a.204 b.102 c.306 d.428 Ans:a

16.A man runs around a square of side 10kms in different speeds as

given below, find the average speed. 1st side: 10kmph, 2nd Side:

20kmph, 3rd side: 30kmph, 4th side: 40kmph

a.19.2 b.20 c. 27 d. 26.5

(17-18) Sreesha starts from Bangalore to go to Sitapur. First two

hours he moves at constant speed ,suddenly his car tyre gets

punctured, so he took 10 minutes to start again.Then he moved at a

constant speed of 30 kmph. By the he reached Sitapur,he was late by

30 minutes. If his car was punctured 30 kms before sitapur, he could

have been late only by 15 minutes.

What is the distance between Sitapur and Bangalore?

What is the speed with which he started from Bangalore?

19.A university library has two big books placed adjacent to each

other. Of which first book is to the left of Second one. A book worm

started from the first book, and went on making a hole in a straight

line through the second book. If the covers are of width 1/4 th of a

centimeter and the books a have a width of 2 cm then how much

distance did the book worm cover?

A 3cm B 4cm C 5cm D 2cm Ans C (1/4+2+1/4+1/4+2+1/4)

20.There are 1000 doors closed. Here each goes through a door , which

indicates he closes the door if it is open, and vice versa. 1st

person goes through each door, and 2nd person goes through doors that

are divisible by 2 and like that nth person goes through doors that

have numbers divisible by n. how many doors are opened after 1000

persons going through the doors?

a.500 b.150 c.62 d.31 Ans:d

(The doors remaining opened at the end are the ones that have square

numbers i.e., 1,4,9,16….)

(21-24) They are on Data Sufficiency.

21.Find the two numbers

i)The product of two numbers is 24.

ii)The sum of two numbers is 10.

22. Find the increase in % of salary of a person from 1997 to 2000

i)His salary increased by 10% in each of the following

years 1998,1999,2000

ii) I don’t remember… But answer is i) is sufficient

23 & 24 are simple..but go through these type of models.

(25-30) Sentence completion.

I don’t remember exact sentences, but I am giving the words that I

found as answers among them, just remember the meaning of these words

you can easily answer.

25.Varies

26.Embellished…attractive(not meaning but answers for two blanks

they have given)

27.Adore

28.Elucidate

29.Perpetuate

…..

(31-32) Two questions are of conclusion type. Given some information

and asked some questions .They are not problematic ,just general

reasoning.

31. A company provides some Plans for Old age persons in India

regarding their health. The plans actually are too costly, so No one

showing interest in joining the Plans.What step among the following

will favor company’s plans ?

Some steps were given in a, b, c, d. You need to select

the best one.

32. A private organization started a new Scheme on paying School

fees. The plan is that if the Parents pay some amount before their

children join in Schools, the Organization will look after their fees

payments ..what ever course they may do..the company will bear the

amount? What do you find the reason for Parents not to join in this

Scheme?

Some reasons were given in a, b, c, d. You need to select the

best one.

33. 60 members complete a work in 40 days. They worked for 10 days.

And eventually 10 members quit the job and remaining people worked

for another 10 days. and again 10 of them quit the job. This

continued for every 10 days. How many days did workers take to finish

the work?

Depending on your interest area (Operating systems,networks,DBMS,software engineering)
choose the questions given below and prepare for it.
these are some CTS questions. asked in interview

[1] What are the current trends and areas of focus in
IT.
[2] What is a Micro-Kernel architecture.
[3] Describe the memory management policies in Unix

How is paging implemented? How page faults are
handled?
[4] What is the CPU-scheduling policy in Unix? - Round
robin scheduling with multilevel queues.
[5] Describe the Sliding window protocol. What is it’s
advantage over stop-and-wait?
[6] Diff between compilers and interpreters. Some
fundamentals about how to link code in different files.

personal:

1. Tell us about yourself, your background.

2. What does your father do currently.

3. Your performance in schooling, B.E.

4. Your points.

5. Aren’t you going for higher studies abroad? Why?
6. What qualities do you have that make you a person suitable for going into the IT industry

7. What do your friends opine about you.

8. When do you think you will complete and be able to
join.

9. How can you assure that you will join by that time.

10. Anything you want to know about us.

11. Significant achievements in life.

( may be paper publications etc. )

more questions:

Why paging is used ?

Which is the best page replacement algo and Why ?

WHat is software life cycle ?

How much time is spent usually in each phases and
why ?

What is testing ?

Which are the different types of testing ?

Which are the different phases in Software life
cycle (asked again)

Why is analysis and testing phases very important ?

Why networks are layered ? What is the advantage of
that ?

How many layers are there in OSI ? Why is it called
OSI model ?

network topologies ?

Which are the different network toplogies ?

an example of bus type network.

What is the Bandwidth of ethernet ?

Explain the advantage and disadvantage of ethernet ?

Which is the protocol used in ethernet. (CSMA/CD)
Why is it called so ?

What is the advantage of Ring network ?

Compare it with ethernet.

What is inheritance, encapsulation etc.

If there are too many page faults what is the
problem?

To ensure one pgm. doesnt corrupt other pgm. in a
Multi-pgm. enviornment

what you should do?

Which one you will use to implement critical
section? Binary Semaphore

Which one is not needed for Multi-pgm. enviornment?

options are: virtual memory,security,time sharing,none
of the above.

Which one is not done by Data link layer ? bit
stuffing, LRC,CRC,parity check

Which one is not related to Data link layer?

Which one is not suitable for client-server
application? tcp/ip,message passing,rpc,none of the
above.

Term stickily bit is related to a)kernel
b)undeletable file c) d)none

semaphore variable is different from ordinary
variable by ?

Where semaphore is used?

what is Test and set lock?

what is critical section and metods for mutual exclusion?

what is internal fragmentation ,external fragmentation,compaction?

what is page fault?How the os finds a page fault has really occured?(protction bits: valid bit, invalid bit)

producer-consumer problem ,reader- writer problem

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ABOUT LINUX

If u say your favorite pass-time is chatting then u’ll be asked how a “CHAT” application works.

if u say I “search” a lot in the web using Google u’ll be asked how a search engine works
(need not say in detail just say it briefly)

how internet works(for eg; when u type www.yuvajobs.com what actually happens how the yuvajobs’s page is loaded?

Operator overloading ,virtual functions(write programs)

1.like what is data model types of data model
2.what is RDBMS.
3.what is normalization,functional
dependency,1NF,2NF,3NF,BCNF.
4. what is oops.
5.what is the difference between c++ and c;
6.properties of oops.
7.inhetence,sequence diagram.
8.XML,ASP,
9.what is an operating system.
10.what is multitasking. what is timesharing.
11.what is memory management.
12.what is virtual paging.
13.about your syllabus.
13.what is microprocessor, about 8085 etc.
14.intoduce your self.
15.about your hobbies.
16.if not related to computer branch then some very
small puzzle and
some technical question
related with the branch.

1normalization
2data model
a.record base
b.logical base
c.object base
3what is a parent key
4time complexcity of different sorting algos
5what is o.s
6semaphore
7describe view mechanism
8joining(outer,lossless!)
9functional dependency
10ffd
11ddl,dml,dcl
12three tier structure
13vertical ,horizontal projection
14explain rdbms,ddbms
15fixed fomat data model
16name the technology used to connect a dbms to front end
17how will u design a dbms

what is data dictionary,dba,about normalization etc.
why it is called relational.

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Technical:

What is o.s?
what is a deadlock?
what is a semaphore?
difference between semaphore & monitor?

what is sdlc(software development life cycle)?

what is a linklist,stack,queue?
write a program to reverse a linklist?

what is dba?
difference between primary,foreign,candidate&super key?
different type of databases?
what is normalsation?explain them?

four division in cobol?
significance of 01,77,88,66 level?

function of compiler?
difference between object file & exe file?

difference between c &c++?
difference between sql&c++?
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Cts red …. Cit campus 2004

1) x^2 + y^2+12 = even number then …..x is even and y is odd
2)x cm, 6 cm, 8 cm (radius of three solid balls) melted those balls and we get the radius of 9 cm….then x = ?

3)A,B,C,D are the mid points of the sides of the rectangle and AB=BC=CD=DA=5 cm

And if one side of the rectangle is 6 cm then the area of the quadrilateral is ?

4)A is the father of C,D

H is the mother of E,F

….

5)CAR=70 KMPH

DOG=35 KMPH

Total distance =70 KM

Time taken= ?

6)In 9 minutes 1 worker can fill one box.Also 8 boxes makes one trunk.

If 18 men work together then how many boxes can be filled in 1 ½ hours ?

7)3 samples of milk,water are in the proportions 2:! , 3:2 , 5;3

If we mix these quantities in equal amount,what will be the ratio of milk and water ?

8)Few pigs were bought for Rs.960.He sold one pig for Rs 135.His gain is the prize of 1 pig.Find the total number of pigs.

9)gain % = ? c.p = 3/4th (s.p)

10)1 can can be filled by 2 pipes .If the larger pipe can fill it in 4 minutes earlier than the other one..how much time it will take to fill the can by the smaller pipe.

11)Income to expenditure is 4:5 per annum…Profit is 5 lakhs.What is the expenditure ?

12)A and B are 27 miles apart and they started to walk towards each otherat at the same time .If both A and B walks in the same direction for 3 hours and after that they walk towards each other.What is the speed of B?

COGNIZENT - Part 3

Eight people. Six of them have rs.60/-and seventh person has Rs.10 more than that of average of all and eighth person has rs.55/- .find the total sum.

A women has children, grand children and great grandchildren. grand children has no children find no of children for women. (something like that)

Complete the sentences.

A passage given and find the correct anser.

10 boxes . each box has 10 balls each of 100gms, one box has balls of 90 gms,find the minimum number of weights to find the odd one.if balls=10 find the no.,if balls =1 find the no and so on.

A is taller than b, b taller than c, c not taller than d. find the arrangement.(something like that)

Train problems.

Problems on time and work. Ie. If men , women and children work for 12 days . if women work for ¾ of the day,children for ½ the day.how many men r required .

9,5 and one more digit. If reversed and subtracted from the original u get the same digit in some order. Find the no.

._. they represent characters. Some options given like
I, sat, dad, do. Find the option that represent the symbol.
And some questions regarding this symbol.

A and B do for 75 min, Band C for 55mis and A and C for 10 mins . find the individual work of A and C.

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COGNIZENT - Date 2/6/2004 - Kumaraguru College Of Technology

Questions :40 Time: 1Hr
Correct Answer: 1Mark Wrong Answer: 0.25 Marks

A Man in His Will States that when he dies his wife will get 1/3 of the estate and 2/3 will go to his son, only if a son is born. If a daughter is born wife will get 2/3 and daughter will get 1/3 . The Man dies and his wife gives birth to twins, one boy and one girl. The estate was divided keep the proportion as stated in will .
1/5 b)2/5 c)1/7 d)2/7 (check it Out)

|X| ,|Y| ,|X-Y| & |X|-|Y|,Which of the relation is correct

ans: |X|-|Y| <=|X-Y|

3)X>0 and Y>0 X+Y<5 which is true

a)2x+3y<14 b)3x+2y<18 c) d)

4)7 291 what is the Unit digit

A man spend his 1/6 of life in childhood 1/12 in bachelor after five years of marriage he got a son who died four years before his father and his age was half of his father age at the time of death

5)what is the mans age ans 84

6)At what age did the man marry

7)age of son ans 42

Analytical and verbal Baron GRE will do. In Analytical Questions Paragraph were given and find conclusion or Presuppositions (Very Very easy)

Q)Pilot alone cannot be blamed for the accidents that are happening .The Investigators have to consider other ……….

Ans)a

Q)The government is has raised the taxes on alcohol and other such substances due to

………………

Ans) To Discourage their Consumption

P,Q,R,S,T were five sisters Age of s was 6 years. R’s age was sum of Q and S .T ‘s age was twice of the sum of Q and S. P is the Eldest …………..

(Very Very easy)

4 Questions on the above Paragraph (very very easy)

8) An Ice Cream with a cone as the base and hemisphere on the top . Radius 2.5 and height of the cone 6 find the area of hemisphere

9) A square is drawn by joining the midpoints of the sides of another square . Another Square is Drawn in the similar fashion This is continued infinitely .If the side of the Square is 4cm Total area is? (ans: 16sqcm)

10)In the 17 th Century people some flower……….. why did they prefer

a)Scent b)Beauty c)Elegance d)Colour

Ans :c

11)Possible sum of all Number of 4 digit numbers with digits 0,1,2,3 no digit should repeat

37-40) a n=3n+1 and b n=3*2 n

3 Questions based on this relationship (very very easy)

Q)3 Three Friends (A,B,C) each brought tickets B brought twice that of C and A brought 3 times that of B . Each of their brothers also brought tickets …….

(2 questions on the above para ) (Very very easy)

The Paper was easy . Out of 300 ,135 cleared the test and 65 got selected.

They give great importance to Academic results.

Technical Interview:

6 Panels , Questions ranged from Area of interest to even Politics and other general

topic.

Some Panel gave more importance to HR Questions especially Suresh(one who did the PPT)

Stay Cool and be prepared for questions in area of Interest(esp. OS ,DBMS)

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