Sasken Placement Paper -: Logical and Quantitative Aptitude Questions With Answers

Sasken Previous Years Solved Sample Placement Papers

1. The young boy was not wearing ___________ cloths.

   (a) a

   (b) any

   (c) nothing (Ans)

2. In the question below, the sentences have been given in Direct/Indirect speech. From the given alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Indirect/Direct speech:

   She said to her friend, "I know where is everyone."

   (a) She told that she knew where was everyone.

   (b) She told her friend that she knew where was everyone. (Ans)

   (c) She told her friend that she knew where is everyone.

   (d) She told her friend that she knows where was everyone.

3. Choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence:

   Medical study of skin and its diseases

   (a) Dermatology (Ans)

   (b) Endocrinology

   (c) Gynealogy

   (d) Orthopaedics

4. Passage 1: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
   
   But I did not want to shoot the elephant. I watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees, with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have...
   1. The author did not want to shoot the elephant because he:
      (A) was afraid of it
      (B) did not have the experience of shooting big animals
      (C) did not wish to kill an animal which was not doing anybody any harm
      (D) did not find the elephant to be ferocious
      Ans: B
      
   2. The phrase "preoccupied grandmotherly air" signifies:
      (A) being totally unconcerned
      (B) pretending to be very busy
      (C) a very superior attitude
      (D) calm, dignified, and affectionate disposition
      Ans: D
      
   3. From the passage, it appears that the author was:
      (A) an inexperienced hunter
      (B) kind and considerate
      (C) possessed with fear
      (D) a worried man
      Ans: B
      


5. Passage 2: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
   
   In the world today we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health is really a means to enable a person to do his work and do it well...
   1. A healthy man should be concerned with:
      (A) his work which good health makes possible
      (B) looking after his health
      (C) his health which makes work possible
      (D) talking about health
      Ans: A
      
   2. The passage tells us:
      (A) how medicine should be manufactured
      (B) what a healthy man should or should not do
      (C) what television programmes should be about
      (D) how best to imagine illness
      Ans: B
      

HCL Technical Questions

1. How many devices can be used on a single SCSI bus? Keep in mind that the SCSI host adapter counts as a device.
   (A) 1
   (B) 8
   (C) 20
   (D) 10
   (E) All of the above
   Ans: B
   
2. To install a second IDE drive into a computer, you must:
   (A) Set the master-slave jumper to slave on the second drive
   (B) Use the IDE configuration software to set the new drive as slave
   (C) Verify that you define the new drive as D: in the CMOS setup
   (D) Verify that you attach the drive to the connector at the end of the ribbon cable
   Ans: A