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Wipro Placement Paper-20 March 2007,Knit Sultanpur

Verbal

1. choose the lettered pair that expresses a relationship most similar to relationship expressed in the capitalized pair. LINEAGE :PERSON.
(A)foliage:tree (B) derivation: word (C) adolescene : child (D) title:book



2. select the word among the given choices that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word �NEGATION�
(A) Hypothecation (B) postulation (C) affirmation (D) Anticipation
3. select the word or pharse among the given choices that is most nearly similar in meaning to the word �ACM
(A)The highest point (B) sharpness (C) bottomless (d) harmony

4. given below are words three of which belong to same category . find the word which does not belong to that category.
( A) Nimble (B) Sluggish (C) inert (D) torpid.

5. from the following sets of words ,choose the word correctly spelt.

(A)fasination (B)facination (C) fascination (D) fastenation.

6. each of the following sentences is either in active or in passive voice and is followed by four alternatives as answers. choose the correct alternative . women like to be flattered by men.

(a). women like to flatter man (b). men like to flatter flatter women.

(c). women like men to flatter them. (d). none of these.



7. each sentence is in direct or indirect speech and is followed by four alternatives of the opposite form of narration to that of the sentence , choose the correct alternative . the teacher forbade the boys to make a noise and advised them to do their work quietly.

(a). the teacher said,�boys,do not make a noise.do your work quietly.�

(b). the teacher said,� boys,do not make a noise to your work quietly�

(c). the teacher forbade the boys.� Do not make a noise to do your quietly�.

(d).none of these.


8. For each f the words given below a contextual usage is provided. Pick the work from the alternatives given that is most INAPPROPRIATE in the given context . A comprehensive approach to headache management combined with the rise of new drugs , appear to provide a reprieve to the numerous sufferers.

(a).doubt (b). acquittal (c) assurance (d) belief



9. Select among the given choices the correct phrase to replace the underlined phrase in the following sentence.

One person was killed and several others are injured in police firing and stone throwing, yesterday.

(a) one person is killed and severals others are injured 

(b) one person was killed and several others were injured.
(c). one person has been killed and several others are injured
(d). one person was being killed and several others are being injured.

(10). Given below are words three of which belong to the same category. Find the word which does not belong to the that category.

(a). respect (b) believe (c) revere (d) worship

(11). Choose one of the words given in four alternatives which has wrong suffix.

(a) beginning (b) begineng (c) begininng (d) beginning

(12). Select the word among the given choices that is most nearly opposite meaning to the word �NOTORIOUS�.

(A)Fashionable (B) invincible (C)intrepid (D)renowned

13.select the word or pharse among the given choices that is most nearly similar in meaning to the word �BASHFUL�.

(A)Vigilant (B)confident (C)shy (D)complicated.

14.for each of the words given below a contextual usage is provided .pick the work from the alternatives given that is most INAPPROPRIATE in the given context .she is hot she is tasty, a delectable morsel on cool. Britain �s multicultural gravy train.

(A) Palatable (B) bland (C)unsavory (D) offensive

15.select the option that can be substituted for the given sentence. A person with prejudiced views against religion.

(A) bigot (b) fanatic (c) orthodox (d) profane.


ANALYTICAL
16. Two cards players, peter and parul,have Rs 100 in the pot . They have agreed that the first player to win 5 games shall win the pot. Each player has an equal chance of winning each play.after peter has won 4 times and parul has won 3 times ,the game is interrupted and they have to stop playing and share money . What�s the most fair amount of money that peter should get?

(A)50 (B)75 (C)66.75 (D) 80

17.The fraction EVE/DID=0.7986798679867986��.. is a normal fraction that can also be written as a recurring decimal. What is the vlue of I.

(A)0 (B)1 (C)3 (D)4.

18. Substitute digits for the letters to the following divison true 



HIL

---------------

IL |PHIL

|IL

--------------

T I

LS

--------------- 

HIL

HIL

------------

000

note that the leftmost letter can,t be zero in any word.Also , there must be a one-one mapping between digits and letters . E.g if you substitute 9 for the letter H, no other letter can be 9 and all other H in the puzzle must be 9. what is the value of P.

(A) 2 (B)3 (C) 5 (D) 1



19. A solar � powered car is being test driven. The vechile is driven at 30mph under solar power and 40 mph under regular power .The trip to the nearest town takes 45 min using both solar and regular power ,wheras the return trip takes 50 min using only solar power . on the trip to the town ,find the distance driven using regular power?

(A)10 miles (B) 15 miles (C) 40 miles (D) 25 miles


20. A team of 36 members is divided into groups of equal size to make a trip. Since the groups were too large to fit in a car , 3 members were taken from each group and these members then formed into two additional groups . after this , all groups had the same number of members . how many members of the team were in a group before the three members were taken out from each group ?

(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 3



21. seven members of a town boards � F,G,H;J,K,L and M � Vote on a series of resolutions. On each resolution ,every member votes either aye or nay according to the following patterns.

H always votes the same way as G. If F votes aye ,then K votes aye. Either M or H votes the opposite way from J. H and M never both votes aye. L never votes the same way as K. If G and K vote aye which of the following must be true.

(A) F votes aye and M votes aye (b) H votes aye and F votes nay. (c) J votes may and F votes nay . (D) L votes nay and M votes nay.



22. which of the following will appear in the series ? 243,5, 81, 15, 27, 45, 9, ?.

(A) 27 (B) 15 (C) 5 (D) 135



23. how many times do the hands of the clock point towards each other in a day?

(A) 12 (B)18 (C) 22 (D) 24



24. a boy was asked to calculate the roots of quadratic equation Ax2+Bx+C=0. HE CALCULATED one of the roots wrong and other one right . with his calculation the sum and product of the roots were found to be 7 and 12 respectively. The product exceeded the product of the correct roots by 6. which of the following could nave been the original quadratic equation?

(A)x2+7x+12=0 (B) x2-5x+6=0 (C) x2-7x-12=0 (D) x2-8x+12=0

25.The speed of the boat is 36 kmph higher than that of the stream in which it travels . if it can travel 828 km downstream in 18 hours and the same in upstream in 23 hours , its average speed is __________.

(A) 36 kmph (B) 41 kmph (C) 46 kmph (D) 31 kmph.

26. A man travels by bus for 20 hours and they by train for 05 hours . if the average speed of the bus was 20 kmph and that of the entire journey was 24 kmph. What was the average speed of the train?

(A) 44kmph (B) 30 kmph (C) 36 kmph (D) 40 kmph

27. 1) B is mother of D but D is not daughter of B. 2) A is son of M and brother of G. 3) G is sister of D

which of the following cannot be referred from the given information .?

(A)B has 3 children (B)M has two sons (c) G is younger to B. (D) A is younger to D.

28. 50% of the subscriber to newspaper A are corporate managers and those 30% are in finance. If 40% of the subscriber who are corporate managers in finance are money managers, how many of the newspapers 25,000 subscriber are corporate money managers in the financial field.

(A) 1500 (B)1600 (C) 1800 (D) 1900

29.there are six children A.B,C,D,E and F are playing a game of football . they are related with each other as follows:

� A-E are brothers.

� B is A� uncle�s son,

� C and D are daughter�s of B�s father�s brother.

� C-D are daughter�s of B�s father�s brother

� C-D are cousins of B.

How many male members are there?

(A)2 (B)3 (C)4 (D)5.



TECHNICAL



31. Consider the following program

#include

main()

{char x[10],*ptr=x;

scanf(�%s�,x);change(&x[4]);}

change(char a[])

{puts(a);}

if abcdefg is input, the output will be

(A) abcd (B)abc (C) efg (D) garbage.

32.what will be the output ?

main()

{

struct xyz

{int i:

}

struct xyz *p;

struct xyz a;

p=&a;

p->i=50;

printf(�%d�,*p,i);

}

(A) compile time error (B) 0 (C)50 (D) garbage value.

33. a two dimensional array A is declared as int A[4][2]={0}. What values would be printed after execution the following statement?

Printf(�%d�,sizeof(A));

(A)4 (B)8 (C) 32 (D) none of these.

34. the output of the code fragment is

int x=4,*y;

y=&x;(*y)++;

printf(�%d,%d\n�,*y);

(A)5 (B) 4 (C) 0 (D) syntax error.

35. In the link list implementation of the queue class,where does the insert method place the new entry on the linked list.?

(A)at the head (B) at the tail

(C) after the other entries that are greater than the other entry. 

(D)after all other entry that are smaller than the new entry.

36.what is the drawback in the threaded binary tree?

(A)null links are replaced with thread links (B)does�nt contain null links. (C)extra memory is required. (D)no extra memory is required.

38. which of the following option of the ls command prints non-graph character in octal.

(A) ls-a (B) ls-b (C) ls-I (D) ls-r

39.which of the following are essential operating system services that are general purpose ,multipurpose ,multi user computer operating system should support

(A) interface support for computer operators

(B) performance analysis software for tuning the file system,process scheduling ,memory management and device driver characteristics

(C)facilities for making an inventory if installed software and hardware on the platform

(D)none of these.

40.when pack command is used the original file size is reduced by__________.

(A)25-40% (B) 50-70% (C) 80% (D) none of these.

41 The __________ command extracts the fixed string and displace it.

(A) egrep (B) fgrep (C)grep (D) sgrep

42.here is a small piece of c++code containing a while loop

int i=0;

while (i<10)

{cout<<< P>

i++;

}

(A)0 (B)8 (C) 9 (D) 10


43. What is the difference between public and private inheritance?

(A) under the public inheritance ,public and protected members of the base class have the same status in the derived class.

(B)under private inheritance ,public and protected members of the base class all become private members of the derived class.

(C)both A &B

(D) none of these.

44.inheritance facilitates reusability because

(A) child object cannot be modified.

(B)the base class need not be modified to derive a new class.

(C)derived class objects inherit only the desirable feature of the base class.

(D) objects of the base class can be treated as objects of the derived class.

45.the ability for the processor to delegate its use by application is called?

(A) cooperative multitasking (B) preemptive multitasking (C) time slicing

(D)sharing

46.a thread differs from a lightweight process in that :

(A)threads have a parent process (B)threads share process�s resources but light weight process do not. (D)threads run in user space ,but light weight thread run in kernel space.

47.the login prompt can be changed by changing the contents of the file

(A)initab (B) init (C) passwd (D)gettydefs

48.which command is used to delete all files in the current directory as well as all files and sub directories in its sub directory?

(A)rm* (B)rm-r* (C)rm all (D)rm *.*

49. when all the elements above the main diagonal of a square matrix are zero ,then the matrix is said to be �lower triangular matrix� .consider that such a matrix A is represented in an array A[1:n*(n+1)/2)], such that the elements aij are stored by rows in the array ,what is the addressing formula for element aij.(i.j=[1:n])

(A)(j*(j+1)/2)+1 (B) (i*(i+1)/2)+j (C)(i*(i-1)/2)+j (D) (j*(j-1)/2)+1

50.an algorithm for searching a large sorted array for a specific entry x compares every fourth item in the array to x until it finds one that is larger than or equal to x. whenever a larger item is found ,the algorithm examines the preceding three entries .if the array is sorted smallest to the largest ,which of the following describes all cases when this algorithm might use fewer comparisons to find x than would a binary tree search?

(A)it will never use fewer comparisons. (B)when x is very close to the beginning of the array . (C)when x is in the middle position in the array (D)when x is very close to the end of the array.