APTITUDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS HEXAWARE

Directions for questions 1-10: Expand the following terms 


1. ODBC
Ans. Open Database Connectivity.


2. HTML
Ans. Hyper Text Markup Language


3. RISC
Ans. Reduced Instruction Set Computing


4. ASCII
Ans. American Standard Code For Information Interchange


5.ANSI
Ans. American National Standard Institute.


6. XML 
Ans. Extended Markup Language


7. FLOPS
Ans. Floating Point Operating Per Second


8. SQL
Ans. Sequential Query Language


9. QBE
Ans. Query By Example


10. ALE
Ans. Address Latch Enable
11. What is lagging in DBMS ? 
Ans. Reduced Redundancy.




11......


12. Unix
OS/2
CMOS
MSDOS


Ans. CMOS


13. Oracle
Informix
Sybase
LISP


Ans. LISP


14. Laser
Inkjet
Dotmatirx
Mouse


Ans. Mouse


15. Dir 
Cls 
Csh 
Copy


Ans. Csh


16. Bit 
Byte 
Nibble 
Digit


Ans. Digit


17. Hard Disk
Floppy Drive
CD ROM
Cache
Ans. Cache
18. SQL
QUEL
QBE
ORACLE


Ans. Oracle
19. C++
JAVA
VC++
PASCAL
Ans. PASCAL


20. Projection Operation
Selection Operation
Intersection
Set Difference Operation


Ans. Intersection


21. Which of the following is a universal gate ?
(a) OR
(b) AND
(c) XOR
(d) NOR


Ans. NOR


22. The default back end of the VB is
(a) Oracle
(b) Sybase
(c) Informics


Ans. Sybase


23. What is meant by Superconductivity?
Ans. No reistance


24. Viscosity
Ans. Friction


25. What is the Lock Based Protocol used for?
Ans. Concurrency Control in DBMS
Directions for question 25 to 32: Convert the decimal numbers on the left to
the required form
25. 9's complement of 28
Ans. 71 


26. Binary of 58
Ans. 111010
27. Octal of 359
Ans.547


28. Hexadecimal of 650
Ans.28A


29. BCD of 18
Ans.0001 1000


30. BCD of 34.8
Ans.0011 0100.1000


31. Excess-3 code of 6
Ans.1001


32. Excess-3 code of 9
Ans.1100
33. If Ax + By = 1F16; Cx + Dy = 2510 .Find the value of x and y


34. Semaphore is used for
(a) synchronization 
(b) dead-lock avoidence
(c) box 
(d) none
Ans. a
35. For addressing 1 MB memory, the number of address lines required,
(a)11 
(b)16 
(c)22 
(d) 24


Ans. b


36. Which of the following remains in memory temporarily
(a) Resident portion of COMMAND.COM
(b) Transient portion of COMMAND.COM
(c) API
(d) Disk BIOS


Ans. b


37. Pick the odd man out
(a) IO.SYS
(b) MSDOS.SYS
(c) ROM-BIOS
(d) COMMAND.COM


Ans. c


38. OS/2 is a 
(a) Single User OS
(b) Multi User OS
(c) Multi Tasking OS
(d) None of these


Ans. c


39. Bootstrap loader program is a program belonging to 
(a) ROM startup software
(b) ROM extension software
(c) ROM BIOS software
(d) ROM Basic software
Ans. a


40. The entry of starting cluster of a file is present in 
(a) Boot Parameters
(b) Directory
(c) FAT
(d) Partition Table and master boot program


Ans. c
APTITUDE SECTION
Directions for questions 1-6: Find the correct meaning of the following
phrases


1. A man of letters


2. A man of straw


3. To be in the air


4. To bite the dust


5. Man of few words


6. Penny wise pound foolish




7. Find the reminder when 333666777888999 divided by 3 or 9 or 11 ?




8. Which is the biggest perfect square amongst the following
15129, 12348, 23716, 20736




9. The greatest area of the following
(a) The radius of circle is 4
(b) The square of diagonal is 4
(c) The square of side is 4




10. The area of the maximum size of the circle described from the 10 square
inch square? 




11. In the series 0, 3, 8, 15,__ What is the next number?




12. X < 0, Y <> 0 then what is the possibility that the result is always
positive?
Ans. xy




13. 3 red and 4 blue balls are in a basket. A member of PPTeam is drawing
balls from the basket. What is the probablity
of getting the 3 red balls simultaneously?




14. Let ax2 + bx + c = 0
If the sum of the equal roots is equal to the product of the same roots.Then
which of the following hold true
(a) a + b = 0
(b) a = 0
(c) c = 0
(d) a + c = 0




15. A fold density is 19 times greater than the water and for copper it is 9
times.At what ratio you can mix gold and 
copper to get 15 times denser than water.
Ans. 3 : 2




16. Find the value of (1.99)2
Ans. 3.9601




17. There is a room with 6' x 8'. A 1' tile is fixed along the 4 walls in
one row. How many 1" tiles require to 
finish the work.
Ans. 24 
18. 2 persons can finish a job in 8 days. First person alone can finish the
work in 24 days. How many days
does the second person take to finish the job?
Ans. 12 days
19. A 4" cube is painted in all its faces and then it is cut down into 1"
blocks. How many 1" blocks are there 
even without a single face being painted?
Ans. 8


20. A cylinder is inserted in a sphere d/h = 2/3. Find the surface area of
the cylinder ?




21. In a car wheel, two spokes cover 15 degree. Then for the entire car,how
many spokes are there?
Ans. 24.




22. What is the angle of degree suspended when two hands of clock showing
the time 2.30. 
Ans. 105 degrees




23. The age difference between two brothers is 3 years. After 6 years the
ratio between the age is 9:8 
What are their ages?
Ans. 21 and 18




24. A person's salary is getting reduced by 20%. What percentage should be
added to get back his 
original salary?
Ans. 25% 




25. Two persons start at the same point, walk in opposite directions with
5km/hr and 5.5km/hr respectively.
What is the distance separated after 2 and half hrs?
Ans. 26.25 (approx)




26. A person starts walking at a speed of 5km/hr through half the distance,
rest of the distance he covers with a
speed 4km/hr. Total time of travel is 9 hours. What is the maximum distance
he can cover?
Ans. 40km.


27. Initially two cups of same volume are present with milk filled upto
3/5th and 4/5th of their volumes.Water is then filled. Then two mixtures are
mixed. Find the ratio of water to milk in the mixture.
Ans. 3 : 7




28. 16 grams of radioactive material decays into 8 grams in 10 years. How
long will it take to decay to 1 gram ?
Ans. 70 yrs.




29. In a rectangle the length is increased by of the original length . By
what proportion should the 
width be reduced so that the area will be the same?
Ans. 33




30. Find the nth number in the series is 1, -3, 5, -7.___
Ans. (-1)*(2n-1)




31. If a square is formed by the diagonal of the square as an edge, what is
the ratio between the area?
Ans. 2




32. The perimeter of a rhombus is 52 units. One of its diagonal is 24
units.What is its second diagonals length?
Ans. 10




33. A cubical rectangular bar has the dimensions with the ratio 5 : 4 : 3.
Its volume is 7500. What is the
surface area of the bar? 
Ans. 2350




34. In a class total 34 students, 16 are have a brother, 15 are have
sisters, 9 students don't have either 
brothers or sisters.Find the number of students having both brother and
sisters.
Ans. 6




35. A batsman scored 18 runs in his 18th innings and that makes his average
18. Find his average upto the
17th innings?
Ans. 19




36. 6 women can do 75 units of work in 8 days by working 5hrs/day. In how
many days can 4 women do 30 units 
of work by working 8hrs/day ?




37. A persons salary iis decreased by steps of 20%, 15% and 10%. What will
be the percentage decrease, if the
salary is decreased in a single shot?




38. The ratio of the length : breadth : height of a cuboid is 5 : 4: 3, and
the volume is 7500. What will be its surface area ?




39. If the circumference of a circle is 100 units, Then what will the
length of the arc described by an angle of 20 degree ?




40. 3 persons started placementpapers with a capital of Rs.3000 . B invest
Rs.600 less than A, C invest Rs.300 less 
than B. Then what is the share amount of B in a profit of Rs.886 ? 


Directions for 41-50: Which of the following is the correct spelling for the
word
41. supercede and supersede


42. recommend and reccomend


43. superitendent and superitendant


44. separate and seperate


45. succeed and suceed 


46. coolly and cooly
47. despair and dispair


48. ridiculous and rediculous


49. indespensible and indepensable 


50. tranquility or tranquillity


C TEST


Directions: For the given sample program give the output of the program(30
marks)
main()
{
int a[]={ 2,4,6,8,10 };
int i;
change(a,5);
for( i = 0; i <= 4; i++)
printf("\n %d",a[i]);
}
change( int *b, int n){
int i;
for( i = 0; i < n; i++)
*(b+i) = *(b+i) + 5;
}