TCS Latest Fresher Placement Sample Question Question
Verbal Section

Directions for questions 1-15:Find the synonyms of the following words
TCS Latest Fresher Engineer Placement Sample Question Paper 2
1. Merry
Ans. Gay,Happy

2. Alienate
Ans. Estrange

3. Solicit
Ans. To request

4.Heap
Ans. To pile

5.Cargo
Ans. Freight

6.Momentary
Ans. Transient

7. Volume
Ans.Quantity

8.Veer
Ans.Diverge

9.Dispel
Ans.Dissipate

10.Admonish
Ans.Cautious

11.Meager
Ans.Scanty

12.Latitude
Ans.Scope

13.Latent
Ans.Potential

14.Covet
Ans.Crave

15.Discretion
Ans. Prudence

Quantitative Section

1. If two pencils cost 8 cents, then how much do 5 pencils cost?
Ans. 20 cents

2. Some work is done by two people in 24 minutes. One of them can do this work alone in 40 minutes. How much time does the second person take to do the same work ?
Ans. 60 minutes

3. A car is filled with four and half gallons of fuel for a round trip.If the amount of fuel taken while going is 1/4 more than the amount taken for coming, what is the amount of fuel consumed while coming back?
Ans.2 gallons

4. The lowest temperature in the night in a city A is 1/3 more than 1/2 the highest during the day. Sum of the lowest temperature and the highest temperature is 100 degrees. Then what is the low temp?
Ans.40 degrees

5. Javagal, who decided to go to weekened trip should not exceed 8 hours driving in a day. The average speed of forward journey is 40 miles/hr.Due to traffic on sundays, the return journey's average speed is 30 m/h. How far he can select a picnic spot?
a) 120 miles
b) between 120 and 140 miles
c) 160 miles
Ans. 120 miles

6. A salesperson by mistake multiplied a number and got the answer as 3, instead of dividing the number by 3.What is the answer he should have actually got?
Ans. 3

7. A building with height D shadow upto G. What is the height of a neighbouring building with a shadow of C feet.
Ans. (C*D)/G

8. A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10 mph. Another person was also fined for exceeding the same speed limit by twice the same. If the second person was travelling at a speed of 35 mph, find the speed limit.
Ans. 15 mph

9. A bus started from bustand at 8.00am, and after staying for 30 minutes at a destination, it returned back to the busstand. The destination is 27 miles from the busstand. The speed of the bus is 18mph. During the return journey bus travels with 50% faster speed.At what time does it return to the busstand?
Ans. 11.00am

10. In a mixture, R is 2 parts and S is 1 part. In order to make S to 25% of the mixture, how much of R is to be added?
Ans.One part of R

11. Wind flows 160 miles in 330 min, for travelling 80 miles how much time does it require?
Ans. 2 hrs 45 mins

12. With a 4/5 full tank a vehicle can travel 12 miles, how far can it travel with a 1/3 full tank
Ans. 5 miles

13. There are two trees in a lawn. One grows at a rate 3/5 of the other in 4 years. If the total growth of trees is 8 ft. What is the height of the smaller tree after 2 years
Ans. 1 1/2 feet

14. Refer to the figure below.A ship started from P and moves at a speed of I miles per hour and another ship starts from L and moving with H miles per hour simultaneously.Where do the two ships meet?
||---g---||---h---||---i---||---j---||---k---||---l---||
PG H I J K L are the various stops in between denoted by || . The values g, h, i, j, k, l denote the distance between the ports.
Ans. Between I and J, closer to J

15. If A is travelling at 72 km per hour on a highway. B is travelling at a speed of 25 meters per second on a highway. What is the difference in their speeds in m/sec.
Ans. 1 m/sec

Critical Reasoning Section

The critical reasoning section consists of some passages followed by 4 to 7 questions per passage. The questions are such that they require ability to read fast and comprehend. The questions asked in this section have three choices TRUE, FALSE, CAN'T SAY. Some examples of questions are given below. Please note that these passages are not the exact passages asked. The passages used a good deal of difficult words which have been removed in this reproduction. Also the passages appearing in the actual paper are much lengthier.
Directions: Answer the questions given below the passage or statement as true, false or can't say.
PASSAGE A: My father has no brothers. He has three sisters who has two childs each.
Answer 1-5 based on the passage A
1.My grandfather has two sons .
Ans. False

2. Three of my aunts have two sons
Ans. Can't say

3. My father is only child to his father
Ans. False

4. I have six cousins from my mother side
Ans. Can't say

5. I have one uncle
Ans. Can't say(uncle can be from the mother's side as well)

PASSAGE B: Ether injected into gallablader to dissolve colestrol based gallstones. This type one day treatment is enough for gallstones not for calcium stones. This method is alternative to surgery for millions of people who are suffering from this disease.
Answer questions 6-9 based on passage B

6.Calcium stones can be cured in oneday
Ans. False

7. Hundreds of people contains calcium stones
Ans. Can't say

8. Surgery is the only treatment to calcium stones
Ans. True

9. Ether will be injected into the gallbleder to cure the cholestrol based gall stones
Ans. True

PASSAGE C: Hacking is illegal entry into another computer. This happens mostly because of lack of knowledge of computer networking. With networks one machine can access to another machine.Hacking go about without knowing that each network is accredited to use network facility.
Answer questions 10-12 based on passage C

10. Hackers never break the code of the company which they work for
Ans. Can't say

11. Hacking is the only vulnerability of the computers for the usage of the data
Ans. False

12.Hacking is done mostly due to the lack of computer knowledge
Ans. False

PASSAGE D: Alphine tunnels are closed tunnels.In the past 30 yrs not even a single accident has been recorded for there is one accident in the rail road system. Even in case of a fire accident it is possible to shift the passengers into adjacent wagons and even the live fire can be detected and extinguished with in the duration of 30 min.
Answer questions 13-16 based on passage D

13. No accident can occur in the closed tunnels
Ans. True

14. Fire is allowed to live for 30 min
Ans. False

16. All the care that travel in the tunnels will be carried by rail shutters.
Ans.True

PASSAGE E: In the past helicopters were forced to ground or crash because of the formation of the ice on the rotors and engines. A new electronic device has been developed which can detect the watercontent in the atmosphere and warns the pilot if the temperature is below freezing temperature about the formation of the ice on the rotors and wings.
Answer questions 17-20 based on passage E

17.The electronic device can avoid formation of the ice on the wings
Ans.False

18. There will be the malfunction of rotor & engine because of formation of ice
Ans.True

19. The helicopters were to be crashed or grounded
Ans.True

20. There is only one device that warn about the formation of ice
Ans.True

PASSAGE F:In the survey conducted in mumbai out of 63 newly married house wives not a single house wife felt that the husbands should take equal part in the household work as they felt they loose their power over their husbands. Inspite of their careers they opt to do the kitchen work themselves after coming back to home. the wives get half as much leisure time as the husbands get at the week ends.
Answer questions 21-23 based on passage F.

21.Housewives want the husbands to take part equally in the household
Ans.False

22. Wives have half as much leisure time as the husbands have
Ans. False

23. 39% of the men will work equally in the house in cleaning and washing.
Ans. False

PASSAGE G:Copernicus is the intelligent. In the days of copernicus the transport and technology development was less & it took place weeks to comunicate a message at that time,wherein we can send it through satellite with in no time.Even with this fast developments it has become difficult to understand each other.
Answer questions 24-27 based on passage G.

24. People were not intelligent during Copernicus days
Ans.False

25. Transport facilities are very much improved in noe a days
Ans.Can't say

26. Even with the fast developments of the techonology we can't live happily.
Ans. Can't say

27. We can understand the people very much with the development of communication
Ans. False.

PASSAGE H:Senior managers warned the workers that because of the intfoductors of japanese industry in the car market. There is the threat to the workers.They also said that there will be the reduction in the purchase of the sales of car in public.the interest rates of the car will be increased with the loss in demand.
Answer questions 28-31 based on passage H.

28. Japanese workers are taking over the jobs of indian industry.
Ans.False

29.Managers said car interests will go down after seeing the raise in interest rates.
Ans.True

30. Japanese investments are ceasing to end in the car industry.
Ans. False

31. People are very interested to buy the cars.
Ans.False

PASSAGE I: In the totalitariturican days, the words have very much devalued. In the present day, they are becoming domestic that is the words will be much more devalued. In that days, the words will be very much effected in political area. but at present, the words came very cheap .We can say they come free at cost.
Answer questions 32-34 based on passage I.

32.Totalitarian society words are devalued.
Ans.False

33. Totalitarians will have to come much about words
Ans.True

34. The art totalitatian society the words are used for the political speeches.
Ans. False

PASSAGE J:There should be copyright for all arts. The reele has came that all the arts has come under one copy right society,they were use the money that come from the arts for the developments . There may be a lot of money will come from the Tagore works. We have to ask the benifiters from Tagore work to help for the development of his works.
Answer questions 35-39 based on passage J.

35. Tagore works are came under this copy right rule.
Ans. False

36. People are free to go to the public because of the copy right rule.
Ans.Can't say

38. People gives to theater and collect the money for development.
Ans.Can't say

39. We have ask the Tagore resedents to help for the developments of art.
Ans.Can't say

# Paper 2

Some questions are based on the following passage:
The office staff of the XYZ
corporation presently consists of three bookkeepers
(A, B and C) and five secretaries (D, E, F, G and H).
Management is planning to open a new office in another
city using three secretaries and two bookkeepers of
the current staff. To do so they plan to separate
certain individuals who do not function well together.
The following guidelines were established to set up
the new office:
I. Bookkeepers A and C are
constantly finding fault with one another and should
not be sent as a team to the new office.
II. C and E function well alone but
not as a team. They should be separated.
III. D and G have not been on
speaking terms for many months. They should not go
together.
IV. Since D and F have been competing
for promotion, they should not be a team.
Ans.

4. If A is to be moved as one of the bookkeepers,
which of the following cannot be a possible working
team?
(a) ABDEH (b) ABDGH
(c) ABEFH (d) ABEGH (e) ABFGH

5. If C and F are moved to the new office, how many
combinations are possible?
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4
(e) 5

6. If C is sent to the new office, which member of the
staff cannot go with C?
(a) B (b) D
(c) F (d) G
(e) H

7. Under the guidelines developed, which of the
following must go to the new office?
(a) B (b) D
(c) E (d) G
(e) H

8. If D goes to the new office which of the following
is (are) true?
I. C cannot go.
II. A cannot go.
III. H must also go.
a. I only. b. II only.
c. I and II only. d. I and III only.
e. I, II and III.

9. Two stations A & B are 110 km apart. One train
starts from A at 7 am, and travels towards B at
20kmph. Another train starts from B at 8 am and
travels towards A at 25kmph. At what time will they
meet?
a. 9 am b. 10 am
c. 11 am d. 10.30 am

10. If a man can swim downstream at 6kmph and upstream
at 2kmph, his speed in still water is:
a. 4kmph b. 2kmph
c. 3kmph d. 2.5kmph

Answer the following three questions based on the
paragraph:
A student applying at a college should take three
courses. There are altogether four courses, namely,
Science, Maths, Social Sudies and Economics. (The
names may vary, but the pattern is the same)
One can take a Science course onty if he has taken a
Maths course.
One can take a Maths course only if he has taken a
Science course.
One can take a n Economics course only if he has taken
a Social Studies course.

11. Which of the following is a possible course?
a. Two Science courses and a Social
Studies Course.
b. Two Maths courses and an Economics
course.
c. One Mats course, one Science course and
a Social Studies course.
d. One Maths course, one Science course
and an Economics course.

12. Which of the following courses a student can take?
I. One Science, one Social Studies,
one Economics
II. Two Science, one Social Studies
III. Two Science, one Maths.
a. I only
b. III only c. I and II only
d. II and III only

13. Which of the following is not a possible course?
a. Two Science courses and a Maths course.
b. Two Maths course and a
Science course.
c. One Maths course, one Science course
and a Social Studies Course.
d. One Maths course, one Science course
and an Economics course.

# Paper 1

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE SECTION

1. Two pencils costs 8 cents, then 5 pencils cost how much
Sol: 2 pencils è 8 cents => 1 pencil è 4 cents
Therefore 5 pencils cost = 5 * 4 = 20 cents

2. A work is done by two people in 24 min. one of them can do this work a lonely
in 40 min. how much time required to do the same work for the second person.
Sol: (A+B) can do the work in = 1/24 min.
A alone can do the same work in = 1/40 min.
B alone can do the same work in = (A+B)?s ? A?s = 1/24 ? 1/40 = 1/60
Therefore, b can do the same work in = 60 min

3.A car is filled with four and half gallons of oil for full round trip. Fuel is taken
1/4 gallon more in going than coming. What is the fuel consumed in coming up?
Sol Before the trip, car is filled with = 4 ½ gallon of oil
Let ?X? be the quantity of fuel consumed for the trip in one direction
The fuel consumed while going = X + ¼
The fuel consumed while coming = X
Therefore, the fuel consumed for the trip = (X + ¼) + X = 4 ½
ð 2X + ¼ = 4 ½ => 2X = 4 ½ - ¼ => 2X = 4 ¼ => X= 2. approx
Therefore the fuel consumed while coming = 2 gallon

4. Low temperature at the night in a city is 1/3 more than 1/2 high as higher
temperature in a day. Sum of the low temperature and highest temp. is 100
degrees. Then what is the low temp?
Sol: 40 deg.

5. A person, who decided to go to weekend trip should not exceed 8 hours
driving in a day. Average speed of forward journey is 40 m/h. Due to traffic
in Sundays, the return journey average speed is 30 m/h. How far he can select
a picnic spot?
a) 120 miles
b) Between 120 and 140 miles
c) 160 miles
Answer: 120 miles


6. A salesperson multiplied a number and got the answer 3, instead of that number divided by 3.What is the answer he actually has to get?
Sol: (1/3) *1 * 3 = 3, so number = 1
Divided by 3
Answer: 1/3.

7. A ship started from port and moving with I miles per hour and another ship started from L and moving with H miles per hour. At which place these two ships meet?
|----|----|----|----|----|----|
port G H I J K L
Sol: Answer is between I and J and close to J or (L*I*H)/(H+I)

8. A building with height D shadow up to G. A neighbor building with what
height shadows C feet.
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
A B C D E F G H
Sol: B Ft. or CD/G

9. A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10mph. Another person
was also fined for exceeding the same speed limit by twice the same. If the
second person was traveling at a speed of 35 mph, find the speed limit.
Sol: Let ?x? be the speed limit
Person ?A? was fined for exceeding the speed limit by = 10mph
Person ?B? was fined for exceeding the speed limit by = twice of ?A?
= 2*10mph=20mph
given that the second person was traveling at the speed of 35mph
=> 35mph ? 20mph = 15mph
Therefore the speed limit is =15 mph

10.A bus started from bus stand at 8.00am, and after 30 minutes staying at
destination, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from
the bus stand. The speed of the bus is 18mph. In return journey bus travels
with 50% fast speed. At what time it returns to the bus stand?
Sol: 11.00am

11.In a mixture, R is 2 parts S is 1 part. In order to make S to 25% of the mixture,
how much r is to be added?
Sol: One Part

12. Wind flows 160 miles in 330 min, for 80 miles how much time required.
Sol:

13. With 4/5 full tank vehicle travels 12 miles, with 1/3 full tank how much
distance travels
Sol: ( 5 miles )

14. Two trees are there. One grows at 3/5 of the other in 4 years, total growth of
trees is 8 ft. what growth will smaller tree will have in 2 years
Sol: ( < 2 ft. )

15. A storm will move with a velocity of towards the center in hours, at the same
rate how much far will it move in hrs.
Sol: ( but the answer is 8/3 or 2 2/3 )

1. In a two-dimensional array, X (9, 7), with each element occupying 4 bytes of memory, with the address of the first element X (1, 1) is 3000; find the address of X (8, 5).
Ans: 3212

2. In the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first and second, third and forth, forth and fifth, fifth and sixth words are interchanged up to the last letter, what would be the tenth letter from right? Ans:I

3. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in an 8-bit memory? Ans : 251

4. Select the odd one out?..a. Java b. Lisp c. Smalltalk d. Eiffel.

5. Select the odd one out a. SMTP b. WAP c. SAP d. ARP

6. Select the odd one out a. Oracle b. Linux c. Ingress d. DB2

7. Select the odd one out a. WAP b. HTTP c. BAAN d. ARP

8. Select the odd one out a. LINUX b. UNIX c. SOLARIS d. SQL SEVER

9. Select the odd one out a. SQL b. DB2 c. SYBASE d. HTTP

10. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square root of 100N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much memory now occupied? Ans: 0.5%(SQRT 101N)

11. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work? Ans: 16
12. In which of the system, decimal number 184 is equal to 1234? Ans: 5

13. Find the value of the 678 to the base-7. Ans: 1656

14. Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube Ans: 6 8 12

15. Complete the series 2, 7, 24, 77,__ Ans: 238

16. Find the value of @@+25-++@16, where @ denotes "square" and + denotes "square root". Ans: 621

17. Find the result of the following expression if, M denotes modulus operation, R denotes round-off, T denotes truncation: M(373,5)+R(3.4)+T(7.7)+R(5. Ans:19

18. If TAFJHH is coded as RBEKGI then RBDJK can be coded as? Ans: qcckj

19. G(0)= -1, G(1)=1, G(N)=G(N-1) - G(N-2), G(5)= ? Ans: - 2

20. What is the max possible 3 digit prime number? Ans: 997

21. A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 750 meters width. A cable is made from power unit to power plant opposite to that of the river and 1500mts away from the power unit.The cost of the cable below water is Rs.15/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.12/-per meter. Find the total of laying the cable. Ans : 1000 (24725-cost)

22. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square root of 100N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much memory now occupied? Ans:0.5%(SQRT 101N)

23. In Madras, temperature at noon varies according to -t^2/2 + 8t + 3, where t is elapsed time. Find how much temperature more or less in 4pm to 9pm. Ans:At 9pm 7.5 more

24. The size of the bucket is N kb. The bucket fills at the rate of 0.1 kb per millisecond. A programmer sends a program to receiver. There it waits for 10 milliseconds. And response will be back to programmer in 20 milliseconds. How much time the program takes to get a response back to the programmer, after it is sent? Ans: 30

25. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work? Ans: 16

26. If the vertex (5,7) is placed in the memory. First vertex (1,1) `s address is 1245 and then address of (5,7) is ---------- Ans: 1279

27. Which of the following are orthogonal pairs?
a. 3i+2j b. i+j c. 2i-3j d. -7i+j Ans: a, c

28. If VXUPLVH is written as SURMISE, what is SHDVD? Ans: PEASE

29. If A, B and C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the wastage of fuel by 30%, 20% and 10%.What will be the fuel economy if they were used combined.
Ans: 20%

30. What is the power of 2? a. 2068 b.2048 c.2668

31. Complete the series. 3, 8, --, 24, --, 48, 63. Ans: 15.35

32. Complete the series. 4, -5, 11, -14, 22, -- Ans: -27

33. A, B and C are 8 bit no's. They are as follows:
A -> 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1
B -> 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
C -> 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1
Find ((A-B) u C)=? Hint: 109?. A-B is {A} - {A n B}

34. A Flight takes off at 2 A.M from northeast direction and travels for 11 hours to reach the destination, which is in northwest direction. Given the latitude and longitude of source and destination. Find the local time of destination when the flight reaches there? Ans: 7 am

35. A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers in 10 hours. Then for how many hours required for B to copy 26 papers? Ans: 13

36. A is twice efficient than B. A and B can both work together to complete a work in 7 days. Then find in how many days, A alone can complete the work? Ans: 10.5

37. A finish the work in 10 days. B is 60% efficient than A. So how many days do B takes to finish the work? Ans :100/6

38. A finishes the work in 10 days & B in 8 days individually. If A works for only 6 days then how many days should B work to complete A's work? Ans: 3.2 days

39. Given the length of the 3 sides of a triangle. Find the one that is impossible? (HINT: sum of smaller 2 sides is greater than the other one, which is larger)

40. Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices? (Hint det(A)==0))

41. A 2D array is declared as A[9,7] and each element requires 2 byte. If A [1,1] is stored in 3000. Find the memory of A[8,5] ? Ans: 3106

42. Sum of slopes of 2 perpendicular st.lines is given. Find the pair of lines from the given set of options, which satisfy the above condition?

43. (a) 2+3i (b)1+i (c) 3-2i (d) 1-7i .Find which of the above is orthogonal. Ans : a,c

44. (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance). Find units. Ans: mass

45. The number 362 in decimal system is given by (1362) x in the X System of numbers find the value of X a} 5 b) 6 c) 7 d) 8 e) 9

46. Given $ means Tripling and % means change of sign then find the value of $%$6-%$%6

47. My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed 10 Hrs later at a place with coordinates 36N70W. What is the local time when my plane landed?

6:00 am b) 6:40am c) 7:40 d) 7:00 e) 8:00
(Hint: Every 1 deg longitude is equal to 4 minutes. If west to east add time else subtract time)

48. Find the highest prime number that can be stored in an 8 bit Computer?

49. Which of the following set of numbers has the highest Standard deviation?
a)1,0,1,0,1,0 b) -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1
c)1,1,1,1,1,1 d) 1,1,0, -1,0, -1