AMDOCS Written Exam Paper Pattern

AMDOCS Written Exam Paper Pattern

Experieance of a candidate -
Hi Amodocs Written pattern is as below :

There are two section

1. Aptitude section: This section consist of 3 sub section analytical reasoning, learning ability and logical reasoning.
a. analytical reasoning: in this section total 20 question in 20 minutes
1) If 50 student plays cricket and 30 plays football and 10 plays both find the total number of student in a class.
2) If  $ means less then, ? means not greater then, * not equal to and % means not not less then
 2.1) find one which implies P$Q*R like question.

b. logical reasoning
if + = / and - = * and / = + and * = - then
1) 2+4/5-7*8 equal to

c. learning ability  :  one passage is given we have to read the passage and find the answers.


2. Technical - Java, unix and sql

java:
1. some question on thread and trace the output of the program

sql:
some question on index and view and query related questions, some on permission and constraints question most of the theoretical questions.

unix;

1. command for comparing two files
2. cat file1 file2 >> file3 find output.
3. which command is used to create a sub processes
4. ls -l ! grep unix > temp.txt what is output.
5. how to delete 100 lines in vi editor using single command
6 which key is used to reach to the end of line
7. if temp.txt contains 100 lines how to print 11th line

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Test Date        : 02 Aug 2007, Test Location   : MNNIT Allahabad

AMDOCS PAPER 3rd AUGUST AT ALLAHABAD

Written test: online test of arround 2:30 hrs
there were two sections first one is apptitude section and second one is technical
there will be sectional cutoff in both of the section...each sections have 3-3 sub sections but they havn't individual cut off..

in technical section the three sub section was
i)c (it's on u'r choice u can choose java too)
ii)sql & dbms
iii)unix(in it some part of os too).

in apptitude section the three subsection was
i) arithematic
ii)simple apptitude n small puzzles
iii)comprehension
TECHNICAL SECTION
I) C section       25 min    20 ques
1)float   a=.7
     if(a=.7)
        printf("this");
     else
        printf("that");

2)switch(n)
      case 1: printf("case 1");
      case (2) : printf("default");
        break;
     what will be output??
ans:it will be error since case(2) is not allowed
3) u have to store data on the system which command is used .....(a)fread (b)fwrite (c)read (d)write
In c questions were mainly related with pointers(arround 5-6 questions), 2 questions from command line argument, 1 questions related to size of  structure, 2 on string pointer, 1 on preprocessor, 1 on bitwise operator,1 on just declare, the node of link list, 1 on tree whose inorder and preorder is given., 1 on continue..
II) Sql section           15 min    10 ques
i)  what is data dictionary ..........4 options were given
ii)  what is view.......
iii)  2 questions were on transactions  redo undo table was given
iv) given a table u have to find all those customer name and id which not belong to city california or messchustte or his name is jackson
v) one query related to delete operation for the given table
vi)one query related to having clause in which find the sum of money
III) Unix section             12 ques        15 min
i) what is output of cal j 2005
ii) 1 question on tee comand
iii)in which message passing is fast  .....options are (a)pipe (b) message passing (c) message queue (d) memory sharing     ans : d
iv)question on nice command that is how to change the priority
ans: change the priority of the process
v)context switching takes place....
a) kernel to user mode
b)user to user mode
c)kernel to kernel mode
d)one process to another process
vi)what is the difference between dbms and rdbms options were given
vii)u have a xwindow and u have to display clock on it then which command will be used??
viii)  what is fork..... and: to create a new process
ix)2 shell script questions like one is for xxx "i am" "master of" unix   echo xxx
what will be the output?? like this....
x)cp xxx.txt edu
what will it do
ans: copy file xxx to directory edu.
xi)question on chmod command ......... file attribute permission change
x)one question was which command does not create a new file ...............
a)cat ---------
b)touch -----------
c)cat>------
ans: c
xi)if the file permission is 100 who can acsess that file....ans: only super user if it is there in the option
APPTITUDE SECTION:
I)Arithematic section                    30 min              20 ques
1) some digits were given like 0 2 2 3 3 4 4 then how many no will be there which is greater than 1 lac ,all numbers are distinct there were 2 questions of this type.....
2) 4 qustions on venn diagram....  in a survey of 100 people 20 view only war movie,15 view only romantic movie ,10 view horror........bla bla bla..
3) there r 10 containers all closed and there r 10 people 1 st person open all containers 2 nd person changes the status of 2nd 4  th 6 th ...10 th containers that is close here.then 3 rd person again changes the status of 3rd 6 th 9th container similarly 10 th person changes only 10t h container then tell that status of 7th container will be changed how many times
IN arithematic section 3-4 problems related to permutation &combinations, 1 from probability,3 from percentage,2 from profit loss, 1 from pipe & cisterns,1 from compound interest...
II)Reasoning section:             20 min               15 ques
this section is very easy.....
1)to chooose which two are  similar in the given pattern....this type of four questions
I) i) 123456.876543    ii)123456.876943   iii) 123456.876543
(a)i & ii (b) i & iii (c) ii & iii (d)all are similar
2)if  * is changed to +, +is changed to - ,- is changed to / , /changed to* what is the value of .....
1) 3*4+5/2-7....
4 questions of this type
3) if 4 represent as $** and 3 represent as *$$
based on it there were 4 questions....like
i) what is the value of  $$$** + $**$*
in similar way rest of 3 questions
4)one question was
a goes to party if b goes
b goes to party if c goes
c goes to party if d goes
total how many goes to party??
III)Comprehension section:              15 min               10 ques
in this section there were a long passage based on cryptographic tecnique.....on the behalf of that there were 10 questions  like..
1) who provide the certificate
2)along with which hardware  this is added...
3) where is security key retain
4) which algorith is used to generate a key.....something like that
After the written....there were two round of interview
I) TECH INTERVIEW
this round was also long arround 45-50 min
they asked to me
1) about educational background
2)i have mentioned a project in my resume so arround 15 min questions regarding to my project(if u have done any project and if u know all about u'r project then it will be advantageous for u).they asked.....
i)draw all front end window of project,
ii)what is the best features of your project,
iii)what was your role in project,
iv)how did u compromize at any critical situation in u'r project when all of you had different ideas,
v)have u insert any innovative idea in your project,
vi)how fetch data from data base....write query for that
vii)yor project is in which normal form??
3)then they came on c
i)how we provide dynamic memory allocation in c.....write, how declare melloc
ii)is there any difference between melloc and calloc
iii)write code for a function which work similar as strcat do...using pointer