PAPER B23

IBM question paper

the written test had 40 questions to be answered in 1hr..

20 q -aptitude (rs agarwal)

20 q technical -OS,DBMS,CCN,C concepts...

some of the questions were as follows:

1)speed of boat in still water is 10kmph..if it travels 24km downstream,16km upstream in the same amount of time,what is the speed of the stream?

(a)3kmph

(b)3.5kmph

(c)2kmph

2)a cube of 3 units is painted on all sides.If this cube is divided

into cubes of 1 unit,how many cube

have none of their faces painted?

(a)...

(b)2

(c)1

(d)0

(e)none of these

3)if a person sells a product for rs141/- he suffers a loss of 6%.if he has to have a profit of 10%,at what price should he sell it?

(a)

(b)rs.175

(c)..

(d)rs.165

ans.rs.165

4)a ball falls from a height of 8ft ,bounces back to half the distance

&continues till it comes to rest.what is the total distance travelled by the ball?

(a)24ft

(b)...

(c)infinite

(d)cannot be determined

5)which of the following is the sum of 3 consecutive prime nos?

(a)49

(b)59

(c)both a &b

(d)....

6)if the area of a square has increased by 60%,by what % has its side

increased?

technical:

7)A trigger is

(a) a statement ..start of database..

(b)statements that r executed as a side effect to the modification to

the database

(c)...

(d)...

ans (b)

8)what does the

following statement mean?

int (*a)[4]

(a)'a' is a pointer to an array of 4 integers

(b)'a' is an array of pointers to integer

(c)'a' is a pointer to function returning an integer

(d)...

ans:a

9)best method to find out whether a given array already sorted,is

sorted or not in min. time

ans. bubble sort

10)a primary key in one table also present in some other table is

called

(a)foreign key

(b)secondary key

(c)subordinate key

(d)...

ans. foreign key

11)which of the following is a real time system?

(a)robotics control

(b)airline ticket reservation(ans)

12)a question to convert a big no in decimal to octal(check only for

the last 2 nos in ans is sufficient)

13)which of the following is an example of a spooling device?

(a)..

(b)line printer..

(c)

(d)

(e)...

14)what is the difference between 123 and 0123 in c?

(a)120

(b)40

(c)0

(d)...

ans:40

15) Software Configuration Management process is -

(a)developing & managing software for .....software....

(b)developing & managing hardware for....software.......

(c)...

(d)..