ROBERT BOSCH

1.1Process
● Online Test
o Aptitude – Time & work, time & distance, Probability, Permutations, Ratio & proportion, profit
and loss
o Verbal - Synonyms, comprehension, fill in the blanks, Arrange sentences, analytical puzzles
o Technical - separate paper for each stream
▪ Analog, MOSFETS, BJTS, Q-points, Op-amps, Digital electronics, C programming,
Microcontrollers, Microprocessors
▪ C, C++, bit operations, dynamic memory allocation), RTOS, Control System
▪ Engineering mechanics, Strength of materials, Fluid mechanics, Gears, Engines

1.2Electronics
Applied Linear Integrated technology, comparators, amplifiers, filters and control elements.
Digital electronics and signal processing, micro-controllers, real time systems, building electronic
systems.
1. Questions based on Thevnin and Norton theorems
2. Draw the circuit to get 5V DC from 230V AC supply
3. 8051 microcontroller architecture, interrupts, addressing schemes, output
4. Control systems –steady state error, transient response, pi Pd PID controllers, stability
5. Basics diode equation, half wave full wave rectifier, rms value, and dc value related problems
6. Bjt configurations, Jfets and mosfets basics
7. Fourier transform
8. Explain what are Class A, Class B, Class AB and Class C amplifiers
9. Draw the NPN transistor characteristics for Common Base, Common Emitter and Common
Collector(Emitter Follower) forms
10. Why is BJT (Bipolar Junction Transistor) a current controlled device ?
11. What is Beta ? ( with respect to transistor characteristics )
12. If you are provided with DC, sinewave and squarewave what is the average voltage in each of
the 3 cases ?
13. How does the transistor act as an amplifier ? Draw the circuit diagram of a simple amplifier
circuit using the BJT
14. What is the sampling theorem?
15. What are the disadvantages of using LED (Light Emitting Diode)?
16. How does the transistor acts as an amplifier and a switch?
17. Explain the Analog to Digital conversion process ?
18. Compare the following the multiplexing techniques : TDMA, FDMA, CDMA
19. What is aliasing ? ( with reference to the sampling theorem )
20. What are the differences between a BJT and a MOSFET?
21. What are the differences between a TRIAC and a Thyristor?
22. Draw the circuit diagram of a full wave rectifier?
23. Draw the circuit diagram of a first order low pass filter
24. What are the differences between NPN and PNP transistor?
25. Draw the circuit diagram of a monostable multivibrator and explain its working
26. How will you find the losses in a transistor?
27. Draw the schematic symbols for the PNP and NPN transistors
28. Draw the schematic symbols for the PMOSFET and NMOSFET
29. Draw the circuit diagram of a full wave bridge rectifier and explain its working
30. Draw the circuit diagram of a Voltage divider
31. What are the frequencies that are used for microwave communication?
32. What are the differences between VHDL & Verilog (VHDL and Verilog are hardware description
languages ). VHDL stands for Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language
33. Which are the Universal Gates? Why are they called so?
34. Design the Full Adder circuit using logic gates (1 bit)?
35. Draw the memory structure of any 8 bit microprocessor
36. Describe the characteristics of the PIC (Peripheral Interface Controller) ?
37. What are the differences between PLA (Programmable Logic Array) and PAL (Programmable
Array Logic) ?
38. What are the differences between Cache Memory and Registers ?
39. What are the differences between a microprocessor and a microcontroller ?
40. Design the Half Adder using logic gates. Provide the truth table and validate your design
41. What are the differences between a latch and a flip flop ?
42. Draw the schematic symbols for the PNP and NPN transistors
43. What are the different types of interrupts handled by the microprocessor ? What is the interrupt
vector table ? What happens when an interrupt occurs ?
44. Design a JK Flip Flop. Explain it's working. How is it controlled ?
45. Draw the block diagram and explain the architecture of a microcontroller
46. Design the Full Adder circuit using NMOSFET and PMOSFET
47. Compare the following microprocessors : 8085 Vs 8086
48. How would you interface a microcontroller to a stepper motor ?
49. Draw the symbol for JK Flip Flop. Explain its working with the help of a truth table
50. Design AND and OR gate using BJT
51. Implement a 4-bit counter using JK Flip Flop
52. What are all the different kinds of Flip Flop ?
53. How many interrupts are there in a microcontroller ? Name them
54. In a RS Flip Flop if both inputs are 1 then the output is indeterminate ? How can you overcome
this issue ?
55. Explain the 3 types of modelling used in VHDL : Behavioral, Structural and Data Flow
56. Explain the terms : PLA (Programmable Logic Array), PLL(Phase Locked Loop) and FPGA (Field
Programmable Gate Arrays)
57. How would you interface 8085 with a 2K memory ?
58. Draw the block diagram of ADC and explain its working.
 59. What is resolution of an ADC?
60. What is a sample and hold circuit?
61. Which microcontrollers have you used?
62. I want to connect a thermostat of min 25mv and max 7.5 V to PIC. How do I interface? Write a
Program to turn on-off a machine with a value from microcontroller. Will it record the minimum
signal if I had an ADC of 8 bits and reference voltage of 5V.
63. What is the frequency of the watch you are wearing on your hand?
64. Write a program to generate a square wave using PIC.
65. Given a single AND gate and a power supply, generate a square wave.
66. Convert a decimal number to binary in c.
67. Block diagram of back up power.
68. Draw the block diagram for an analog modulation communication system (any)
69. Since you have written electromagnetic theory in your areas of interest, explain faradays law of
electromagnetic.
70. Explain the working of a dynamo and a power generator
71. Realize an XOR gate using only NAND gates and also only NOR gates
72. Draw a circuit diagram for a basic amplifier and explain the uses of the components used
73. Write a code for a recursive function (c++)
74. Explain an android app. which works on the principle of electronics
75. Draw a block diagram of your final year project
76. Debugging a C code.
77. Example: while(1)..what will this do?
78. Difference between structure and union,compiler and interpreter, predict the output, recursive
functions, enum, malloc, calloc
79. Can a string be used in a case statement inside a switch?
80. What are embedded systems.
81. What is hall effect sensor?
82. What does ‘cc’ in automobile engines mean?

1.3Embedded Systems
1. How many combination for mod 379 counter
2. How much does 32:1 MUX select lines
3. Array pointers
4. Find the device which converts one form of energy to other kind?
5. Find the two's complement of 43.
6. Logic Gate Functions of AND and OR Gate
7. Microcontroller related to interrupts
8. How many selection lines are needed for a 32:1 MUX?
9. Find the order of the system from the given transfer function
10. differential amplifier voltage gain based circuit
11. number of comparator for flash type ADC
12. How many non-maskable vector interrupts are there in 8085?
13. 9's compliment of a number
2. What is embedded system?
 3. Difference between a microcontroller and microprocessor

1.4VLSI Design
1. No. of operating modes in IC 555 timer?
2. Given a transfer function and asked to find the type of the control system?
3. Reducing a Boolean function?
4. Device used to convert one form of energy to another?
5. Simplify the expression
6. What is the number of comparators used in a 4 bit ADC?
7. The number of flip flops needed to make a counter that counts 0-378?
8. Gain of op-amp
9. Number of flip flops, control lines for multiplexers, micro processors
10. Size of pointer
11. 2s complement of number 43
12. Find the type of the transfer function of a given system
13. Number of traps and vectored interrupts in 8085
14. Arsenic- which type of impurity-pentavalent, hexavalent, etc
15. Write a code to change the 5​th​ bit of a 8 bit character to 1?
16. What is your BTech final project?
17. What is image processing?
18. System on chip technology
19. Current trends in automotive electronics
20. Latest trends in VLSI companies
21. How chip is manufactured?
22. Verilog coding
23. Program behind a calculator
24. Memories in Depth
25. 8​th​,9​th​ standard questions regarding computers
26. How can you relate VLSI in automobiles?
27. Why VLSI?

1.5MTech Power Electronics

1. All projects mentioned in resume
2. Internship
3. Algorithms
4. Theories in C (storage class, constant pointers)
5. Oscillators
6. applications of relays
7. design circuit to determine rear break light failure
8. Cheapest design of the same,
9. Cost of the design
10. Can the system be developed without use of Microcontrollers?
11. Your favorite area is energy, how do you implement it practically?
 12. Difference between Logical AND and Bitwise AND
13. How does Hall effect sensor work
14. How good are you in C programming?(On a Scale of 10)
15. Favorite subject
16. FDMA
17. User defined data types

1.6Computer Science
1. How would you swap 2 numbers without using a 3rd variable? Write a C function for doing this
2. What are auto, static, extern and register variables?
3. What are the differences between a union and a structure?
4. What is a linked list?
5. What is a static variable?
6. What are pointers?
7. Write a C program for generating the following series: 1, 5, 14, 30, 55, …. ( Logic is 5-1 = 4 = 2*2,
14-5 = 9 = 3*3 and so on )
8. What is a macro? Give an example
9. Write a C program to implement bubble sort
10. Explain the difference between Call by value and Call by reference parameter passing
mechanism
11. What is a static variable?
12. Explain the differences between the pre-increment (++i) and post-increment operator (i++)
13. Write a C program to convert a floating point number to a whole number ( rounding off
depending on whether it is > or < 0.5 )
14. Explain the process of program execution from the beginning ( from the time you edit the
program )
15. What were the Database implementations that you have done in your project?
16. Draw the tables that were there in your project.
17. What was the Database used in your project?
18. What was your role in the project?
19. What do you mean by multi threaded programming?
20. What is a process?
21. What is the difference between thread and a process?
22. Why is copy constructor used?
23. What is the specialty of eclipse?
24. What is the use of trigger and procedures in plsql?
25. What are the operating systems you have worked with? Which do you prefer? Why?
26. List out a few commands used in LINUX
27. Write a c program to combine three text files into a single text file
28. Write a query to find the second highest salary
29. What are the commonly used networking protocols? Why TCP/UDP?
30. Write the life cycle of a software development. Where is testing involved? Why? What are the
different types of testing?
31. How does a receiver know that he has received all the data that the sender has sent?
32. Explain your c++ project. Why that topic?
33. What is dispatch latency?
34. When does testing take place in a SDLC?
35. Macros features, when b=5 and a=b+null what is the poutput,logical OR questions,pn np
transistors
36. RISC instruction set examples?
37. What is macro?
38. Range of character variable
39. How many address lines is used for 128k data
40. Examples of RISC machines
41. If inorder and preorder traversals are given, what is the postorder traversal?
42. How many page faults occur with optimal page replacement algorithm?
43. find the number of page faults
44. Topology with central hub
45. int a =5, b; b=a+NULL;printf(b);
46. How many address lines can be formed for 128k?
47. int **p; sizeof(p)
48. To find the pre order traversal of a tree given the post order and in order traversals.
49. Evaluate a prefix notation
50. Find the number of leaf nodes in a 3 ary tree.
51. To find the no of page faults occurred given the memory references.
52. Fundamentals of C++, why memory allocation needed as dynamic
53. Web server architecture
54. Data structures in depth
55. Which programming languages you know
56. What is web application
57. Draw 2-tier and 3-tier architecture
58. Where does business logic will come
59. Various interfaces like I2C
60. What is memory? Types of memories and differences
61. C programming (PALINDROME, bit toggling)
62. Pattern making in C
63. Fundamentals of C language- arrays, functions
64. Data Structures
65. What is RTOS
66. Pointers
67. Fundamentals in C (sorting, pointers, binary search),
68. JAVA (basics), C# (if mentioned in resume) (String Builder), JSP(si mple login page)
69. SQL – queries of all join, group by, select..
70. Block diagram of project?
71. Algorithm to be solved for a question based on project?
72. Functions and macros in c
73. How will you explain class in CPP to a person who has no idea about it?
74. What is polymorphism, inheritance, user defined data types?
75. A pump is used to fill water in a tank. The level of water is read using a sensor. Write an algorithm
to control the starting and stopping of the pump
1.7Electrical
1. What is a distribution transformer?
2. What are the specifications of a motor?
3. HVDC
4. Power system
5. Power transmission
6. SMPS
7. buck converter
8. Working of fan

1.8Mechanical
Newtons laws of motion, power, energy, torque, torque equation, accelerating torque,
balancing, gear and pulley drives, worm gear, pumps, fluid properties, temperature
dependence, fluid in motion, pressure volume laws, heat and mass relationships, entropy, AC
principles, capacity, mechanical and electrical equivalence, heat engine cycles, links and
mechanisms, mechanical advantage, degrees of freedom, rotational forces, radius of gyration,
stress and strain, ultimate strength, safety factor, hardness and impact testing, need for surface
and volume hardness, spring and dampers, control fundamentals, dynamics of machines.
Awareness of the complete automobile terminologies and parts.
1. What are the steps for servicing a diesel engine
2. What do you mean by 1 ton in AC`s
3. How marginal costing is used in manufacturing sectors, what is the method/steps for using
marginal costing
4. Critical stress at which material will start to flow
5. Maximum degree of freedom in space
6. Bearing which will take axial and radial loads
7. Fluid is flowing through a frustum of cone. what is the nature of graph of velocity Vs. c/s area.
{flow = velocity X c/s area}
8. Explain type of flow of fluid in a pipe having no change in profile
9. Which material can't be removed during alloying from Fe alloys
10. Time dependent increase in length at steady temp. is called
11. How does viscosity change with temp
12. Direction of friction in bicycle tyres
13. Questions related to stress, strain, Ratios etc
14. Find reinforcement place for a cantilever beam loaded at free end
15. Two force acting along the same line but in the opposite directions are called
16. Formula for power in HP
17. Gear ratio for helical gears one of 30 tooth and the other 60 tooth
18. A ball of weight 10N is dropped freely from rest at a height of 4 mts. what is its total mechanical
energy after it has traveled 1 meter.
19. Two bodies of same mass r traveling at a velocity of 2 m/sec in opposite direction. After collision
one travelled with 1.8 m/sec what about the other
 20. A chain of length 1 mt and mass 1 kg is placed on a table. What length of the chain must be
hanged freely from the table so that is will drag the remaining chain freely
21. Main purpose of governor
22. Belt drives are mainly used for
23. The main purpose of bearings

1.9Questions on C
1. Find the output of the following program.
main () { int a=5, b=6; int i=0; i=a>b? a:b; printf (%d, i); }
2. If enum variable is initialized to 1, what will printf("%d",variable) be?
3. Size of pointer
4. About macros
5. What is the output of following program?
main() { int x = -10; printf("%d\n", ~x+1); }
6. Given some program using pointers and asked the output of the code.
int **p; sizeof(p)
7. Predict the output of the following program
Int a=56,b=76;
Printf("%d" ~~a<<2+b%10)
8. Find the output of the given program.
int i,j;
j=125;
i=3;
printf("%d",~~j++<<2|i%2);
9. Override---using constructors and destructors as suitable options

1.10 Miscellaneous
1. What is an open loop system? What are the advantages of an open loop system?
2. Give an example of a closed loop system
3. What are the various layers of an OSI model?
4. What is the chemical formula for Benzene (C6H6)?
5. Explain packet transmission
6. Explain the following terms : sensor and actuator

1.11 Aptitude Questions

1. What is the probability of distributing 4 prizes among 3 students who equally deserve to get all the
4 prizes?
2. If average age of students in a class is 17.28 and average age of boys is 18.77 average age of
girls is 17.8, then what is the ratio of ages of boys and girls
3. Time taken for the train of length of 190m to cross a bridge of 240m if the train is travelling with a
speed of 50m/s?
4. If a pipe P can fill the tank in 30min and pipe Q can fill the tank in 40min, how much time will it
take to fill the tank if both pipes are opened?
 5. Average weight of class, average weight of boys in class and average weight of girls in class is
given. What is the ratio of boys to girls?
6. Average age of 4 people is 45. After 5 years, if x is added then the average age is 49. What is the
age of x?
7. Age of x is half of that of y. If y is 12 years old now, what is age of x after 6 years?
8. 6 men and 5 women takes 5days, 3 men and 4 women takes 4days, how many days will 9men
and 10 women takes to complete the same work?
9. Find the missing value 2 4 8 3 9 27 4 ? 64
10. Length of train is 209m and bridge length is 100m. Find the time taken by the train to cross the
bridge?
11. If the average weight of 7 students are 26. If 6 more are added the average increases by 3. What
is the average weight of newly added 6 students?
12. Somebody1 says somebody2 was his grandfather's only son. What relation does somebody2
have with somebody1's wife?
13. Find the number of days required by 3 men and 5 women to complete the work with given
conditions
14. Length of train travelling at 50m/s is 195m. How long will it take to travel 240m long bridge?

1.12 HR
1. What happened in technical interview?
2. What s your family background?
3. What do you do in free times, other than studying?
4. What are your hobbies?
5. Why did you choose BOSCH?
6. How and why did you get into <hobby>?
7. Interested in higher studies? If not, why?
8. Are you ok to work in Coimbatore?
9. Where did you do your schooling?
10. Who is the Vice President of India?
11. Name 5 ministers.
12. I give you a choice. Since I see that you are interested in doing ur higher studies (MS or MTech),
u can join Bosch. And quit the job after a year as u want to pursue ur higher studies. This will be
at the cost of your friend’s opportunity in Bosch. So what would you choose.
13. Explain the origin of your name.
14. Suppose I make a visit to your department, what would be the general opinion on you?
15. Tell me five websites you use the most.
16. What is the recent change in the Bosch logo.
17. Tell me from what you have heard from your friends and seniors is good and bad about Bosch.
18. Tell me about yourself.
19. Tell about Bosch
20. Why Bosch-give 2 reasons
21. What are you expecting from us
22. How can you contribute to Bosch?
23. My favorite tool and its applications
24. Are you successful Women?
25. Father’s occupation, Mother’s occupation
26. What about your personal skill?
27. Any other skills that you can mention
28. Why change from software to hardware?
29. What kind of work environment do you expect?
30. Who is your role model?
31. Sport you follow?
32. Sport you play?
33. About my resume communication skills, soft skills
34. About hobbies
35. Are you a team player?
36. You would like to be team player or team leader
37. Toughest decision taken till now
38. You would like to be team player or team leader
39. Logical questions like shortest path an ant can take to reach the other end of diagonal of a cube
40. Situations that are explaining my strengths
41. Prepare fundamentals in areas of interest.
42. Why MTECH?
43. Why Gap between UG and PG?
44. What I did during the gap in academics?
45. Best in moments of my life.
46. How do you find time for your cultural activities even now?
47. About the work experience.
48. Personal Details
49. What are my expectations?
50. What is your motivation to choose embedded systems?
51. Your biggest dream?
52. Area I would like to work