SYNTEL QUESTIONS

MODEL-1

1.) Maximum numbers that can be formed using all the

4 digits 6 4 8 1 without repetition and which is divisible
by 9.(Ans: none)

2.) Find the number of sides of a regular convex polygon

whose angle is 40degrees.

3.) a+b+c=0, then roots of ax^2+bx+c=0 is

1.imagenary 2.real 3.coincidental 4.zero

4.) Difference b/w the compound interest and simple

interest for Rs.2500 for 2 years is given. find the rate of
interest.

5.) there was one more question on S.I and C.I

6.) The minimum number by which 60 is to be multiplied

to generate a square.

Ans: 15

7.) A monkey climbs 6 mts and falls 3mts in alternate

minutes. Then time taken to climb a tree 60metres high?

a. 35 b.37 c.32 d.34 (answer is 37)

8.) A bucket contains z drops. and it leaks x drops in t

secs.then the time required to empty the bucket (in
minutes).

9.) 6 pipes fill or empty the cistern. find the number of

emptying pipes if it takes 18hrs to fill and 18 hrs to
empty.

10.) The largest no: which is a factor of 1080 and 729

11.) No: of spheres of radius 1 that can be got from

sphere of radius.
12.)Travelling at 3/4th the speed a man is 20 minutes
later then speed is?

13.) there are 6 keys and 6 locks. then number of

combinations to be tried out to get the actual solution

14.) choosing 2 people out of 10 in how many

combinations can a particular person (some name) be
always included....

15.) from 6 white balls and 7 black balls probability that

2 balls drawn at random are of the same color?

16.) if a sales man gets successive gain of 15% and 20%

then his actual gain?

ans. 38

17.) a string of pearls such that 1/3 is lost and of that

1/4th is missing, remaining is 20 then actual number of
pearls?

ans. 40

18.) a man gets a gain of x%. but if he had sold at twice

the cost price, what will be his gain?

19.) a clock was 7minutes behind the actual time on 3

p.m. on Wednesday and 8 minutes ahead of actual time
on (not sure) 4 p.m. Friday. when will it show the
correct time?

20.) boat moves upstream in 6 hrs and covers the same

distance downstream in 5 hrs. then speed of a raft
floating? accuracy of question not sure)

21.) (this was the last question) no idea what it stands

for........ some kind of notation like
S(P(M((D(a,b),2))):P(M(S(D(a,b),........

1. ab 2.(a-b)^2 3.(a+b)^2 4.none

22.) if x men working x hrs per day can do x units of
work in x days, then y men working y hrs/day would be
able to complete how many units of work i y days?

ans. y^3/x^2 (question in R.S. Agarwal)

23.) ( this was a question in the first page of the section

II booklet) a cone with radius----- and height -----. a
hemisphere covers the cone such that base of
hemisphere meets that of the cone. then the enclose
volume.....(R.S. Agarwal consists of similar questions)

24.) there was one more question on volume and

surface area.

25.) 1 Rs, 50 ps , 25 ps coins are in the ratio ---------,

then the number of 50 ps coins if they sum to ------Rs.
(similar question in R.S.Agarwal)

26.) there was one more question on coins i.e. about

getting a change of 10ps and 25 coins for ------Rs. (how
many possible combinations or so possible)

27.) x/y+y/x=40/21(don't remember the exact value,

believe this is the one) find x and y there were 2
questions on train and one was like:

28.) a goods train starts and after 2 hrs a passenger

train at 4km/hr starts and overtakes the goods train
after 4 hrs, then the speed of goods train?

29.) 15hrs of boys work=6 hrs of women's work. 3/5 of

the work is done by -----boys and -----women. How much
time would be?

30.) there was one question on triangle

31.) a figure was given a square with four corners

shaded and asked to find the area of the shaded
portion.... ie area of square-area of the regular octagon.
MODEL-2

Technical Test:

1. Graphics:Painters algorithm is used for...........

2. Graphics:Why is 'Lighting' operations done on World

Coordinates?

3. Graphics:One more question

4. Some question on C External Variables.

5. How can you call a function written in FORTRAN from

a C program ?

6. Normal question on pointer addition

7. Another question on pointer addition

8. A question on 64 bit OS's and Virtual Memory it will

be having

9. Another question on 64 bit OS

10. A structure was given and it contained normal data

as well as some bit-wise data.You had to find the total
size taken up by the structure

11. A big code with lots of pointers. There was a struct

which contained 2 arrays. Then an array of that
structure was declared. The code used these structures
and you had to find the values of a variable 'j' at various
points inside the code

12. A code which had some declarations of some data

items. There were a couple of normal data
items(char,int..) and some pointers as well and a malloc
call. You have to find the total memory taken up in the
stack(Hint:Pointers and all are allocated in heap, not in
stack, so dont count them).Also in most of these
questions, they were specifying that the OS was 32 bit
13. A question on nesting of pointers. There was this
pointer to a function which returned an array of char
pointers.....You had to give the exact definition of the
function

14. Value of 2 particular variables in C(MAXINT and

some other constant)

15. What do you need to do to open more than 10 files

simultaneously in Microsoft Operating System? -change
stdio.h/change CONFIG.SYS/compiler dependent

16. A question on Macro( consisted of something like

CTRL&037)

17. Another question on Macro expansion

18. Yet another question on Macro expansion

19. UNIX question on 'who' output and then doing some

other operation and then asking you whats the output.

20. UNIX question on 'awd' operation.

Analytical Test:

21. 101^100 -1 is divisible by.....

22. Question on boat ( stream velocity given...)

23. Train Question( Goods and Passenger train.. their

speeds given..)

24. Pipe question (with leak at the bottom..)

25. Salary & Proportion problem

26. Another problem on Salary & Proportion

27. Age question-father and son

28. Another age question

29. Question
onratios(Sachin:Saurav=Saurav:Rahul=3:2....together
they scored some runs,you had to find the runs scored
by Sachin)

30. Angle between hands when time is 2:20

31. x^2 + 4 y^2 =4xy.Find x:y

32. A question on Arithmetic Progression(something like

5 times the 5th term is 8 times the 8th term..find 12th
term...)

33. A and B's work units given.They were together gievn

Rs.720.When C joined,they together completed the work
in 5 days.Find C's wages

34. There was a circle.A square of max size was cut from
it.From this square,a circle of max size was cut.What
was the ratio of this final size w.r.t initial size?

35. A runs 3/4th faster than B.One of them was placed

some metres ahead.How far should the finishing post be
placed so that both of them finish at the same time?

36. Longest time one has to wait for next birthday?

(366/365/4 years/8years)

37. Next no: in the seq: 7,11,__,19,23

38. Some question on steps...it was 10 ft high...an ant

travelled upwards..and total time taken

39. Cricket-some data on runrate of the opposition

being 15%....

40. Time & Distance..somebody was travelling along the

circumference....

MODEL-3
1. The grammar for A, B, S is given below.

S->Ax|By

A->Ax|y

B->x|y

possible ans is xy|xy

2. In n*n matrix , there non zero numbers in diagonal

and either side of the diagonal. If represented in one
dimensional array, assign the values which are non
zeros.

find relation with i,j iteration and linear array like a[2*(i-
1)+j] this the matrix will be

x x 0 0 0 0 --------

x x x 0 0 0 0 -----

0 x x x 0 0 0 ------

0 0 x x x 0 0 -------

0 0 0 x x x 0 0 ----

remumber n*n matrix

3. In-order of the letters is given as below: If written in

pre-order like given below: write the post-order:

4. fun(n)

{if(n<=2)return (1); else

return ((fun(n-1)*fun(n-2));}

find the order of complexity of the programme.

answer ---- N(2^n)

6. If a and b are given. write the results of the
programme given below.

a=a XOR b;

b=a XOR b;

a= a XOR b;

answer is swaping of a and b

so b, a is answer

7.for a given CMOS the voltage is halved frequency

doubled capacitance halved what is the present CMOS
power

ans (b)---- dynamic power is 1/2 *C*f*V^2

8.if a row dominated two dimensional array in the

following which one is advantage and why?

a) for(i=0;i<1000;i++)

for(j=0;j<1000;j++)

temp=temp+a[i][j];

b) for(j=0;j<1000;j++)

for(i=0;i<1000;i++)

temp=temp+a[i][j]

9. what is area of a Hexagon with side as 1unit

ans is 3*(sqrt(3))/2

10. If traverse in a chess board right and down from one

corner to another corner how many possible ways will
be there

ans is C(16,8) or (16!/(8!*8!))

11. Tick the below which can bipartite (graph theory)

1)tree 2)forest of trees 3) even cycle graph 4) odd
cycle graph

ans is 1,2,3

12.The fig shown in below is a SRAM (1K* 4 bits) ,how

many of this SRAMS are required to design 16K of one
byte

Ans is 32 SRAMS and one 4 to 16 decoder

13. suppose two persons entering into one room in the

morning 5 to 6 A.M. what is the probability they will
enter in 10 minutes gap.

14. In a binary tree what is the height and lowest no of

levels for N nodes.

Ans: is highest is N and lowest is log(N+1) base 2

15.represent 3 and -3 in base -2 form taking two states

(0,1) only