TCS Practice Assignment

English Verbal MCQ (10MIN)

I. Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully
complete.
1. The miser gazed ...... at the pile of gold coins in front of him.
A. avidly B. admiringly
C. thoughtfully D. earnestly

II. Rearrange the following five sentences in proper sequence.

1. After Examining him, the doctor smiled at him mischievously and took out a syringe.
2. Thinking that he was really sick, his father summoned the family doctor.
3. That day, Mintu wanted to take a day off from school
4. Immediately, Mintu jumped up from his bed and swore the he was fine
5. Therefore he pretended to be sick and remained in bed.
2. Which sentence should come third in the paragraph?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 E. 5

III. In questions given below, a part of the sentence is italicized and underlined. Below are given alternatives to the
italicized part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed,
option 'D' is the answer.
3. The workers are hell bent at getting what is due to them.
A. hell bent on getting B. hell bent for getting
C. hell bent upon getting D. No improvement
4. When it was feared that the serfs might go too far and gain their freedom from serfdom, the protestant
leaders joined the princes at crushing them.
A. into crushing B. in crushing
C. without crushing D. No improvement

IV. A good way to figure out the relationship in a given question is to make up a sentence that describes the
relationship between the first two words. Then, try to use the same sentence to find out which of the answer
choices completes the same relationship with the third word.
5a. Odometer is to mileage as compass is to
A. speed B. hiking C. needle D. direction

5b. Marathon is to race as hibernation is to

A. winter B. bear C. dream D. sleep

V. Complete the sentence by filling in the appropriate blank/blanks from the options provided.
6. Challenges must be __________ to realize the _________ of a greater regional economic integration.
A. Overcome....Potential B. Suppressed....power
C. Ignored....benefits D. Sustained....Advantages E. Attempted....battles

7. He’s got a sharp ________. He might just get into trouble, if he isn’t careful.
A. Tongue B. Mouth C. Intellect D. Vision E. Brain
VI. Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the
grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'E' as the answer.
8. The small child does whatever his father was done.
A. has done B. did C. does
D. had done E. No correction required

9. You need not come unless you want to.

A. You don't need to come unless you want to
B. You come only when you want to
C. You come unless you don't want to
D. You needn't come until you don't want to
E. No correction required

VII. Each question consist of two words which have a certain relationship to each other followed by four pairs of
related words, Select the pair which has the same relationship.
10a. DIVA: OPERA
A. producer: theatre B. director: drama
C. conductor: bus D. thespian: play

10b. GRAIN: SALT

A. shard: pottery B. shred: wood
C. blades: grass D. chip: glass

APTITUDE QUESTIONS (40 MIN)

Q.01) A cow and horse are bought for Rs.2,00,000. The cow is sold at a profit of 20% and the horse is sold a t a loss
of 10%. The overall gain is Rs.4000, the Cost price of cow?
a) 130000 b) 80000 c) 70000 d) 120000

Q.02) Ray writes a two digit number. He sees that the number exceeds 4 times the sum of its digits by 3. If the
number is increased by 18, the result is the same as the number formed by reversing the digits. Find the number.
a) 35 b) 42 c) 49 d) 57

Q.03) In a city 100% votes are registered, in which 60% vote for congress and 40% vote for BJP. There is a person A,
who gets 75% of congress votes and 8% of BJP votes. How many votes got by A?
a)48.2% b)58.8% c)28.9% d)70.4%

Q.04) a, b, c are non negative integers such that 28a+30b+31c = 365. a + b + c = ?

a) Greater than 14 b) less than or equal to 11 c) 13 d) 12

Q.05) A student can select one of 6 different math book, one of 3 different chemistry book & one of 4 different
science book. In how many different ways students can select book of math, chemistry & science.
a)82 b)72 c)58 d)54
Q.06) Sum of two number is 50 & sum of three reciprocal is 1/12 so find these two numbers.
a)40,10 b)20,30 c)15,35 d)45,05

Q.07) George can do a piece of work in 8 hours. Paul can do the same work in 10 hours, Hari can do the same work
in 12 hours. George, paul and hari start the same work at 9 am, while george stops at 11 am, the remaining two
complete the work. What time will the work complete?
a) 11.30 am b) 12 noon c) 12.30 pm d) 1 pm

Q.08) If x^y denotes x raised to the power y, Find last two digits of (1141^3843) + (1961^4181)
a) 02 b) 82 c) 42 d) 22

Q.09) In 10 years, A will be twice as old as B was 10 years ago. If A is now 9 years older than B the present age of B
is
a) 38 b)48 c)35 d)45

Q.10)Series 1, 4, 2, 8, 6, 24, 22, 88 ?

a)81 b)86 c) 88 d)1

Q.11) M is 30% of Q, Q is 20% of P and N is 50% of P. What is M / N?

a)3/50 b)3/25 c) 25/3 d)50/3

Q.12) 3 mangoes and 4 apples costs Rs.85. 5 apples and 6 peaches costs 122. 6 mangoes and 2 peaches costs
Rs.144. What is the combined price of 1 apple, 1 peach, and 1 mango.
a) 37 b) 39 c) 35 d) 36

Q.13) Raj drives slowly along the perimeter of a rectangular park at 24 kmph and completes one full round in 4
min. If the ratio of length to breadth of the park is 3 : 2, what are the dimensions?
a) 450 m x 300 m b) 150 m x 100 m c) 480 m x 320 m d) 100 m x 100 m

Q.14) An organization has 3 committees, only 2 persons are members of all 3 committee but every pair of
committee has 3 members in common. What is the least possible number of members on any one committee?
a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 1

Q.15) In a G6 summit held at london. A french, a german, an italian, a british, a spanish, a polish diplomat
represent their respective countries.
(i) Polish sits immediately next to british
(ii) German sits immediately next to italian, British or both
(iii) French does not sit immediately next to Italian
(iv) If spanish sits immediately next to polish, spanish does not sit immediately next to Italian.

Which of the following does not violate the stated conditions?

a) FPBISG b) FGIPBS c) FGISPB d) FSPBGI e) FBGSIP
 Q.16) There are 5 sweets - Jammun, kaju, Peda, Ladu, Jilebi which can be consumed in 5 consecutive days.
Monday to Friday. A person eats one sweet a day, based on the following constraints.
(i) Ladu not eaten on Monday
(ii) If Jamun is eaten on Monday, Ladu should be eaten on friday.
(iii) Peda is eaten the day following the day of eating Jilebi
(iv) If Ladu eaten on tuesday, kaju should be eaten on monday based on above, peda can be eaten on any day
except
a) Tuesday b) Monday c) Wednesday d) Friday

Q.17) Addition of 641 + 852 + 973 = 2456 is incorrect. What is the largest digit that can be changed to make the
addition correct?
a) 5 b) 6 c) 4 d) 7

Q.18) J is faster than P. J and P each walk 24 km. Sum of the speeds of J and P is 7 kmph. Sum of time taken by
them is 14 hours. Then J speed is equal to
a) 7 kmph b) 3 kmph c) 5 kmph d) 4 kmph

Q.19) How many polynomials of degree >=1 satisfy f(x2)=[f(x)]2=f(f(x)f(x2)=[f(x)]2=f(f(x)

a) more than 2 b) 2 c) 0 d) 1

Q.20) A child was looking for his father. He went 90 m in the east before turning to his right. he went 20 m
before turning to his right afain to lok for his father at his uncles place 30 m from this point. His father was not
there. From there he went 100m north before meeting hiss father in a street. How far did the son meet his father
from the starting point.
a) 90 b) 30 c) 80 d) 100

C-PROGRAMMING MCQ (20 MIN)

1. atoi() function is used for:

a)convert ASCII character to integer value

b)convert a character string to its equivalent integer value
c)gets index value of character in an array
d)converts an array of characters to array of equivalent integers

2. Which of the below function is NOT declared in math.h ?

a) and()
b) pow()
c) exp()
d) acos()

3. Where are the local variable stored ?

a) In a Queue
b) In stack Memory
c) In hard Disk
d) In heap Memory
4. While declaring parameters for main, the second parameter argv should be declared as

a) char argv[]
b) char argv
c) char ** argv[]
d) char * argv[]

5. A memory leak happens when

a) a program allocates memory in heap but forgets to be allocate it

b) when an un-assigned pointer is used is freed using free function
c) when realloc() is called on a pointer that is not allocated
d) A program allocates memory in stack

6. Given the below statements about C programming language;

1) main() function should always be the first function present in a C program file

2) all the elements of an union share their memory location

3) A void pointer can hold address of any type and can be typecasted to any type

4) A static variable hold random junk value if it is not initialised

Which of the above are correct statements?

A) 2,3

B) 1,2

C) 1,2,3

D) 1,2,3,4

7. If a function is defined as static, it means

A) The value returned by the function does not change

B) all the variable declared inside the function automatically will be assigned initial value of zero

C) It should be called only within the same source code/program file.

D) None of the other choices as it is wrong to add static prefix to a function

8. Comment on the below while statement

while (0 == 0) { }

A) It has syntax error as there are no statements within braces {}

B) It will run forever

C) It compares 0 with 0 and since they are equal it will exit the loop immediately

D) It has syntax error as the same number is being compared with itself

9. The output of the code below is

#include
void main()
{

int a = 5;
if (true);
printf(“hello”);
}
a) It will display hello
b) It will throw an error
c) No Output
d) Depends on Compiler

2. The output of the code below is

#include
void main()
{
int a = 5;
if (true);
printf(“hello”);
}
a) It will display hello
b) It will throw an error
c) No Output
d) Depends on Compiler

10) What will be output of the following program

int main()
{
int b[4]={5,1,32,4};
int k,l,m;
k=++b[1];
l=b[1]++;
m=b[k++];
printf(“%d, %d, %d”,k,l,m);
return 0;
}
a) 2, 2, 4
b) 3, 2, 32
c) 3, 2, 4
d) 2, 3, 32

C-PROGRAMMING CODING (20 MIN)

Write a program to reverse a given number using recursion and print it.