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Content Page
DXC Technology Roles and Packages 1
DXC Technology Recruitment Process & Pattern 1
Detailed Syllabus for DXC Technology Recruitment 2
DXC Technology Quantitative Ability Questions 4
DXC Technology Logical Ability Questions 9
DXC Technology English Questions 12
DXC Technology Programming MCQ 24
DXC Technology Automata Fix Questions 29
DXC Technology Essay Writing Tips and Questions 60

DXC Technology Role and Package

The most common recruitment profile that DXC Technology recruits freshers for is Associate Software
Developer (3.6 LPA).

DXC Technology Recruitment Process

1. Online Test
2. Technical Interview
3. HR Interview

DXC Technology Online Test Pattern

Section #Qs Duration (In Mins)

English 12 15
Quantitative Aptitude 16 16
Logical Ability 14 14
Programming MCQ 12 15
Automata Fix 7 20
Writing Ability (WriteX) 1 20

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DXC Technology Online Test Assessment Platform

Assessment Platform Inter-sectional Intra-sectional Marking Scheme

Navigation Navigation
1. No negative marks
for incorrect response
AMCAT - SHL Not Allowed Not Allowed (Except 2. Mark varies for the
for Automata Fix) correct response with
the question type

Note:
1. Previously answered questions cannot be revisited
2. Questions cannot be skipped and every question is mandatory.
3. AMCAT/SHL is an Adaptive platform - Difficulty level varies with response time and correct/incorrect
response.
4. The score of the candidate depends on the level of questions that he/she attempts correctly

DXC Technology Online Test Syllabus

Section Syllabus
Basic Mathematics
• Divisibility
• HCF and LCM
• Numbers
• Decimal fractions
• Power
Applied Mathematics
Quantitative Ability • Profit and Loss
• Simple and Compound Interest
• Time, Speed and Distance
• Inverse
Engineering Mathematics
• Logarithms
• Permutation and Combinations
• Probability
Deductive Reasoning
• Coding deductive logic
• Data Sufficiency
Logical Ability
• Directional Sense
• Logical Word Sequence
• Objective Reasoning

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 • Selection decision tables
• Puzzles
• Data Arrangement
Inductive reasoning
• Analogy Pattern Recognition
• Classification Pattern Recognition
• Coding Pattern Recognition
• Number Series Pattern Recognition
Vocabulary
• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Contextual Vocabulary
English Grammar
• Error Identification
• Sentence Improvement and Construction
Comprehension
• Reading Comprehension
• Data Types
• Compilation and Execution Process
• Arrays
• Sorting
• Looping
• Class and Objects
Programming MCQ • Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Stack
• Tree Functions
• Time and Space Complexity
• Access Specifiers
• Graph Traversals
• Basic programming
• Control Structures
• conditional statements
Automata Fix
• Linear data structures
• Advanced data structures
• Sorting and searching algorithms

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DXC Technology Quantitative Ability Questions
1. Simplify (144-3/2)-1/6
A. 2root3
B. 6
C. 3root2
D. 4
Answer: A

2. An employee has to attain 70% marks during appraisals to get a promotion. He gets 75 marks and
doesn't qualify for a promotion since he falls short of 30 marks in the ratings. What is the maximum
score that an employee can attain in the appraisal ratings?
A. 110
B. 150
C. 175
D. 300
E. 350
Answer: B

3. What sum of money will accumulate to Rs. 5300 at 8% rate of interest in 9 months?
A. Rs. 5000
B. Rs. 5400
C. Rs. 4500
D. Rs. 4000
Answer: A

4. If the square of one number is 25 and LCM and HCF of those two numbers are 5 and 35
respectively, then what is the other number?
A. 25
B. 70
C. 35
D. 15
Answer: C

5. What is the difference between LCM and HCF of 20, 30, 40?
A. 110
B. 220
C. 100
D. 200
Answer: A

6. A machine worth Rs. 180000 depreciates at the rate of 18% of the value of machine per annum. The
value of machine after 18 months from now will be?

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 A. Rs. 2,31,516
B. Rs. 1,33,316
C. Rs. 1,50,000
D. Rs. 1,00,000
Answer: B

7. What is the highest power of 2 in the expression 1800 * 25 * 21 * 48 * 45-2?

A. 16
B. 17
C. 18
D. 19
Answer: D

8. What is the sum of the two consecutive numbers, the difference of whose squares is 19?
A. 19
B. 21
C. 11
D. 13
Answer: A

9. If the number 456*85 is completely divisible by 3, then the smallest whole number in the place of *
will be:
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
Answer: A

10. Shobhit bought 300 litres of milk at Rs.19 per litre. He added 200 liters of water to it and sold 400
litres of a milk at Rs.20 per litre. To the rest, he added 10 litres more water and then sold it for Rs. 15
per litre, if he used mineral water that costs Rs.10 per litre, then the total money earned by Shobhit
is:
A. Rs.4000
B. Rs.1650
C. Rs.4150
D. Rs.1850
Answer: D

11. -3.4 is a number on real number line. If we subtract 1 then the new number is:
A. -2.4
B. -4.4
C. -3.0
D. None of these
Answer: A
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12. What is the least number by which 16,800 must be divided to get a number perfect square?
A. 21
B. 42
C. 24
D. 40
Answer: B

13. The value of (1/512)1/9 is:

A. 1/2
B. 1/3
C. 1/4
D. 1/6
Answer: A

14. What is least perfect square, which is divisible by 24, 30, 60?
A. 1600
B. 3600
C. 14400
D. 32400
Answer: B

15. What is the largest power of 20 obtained in 100 factorials?

A. 20
B. 25
C. 24
D. 21
Answer: C

16. If 2228/2n = 512 then find the value of n.

A. 219
B. 218
C. 237
D. None of the above
Answer: D

17. Rajesh commutes daily by travelling 4/5 of the distance between his home and office by metro train,
3/20 by auto and remaining 1 km on foot. What is the distance between his home and office?
A. 20 km
B. 21 km
C. 29 km
D. 30 km
Answer: A

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18. Sangeeta invested Rs. 20,000 at 8 % p.a. If the interest is compounded half yearly, then total interest
earned by Sangeeta at the end of the year is:
A. Rs. 1829
B. Rs. 1632
C. Rs. 1923
D. Rs. 2020
Answer: B

19. The difference of two numbers is 14. Their L.C.M. and H.C.F. are 441 and 7. Find the numbers.
A. 21, 35
B. 35, 49
C. 49, 63
D. 63, 77
Answer: D

20. Riya sold her car for Rs. 50,000 less than what she bought if for and lost 8%. At what
price should she have sold the car, if she wanted to gain as much as she lost in the first
transaction?
A. Rs. 6,25,000
B. Rs. 6,50,000
C. Rs. 6,75,000
D. Rs. 6,37,000
E. Rs. 7,00,000
Answer: C

21. The average age of a cricket team of eleven is 22 years. The average age gets increased by 1 year,
when the coach age is also included. What is the age of the coach?
A. 34
B. 23
C. 30
D. 40
Answer: A

22. What is the smallest square number which is divisible by 2, 4, 5, 6, and 9?

A. 900
B. 1600
C. 3600
D. 400
Answer: A

23. Given that the interest is only earned on principal, if an investment of Rs 1000.00 amounts to Rs
1440.00 in two years, then what is the rate of interest earned?
A. 20%
B. 44%
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 C. 11%
D. 22%
Answer: D

24. 20 men can do a job in 10 days, working 8 hours a day. If women are 33.33% more efficient than
men then how many women will it take to finish the same job in 10 days, working 6 hours a day?
A. 10
B. 12
C. 15
D. 20
Answer: D

25. A number X when divided by 13 leaves remainder 12 what is the remainder when we divided X13 by
13?
A. 1
B. 0
C. 12
D. None of these
Answer: C

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DXC Technology Logical Ability Questions
1. Find the next number in the series.
3, 7, 13, 21, 31, ?
A. 43
B. 33
C. 41
D. 45
Answer: A

2. Find the next number in the series.

10, 14, 23, 39, 64, ?
A. 100
B. 125
C. 128
D. 148
Answer: A

3. Find the odd one out.

A. HIJK
B. KLNM
C. STVU
D. RSTU
Answer: D

4. Find the next number in the series.

2, 5, 26, ?
A. 152
B. 677
C. 50
D. 47
Answer: B

5. Fill the missing number in the sequence.

2, 3, 7, 8, 13, 14, ?
A. 15
B. 16
C. 20
D. 17
Answer: C

6. If COMPUTER is coded as GKQLYPIN, what is the code for SENATE?

A. WARWXQ
B. WAPWXA
C. WARWXA
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 D. WARWPA
Answer: C

7. One day, Raja left home and cycled 5 km southward. After then he turned left and cycled 2 km and
turned left again and cycled 3 km. After then he turned right and cycled 5 km. How many kilometres
will to cycle to reach his home straight?
A. Square root of 53
B. Square root of 54
C. Square root of 55
D. Square root of 56
Answer: A

8. Pick the odd man out

A. ABDC
B. MNPQ
C. PQSR
D. STVU
Answer: B

9. Decode the words/pattern in the questions:

If GULMOHAR is coded as TFONLSZI, PIPAL will be coded as
A. QJQBM
B. QJQBN
C. KRKZO
D. KIKZO
Answer: C

10. Find the suitable option for the given relation:

Building : Bricks :: Flower :
A. Seed
B. Fruit
C. Honey
D. Petals
Answer: D

11. If Mohan is the brother of Rohan's grandmother, how is Rohan related to Mohan?
A. Brother-in-law
B. Uncle
C. Grandson
D. Grandfather
Answer: C

12. Find the term that can replace '?' in the given analogy.
24 : 50 :: 102 : ?
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 A. 204
B. 206
C. 152
D. 156
Answer: B

13. Arrange the words given below in a meaningful sequence.

1) Furniture
2) Plant
3) Seed
4) Tree
A. 1234
B. 4321
C. 3241
D. 2314
Answer: C

14. X walks 6 km towards East from a point A and from the same point A, Y walks 8 km towards South.
How far are the two friends from each other now?
A. 19 km
B. 10 km
C. 12 km
D. 5 km
Answer: B

15. A person facing north walks 9 m towards his right, then again, he turns right and walks
4 m. He then turns right and walks for 6 m. What is the distance from the starting point?
A. 5 m
B. 6 m
C. 3 m
D. 12 m
Answer: A

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DXC Technology English Questions

Directions (Q1 to Q8) – Read the below given passage carefully and select the appropriate answer
option.

The great event of the New York cultural season of 1882 was the visit of the sixty two year old English
philosopher and social commentator Herbert Spencer. Nowhere did Spencer have a larger or more
enthusiastic following than in the United States, where such works as? Social Statics and ?The Data of Ethics
were celebrated as powerful justifications for laissez fair capitalism. Competition was preordained; its result
was progress; and any institution that stood in the way of individual liberties was violating the natural
order.Survival of the fittest a phrase that Charles Darwin took from Spencer made free competition a social
as well as a natural law. Spencer was, arguably, the single most influential systematic thinker of the
nineteenth century, but his influence, compared with that of Darwin, Marx, or Mill, was short lived. In 1937,
the Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons asked, ?Who now reads Spencer?

Seventy years later, the question remains pertinent, even if no one now reads Talcott Parsons, either. In his
day, Spencer was the greatest of philosophical hedgehogs: his popularity stemmed from the Page 54 fact
that he had one big, easily grasped idea and a mass of more particular ideas that supposedly flowed from
the big one. The big idea was evolution, but, while Darwin applied it to species change, speculating about
society and culture only with reluctance, Spencer saw evolution working everywhere. ?This law of organic
progress is the law of all progress, he wrote, ?whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the
development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of
Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, [or] Art.

Spencer has been tagged as a social Darwinist, but it would be more correct to think of Darwin as a biological
Spencerian. Spencer was very well known as an evolutionist long before Darwin's ?On the Origin of Species
was published, in 1859, and people who had limited interest in the finches of the Galapagos had a great
interest in whether the state should provide for the poor or whether it was right to colonize India.

1. Why did Spencer have a large enthusiastic following in the United States?
A. Because he believed in Darwin's theory of evolution
B. Because his work was perceived to justify capitalism
C. Because he was a English philosopher
D. None of these
Answer: B

2. Which of the following will the author agree to?

A. Mill, Marx and Darwin are more famous than Spencer as of today.
B. Spencer is more famous than Mill, Marx and Darwin as of today.
C. Mill, Darwin, Marx and Spencer are equally famous.
D. Mill, Darwin, Marx and Parsons are very famous today.
Answer: A

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3. What does Talcott Parson's statement, "Who now reads Spencer?" imply?
A. No one read Spencer in 1937
B. He is asking a question to his students.
C. Everyone should read Spencer
D. None of these
Answer: A

4. What could possibly "laissez-faire" mean as inferred from the context in which it has been used in
the passage?
A. Restricted
B. Not interfered by the government
C. Unprincipled
D. Uncompetitive
Answer: B

5. According to the author, why was Spencer so popular in the 19th Century?
A. He supported capitalism
B. He extended Darwin's theory of evolution to a lot of things.
C. He had one broad and simple idea and many specific ideas flowed from it.
D. He was a friend of Parson's.
Answer: C

6. What is the author most likely to agree to in the following?

A. Darwin's idea of evolution preceded that of Spencer
B. Both Darwin and Spencer got the idea of the evolution at the same time
C. Spencer's idea of evolution preceded that of Darwin
D. Darwin and Spencer worked on totally different models of evolution
Answer: C

7. What must have been the most-likely response/reaction of the New York audience to Spencer's talk
in 1882?
A. Vindication
B. Surprise
C. Happiness
D. Depression
Answer: B

8. Which people is the author referring to in the statement: "people who had limited interest in the
finches of the Galápagos"?
A. People who were not interested in the bird finch
B. People who were not interested in finches in particular from Galapagos.
C. People who were not interested in animal species or natural evolution
D. People who did not have interest in birds.
Answer: C
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Directions (Q9 to Q12) – Read the below given passage carefully and select the appropriate answer
option.

The unique Iron Age Experimental Centre at Lejre, about 40 km west of Copenhagen, serves as a museum,
a classroom and a place to get away from it all. How did people live during the Iron Age? How did they
support themselves? What did they eat and how did they cultivate the land? These and a myriad of other
questions prodded the pioneers of the Lejre experiment.

Living in the open and working 10 hours a day, volunteers from all over Scandinavia led by 30 experts, built
the first village in the ancient encampment in a matter of months. The house walls were of clay, the roofs of
hay - all based on original designs. Then came the second stage - getting back to the basics of living. Families
were invited to stay in the 'prehistoric village' for a week or two at a time and rough it Iron Age-style.

Initially, this experiment proved none too easy for modern Danes accustomed to central heating, but it
convinced the centre that there was something to the Lejre project. Little by little, the modern Iron Agers
learnt that their huts were, after all, habitable. The problems were numerous - smoke belching out from the
rough-and-ready fireplaces into the rooms and so on. These problems, however, have led to some
discoveries: domed smoke ovens made of clay, for example, give out more heat and consume less fuel than
an open fire, and when correctly stoked, they are practically smokeless.

By contacting other museums, the Lejre team has been able to reconstruct ancient weaving looms and
pottery kilns. Iron Age dyeing techniques, using local natural vegetation, have also been revived, as have
ancient baking and cooking methods.

9. What is the main purpose of building the Iron Age experimental center?
A. Prehistoric village where people can stay for a week or two to get away from modern living
B. Replicate the Iron Age to get a better understanding of the time and people of that era
C. To discover the differences between a doomed smoke oven and an open fire to identify the more
efficient of the two
D. Revive activities of ancient women such as weaving, pottery, dyeing, cooking and baking
Answer: B

10. What is the meaning of the sentence "Initially, this experiment proved none too easy for modern
Danes accustomed to central heating, but it convinced the centre that there was something to the
Lejre project."?
A. Even though staying in the huts wasn't easy for the modern people, the centre saw merit in the
simple living within huts compared to expensive apartments
B. Staying in the huts was quite easy for the modern people and the centre also saw merit in the
simple living within huts compared to expensive apartments
C. The way of living of the Iron Age proved difficult for the people of the modern age who are used
to living in luxury
D. The way of living of the Iron Age proved very easy for the people of the modern age since it was
hot inside the huts, and they were anyway used to heated rooms

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 Answer: C

11. What can be the title of the passage?

A. Modern techniques find their way into pre-historic villages
B. Co-existence of ancient and modern times
C. Glad to be living in the 21st Century
D. Turning back time
Answer: D

12. From the passage what can be inferred to be the centre's initial outlook towards the Lejre project?
A. It initiated the project
B. It eagerly supported it
C. It felt the project was very unique
D. It was apprehensive about it
Answer: A

Directions (Q13 to Q20) – Read the below given passage carefully and select the appropriate answer
option.

Give people power and discretion, and whether they are grand viziers or border guards, some will use their
position to enrich themselves. The problem can be big enough to hold back a country's development. For
most people in the world, though, the worry is not that corruption may slow down their country's GDP
growth. It is that their daily lives are pervaded by endless hassles, big and small. And for all the evidence
that some cultures suffer endemic corruption while others are relatively clean, attitudes towards corruption,
and even the language describing bribery, is remarkably similar around the world. In a testament to most
people's basic decency, bribe-takers and bribe-payers have developed an elaborate theater of dissimulation.
This is not just to avoid detection. Even in countries where corruption is so common as to be unremarkable
and on the prosecutor and even when the transaction happens far from snooping eyes bribe is almost always
dressed up as some other kind of exchange.Though most of the world is plagued by corruption, even serial
offenders try to conceal it.

One manifestation of this is linguistic. Surprisingly few people say: "You are going to have to pay me if you
want to get that done." Instead, they use a wide variety of euphemisms. One type is quasi-official
terminology. The term widely used at border crossings is "expediting fee". For a euphemism it is surprisingly
accurate: paying it will keep your bags, and perhaps your contraband, from being dumped onto a floor and
sifted through at a leisurely pace. (A related term, used in India, is "speed money": paying it can get essential
business permits issued considerably faster.)

The second type of euphemism dresses up a dodgy payment as a friendly favor done by the bribe-payer.
There is plenty of creative scopes. Nigerian policemen are known to ask for "a little something for the
weekend". Mexican traffic police will suggest that you buy them are fresco, a soft drink, as will Angolan and
Mozambican petty officials, who call it a gazebo in Portuguese.

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Double meaning can help soothe the awkwardness of bribe-paying. Baksheesh, originally a Persian word
now found in many countries of the Middle East, can mean "tip", "alms" and "bribe". In Kenya a machine-
gun wielding guard suggested to a terrified Canadian aid worker: "Perhaps you would like to discuss this
over chai?" The young Canadian was relieved: the difficulty could be resolved with some chai, which means
both "tea" and "bribe".

Along with the obscurantist language, bribe-taking culture around the world often involves the avoidance
of physically handing the money from one person to another. One obvious reason is to avoid detection, which
is why bribes are known as "envelopes" in countries from China to Greece. But avoidance of a direct
handover is common even where there is no chance of detection. There will always be some officials who
will take money right from a bribe payer's hands, but most seem to prefer to find some way to hide the
money from view.

Rich Westerners may not think of their societies as plagued by corruption. But the definition of bribery clearly
differs from person to person. A New Yorker might pity the third-world businessman who must pay bribes
just to keep his shop open. But the same New Yorker would not think twice about slipping the $50 to sneak
into a nice restaurant without a reservation. Poor people the world over are most infuriated by the casual
corruption of the elites rather than by the underpaid, "tip"-seeking soldier or functionary. Thus there is no
single cultural or social factor that inclines a society towards corruption, but economic factors play a big
part.Most clearly, poverty and bribery go together

13. What is the author likely to agree to in the following?

A. Some cultures suffer corruptions while others do not.
B. Social factors incline a society towards corruption.
C. Bribery is not a cultural phenomena.
D. None of these
Answer: C

14. Which of the following the author does not identify as linguistic manifestation of corruption?
A. Asking for a favour.
B. Use of double meanings.
C. Use of quasi-official terminology.
D. Relate to food item.
Answer: D

15. What is bribe generally called in China?

A. Hand-over
B. Refresco
C. Envelopes
D. Baksheesh
Answer: D

16. In summary what does the passage primarily suggest and provide evidence for?
A. Corruption is always concealed in some way, both linguistically and in the process.
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 B. Corruption exists only in developing economies.
C. Corruption is an unethical practice.
D. Corruption slows down GDP growth.
Answer: A

17. What could be the meaning of the word ‘dissimulation’, as can be inferred from the context it is used
in first line of the passage?
A. Hypocrisy
B. Clarity
C. Frankness
D. Insult
Answer: A

18. What best represents the author's attitude towards the rich people in the West?
A. Appreciative
B. Mildly critical
C. Heavily critical
D. Mildly appreciative
Answer: B

19. What is the author most likely to agree to?

A. People generally do not try to hide money taken as bribe.
B. People hide money taken as bribe primarily to avoid detection.
C. People hide money taken as bribe from view even if detection possibility is low.
D. None of these
Answer: C

20. What could be the meaning of the word 'obscurantist' as inferred from the passage?
A. Clear
B. Unclear
C. Nasty
D. Polite
Answer: B

21. Based on the given passage, find out which of the following statements can be inferred from the
Passage.
Of all the fitness and wellness activities customary in India, Artistic yoga is the new kid in town. It
has successfully earned a pat on the back from whosoever has lent an ear to the latest advancements.
Artistic yoga combines the suaveness of yoga and the frenzy of modern cardio-vascular exercises.
The technique involves performance of various aasanas and pranayams followed by walking on
treadmill, stair climbing, cycling and so on. The activities are performed in a cyclic order and the
aasana or pranayam that is done in the beginning is repeated in the end. This helps an individual at
the physical level as well as the mental and spiritual level, thus helping bring about a complete
transformation of body, mind and soul.
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 A. Artistic yoga helps in the overall development of those who practise it.
B. Artistic yoga has been adopted by modern people since it is in fashion these days
C. All the activities performed at the beginning of artistic yoga are also repeated in the end
D. Since it combines yoga and exercises, artistic yoga will replace other fitness and wellness
programmes.
Answer: A

Directions (Q22 to Q25) – Read the below given passage carefully and select the appropriate answer
option.

There is a long and noble history of trying to change the English language’s notoriously illogical system of
spelling. The fact that through, rough, dough, plough, hiccough and trough all end with -ough, yet none of
them sound the same as any of the others, is the sort of thing that has been vexing poets and learners of
English for quite some time. Proponents of “fixing” this wayward orthography have included some of the
most prominent names in American history. Benjamin Franklin suggested changing the alphabet, and
Andrew Carnegie provided money for people to study the problem. President Theodore Roosevelt issued an
edict in 1906 that gave the Government Printing Office a list of 300 words with new spellings: problem
cases like artisan, kissed and woe were to be changed to artizan, kist and wo. Roosevelt was largely ignored
by the G.P.O., and the matter was soon dropped. Although this issue has been extensively studied and
argued over by these and other eminent thinkers, there has been an almost complete lack of success in
effecting any substantial progress.

And so it is rather bizarre that the first widespread change in how people spell English words appears to
have come from a group of (largely) young people sending text messages to one another with cellular phones
and other electronic devices. You may not like seeing the phrase “LOL — U R gr8” on the page, but it is
common enough that you are likely to understand it. Why have such inadvertent “reforms” succeeded where
generations of dedicated intellectual attempts have not? And will they last?

For most of the history of the language, English speakers took a lackadaisical approach to spelling; the notion
that a word should always be spelled the same way is a much more recent invention than the language itself.
The standardization of English spelling began in the 16th century, and although it is unclear at exactly what
point our spelling became set, what is certain is that ever since it happened, people have complained that
the rules of spelling, such as they are, just don’t make sense.

Perhaps the most successful attempt at spelling reform (at least in America) was wrought by Noah Webster,
who managed to forever make Americans view the British honour and theatre as off-kilter. Some portion of
Webster’s determination to change -our to -or and -re to -er was due to nationalist fervor; he wanted his
countrymen to break free of the orthographic bonds of their oppressors. He was noticeably less successful
in convincing Americans of the utility of many of his other ideas, like spelling oblique as obleek, machine as
masheen and prove as proov.

I contacted several of the spelling-reform organizations in operation today to ask them about their feelings
on adopting text-messaging shorthands as a kind of spelling reform. Alan Mole, the president of the
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that it had not, although he added that text messaging “does serve the purpose of raising consciousness”
about the fact “that there are different ways of making people spell.” The council, which has picketed the
Scripps National Spelling Bee, prefers its own phonetic method of spelling reform, called SoundSpel. The
group offers a downloadable version of SoundSpel (ententetranslator.com/IDL.htm) that can instantly
translate an entire novel’s worth of standard English into a more spellable, if less recognizable, form.

The sister organization of the council, the British-based Spelling Society, does not advocate adopting texting
conventions, either, but this is less surprising, because it does not advocate adopting any particular approach
at all. Jack Bovill, the society’s president, wrote in an e-mail message: “Our present aim is to raise awareness
of the problems caused by the irregularity of English spelling. We DO NOT support solutions.”

Whether texting conventions are supported by organized spelling reformists or not, can they possibly solve
the difficulty of spelling our troublesome language? David Crystal, the author of “Txtng: The Gr8 Db8,” told
me in an e-mail message that “there’s nothing in texting to suggest spelling reform,” noting that texting
relies heavily on abbreviations, which he sees as creative stylings, not systematic improvements. He added
that there is very little that is new about most of the abbreviations and lexical shortenings that make texting
so maddening to so many. In fact, he said, with the exception of a few recent coinages like LOL, “virtually all
the commonly used ones can be found in English a century ago.” For example, bn (been), btwn (between)
and wd (would) can all be found in a 1942 dictionary of abbreviations.

Naomi Baron, a professor of linguistics at American University and author of “Always On: Language in an
Online and Mobile World,” shares Crystal’s view. She predicts that the number of “textisms” will stop
growing as people continue to develop more proficiency in using handheld devices and as the devices
continue to grow more sophisticated than simple telephone touch pads. She adds that part of the appeal of
texting shorthands is their novelty, and that that will fade.

Crystal did say that a certain amount of spelling reform might eventually come from the Internet: “People
who try to impose reform ‘top down’ rarely succeed. But a ‘bottom up’ movement might well have some
permanent effects.” Given that the general attitude toward text messaging is that it comes from the linguistic
bottom, it may well be that this masheen-sent lingua franca may proov to one day be less obleek than it is
now.

22. Why has the situation been described as bizarre?

A. Because even though prominent people tried to bring a change the change
actually came out from unknown and very young people.
B. Because of the spellings have been distorted and simplified in texting with great
replacing great.
C. Because the relatively new electronic medium has been successful in leading to
a change whereas the traditional printed and written forms have failed.
D. Because there is no consistency in the English language and even though a lot of words are spelt
similarly the all sound different.
Answer: A

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 23. What has been felt to be the main role of texting?
A. It has led to a revived use of spellings that were widely acceptable many centuries ago.
B. It has helped to make English spellings more logical and consistent to some extent.
C. It had led to a more creative and stylish way of spelling.
D. It had led more people to believe that there are other way to spell.
Answer: C

24. Which of the given options explain the meaning of the word ‘lexical’?
A. Related to improper usage of words
B. Related to words for vocabulary of language
C. Related to efforts to raise understanding
D. Related to achieving consistency
Answer: B

25. What does the word ‘vexing’ mean?

A. Amazing
B. Interesting
C. Troubling
D. Amusing
Answer: C

Directions (Q26 to Q30) - Fill in the blank with the option that makes the sentence meaningfully
complete.
26. The monk wanders here and there in search of silence and peace. He lives a _____ life.
A. Nomadic
B. Boring
C. Religious
D. Busy
Answer: A

27. This new technology has the potential to provide handsome returns even though it is at a ______
stage in India.
A. Turbulent
B. Peculiar
C. Nascent
D. Unknown
Answer: C

28. The labour union decided to go on strike because the management was adamant and did not agree
to their terms. The discussion had reached a /an _______.
A. Climax
B. Obstacle
C. Impetus
D. Impasse
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 Answer: D

29. Friends _____ the much-needed support when you are in trouble.
A. Are
B. Is
C. Distribute
D. Provide
Answer: D

30. Once he has signed the agreement, he won’t be able to _____.

A. Back out
B. Back up
C. Back in
D. Back at
Answer: A

Directions (Q31 to Q32) - In the below questions each passage consists of six sentences. The first and
sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled
up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. Select the proper order for the four sentences.
31.
S1: Venice is strange and beautiful city
S6: This is because Venice has no streets.
P: there are about four hundred old stone bridges joining the island of the Venice.
Q: In this city there are no motor cars, no horses, and no buses.
R: There are small islands near one another.
S: it is not an island, but hundred and seventeen islands
A. PQRS
B. PRQS
C. SRPQ
D. PQSR
Answer: C

32.
S1: Rajeev and his friends went for river rafting.
S6: Later they all came to know that he is aqua phobic.
P: Rajeev forced him to have some medicine.
Q: They tried persuading him to join them for rafting, but he had severe stomach ache.
R: Which he refused adamantly.
S: Among all his friends, Kunal backed out at the last moment.
A. PSQR
B. QPRS
C. RQSP
D. SQPR
Answer: C
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Direction (Q33 to Q35) - Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The
error, if any, will be in part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of
punctuation, if any

33. (A) Shalini win the race /(B) as she practised too /(C) hard for the tournament.
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. No error
Answer: A

34. (A) It have been /(B) ages since I /(C) played the guitar.
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. No error
Answer: A

35. (A) A sales man of that /(B) company tried to /(C) cheated a native lady.
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. No error
Answer: C

Directions (Q36 to Q37) - Select the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word.
36. Vanity (Opposite)
A. Pride
B. Humility
C. Conceit
D. Indifference
Answer: B

37. ECONOMICAL (Opposite)

A. Frugal
B. Wasteful
C. Efficient
D. Plain
Answer: B

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38. Select the option that is most nearly similar in meaning to the given word: TIMID
A. Fast
B. Slow
C. Medium
D. Shy
Answer: D

39. Select the option that is most nearly similar in meaning to the given word: RESTRAINT
A. Hindrance
B. Obstacle
C. Repression
D. Restriction
Answer: D

40. Select the option that is most nearly similar in meaning to the given word: CORPULENT
A. Lean
B. Gaunt
C. Emaciated
D. Obese
Answer: D

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DXC Technology Programming MCQ

1. What is the output of the pseudocode statements given below?

(Note: Assume that when two data types are processed through an operator, the answer maintains
the same data type as that of the input. Also, all data types have enough range to accommodate
any number. If two different data types are operated upon, the result assumes the data type that is
more expressive.)
integer a = 984, b=10
//float is a data type to store real numbers.
float c
c = a/b
print c
A. 984
B. 98.4
C. 98
D. Error
Answer: C

2. A developer writes the program given below to print the sum of the squares of the first five whole
numbers (0....4). Is the program correct? If not, which statement should be modified to correct the
program?

A. No error, the program is correct

B. Statement 1
C. Statement 4
D. Statement 3
Answer: D

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3. What is the output of the program given below?

A. 0
0
B. 0
036
0369
C. 0 3
036
D. 0 3 6
0369
0 3 6 9 12
Answer: A

4. A programmer writes a code snippet in which a set of three lines occurs ten times in different parts
of the program. What programming concept should be used to shorten the code length?
A. For loops
B. Functions
C. Arrays
D. Classes
Answer: B

5. What will happen if some indentations are made in some statements of a code written in C++?
A. Faster execution of the code
B. Lower memory requirement for the code
C. Correction of errors in the code
D. Better readability of the code
Answer: D

6. Refer to the given pseudocode. The code is similar to that in C++ and is self-explanatory. An
accessible function and a data member for an object are accessed by the statements objectname,
functionname objectname.datamembername, respectively. Identity the statement with an error.
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 A. Statement 1
B. Statement 2
C. Statement 3
D. None of the above
Answer: A

7. How does inheritance relate to abstraction?

A. A base class is an abstraction of all its derived classes
B. A derived class is an abstraction of all its base classes
C. Base and derived classes are abstractions of each of base class
D. Inheritance prevents abstraction.
Answer: B

8. A function in the base class is redefined in the inherited class. What is the term used to describe
this situation?
A. Inheritance
B. Overriding
C. Overloading
D. Encapsulation
Answer: B

9. Which of the given statements is TRUE about a breadth first search?

A. Beginning from a node, all the adjacent nodes are traversed first
B. Beginning from a node, each adjacent is fully explored before traversing the next adjacent node
C. Beginning from a node, the node traversed in cyclic order
D. None of the above
Answer: A

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10. A programmer writes a program to find an element in the array A[5] with the elements 8 30 40 45
70 The program is run to find a number “X” that is found in the first iteration of binary search .
What is the value of “X”?
A. 40
B. 8
C. 30
D. 45
Answer: A

11. The code is similar to that in C++ and is self-explanatory. An accessible member function and a
data member for a class are accessed by the statements object name, function name and object
name data member name respectively which statement should be deleted from the code to rectify
the error in it?

A. Statement 1
B. Statement 2
C. Statement 3
D. Statement 4
Answer: D

12. The function given below takes an even integer ‘n’ as the input and calculates sum of first ‘n’ even
natural numbers. The function is called by the statement “sum(30)” . How many times will the
function “sum” be called to compute the sum?

A. 1
B. 30
C. 15
D. 16
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13. What will be the output of the following pseudo code statement?
Integer a=456,b,c,d=10
b=a / d
c=a-b
Print c
A. 410
B. 410.4
C. 411.4
D. 411
Answer: D

14. What is space complexity of the program?

A. Amount of hard disk space required to store the program.
B. Amount of hard disk space required to compile the program.
C. Amount of memory required by the program to run.
D. Amount of memory required by the program to compile.
Answer: C

15. In which of the given situations can a constructor be invoked?

A. When an object is created
B. When an object is assigned the value
C. Only at the end of the code
D. When the scope of the object is over
Answer: A

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Automata Fix

1. You are required to fix all logical errors in the given code. You can click on Compile & Run anytime
to check the compilation/ execution status of the program. You can use cout to debug your code.
The submitted code should be logically/ syntactically correct and pass all test cases.

Code Approach:
For this question, you will need to correct the given implementation. We do not expect you to modify
the approach or incorporate any additional library methods. Complete the program and convert the
given binary number to its equivalent octal value.

Code given in the Question:

The following is the code given in the question. What you see under Output is the expected output.

Sample Input:
10101

Sample Output:
2
C Code Given:

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2. You are required to fix all logical errors in the given code. You can click on Compile & Run anytime to
check the compilation/ execution status of the program. You can use cout to debug your code. The
submitted code should be logically/ syntactically correct and pass all test cases.

Code Approach:
For this question, you will need to correct the given implementation. We do not expect you to modify
the approach or incorporate any additional library methods. Given an array, find the minimum value
and maximum value in it.

Code given in the Question:

The following is the code given in the question. What you see under Output is the expected output.

Sample Input 1:
5
int a[] = {5, 8, 3, 2, -1}

Sample output 1:
min = -1
max = 8

Sample Input 2:
n=5
int a[] = {10,9,-5,22,55}

Sample output 2:
min = -5
max = 55
You are required to complete the given code by reusing the existing function. You can click on
Compile & run anytime to check the compilation/execution status of the program, you can use printf
to debug your code. The submitted code should be logically/syntactically correct and pass all the test
cases.
Code approach For the question,
→ You will need to correct the given implementation.
→ We do not expect you to modify the approach or incorporate any additional library methods

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.
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3. You are required to fix all logical errors in the given code. You can click on Compile & Run anytime to
check the compilation/ execution status of the program. You can use cout to debug your code. The
submitted code should be logically/ syntactically correct and pass all test cases.

Code Approach:
For this question, you will need to correct the given implementation. We do not expect you to modify
the approach or incorporate any additional library methods.
Complete the code and find the area of a triangle and check whether the area is palindrome or not.

Code given in the Question:

The following is the code given in the question. What you see under Output is the expected output.

Sample Input:
4
6
8

Sample Output:
Area of a triangle = 11
Area is palindrome

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4. You are required to fix all logical errors in the given code. You can click on Compile & Run anytime to
check the compilation/ execution status of the program. You can use cout to debug your code. The
submitted code should be logically/ syntactically correct and pass all test cases.

Code Approach: For this question, you will need to correct the given implementation. We do not
expect you to modify the approach or incorporate any additional library methods.
Check whether the given program will print the LCM of two numbers. If there is any error, rectify the
error.

Code given in the Question:

The following is the code given in the question. What you see under Output is the expected output.

Sample Input:
15

Sample Output:
5

C Code Given:

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5. You are required to fix all logical errors in the given code. You can click on Compile & Run anytime to
check the compilation/ execution status of the program. You can use cout to debug your code. The
submitted code should be logically/ syntactically correct and pass all test cases.

Code Approach: For this question, you will need to correct the given implementation. We do not
expect you to modify the approach or incorporate any additional library methods.
Correct the code such that it prints the maximum element index

Code given in the Question:

The following is the code given in the question. What you see under Output is the expected output.
Sample Input 1:
5
1
2
3
4
5
Sample Output 1:
4
Sample Input 2:
3
87
95
36
Sample Output 2:
1

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DXC Technology Essay Writing Tips and Questions

DXC Technology Essay Writing round gets conducted on AMCAT’s WriteX portal. The Essay Writing topics
are quite interesting and easy to score provided you meet all the criteria under which WriteX evaluates your
essay.

Here is the list of parameters that generally gets evaluated on WriteX.

• Spelling
• Grammar
• Punctuation
• Topic Relevancy
• Essay Structure
• Word Limit

In order to perform well in this round, keep the following things in mind:
• Organize your thoughts
• Form simple sentences
• Use short-length and common words
• Build proper structure (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)
• Segregate Passages Properly
• Cross-check the entire essay once

Things that need to be avoided:

• Spelling mistakes
• Grammatical errors
• Punctuation errors
• Not matching minimum word limit

Here is the recently asked essay writing question in the DXC Technology Recruitment Process.
1. Tight curriculum of education system is leaving no room for imagination and
creativity.
2. Has technology become a new addiction?
3. Nature provides us with much but when we abuse nature, we risk disaster.
4. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good leader.
5. We have become slaves to our own creations.
6. Educational achievement of any person depends largely on family, friends and society.
7. How should we balance personal and professional life to achieve happiness?

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