Infosys Campus Interviews Previous Questions

1. Father's age is three years more than three times the son's age.  After three years, father's age will be ten years more than twice the son's age.  What is the father's present age.

Ans: 33 years.                

2. Find the values of each of the alphabets.

N O O N
S O O N
+ M O O N
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J U N E

Ans:

List five responsibilities of a database management system.

Q) List five responsibilities of a database management system. For each responsibility, explain the problems that would arise if the responsibility were not discharged.

Answer: A general purpose database manager (DBM) has five responsibilities:

a. interaction with the file manager.

b. integrity enforcement.

c. security enforcement.

d. backup and recovery.

e. concurrency control.

If these responsibilities were not met by a given DBM

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 15

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

main()

{

int i=_l_abc(10);

printf("%d\n",--i);

}

int _l_abc(int i)

{

 return(i++);

}

Answer:

9

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 14

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

struct point

{

 int x;

 int y;

 };

struct point origin,*pp;

main()

{

pp=&origin;

printf("origin is(%d%d)\n",(*pp).x,(*pp).y);

printf("origin is (%d%d)\n",pp->x,pp->y);

}

Answer:

origin is(0,0)

origin is(0,0)

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 13

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

#include<stdio.h>

main()

{

  int a[2][2][2] = { {10,2,3,4}, {5,6,7,8}  };

  int *p,*q;

  p=&a[2][2][2];

  *q=***a;

  printf("%d..%d",*p,*q);

}

Answer:

garbagevalue..1

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 12

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

int i=10;

main()

{

extern int i;

{

int i=20;

{

const volatile unsigned i=30;

printf("%d",i);

}

printf("%d",i);

}

printf("%d",i);

}

Answer:

30,20,10

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 10

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

main()

{

char *str1="abcd";

char str2[]="abcd";

printf("%d %d %d",sizeof(str1),sizeof(str2),sizeof("abcd"));

}

Answer:

2 5 5

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 9

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

main()

{

char *cptr,c;

void *vptr,v;

c=10;  v=0;

cptr=&c; vptr=&v;

printf("%c%v",c,v);

}

Answer:

Compiler error (at line number 4): size of v is Unknown.

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 8

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

int i,j;

for(i=0;i<=10;i++)

{

j+=5;

assert(i<5);

}

Answer:

Runtime error: Abnormal program termination.

assert failed (i<5), <file name>,<line number>

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 7

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

main ( )

{

 static char *s[ ]  = {“black”, “white”, “yellow”, “violet”};

 char **ptr[ ] = {s+3, s+2, s+1, s}, ***p;

 p = ptr;

 **++p;

 printf(“%s”,*--*++p + 3);

}

Answer:

ck

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 6

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

main( )

{

 void *vp;

 char ch = ‘g’, *cp = “goofy”;

 int j = 20;

 vp = &ch;

 printf(“%c”, *(char *)vp);

 vp = &j;

 printf(“%d”,*(int *)vp);

 vp = cp;

 printf(“%s”,(char *)vp + 3);

}

Answer:

g20fy

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 5

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

main( )

{

 static int  a[ ]   = {0,1,2,3,4};

 int  *p[ ] = {a,a+1,a+2,a+3,a+4};

 int  **ptr =  p;

 ptr++;

 printf(“\n %d  %d  %d”, ptr-p, *ptr-a, **ptr);

 *ptr++;

 printf(“\n %d  %d  %d”, ptr-p, *ptr-a, **ptr);

 *++ptr;

 printf(“\n %d  %d  %d”, ptr-p, *ptr-a, **ptr);

 ++*ptr;

printf(“\n %d  %d  %d”, ptr-p, *ptr-a, **ptr);

}

Answer:

111

222

333

344

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 4

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

main( )

{

int a[2][3][2] = {{{2,4},{7,8},{3,4}},{{2,2},{2,3},{3,4}}};

printf(“%u %u %u %d \n”,a,*a,**a,***a);

printf(“%u %u %u %d \n”,a+1,*a+1,**a+1,***a+1);

}

Answer:

100, 100, 100, 2

114, 104, 102, 3

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc – 2

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

#include<stdio.h>

main()

{

  char s[]={'a','b','c','\n','c','\0'};

  char *p,*str,*str1;

  p=&s[3];

  str=p;

  str1=s;

  printf("%d",++*p + ++*str1-32);

}

Answer:

M

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc - 1

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

main()

{

static char names[5][20]={"pascal","ada","cobol","fortran","perl"};

int i;

char *t;

t=names[3];

names[3]=names[4];

names[4]=t;

for (i=0;i<=4;i++)

printf("%s",names[i]);

}

Answer:

Compiler error: Lvalue required in function main

Explanation:

Frequently Asked Questions in Technical Round at MNCs like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS,..etc

Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

1)

main()

{

int i=1;

while (i<=5)

{

printf("%d",i);

if (i>2)

goto here;

i++;

}

}

fun()

{

here:

    printf("PP");

}

Answer:

Compiler error: Undefined label 'here' in function main

Explanation: