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They normally ask 75 questions out of which 65 questions are of aptitude type and rest 10 are from C and Data Structures. What i beleive anyone should attempt around 90% of the questions. C part is most important to clear. There is no negative Marking
When u clear written examination they call for technical interview. In Technical Interview they query about the fnal year projec which u have developed sometimes they ask about coding and puzzles also. Prepare C and Data Structures well to crack the interview. but if ur projec is from different domain then prepare accourding to it. Interview round will last for around 30minutes to 1 hour. Beleive me its not too tough to crack it
But remember one thing if ur selelected in one comp then dont mention it . It may prove disastrous for u .
after technical interview if ur thru then they let u to the HR Round . HR is just a formality Once technical is clear it means u r at Verizon. HR will simply handover a bag to u as a gift from Verizon.
1) works as a command interpretor
A) Hardware B) Kernal C) Shell D) CPU
2) The major no for a floppy disk device is
A) 1 B) 3 C) 2 D) 4
3) chown
A) Changes the mode of operation to kernel mode
B) Creates a thread
C) Changes the users and/or group ownership of each given file
D) Creates a child process
4) lilo
A) Uninstalls the boot loader
B) Installs the boot loader
C) Is a login utility
D) Invokes a daemon to logoff
5) netdevice
A) Provides low level access to Linux network devices
B) Provides low level access to Linux storage devices
C) Provides an interface to communicate with graphic devices
D) None of the other option listed for this question
6) The process which terminates before the parent process exits, is
called
as
A) Zombie
B) Orphan
C) Child
D) None of the other option listed for this question
7) Context switch means
A) Kernel switches from executing one process to another.
B) Process switches from kernel mode to user mode.
C) Process switches from user mode to kernel mode.
D) None of the other option listed for this question
8) The following socket provides two way, sequenced, reliable and
unduplicated flow of data with no record boundaries.
A) Sequential packet socket
B) Datagram socket
C) Stream socket
D) Raw socket
9) Identify the point(s) that is not true w.r.t. signals
A) Signals are software generated interrupts that are sent to a process
when
an event happens
B) Signal delivery is analogous to hardware interrupts in that a signal
can
be blocked from being delivered in the future.
C) Most signals are synchronous by nature.
D) Most signal cause termination of the receiving process if no action
is
taken by the process in response to the signal.
10) Identify the point(s) that is true wrt Semaphore
A) Only one process at a time can update a semaphore.
B) All the other options listed for this question
C) They are often used to monitor and control the availability of system
resources such as shared memory segments.
D) Is a process with exclusive use of a semaphore terminates abnormally
and
fails to undo the operation or free the semaphore, the semaphore stays
locked in the state the process left it.
RDBMS
1) When a single entity is related to itself then the relationship is
termed
as
A) ONE -TO-ONE
B) ONE-TO-MANY
C) RECURSIVE
D) MANY-TO-MANY
2) means allowing objects of different types to be
considered
as examples of higher level set
A) AGGREGATION
B) SPECIALIZATION
C) GENERALIZATION
D) DECOMPOSITION
3) The primary characteristic of a key field as that it must be
A) A NAME
B) TEXT
C) UNIQUE
D) ALL OF THE OTHER OPTION LISTED FOR THIS QUESTION
4) What kind of relationship exist between customers and salespersons if
each customer may have one or more salespersons, and each salesperson
may
have one or more customers?
A) one-to-one
B) one to many
C) many to many
D) many to one
5) The following is a valid SET operation.
A) Join
B) Insert
C) Select
D) Difference
6) means allowing objects of different types to be
considered
as example of a higher level set.
A) Aggregation
B) Specialization
C) Generalization
D) Decomposition
7) A relation R is said to be in the , if it is in BCNF and
there are non-trivial multi valued dependencies.
A) 1st NF
B) 2nd NF
C) 3rd NF
D) 4th NF
8) A occurs when a weak entity does not have
a
candidate key and its instances are indistinguishable without a
relationship
with another entity.
A) Existence dependency
B) Identifier dependency
C) Referential dependency
D) None of the other option listed for this question
9) is / are sample(s) of data model.
A) Relational
B) Rational
C) Entity- relationship
D) None of the other option listed for this question
10) In hierarchical database,
A) There is one to many relationship
B) A child may have more than one parent
C) A parent may have more than one child
D) There is no restriction on the number of parents a child may have or
the
number of children a parent may have
11) The term "inner join" refers to:
A) Joins between two tables in the same schema.
B) An equality join based on one column from each table.
C) A table joined with itself.
D) A Cartesian product join.
12) Which type of join is used in this query?
SELECT last_name "Name", hire_date "Hire Date", loc "Location"
FROM employee, department
WHERE employee.deptno = department.deptno.
A) Outer join
B) Self join
C) Equijoin
D) Non-equijoin
13) A sales database has two table - SALESPERSON and CUSTOMERS as below:
SALESPEOPLE
------------------------------------------------------
snum NUMBER
sname VARCHAR2(10)
CUSTOMER
------------------------------------------------------
snum NUMBER
cname VARCHAR2(10)
The management wants to know the mapping of salespersons to their
customers
without excluding those salespersons that are not currently assigned.
What
would be the most appropriate condition, which can be applied on the
Query
to accomplish the above task?
A) salespeople.snum(+) = customers.snum
B) salespeople.snum = customers.snum(+)
C) salespeople.snum = customers.snum
D) salespeople.snum(+) = customers.snum(+)
14) join returns those rows from a table which have
no
direct match in the other table.
A) Outer join
B) inner join
C) Equijoin
D) Self join
15) To produce a meaningful result set without any Cartesian products,
what
is the minimum number of conditions that should appear in the WHERE
clause
of a four table join?
A) 1
B) 4
C) 2
D) 8
Further there were question from MATHS (in aptitude section), testing
the working knowledge of WIN NT (how to change the page file size etc), then
general terms related to computers like WORM, Trojan Horse etc.

VERIZON DATA PAPER HELD IN
VERIZON DATA PAPER HELD IN CUSAT 21 MAY 2004
The test consist 4 section
for each section there will be specific time limit n after time limit
question paper collected by the invigilator
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first section(25 question time 15 min. )
this section is dam easy .anyone solve it before the time
it consist 2 type of question
firstone is fill in the blanks (mostly abt the article, verb n noun)
go through any grammar book
second one is abt the passage ( 2 passage)
simle passage..many pepole do it without reading the passage
because the passage is based on DBMS n JAVA
I also do it without reading
second section (like bank apptitude 20 min. )
this section is also dam easy
it consist questin like bank apptitude test
mainly question based upon matching
for this section u no need prepration
third section(quantitaive apptitude n logical reasoning min 35 )
this section consist 25 question
simple airthmetic question .
n logical reasoning logic like banking paper coding, manipulation, arithmetic etc
one question abt cube n dice (quite tough) that is given below
one hundred and twenty five small cube of equal size are
arranged in a solid pile of dimension 5*5*5 .Then from one corner
one cube is removed from the top.From the opposite corner 8 cubes
(2*2*2)r removed from the third corner a column of three cubes and
from the fourth corner a column of 4 cubes r removed the remaining
solid r coloured red on all the exposed faces...
1. how many cubes in the secomd layer fron the top do not have any
coloured face
ans : 6
2: how many cubes in the third layer have at least two coloured faces each
ans :8
3: how many cubes in the fourth layer from the top have only one colour face each..
ans :10
4: how many cubes in the bottom layer have at least one coloured face each
ans :16
5: how many cubes in the top four layers taken together have only one coloured
face each
ans:29
6: how many cubes donot have any colour face
ans : 32
7: how many cubes have three colour faces each
ans :12
8:how many cubes have only two colour faces each?
ans :24
9:how many cubes have only one colour faces each?
ans : 41
10:how many cubes are there in the top layer ?
ans : 18
but remaining question were easy
fourth section(technical) 15 question 20 min
abt 25 question (tough one)
based on c programs
BFS,DFS,Pointer concet,Linklist,Queue,stack etc
there is no negative marks for the wrong question ...
so attempt as much as possible n guess the left question
i qualified for the interview i. attempt 75% correctly my rank is 11 here
that person who toped here attemt around 75-80 % paper
for written test
try to get more marks bcas they select merit basis
not cut off basis
prepare only technical section
ABOUT INTERVIEW
only one interview ..technical as well as HR ....
Panel consist only two person one tech and other r HR
Prepare well for HR ....prepare all the question and counter
question before the interview ....
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