Covansys

Career Details
Eligibility:

Engineering Degree with 50%

Selection Process:

Written
GD
Interview

Entry Package:
2.2
Organization Details
Industry:
IT/Software, Hardware
Company Profile :

Headquartered in Michigan, Covansys Corporation (a CSC company) is a global consulting and technology services company specializing in industry-specific solutions, strategic outsourcing and integration services. Clients gain competitive advantage by leveraging our unique delivery capability to achieve rapid deployment, world-class quality and reduced costs. Covansys is well known in application maintenance and development outsourcing in the healthcare, financial services, retail and distribution, manufacturing, telecommunications and high-tech industries.

Founded in 1985, Covansys now has more than 8,400 consultants and employees worldwide. Covansys was one of the first U.S.-based IT services companies to establish offshore facilities in India, and is a pioneer in seamlessly integrating offshore capabilities into its offerings. Two of the company's three wholly owned development centers in India are assessed at Level 5 in SEI CMM®, all three are ISO 9001:2000 certified and assessed at Level 5 in PCMM®, and five global facilities are BS7799-2:2002 certified.

Covansys has maintained a strong clientele base with approximately 90 percent recurring business. Our professional heritage bridges the largest ‘Old World’ legacy systems and the New Economy’s leading-edge web applications.

We have six international delivery centers and 21 national offices, generating revenues of $434.1 million in 2005.

Apptitude:20 questions 25 minutes
1 Analytical(4 questions)
other apptitude and puzzles
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C/C++
20 questions
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java/VB
20 questons
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Oracle/sqlserver
20 questions
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unix/windows
20 questions
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all other sections except apptitude you will have enough time.
Just be good in the basics you will be shortlisted and there will be a G.D and followed by an interview

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The Procedure : There are 5

The Procedure :
There are 5 sections, 20 questions each summing up to 100.The following are the split up of the sections:

1) Aptitude

2) Languages - any 2 from C/C++ , VB , Java , COBOL

3) Databases - any one from Oracle, Sybase, Sql Server2000 , DB2

4) OS - any one from Windows , Unix , IBM Mainframe

Important : There are 2 question booklets, the following questions are from the Question Booklet 2 as on 22/10/03

Aptitude :

1) All the children were arranged in rows.all the rows containing equal no.of students.

If 4 students were removed from each row 10 more rows had to be added.if 5 students were added in each row no.of rows were reduced by 8.find the no.of children. the choices were like this
1)400
2)500 etc..

Ans) 800

2) 2/3 of people read newspaper A , 3/4 read newspaper B.if 38 read both and 8 didn’t read any of the 2.how many read A?

ans) 48

3) There are 5 questions based on a murder story.the questions concentrate on the seating arrangements of people mentioned.

4) A plane goes from Chicago to Columbus and then comes back. It takes the same time to travel in either ways. It leave Chicago early in the morning 0644 LOCAL TIME and reaches the destination Columbus at 0849 LOCAL TIME. In the same evening it leave Columbus at 1625 hrs LOCAL TIME and reaches the destination at 1638 LOCAL TIME. Find the time that the plane takes to travel either way?

Ans: 69 mins

5) There is a 14 digit credit card number in which every 3 consecutive digits add to 20. Here is a part of it.. Find the value of ‘x’?
_ _ _ 9 _ _ _ x _ _ _ 7 _ _

Ans : 4

6) Ram gets 148 marks for 20 questions. +10 for correct. -3 for wrong. How many correct answers?
Ans : 16

7) Ganesh and Shankar travel abroad and take more luggage than the airlines allow. They have to pay extra money for it. They carry 52 kgs together and pay $60 and $100 respectively. Now, if the same luggage was carried by only Ganesh it would cost him $340. If the airlines charges only at one rate for extra luggage what is the maximum luggage that a person can carry without paying extra?

Ans : 18 kgs

8) There are 6 consecutive numbers P, Q, R, S, T, U, not necessarily in that order. Given that, Q is 2 less that P, P is 3 less that T and R is 2 less than S, arrange them in an ascending order.
Ans: QRPSUT

9) Number of digits with a 2 in them between 100 and 400?

Ans : 138

10) Bactria double every 3 mins. It is N in 1 hour, when was it N/4?

Ans : 54 minutes.

11) One day the Finance minister decides that the country should have only 33 paise and 56 paise.If there are two traders having enough change in the two denominations, what is the minimum amount for which they can transact?

Choices :1,2,3,6

Ans: 3

12) Out of the following numbers which is the greatest number when 7 times that number is < 100

1) 12 2) 13 3) 15 4) 14

Ans : 14

13)There is 31 days in the month of January. If there is 4 Sundays and 4 Thursdays exactly.what day is the first day of the month?
a)Monday
b)Tuesday
c)Wednesday
d)thursday

ans: a) Monday. Please cross check the answer

14)there are 5 tyres including a spare tyre.total number of Kms to be covered is 10000 and each tyre should run equally.how may Kms does each tyre run?
I don’t remember the order of the choices but the figures were like this
a)7500
b)8000
c)8500
d)

Ans: 8000.

15)a question with the same logic as question 6.I don’t remember the question

16)8 persons A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H are sitting in a round dining table.some arrangement was given and position of H was asked.I don’t remember the question exactly.

Ans)I guess it is between A and F.refer RS Agarwal seating puzzles.It’s very easy

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