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HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LABPROFILE:

Honeywell International is a diversified technology and manufacturing leader,

serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies

for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty

materials.

Whether you're flying on a plane, driving a car, heating or cooling a home,

furnishing an apartment, taking medication or playing a sport, Honeywell products touch

most peoples' lives everyday. We are building a world that's safer and more secure …

more comfortable and energy efficient … more innovative and productive.

The shared corporate resource providing value to Honeywell's businesses through world-

class software product development and support, research and technology development,

digitizing support and consultation.  

Aerospace

The World's Most Admired Aerospace Company - a leading global provider of

integrated avionics, engines, systems and service solutions for aircraft manufacturers,

airlines, business and general aviation, military...

Automation & Control Systems

The world's largest producer of smoke detectors and a leadership position in the Indian

automation and control industry.

The Tata group is exiting its 15-year-old joint venture, Tata Honeywell, by selling its

40.62 per cent stake (35.91 lakh shares) to the US-based Honeywell for Rs 126 crore. The

two sides hold an equal stake with the balance 18.76 per cent held by financial

institutions and public.

In India, Honeywell also has a R&D software centre in Bangalore. Its other

subsidiary, Honeywell India based in Gurgaon, operates in aerospace and transportation

space. The buyout maybe a precursor to the consolidation of Honeywell operations in

India. Tata Honeywell registered a 27 per cent growth in turnover to Rs 342.4 crore for

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2003-04 compared with Rs 26.91 crore in fiscal 2002-03. During the same period, the

company’s net profit increased 51 per cent to Rs 25.3 crore compared with Rs 16.8 crore

for the year ending March 31, 2003..

For More info Visit Website : http://honeywell.com

Also visit Honeywell India Website : http://www.india.honeywell.com

GENERAL PATTERN FOR SELECTION PROCESS:

Anyway it is different in different situations but most probably the pattern is like this.

There were three sections namely..1. Arithmetic Test (Quants and reasoning)2.C Test3. Technical... (Digital electronics, DSP, Control Systems, LIC, Micro processors

and controllers).4.HR

SAMPLE PAPERS

PAPER 1:

The pattern is as follows:1)Written Test (Technical & Aptitude papers) it is descriptive type The Technical Paper is as follows: duration 1HR there are 4 questions1)Find string palindrome 10marks2)Write a C function to search a number in the given list of numbers .donot use printf and scanf 10marks3)What is the difference between delete,drop,truncate? 2marks4)what is out put of the following code? 3marks#include class Base{Base(){cout<<"constructor base";} ~Base(){cout<<"destructor base";}}class Derived:public Base{

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Derived(){cout<<"constructor derived";}~Derived(){cout<<"destructor derived";}}void main(){Base *var=new Derived();delete var;}The Aptitude Paper is follows :1HR duration1)There are 4 women to cross bridge and Flashlight.One or two women can cross the bridge with the flash light at a time.those have different walking speeds.The pair must walk at the rate of slower pacewoman1:1 minuteswoman2:2 minuteswoman3:5 minuteswoman4:10 minutesThen what is the minimum required time to cross the bridgeall the 4 women without throwing flashlight? 6MARKS2)There are cats got together to decide killing the mice of 999919,each cat kills equal no.of mice and each cat kills more no.of mice than cats there were.Then what are the number of cats? 4MARKS3)the tree grows first day 1/2 of its original size,grows 1/3 of its prevous day size,and grows 1/4 and so on.How many days it will take to grow 100 times to the original size of tree? 4MARKS4)There is one 40 kg weight stone.How many weights are there such that it can measure any weight between 1 to 40 kg? 7Marks5)There is one monkey climbs 3fts and slipsdown 2fts of a tree in 1 hour.Ho much time it will take to reach the top of the tree of 20fts height? 4 MARKS

II Techincal InterviewIII Technical InterviewIV HR

PAPER 2:

Selection Process1>Written Test.2>Technical Interview.3>H R Interview.

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Written Test

It consisted of 2 parts General Maths,General English.....Almost 1500 students appeared for the test and 43 students cleared the aptitude test.After that we had our technical round 21 cleared the round.At last 14 of us cleared the H R round.

Written Test(30 questions)1>R.S Agarwal Will do The job.simple percentage,profit and loss,work and wages etc

General English(15 questions)1>Consult GRE Barrons.Synonyms,antonyms,Paragraph

PAPER 3:

1st round-----------> written test2nd round----------> tech interview3rdd round----------> tech interview4th round----------> HR interview

1st roundIn first round they separate the whole candidates as two screams namely electronics stream and IT stream. we have separate paper according to our stream. I'm a EEE student so I come under electronics stream.

Ist round contains two types of paper1) objective type2) descriptive type

Objective type:It contains 100 objective type questions.50 tech [ Electronics, DSP, Control Systems, Digital Sysrems, Micro processor, LIC and etc,]30 C[structure, Array, pointer, data types, functions ]20 aptitude[very eay R.S Agarval enough]all in 100 minutes. 25% negative marking for each wrong answer.

Descriptive type:It has two section1) tech part [Electronics, DSP, Control Systems, Digital Sysrems, Micro processor, LIC and etc]---> 10 mark2) Programming part [ u've a option to choose C, C++, JAVA, .NET] ------->10 markAll in 20 minutes

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2nd round. I attuned it for about 1 hour.all questions from basics from your dept [ Electronics, DSP, Control Systems, Digital Sysrems, Micro processor, LIC and etc,] and C, and maily your project. Focus on your RESUME. That's ver very important.

3rd roundI attended it for about 45 minutes, some what depth in your dept. and C. They(2 pannel) asked me about past interview experience in this round.

4th roundThis is HR round. It was very easy. It contains genral questions like what's ur strength?, what your frinds think about u?, ur achivements and etc...

PAPER 4:

It consists of 4 section. 1.Technical 50 2.C 30 These 100 takes 100 min(1h 40min) 3.Aptitude 20 4.discriptive 20marks(tech& program on C)

1.TECH:SUBJECT------electronic circuits& devices(find o/p) LIC,digital electronics, contro system,dsp, microproesser&controller,analog&digital comm. 2.C:AREA---------pointer**,funtion**,union,sturture,files,memory management. FROM EXPLORING C 3.APTITUDE:TOPIC--------profit&loss**,numders,area,interest,distance,train,odd man.VERY EASY FROM r.s AGGARWAL

MOST ASKED FROM THIS AREA.

4.DISCRIPTIVE:TECH AREA---------CIRCUIT DRAWING(he give i/p & o/p for us---i/p==230v&50Hz, o/p==12v&0Hz ) diode operation,use of ALE in Up,likewise for 10 marks

PROGRAMMING-------There is a CHOICE to take C ,CPP ,JAVA ,.NET C ? ----Eg:he give summary for program then U write progam Like without using SCANF & PRINTF statements

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IF YOU HAVE GOOD SKILL IN THIS SUBJECT, YOU EASILY CLEAR YOUR WRITTEN TEST.

2 ROUNDTECHNICAL INTERVIEW1.YOUR DEPARTMENT TECH ?2.YOUR'S ABLITY IN C & CP

3 ROUNDHR INTERVIEW

PAPER 5:

Most of the question were from SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, C programming, Data structures, Operating systems such as-

-> SDLC (software development life cycle)-what r various models [waterfall, prototype, iterative enhancement, spiral], wht r the steps under these models.

-> some question about Testing, unit testing, integration testing, alpha, beta testing ,system testing.

-> What is CMM levels, Six sigma, ISO standards.

->what r various steps under which a C program is converted into .exe file (preprocessing, compilation, linking)

->Program for any sorting method (I made bubble sort, he discussed complexity issues of various sorting algorithms)

->Program for matrix multiplication.

->What are the different kinds of tree (questions about Binary tree, Binary search tree, AVL tree)

->Difference between arrays and linked list, which one is better (I said it depends upon application, if we want to store some name ie character string of predefined length array will be better option bcoz more memory is required to store pointers etc)

-> Some question about Aerospace, aviation etc(I said these thing were not part of my syllabus at all, but I if I get a chance to learn the these I can quickly learn them)

->Which data structure is used in expression evaluation, how a infix expression is evaluated (first converted into postfix, then evaluate using stack)

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-> Some operating system questions (about scheduling, semaphore, mutexes)

-> what is Real time system, difference between hard and soft real time systems with examples(hint: in hard real time systems strict dead lines r imposed, THE SYSTEM WILL FAIL if the processing is not done within defined time constrains ex. Firing a missile on a aircraft, whereas in soft real time system deadlines are important but missing the deadline will not lead to system failure, for ex. DVD player when a command is given thru remote, the delay of few millisecond will not lead to serious implications)

-> I suggest you all to focus about your projects more. He may drive several questions from ur projects itself.

There is procedure of two technical rounds, (In my batch, for some candidates 1 technical round was face-to-face and another one is telephonic, I suggest to be prepare for telephonic interview also, practice for describing your project etc on phone also, bcoz it is a bit hard to make understand to a person who is not present in front of u, so practice it also)

So, ALL THE BEST, be prepare, have FAITH on GOD. He has thought something for u, dont worry.

(I know it is good to write or read, but vry hard to implement., but try it, surely it will work),

For written test: Two set of papers were there, 1 for EC & 1 for CS. I opted for CS.

50 technical: most of the weightage was given to DBMS, data structures etc.

30 C programming: Read exploring C completely, in my suggestion that is vry good & sufficient book for C questions.

20 aptitude question:

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Few questions were like-

1> Arrange Them in the order of space complexity

Merge sort, quick sort, heap sort

2> Void main()

{

complete=10;

complete1=11;

if(complete=12)

{

printf (hi);

}

else

{

printf(hello);

}

printf(%d %d ,complete,complete1);

}

o/p- hi 12 11

3> How many times in a day the hr. & min. hands of a clock are in straight line.

4> How many times in a day the hr. & min. hands of a clock meet each other.

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5> Structure A

{

int x;

float y;

}a;

union B

{

int p;

float ;

}b;

choices: 1.all the times a & b have same size, 2. such declaration r not possible

3. a & b have same size. 4..

6> a simple qus on flow in a switch-case block.

PAPER 6:

There are two set of paper EC and CS

EC people can even take CS set

CS syllabus is very easy please refer other paper on net our paper was same to same like net so please solve all questions

First attend technical paper than C then appti

Appti and C are very easy

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They just check ur technical ability.. Please be full prepare with ur complete resume and each and every topic written in ur resume

My interview was very long and take 2 hour in two part.. in first part they just check my approach and in second part they ask me technical questions

Please be prepare with OS,DS,C,C++, ur project and other ur skills that u write in ur resume

HR is just for formality.PAPER 7:

There were 100 questions:

50 Technical questions (branch wise)30 C questions20 aptitude questions

Aptitude is very easy. Simple questions from profit&loss, ratio, odd-man series, time-distance, clock...

Technical from OS, DBMS, CN, 8085, unix, DS.. some of the qns I remembered are given below.

1) Binary search tree is used in a) sorting b)searching c)indexing d)all the above

2) Given a tree..write the preorder traversal

3) Given an infix expression..write its postfix

4) First general purpose microprocessor a) 2002 b)4004 c)8080 d)8085

5) What is 8253

6) ____flag is not used in 8085 jump instructions

7) SNMP is used in which layer

8) Banker's algorithm is used for

9) Belady's anomaly is related to___

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10) Which of the following is non-preemptive a) FIFO b)SJF c)Round robin d)all the above

11 )A relation in 3NF is in______

12) A question on serializability

13) One SQL query

14) Functional dependency one question

15) The first general purpose microprocessor is ____-bit

16) In a three byte instruction the second byte indicates____

17) Average case analysis for partition exchange sort

18) How the receiver knows to what service the packet to be forwarded?

19) Given a binary sign magnitude no:..write its decimal

20) The order in which data is transferred frm magnetic disk disk->main mem->cache->h/w register

21) In which layer of the network datastructure format change is done

22) Which of the following allow parallel & serial connections a)DHCP b)PPP c)IPX d)all the above

23) Given some IP addresses...identify which one is IPv6?

24) Open addressing and chaining is used in a)sorting b)indexing c)collision-resolution d)none of the above

25) Storage space requirement for diff: sorts in the descending order

26) Which scheduling policy is used in unix..

27) In database which mechanism is suitable for recovery? a)checkpointing b)indexing... c) d)

28) Which of the following is not correct? a)arrays consume less space b)linked lists are more complex c)linked lists use less space d)

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29)which of the following is not correct? a)main does not have arguments b)main can have command line arguments c)main have variable arguments d)

30) Which of the following is not correct? a)function can call itself b)function can have no return type c)function cannot have multiple return statements d)function can have arguments

31) When an interrupt is called control is given to.. a)interrupt vector table b)interrupt service routine c)stack d)

32) Which of the following is not a synchronization tool a)semaphore b)mutex c)mutual exclusion d)message passing

33) Given a graph write the BFS for it

34) How can u increase ports of a microprocessor? a)8255 b)8259 c)8253 d)8251

35) What is 8259?

36) Which of the following maintains a constant time(best,worst,average)? a)searching b)sorting c)indexing d)none

37) In a database a table is stored not fully..it is an example of a)views b)logical data independence c)abstraction d)all the above

38) The time CPU takes to complete the execution of processes____

39) The minimum length of TCP/IP header and IP datagram header 40) Process spawning in OS is__________

41) The topology that uses a central hub is___

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C questions were dam easy..pointers and strings ..if ur strong in pointer concepts u can score easily. 2 or 3 qns frm files,enum,extern..

PAPER 8:

Round1: Written test consists of , 50 questions from all subjects +30 questions from C + . 20 questions from aptitude(mainly concentrate on percentage problems).

Duration : 1hr 40min

There is a separate paper for CS and Electronics students,but C and Aptitude questions are same for all branches.

No. of students appeared for written test : 1100 (approx)

No. of students shortlisted for the second round are 150 students.

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Round 2: Technical round-1

1.First they asked about my project (Be Prepare with it) ?2.Tell some thing about urself ?3.Write code for reversing the SLL(single linked list) ?4. Explain ToH (Towers of honie) problem ?5. He asked some basic questions on pointers ?6.How can find missed value ,if u want to store 100 values in a 99 size array ?

U have to insert the elements randomly ? And one important thing is u have to find in . . the value in the single pass ? (hint:Use the Sum of numbers formulae n(n+1)/2)

7. And some other which I not remembered ?

Duration :20 min

No.of students shortlist for 3rd round are 30 students.

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Round 3: Technical round-2

For some students they interviewed for 45min, but for some just they took 15min only

1.He asked me some typical query to write in SQL and also to write java program for that ?2.a^b + b^ a =100? Solve for 'a' and 'b' ?

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sol: (first solution) 1^99 +99^1 =100

(second solution) 6^2 + 2^6 =100

No. of students got offer : 06 (approx)

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Round 4: HR round

This is just for formality

This company take the students who are sound in techinal. They least bother about the remaing thing like....

Suggestion : Don't be in a hurry to learn too many questions. First learn the concepts then after look good number of problems on that topics.

PAPER 9:

Selection Procedure:

Written test (overall cutoff is 52 marks and no negative marking)2 technical interviews1 HR interview

Paper Pattern

100 questions : 100 minutes.The questions were from many subjects.They are DBMS - 10 to 15 questions(Dont remember in exact figures)C and DS - 10 to 15Microprocessors - 10 to 15Computer networks (the same no:)Operating systemsGeneral Aptitude 20 questions.

Mind u: There was no verbal or verbal reasoning and any GDs

Some questions I remember:1) A relation to be in 3rd normal form is in _ normal form2) How can u increase ports of a microprocessor? (8251,8255,8253 and 1 more option)3) What is 8253?(USART,DMA,programmable interrupt controller and one more)4)8255?5)How many bits microprocessor was first developed?(8 bit)6)In a 3 bit instruction middle bit is (operand ,operator n ................)

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7)Which of the following is IPv6 addressing?8)In Which of the following layers SMTP is used?9)About transport layer 10)To select records from a relation where primary key is ename and ename starts with "p"11)small c logical questions12)apti mostly from profit and loss13)1 heights and distance prob14)1 prob on true discount15)Brouter is hybrid of?

The aptitude questions are really very easy u can solve them easily. There was an overall cutoff of 52 marks ofcoz they didnt announce officially. Coming to technicals u must be through with ur basics. All basics.Frends i have got sleected in the written test.Next day i had interview.

About interview.2 techinical roundsthe questions were like

1st technical (1 person)

1) Rate ur self in C and DS and C++2) About linked lists(programs)3) About sortings(logics)4) About Normalization.5) y do we need denormalization?6) What r bitfeilds in C?7) Probrams of linear search and binary search.

for somebody they asked about there project also but they didnt ask me.

2nd technical (A 2 member Panel)

1) C and Ds questions.(enum types)2) Difference between structure and Union3) Linked lists declarations 4) Difference between C and Java(coz i mentioned Java in my resume)5) Say Some thing about data structures6) What r oops principles?7) How does an OS manage memory?8) About AWI(java)9) Regarding garbage collection.10) Can we clear memory explicitly?If so how?Write a stmt for such an action.11) exceptionsand many more.

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I had my HR on the very same day.It was kool. They asked meSay me about ur academic profile1) Difference between CSE and IT?2) Why honeywell?3) Package u desire?4) Have u attended any other compnaies?5) Family background?6) Willingness to relocate and sign for bond?7) R u ready to work in Madurai8) Highest position u desire for?

PAPER 10:HONEYWELL PATTERN - 11 JUN 2006 - CHENNAI Today(11.06.06) I have attended Honeywell (Madurai) aptitude at loyola college Chennai.

There was an introduction about their company and the test started they didnt announce the results there The pattern of questions was totally 100*1=100 and they told that there is negative marks (0.25) for every wrong answer

The Technical questions were basically from Data structures Operating systems Dbms concepts

The Aptitude questions are basic which are available at QA books (20*1=20) and cprograms 30 q's and in the descriptive part

three programs were asked 1st is sorting the no in the descending order 2nd is type of hash table program 3rd i didnt remember that PAPER 11:

Honeywell pattern10 dbms10 os10 datastructures10 micro

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10 a mix of all30 c20 apti

negative marking is therecutoff 60-70

2 tech interview1 hr interviews are strenuous 1 1/2hr each.prepare well and thoroughly

PAPER 12:Test contained multiple choice questions divided into

a) Verbal ability (15 ques) b) Numerical aptitude (15 ) c) Logical and analytical ability (15) d) Elementary computer science (10) d) Programming langauages (20) e) Operatins systems and Data structures (25)

Some sample Questions

What is a Real-Time System ?

What is the difference between Hard and Soft real-time systems ?

What is a mission critical system ?

What is the important aspect of a real-time system ?

Explain the difference between microkernel and macro kernel.

Give an example of microkernel.Why paging is used ?

Which is the best page replacement algo and Why ?

What is software life cycle ?

How much time is spent usually in each phases and why Which one do U want to work if selected in Honeywell ?

Which are the different types of testing ?

What is a distributed system ?

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Some questions about CSP.

Which languages do U know ?

What are the differences between Pascal and C.

questions from Compiler construction and Lisp.

Which are the different computer architecture?

What is the requirement in MIMD ?

What is the difference between RISC and CISC processors ?

Difference between loosely coupled and tightly coupled systems ?

What is an open system?

PAPER 13:

Honeywell Written Test has three sections.

1. Quantitative aptitude (30 questions ) 30 mins2. c ( 30 questions) 20 mins3. technical (OS(10 questions)+networks(10questions)+DBMS(10 questions)+Data structures(20 questions)+Microprocessor(10 questions)) quans was very easy (all ques r from aggarwal) c also pretty much easy (all were from files,structures,unions,etc)technical very basic questions .

Group Discussion

The topic was Appointment of foreign coach in Indian cricket team is right or notAnd other groups had topics like Brain drain, education system

Technical Interview

1. Introduce urself2. explain ur projects.3. rate urself in c++4. what r de storage classes in c++5. write a pgm to implement static variable..6. write a pgm to implement extern variable .

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7. tell something abt OOP8. what is inheritance.(public,private,protected)(theyasked me a lot in this secion..)9. What is polymorphism and write a pgm to implement it..10. tell something abt OS11. wat is a scheduler.12. wat r de types of scheduler..and explain.13. wat is diff b/w preemptive and RR scheduling.14. wat is mem mgt15. wat is segmentation16. wat is paging..17. diff b/w paging and segmentation.18. wat is fragmentation (internal and external)19. wat is compaction20. they asked me to list wat r de data structures u know21. wat is stack22. applications of stack23. wat is queue24. appln of queue25. wat is infix,prefix,postfix expressin26. evaluate of expression..27. wat is circular queue.28. diff b/w array and linked list29. wat is doubly linked list.

PAPER 14:Test contained 100 multiple choice questions divided into

a) Verbal ability (15 ques) b) Numerical aptitude (15 ) c) Logical and analytical ability (15) d) Elementary computer science (10) d) Programming langauages (20) e) Operatins systems and Data structures (25)

Not sure about the number of questions.

Verbal ability questions contained 3 parts. a) One passage is given and U have to answer 5 questions b) Some words are given and their synonyms have to be written c)

Numerical aptitude and Logical questions were the usual stuff.--------------------------------------------------------------- I had 4 rounds of interview.

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First round (around 45 minutes) contained, questions from Real-time ----------- Systems (my research area), operating systems and Software Engineering

Explain U'r research work.

What is a Real-Time System ? What is the difference between Hard and Soft real-time systems ? What is a mission critical system ? What is the important aspect of a real-time system ?

Explain the difference between microkernel and macro kernel. Give an example of microkernel. Why paging is used ? Which is the best page replacement algo and Why ?

WHat is software life cycle ? How much time is spent usually in each phases and why ? Which one do U want to work if selected in Honeywell ? ( I said I don't like testing ) They asked why ? I said it is a boring job. Then they tried to analyse the knowledge in testing.

What is testing ? Which are the different types of testing ? Then they explained the way they do testing. They said that they are doing testing in requirement phase and design phase so that if any problem comes in those phases it is not ncecessary to go back and change the requirement or design. All the test processing is automated.

Why do U want to join Honeywell ? Ans : To get a practical feeling of Real-time systems.

Do U know C++ ? How good are U in C and C++ ? Rate U'rslef in both C and C++. ( 1 - 10 marks)

Second round (around 45 minutes )

They wanted a bio-data at the time of inteview. I gave the placement office bio-data and in that one there was column 'Major subjects studied'. Many of the questions came from those.

Explain U'r research work. Lot of questions from it.

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What is a distributed system ? Some questions about CSP. ( I kept quiet) Which languages do U know ? What are the differences between Pascal and C. I said Pascal is a strongly typed language. Then what is typing and its advantages ? Then he asked some questions from Compiler construction and Lisp.

WHich are the different computer architectures ? What is the requirement in MIMD ? What is the difference between RISC and CISC processors ? Difference between loosely coupled and tightly coupled systems ? What is an open system ?

Still a lot of questions from software engineering . Which are the different phases in Software life cycle (asked again) Why is analysis and testing phases very important ? Which methodologies are U familiar with ?

Have U worked in windows ? (Yes) What is the difference U have seen from a Dos environment ? I said it event driven . So what do U mean by event driven ? How do WinMain look like ? How the messages are processed in Windows ? (Queue of events) What are parameters needed to distinguish an event ?

Have U done any network programming ? Why networks are layered ? What is the advantage of that ? How many layers are there in OSI ? WHy is it called OSI model ? Are U familiar with network topologies ? Which are the different network toplogies ? Tell an example of bus type network. I said ethernet. What is the Bandwidth of ethernet ? Explain the advantage and disadvantage of ethernet ? Which is the protocol used in ethernet. (CSMA/CD) Why is it called so ? If all stations tries to communicate at same time, what will happen. What is binary exponential backoff algo ?

What is the advantage of Ring network ? Compare it with ethernet.

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In a real-time system which one do U prefer and why ? What is the basic requirement of a real-time network ? Which one is costly - ethernet of ring networks ?

Some questions form OOSD and Digital signal processing. What is inheritance, encapsulation etc.

Third Round (15 minutes)

Asked about the percentages and marks during SSC, PDC, B.Tech and MS. When can U join ? Who is U'r guide ? U are from which place ? Where is it in Kerala ? How do U perform in the first two interviews ? WHy have U given Honeywell as dream job ? Some more personal questions

Fourth Round (45 minutes)

1. Aptitute test : 15 Minutes, 20 Questions

Towards the middle questions are easy than from the front.

eg. Product of three consecutive nos. 210. What is the sum of two least numbers? ans.: 5 * 6 * 7 = 210 , sum = 11 is answer

eg. If the area of the sqaure is increased by 69 % how much the length of the side will increase?

ans.: 13 (i think) eg. if the sum of five consecutive nos. 35? how many prime nos are there :

ans: 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 35 so two primes

eg. if the length of the rectangle is reduced by 20% and breath is increased by 20 % what is the net change ? ans.: 4 % decrease 2

i. Electrical & Electronics

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15 Questions and,nand...circuit realted stuff, ..........

ii.Data Structures, Algo., & Complexity theory : 5 questions

a. if W is a sequence of strings without a and W' is its reversal then WaW' is generated by:

ans. i think Context Free Grammmars

b. Whether all recusive pgm can be writtten iteratively?

c. What data structes you will use if you want to go to first record from the last and vice versa? ans.: doubly linked circular list

d. Given 10000 nos. and 48MB Memory. What is the complexity of the efficient sorting algo.? (the algo. is not mentioned)

e. Given a C code and ask what it does? I think the code was something similar to Bubble sort and that particular code does the sorting in Desending order and the complexity is O(n^2)(which is the next question).

iii. OS : 5 questions

a. If there are too many page faults what is the problem?

b. To ensure one pgm. doesnt corrupt other pgm. in a Multi-pgm. enviornment what you should do?

c. Which one you will use to implement critical section? Binary Semaphore

d. Which one is not needed for Multi-pgm. enviornment? options are: virtual memory,security,time sharing,none of the above.

iv. Networks and Hardware: 5 questions

a. Which one is not done by Data link layer ? bit stuffing, LRC,CRC,parity check

b. Which one is not related to Data link layer?

c. Which one is not suitable for client-server application? tcp/ip,message passing,rpc,none of the above.

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v. Databases and Misc.: 5 questions

a. What SQL .................. (not the expansion)

b. Indexing in databases give you ............

vi. C Pgm. : 5 questions

1. int a=1,b=2,c=3; printf("%d,%d",a,b,c); What is the output?

2. for(i=0; i<=10;i++,printf("%d",i); +- (+- is there in the questions)

3. Scope of Static Variable ............

4. Given a C code and what is the output?

PAPER 15:

Honeywell - Sample Placement Question Papers 1There were three sections namely..1. AT (Quans and reasoning)2. C Test3. Technical... (Digital electronics,DSP,Control Systems,LIC,Micro processors and controllers).

section 1:There was one ques thar had ms.braun,Mr.Allen.. totally six in number..3 of them would smoke.. oneprefers silence... It was quite easy.. Another Ques was abt democracts and republicans haveto be selected from two groups of A,B,C,D,E and F,G,H,I.Atleast one has to be an army person andanother an economist...* The quans was ok... problems based oncisterns,volume.profit and loss ,work.... and a coupleof ques on Venn Diagram.

Section 2:most of them were easy... but there were tougher ones based on files and unions.

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Section 3:There were 3 to 4 ques based on Control System which included one block diagram and a signal flow graph.The diagram for Type 2 order 5 system.The ques from LIC were very fundamental like.... the slew rate depends on _______.The other ques that I remember areWhat is FFSK?A ques on the properties of Darlington Pair.FFT is due to ______there were ques on boolean algebra like... the minterms are (2.3.4.5) then the boolean expressions is______expression for Algebraic XNOR is _______

Micro processor and controller ques was quite easy...the two modes of 8086.8051 is optimized for ____ bits.why program counter?...stack is used for_______

Interview Procedure The Written Test contained 100 multiple choice questions divided intoa) Verbal ability (15 ques). Verbal ability questions contained 3 parts. a) One passage is given and U have to answer 5 questions b) Some words are given and their synonyms have to be writtenb) Numerical aptitude (15 )c) Logical and analytical ability (15)d) Elementary computer science (10)d) Programming langauages (20)e) Operatins systems and Data structures (25)

PAPER 16:

This is the pattern i have..i didn't attend for honewell so don't expect any more than this plz do check this and don't send any queries to this id no use. Their pattern is OS : 10 QuestionsC : 10 QuestionsC++ : 10 QuestionsJava : 10 Questions

OS is compulsory and you can choose any one of these three language. I hadchosen C++.

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Here is few question I still remember. please do not go on my answers theymay be incorrect also.

C++ Questions 1) If there is one class template which has one static member variable that static variable will belong to a) Every instance of class template will share the same copy of static variable b) Every instance of class template will have its own copy of static variable. c) Compilation error d) Don't remember.

2) What is template specialization ??? a) define a new template class for a specific data type. b)c)d)

3) How we will overload operator *+= such that obj1 *+= obj2; implies that obj1=obj1*(obj1+obj2); four choice were there last option was d) it is not possible I checkedthat option.

4) IN C++ what does the operator overloading means. a) Giving new meaning to existing C++ operators b) defining functionality of existing C++ operator for user define objects. c) defining new operators. d) don't remember.

5) what is '>>' in C++ a) right shift operator and insertion operator depend upon the use b) right shift operator and extraction operator depend upon the context use c) right shift operator and insertion/extraction operator depend upon the use

6) class A { int a ,b; A() : a(0) {b=0;} }; if you create obj of this class as A obj; a) b will be initialized before a b) a will be initialized before b c) both will be initialized together d) none of these. OS Question

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All OS questions were based on basics of UNIX all small -2 commands.

1) how image of one process can be replaced by other process a) exec2) how image of one process can be copied to new born process a) fork3) how can you list all the files used by a particular process 4) how do u create a link of file

C Questions

I did not attempted the C paper but still I just had a look on C and javapaper. in C most of the question were programs and their out was asked in LINUX environment.1) int main() { char *a= "Novell"; char *b; b=malloc(10*sizeof(char)); memset(b,0,10); while(*b++=*a++); printf("%s",b); return 0; }

2) int main() { printf("Hello"); fork(); printf("World"); }

PAPER 17:key constraints are .....for... (a) secondary key (b) primary key (c) foreign key (d)...

If a sinusoidal signal of 1100Hz is flat top sampled at a rate of 1800Hz,& this signal is passed through an ideal LPF with cutoff 1KHZ,the o/p contains the following frequency components: (This question was repeated again in the same paper !!!) (a)only 800Hz (b)...

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(c)... (d)...

TRAP is _____interrupt (a)synchronus (b)asynchronus (c)hardware (d)...

When the instruction RST is executed, the control jumps to location: (a)0020 (b)0024 (c)0028 (d)none of the above

A memory cell in static Random Access Memory is made up of:(a)6 mos transistors---ans(b)1 mos transistor and 1 capacitor(c)4 mos transistors and 2 capacitors(d)...

Worst case algorithm is meant for the case (a)when sometimes favourable (b)when worst unfavourable (c)... (d)...

A semaphore with negative count n(s=n) has how many processes in the Q? (a)0 (b)n (c)n+1 (d)n-1

If in a PCM system the no of bits used is increased from n to n+1,the signal-to-noise ratio improves by (a)3dB (b)6dB (c)20ndB (d)24ndB

2 trains of length 110m & 90 m travelling at 45kmph & 50 kmph respectively..when will they pass each other?(a)144mins(b)102mins(c)..(d)...

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From a circular sheet of radius 10cm , 40% is cut off & from the remaining portion a cone is constructed, what is the ratio of the radius of the cone to its height?

If a vessel contains 56 litres of a mixture of milk & water in the ratio 3:2..what amount of water should be added to make the ratio 4:5?

2 pipes fill a cistern in 12 mins,pipe A is 3 times faster than pipe b...if only pipe B has to fill the cistern ,how long will it take? (a)1hour (b)2hours (c).. (d)..

#define ADD(X,Y) X+Y main() { #undef ADD(X,Y); fun(); } fun() { int y=ADD(3,2); printf("%d",y); }o/p?Runtime error(linker error): _add undefined in module

Which of the following is illegal (a)void v; (b)void *v; (c)void **v; (d)all are legal

#define int INTEGER/*line1*/#define INTEGER int/*line 2*/ main() { INTEGER p=10;/*line 5*/ printf("%d",p); }o/p? (a) compiler error at line 1 (b) compiler error at line 2 (c) compiler error at line 5 (d) No error,prints 10

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ans:c

main() { int counter=1; for(;;) { counter++; if(counter>9) break; }

} in the above program (a)error b'coz for should have parameters (b)error bcoz 2 semicolons in a for loop are invalid (c)no error,loop is executed once (d) no error ,loop is executed 10 times

main() { char str={'H','E','L','L','O','\0'} printf("%s/n",str+1); } o/p? (a)prints ELLO (b)prints HELLO (c)prints ILLO (i.e.'H' is incremented by 1) (d)...

The average temperature for monday,wednesday,thursday was 46 o C.the average temperature fortuesday,wednesday,thursday,friday was 48(some no)..if temp on monday was 42 o C,what is the temperature on tuesday? (a)32 (b)36 (c)37 (d)3....

The average marks of 12 students was found to be......(some no)...it was later found that while entering the data , it had been entered as 74 instead of 50...and 20 instead of 24(nos are not the same)...what is the correct average?

If a lady bought a house & sold it at 25% more than what she had paid after 3 years, she has to pay 50%tax on the gain...If C is the cost price,(gain=s.P-c.p),what tax did she have to pay?(a)..

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(b)C/8 (c)... (d)...

Some no of men(given)..complete a work in (given) no of days...after (some no) of days ..some more(given no) men join them,they will finish the work in how many days?

If a car travels from A to B at a speed of 'x' kmph & travels back from B to A at 4/5th the speed,then the total distance travelled in terms of percentage of x is?(a)2400km(b)3600km(c)..(d)...

A question on malloc int *p; p=malloc(sizeof(int)*5); if malloc returned the address 1000;the value of p+1 is (a)1002 (b)1004 (c)... (d).....

cascade amplifier is: (a)a common emitter stage followed by a common base stage (b)a common base followed by emitter follower (c)...(d)a common base stage followed by a common emitter stage

A network has 7 nodes & 5 independent loops,the no of branches=? (a)11 (b)14 (c).. (d)...

Many nodes transmit at the same time .....collision occurs...retransmit.....what is this called? (a) (b) (c)collision.....enforcement (d)

If the characteristic impedance of a transmission line is 50ohms,at 1 end the impedance is +j50 ohms,the VSWR =?(a)0(b)infinity

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(c)+j(d)+1

Minimum no of NAND gates required to realize the boolean eqn: Z=ABC? (a) 4 (b) 6 (c).. (d)....

It has been found that mercury poisoning due to industrial pollution causes Hobson's disease. An island R is completely away from modern industry.People here follow subsistence agriculture method. A high % of people in Island R are affected by Hobsons disease.From the above paragraph, we can deduce (i) there must be another reason for Hobson's disease other than mercury posoning (ii) mercury poisoning can be due to other reasons than industrial pollution (iii).... (a) i only (b)ii only (c) i ,ii, iii (d) i and ii

fun(){int counter=1;counter++;if(counter>10)fun();}...(some program similar to this one). the program will be executed infinetely--ans

Which of these are legal?i.a pointer to a functionii.a pointer to a structureii.pointer to union (a)i only (b)i and ii (c)i,ii &iii (d)ii &iii

Union.. { int ivalue; char lvalue; struct boo { int ivalue; char lvalue;

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}databook; }; (a)error as struct within union is not allowed(b)error as struct members have same name as union members(c)...(d).....

How many stacks are there in DOS? (a)1 stack (b)2 stacks (c)3 stacks (d)...

What is the o/p? main() { char arr[5]={'a','a','b','c','d','e'}; printf("%s",arr); }

PAPER 18:

Aptitude:

Questions from Simple train pbms,age,ratio, proportion,Profit ,loss,Time & work,Time & Distance,Pipe &

Cisterns,Shaded aream,Volume ( cylinder ,cone ..),Reasoning,2 sections a part

with 4 questions b part with 6 questions

There must 4 domocrats & 3 republicans out of the 12 professors.No of X professors are A,B,C,D. No of Y professors are E,F,G,H,I.If A comes f & G r absent ..

so on.

There must 4 domocrats & 3 republicans out of the 12 professors.No of X professors are A,B,C,D. No of Y professors are E,F,G,H,I.If A comes f & G r absent ..

so on.

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2. Technical(Computer Science)

OS,cache access time -100ns,Primary memory access time -1000ns,...then some data &

condition, find the actual access time.,microprocessor ( lot of questions ) 8085 no of16 bit registers.,8086 Instruction queue byte length?,8088 Instruction queue

byte length?,6800 what is it?8085 pgms...,port no calculationsData StructuresWhich

Data Structures to use for infix to prefix conversion,Worst case complexity for quick sort,preorder traversal Binary tree ...

int *data[10];whatdoes the variable data denotes?

{ int a[]={10,20,30,40,50};

fun(a+1);

}

fun(int *p)

{ for(int i=1;i<=3;i++)

printf("%d",*(p+i));}

enum day { saturday,sunday=3,monday,tuesday};

value of saturday,tuesday.4. enum day {saturday,sunday=-1,monday,tuesday};

int x=monday;value of x?5. #define ADD(X,Y)

X+Ymain(){-#undef ADD(X,Y) fun();

}

fun() { int y=ADD(3,2); printf("%d",y); } o/p?

#define ADD(X,Y) X+Y

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main() { #undef ADD; fun(); } fun() { #if not defined(ADD) define ADD(X+Y) X*Y int y=ADD(3,2); printf("%d",y); } o/p?

int x; int *p;int **p1;int ***p2;

How to assign each one?

PAPER 19:

Test have No negative marking and 3 sections -technical 35 questions in 30 mins-DCT, data structures,interrupts in 8085 etc..aptitude -30 questions in 30 mins ,C-20 questions in 15 mins-was quite easy some questions(not sectionwise)

1 key constraints are .....for...(a)secondary key(b)primary key(c)foreign key (d)...

2 If a sinusoidal signal of 1100Hz is flat top sampled at a rate of 1800Hz,& this signal is passed throughan ideal LPF with cutoff 1KHZ,the o/p contains the following frequency components:(This question was repeated again in the same paper !!!)

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(a)only 800Hz (b)...(c)...(d)...

3 TRAP is _____interrupt(a)synchronus (b)asynchronus(c)hardware(d)...

4 When the instruction RST is executed, the control jumps to location:(a)0020(b)0024(c)0028(d)none of the above

5 A memory cell in static Random Access Memory is made up of:(a)6 mos transistors---ans(b)1 mos transistor and 1 capacitor(c)4 mos transistors and 2 capacitors(d)...

6 Worst case algorithm is meant for the case(a)when sometimes favourable(b)when worst unfavourable(c)...(d)...

7 A semaphore with negative count n(s=n) has how many processes in the Q?(a)0(b)n(c)n+1(d)n-1

8 If in a PCM system the no of bits used is increased from n to n+1,the signal-to-noise ratioimproves by(a)3dB(b)6dB (c)20ndB (d)24ndB

9 2 trains of length 110m & 90 m travelling at 45kmph & 50 kmph respectively..when will they pass each other?(a)144mins

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(b)102mins(c)..(d)...

10 From a circular sheet of radius 10cm , 40% is cut off & from the remaining portion a cone is constructed, what is the ratio of the radius of the cone to its height?

11 If a vessel contains 56 litres of a mixture of milk & water in the ratio 3:2..what amount of water should be added to make the ratio 4:5?

12 2 pipes fill a cistern in 12 mins,pipe A is 3 times faster than pipe b...if only pipe B has to fill the cistern ,how long will it take?(a)1hour(b)2hours(c)..(d)..

13 #define ADD(X,Y) X+Y main(){#undef ADD(X,Y);fun();}fun(){int y=ADD(3,2);printf("%d",y);}

o/p?Runtime error(linker error): _add undefined in module

14 Which of the following is illegal(a)void v;(b)void *v;(c)void **v;(d)all are legal

15 #define int INTEGER/*line1*/#define INTEGER int/*line 2*/main() {INTEGER p=10;/*line 5*/printf("%d",p);}

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o/p?(a)compiler error at line 1(b)compiler error at line 2(c)compiler error at line 5(d)No error,prints 10ans:c 16 main(){int counter=1;for(;;){counter++;if(counter>9)break;}

}

in the above program(a)error b'coz for should have parameters(b)error bcoz 2 semicolons in a for loop are invalid(c)no error,loop is executed once(d) no error ,loop is executed 10 times

17) main(){char str={'H','E','L','L','O','\0'}printf("%s/n",str+1);}o/p?

(a)prints ELLO(b)prints HELLO(c)prints ILLO (i.e.'H' is incremented by 1)(d)...

18 The average temperature for monday,wednesday,thursday was 46 o C.the average temperature for tuesday,wednesday,thursday,friday was 48(some no)..if temp on monday was 42 o C,what is the temperature on tuesday?(a)32(b)36(c)37(d)3....

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19 The average marks of 12 students was found to be......(some no)...it was later found that while entering the data , it had been entered as 74 instead of 50...and 20 instead of 24(nos are not the same)...what is the correct average? 20 If a lady bought a house & sold it at 25% more than what she had paid after 3 years,she has to pay 50%tax on the gain...If C is the cost price,(gain=s.P-c.p),what tax did she have to pay?(a)..(b)C/8 (c)...(d)...

21 Some no of men(given)..complete a work in (given) no of days...after (some no) of days ..some more(given no) men join them,they will finish the work in how many days?

22 If a car travels from A to B at a speed of 'x' kmph & travels back from B to A at 4/5th the speed,then the total distance travelled in terms of percentage of x is?(a)2400km(b)3600km(c)..(d)...

(23)-(24)2 similar problems on a race..i.e.one travels at some speed gives a lead of some time or length to the other....kind of problem..

25 A question on mallocint *p;p=malloc(sizeof(int)*5);if malloc returned the address 1000;the value of p+1 is(a)1002(b)1004(c)...(d).....

26 A cascade amplifier is:(a)a common emitter stage followed by a common base stage(b)a common base followed by emitter follower(c)...(d)a common base stage followed by a common emitter stage

27 A network has 7 nodes & 5 independent loops,the no of branches=?(a)11(b)14(c)..

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(d)...

28 Many nodes transmit at the same time .....collision occurs...retransmit.....what is this called?(a)(b)(c)collision.....enforcement(d)

29 If the characteristic impedance of a transmission line is 50ohms,at 1 end the impedance is+j50 ohms,the VSWR =?(a)0(b)infinity(c)+j(d)+1

30 Minimum no of NAND gates required to realize the boolean eqn: Z=ABC?(a)4(b)6(c)..(d)....

31 It has been found that mercury poisoning due to industrial pollution causes Hobson's disease.An island R is completely away from modern industry.People here follow subsistence agriculture method.A high % of people in Island R are affected by Hobsons disease.From the above paragraph, we can deduce(i)there must be another reason for Hobson's disease other than mercury posoning(ii)mercury poisoning can be due to other reasons than industrial pollution(iii)....(a)i only(b)ii only(c) i ,ii, iii(d) i and ii

32 fun(){int counter=1;counter++;if(counter>10)fun();}...(some program similar to this one).the program will be executed infinetely--ans

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33 Which of these are legal?i.a pointer to a functionii.a pointer to a structureii.pointer to union(a)i only(b)i and ii (c)i,ii &iii(d)ii &iii 34 Union..{int ivalue;char lvalue;struct boo{int ivalue;char lvalue;}databook;};(a)error as struct within union is not allowed(b)error as struct members have same name as union members(c)...(d).....

35 How many stacks are there in DOS?(a)1 stack(b)2 stacks(c)3 stacks(d)...

36 What is the o/p?main(){char arr[5]={'a','a','b','c','d','e'};printf("%s",arr);}

PAPER 20:First Round (around 45 minutes ) Q. what is a Real-Time System ?

Q. What is the difference between Hard and Soft real-time systems ?

Q. What is a mission critical system ?

Q. What is the important aspect of a real-time system ?

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Q. Explain the difference between microkernel and macro kernel. Give an example of microkernel.

Q. Why paging is used ?

Q. Which is the best page replacement algo and Why ?

Q. WHat is software life cycle ?

Q. How much time is spent usually in each phases and why ?

Q. Which one do U want to work if selected in Honeywell ?

Q. What is testing ?

Q. Which are the different types of testing ?

Q.Why do U want to join Honeywell ?

Q. Do U know C++ ?

Q. How good are U in C and C++ ?

Q. Rate U'rslef in both C and C++. ( 1 - 10 marks)

Second round (around 45 minutes )

They wanted a bio-data at the time of inteview.

Q. Explain U'r research work.

Q. What is a distributed system ?

Q. Some questions about CSP.

Q. Which languages do U know ?

Q. What are the differences between Pascal and C.

Q.Then what is typing and its advantages ?

Q. Then he asked some questions from Compiler construction and Lisp.

Q. WHich are the different computer architectures ?

Q. What is the requirement in MIMD ?

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Q. What is the difference between RISC and CISC processors ?

Q. Difference between loosely coupled and tightly coupled systems ?

Q. What is an open system ?

Q. questions from software engineering .

Q. Which are the different phases in Software life cycle (asked again)

Q. Why is analysis and testing phases very important ?

Q. Which methodologies are U familiar with ?

Q. Have U worked in windows ? (Yes)

Q. What is the difference U have seen from a Dos environment ?

Q. So what do U mean by event driven ?

Q. How do WinMain look like ?

Q. How the messages are processed in Windows ?

Q. What are parameters needed to distinguish an event ?

Q. Have U done any network programming ?

Q. Why networks are layered ?

Q. What is the advantage of that ?

Q. How many layers are there in OSI ?

Q. WHy is it called OSI model ?

Q. Are U familiar with network topologies ?

Q. Which are the different network toplogies ?

Q. Tell an example of bus type network.

Q. What is the Bandwidth of ethernet ?

Q. Explain the advantage and disadvantage of ethernet ?

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Q. Which is the protocol used in ethernet. (CSMA/CD)

Q. Why is it called so ?

Q. If all stations tries to communicate at same time, what will happen.

Q. What is binary exponential backoff algo ?

Q. What is the advantage of Ring network ?

Q. Compare it with ethernet.

Q. In a real-time system which one do U prefer and why ?

Q. What is the basic requirement of a real-time network ?

Q. Which one is costly - ethernet of ring networks ?

Q. Some questions form OOSD and Digital signal processing.

Q. What is inheritance, encapsulation etc.

Third Round (15 minutes)

Q. Asked about the percentages and marks during SSC, PDC, B.Tech and MS.

Q. When can U join ?

Q. Who is U'r guide ?

Q. U are from which place ?

Q. Where is it in Kerala ?

Q. How do U perform in the first two interviews ?

Q. WHy have U given Honeywell as dream job ?

Q. Some more personal questions

Fourth Round (45 minutes)

Q. What do U like in Bangalore ?

Q. I said the weather and all my friends are here.

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Q. Asked about my family members.

Q. How do U interact with friends ?

Q. How do adjust to a new environemnt ?

Q. Suppose U solve a problem and after that U are getting an almost same

Q. problem with high complexity ( and lower complexity). How will U approach to the next problem.

Q. What is U'r approach towards a new subject ?

Q. How do U prepare for exams ?

Q. Suppose in a project meeting, somebody fires U, how will U react ?

Q. Are U patient enought to wait in long queues

PAPER 21:

Test contained 100 multiple choice questions divided into

a) Verbal ability (15 ques) b) Numerical aptitude (15 ) c) Logical and analytical ability (15) d) Elementary computer science (10) d) Programming langauages (20) e) Operatins systems and Data structures (25)

Not sure about the number of questions.

Verbal ability questions contained 3 parts. a) One passage is given and U have to answer 5 questions b) Some words are given and their synonyms have to be written c)

Numerical aptitude and Logical questions were the usual stuff.--------------------------------------------------------------- I had 4 rounds of interview. First round (around 45 minutes) contained, questions from Real-time ----------- Systems (my research area), operating systems and Software Engineering

Explain U'r research work.

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What is a Real-Time System ? What is the difference between Hard and Soft real-time systems ? What is a mission critical system ? What is the important aspect of a real-time system ?

Explain the difference between microkernel and macro kernel. Give an example of microkernel. Why paging is used ? Which is the best page replacement algo and Why ?

WHat is software life cycle ? How much time is spent usually in each phases and why ? Which one do U want to work if selected in Honeywell ? ( I said I don't like testing ) They asked why ? I said it is a boring job. Then they tried to analyse the knowledge in testing.

What is testing ? Which are the different types of testing ? Then they explained the way they do testing. They said that they are doing testing in requirement phase and design phase so that if any problem comes in those phases it is not ncecessary to go back and change the requirement or design. All the test processing is automated.

Why do U want to join Honeywell ? Ans : To get a practical feeling of Real-time systems.

Do U know C++ ? How good are U in C and C++ ? Rate U'rslef in both C and C++. ( 1 - 10 marks)

Second round (around 45 minutes )

They wanted a bio-data at the time of inteview. I gave the placement office bio-data and in that one there was column 'Major subjects studied'. Many of the questions came from those.

Explain U'r research work. Lot of questions from it.

What is a distributed system ? Some questions about CSP. ( I kept quiet) Which languages do U know ? What are the differences between Pascal and C.

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I said Pascal is a strongly typed language. Then what is typing and its advantages ? Then he asked some questions from Compiler construction and Lisp.

WHich are the different computer architectures ? What is the requirement in MIMD ? What is the difference between RISC and CISC processors ? Difference between loosely coupled and tightly coupled systems ? What is an open system ?

Still a lot of questions from software engineering . Which are the different phases in Software life cycle (asked again) Why is analysis and testing phases very important ? Which methodologies are U familiar with ?

Have U worked in windows ? (Yes) What is the difference U have seen from a Dos environment ? I said it event driven . So what do U mean by event driven ? How do WinMain look like ? How the messages are processed in Windows ? (Queue of events) What are parameters needed to distinguish an event ?

Have U done any network programming ? Why networks are layered ? What is the advantage of that ? How many layers are there in OSI ? WHy is it called OSI model ? Are U familiar with network topologies ? Which are the different network toplogies ? Tell an example of bus type network. I said ethernet. What is the Bandwidth of ethernet ? Explain the advantage and disadvantage of ethernet ? Which is the protocol used in ethernet. (CSMA/CD) Why is it called so ? If all stations tries to communicate at same time, what will happen. What is binary exponential backoff algo ?

What is the advantage of Ring network ? Compare it with ethernet. In a real-time system which one do U prefer and why ? What is the basic requirement of a real-time network ? Which one is costly - ethernet of ring networks ?

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Some questions form OOSD and Digital signal processing. What is inheritance, encapsulation etc.

Third Round (15 minutes)

Asked about the percentages and marks during SSC, PDC, B.Tech and MS. When can U join ? Who is U'r guide ? U are from which place ? Where is it in Kerala ? How do U perform in the first two interviews ? WHy have U given Honeywell as dream job ? Some more personal questions

Fourth Round (45 minutes)

1. Aptitute test : 15 Minutes, 20 Questions

Towards the middle questions are easy than from the front.

eg. Product of three consecutive nos. 210. What is the sum of two least numbers? ans.: 5 * 6 * 7 = 210 , sum = 11 is answer

eg. If the area of the sqaure is increased by 69 % how much the length of the side will increase?

ans.: 13 (i think) eg. if the sum of five consecutive nos. 35? how many prime nos are there :

ans: 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 35 so two primes

eg. if the length of the rectangle is reduced by 20% and breath is increased by 20 % what is the net change ? ans.: 4 % decrease

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i. Electrical & Electronics

15 Questions and,nand...circuit realted stuff, ..........

ii.Data Structures, Algo., & Complexity theory : 5 questions

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a. if W is a sequence of strings without a and W' is its reversal then WaW' is generated by:

ans. i think Context Free Grammmars

b. Whether all recusive pgm can be writtten iteratively?

c. What data structes you will use if you want to go to first record from the last and vice versa? ans.: doubly linked circular list

d. Given 10000 nos. and 48MB Memory. What is the complexity of the efficient sorting algo.? (the algo. is not mentioned)

e. Given a C code and ask what it does? I think the code was something similar to Bubble sort and that particular code does the sorting in Desending order and the complexity is O(n^2)(which is the next question).

iii. OS : 5 questions

a. If there are too many page faults what is the problem?

b. To ensure one pgm. doesnt corrupt other pgm. in a Multi-pgm. enviornment what you should do?

c. Which one you will use to implement critical section? Binary Semaphore

d. Which one is not needed for Multi-pgm. enviornment? options are: virtual memory,security,time sharing,none of the above.

iv. Networks and Hardware: 5 questions

a. Which one is not done by Data link layer ? bit stuffing, LRC,CRC,parity check

b. Which one is not related to Data link layer?

c. Which one is not suitable for client-server application? tcp/ip,message passing,rpc,none of the above.

d.

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v. Databases and Misc.: 5 questions

a. What SQL .................. (not the expansion)

b. Indexing in databases give you ............

c.

vi. C Pgm. : 5 questions

1. int a=1,b=2,c=3; printf("%d,%d",a,b,c); What is the output?

2. for(i=0; i<=10;i++,printf("%d",i); +- (+- is there in the questions)

3. Scope of Static Variable ............

4. Given a C code and what is the output?

PAPER 22:

There were 100 questions:

50 Technical questions (branch wise)

30 C questions

20 aptitude questions

Aptitude is very easy. Simple questions from profit&loss, ratio, odd-man series, time-distance, clock...

Technical from OS, DBMS, CN, 8085, unix, DS.. some of the qns I remembered are given below.

1) Binary search tree is used in

a) sorting b)searching c)indexing d)all the above

2) Given a tree..write the preorder traversal

3) Given an infix expression..write its postfix

4) First general purpose microprocessor

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a) 2002 b)4004 c)8080 d)8085

5) What is 8253

6) ____flag is not used in 8085 jump instructions

7) SNMP is used in which layer

8) Banker's algorithm is used for

9) Belady's anomaly is related to___

10) Which of the following is non-preemptive

a) FIFO b)SJF c)Round robin d)all the above

11 )A relation in 3NF is in______

12) A question on serializability

13) One SQL query

14) Functional dependency one question

15) The first general purpose microprocessor is ____-bit

16) In a three byte instruction the second byte indicates____

17) Average case analysis for partition exchange sort

18) How the receiver knows to what service the packet to be forwarded?