Novell Placement-Paper

Novell Recruitment test conducted on (20/9/04). There is four section in test.

1. Aptitude 20 questions 20 minutes

2.  System comcept 20 questions 15 minutes

3. C programming 15 questions 20 minutes

4. Passage on java/internet 10 min

Aptitude

1. A problem on time and work ,A and b takes 15 days to completer the  work,A takes 30 days so how many days B take?

2. A question on compound interest with 5 sub questions,simple if u  know the concept.

3. A question on finding the speed of boat given the speed of upstream and downstream.

   System Concept ( mainly questions from OS,data structures,networks)

4. Berkeley sockets-ans :connection oreiented.

5. A question on bankers algorithm

6. Complexity of hastable

7. What is Cpu timeslice?

8. Aquestion on DMA
   C programming

9. One pointer diff is given like this:
   int *(*p[10])(char *)
   Explain the variable assignment

10. For the following C program
    void fn(int *a, int *b)
    {
    int *t;
    t=a;
    a=b;
    b=t;
    }
    main()
    {
    int a=2;
    int b=3;
    fn(&a,&b);
    printf(“%d,%d”, a,b);
    }
    What is the output?
    a) Error at runtime
    b) Compilation error
    c) 2 3
    d) 3 2

11. main()
    {
    printf(“hello”):
    main();
    }
    what is the output?
    ans :stack overflow