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Paper Type : Whole Testpaper
COVANSYS PAPER
Company Name: COVANSYS
Category: FRESHERS
Total No.Of Questions : 100, Duration : 2 Hrs
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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