Microsoft Technical Interview questions rounds

Microsoft Technical / Tech Interview Questions and Answers – solutions to programs and questions.
Round 1:

What are your interests? ( as in academics/topics)
 
Given a string, search it in a set of strings (say among 1000s of string). What data structure would you use to store those 1000 strings and get the results fastest? Answer: I answered hash [...]

Microsoft Technical Interview Programs

Programs from a latest Microsoft Placement Test Paper – an exam held recently for freshers. These are the Microsoft India placement test technical interview questions – programs asked for software engineers and research positions / job. Here are the interview questions and answers / solutions with detailed explanation.
1. How could you determine if a linked [...]

Microsoft Placement Paper at DA IICT on 26th July

MICROSOFT PAPER ON 26th JULY 2007 at dhirubhai ambani institute of ICT.
Selection procedure and interview questions of Microsoft at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)
There were 4 rounds for selection procedure. First round was a written test, second round was group interview and 3rd and 4th rounds were technical interview. Each [...]

Microsoft Placement Whole Test Paper at Ohio College

Here is the full microsoft placement paper held at Ohio College of Technological Studies on 29 January 2007 with ECE and CSE branch written as well as technical interview questions:
 
1) Coldest planet:Pluto
2) INS Shivali is the first:
3) Which one of the following was NOT indegineously developed?:Prithvi/Akash/Agni
4) Full form of SARS
5) Anthrax is a :Virus/Bacteria/…/…
6) Dakshina Gangothri [...]

Microsoft Placement Paper Pattern – 2005 Hyderabad

MICROSOFT Test Pattern – 10 APR 2005 – HYDERABAD
GTSC test on 10 april – sunday
Pattern is as follows:
 
There are 3 sections
 
1. Analitical Section  25 questions  ( 30 minutes)
2. Reasoning Section 25 questions  (25 minutes)
3. Verbal Section       20 questions  (20 minutes)
 
           
The analytical part consists of
 
1.In a class 25 students play cricket 15 play football and so on. Now the question is [...]

Database and Semaphores from Microsoft Test

Databases DBMS Questions from Microsoft India Placement Paper for recruitment of engineers at its R&D centre in India.
* 1. You, a designer want to measure disk traffic i.e. get a histogram showing the relative frequency of I/O/second for each disk block. The buffer pool has b buffers and uses LRU replacement policy. The disk block [...]

Java and Graphics Questions from Microsoft Placement Paper

Microsoft Placement Test / Employment Test Technical Interview Sample Questions:
Java Questions:
1. How do you find the size of a java object (not the primitive type) ?
ANS. type cast it to string and find its s.length()
2. Why is multiple inheritance not provided in Java?
3. Thread t = new Thread(); t.start(); t = null; now what will [...]

Microsoft Networks and Security Test Questions

Security Questions from Microsoft India Placement Test Question Paper:
1. How do you use RSA for both authentication and secrecy?
2. What is ARP and how does it work?
3. What’s the difference between a switch and a router?
4. Name some routing protocols? (RIP,OSPF etc..)
5. How do you do authentication with message digest(MD5)? (Usually MD is used for [...]

Microsoft CA Computer Architecture Questions

1. Explain what is DMA?
2. What is pipelining?
3. What are superscalar machines and vliw machines?
4. What is cache?
5. What is cache coherency and how is it eliminated?
6. What is write back and write through caches?
7. What are different pipelining hazards and how are they eliminated.
8. What are different stages of a pipe?
9. Explain more about [...]

Microsoft Placement paper pattern for december 2005

Placement Paper Rounds:

 
Written test: Time one hour
CAT type aptitude questions and some puzzles.
       
Next is the c programming language questions. 
 
There will be individual cutoff in both the section.
 
2) Group Discussion Round:
Roughly 2-3 people are selected from a group of 10 persons. Good communication skills are very necessary in the microsoft GD round.
For me topic is: Impact of internet on society.
 
3)  [...]

Microsoft GSC test on 1st January 2005 at Mumbai

Microsoft Mumbai Placement Test Paper: Candidate Experiences
There were four sections. All were separate.
Section I : English language test – 25 Questions- 20 Minutes.
It contained usual & easy english language questions like prepositions, articles, antonyms-synonyms etc. There were two paragraphs. One was about types of networks & another was about CGI scripting. There were questions questions [...]

Thinkers from microsoft placement exam

Thinkers Type Questions from the Microsoft placement test paper
How are M&Ms made?
If you had a clock with lots of moving mechanical parts, you took it apart piece by piece without keeping track of the method of how it was disassembled, then you put it back together and discovered that 3 important parts were not included; [...]

Microsoft Placement Paper: Applications Questions

Placement Exam Questions: Applications
How can computer technology be integrated in an elevator system for a hundred story office building? How do you optimize for availability?
How would variation of traffic over a typical work week or floor or time of day affect this?
How would you implement copy-protection on a control which can be embedded in a document [...]

Microsoft Placement Test Paper – Algorithms

Sample Test Questions Type: Algorithms
What’s the difference between a linked list and an array?
Implement a linked list. Why did you pick the method you did?
Implement an algorithm to sort a linked list. Why did you pick the method you did? Now do it in O(n) time.
Describe advantages and disadvantages of the various stock sorting algorithms.
Implement an [...]

Microsoft Interview Questions – Riddles

The following are the actual questions from the Microsoft HR Tech employment test Interviews. The questions are of different types. Here are the Riddles  asked in the microsoft recruitment / technical hr selection interview from actual placement exams.
The questions tend to follow some basic themes:
Riddles
Algorithms
Applications
Thinkers
Riddles from Microsoft Interviews:
Why is a manhole cover round?
How many cars [...]