Here is the pattern for the company’s placement paper held on 23 FEB 2006 at Chennai

Alcatel has a R&D Center at Chennai. Here is the test pattern and the recruitment process for alcatel R&D Chennai.

Alcatel India Placement Test Pattern:
There were two parts and each one is for one and a half hours.
 
Part1: (Time duration: 1 hour 30 minutes)
Total Questions:120
Technical Questions: 60

Technical topics: computer communication network, LINUX and then Microprocessors)
Aptitude questions: 60
 
Part 2: (Time duration: 1 hour .30 hrs)
total no of questions: 90
C Language Questions: 30
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C++ Questions: 30 questions
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questions on Java:30 questions
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Thats was the Alcatel freshers recruitment / placement paper pattern. We keep adding placement papers submitted by fresher engineers for Alcatel.