HP Placement paper – 13 jul 2007 – chennai

HP Puzzle:
Here was one puzzle like there are 6 members in a family n they are teacher, student, engineer, lawyer, docter and housewife.
2 is mother of 3 who is a teacher
4 is Grand mother of 3 that is a house wife.
3 is sister of 1
6 is father of 1 that is doctor
and 5 is lawyer father of 6

Q1- who is student
Q2- who is engineer.
Q3- who is a girl in the family.

Q4 – sum of the no between 1 to 100 divisible by 2 and 5.
Answer 550

Q5 – some question were from english series as which will be next ADEHI. and is LM
Q6 – Probability Questions.
2 dice are thrown and probability of coming more than 8.
some RS Aggarwal reasoning questions.

There was technical questions from DS, VB and .Net
1.The size of text box.
2.The size of msg box
3. What operator used to compare two string
4. DIM i,j means … variant i,and variant j

Operating Systems
Study all the unix commands & some basic networking concepts like DHCP, Dynamic NAT, RARP, ARP, UDP, DNS. Unix  Grep, sed, A Basic perl program whose op is to be predicted. Pipes.

Section 2  Programming part
The HP Programming questions are from a variety of topics. You just should have your basics clear. There are questions from C programs & Java programs. The programs seems to be easy but bcoz of the Negative marking (0.5) we have to be very clear.  Programs were on Fork, PID, Basic C syntax, Basics of Java, Exception handling, Inheritance, Strings, Cast conversion, Object linking etc

Section 3  Aptitude
Questions are repeated from the other Placement Papers like TCS. But there is negative marking so we have to be careful.
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