SUN MICROSYSTEMS Placement Paper Pattern:

There were total 60 questions in the written test paper and 60 total marks.
All are multiple choice questions. There is negative marking.

Sections and Test Pattern:
Section 1 : Operating Systems 20 questions
Section 2 : Technical Programming 25 questions
Section 3 : Aptitude 15 Questions

Section 1 : Operating Systems

Study all the unix commands & some basic networking concepts like DHCP, Dynamic NAT, RARP, ARP, UDP, DNS. Unix : Grep, sed, basic perl program whose o/p is to be predicted. Pipes. You can expect some tricky questions.

Section 2 : Programming part

C programs & Java programs. The programs seems to be easy but because 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
Most questions can be found from other papers. Nothing difficult here – just the normal aptitude questions.

There is a high cutoff and only 3 candidates were selected out of 50. The next rounds are technical interview followed by hr interview round.
See the technical / hr interview rounds questions and other Sun Microsystems India placement test papers, pattern and written technical test papers here.