2011 Ericsson Placement Paper:1. A family I know has several children.

Each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers but each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there? Ans: 4 boys and 3 girls. 2. In a soap company a soap is manufactured with 11 parts. For making one soap you will get 1 part as scrap. At the end of the day u have 251 such scraps. From that how many soaps can be manufactured? Ans: 25. 3. There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each. Last digit is 3 times the first one. 3 rd digit is 3 less than the second.4 th digit is 4 more than the second one. Find the digit. Ans : 25296. 4. Given following sequence, find the next term in the series: (i) 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 12, 20, 16, ____ Ans: 12 (ii) 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, ___ Ans: 53 5. there are 3 custoners who wants to take a hair cut and shave. there are 2 barbers who takes one quarter of an hour for a hair cut, and 5 minutes for a shave. both the barbers want to finish off and go quickly to their homes. in what time can do it. 6. we travelled to a place at the rate of 10 miles per hour and offcourse returned the same way, but owing to less traffic at the rate of 15 miles per hour.what was our relative speed. 7. In the case of a 70 MHz 1F carries for a transponder band width of 36 MHz; energy must lie between MHz. a.) 34 and 106 b.) 52. And 88 c.) 106 and 142 d.) 34 and 142 8. Radar used to eliminate clutter in navigational application is a.) Pulse radar b.) Tracking radar c.) MTI radar d.) Mono pulse radar 9. The 1.55 mm windows is not yet in use with fiber optic systems because a.) The attenuation is higher than at 0.85 mm b) The attenuation is higher than at 1.3mm c.) Suitable laser devices have not yet been developed d.) It does not lend itself to wavelength multiplexing

10. The UNIX shell .... a) does not come with the rest of the system b) forms the interface between the user and the kernal c) does not give any scope for programming d) deos not allow calling one program from with in another e) all of the above Ans. (b) 11. enum number { a= -1, b= 4,c,d,e} What is the value of e ?

(a) 7 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 15 (e) 3 12. Output of the following program is main() {int i=0; for(i=0;i<20;i++) {switch(i) case 0:i+=5; case 1:i+=2; case 5:i+=5; default i+=4; break;} printf("%d,",i); } } a) 0,5,9,13,17 b) 5,9,13,17 c) 12,17,22 d) 16,21 e) Syntax error Ans. (d 13. What is the output in the following program main() {char c=-64; int i=-32 unsigned int u =-16; if(c>i) {printf("pass1,"); if(c printf("pass2"); else printf("Fail2"); } else printf("Fail1); if(i printf("pass2"); else printf("Fail2") } a) Pass1,Pass2 b) Pass1,Fail2 c) Fail1,Pass2 d) Fail1,Fail2 e) None of these Ans. (c)

14. A jogger wants to save ?th of his jogging time. He should increase his speed by how much %age. Ans: 33.33 % 15. A is an integer. Dividing 89 & 125 gives remainders 4 & 6 respectively. Find a ? Ans: 17 16. Which is smallest?

a. 1/7 b 1/8 c 2/9 d 3/13 or something similar having denominations as 11 and 13 in option ?d? and ?e? 17. Which of the following operator is not used in Outer Join? a. = b. != c. AND d. OR 18. PL/SQL uses which of the following a. Early Binding b. Late binding c. No Binding d. Deferred Binging 19. select deptno, count(empno) from emp where count(empno)>=5 group by deptno; identify the line no which contains the error a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 1,3 20. choose the group function that can be used with any data type a. sum() b. min() c. avg() d. all