TCS Ninja Test Paper

TCS Ninja National Qualifier Test conducted by TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) and is
an All-India Recruitment Drive. This exam provides jobs to many thousands of students.
There will be three rounds of evaluation as follows:

 Technical
 Managerial
 HR

TCS Ninja Test Pattern:

Section No. of Questions Time limit

English 15 10 mins
Aptitude 15 30 mins
Programming Logic 10 20 mins
Coding 1 30 mins
Total 41 90 mins

Syllabi for :

1. English: Cloze Test

Negative Marking – Yes

2. Aptitude:
 Averages
 Mixtures
 Allegations
 Percentages
 Permutations
 Combinations
 Profit and loss
 Algebra
 Ratio and proportions
 Probability
 Time, speed, distance
 Time and Work
 Functions
 Geometry
 Number System and HCF & LCM
 Reasoning
 Blood Relations

Negative Marking – Yes (0.33 marks)

3. Programming Logic: The questions asked in this section are basic command line
argument theory questions and C input output questions.

Negative Marking – Yes (0.33 marks)

4. Coding:
Negative marking : None
Following languages can be used for coding.

Following languages can also be used –

C
C++
Java
Python
Perl

Section 1: English

In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These number
printed below the passage and against each five words/phrases are suggested, one which
fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Greenhouse gases are only (1) of the story when it comes to global warming.
Changes to one part of the climate system can (2) additional changes to the way to
the planet absorb or reflect energy. These secondary changes are (3) climate,
feedback’s, and they could more than double the amount of warming caused by carbon
dioxide alone. The primary feedback’s are (4) to snow and ice, water vapour,
clouds and the carbon cycle.
Perhaps the most well (5) feedback comes from melting snow and ice in the
Northern Hemisphere. Warming temperatures are already (6) a growing
percentage of Arctic–sea ice exposing dark ocean water during the (7) sunlight
of summer. Snow cover on land is also (8) in many areas. In the (9) of
snow and ice, these areas grow from having bright, sunlight reflecting surfaces that cool the
planet to having dark, sunlight – absorbing surfaces that (10) more energy into
the Earth system and cause more warming.

1. A. whole
B. part
C. material
D. issue
E. most

2. A. raise
B. brings
C. refer
D. stop
E. cause

3. A. sensed
B. called
C. nothing
D. but
E. term
4. A. due
B. results
C. reason
D. those
E. because

5. A. done
B. known
C. ruled
D. bestowed
E. said

6. A. mastering
B. sending
C. melting
D. calming
E. increasing

7. A. make – shift
B. ceasing
C. troubled
D. perpetual
E. absent

8. A. dwindling
B. manufactured
C. descending
D. generating
E. supplied

9. A. progress
B. reduced
C. existence
D. midst
E. absence

10. A. repel
B. waft
C. monitor
D. bring
E. access

(Directions to solve questions from 11 to 15 ): Fill in the blanks with appropriate

answers given from the options below:

Last year archaeologists in Peru ____(11)_____the discovery of a centuries-old ritual

massacre, at a site they believed was the largest known case of child sacrifice ever found.
Buried beneath the sands of a 15th-century site called Huanchaquito-Las Llamas were
nearly 140 child skeletons, as well as the remains of 200 llamas. While the reasoning behind
the gruesome mass murder of the boys and girls — who were only between the ages of 5
and 14 — cannot be definitively _____(12)________, the researchers now say the
act was done out of desperation in response to a disastrous climatic event:
 The finding provides ____(13)______into the rituals of the ancient Chimú civilization that
inhabited Peru’s northern coast. It also attempts to piece together the story behind why
people ____(14)_______these children, presumably by cutting open their chests and
ripping out their hearts. One day in 2011 a man named Michele Spano Pescara
_____(15)_______Gabriel Prieto, an archaeologist at the National University of Trujillo in
Peru. He said that his children had dug up bones near his home. When Dr. Prieto followed
the man to the site, he was astonished.

11. A. announced
B. will be announced
C. is announced
D. called
E. both A & B

12. A. Has proclaimed

B. Illlustrated
C. Determined
D. Was determined
E. Determining

13. A. views
B. insight
C. sight
D. demonstration
E. Both A & C

14. A. Murdering
B. Will have murdered
C. have been murdered
D. murdered
E. Both A & D

15. A. having approached

B. approached
C. will have approached
D. had approached
E. approaches

Section 2: Aptitude

1. In a mechanical workshop, a man uses 3 different pieces of iron of varying length , 33cm,
55 cm and 44 cm respectively. He has to form rods of maximum length such that no iron
waste is left. Find the maximum length of such rod.

A. 28 cm
B. 14 cm
C. 42 cm
D. 63 cm
E. 11 cm
2. There is a royal family in a town. Sushant one of the member, says that ” Manu is the
daughter of my sister Rhea, who is the only daughter of Tahir. Arun is the child of Tahir
and Ileana, who is the grandmother of Kiara. Roma is the mother of Trisha, who is the
only sister of Kiara. Arun is unmarried.
If Micky is spouse of Rhea, how is Roma related to Micky?

A. Sister
B. Brother-in-law
C. Wife of Brother-in-law
D. Cousin
E. None of these

3. A policeman starts to chase a thief and moves 8 steps when the thief takes 10 steps, but
7 steps of the thief equals 5 steps of the policeman. The ratio of the speeds of the
policeman and the thief is,

A. 25 : 28
B. 26 : 25
C. 25 : 26
D. 28 : 25

4. Two squares are chosen at random on a chessboard. What is the probability that they
have a side in common?

A. 1 / 18
B. 64 / 4032
C. 63 / 64
D. 1/9

5. Arav intends to spend only an additional 15% but the price of petrol has increased by
25%. By how much % will he reduce the quantity of petrol purchased?

A. 10%
B. 8%
C. 12%
D. 6.67%
E. 12.5%

6. If the largest angle in a triangle is 70 o, what is least possible value of the smallest angle
of the triangle?

A. 69o
B. 1o
C. 40o
D. 39o
E. 41o

7. If the letters of the word CHASM are rearranged to form 5 letter words such that none of
the word repeat and the results arranged in ascending order as in a dictionary what is the
rank of the word CHASM?
 A. 24
B. 31
C. 30
D. 32

8.

A. 1:√2:√3
B. 1:1:1
C. 1:2:3
D. None of these

9. Tina had given test to her students. The average of 11 results is 50. If the average of the
first six results is 49 and that of the last six is 52. The sixth no. is?

A. 56
B. 50
C. 52
D. 48

10. Haran, in his chemistry lab was preparing a product by named Q. Product Q is produced
by mixing chemical V and chemical S in the ratio of 5 : 4. Chemical V is prepared by
mixing two raw materials, U and C, in the ratio of 1 : 3. Chemical S is prepared by
mixing raw materials, C and T, in the ratio of 2 : 1. Then the final mixture is prepared by
mixing 864 units of product Q with water. If the concentration of the raw material C in
the final mixture is 50%, how much water had been added to product Q?

A. 328 units
B. 368 units
C. 392 units
D. 616 units
E. None of the above

11. M @ 9 ● K Q 3 # 8 ⍺ U 2 C ₤ 1 E B G 6 W H 4 Z A 7 S D 5 $ Y

Referring to the symbol letter sequence given above, If every sixth part of the sequence
is written in the reverse order, what will be 4th to the left of the 7th to the right of 11th
from the left ?

A. B
B. 2
C. K
D. C
E. None of these

12. The function f(x) = |x – 2| + |2.5 – x| + |3.6 – x|, where x is a real number, attains a
minimum at ...

A. x = 2.3
B. x = 2.5
C. x = 2.7
D. None of the above...
13. To meet the demand during summer, a milkman mixed water with pure milk in 2:5.
Then he sold the same mixture at 20% more than normal price. By what percent his
revenue will increase during summers? (Water is available without any cost)

A. 60 percent
B. 50 percent
C. 40 percent
D. 63 percent
E. 68 percent

14. The largest number amongst the following that will perfectly divide 101100 - 1 101 is:

A. 100
B. 10000
C. 100^100
D. 10

15. A, B and C go to watch a movie. All of them start from the same point. A and B go on a
jeep while C walks. A drops B at the movie hall and returns to pick up C. He then picks
up C and reaches the movie hall. If the total distance traveled by the Jeep is 1.8 times
the total distance between the starting point and the movie hall, what is the ratio of the
speeds of C and Jeep?

A. 3:4
B. 3:7
C. 4:9
D. 5:9
E. 4:7

Section 3: Programming Logic

1. In linux, argv[0] by command-line argument can be occupied by _________

A. ./a.out
B. ./test
C. ./fun.out.out
D. all of the mentioned

2. What is the first argument in command line arguments?

A. The number of command-line arguments the program was invoked with;

B. A pointer to an array of character strings that contain the arguments
C. Nothing
D. None of the mentioned

3. What will be the output of following program ?

#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
unsigned char c=290;
 printf("%d",c);
}
A. 34
B. 290
C. Garbage
D. ERROR

4. What will be the output of following program (on 32 bit compiler)?

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
float a=125.50;
int b=125.50;
char c='A';
printf("%d,%d,%d\n",sizeof(a),sizeof(b),sizeof(125.50));
printf("%d,%d\n",sizeof(c),sizeof(65));
return 0;
}

1. 4,4,4
1,4
2. 4,4,8
1,1
3. 4,4,4
1,1
4. 4,4,8
1,4

5. Which is the valid identifier (variable name) to store student’s age?

(Two options can be choosen as well.)

A. int student-age;
B. int student_age;
C. int -age;
D. int _age;

6. Which statement does not require semicolon?

(i) goto xyz

(ii) int x=20
(iii) #define MAX 1000
(iv) do{ ... }while(count<=100)

7. Find the output of this program ?

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
float a,b;
a=3.0f;
b=4.0f;
printf("%.0f,%.1f,%.2f",a/b,a/b,a/b);
return 0; }
 A. 1,0.8,0.75
B. 0,0.7,0.75
C. 0,0.8,0.75
D. ERROR: Invalid format specifier

8. What will be the output?

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int a[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5} ;
int *ptr;
ptr = a;
printf(" %d ", *( ptr + 1) );
return 0;
}

A. 5
B. 2
C. 3
D. 1

9. What will be the output of the C program?

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char *cities[] = {"UAE", "Spain", "America"};
int **i = &cities[0];
int **j = &cities[1];
int **k = &cities[2];
printf("%c%c%c\n", **i,**j,**k);
return 0;
}

A. Upa

B. USA

C. UAE

D. None of the above

10. What will the function rewind() do?

A. Reposition the file pointer to a character reverse.

B. Reposition the file pointer stream to end of file.
C. Reposition the file pointer to begining of that line.
D. Reposition the file pointer to begining of file.
 Section 4: Coding

Given a series whose even term creates a separate geometric series and odd term
creates another geometric series. Write a program to generate such series.
For example,
1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 8, 8, 16, 16,……