Accenture Solved Placement Papers

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Below are four sample accenture type technical interview questions with answers. To be successful in accenture interviews, you need to stay well prepared in basic programming concepts including C. OOPS, OS related concepts etc.

Interview Question 1

What is the difference between strcmp and strncmp functions in C ?

Answer:

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1) 3 blocks are chosen randomly on a chessboard. What is the probability that they are in the same diagonal?

Answer
There are total of 64 blocks on a chessboard. So 3 blocks can be chosen out
of 64 in 64C3 ways.
So the sample space is = 41664
There are 2 diagonal on chessboard each one having 8 blocks. Consider one
of them.
3 blocks out of 8 blocks in diagonal can be chosen in 8C3 ways.
But there are 2 such diagonals, hence favourables = 2 * 8C3 = 2 * 56 = 112
The require probability is
= 112 / 41664
= 1 / 372
= 0.002688

2) What is the area of the triangle ABC with A(e,p) B(2e,3p) and C(3e,5p)?
where p = PI (3.141592654)

Answer
A tricky ONE.
Given 3 points are colinear. Hence, it is a straight line.
Hence area of triangle is 0.

3) Silu and Meenu were walking on the road.Silu said, "I weigh 51 Kgs. How much do you weigh?"Meenu replied that she wouldn't reveal her weight directly as she is overweight.
But she said, "I weigh 29 Kgs plus half of my weight."How much does Meenu weigh?

Answer
Meenu weighs 58 Kgs.
It is given that Meenu weighs 29 Kgs plus half of her own weight. It means that
29 Kgs is the other half. So she weighs 58 Kgs.
Solving mathematically, let's assume that her weight is X Kgs.
X = 29 + X/2
2*X = 58 + X
X = 58 Kgs

4) Consider the sum: ABC + DEF + GHI = JJJ .If different letters represent different digits, and there are no leading zeros, what does J represent?

Answer
The value of J must be 9.Since there are no leading zeros, J must be 7, 8, or 9. (JJJ = ABC + DEF + GHI= 14? + 25? + 36? = 7??)Now, the remainder left after dividing any number by 9 is the same as the remainder left after dividing the sum of the digits of that number by 9. Also,  note that 0 + 1 + ... + 9 has a remainder of 0 after dividing by 9 and JJJ has a
remainder of 0, 3, or 6. The number 9 is the only number from 7, 8 and 9 that leaves a remainder of 0, 3, or 6 if you remove it from the sum 0 + 1 + ... + 9. Hence, it follows that J must be 9.

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1)  Using two 2's and two 3's and using a maxm of three mathematical signs, symbols, can you have a result in between 14 and 15 ? concatanation ( clubbing of digits ) allowed.

Solution:
( 23 + 3! ) / 2 = 14.5

2) what is the 28383rd term in the series 1234567891011121314............
 
a) 3
b) 4
c) 7
d) 9

Solution:
there are 9 no. of single digit
there are 180 no. of double digit
there are 2700 no. of three digit
now total 2889 no. till 999
remaining no. are 25494 that is devided by 4 and the q is 6373 with reminder of 2 so 28381 is
6373+999=737(2)
n next no is 7(3)73
so ans is 3

3)  a*b*c*d*e + b*c*d*e*f + a*c*d*e*f + a*b*d*e*f + a*b*c*e*f + a*b*c*d*f = a*b*c*d*e*f  and a,b,c,d,e and f are all positive nonrepeating integers then solve a,b,c,d,e, and f.

Solution :
Start with 1/2 + 1/2, then progressively split the last part x
into 2x/3 + x/3.  This gives the following progression:
2,2
2,3,6
2,3,9,18
2,3,9,27,54
2,3,9,27,81,162

4) 729 ml of a mixture contains milk and water in ratio 7:2. How much of the water is to be added to get a new mixture containing half milk and half water?

(i) 79 ml
(ii) 81 ml
(iii) 72 ml
(iv) 91 ml

Solution:
Milk = (729 * (7/9))=567ml
Water = (729-567)= 162ml
Let water to be added be x ml 567/(162+x) = 7/3 1701 = 1134 + 7x x = 81ml

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1) If one-seventh of a number exceeds its eleventh part by 100 then the number is…
(i) 770
(ii) 1100
(iii) 1825
(iv) 1925

Solution:
Let the number be x. Then X/7 - x/11 =100 11x-7x = 7700 x=1925.

2) If 1.5x=0.04y then the value of (y-x)/(y+x) is
(i) 730/77
(ii) 73/77
(iii) 7.3/77
(iv) None

Solution:
x/y = 0.04/1.5 = 2/75
So (y-x)/(y+x) = (1 - x/y)/(1 + x/y) = (1 - 2/75)/ (1 + 2/75) = 73/77.

3) The smallest number which when diminished by 3 is divisible by 21,28,36 and 45 is...
(i) 869
(ii) 859
(iii) 4320
(iv) 1263

Solution:
The required number = l.c.m. of (21,28,36 ,45)+3=1263

4) If x and y are the two digits f the number 653xy such that this number is divisible by 80, then x+y is equal to:
(i) 2
(ii) 3
(iii) 4
(iv) 6

Solution:
Since 653xy is divisible by 2 as well as by 5, so y = 0
Now 653x0 is divisible by 8 so 3x0 is also divisible by 8.
By hit and trial x=6 and x+y = 6

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1) What are identifiers and what is naming convention?

Ans : Identifiers are used for class names, method names and variable names. An identifier may be any descriptive sequence of upper case & lower case letters,numbers or underscore or dollar sign and must not begin with numbers.

2) What is the return type of program’s main( ) method?

Ans : void

3)  What is the use of bin and lib in JDK?

Ans : Bin contains all tools such as javac, applet viewer, awt tool etc., whereas Lib contains all packages and variables.

4) The Java source code can be created in a Notepad editor.

a) True
b) False

Ans: True

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1) The Java  interpreter is used for the execution of the source code.

True
False

Ans: True

2) What declarations are required for every Java application?

Ans: A class and the main( ) method declarations.

3) What are the two parts in executing a Java program and their purposes?

Ans: Two parts in executing a Java program are:
Java Compiler and Java Interpreter.
The Java Compiler is used for compilation and the Java Interpreter is used for execution of the application.

4) What are the three OOPs principles and define them?

Ans : Encapsulation, Inheritance and Polymorphism are the three OOPs Principles.
Encapsulation:
Is the Mechanism that binds together code and the data it manipulates, and keeps both safe from outside interference and misuse.
Inheritance:
Is the process by which one object acquires the properties of another object.
Polymorphism:
Is a feature that allows one interface to be used for a general class of actions.

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1) A wizard named Nepo says "I am only three times my son's age. My father is 40 years more than twice my age. Together the three of us
are a mere 1240 years old." How old is Nepo?

Ans. 360 years old.

2) One dog tells the other that there are two dogs in front of me.The other one also shouts that he too had two behind him. How many are
they?

Ans. Three.

3) A man ate 100 bananas in five days, each day eating 6 more than the previous day. How many bananas did he eat on the first day?

Ans. Eight.

4) If it takes five minutes to boil one egg, how long will it take to
boil four eggs?

Ans. Five minutes.
 

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1) Can you tender a one rupee note in such a manner that there shall be total 50 coins but none of them would be 2 paise coins.?

Ans. 45 one paisa coins, 2 five paise coins, 2 ten paise coins, and 1
twenty-five paise coins.

2) A monkey starts climbing up a tree 20ft. tall. Each hour, it hops 3ft. and slips back 2ft. How much time would it take the monkey to
reach the top?

Ans.18 hours.

3) What is the missing number in this series? 8 2 14 6 11 ? 14 6 18 12

Ans. 9

4)  A certain type of mixture is prepared by mixing brand A at Rs.9 a kg. with brand B at Rs.4 a kg. If the mixture is worth Rs.7 a kg., how
many kgs. of brand A are needed to make 40kgs. of the mixture?

Ans. Brand A needed is 24kgs.
 

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1) Which of the following numbers is divisible by 4?

a) 1123346
b) 10224
c) 100234

Answer is 10224

2) At 15:15 pm railway time, what will be the angle between minute and hour hand?

a) 0 degree
b) 180 degrees
c) 360 degrees
d) both a and c

Answer is both a and c

3) Let Raj be 3 years older than Ravi and Hema be two years younger than Ravi. Raj is three  times as old as Rahul who is Hema's brother. The ratio of the ages of Hema and Her brother is 3:2. Find by how much percentage Raj's age is more than Hema's when Raj will be 20 years old.

a) 33.33   
b) 40   
c) 60

Answer is 33.33

4) A hat vendor bought hats at Rs 5 per 3 hats. He sold them at Rs 10 per 4 hats. What was his profit percentage?

a) 25
b) 50
c) 30

Answer is 50