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Having a job interview is seldom a pleasant experience. However, it doesnt have to be pure torture as many interpret it. Many people fall into the trap of second guessing themselves. This creates worry, which can lead to panic. The end result is, someone else gets the job and not you. Useful advice on how to behave and conduct yourself at your next job interviewBeing prepared for the interview could mean the difference between getting the job and not. Employers will usually hire the person that makes the best impression at the interview. This is quite often over people who have far more skills, qualifications and experience. Being prepared can quite often make or break the interview. Have...

Microsoft frequently asked interview questions, Technical interview Questions, Job interview Questions for new campus recruitment of freshersMicrosoft interview Questions1.What is the difference between a class and object?2.Find the intersection of two linked lists.3.How do you sort a linked list using the most efficient algorithm?4. What is stored procedure? What are its advantages and disavantages?5. Which is better trigger or stored procedure?6.How to test a calculator?7.Write a procedure to shuffle cards, and also mention strengths and shortcomings of your approach8. Differnce between interfaces and abstract classes? 9.Validate a Binary search tree? ( as in the left- right child follow the...

1. Analytical 25 questions ( 30 minutes)2. Reasoning 25 questions (25 minutes)3. Verbal 20 questions (20 minutes)Analytical (some what easy to attempt)Logical:1. Data sufficiency problems2. Comparing similarityVerbal:1. similar meanings2. antonyms3. passages4.synonymsSome sample QuestionsIn a X,s and 0,s game (i.e. TIC TAC TOE) if you write a program for this give a fast way to generate the moves by the computer. I mean this should be the fastest way possible.ANS:- The answer is that you need to store all possible configurations of the board and the move that is associated with that. Then it boils down to just accessing the right element and getting the corresponding move for it. Do some analysis...

My experience Microsoft conducted on 22nd December, 2010. First round was a written test of an hour. There were 6 questions (4 programming and 2 test cases) 10 marks each. 1) Find output of following code?void main() {void *ptr;char *a=,A,;char *b="TAN";int i=50;ptr=a;ptr=(*char)malloc(sizeof(a));printf("%c",*ptr);ptr=i;ptr=(*int)malloc(sizeof(i));printf("%d",++(*ptr));ptr=b;ptr=(*char)malloc(sizeof(b));printf("%c",++(*ptr));}Ans: A51AN 2) Write a program that takes a no. from user and prints the no. subtracting 5 each time from the no. till the no. doesnt crosses/reaches 0.And again prints the nos. Now increasing 5 each time till the no. doesnt reaches/crosses original no. Don,t use any...

MICROSOFT PAPER ON 24TH MAY AT MUMBAIHi to One & all who r reading this . I m xyz . For all who r trying for Microsoft or any other company, My one suggestion is that be perfect in basics. If u r perfect in basics u can crack any interview. So Dont loss u r hopes if u have not got recruited still.NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD ,BECAUSE IMPOSSIBLE ALSO SAYS THAT I M POSSIBLEOk coming to the Microsoft Test which I attended.I attended on 24th May 2008. It was in Thakur Polytechnic College. In Mumbai.It had1] Written test2] Group Discussion3] Followed by Multiple Technical Rounds.Written test was for 2 hours.I remember only few question1.Aptitude2.C3.C++4.Datastructure5.os6.Algorithms7.RDBMS8..NetI...

MICROSOFT PAPER ON 26th JULYSelection procedure and interview questions of Microsoft at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)There were 4 rounds for selection procedure. First round was a written test, second round was group interview and 3rd and 4th rounds were technical interview. Each round had eliminations. Total 143 students were eligible for written test and 16 students were selected for the next round, ie. group interview. Only 8 students were able to go for 3rd round of technical interview. In 3rd round 4 more students were eliminated and remaining 4 students went for final round of technical interview. Only 1 student got an offer finally from...

I had questions like following:-1. What is the difference between a class and object?2. What is stored procedure? What are its advantages and disavantages?3. Which is better trigger or stored procedure?4. What is difference between data set and data reader?(.net)5. Write a querry for accesing unique rows from emp(Ename,Age) sorted by age?6. What is the difference between Function overloading, Function Overriding and Virtual Functions?7. Difference between multiple and multilevel inheritence?8. Differnce between interfaces and abstract classes?

These Are one of the Microsoft Interview Questions Round 1: What are your interests? ( as in academics/topics)  Given a string, search it in a set of strings (say among 1000s of string). What data structure would you use to store those 1000 strings and get the results fastest? Answer:I answered hash tables but he said suggest a better        one.He said suggest a better one and then gave me one        Tree sort of DS and then asked me to compare the two. Reverse a linked list?  Find if there is a loop in a linked List?  Given two arrays of numbers, find if each of the two arrays have the same set of integers ? Suggest...

MICROSOFT PAPER ON 26th JULY Selection procedure and interview questions of Microsoft at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) There were 4 rounds for selection procedure. First round was a written test, second round was group interview and 3rd and 4th rounds were technical interview. Each round had eliminations. Total 143 students were eligible for written test and 16 students were selected for the next round, ie. group interview. Only 8 students were able to go for 3rd round of technical interview. In 3rd round 4 more students were eliminated and remaining 4 students went for final round of technical interview. Only 1 student got an offer finally...

MICROSOFT PAPER ON 29th JANUARY1) Coldest planet:Pluto2) INS Shivali is the first:3) Which one of the following was NOT indegineously developed?:Prithvi/Akash/Agni4) Full form of SARS5) Anthrax is a :Virus/Bacteria/.../...6) Dakshina Gangothri is:Ganga,s origin/Indian camp @ antartica/.../...7) Which of the following is a chemical weapon:Mustard Gas/Marsh Gas/.../...8) A question based on Coding and Decoding9) Another question similar to above10) Question on series completion11) Another series completion question12) Where is Institute of Forensic Science?:Hyderabad13)A G.K question based on chromosomes in males and femalesSample technical questions asked in test last year in CSE...

Networks and Security 1. How do you use RSA for both authentication and secrecy? 2. What is ARP and how does it work? 3. What,s the difference between a switch and a router? 4. Name some routing protocols? (RIP,OSPF etc..) 5. How do you do authentication with message digest(MD5)? (Usually MD is used for finding tampering of data) 6. How do you implement a packet filter that distinguishes following cases and selects first case and rejects second case. i) A host inside the corporate n/w makes a ftp request to outside host and the outside host sends reply. ii) A host outside the network sends a ftp request to host inside. for the packet filter in both cases the source and destination fields will...

Computer Architecture 1. Explain what is DMA?2. What is pipelining?3. What are superscalar machines and vliw machines?4. What is cache?5. What is cache coherency and how is it eliminated?6. What is write back and write through caches?7. What are different pipelining hazards and how are they eliminated.8. What are different stages of a pipe?9. Explain more about branch prediction in controlling the control hazards10. Give examples of data hazards with pseudo codes.11. How do you calculate the number of sets given its way and size in a cache?12. How is a block found in a cache?13. Scoreboard analysis.14. What is miss penalty and give your own ideas to eliminate it.15. How do you improve the cache...

Algorithms and Programming1. Given a rectangular (cuboidal for the puritans) cake with a rectangular piece removed (any size or orientation), how would you cut the remainder of the cake into two equal halves with one straight cut of a knife ? 2. You,re given an array containing both positive and negative integers and required to find the sub-array with the largest sum (O(N) a la KBL). Write a routine in C for the above. 3. Given an array of size N in which every number is between 1 and N, determine if there are any duplicates in it. You are allowed to destroy the array if you like. [ I ended up giving about 4 or 5 different solutions for this, each supposedly better than the others ]. 4. Write...

MICROSOFT PAPER AND PATTERN The following are actual questions from actual interviews conducted byMicrosoft employees on the main campus. Microsoft Consultants aresometimes allowed to have a life, so questions asked of them duringinterviews don,t really count and aren,t listed. The questions tend to follow some basic themes:RiddlesAlgorithmsApplicationsThinkers RiddlesWhy is a manhole cover round?How many cars are there in the USA? (A popular variant is "How many gasstations are there in the USA?")How many manhole covers are there in the USA?You,ve got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to paythem. The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You mustgive them a...