CISCO WRITTEN TEST AND INTERVIEW

CISCO PLACEMENT PAPER 1 -- CISCO WRITTEN PLACEMENT TEST AND INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

CISCO SELECTION PROCEDURE

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WRITTEN TEST + ONE INTERVIEW

WRITTEN TEST

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* Total Duration : 1 hour * NO NEGATIVE MARKING

Total 3 sections

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* First section is COMPULSORY for both Electronics and Computer Sciencestudents.* Second Section is of Software.* Third is of Hardware.

* I M P O R T A N T :: ONLY ONE SECTION AMONG 2nd OR 3rd need to beanswered like for you, you will give the answers of Section 2.

* 30 questions in each section

* There was no bound of time for a particular section. You candevote any amount of time to any section but max. limit is 1 hr forthe whole paper.

DETAILS OF SECTIONS-------------------

First Section : 1. Common to both cs and elec people. 2. Total 30 questions and NO negative marking 3. Simple questions on digital logic design, 2'scomplement, number representations, flipflops,microprocessors(8085), Architecture[virtual memory and small numerical like what will be the size of thememory if we have given the no. of address bits andother necessary details]. One question of formal method.

Second Section: 1. Software Section 2. total 30 questions and NO negative marking 3. OS(3-4 qns), Compilers(2-3 qns. on basics), maximum qns. were of C and Data Structures[trees, preorder, post, inorder traversals, complexity ofsearch/sort, suitable data structures etc.]

Third Section : Devoted to hardware. No details available for this section

INTERVIEW

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Regarding CISCO interviews...... they asked about project and some C and data structures and to some students some basics of networking and OS questions..... There were 3 panels. 2 panels for Software and 1 forhardware. Student has to give only one interview in any panel.There was no separate HR interview.... interview was of generally 25-30 minutes duration. 2/3 persons in an interview panel....Finally from IISc, in Software, they selected 9 people from ComputerScience and in hardware, 3 from CEDT(Electronics Design).

Interview Questions

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0. M.E. Project

1. If you are not having a sizeof operator in C, how will you get to knowthe size of an int ?

2. Write a macro to set the nth bit ?

3. Can you use a variable in a file using extern which is defined asboth static and global in base file?

4. When we declare union in C, how is the size of union allocated in thememory?

5. What is the boundary problem in allocation of size of structures?

6. Data Structures:-

a. Write a program to reverse a linked-list.

b. Some trees question...what is balanced binary tree?..etc.. One software panel asked about the courses they had done here in IISc. To some people, they have asked some OS and networking questions like OS Questions:

1. What is the difference between user and kernel space?

2. What is real time OS and how it's different from other OS?3. signal and interrupt handling.

Networking Questions:-1. Sliding window protocol.

2. TCP And IP differences.