Hexaware Interview Questions

Directions for questions 1-10: Expand the following terms (HexaWare)
1. ODBC    Ans. Open Database Connectivity.
2. HTML    Ans. Hyper Text Markup Language
3. RISC    Ans. Reduced Instruction Set Computing
4. ASCII    Ans. American Standard Code For Information Interchange
5.ANSI    Ans. American National Standard Institute.
6. XML     Ans. Extended Markup Language
7. FLOPS    Ans. Floating Point Operating Per Second
8. SQL        Ans. Sequential Query Language
9. QBE    Ans. Query By Example
10. ALE    Ans. Address Latch Enable
11. What is lagging in DBMS ?     Ans. Reduced Redundancy.
Directions 12 to 20: For the following questions find the odd man out
12. Unix
      OS/2
      CMOS
      MSDOS    Ans. CMOS
13. Oracle
      Informix
      Sybase
      LISP    Ans. LISP
14. Laser
      Inkjet
      Dotmatirx
      Mouse    Ans. Mouse
15. Dir
      Cls
      Csh
      Copy    Ans. Csh
16. Bit
      Byte
      Nibble
      Digit    Ans. Digit
17. Hard Disk
      Floppy Drive
      CD ROM
      Cache    Ans. Cache
18. SQL
      QUEL
      QBE
      ORACLE    Ans. Oracle
19. C++
      JAVA
      VC++
      PASCAL    Ans. PASCAL
20. Projection Operation
      Selection Operation
      Intersection
      Set Difference Operation        Ans. Intersection
21. Which of the following is a universal gate ?
(a) OR
(b) AND
(c) XOR
(d) NOR    Ans. NOR
22. The default back end of the VB is
(a) Oracle
(b) Sybase
(c) Informics    Ans. Sybase
23. What is meant by Superconductivity?    Ans. No reistance
24. Viscosity                    Ans. Friction
25. What is the Lock Based Protocol used for?    Ans. Concurrency Control in DBMS
Directions for question 25 to 32: Convert the decimal numbers on the left to the required form
25. 9's complement of 28    Ans. 71
26. Binary of 58        Ans. 111010
27. Octal of 359        Ans.547
28. Hexadecimal of 650    Ans.28A
29. BCD of 18            Ans.0001 1000
30. BCD of 34.8        Ans.0011 0100.1000
31. Excess-3 code of 6    Ans.1001
32. Excess-3 code of 9    Ans.1100
33.  If Ax + By = 1F16; Cx + Dy = 2510 .Find the value of x and y
34. Semaphore is used for
(a) synchronization
(b) dead-lock avoidence
(c) box
(d) none                        Ans.  A
35. For addressing 1 MB memory, the  number of address lines required,
(a)11
(b)16
(c)22
(d) 24                            Ans.  b
36. Which of the following remains in memory temporarily
(a) Resident portion of COMMAND.COM
(b) Transient portion of COMMAND.COM
(c) API
(d) Disk BIOS                        Ans.  b
37. Pick the odd man out
(a) IO.SYS
(b) MSDOS.SYS
(c) ROM-BIOS
(d) COMMAND.COM                Ans.  C
38. OS/2 is a
(a) Single User OS
(b) Multi User OS
(c) Multi Tasking OS
(d) None of these                    Ans.  C
39. Bootstrap loader program is a program belonging to
(a) ROM startup software
(b) ROM extension software
(c) ROM BIOS software
(d) ROM Basic software                Ans.  A
40. The entry of starting cluster of a file is present in
(a) Boot Parameters
(b) Directory
(c) FAT
(d) Partition Table and master boot program        Ans.  C