Aricent Interview of Swati Kaushik

Hi..

After written test they asked us to fill up a form containing 7 questions:

1) Write one incident where u showed leadership quality and helped to achieve an objective or goal.

2) Write one situation where u were facing problem.. u analyzed it and final solved the problem.

3)Write one situation where u didnot ve much knowledge but still u accomplished it.

4)Write one incident where u were against the original plan of action but still u accomodate accordingly.

5)Write one incident where u gave some new ideas which helped a project to be a success.

6) abhi yaad nahi aa raha..koi aur bata dega :P

7)Write one incident where u had a lot of work to complete in very less time.. what steps did u take to complete it on time?


My Interview at Aricent

Tell about urself..

then he discussed around 5 questions of my critical incident form..for around 20 minutes.

which are ur favourite subjects? I said OS and C

What is an OS?

How many os ve u worked on?

What is the difference between Windows and linux?

What is PCB?what all does it store?

What is a thread?

What is the diff btwn multithreading and multiprocessing?
Which is better?

What is mutual exclusion?

What are the variables used for providing process synchronization?

What is a semaphore?

What is deadlock?

Tell me TCP/IP model?

Name some protocols at application layer?

What is circuit switching?

What is packet switching?
Give example of each.. why do we need circuit switching when we ve packet switching?

Have u studied software engineering?

What is SDLC? How many phases are there? name them.

Does maintenance comes before testing or testing comes before?

How many models do u know abt?

Draw waterfall model.

What is a prototype of func give an example? (he asked me to write for factorial)

Write the body of this function (To find factorial of a number) make it recursive.

What is difference btwn a macro and a function?
Which is better?

What is a pointer?

Write a function to copy a string using pointers.
explain ur code.

What is a data structure?
Define a linked list node? write the structure definition.

i wrote
struct node
{
int data;
node* next;
};


How can u use node pointer? r u sure u can do tht? (He asked twice or thrice)

What is typedef?give an example.write a typedef for node*
Draw pictorically a doubly linked list node.

Thats it from my side,
Swati