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Exam Place : Bangalore
Date : Not Given
Submitted By : Giridhar Rao, Hyderabad
Rating : 4 out of 5
Honeywell conducted a test in IIT and Interview
was in their office at B'lore.
Test contained 100 multiple choice questions
divided into
Exam Pattern
a) Verbal ability (15 ques)
b) Numerical aptitude (15 )
c) Logical and analytical ability (15)
d) Elementary computer science (10)
d) Programming langauages (20)
e) Operatins systems and Data structures (25)
Questions
What is a Real-Time System ?
What is the difference between Hard and Soft
real-time systems ?
What is a mission critical system ?
What is the important aspect of a real-time system
?
Explain the difference between microkernel and
macro kernel.
Give an example of microkernel.
Why paging is used ?
Which is the best page replacement algo and Why
?
What is software life cycle ?
How much time is spent usually in each phases
and why ?
What is testing ?
Which are the different types of testing ?
Rate U'rslef in both C and C++. ( 1 - 10 marks)
Second round (around 45 minutes )
What is a distributed system ?
Some questions about CSP.
What are the differences between Pascal and C.
Ans) Pascal is a strongly typed language.
Then what is typing and its advantages ?
Then he asked some questions from Compiler construction
and Lisp.
Which are the different computer architectures
?
What is the requirement in MIMD ?
What is the difference between RISC and CISC
processors ?
Difference between loosely coupled and tightly
coupled systems ?
What is an open system ?
Still a lot of questions from software engineering
.
Which are the different phases in Software life
cycle (asked again)
Why is analysis and testing phases very important
?
Which methodologies are U familiar with ?
Have U worked in windows ? (Yes)
What is the difference U have seen from a Dos
environment ?
I said it event driven .
So what do U mean by event driven ?
How do WinMain look like ?
How the messages are processed in Windows ?
What are parameters needed to distinguish an
event ?
Have U done any network programming ?
Why networks are layered ?
What is the advantage of that ?
How many layers are there in OSI ?
WHy is it called OSI model ?
Are U familiar with network topologies ?
Which are the different network toplogies ?
Tell an example of bus type network.
I said ethernet.
What is the Bandwidth of ethernet ?
Explain the advantage and disadvantage of ethernet
?
Which is the protocol used in ethernet. (CSMA/CD)
Why is it called so ?
If all stations tries to communicate at same
time, what will happen.
What is binary exponential backoff algo ?
What is the advantage of Ring network ?
Compare it with ethernet.
In a real-time system which one do U prefer and
why ?
What is the basic requirement of a real-time
network ?
Which one is costly - ethernet of ring networks
?
Some questions form OOSD and Digital signal processing.
What is inheritance, encapsulation etc.
How do U interact with friends ?
How do adjust to a new environemnt ?
Suppose U solve a problem and after that U are
getting an almost same
problem with high complexity ( and lower complexity).
How will U
approach to the next problem.
What is U'r approach towards a new subject ?
How do U prepare for exams ?
Suppose in a project meeting, somebody fires
U, how will U react ?
Are U patient enought to wait in long
queues ?
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