Amdocs Placement Papers

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Amdocs Placement Papers

The recruitment process consists of the following rounds:

1) Aptitude Test (General + Technical)
2) Technical Interview
3) HR Interview

APTITUDE TEST
The duration of the test is approximately 2 hours. It was supposed to be an online test but due to some technical problems on their side, they decided to conduct a written test. There were a total of 95 questions to attempt.

The test is conducted by MeriTrac.
There is 60% sectional cut-off for both sections.

The aptitude test comprises mainly of two sections:
1) General Aptitude Test
2) Technical Test

General Aptitude test
The general aptitude test consisted of the following sub-sections:
- Arithmetic Ability (20 min)
- Verbal Reasoning (20 min)
- Attention to Detail (Very easy) (15 min)

Study the following topics for R.S. Aggarwal Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude:
- Data sufficiency
- Puzzles
- Blood relations
- Venn Diagrams
- Profit & Loss
- RC
- Percentage
- Ratio
- Cubes and Dice

Technical Test
The technical test includes three sub-sections:
- SQL (15 min)
- UNIX (15 min)
- Language (15 min) (Here you can choose between C, C++ or Java)
  I chose C for the language test.

UNIX Test (15 questions)
The UNIX section comprised of 15 questions mostly on unix commands.

Some of the questions were as follows:
1) Which command would you use to change the priority of a running process?
a) nice  b) ps   c) top   d) ls
Ans: a) nice

2) Which command is used to display the output of a command as well as store it in a file ?
a) cat  b) grep  c) tee  d) top
Ans: c)  tee

3) A series of commands are given and you're required to find the final output
$ cd /
$ ls /etc
$ cd /tmp
$ cd $_
$ pwd
a) /    b) /tmp   c) /etc  d) error
Ans: b) /tmp

Also there were two questions where you have to find out any error(s) in a shell script. So study how to write shell scripts properly.
For the UNIX test, I would suggest you to read Sumitabha Das' UNIX Concepts and Applications.

SQL Test (15 questions)
The SQL section is very easy to clear if you know the syntax of the language properly coz most of the questions were based on identifying the correct syntax of a query.
Study JOINS, VIEWS, Aggregate functions properly for this test.

Language test (20 questions)
And finally, the language test. Only those who took C finally cleared this test. So I would suggest you to go for C. It's not a difficult section anyway. In most of the questions you are required to check if the code would result in a compilation error or no.

Some of the questions were
1) main ()
    {
         char s1[] = "Amdocs";
         char s2[] = "DVCI";
         s1 = s2;
         printf ("%s", s1);
     }
a) Amdocs   b) DVCI  c) Compilation error  d) Run-time error

Ans: c) Compilation error

2) main ()
    {
          char s1[20] = "Amdocs DVCI";
          printf ("%d", sizeof(s1));
    }

a) 20   b)  11  c) 12   d) 10

Ans: a) 20


3) int main ()
    {
          int var[4][4] = { {1,3}, 4, 2 };
          int size = 0;