Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.

a)20.72

b) 5.18

c)238.25

d)6.18

ans:b(time=distance/speed=953/4*46

 Q1) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is

      a) 3   b) 5  c) 2

Find the value of (74*74*74-70*70*70)

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2000 pillar temple of Hyderabad.

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#Q Alchemy is an occult tradition that arose in the ancient Persian empire.  Zosimos of Panopolis was an early alchemist. Zara, reads about Zosimos  and decides to try some experiments. One day, she collects two buckets,  the first containing one litre of ink and the second containing one  litre of cola. Suppose she takes one cup of ink out of the first bucket  and pours it into the second bucket. After mixing she takes one cup of  the mixture from the second bucket and pours it back into the first  bucket. Which one of the following statements holds now?


a.There is more cola in the first bucket than ink in the second bucket.
b.There is as much cola in the first bucket as there is ink in the second bucket.
c.There is less cola in the first bucket than ink in the second bucket.


ANS:c

Here are a compliation of more open seesame questions by TCS openseesame. Courtesy my friends Anand, Abitha, Aleena, Vikky and Ann.

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#1 ) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?

a. 8

b. 37.80

c. 5

d. 40

ANS :37.80

TCS Online exam sample paper from TCS open seesame programme Nov 21,2010

Questions : 15

Time : 40 minutes

# 1         36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is
      a)  12  b)11  c)18  d)13 

2010 Question Paper of TCS held in Tamil Nadu

Questions = 32 ; time limit = 90 minutes. no negative marking. Offline (paper & pen) test and a PSYCHOMETRY TEST also.

Section 1: VERBAL ( 32 Questions ,20 minutes )


Directions for questions 1-10 :Find the synonyms of the following words


1. ACUMEN


A. exactness B. potential C. shrewdness D. bluntness
Ans: C

TCS Latest Campus Placement Paper Pattern

at Kerala

15th August 2010

Type : Fresher, Job Interview
Exam/Interview Date : 15-Aug-2010
No of Rounds : Aptitude Test, Technical Round-1, Group Discussion - GD, Client/Manager Interview
Location : Kerala


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