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Verifone Interview.
****************************:These are some of the questions asked to us.(not to

a single person.)
What is a finite Automata.
what is a turing machine.
how many processors are there
microprocessor. in Sparc.
difference between risc and cisc.
is risc always fast.
in
pentium
what is a real time system.

name some real time OS
what are the characteristics of Real time OS.
is DOS a real time OS.
what is a kernel,shell.
what is binary search, traversal, hashing etc.
given a scenario what is the
suitable data
structure.
write a code to count the no. of 1's in a binary
rep. of a number.
memory taken for char *, int * etc.
char *cp; int *ip; cp++,ip++ - what is the result.
compare the no. of bytes in unix and Dos for long
char short int.
how to make programs portable on unix and Dos under
such circumstances.
in c++, what is a constructor, destructor etc.
what is friend etc.
what is waterfall model, prototype model etc.
what is testing. what is unit testing, integration

testing etc.
What is indexing in databases?
What is atomicity?
Can recursive pgms be written in C++, Write a
recursive pgm to
calculate factorial in c++.
What is best data structure to store the processes
info in a real time
operating system?
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Verifone test Questions :
There are two parts :
1. Aptitute test :
15 Minutes, 20 Questions
Some questions are:

(not in order)
1. A question (first one)on addition of fraction

of inches
a. was the answer
2. There were 36 chairs. how many ways can they
be placed such
that all rows have equal no. of chairs and
atleast three chairs
are there in each row and there are atleast
three rows.
5 ways.
3. There are 27 balls, of which 1 is heavier.
given a balance
how many times you need to weigh to find out the
odd ball.
3 Weighs.
4. Product of three consecutive nos. 210.
is the sum
of two least numbers
11.
What
5. If the area of the sqaure is increased by 69

% how
much the length of the side will increase?
30%
6. if the sum of five consecutive nos. 35? how
many prime nos
are there :
2 primes.
7. if the length of the rectangle is reduced by
20% and breath
is increased by 20 % what is the net change ?
4 % decrease
8. A question on sets.
There are some 20 Basketball players & 30
Football players,
and 25 cricket players. 1 of them plays all the
three games.
8 of them plays atleast two games. They are 50
altogether.
How many of them plays none of the games.
9. A question on directions.
B is 20 miles east of A. D is 30 miles east of
C. E is 10 miles
north of D. C is 20 miles north of B. How far
E is from A?
Some 3 questions on Reasoning like,
10. If you say that giving stock options to
employees increases the
productivity of the company, which of the
following sentences
support it.
A) Giving stock options increases the morale
of the employees
..
..
etc.,
11. Gamblers comes to the Amusement parks.
There are some Amusement
parks in each city. There are some gamblers in
each city. So
what can you infer.
A) Amusement park always have gamblers.
..
..
etc.,
2. Technical Questions.
i. Electrical & Electronics
: 15 Questions
1.A Circuit with nand gates. (ans. may be
XOR)
2.CMRR. relates to (options not in order)
voltage follower
non invering amplifier
inverting amplifier
integrator
3. Given a circuit , give the ouput.
(ans. may be triangular wave.)
4. o/p of an assembly code.
mulitply by 11.
5. how to handle asynchronous events.
a) polling
b) interrrupt
etc.
ii)Data Structures, Algo., & Complexity theory : 5
questions
iii) OS : 5 questions
iv) Networks and Hardware: 5 questions
v) Databases and Misc.: 5 questions
vi) C Pgm. : 5 questions
some more 10 questions.
1. if W is a sequence of strings without a and W'
is its reversal
then WaW' is accepted by:
Context Free Grammmars
2. Whether all recusive pgm can be writtten
iteratively?
yes.
3. What data structes you will use if you want to
go to first record from
the last and vice versa?
doubly linked circular list
4. Given 10000 nos. and 48MB Memory. What is the
complexity of the
efficient
sorting
algo.?
(the
algo.
is
not
mentioned)
O(N)
5.
Given a C code and ask what it does?

code was something similar to Bubble sort and
that
particular code does the sorting in Desending order
and the complexity

is O(n^2)(which is the next question).
6.
A code like this is given.

a. for(i=0;i<num;i++)
b. for(i=num;i>0;i--)
Assuming no code optimization and assume that
the microprocessor
has flags etc. which one is correct.
b will execute faster.
7. If there are too many page faults what is the
problem?
8. To ensure one pgm. doesnt corrupt other pgm. in

a Multi-pgm enviornment
what you should do?
9. Which one you will use to implement critical
section?
Binary Semaphore
10. Which one is not needed for Multi-processing.
enviornment?
options
are:
virtual
memory,security,time
sharing,none of the
above.
11. Which one is not done by Data link layer ?
bit stuffing, LRC,CRC,parity check
12. Which one is not related to Data link layer?
13. Which one is not suitable for client-server
application?
tcp/ip,message passing,rpc,none of the above.

14. What is SQL.
Procedural Relational DB Query Language.
15. Indexing in databases give you
options were like 1.efficient deleting and
inserting
2.efficient deleting.
etc.
16. int a=1,b=2,c=3;
printf("%d,%d",a,b,c);
What is the output?
17. Scope of Static Variable ............
in a file.
18. for(i=0; i<=10;i++,printf("%d",i)); +there in the questions)
(+- is
20. Real Time Os should have

a)fast context switch
b)Virtual memory etc.
21. Messages are transferred in some E71 code,

where after 7 bits of data,
1 bit of stopping data is to be transferred. what
should be done.
options were like
a) send directly
b) send after encoding
etc.
22. There are three processes A, B, C. A sends data
to B. B removes the
header stores it and sends the data to C. C returns
it to B. B receives the
message, identifies the message and adds the header
that was stored and
sends to A.B receives the messages from C such that
atmost 'm' messages

B
are pending.
Identify the best Data Structure.
23.
A question in compiler about the heap and
stack allocation of memory.
24.
struct
{
char a[3];
int b;
}x;
char *cp;
a) size of x is 7.
B
b)
c)
d) cp takes the size of a pointer.
(d ) is the ans.
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section 2:
1. what is sparese matrices?. give (at least)
two methods for implemetation
rather than two dimentional array.
2.what are cheap locks/latches?.
3.what is two phase locking?. Name two locks.

4. What are volatile variables in C?. What is
their significance ?.
5. will these two work in same manner
#define intp int *
typedef int * inpp;
6. what are binary trees?. what is its use?.
7.
section 3 :
A). write header file containing functions used,
etc (C),
problem is to maitain a Queue. user has to
give size and type of Queue.
This problem is like this I don't remember
exactly.
B). C++
1. What is polymorphism?
2. What is Inheritence?.
3. Mention four Object Oriented Programming
Languages?>
4. Mention basic concepts of OOP.
5. What are messages in OOP?.
6. What is garbase collection?.
7.what is object?.
8. what is a class?.
section 4:
1. expand the following:
a.SEI b. ISO
2. what are different levels of SEI?.
3. What is significance of ISO?>
4. Expand the following:
a. WWW
b. HTTP
c. HTML
d. TCP/IP
5. what is Black box testing?.
6. explain the following:
1. white box testing

2. white box testing
3. boundary testing
4 stress
5. negative
6. system
7. unit
8.module
9.destructive
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there will be 45 qstns. 15+5+5+5+5+5+5.
section: electronics:
1.a logic ckt is given and asked to identify the
configuration.
ans: XOR.
2.multi vibrator with nor gates is given
ans: astable multi sqr wave opt.
3.4 stage ripple counter with delay(f/f) 10msec.
How much time it takes
for a state to change. 4*10=40.
4.impedence
of
a
p'lel
resonant
circiut
at
resonance:R.
5.serial
to
parellel
conversion
is
done
by
ans:shift register.
5.if the address bus id 20bits.then the memory
space is 1Mb.
6.filtering
can
be
done
with:capacitor,iductor,both,none.
7.the config that is worst effected by low CMMR
ans:Non inverting amplifier.
8.two progs are given. one satrts counting frm 0 to
MAX and the other
stars frm MAX to 0. which one executes fast.may be

Max to 0.Think of.it
should be.
another 6 qstns are there. simple.
Networks:
1.
the fctn of datalink layer is:bit stuffing.
2.which of the following is not fctn of datalink
layer: Encription.
3.voltage levels of rs232x:+12,-12.
4.which
of
the
following
is
not
used
for
client/server.
RPC,TCP/IP,MESSAGEQs None ans:may be none.
5.
database:
1. which of the following is true.
ans:the primary key in DataBAse design is very
important.
2. SQL is a Non procedural query langauge.
3.
4
5.
compiler/algo/ds:
1.Data structure used to impliment a menu: doubly
linked circular linked
list.
2. some regular expression is given:WaW'.may be it
is context free grammar.
3.,4,5.
os:
1.the feature of real time os is: fast context
swithing.
2.os impliments protection with the help of
hardware(like virtual
addressing in 386/286 etc).
C:
some small c progs are given asked to tell the

function/errors etc.
one of the qstn(last in the paper) is an invalid
statement.
finish of all these very fast and think about those
others. they are
simple only.

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Verifone Interview.

****************************:These are some of the questions asked to us.(not to

what is a real time system.

what is waterfall model, prototype model etc.

what is testing. what is unit testing, integration

VERIFONE ------> Paper:*********************************

Some questions are:

1. A question (first one)on addition of fraction

5. If the area of the sqaure is increased by 69

Given a C code and ask what it does?

and the complexity

A code like this is given.

8. To ensure one pgm. doesnt corrupt other pgm. in

tcp/ip,message passing,rpc,none of the above.

20. Real Time Os should have

21. Messages are transferred in some E71 code,

atmost 'm' messages

3.what is two phase locking?. Name two locks.

1. white box testing

stars frm MAX to 0. which one executes fast.may be

some small c progs are given asked to tell the

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