Microsoft Intern question paper

Well I attended Microsoft Internship written test. The question paper was um..okay. They concentrated more on concepts. The "reading between lines" concept was requried to answer all the questions. We were asked to register first, then assemble for a presentation. The presentation was done by a microsoft personnel (dint tell us his name). There were around 400 students from all over tamilnadu. The written test was conducted for around 2500 students alround India. The presentation was about MS's 3 teams for which the internship program was conducted. They were

• MS IT global team
• MS consulting
• MS IDC(Indian Develvopment Center)

The test started at 11.10 am exactly. The question paper was divided into sections. There were 5 sections. Each section was alloted timings based on I guess.. Importance. The 5 sections were(in order)

• Analytical
• Software Engineering
• C and C++ programming
• Operating System concepts
• RDBMS

The question paper for next section is given only after collecting the previous section's paper. The questions were asked to test our understanding level and how well we learnt concepts rather than how we mugged up. Sample questions are:

Analytical:

• Assign a 6 letter code for employees of a company. A-E(5) characters and 0 - 9(10) digits are to be used, whereas first 3 letters are characters and others are digits. Find the proability that all 3 characters are the same.
• Given a pie chart find the corresponding number of people... etc.

Operating system:

• In deadlock prevention, hold and wait can be avoided by which protocol. There are 2 protocols and both were given as options.

C and C++ programming:

• Enumeration is an Userdefined datatype.
• List is used instead of array and is preferred when

1. For sequential access.
2. For random access and some more options.

• The default access specifier for inheritance in C++ is ......