Congnizant Profile & Placement Test Pattern

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)

PROFILE:

Cognizant is a different kind of offshore outsourcing company. We bring you the best of both worlds: the savings and superior quality of offshore development, and the immediacy and trust of a local company. We have often been called “The Home Team” of offshore outsourcing.

We deliver the full range of application outsourcing, business process, and consulting & systems integration services that you expect. And, because of our background serving the Global 2000, we are expert at managing the highly complex, long-term engagements that our clients require. Unlike our rivals, we work, not from contract to contract, but long-term partnerships with our customers.

We are a U.S.-based company that is listed on NASDAQ. We offer the financial transparency and good corporate governance practices that are expected. Governed by an independent board of directors, we comply with SEC and state regulations dictating retention of independent auditors. We eliminate potential legal issues because we pay locally prevailing salaries in every region where we operate, while observing all local tax, social security, and immigration laws. And we give back to the community, contributing to charitable and worthy causes that make our environment better. We are financially strong with $150m in cash, and good profit margins. In October 2003 we topped Forbes list of “hotshots” as the number 1 company.

We know that security is important to you. With well over half of our business coming from financial services and healthcare, we know how to manage privacy and data security issues. We are audited and certified to BS 7799, the set of international regulations governing physical and network security, and are well-experienced in working with clients that implement their own U.S. standards. We are routinely audited for security by our own clients, and routinely enforce their U.S.-level standards wherever the work is performed.

Taking Offshore Outsourcing to the Next Level

We can help you gain the benefits of a world-class staff, whose quality and process discipline have achieved ISO 9001 and SEI CMM Level 5 certifications. However, we go much further than achieving the certifications that are expected of offshore service providers.
We have proven methodologies that deliver the benefits of high offshore staffing ratios in as little as 6 to 8 weeks. Our approaches consistently deliver savings of 30 to 60%, and that is only the start. Our Transforming While Performing service lets your company reinvest some of the proceeds to additional savings of 40% or more by consolidating and optimizing your software portfolio, while transforming and outsourcing selected business processes.
We can execute because of our unique, client-focused culture. Unlike our competitors, we work with you over the long term. And while most of our rivals depend on local contractors, we invest heavily in recruiting key executives, and project heads, and practice leaders who are located close to our customers in North America and Europe. And we have strong management and technology depth in India, where we have been consistently ranked as the top business school recruiter.
We have the continuity and management depth to make sure that your technology supports your business, not the other way around. We back it up with the resources to deliver the cost, speed, and world-class process advantages of high offshore ratios.
Our ability to form tight partnerships with our customers has helped us pioneer the 4th Generation Offshore Outsourcing model, a new kind of outsourcing that keeps local managers close, transforming our world-class offshore teams into virtual extensions of your IT organization.


Test pattern

TopCoaching.com Experts gathered following test pattern after speaking to candidates who appeared for junior level technical positions at Cognizant. However, the test pattern can change anytime and hence we do not recommend to the candidates to depend only on the following unofficial test pattern.


1.Cognizant paper consists of three sections

1) Verbal 25 questions to be completed in 20 minutes
2) Analytical 25 questions to be completed in 30 minutes
3) Attention 20 questions to be completed in 20 minutes


Verbal Sections:

This section typically consists of following types of questions:

1. Choose the correct sentences among given sentences
2. Choose the incorrect sentences among given sentences
3. Arrange Jumbled sentences
4. Two reading comprehension passages. 
(Paragraphs followed by deductions, filling blanks with correct words)


Analytical section:   

This section typically consists of following types of questions:

1. Problem on cube.
2. Venn diagram (5 question)
3. Data sufficiency problems.
4. Puzzles
 
Quantitative Section

This section typically consists of following types of questions:

1. Ratio & Proportion,
2. Inequalities &
3. Quadratic equations

Attention Section   

In this section most of the problems were of type: “odd man out“ figures, “What comes next in the series” and “Statement – Conclusion”.
 
Correct answer carries 1mark
Wrong answer carries 0.25 marks.


2 Technical interviews:

Some of the sample questions in technical interviews are:

•    About thermodynamics laws.
•    Procedure how heat dissipate firm computer cabins
•    About fins?
•    About insulation
•    About MESA
•    Explain your project
•    About Database
•    What is normalization
•    What are the types and explain each and give examples for each type.
•    What is a primary key
•    What is a foreign key
•    What is a composite key
•    What is the difference between unique key and primary key
•    What are constraints
•    Write a query to include a constraint while creating a table to check whether the employee salary is greater than 5000
•    What is ASP.NET 
•    What is Global.ascx
•    What are the various functions in Global.ascx
•    What is the use of session faction
•    What is the difference between VBscript and Javascript
•    What is the difference between ASP.NET and Javascript
•    What do you feel about Debugging
•    Write a program in c to find the greatest of three numbers.


3 HR interview.

Some of the sample questions in HR interview are:

•    About yourself
•    What are your interests?
•    What is happening in India?
•    What is currently happening in IT field?
•    Why do you say smart work is better than hard work?
•    Where do you want to work (place)
•    How do you say that you would get accommodated to any place?
•    Which technology do you want to work?