YAHOO PLACEMENT SAMPLE PAPER

YAHOO PLACEMENT SAMPLE PAPER

Few Questions: (45 min)
1. In a village in each family they give birth to children till they
get a boy. IF girl child they try again. What is the ratio of boys to
girls.

2. 2n+1 numbers in a list except for 1 num all had duplicates, how to
find duplicate in O(n)

3. In 1000 wine bottles stack 10 are poisoned given 10 rats what is
the minimum number of tries to find the poisoned one. Rat dies once it
licks the poisoned wine.

4. Write 1,3,6,4 using +,-,*,/ to get 24 (no repeat of numbers)

Latest Sample Yahoo Placement Paper - I

Latest Sample Yahoo Placement Paper - I

Aptitude and Computer Awareness
No Negative Marking.45 minutes to complete the test. Do not write anything on question paper.

Directions for Questions Nos: 22 to 23
Kya-Kya is an island in the south pacific .The inhabitants of Kya-Kya always Answer any question with two sentences, one of which is always true and other is always false.


22) You are walking on a road and come to a fork. You ask the inhabitants Ram, Laxman, Lila,”Which road will take me to the village?”
Ram says,”I never speak to strangers. I am new to this place”
Laxman says,”I am married to Lila. Take the left road”.
Lila says,”I am married to ram. He is not new to this place”
Which of the following is true?
A) Left road takes you to the village
B) Right road takes you to the village
C) Lila is married to laxman
D) None of above
Ans. A.

Ram said he never talked to strangers, but he spoke to a stranger, this meAns that this statement is false, hence his other statement must be true, hence the second statement of Lila is false, hence her first statement is true that is she is married to ram, hence the first statement of Laxman is false, hence his second statement is true, that is take the left road.

23) You find that your boat is stolen.You question three inhabitants of the island and they reply as follows:
John says,”I didn't do it. Mathew didn't do it”
Matthew says,”I didn't do it. Krishna didn't do it.”
Krishna says,”I didn't do it .I don't know who did it.”
Who stole your boat?
A) John
B) Matthew
C) Krishna
D) None of them.
Ans. B

Yahoo Placement Paper Written Test Experience -September 2006

Hi Iam from Bangalore Studying in RVCE,Bangalore.
Yahoo came  to our campus on 7-9-2006.

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You know Yahoo pattern is they will conduct four rounds.

1.Written test
2.Programming
3.Technical interview
4.HR

Written test: 

Total 15 questions with different marks.

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Some were of multiple choice and some explanatory questions.

Some questions were from C++.

one question from DBMS related to 3rd normal form.

Questions from Data structure like infix postfix,merge 
sort,tree,Algoritham.

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15th question again on  C code which was a server Programming.
3 hrs for that.
1hr for design and 2hr for implementation.
We can choose our own language like c,c++,Java.
Question was to design a XML parser.

After that Technical Round followed by HR round.

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