Mahindra Comviva interview questions
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CS fundamentals
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Explain the OSI model and its layers.
Explain the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
What is static binding in C++?
Explain exception handling in Java
Explain all layers of the OSI model
What are CPU scheduling algorithms?
Explain aggregation and association in Java
Explain abstract classes and interfaces in Java
What is paging? Explain different types of paging
Explain deadlock prevention and recovery techniques
What are the two ways to implement threads in Java?
What is deadlock? Explain avoidance and prevention techniques
Implement Validate.php for input validation in a web application.
Draw an ER diagram for a database system and explain the tables used
What is multithreading and how is it different from multiprocessing?
What are dangling pointers in C/C++ and how can this error be removed?
Explain inheritance in Java and whether Java supports multiple inheritance
Implement Insert.php for handling database insertion in a web application.
Answer questions on Operating Systems, Data Structures, and DBMS fundamentals
Explain foreign keys, different types of SQL joins, and normal forms in DBMS.
Write client and server programs for socket communication (one-way and two-way)
Explain normalization and how to minimize the number of tables using foreign keys
Compare semaphore and mutex locks and explain which one is better in different scenarios.
What is database normalization? Explain anomalies, types of anomalies, and different normal forms.
Explain the difference between process and thread, parent and child processes, and the SIGINT signal.
Given a table with students, subjects, and marks, write an SQL query to find the maximum marks for each student in each subject.
Explain client-server communication, connection-oriented vs connection-less protocols, and their advantages. Discuss basics of socket programming.
What is a Binary Search Tree?
Differentiate between TCP and UDP
Explain dynamic memory allocation
Explain client-server architecture
What is a 64-bit operating system?
What is a virtual function in C++?
Explain paging in operating systems
Explain different types of SQL joins
What are DDL and DML commands in DBMS?
Demonstrate exception handling in Java.
Explain the three-way handshaking protocol
DSA
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Detect a loop in a linked list
Implement a doubly linked list
Implement a linked list in Java
What is BFS? Explain the BFS algorithm.
Delete a node from the middle of a singly linked list.
Find the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) between two strings.
Write code to insert a node in the middle of a doubly linked list
Print all combinations of balanced parentheses for a given number of pairs
Given an array of n integers, find the minimum length of a subset whose bitwise OR value is maximum among all possible subsets.
Reverse a linked list
Insert a node in a linked list
Delete a node from a linked list
Aptitude
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Logical reasoning problems
Quantitative aptitude problems (mixed arithmetic and reasoning questions)
Given two integers n and k, determine whether k infinite areas can be formed using n distinct straight lines.
Given two circles with centers (x1, y1), radius r1 and (x2, y2), radius r2, find the area of intersection of the two circles.
Behavioural
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Given a case study, how would you approach and solve it?
Describe a situation where your opinion differed from your team leader’s. What was the outcome and how did you handle the situation?
How do you deal with conflict in college team projects?
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Puzzles
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You are standing in a dark room with no source of light. How would you find the exact center of the floor?
There are 1000 coins and 10 bags. One bag contains fake coins with different weight. How do you identify the bag with fake coins using minimum measurements?
System design
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Design the layout and basic architecture of the IRCTC website.
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Candidate interview reports most often cover CS fundamentals (68%) and DSA (19%).
How many rounds does Mahindra Comviva interview have?
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Among questions with a reported difficulty, the mix is easy 61%, medium 39%, hard 0%.