Amdocs Interview Questions, Process, and Tips for Freshers

Round: Test
Experience: Amdocs visited our campus on 14th May . First of all there was an online test conducted by MeritTrac company on 12th May and then results were declared on 14th.The details of Online test -Sections -1) Analytical - Quantitative - 20 questionsLearning Ability Logical) - 15 questionsTechnical Passage - 10 questions
2) Technical - C/C++/Java - 20 questionsSQL - 15 questionsUnix - 15 questions
4) No negative marking
5) 60% Cutoff in both sections.
Guys analytical section was very easy and requires a day preparation only. Go through RS Agrawal for Quantitative and Logical. Technical Passage was very easy where a passage related 2 computer terminology was given. Most of the questions can be solved directly For rest go through the passage fast. Dont waste time in this.
But technical section was tough. 
Choose any language from C/C++/Java and this section will really test your programming skills and concepts. If you are choosing C then go through pointers very well. OOPS concepts must b very clear if you are choosing Java or C++. Then comes the SQL section. Some of the questions were so difficult that even I havn't heard some of them. Practice your queries like subqueries, joins, concepts like views, indexes, database terminologies must be clear.Keep some extra time for this section as there were some questions where some queries were given and you have to find error or select best query. At last there was Unix. Go through some of the basic commands like cat, tee, chmod, grep etc along with their attributes. This section was easy if you are comfortable with allthe basic commands. Go through VI editor and its commands, 3-4 questions from it must b there.Books -For sql - Ivan BayrossFor unix - Sumitabha Das 
After 2 days i.e on 14th results were declared and out of around 150 students only 12 cleared the apti. So a lot of focus is given 2 apti, so practice hard. Then TI and HR interview was there.

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Round: Test
Experience: 1. General Aptitude
2. Paying Attention
3. Learning ability
4. Java/ C++/ C
5. SQL
6. UNIX
 
First three sections were extremely easy. Try to score max. of these three sections.
Questions on Java were easy but covered vast concepts like OOPS. 1-2 questions were asked each from threading. exceptions, inner classes and collections.
SQL was bit difficult. You must know about views thoroughly. Just an overview might not be enough.
I didn't know anything about
UNIX. But other candidates were saying that it was easy only.
If you score more than 65 % overall you will get through.
In all there were 95 questions which have to be done in 120 minutes..
If you know technica; well (or do not know what to do in a particular section :)) time will be enough..
From about 600 students that gave the exam 49 were selected for the interviews. Luckily I was one of them. We received the call for interviews on 13 October and interviews were held on 16 October in their Office at Gurgaon...

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Round: Test
Experience: This year they have changed the pattern. It was only 2 hours exam. They have removed the pseudo code section. Total 7 sections were there – 4 for aptitude and 3 for technical(C/C++/JAVA, sql, unix). They have selected all the candidates who opted for JAVA in the technical section. There were 95 questions in total. There was sectional cut off of 60% for aptitude section. For technical section, there was no sectional cut off. But in total as usual 60% cut off was there. The total paper was objective. 0.25 negative marking was there. 

Section –I1.Analytical Ability – 20q2.Pattern Matching – 15q3.Comprehension  -- 10q 

Section-II1.C/C++/Java – We can choose one of them  -- 20q
2.SQL --  15q
3.Unix. – 15q


Analytical Ability
I remember only very few questions. First two questions related to sets. In a forest in total 42 animals are there of which 21 have 4 legs n 30 have horns n 5 have both. Then
1. How many animals are there with only 4 legs
2. How many animals are there with only horns
3. There is a die. We can see only three sides of the die at a time. When 3 was on the top 2,4 were on the adjacent sides like that 2 more cases were given and we have to find out  the number which is on the opposite side of 2
4. sdfsdf
5. questions 5-10 are alike. Two statements n one question will be there. All of them will be having the same options ofa. The question can be answered with help of only Statement I.b. With help of only Statement II.c. We need both the statements to answer the questionsd. We can’t answer the question at all.
And I remember some questions among them


What is the value of sin ½ ? n the statements area.       sin½cos½=0b.      sin½-cos½=0What is the value of n?a.       k3-n3=0b.      k=0Is A=1?a.3A2/5A2=3/5b.AB=1…..like that


Questions 12-16 will be having some number conversions. In general they will give the binary to decimal conversion indirectly. Like for us they have given the following instructions.
 In a number system, $ represents 1 and * represents 0. $ when shifted to left , will be multiplied by 2. So 4 is represented as $** .And they have given the questions like evaluate the expression like that. And in another paper I saw that they have given the same pattern except that @ represents 1 and # represents 0. Pattern MatchingIn pattern Matching the following options were there for questions 1-3.A.     The expression is same as A&CB.     The expression is same as B&CC.     The expression is same as A&BD.     All are same.E.      None of them are same.




Sample question:
1. nnMMM@7.34A. nnMMM@7.34  B.nnMMM@734  C. nnMMM@7.34
Be careful in this section
2. In some system + represents *, - represents +, * represents / and / represents- then evaluate the following expression 6/8-3*6+4

3. Similar kind of question with different system 

For Questions 6-10 they have given  selection criteria of a company and we have to find out whether the given candidate is eligible or not like 
The candidate need the following:1. He should have 60% till 12th in all the examinations2. He should have minimum of 65% in graduation and 70% in post graduation
And he should satisfy atleast one of the following conditions:1.      He should have recommendation letter.2.      He should be an athlet in atleast state level
1. Rahul have 62% in 12th , 75% in graduation n 80% in PG. He was tennis champion in university Level. (Ans: not eligible)


Questions 11-15 also have the same type of questions but the selection criteria is different. 

ComprehensionWe were given a comprehension related to sequential, direct memory addressing, indexing n hashing and based on that 10q were there. 
C
1. What is the output?Struct ee{int i;}Main(){ Printf(“main()”);} (Note: Semicolon is missing after struct)


2.What is the output?Main(){Int I=5;For(i=5;i>=0;i--){Printf(“%d”,i); Main();}} (Note:I is not a static variable)

3. What is the output?Main(){Char *p;p=fun(); Printf(“%s”,*p);}Char* fun(){Char b[]=”hello”;Return b;}
Some more questions on strings, One question was there on enumerations …. Like that….. 
SQLMost of the questions u can answer only if u know PL/SQL n with some knowledge of ORACLE. 
UNIX
My seniors told me that in previous papers shell scripting was not there but this year we have some questions on shell scripting too. So be prepared for that.
1. What is the output? – shell scripting for loop and command line arguments
2. One question on $$ -- used for shell variables
3. What happens when we give cal j 1997—j is for jan, june,july
4. One question on pipes using tee

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Round: Test
Experience: To start off it was in February 2010 end and after the major recession hit the market and economy had started gathering some pace and which in result did created some opening in the slump market after almost a year. My friend referred my resume in Amdocs and after few days I got mail from Amdocs that I have passed the initial round of screening of resume and to start off the interview process I have to go to Pune in Magarpatta city where they have there office and they did communicate me about the rounds and the process.

That very weekend on Saturday I had my first round i.e. written round, the office is build up in a very nice location and the infrastructure if the office is very good.

There were around 40 students for testing 40 for java and so on, in short there were around 200 plus candidates for various openings. We were seated in a training room and we were to complete our 6 section online written test conducted by some third party for Amdocs. We have to complete our test in stipulated time of 120 minutes (2hrs.)

The test consisted of the following:1) It had 6 sections in all and each section has particular time limit and marks.

2) In the entire 6 sections there were around 105 questions 

3) You have to complete the test in the time frame allocated to that particular test.

4) There were no negative marking.

5) You cannot come back to the previous section of test as it is time frame compliant.

6) You need to score minimum of 50+% in order to clear this round.

7) It had various sections viz :

a. Aptitude

b. Maths

c. English Comprehension

d. Testing

e. SQL

f. Unix

My personal Advice is that please don't apply for Amdocs if you are not clear with your SQL and UNIX as it is pre condition if you want to be part of Amdocs as all or major of there projects require these skills.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: My results were mailed to me in next 2-3 days as I was short listed in this round then I had to go for the second round which was technical interview round. My interview was scheduled at 4pm and it almost started on time with two interviewers starting it off with their introduction and then drilling deep and trying to capture my knowledge aboutTesting, Unix and SQL. . Please do study SQL and UNIX as they would not entertain you if you are weak in these areas as it's a precondition to join Amdocs. After that we had 1st round of technical interview and my interview lasted for almost 45minutes in that they asked me almost everything about my domain i.e. testing with everything related to manual testing, Unix and SQL. I think that there was nothing left to ask about that more in manual testing. I waited outside and was eager to hear the good news as I was almost certain that I would be able to clear this as my interview went of pretty well..

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Now just one round was left to crack which was HR and Negotiations round my HR round was scheduled in next half an hour and they asked pretty obvious questions such as :

1) What do you know about Amdocs ?

2) Tell about your few quality traits that can let the organization grow?

3) What all appreciations you have got and for what ? 

4) How is it better from your previous organization?

5) Why do you want to join Amodocs?

6) What is your expected salary?

7) Where do you see yourself after 5 years?

And few other HR related questions the HR told me to fill a form and congratulated me for being a part of AMDOCS . One week later they mailed me my offer letter.

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