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Microsoft Placement Papers  1. Besides communication cost, what is the other source of inefficiency in RPC? (answer : context switches, excessive buffer copying). How can you optimize the communication? (ans : communicate through shared memory on same machine, bypassing the kernel _ A Univ. of Wash. thesis) 2. Write a routine that prints out a 2-D array in spiral order! 3. How is the readers-writers problem solved? - using semaphores/ada .. etc. 4. Ways of optimizing symbol table storage in compilers. 5. A walk-through through the symbol table functions, lookup() implementation etc. 6. An array of size k contains integers between 1 and n. You are given an additional scratch array of size n. Compress the original array by removing duplicates in it. What if k << n? ANS. Can be done in O(k) time i.e. without initializing the auxiliary array! 7. An array of integers. The sum of the array is known not to overflow an integer. Compute the sum. What if we know that intege...

                      Microsoft Placement Paper Questions 1. A version of the "There are three persons X Y Z, one of which always lies".. etc.. 2. There are 3 ants at 3 corners of a triangle, they randomly start moving towards another corner.. what is the probability that they don't collide. 3. Write an efficient algorithm and C code to shuffle a pack of cards.. this one was a feedback process until we came up with one with no extra storage. 4. The if (x == 0) y = 0 etc.. 5. Some more bit wise optimization at assembly level 6. C++ ( what is virtual function ? what happens if an error occurs in constructor or destructor. Discussion on error handling, templates, unique features of C++. What is different in C++, ( compare with unix). 7. Given a list of numbers ( fixed list) Now given any other list, how can you efficiently find out if there is any element in the second list that is an element of the first list (fixed list). 8...

Microsoft Placement Paper  Questions 1.C++ ( what is virtual function ? what happens if an error occurs in constructor or destructor. Discussion on error handling, templates, unique features of C++. What is different in C++, ( compare with unix). 2. Given a list of numbers ( fixed list) Now given any other list, how can you efficiently find out if there is any element in the second list that is an element of the first list (fixed list). 3. Given 3 lines of assembly code : find it is doing. IT was to find absolute value. 4. If you are on a boat and you throw out a suitcase, Will the level of water increase. 5. Print an integer using only putchar. Try doing it without using extra storage. 6. Write C code for (a) deleting an element from a linked list (b) traversing a linked list 7. Compute the number of ones in an unsigned integer. ANS. #define count_ones(x) \ (x=(0xaaaaaaaa&x)>>1+(0x55555555&x), \ x=(0xcccccccc&x)>>2+(0x33333333&x), \ x=(0x...

Algorithms and Programming 1. Given a rectangular (cuboidal for the puritans) cake with a rectangular piece removed (any size or orientation), how would you cut the remainder of the cake into two equal halves with one straight cut of a knife ? 2. You're given an array containing both positive and negative integers and required to find the sub-array with the largest sum (O(N) a la KBL). Write a routine in C for the above. 3. Given an array of size N in which every number is between 1 and N, determine if there are any duplicates in it. You are allowed to destroy the array if you like. [ I ended up giving about 4 or 5 different solutions for this, each supposedly better than the others ]. 4. Write a routine to draw a circle (x ** 2 + y ** 2 = r ** 2) without making use of any floating point computations at all. [ This one had me stuck for quite some time and I first gave a solution that did have floating point computations ]. 5. Given only putchar (no spri...