Company: Aricent Group

The Tech interview-
Here they mostly check for your ability to code and your knowledge in networks. You need to be extremely confident and be well versed in C or C++.

Your marks in C or C++ in written test plays a important role. Several of whom i know performed not that well in interview but had very good marks in that section.

Aricent written test mainly concentrates on your C strength.
Regarding the interview they mostly ask these type of questions
They will definitely ask u from ur area of interest.

if u have choosen OS
Then read
-paging
-memory management
-process scheduling
-dead lock
-process synchronization

again from Data Structures
*linked list—-very important.. they mostly ask u to insert and delete a node from a singly or doubly linked list…This they ask u even if ur area of interest is not DS
Trees also binary tree…
read all the sorting algorithms…

from Networks
OSI layer
role of each layer
protocols in each layer
HTTP
DHCP
*Router and a switch-Router works on network and switch on data link layer
Gateway…which layer does it work on..mostly all seven layers
gateway and firewall

Basics of Networks is a must with out which its very difficult..
Then next is C programmin
They mostly ask u to code the linked list..
other things tat they often ask is string manipulation programs
like strcat, strlen, strcmp….
u have to write code to perform tat…
they also asked the different types of variables in C–external,static,local,global…
Thats all..

Well for Aricent there is no standard tat they choose a particular question always. mostly in Chennai these are the possible questions….They are not exhaustive..Usually some interviewers ask questions from all the subjects thats a rare chance..

Remember with out basic Networks and basic C knowledge its really difficult to clear Aricent….

Parthi