BAAN Placement Question Papers

Baan Test Pattern

Short Listing of Resume

Q. Does company have its own form or uses standard placement form?
A. The company use it,s own form

Q. Does company apply the shortlist to the resumes submitted?
A. yes, they shortlist the resumes first

Q. Is the shortlist qualifying in nature or eliminatory (merit based)?
A. Shortlist is based on a weighted scale arrived at based on rating on various factors such as, qualification, experience, specific skill set .. etc

Q. What is normally the ratio of shortlist. (i.e. howmany people are shortlisted vs. applied)?
A. generally X(20) candidates sit for written and then X(5) are called for interviews

Q. Is there advantage for work ex guys?
A. Yes there is advantage, but since Baan is a product based company and it,s development platform is proprietory, hence Baan gives good training to selected candidates, so work ex- is not that important in Baan jobs. But when there is recruitment for C++/Java stuff, work ex- becomes important.

Q. Is there a leaning towards particular background of students in the shortlist? (
A. Graduates with good IT skills and good communication skills are definitely preferred

Q. Does grad matter in the shortlist?
A. Yes

Q. What role does extra-curricular activities plays in the shortlist process?
A. Not much, mainly the IT skills are seen

Q. What qualities should the candidate highlight in his/her resume?
A. Educational Background, IT skill set, Work experience (Projects worked on), special achievements.

Q. What is the biggest mistake a candidate can make in his/her resume?
A. The resume should be tailored to the job requirements. A major mistake is not being able to balance the information according to the job description. The skill set should be as required and whatever one mentions in the resume should be defendable in the interview.

Written Test

Q. Does company conduct any written test?
A. yes, aptitude test + RDBMS test + C++ basics

Q. Is this step qualifying or eliminatory? If eliminatory then normally what is the ratio of shortlist?
A. it,s eliminatory. 5:1 is the ratio generally. But there is a minimum qualification limit as well.

Q. What are the various type of test, the company conducts?
A. written test I mentioned above. It,s about 100 questions in 120 minutes.
Then there is GD on any current topic in groups of 4-5
Also there is one psychological test, 20 questions in 5 min

Q. What is company trying to measure in written test?
A. Basic mathematical aptitude and IT knowledge

Q. What type of preparation would help the potential candidates?
A. Aptitude test practice and clear on basics of RDBMS, OOP + general computer knowledge. And concepts of ERP, basic business knowledge is of advantage.

Q. In psychological tests what type of profile is company trying to look for (team player /individual /aggressive /systems man /creative /leaders /thinkers /others)? (tick mark)
A. team player, NOT-aggressive, willing to adapt and open to change

Q. Does company repeat its written test?
A. No idea

Q. What is the biggest mistake a candidate can make in the written test?
A. Generally candidates fail in RDBMS and C++ sections

Group Discussions

Q. Does company conduct GDs?
A. Yes

Q. Is this step qualifying or eliminatory? If eliminatory then normally what is the ratio of shortlist?
A. Eliminatory, score is clubbed with preliminary interview score. Ratio is 50% elimination

Q. The duration of GD, size of the group, number of panelists etc.
A. 4-5 candidates , 2 panelists and 20 min GD

Q. What are normally the topics of GD (general /economic /political /abstract /curriculum related /recent issues /case studies /others, pl specify)?
A. Any current topic related to IT: viz : Y2k - Is it hype or real ?

Q. What do you think is company trying to test in GDs (communication skills / group behavior /composure /leadership skills /initiative /aggression /team spirit /creativeness /subject knowledge/ others, pl specify)?(tick mark)
A. Mainly the communication skills and group behaviour

Q. Does the company emphasize a formal dress code for the GD?
A. no

Q. How can a candidate prepare for the GDs?
A. GD for Baan is not very elaborate or Key activity, just be cool and make sense to whatever you speak. And Talk less, also listen !

Q. What is the biggest mistake a candidate can make during the GD?
A. be aggressive and take too much initiative

Case Studies

Not used in recruitment process.

Group situation

Not used.

Preliminary Interview

Q. Does company conducts preliminary interviews?
A. Yes

Q. Is this step qualifying or eliminatory? If eliminatory then normally what is the ratio of shortlist?
A. Eliminatory

Q. What is the duration of interview /number of panelists?
A. 2 panelists, duration 1-2 hours

Q. How does the interview start?
A. No specific way

Q. What types of questions are asked in the interview?
A. Mainly IT skill related as mentioned in the resume + areas of interest to the person

Q. . Does company create situations akin to ,stress interview,? Describe some?
A. No, it,s very cool, technology oriented

Q.. Is company trying to test the candidate,s integrity( give a sample question if possible)?
A. In IT jobs, integrity is purchased by remuneration, so companies don,t test that too much. But yes, the background tells a lot about possibility of a person being loyal.

Q. What do you think the company trying to assess in the candidate during the interview?
A. Ability and interest in job requirements. Mainly the authenticity of skill set and ability to work in teams.

Q. What type of environment is there during the interview (tense /relaxed /formal /non-formal)?
A. Very relaxed, informal

Q. What type of dress code is suitable for the company? (formal /semi formal /informal)?
A. Semi-formal

Q. How does the interview end?
A. No particular way. After the panelists feel that they have asked al their questions, it ends

Q. How can a candidate better prepare himself for the interview?
A. Be good at Skill set concepts and don,t do guess work in answers. Be cool and confident, always show willingness to learn and apply.

Q. Does company make spot offer during the interview?
A. They reserve the results declaration for a later date

Q. What is the biggest mistake a candidate can make during the interview?
A. Be over confident and argue on wrong side

Final Interview

Q. What is the duration of interview /number of panelists?
A. Is with General Manager 30 min

Q. How does the interview start?
A. With warm welcome from GM and personal talks

Q. What types of questions are asked in the interview?
A. The GM assesses personality of the individual who as been through all the tests.
Generally they are a mix of psychology /personal and subject related questions

Q. Does company create situations akin to ,stress interview,? Describe some?
A. No

Q. Is company trying to test the candidate,s integrity?
A. Yes, at this stage, GM tests that through his judgement

Q. What do you think the company trying to assess in the candidate during the interview?
A. The overall personality of the person

Q. What type of environment is there during the interview (tense /relaxed /formal /non-formal)?
A. Very Relaxed

Q. What type of dress code is suitable for the company? (formal /semi formal /informal)?
A. Semi-formal

Q. How does the interview end?
A. The GM reserves the result declaration for a later date. Ends with a warm thanks

Q. Are interview questions repeated by the company?
A. No idea

Q. How can a candidate better prepare himself for the interview?
A. Be confident and show loyalty. Be cool and listen. DO NOT be aggressive

Q. Does company make spot offer during the interview?
A. No

Q. What is the biggest mistake a candidate can make during the interview?
A. Be Aggressive and noisy

Higher entry
Q. Does company consider higher entry for the candidates with work ex?
A. Yes

Q. Does company apply any cut off for the work ex or age (if yes what are these?)
A. Yes, depends on jod requirements

Q. What is the difference between entry level of people with and without work ex?
A. There is diff in compensation and designation

Q. In giving the weightage does company look for relevant work ex?
A. yes

Compensation
Q. What is the total compensation offered by the company at entry level? and after confirmation?
A. It,s confidential, for s/w engineer it,s 2-3 lacs per annum at entry level

Q. Is salary negotiable?
A. Yes

Q. Does company provide accommodation?
A. No

Q. What are the other benefits offered by the company?
A. Insurance, loans, foreign travel allowance, limited stock options .. etc

Q. What are the job locations? initially / after confirmation?
A. Mumbai/Hyderabad

Baan Paper General - other - 1 June 2005

SSA Sample Question Paper(Baan)1/ JUNE / 2005

A circle is inscribed in a Triangle of side 6cm.And a square is inscribed in the Circle. What is the area of square?

There are two bridges running parallel over river Kauvery, and they are 1 KM apart. A man started rowing the boat upstream under first bridge, his hat fell into river while he was exactly under second bridge. He realized that after 15 mts, and started rowing in opposite direction, he eventually caught his hat under First Bridge. What is the speed of river Kauvery? What is the speed of boat?

There are five traders Timber, Steel, Cotton, Boots, Wood . Each sent a Collection of items between them. No two traders have sent the items among themselves. i.e., The Trader who had received items from X can,t send items to X. Steel sent Wood a collection of boots. Boots sent wood to the sender of Timber.

A train is moving at a speed of 25kmph, and another train moving in the same direction at a speed of 49kmph crossed a man in first train in 10 sec? What is the length of second train? (These are not actual values but model is important).

A cube has a surface area of 864sqcms. It is divided into smaller cubes of equal size and their surface area is 216sqcms. Find the number of smaller cubes?
a.4 b.8 c.12 d 16 ANS: b

There are two milk cans. First can contains water and milk in the ratio 1:3 and the second contains milk and water in the ratio 2:2. Some milk from first can and some from second can is mixed in another can. New can has 12 liters of mixture in the ratio 3:5(water to milk). How much milk is taken from first and second can.
A 6,6 B 7,5 C 5,7 D 4,8 ANS:A

A person pays a tax of 10%,if his salary increases by 10% he need to pay a tax of 15%.The total gain he obtains after increment in salary is 350Rs .What is his salary?
a.12000 b 10000 c.8000 d.14000 Ans:b

8 Rajesh walks on pavement around the garden of size 60*40.The pavement width is 1 meter. What is the area of
Pavement?
a.204 b.102 c.306 d.428 Ans:a

A man runs around a square of side 10kms in different speeds as given below, find the average speed. 1st side:
10kmph, 2nd Side: 20kmph, 3rd side: 30kmph, 4th side: 40kmph
a.19.2 b.20 c. 27 d. 26.5

Sreesha starts from Bangalore to go to Sitapur. First two hours he moves at constant speed ,suddenly his car tyre gets punctured, so he took 10 minutes to start again.Then he moved at a constant speed of 30 kmph. By the he reached Sitapur,he was late by 30 minutes. If his car was punctured 30 kms before sitapur, he could have been late only by 15 minutes.
What is the distance between Sitapur and Bangalore? What is the speed with which he started from Bangalore?

A university library has two big books placed adjacent to eachother. Of which first book is to the left of Second one. A book worm started from the first book, and went on making a hole in a straight line through the second book. If the covers are of width ¼ th of a centimeter and the books a have a width of 2 cm then how much distance did the book worm cover?A 3cm B 4cm C 5cm D 2cm
Ans C (1/4+2+1/4+1/4+2+1/4)

There are 1000 doors closed. Here each goes through a door ,which indicates he closes the door if it is open,and vice versa. 1st person goes through each door, and 2nd person goes through doors that are divisible by 2 and like that nth person goes through doors that have numbers ivisible by n. how many doors are opened after 1000 persons going through the doors?
a.500 b.150 c.62 d.31 Ans:d (The doors remaining opened at the end are the ones that have square
numbers i.e., 1,4,9,16?

They are on Data Sufficiency.

Find the two numbers
i)The product of two numbers is 24.
ii)The sum of two numbers is 10.

Find the increase in % of salary of a person from 1997 to 2000
i)His salary increased by 10% in each of the following years 1998,1999,2000
ii) I don,t remember? But answer is i) is sufficient

Two questions are of conclusion type. Given some information
and asked some questions .They are not problematic ,just general reasoning.

A company provides some Plans for Old age persons in India regarding their health. The plans actually are too costly, so No one showing interest in joining the Plans.What step among the following will favor company,s plans ?Some steps were given in a, b, c, d. You need to select the best one.

A private organization started a new Scheme on paying School fees.The plan is that if the Parents pay some amount before their children join in Schools, the Organization will look after their fees payments ..what ever course they may do..the company will bear the amount? What do you find the reason for Parents not to join in this Scheme? Some reasons were given in a, b, c, d. You need
to select the best one.

60 members complete a work in 40 days. They worked for 10 days. And eventually 10 members quit the job and remaining people worked for another 10 days. and again 10 of them quit the job. This continued for every 10 days. How many days did workers take to finish the work?

Baan Paper Aptitude - General

BAAN sample Question Paper

PAPER 1 completely from R.S.Agarwal
1 ---> analogy 1c(1-20)[pg 15-17]
2----> directions sense test 7b[1-10]
3---->logic deduction 17b[30-50]
4----> mathematical modelling 15a[1-20]

technical paper is same for all papers

peper 2

Analogy from GRE book

LOGIC model test 1

page Q.no new GRE
406 1-4 (motorist prob)
407 17-22 (letters a,b,c)
508 1-4 (all g,s are h,s)
381 40 -41 (president prob)
377 7-11 (office staff)

part 2
problems on ages
part 3
blood relations

series problems

6,9,14,21,(30)
5,2,(2.5),8
2,10,(30),68,130,(222)
9,15,23,33,(45)
6,25,62,123,314,241
5,11,19,29,(41),55
2,12,30,56,90,(132)
4,18,52,(17)
39,21,(45),93
1,3,7,(15)31
3,9,21,(45),93
35,24,15,8,(3)
2,12,30,56,90,(132)
3,11,19,29,(39),51

analogy

fans:bleachers:: gre389
archipilago:islands::gre393
crow:boastful 393
bracket:shelf 394
taxonomy:classification 394
moderator:debate 413
glossary:words 413
lumber: bear 414
celerity:snail 414
wood:sand 454

carpenter :saw 87
horns:bull 87
gullible: 87
marathon :: (13th GRE 87p)
Skin : man ::
kick : Football :: Betal :chew (pno.45, RS 46)
Bamboo: Shoot :: Bean : sprout
Deflect : missile : distract : Attraction
Editor : magazine :: director : film
pine : clock :: calander :date
Volcano : Lava :: Fault : earthquate (Eyes : Tears)
Hero : Accuhade :: hanging stork : Ridicle
Agitator : Firebrand :: Renegade ; Turncoat
Burst : Sound :: Tinder : Fire
Star : cluster :: Tree : clump
Piston : Cylinger :: elevator : shaft
Mitigate : punishment :: commute : sentence
Erudite : scholar :: illeterate : ignorant
Fire : Ashes :: explosion : debris (11 RS 11th)
mason : wall :: Author : Book (87p GRE )
Fire : Ashes :: Event : memories

SECTION II CODING

Load == MPBE DRIVE = ESJWF
HOW WILL YOU CODE LADDLER -> MBEEMFS

START =WALKA BUDPI = XZFMR
What would be STUPID = WAZMRF
FROM 3 TO 7
A=Z, B=Y, C=X, .......... Z=A

LIMIT = ORNRG

SOUR = HLFI

POCKET = KLXPUG

GROUP = TILFK

ZERD = AVIL
FROM 8 TO 9
Here each letter is coded a s

A = (BC)D , B=(CD ) E, C=(DE)F

SHOOT ---- VKRRW

VWDUW ------ YZGXZ

If DBMDVUUB = CALCUTTA
How will be BOMBAY = ? (ANLAZX)

DELHI = CDKGH THEN MADRAS = ? (LZCQZR)
PATNA = ? (OZSMZ)

If A=E, B=F, C=G, H=L
then Go HEAD = ? (KSLIESH)
If TENDER = SDMCDQ
Select appropriate cod efor following

SOUPS -- RNTOR

LIMITED -- KHLHSDC

PEONS -- ODNMR

If FRUHH = COFFEE then NOODLES = ? (KLLAIBP)

if 12345671586 = TERMINATION
what no. code for MOTION = (481586)

If ACT = 23-25-16
BLOW = ? 24-8-11-19

If book =43, Pen = 35
Copy = ? (59)

If M = 13, O = 15 then DEAF = ? (16)

TECHNICAL :

Binary equivalent of 52 ---- 110100
Hexadecimal equivalent of 3452 ------ 72A

Consider the Boolean table
Ans : a) 1
Consider the circuit
Ans a) (A+B).(C+B)

jUST in time Concept address ----
Ans : Elimination of waste by purchasing manufacturing exactly when needed

A better way of unit testing s/w program is
Ans : User test

A lowest level of security by most RDBMS are
Ans : a) field low

OOT uses
Ans : Encapsulated of detect methods

EDI useful in
Ans : Electronic Transmission

MRPII different from MRP
aNS : Modular version of man redundant initials

Hard disk time for R/W head to move to correct
And : a) Lactency

Percentage of times a page number bound in associate register
Ans : Bit ratio

MODEM --------Modulation and Demodulation

RDBMS file system
Ans : Interrelated

Super Key is ----- Primary key+ Attribute

Transmission is said to be ----committed

Windows 95 supports

a) Multiuser b) n tasks c) Both
Ans : c

18. Difference between printf and fprintf ----

To change permission r&w to owner group to no permission to others
a) Chmod 614 b) chmod 604
c) chmod 640 d) chmod 310

In batch process ------------better job