Cognizant Programme Analyst interview questions

1. Tell us about yourself, your background. 2. What does your father do currently. 3. Your performance in schooling, B.E. 4. Your points. 5. Aren't you going for higher studies abroad? Why? 6. What qualities do you have that make you a person suitable for going into the IT industry 7. What do your friends opine about you. 8. When do you think you will complete and be able to join. 9. How can you assure that you will join by that time. 10. Anything you want to know about us. 11. Significant achievements in life.( may be paper publications etc. ) Technical Question: 1.What is o.s? 2.what is a deadlock? 3.what is a semaphore? 4.difference between semaphore & monitor? 5.what is sdlc(software development life cycle)? 6.what is a linklist,stack,queue? 7.write a program to reverse a linklist? 8.what is dba? 9.difference between primary,foreign,candidate&super key? 10.different type of databases? 11.what is normalsation?explain them? 12.four division in cobol? 13.significance of 01,77,88,66 level? 14.function of compiler? 15.difference between object file & exe file? 16.difference between c &c++? 17.difference between sql&c++?