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IBPS IT Officer Prelims & Mains Exam Analysis, Review & Questions Asked 2017
IBPS IT Officer Prelims & Mains Exam Analysis : Hello Aspirants, As we know that IBPS will conduct 29th and 30th December 2018. So you must be looking for the IBPS SO (IT Officer) Exam Analysis for Prelims & Mains & Questions asked in IBPS IT Officer Mains Exam. Below we are providing you the detailed Exam Analysis of Shift 1 & Shift 2 for IT Officer Prelims & Mains exam 2017 & Professional Knowledge Questions that are asked in IBPS IT Officer Mains Exam.
IBPS IT Officer Prelims Exam Analysis 2017 – Slot 1
The preliminary exam for IBPS SO was conducted online and had 150 questions for 120 minutes. Candidates have to manage those 120 minutes themselves while dealing with three sections- Reasoning (50 Ques), Quantitative Aptitude (50 Ques), and English (50 Ques).
| Subject | Good Attempt (IT Officer) |
|---|---|
| English Language | 26-28 |
| Reasoning Ability | 38 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 32-35 |
| Total | 96-103 for IT Officer |
English Language (Moderate)
The level of English Language was Moderate. Much to the surprise and relief to students this section was not too over the board, with the recently set “conventional pattern” questions ruling the majority; aspirants who have done adequate practice can score in the English Language section of this exam. There were 2 sets of Reading Comprehension (which did not include question based on vocabulary) and the topics of RCs were – 1) Based on Bitcoin-Cryptocurrency, 2) Related to Driver less Cars.
This exam also added another new type of Word Usage questions and this time it was clubbed with the cloze test’s concept. Where a number was assigned to (at the beginning of) various lines in a passage and 3-4 words were marked as bold. Candidates had to identify the one which doesn’t fit in the context or is probably misspelled. The passage of this question set was based on technology.
| Topics | No. of Questions | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 20 | Moderate- Difficult |
| Fillers (Single blank) | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Phrase Replacement | 5 | Moderate |
| Cloze Test (New Pattern) | 10 | Moderate |
| Error Detection | 5 | Moderate |
| Sentence Rearrangement | 5 | Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Moderate |
Quantitative Aptitude ( Easy-Moderate)
The level of quantitative aptitude section was Easy-Moderate. If you are yet to appear for IBPS SO Prelims exam (tomorrow), The first and most basic tip to help you clear quantitative aptitude section’s cut off is that you should work on your calculation speed. There were 3 sets of DI and a Caselet:
- Tabular
- Pie Chart
- Line Graph
- Caselet
| Topics | No. of Question | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Number Series (Missing) | 5 | Moderate |
| Approximation | 5 | Easy |
| Data Interpretation | 20 | Moderate |
| Inequality | 5 | Easy |
| Miscellaneous- Arithmetic Word Problems (Average, Mixture and Allegation, CP and SP, Profit and Loss, Partnership etc.) | 15 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Easy-Moderate |
Reasoning Ability (Easy-Moderate)
There were 5 puzzles and Seating Arrangement which are given below:-
- Circular (2 Variables)
- Stack Arrangement (1 Variable)
- Floor Based (2 Variables)
- Month Based (2 Variables)
- Linear
| Topics | No. of Questions | Level |
| Syllogism | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 25 | Moderate |
| Direction Sense | 2 | Easy |
| Coding Decoding | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
| Inequality | 5 | Easy |
| Alphabet | 1 | Easy |
| Data Sufficiency | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Logical Reasoning | 5 | Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Easy-Moderate |
IBPS IT Officer Prelims Exam Analysis 2017 – Slot 2
The preliminary exam for IBPS SO was conducted online and had 150 questions for 120 minutes. Candidates have to manage those 120 minutes themselves while dealing with three sections- Reasoning (50 Ques), Quantitative Aptitude (50 Ques), and English (50 Ques).
| Subject | Good Attempt (IT Officer) |
|---|---|
| English Language | 27-29 |
| Reasoning Ability | 36-39 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 33-37 |
| Total | 97-105 for IT Officer |
English Language (Moderate)
The level of English Language was Moderate. Much to the surprise and relief to students this section was not too over the board, with the recently set “conventional pattern” questions ruling the majority; aspirants who have done adequate practice can score in the English Language section of this exam. There were 2 sets of Reading Comprehension (which did not include question based on vocabulary).
| Topics | No. of Questions | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 20 | Moderate- Difficult |
| Fillers (Single blank) | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Phrase Replacement | 5 | Moderate |
| Cloze Test (New Pattern) | 10 | Moderate |
| Error Detection | 5 | Moderate |
| Sentence Rearrangement | 5 | Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Moderate |
Quantitative Aptitude ( Easy-Moderate)
The level of quantitative aptitude section was Easy-Moderate. If you are yet to appear for IBPS SO Prelims exam (tomorrow), The first and most basic tip to help you clear quantitative aptitude section’s cut off is that you should work on your calculation speed. There were 3 sets of DI and a Caselet:
- Tabular
- Pie Chart
- Line Graph
- Caselet
| Topics | No. of Question | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Number Series (Missing) | 5 | Moderate |
| Approximation | 5 | Easy |
| Data Interpretation | 20 | Moderate |
| Inequality | 5 | Easy |
| Miscellaneous- Arithmetic Word Problems (Average, Mixture and Allegation, CP and SP, Profit and Loss, Partnership etc.) | 15 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Easy-Moderate |
Reasoning Ability (Easy-Moderate)
There were 5 puzzles and Seating Arrangement which are given below:-
- Circular (2 Variables)
- Stack Arrangement (1 Variable)
- Floor Based (2 Variables)
- Month Based (2 Variables)
- Linear
| Topics | No. of Questions | Level |
| Syllogism | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 25 | Moderate |
| Direction Sense | 2 | Easy |
| Coding Decoding | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
| Inequality | 5 | Easy |
| Alphabet | 1 | Easy |
| Data Sufficiency | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Logical Reasoning | 5 | Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Easy-Moderate |
IBPS IT Officer Mains Exam Analysis 2017
The questions asked in this years IBPS SO Professional Knowledge Exam for IT Officer candidates was of an Easy-Moderate Level. This year major proportion of questions were from C++ and Object Oriented Programming Concepts (OOP). The questions from OOPS were however of basic to a moderate level.
There were no questions about OOPS programming or error detection of code or finding output. Along with OOPS there was a good ratio of questions from Networking, Data Structure and DBMS as well.
Some questions were related to following topics: Storage Classes, Boolean Function’s Default Value, Float function and other data types, Fibonacci Series, Truth Table of gates, OSI Model, Network Topology, Referential Integrity in DBMS, Tree Data Structure, ACID Properties in DBMS.
| Topic | Questions |
|---|---|
| C++ and OOP Concept | 15-20 |
| DBMS | 5-7 |
| Data Structure | 5-6 |
| Networking | 7-8 |
| Miscellaneous | 15-19 |
| Good Attempt | 50-52 |
Professional Knowledge Questions Asked in IBPS IT Officer Mains Exam 2017
- Unique address is assigned to each host in which layer
- A in ACID?
- Default value of boolean variable in an array
- Concatenate two strings by using which function?
- Default value of float variable in an array
- Boolean occupies how much space in a 32 bit system
- Physical limitation of a signal is called
- Function to copy one memory location to other in C++
- Join in which result is generated when variable matches from any one of table
- Which of the following is not true about OLTP?
- Join in which result is generated only when variable matches from both tables
- The weakening of signal in long-term transmission is called? attenuation
- Generation of noise when one signal has higher strength than other while signal propagates in a medium?
- Accesing top element of stack without deleting it ? (peek(),isempty(), isfull(), push(), pop())
- How many layers are there in a data warehouse?
- Which of the following are the 3 layers of a data warehouse?
- ‘/a’ is used for what in C++
- Which of the following function is used in every hashing technique
- If a series is already sorted, which sorting technique will finish in the least time (Binary/Quick/…)
- 2,1,5,4,3 how many more swaps are needed to finish sorting by bubble sorting technique
- Accessing the data value or message value which may even cause a function invocation, is called? msg passing, msg parsing, function call etc
- In red-black tree, if the parent node is red, colour of child nodes will be ___and___? (red-red, uncoloured-red, uncoloured-black.)
- What happens when a node is pushed into a stack?(added to front of linked list, added to back of linked list, added to middle of linked list, nothing happen, node cannot be added to the stack
- Index of first element of linked list default value? (0/1/garbage/null)
- Definition of the snowflake schema
- If a tree is of 4 level how many elements are present in it?
- ______ keyword is used to skip this iteration and move to next iteration ? break/continue
- Definition of star schema
