latest Computer Associates(CA) Placement Paper of Feb 2007.

Now days CA’s campus paper is conducted by Merittrac and I have already written a lot on them so do search for it in the site. It was a typical paper with no head and tail. Anyway it was a 90 minute paper with 75 questions in it and CA as usual gave choice to the student to select either C or C++ or Java as programming language. If you are thinking that choosing C++ or Java over C will give you any additional advantage over others because most of the people choose C, than think twice as I don’t think that your choice of the language make any difference. So only choose that language in which you are most comfortable with.
So the First section of English and verbal was easy. You were asked to write proper a/an/the (articles) in the blanks. There were few questions on finding the closest synonym as well. Second section was Aptitude with typical aptitude questions. I feel that almost everyone should be able to do such questions but the deciding factor here becomes time. You have to solve 20 questions in 20 minutes. Than there was Operating system with simple OS concepts. And than there was C++ section as I had selected C++ over C. The question in C++ were absolutely rubbish and were dealing with templates.
The only advice that I can give you for them is make sure you do your C++ well as well as try to score well in Aptitude. I have seen people neglect aptitude over other which is not a smart thing to do.
I would like to know how much is the payscale of CA ? as I came to know that it "varies" from 3.5 to 4.5 lakh per annum. To me they were offering 4.5 lakh for software development profile.