Accenture Pattern and Sample Paper

Accenture Selection Process 2023-2024

1. Cognitive and Technical Assessment

2. Coding Round
3. Communication Assessment
4. Interview Round

Accenture Exam Pattern 2023-2024

1. English Ability (17 Que)

2. Critical Reasoning & Problem Solving (18 Que)
3. Abstract Reasoning (15 Que)
4. Common Applications & MS Office (12 Que)
5. Pseudocode (18 Que)
6. Networking Security& Cloud (10 Que)

Stage Section No of Questions Duration

Cognitive Section (50 Questions)

English Ability 17

Critical Reasoning
18
& Problem Solving

Abstract Reasoning 15
Cognitive and
Technical Section (40 Questions)
90 mins
Technical
Assessment
Common Application
12
& MS Office

Pseudocode 18

Network Security &

10
Cloud

Programming Fundamentals (C, C++, Dot

Coding 45 mins
Net, Java, Python) – 2 questions

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Accenture Latest Complete Detailed Syllabus 2023-2024

Accenture Abstract Reasoning Syllabus

 Number & Letter series

 Odd man out
 Analogies
 Coding-Decoding
 Visual reasoning

Abstract Reasoning Paper Analysis Rough Number of Questions

Number and Letter series 3-4

Odd man out 2-3

Analogies 2-3

Coding and decoding 3-4

Visual reasoning 4-5

Accenture Critical Reasoning & Problem Solving Syllabus

 Data arrangement
 Flow charts
 Data sufficiency
 Argument & Assumption
 Syllogism
 Statement-Conclusion

Accenture Critical Reasoning &

Rough Number of Questions
Problem-Solving Paper Analysis

Data arrangements 7-8

Flow chart 2-3

Data sufficiency 1-2

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Argument and assumption 2-3

Syllogisms 2-3

Statement Conclusion 2-3

Accenture English Ability Syllabus

 Synonyms & Antonyms

 Error detection
 Para jumbles
 Reading comprehension
 Sentence completion/ Fill in the blanks
 Sentence improvement

Accenture English Ability Paper

Rough Number of Questions
Analysis

Synonyms and Antonyms 3-4

Error Detection/ Sentence Correction 3-4

Para Jumbles 2

Reading Comprehension 3

Sentence Completion/ Fill in the

2-3
blanks

Sentence improvement 2-3

Accenture Common Applications & MS Office Syllabus

 MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)

 Browsers' fundamentals
 Shortcut keys
 Command prompt
 Working flow of keys

Accenture Network Security Syllabus

 Basics of Networking
 Network Security

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 Encryption standards & Algorithms
 Network security devices
 Attack types
 Firwalls

Accenture Cloud Syllabus

 Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

 Client server architecture
 Cloud data centers
 Cloud service providers
 Cloud Service Platforms

Accenture Pseudocode Syllabus

 Programming Fundamentals
 Looping
 Arrays
 Recursion
 Function
 Bitwise Operators
 Increment & Decrement Operators
 Conditional statements
 Basics of Data Structures

Accenture Coding Syllabus

 Basics of Programming
 Input & Output Concepts
 Flow Control
 Conditional Looping
 Arrays
 Functions
 Strings
 Data types & Operators

Eligibility Criteria for Accenture Placement Drive 2023-

2024

 All streams/branches of B.E/B.Tech/M.E/M.Tech, MCA, and

M.Sc. from the 2024 year of pass outs with full-time
education only (Part-time and distance education are not
considered)
 No active backlogs during application and/or during
onboarding.

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 You should have completed your relevant degree (eligible
for this job role), in the stipulated duration of the
degree. Hence, there should be no gaps during the course of
your degree.
 Candidate should not have appeared for the Accenture
Recruitment assessment/interview process in the last three
months.
 Candidate should not have more than 11 months of experience
 Candidates must be eligible to work in India either by
citizenship/ have relevant work permit documents.
 Please note that Bhutan and Nepal nationals can work in
India without the need for obtaining a work visa. All other
foreign nationals require a work visa or an Overseas
Citizenship of India (OCI) or Person of Indian Origin (PIO)
card to work in India
 You are willing to work in any Business Unit/Service line
within the company
 You are willing to join /relocate to any Accenture office
across India

Accenture Communication test round

1. Reading (8 Que)
2. Listening/Repeat (16 Que)
3. Q&A (24 Que)
4. Sentence Jumble/ Sentence Builds (10 Que)
5. Story Telling (3 Que)
6. Speaking (2 Que)

Note: Total time given for the communication test will be 20

Min. This will not be an elimination round but be well prepared.

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Accenture Placement Papers - Critical Reasoning and Problem-Solving

QUESTION 1

Editor: I have received over five thousand letters and emails on the article that I wrote last week.

The majority of those letters and emails support my viewpoint on the issue. These letters are, therefore,
testimonials that most of our readers have the same opinion on the issue as I do.

Which of the following, if true, would weaken the editor’s conclusion above?

The issue was very important for the readers have a very objective opinion about the issue

Readers who agree with the editor’s view feel more strongly about the issue than those who disagree
with him.

Readers who agree with the editor are more likely to write to him than those who disagree with him

Those were other articles y the same editor which invited a lot of opinion of readers

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QUESTION 2

A food delivery company gained greater profits when it provided food delivery service in a city by
following no-minimum order facility and by maintaining its own fleet of employees. Besides the
commission it gets from restaurants, it charges no delivery charges for orders which are higher than a
certain amount. Hoping to continue these financial trends, the company plans to start its operations in
two new cities.

The plan of the food delivery company as described above directly assumes all of the following EXCEPT:

The demand for food delivery service in the new cities will increase in future.

Expanding into markets will compensate for any new expenses the company incurs.

In the new cities, the company will be able to deliver food faster than the food delivery companies
existing in those cities.

The company can find enough number of partner-restaurants in the new cities to earn more than what
is needed to meet the fixed expenses it has to earn.

QUESTION 3

In a row of 50 girls, Amy was made to sit 20 places to the right of Rose and Peter sat 20 places to the left
of Emma. If Emma was thirty-sixth from the left and there were four people between Peter and Amy.
What was the position of Rose in the row?

20th from the right end

25th from the left end

49th from the right end

1st from the left end

QUESTION 4

Five friends A, B, C, D and E, with different occupational backgrounds (Teacher, Doctor, Accountant,
Businessman, Engineer) went for a conference. The doctor sat next to B. The engineer sat in between B
and C. Neither A nor the accountant sat at any of the extreme ends. If D does not sit next to B, then
which of the following is definitely sitting at one of the extreme ends?

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A

QUESTION 5

On a racing track, six players, U,V,W,X,Y and Z were positioned in such a way that U was to the left of Y
and fourth to the left of X. W was in between and equidistant from Y and Z but Y is not adjacent to X.
The winner was at the fourth section of the track from the left. Who was he?

Z or W

QUESTION 6

If COOKER = +//2*5, ROOSTER = 5//$%*5, then what would be the equivalent of MOOSE most
appropriately among the following?

0++$*

0//%*

5//$*

0//$*

QUESTION 7

In a certain coding system ‘BAT’ is coded as 283 and ‘CAT’ is coded as 383; ARE is coded as 801. How will
you code ‘BETTER’?

213310

213301

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123301

12334

QUESTION 8

In a certain coding system ‘BOOK’ is coded as ‘CNPJ’. How will you code ‘MOON’?

NMPN

MPNN

NNPM

PNMN

QUESTION 9

Find the odd word among the given options.

Premeditated

Rehearsed

Spontaneous

Calculated

QUESTION 10

Find the odd word among the given options.

Impassioned

Vehement

Emphatic

Apathetic

QUESTION 11

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Find out which part of the sentence below has an error and mark the option accordingly.I told him of /
for behaving rudely with / the valet, reminding him that / I too was once a driver.

I too was once a driver

I told him of

the valet, reminding him that

for behaving rudely with

QUESTION 12

Mark the option which is closest to the opposite in meaning of the word given below.

REDUNDANT

Relevant

Popular

Colourful

Rare

QUESTION 13

Fill in the blank with the most suitable option.

A decency must always be maintained in behaviour, no matter who is before you.

strong

basic

cold

sensitive

QUESTION 14

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Fill in the blank with the most suitable option.

A decency must always be maintained in behaviour, no matter who is before you.

strong

basic

cold

sensitive

QUESTION 15

Choose the best replacement for the underlined part of the sentence.

If you work harder, you wouldn’t find it tough to clear this exam.

you won’t find it tough

you shalln’t find it tough

you wouldn’t find it tough

you couldn’t find it tough

QUESTION 16

Choose the best replacement for the underlined part of the sentence.

If I eat a peanut, I am heaving and choking.

I am to be heaving and choking

I heave and choke

I am to be having and choking

I am heaving and choking

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Technical Questions
This section consists of questions from the following areas.

Pseudocoding

Common Applications and MS Office

Fundamentals of Networking, Security, and Cloud.

Accenture Placement Papers - Pseudocoding

QUESTION 17

What will be the output of the following pseudocode for a = 9, b = 7?

Integer funn(Integer a, Integer b)

Integer c

Set c = 2

b = b mod c

a = a mod c

return a + b

End function funn()

[Note- mod finds the remainder after the division of one number by another. For example, the
expression "5 mod 2 leaves a quotient of 2 and a remainder of 1.]

17

-5

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QUESTION 18

What will be the output of the following pseudocode?

Integer a, b, c

Set a = 8, b = 6,c = 4

if(a > b)

a=b

Else

b=a

End if

if(c> b)

c=b

Else

b=c

End if

Print a + b + c

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QUESTION 19

What will be the output of the following pseudocode?

Integer a, b, c

Set a = 1, b = 1, c = 7

a=a+b

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if(a + b)

if(b + (c ^ a))

a=2

b=a

End if

End if

Print a + b + c

[Note- ^ is the bitwise exclusive OR operator that compares each bit of its first operand to the
corresponding bit of other bit is 1, the corresponding result bit is set to 1. Otherwise, the corresponding
result bit is set to 0.If(x) gets executed if the value inside ifo, i.e., x is not zero]

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QUESTION 20

What will be the output of the following pseudocode?

Integer p, q, r, s

Set p=1, q = 1

for (each r from 0 to 2 )

for (each s from -4 to -2 )

p=p+2

if(p > r)

Continue

End if

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p=1

if(p > s)

Jump out of the loop

End if

End for

End for

Print p + q

[Note- Continue: When a continue statement is encountered inside a loo of statements inside the body
of the loop for the current iteration.

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QUESTION 21

Q5. What will be the output of the following pseudocode for input a = 30, b = 60, C = 90?

Integer a, b, c, sum

Read a, b, c

Set sum = a + b + c

if ((sum EQUALS 180) and (a NOT EQUALS 0) and (b NOT EQUALS 0) and (c NOT EQUALS 0))

Print " Success"

Otherwise

Print "Fail"

End if

Success

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None of the mentioned options

Error in the logic of the pseudocode

Fail

QUESTION 22

The XML-based and macro-ended file format for Excel 2007-2013 which stores VBA macro code or Excel
4.0 macro sheets should be saved with which extension?

xlsm

xlsx

xlsb

xltx

QUESTION 23

Which of the following functions will help to find the number of working days between two calendar
dates?

Business days

Network days

Days

None of the mentioned options

QUESTION 24

Which of the following groups is not present under the Insert tab in MS-Excel?

Charts

Text

Sort & Filter

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Tables

QUESTION 25

What is the difference between a Trojan and a Virus?

A Virus replicates itself while a Trojan does not

They are different names for the same thing

None of the mentioned options

A Virus starts as a Trojan and spreads later

QUESTION 26

Which of the following functions is used to create a drop-down box in selected cells?

Data > Conditional Formatting

Data > Data Validation

Pivot Table

Data > Filter

QUESTION 27

Which of the following key resides on all stations as in AP and client devices in a 4-way handshake?

Pairwise Transient Key

Pairwise Master Key

Group Master Key

Group Temporal Key

QUESTION 28

Which of the following is not the benefit of the cloud if you chose Platform as a service?

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Management of Middleware

All of the mentioned options

Management of Data

Management of Runtime

QUESTION 29

Which of the following benefits of cloud makes it easy for a company with a rapid movement to keep
the entire system fully functional?

Reliability

Collaboration

Automatic Software Integration

Quick Deployment

QUESTION 30

Which of the following payment options is best suited for small businesses in cloud?

pay-as-you-go

pay-and-use

pay-per-use

None of the mentioned options

QUESTION 31

Which of the following is correct based on the below statements?

A. Clouds offer limited data storage capacity to users.

B. Clouds offer unlimited data storage capacity to users.

C. In both data center and cloud, there is a third party involved in managing data but the cloud has more
data theft.

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D. In both data center and cloud, there is a third party involved in managing data but the data center has
more data theft.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Only A and D

Only B and C

Only B and D

Only A and C

Accenture Placement Papers - Coding

Stage 2 of Accenture Recruitment consists of a Coding round. This round is tested with the
Fundamentals of Programming. The candidates have the freedom to choose any language between
C/C++/Java/Python/DOT Net.

Q1. Binary String Operations

Problem statement:

The binary number system only uses two digits, 0 and 1. Any string that represents a number in the
binary number system can be called a binary string. You are required to implement the following
function:

int OperationsBinaryString(char *str);

The function accepts a string 'str' as its argument. The string 'str' consists of binary digits separated by
an alphabet as follows:

'A' denotes AND operation

'B' denotes OR operation

'C' denotes XOR operation

You are required to calculate the result of the string 'str', scan the string left to right, take one operation
at a time, and return the same.

Note:

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No order of priorities of operations is required.

The length of 'str' is odd

If 'str' is NULL or None(in case of python), return -1

Example:

Input:

str: ICOCICIAOBI

Output:

Explanation:

The alphabet in 'str' when expanded becomes "1 XOR 0 XOR 1 XOR 1 AND 0 OR 1", the result of the
expression becomes 1, hence 1 is returned.

Q2. Password Validation

Problem statement

You are given a function:

int CheckPassword(char str[ ], int n);

The function accepts string 'std of size int as an argument Implement the function which returns 1 if the
given string 'str' is a valid password else 0.

'str' is a valid password if it satisfies below conditions:

At least 4 characters

At least one numeric digit

At least one Capital letter

Must not have space or slash (/)

Starting character must not be a number

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Assumption: The input string will not be empty.

Example:

Input:

aA1_67

Output:

Q3. Find the maximum element and its index in an array

Problem statement:

You are given a function, void MaxInArray(int arr[], int length); The function accepts an integer array
'arr' of size 'length' as its argument. Implement the function to find the maximum element of the array
and print the maximum element and its index to the standard output

(STDOUT). The maximum element and its index should be printed in separate lines.

Note:

Array index starts with 0

The maximum element and its index should be separated by a line in the output

Assume there is only 1 maximum element in the array

Print exactly what is asked, do not print any additional greeting messages

Example:

Input:

23 45 82 27 66 12 78 13 71 86

Output:

86

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