Data Structures Interview Questions
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What is the maximum total number of nodes in a tree that has N levels? Note that the root is level (zero)

CSC, National Instruments, Sasken, Sybrant Technologies,

18 49167

How many different binary trees and binary search trees can be made from three nodes that contain the key values 1, 2 & 3?

Accenture, Amazon, College School Exams Tests, iGate, Microsoft, TCS, Wipro,

28 74336

A list is ordered from smaller to largest when a sort is called. Which sort would take the longest time to execute?

12 29261

A list is ordered from smaller to largest when a sort is called. Which sort would take the shortest time to execute?

17 31879

When will you sort an array of pointers to list elements, rather than sorting the elements themselves?

5 22006

The element being searched for is not found in an array of 100 elements. What is the average number of comparisons needed in a sequential search to determine that the element is not there, if the elements are completely unordered?

Morgan Stanley, Wipro,

11 33492

What is the average number of comparisons needed in a sequential search to determine the position of an element in an array of 100 elements, if the elements are ordered from largest to smallest?

ABB, SDE,

19 63578

Which sort show the best average behavior?

9 34202

What is the average number of comparisons in a sequential search?

5 15658

Which data structure is needed to convert infix notations to post fix notations?

Fidelity, Infosys,

20 40786

What do you mean by: Syntax Error, Logical Error, Runtime Error?

College School Exams Tests, Microsoft,

7 60413

In which data structure, elements can be added or removed at either end, but not in the middle?

Infosys, NIC, TTA, Wipro,

42 99091

How will inorder, preorder and postorder traversals print the elements of a tree?

11 35082

Parenthesis are never needed in prefix or postfix expressions. Why?

BPO, Microsoft,

13 50668

Which one is faster? A binary search of an orderd set of elements in an array or a sequential search of the elements.

Syntel, TCS,

22 44010


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Un-Answered Questions { Data Structures }

Can a null element added to a treeset or hashset?

613


In what areas do data structures applied?

671


Define outdegree of a graph?

696


What is the similarity between a Structure, Union and enumeration?

769


What is unhashable type list?

637






What are different types of algorithms?

644


Why null is allowed in hashmap?

615


What is the difference between data type and data structure?

626


Which interfaces are implemented by linkedhashset?

686


How do you sort an arraylist in descending order?

604


How do I sort a hashmap key?

636


Can a binary tree be empty?

672


What is default size of hashmap?

636


Is hashmap faster than arraylist?

608


What is raid (redundant array of inexpensive disks)? Explain its level?

681