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Deloitte — Online Assessment

Sixty-five questions in an hour, with the technical block the largest of the three.

The pattern and syllabus · 12 sample questions

No negative markingTechnical-heavySectional cut-offs

The sitting

1h

total time

65

questions

3

sections

None

negative marking

Start the test

The clock starts as soon as you click. Your paper is drawn fresh, so a second sitting is a different set.

Proctored sitting

  • Laptop or desktop only, with a webcam. Phones and tablets can't start a test.
  • The test runs full screen, with the site's navigation hidden.
  • Your webcam stays on and is checked on your computer — nothing is recorded or uploaded.
  • Leaving full screen, switching tab or window or minimising blurs the paper — and so does the camera seeing no one, someone else, a phone, or you looking away. The clock keeps running.
  • Each is a warning; the third ends the sitting. It is graded so you can review it, but marked disqualified and never counted as your best.
  • Pasting, copying, right-click and printing are off.

The paper

1

Language Skills

13 Q

10 min

Verbal Ability

2

General Aptitude

22 Q

25 min

Quantitative and reasoning together, as Deloitte asks them.

Quantitative Aptitude · Logical Reasoning

3

Technical Skills

30 Q

25 min

Computer fundamentals: programming, data structures, DBMS, OS and networks.

Programming Fundamentals · Data Structures & Algorithms · OS, DBMS & Networks

Before you start

Deloitte's assessment puts more weight on computer fundamentals than on aptitude: thirty of the sixty-five questions are technical.

  • Reported sectional cut-offs are roughly eleven of twenty-two on aptitude, seven of thirteen on English, and eleven of thirty on technical.
  • No negative marking.
  • Sources disagree on whether the paper is adaptive; this one is not.

The two coding problems that follow the MCQ block are not part of this paper.

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Deloitte — Online Assessment: Pattern, Syllabus & Mock Test

Deloitte — Online Assessment pattern: 65 questions in 60 minutes across 3 sections. Sample questions, a preparation guide and a free timed mock.

  • Pattern: Deloitte
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Questions: 65
  • Timing: Sectional — each section on its own clock
  • Negative marking: None

Sixty-five questions in an hour, with the technical block the largest of the three.

  • No negative marking
  • Technical-heavy
  • Sectional cut-offs

Sections

SectionQuestionsTimeKindMarks each
Language Skills1310 minMultiple choice1
General Aptitude2225 minMultiple choice1
Technical Skills3025 minMultiple choice1

Deloitte — Online Assessment syllabus

Language Skills

General Aptitude

Technical Skills

Instructions

Deloitte's assessment puts more weight on computer fundamentals than on aptitude: thirty of the sixty-five questions are technical.

  • Reported sectional cut-offs are roughly eleven of twenty-two on aptitude, seven of thirteen on English, and eleven of thirty on technical.
  • No negative marking.
  • Sources disagree on whether the paper is adaptive; this one is not.

The two coding problems that follow the MCQ block are not part of this paper.

How to prepare for this pattern

A guide to the Deloitte online assessment pattern, in which computer fundamentals outweigh aptitude: thirty of the sixty-five questions are technical.

What the paper looks like

Three sections, sat in a fixed order: Language Skills, 13 questions in 10 minutes; General Aptitude, 22 questions in 25 minutes; and Technical Skills, 30 questions in 25 minutes. That is 65 questions in 60 minutes. Each question is worth one mark and there is no negative marking. Each section runs on its own clock and closes when you leave it; sources differ on whether the real timer is shared or per section, and per section is used here. Sources also disagree on whether the paper is adaptive, and this mock is not. Reported sectional cut-offs are roughly 7 of 13 on English, 11 of 22 on aptitude and 11 of 30 on technical. The two coding problems that follow the multiple-choice block are not part of this paper.

How to prepare, section by section

On the day

Every section is timed separately, so pace each on its own terms. Language Skills is the fastest at under fifty seconds a question: answer what you know on sight and guess the rest before the ten minutes are up. General Aptitude allows about 68 seconds a question. Technical Skills allows 50 seconds, which suits recall questions but not long tracing, so answer the factual OS, DBMS and data structures questions first and come back to the output-prediction ones. There is no negative marking, so leave no question blank in any section, and remember that minutes left in one section are lost when you move on.

This mock is modelled on the section counts two prep portals agree on, 13, 22 and 30, with per-section timing chosen where they differ; CodeKairo is not affiliated with Deloitte.

Practice questions for the Deloitte — Online Assessment test

The tone of the passage

Railways were the first industry to require a single national time. Before them, every town kept its own clock by the sun, and a difference of a few minutes between neighbouring places troubled nobody. A timetable made those minutes intolerable. Within a generation, the railway companies had imposed a standard time across whole countries — not because anyone had argued for it, but because the trains could not run without it.

The tone of the passage is best described as:

  1. Nostalgic
  2. Explanatory
  3. Indignant
  4. Sceptical
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B. Explanatory Worked solution

The word that fits

Fill in the blank:

The witness gave a ______ account, omitting nothing of importance.

  1. vague
  2. meticulous
  3. hurried
  4. biased
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B. meticulous Worked solution

Father thirty years older

A father is 30 years older than his son. In 12 years the father will be three times as old as his son. What is the son's present age?

  1. 3
  2. 4
  3. 5
  4. 6
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A. 3 Worked solution

Foot is to man

Foot : Man :: Hoof : ?

  1. Bird
  2. Fish
  3. Horse
  4. Snake
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C. Horse Worked solution

Average speed over two legs

A car covers 100 km at 60 km/h and another 100 km at 40 km/h. What is its average speed for the whole journey?

  1. 45 km/h
  2. 48 km/h
  3. 50 km/h
  4. 52 km/h
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B. 48 km/h Worked solution

My nephew's maternal grandmother

A man pointing to a photograph says, 'The lady in the photograph is my nephew's maternal grandmother.' How is the lady related to the man's sister, who has no other sister?

  1. Mother
  2. Aunt
  3. Sister
  4. Grandmother
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A. Mother Worked solution

A queue from two stacks

A queue is built from two stacks: enqueue pushes onto stack A, and dequeue pops from stack B, refilling B by emptying A into it whenever B is empty. What is the amortised cost of one dequeue?

  1. O(1)
  2. O(log n)
  3. O(n)
  4. O(n log n)
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A. O(1) Worked solution

Counting FIFO page faults

A process references the pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. With three frames and FIFO replacement, how many page faults occur? Count the initial loads as faults.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 10
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C. 9 Worked solution

Dividing a negative number

What does this C program print? Assume a C99 or later compiler.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    printf("%d %d", -7 / 2, -7 % 2);
    return 0;
}
  1. -4 -1
  2. -4 1
  3. -3 -1
  4. -3 1
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C. -3 -1 Worked solution

Shortest path by breadth-first search

An undirected graph has these adjacency lists:

VertexAdjacent vertices
AB, C
BA, D
CA, E
DB, E
EC, D, F
FE

A breadth-first search from A is used to find the shortest path to F. How many edges does that path contain?

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 5
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B. 3 Worked solution

Largest possible natural join

R(A, B) holds 200 tuples and S(B, C) holds 100 tuples. What is the maximum possible number of tuples in the natural join of R and S?

  1. 0
  2. 100
  3. 200
  4. 20000
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D. 20000 Worked solution

A local that hides a global

What does this C program print?

#include <stdio.h>

int x = 10;

void f(void) {
    int x = 20;
    x = x + 1;
    printf("%d ", x);
}

int main(void) {
    f();
    printf("%d", x);
    return 0;
}
  1. 11 10
  2. 11 11
  3. 21 10
  4. 21 21
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C. 21 10 Worked solution

About this pattern

PrepInsta and placementpreparation.io agree on 13 / 22 / 30 MCQs and the 90-minute total including coding. They differ on whether the timer is shared or per-section; per-section is used here. Adaptivity is claimed by one source only and is not modelled.

Modelled on the published pattern; not affiliated with Deloitte. Every sitting draws a fresh paper from the aptitude bank.

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