Accenture interview prep

DSAMedium

With a variable-size sliding window, what is the length of the shortest contiguous subarray of [2, 3, 1, 2, 4, 3] whose sum is at least 7?

1. 2
2. 3
3. 1
4. 4

This topic is named in a candidate’s interview report: AASE on-campus assessment and interview, 2026 batch, on GeeksforGeeks.

PythonEasy

What does this print?

def is_prime(n):
    if n < 2:
        return False
    i = 2
    while i * i <= n:
        if n % i == 0:
            return False
        i += 1
    return True

print([n for n in [1, 2, 9, 17, 21, 29] if is_prime(n)])

1. [1, 2, 17, 29]
2. [2, 9, 17, 29]
3. [2, 17, 29]
4. [17, 29]

This topic is named in a candidate’s interview report: ASE on-campus assessment, 2025, on GeeksforGeeks.

PythonEasy

What does this print?

def tag(s):
    return s[0] + str(len(s)) + s[-1]

print(tag("accenture"), tag("ai"))

1. a9e ai
2. a9e a0i
3. a8e a2i
4. a9e a2i

This topic is named in a candidate’s interview report: ASE on-campus assessment, 2025, on GeeksforGeeks.

DBMS and SQLMedium

When is a document database such as MongoDB usually a better fit than a relational database?

1. When many tables must be joined with strict transactions across them
2. When the data is a few small tables with a fixed structure
3. Whenever the data must survive a restart
4. When each record is read and written as a whole and its fields vary from record to record

This topic is named in a candidate’s interview report: Advanced application engineering analyst interview, 2026 batch, on GeeksforGeeks.

DBMS and SQLMedium

What does a FULL OUTER JOIN of tables A and B return?

1. Only rows that match in both
2. Every row from both tables: matched rows joined, and unmatched rows from either side with NULLs for the other side's columns
3. Every row from A only
4. Every combination of rows from A and B

This topic is named in a candidate’s interview report: AASE on-campus assessment and interview, 2026 batch, on GeeksforGeeks.

Computer networksMedium

How does HTTPS use symmetric and asymmetric encryption?

1. Asymmetric cryptography authenticates the server and agrees a shared key; the page data itself is then encrypted with that symmetric key
2. It uses only asymmetric encryption for all data
3. It uses only symmetric keys stored in the browser
4. It does not encrypt, it only signs

This topic is named in a candidate’s interview report: ASE on-campus assessment and interview, 2024, on LeetCode.

Software engineeringEasy

In cloud computing, which is an example of Platform as a Service (PaaS)?

1. Renting a virtual machine and installing everything on it yourself
2. Using Gmail in a browser
3. Deploying your code to a managed runtime that runs, scales and patches it for you, such as Heroku or Google App Engine
4. Buying servers for your own data centre

This topic is named in a candidate’s interview report: AASE on-campus assessment and interview, 2026 batch, on GeeksforGeeks.

AptitudeMedium

What does this pseudocode print?

Integer a = 5, b = 3
for (each i from 1 to 3)
    a = a + b
    b = a - b
end for
print a, b

1. 14 11
2. 11 8
3. 13 8
4. 21 13

This topic is named in a candidate’s interview report: ASE on-campus assessment and interview, 2024, on LeetCode.