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A Basic info about the company:
Sophos develops and retails security software and hardware, offers endpoint, encryption, email, web, mobile and network security and also develops Unified Threat Management products. Sophos is principally intensive on offering security to organizations and businesses.

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Sophos Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #1 - Warden and Prisoners Interview Question

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23 selected prisoners are summoned by the warden. He gives them a choice of playing a game with him that might ensure their escape from the prison or might as well lead them towards painful death. The prisoners think that this is the only chance for them to be free again and agrees to him.

The warden tell them that there is a room which has just two switches which are labelled 1 or 2. The switches may be up or down and the condition is not known at present. They are not connected to anything. The warden may select any prisoner on any day and send him to the switch room. The prisoner will have to select any one switch and reverse its position i.e. if it is up, he will turn it down and if it is down, he will turn it up. He can and must only flip one switch and then he will be confined to his cell again.

The warden may choose the same prisoner more than one time and he will be choosing completely randomly. But at a certain point of time, everyone will have visited the switch room. And at any time, the prisoners may declare that everyone has visited the room at least once. If they will be true, they will be set free but if they will be wrong, they will be killed.

The warden gives them an hour to plan any kind of strategy and then they will be confined to their respective cells and will never be allowed to meet. What strategy can help them be free?

Sophos Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #2 - Age of Children Interview Puzzle

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Lincoln and Michael gets acquainted in a bar. Lincoln offers a drink to Michael and they begin chatting. After a small conversation, Lincoln comes to know that Michael is married and has three children. He asks him, "How old are your children?" Michael thinks and then replies that the product of his children's ages is 72. Lincoln is puzzled and says that the information is not enough.

Michael tells him that if he goes outside and look at the building number posted on the door to the bar, he will get the sum of their ages. Lincoln goes outside and returns. Still puzzled, He tells Michael that the information is still not enough. Michael smiles and tells him that his youngest child loves strawberry ice cream.

How old are the children?

Sophos Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #3 - Measure the Water Interview Question

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You have infinite supply of water. You also have 5 quart and 3 quart buckets. What is the least number of steps you will require to measure precisely 4 quarts?

Sophos Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #4 - Area of Rectangle Interview Puzzle

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You have a rectangle. If each side of it is increased by 100%, by what percentage will the area increase?

Sophos Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #5 - Number of games Interview Puzzle

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A table tennis tournament was held in a college which included both girls and boys players. Each of the player had to play exactly one game with every other player. According to the records, there were 45 games played in which both the players were girls and 190 games played in which both the players were boys.

Can you determine how many games were played in a manner that there one boy and one girl in the match?

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