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Amazon Interview Question for Technical Support Engineers






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I think this question is similar to "how much would you charge to wash all the windows in downtown seattle"
I would reply with the following - Time taken to fill the Floppy disk = (Size of disk)/(transfer rate)

- sairamvg June 13, 2011 | Flag Reply
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For this question i said depending upon the typing speed. Lets say i can type 40 words per minute. per hr 2400 words. i will convert this one into size of the floppy disk

- Gopal March 18, 2011 | Flag Reply
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what if you are copying data not typing? so it makes answer process dependent too. But i think it should have a fixed answer in all cases that might be widely accepted.

- someone March 18, 2011 | Flag Reply
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Depends on the speed
of either
a/ data transfer speed from the internal hardisk to floppy disk
or
b/data transfer speed from the internal RAM to floppy disk
Besides, if the floppy disk size say is given to be 4MB, some memory of it might already be occupied by the FAT Tables, so this need also be accounted for in the calculation using the bus speed.

- CuriousMe March 19, 2011 | Flag
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It typically takes 3.5MB of data to fill up a floppy disk.

- Dumbo March 21, 2011 | Flag Reply
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Depends on the viscosity of what you're filling it with.. :oP

- Sydney May 06, 2011 | Flag Reply
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Assume FLoppy size is 1.44 M...it takes 2.8932 seconds to fill the floppy. (Use a data transfer profiler to find out the transfer time)

- Anonymous June 09, 2011 | Flag
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It would take me forever to fill a floppy disk because first I'd have to find one... any idea where I'd get one? Maybe some antique piece on ebay?

- Rohit February 29, 2012 | Flag Reply
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The raw maximum transfer rate of 3 1⁄2-inch HD floppy drives and interfaces, disregarding overheads, is as much as 1000 kilobits/s.

1000Kb(kilobits) = 125KB(Kilobytes)

wikipedia: 3 1⁄2-inch HD Capacity 1.44 MB (2.0 MB unformatted)

1.44MB/125KB = 1.44 * 1024 (M = 1024K not 1000K) / 125 = 11.80s approximately 12s

- sindbad June 09, 2014 | Flag Reply


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