Pseudocode carries the highest weightage in the Technical Assessment — around 18 of the 40 questions. You read a short program written in plain pseudocode (or C-style snippets) and predict its output. No compiler, no partial credit: you trace the code by hand.
Concepts Accenture pseudocode tests
- Loops — factorials, digit counting, series accumulation
- Conditionals — if/else branches with arithmetic side effects
- Functions and call-by-reference (pointers) — a clear favourite
- Operators — %, integer division, logical AND/OR
- Arrays and string/ASCII manipulation
- Recursion basics
Practice Accenture pseudocode questions
Trace each snippet on paper before clicking — that is exactly the skill the exam measures.
What will be the output of the following pseudocode if the user enters the value of n as 6?
What will be the output of the following pseudocode?
What will be the output of the following pseudocode?
Make a variable table (one column per variable, one row per step) and update it line by line — most wrong answers come from tracking values mentally. Watch for call-by-reference: when a function receives an address (&x / *n), changes persist after the call.
Comfortable with tracing? Move on to writing code — Accenture coding questions.