Re[2]: Interview questions -- MIDRANGE-L


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Subject: Re: Interview questions 
Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> at INET_WACO
Date:    7/5/00 3:34 PM


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On the IBM 400 site there is a location with some practice tests geared 
toward certification.&nbsp; You may could go through some of them and 
glean some questions and answers for your own test.&nbsp; This way you 
could at least see if someone has any experiencs.&nbsp; <br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/education/certify/certs/a4_index.phtml" eudora="auto
l">http://www.ibm.com/education/certify/certs/a4_index.</a><a href="http://www.i
com/education/certify/certs/a4_index.phtml" eudora="autourl">phtml<br>
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</a><b>Chris Whisonant<br>
Mid-Range Systems Engineer<br>
Rock Hill Telephone Company<br>
(803) 324-7270<br>
<a href="mailto:Chris.Whisonant@RHTelCo.com" eudora="autourl">mailto:Chris.Whiso
nt@RHTelCo.</a><a href="mailto:Chris.Whisonant@RHTelCo.com" eudora="autourl">com
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<br>
</a></b>At 01:28 PM 7/5/00 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>I asked this question a few weeks ago and 
mostly got speculation about the <br>
validity of testing as a method of demonstrating knowledge, so let me be 
more <br>
specific.<br>
We are getting ready to hire a PC and Network person.&nbsp; We have 35 
applicants <br>
and are a busy 3 man shop.&nbsp; We cannot afford to spend a heck of a 
lot of time <br>
figuring out which few of the 35 we want to talk to in depth.&nbsp; Most 
of the 35 <br>
are clueless hobbyists with no experience who want to learn computers at 
our <br>
expense.&nbsp; We have had no trouble at all coming up with written tests 
for NT <br>
and Novell 5.0 and we will use the scores as ONE OF SEVERAL criteria for 
<br>
selecting candidates.&nbsp; As sort of a tiebreaker, some 400 experience 
would be <br>
nice.&nbsp; Therefore, we would like to get a short (~25 question) test 
that would <br>
show whether the candidate had in fact ever dealt with a /400.&nbsp; We 
don't have <br>
time to write the test, we would like to just get it off the 'net the way 
we <br>
were able to get the other tests.&nbsp; Any suggestions?&nbsp; TIA, 
Lance<br>
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