Re: Interview questions

On the IBM 400 site there is a location with some practice tests geared toward certification.  You may could go through some of them and glean some questions and answers for your own test.  This way you could at least see if someone has any experiencs. 

http://www.ibm.com/education/certify/certs/a4_index.phtml

Chris Whisonant
Mid-Range Systems Engineer
Rock Hill Telephone Company
(803) 324-7270
mailto:Chris.Whisonant@RHTelCo.com

At 01:28 PM 7/5/00 -0400, you wrote:

I asked this question a few weeks ago and mostly got speculation about the
validity of testing as a method of demonstrating knowledge, so let me be more
specific.
We are getting ready to hire a PC and Network person.  We have 35 applicants
and are a busy 3 man shop.  We cannot afford to spend a heck of a lot of time
figuring out which few of the 35 we want to talk to in depth.  Most of the 35
are clueless hobbyists with no experience who want to learn computers at our
expense.  We have had no trouble at all coming up with written tests for NT
and Novell 5.0 and we will use the scores as ONE OF SEVERAL criteria for
selecting candidates.  As sort of a tiebreaker, some 400 experience would be
nice.  Therefore, we would like to get a short (~25 question) test that would
show whether the candidate had in fact ever dealt with a /400.  We don't have
time to write the test, we would like to just get it off the 'net the way we
were able to get the other tests.  Any suggestions?  TIA, Lance
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