Re: state of the midrange (fwd)

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

Paul,

> How would an operator who had been taught to use the IBM menus, and -only-
> the IBM menus, fare on a test that asked, "How would you display an output
> queue?"  The answer to this operator would be something like, "Menu options
> 3, 13, 27, then type the name of the queue."

  This person would fair poorly indeed.  In the tests which I have
worked on the only questions that I recall that reference menu optins
are a couple SAVE questions.  And these also use the menu text (ie GO
SAVE option 21 - "Save Entire System")   As you can imagine use of
menu options in testing is problematic at best. Options can and do
change and remembering them while taking the test would be a problem
as well.  Imagine choosing from:

 a) 1, 14, 19, 2
 b) 1, 19, 14, 2
 c) 19, 1, 14, 2
 d) 19, 14, 2, 1

  By the time you read that list most people who DID know the answer
would begin to doubt themselves.

  Any ideas HOW to test someone who uses Menu's only???

  - LArry

> 
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
> 
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