Re: Interview questions

[Chris Whisonant <Chris.Whisonant@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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