Re: Are these too harsh ?

Connor is not testing the candidate's ability to memorize. Only the multiple choice type exam does. If you're at a face to face interview, unless the interviewer is a dummy (like a secretary asking questions prepared by somebody e.g.), you'll be asked questions whose answers can only come out of experience. Connor won't mind if you can't get the syntax of creating a locally managed tablespace right. But he wants to know whether such and such situation is good for a LMT. As a DBA, you have to think and make decisions, which are good only if have done this before in real life, or to a less or equal extent as a lab test, or to an even less or equal extent heard of other people's reallife story or lab test (from conferences or discussion forums etc).

Yong Huang
yong321_at_yahoo.com

"Van Messner" <vmessner_at_bestweb.net> wrote in message news:<UmPZ6.503$5d.227200_at_newshog.newsread.com>...
> Also, some people memorize things much better than others. If this
> were an "open book" test I would know where to go to get answers to all of
> the questions I couldn't answer off the top of my head. Does that have
> value to you or is it more important that your candidates have this material
> in memory (their memory)?
Received on Mon Jun 25 2001 - 23:07:17 CDT